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Consider Database Triggers in Your .NET Enterprise Application Design
I remember a time (a time long past) when the idea of tying applications together across functional (and, heaven forbid, departmental) boundaries was not only politically incorrect to the in-house user community, but downright frightening to some—and certainly intimidating to IT (or, as we called it back then, 'data processing'). The problem, from a business process standpoint, sprang largely from the fact that each department felt a strong sense of ownership of its systems—"That's our data, not yours!"—and the efficiencies of sharing it were not immediately clear, because 'data processing' couldn't really integrate processes for a price those departments wanted to pay. 'You want to see our transactions? Sure, fill out a request, we'll send you a printout ...'
Nobody in their right mind would stand in the way of business process integration today, when stripped-down lead times and in-house efficiency are mission-critical. This is especially true in the world of the Web, where the consolidation of information for Internet consumption often makes data-sharing a must. In the early days, this literally meant "messaging"—one process letting another process know that data for that process was available—and to some degree, that mindset still lingers. But, in today's business climate, there's no time in our process integration for digital courtesies. What's needed is messaging that puts data in your face: don't just say what's happening, go ahead and do what comes next! Don't just give me a status, give me the data I need to keep things moving!
Dialogs Among Applications, Systems, and Business Partners
- Isolation of business logic beyond the presentation and data layers of applications (that is, keeping business logic away from both the client applications and the data sources)
- The need for applications to function across distributed resources
- Significant communication/integration between applications
- A high degree of scalability, driven in part by the loose coupling of one process to another (often through asynchronous messaging).
In practical terms, this means that any particular application in a broader process must:
- Communicate its progress and/or result to other applications, often by handing off data.
- Interact with other processes in asynchronous fashion, so that failure at any particular point doesn't bring everything grinding to a halt.
- That 1 and 2 be accomplished in such a way that significant increases in user traffic or data transfer don't compromise the system (by extension, all of this applies as much or more to processes shared between companies).
Messaging is the manifestation of all this conversation. It comes in many forms—notifications, isolated data elements, XML instances, SQL result sets, entire tables—but it comes down to one process saying to another, "Something's going on that you need to know about and/or work on—here's what you need to know and/or work with." This can be the passing of data out of one application into another; the setting of switches; notification that one application has completed, followed by the execution of another; alerts that environmental changes have occurred that will affect running services; or heads-up that certain activity thresholds have been reached. (And these are just a few of many scenarios.)
They all have this in common: They are all about processes, and all about triggering changes in the behaviors and/or responses of applications.
Letting the Database Drive
There's one place where process triggering primarily occurs: the user interface. This is the first thing that occurs to most designers, the most obvious choice, the traditional choice. 'If an event beyond the current process needs prompting, this user's activity will prompt it' is the thinking. But, this really runs counter to the whole point of enterprise integration, that the processes themselves do the talking, with as little user dependence as possible. That leaves two more places to put process triggering: the business logic layer and the data layer. Although is possible and sometimes appropriate to place process triggers in the business logic layer, it's primarily abstract and facilitative, and not our first choice. What about the database itself?
Initiating downline business processes from the data layer would mean embedding business logic in the database, wouldn't it? And isn't that a no-no? Well, yes, it's definitely a no-no, but you don't have to put business logic in the data layer to trigger business processes from that layer.
What can be done instead is to employ unconditional triggers in the database, triggers that pass along data or messages or both with any database activity in a certain table that connects a current process to one downline, and let the downline process decide whether or not to use it. Neither the trigger nor the message (in other words, data) need to know what's up ahead—the database doesn't need the burden of the decision-making overhead. Just hand off everything, and let the downline process discard what it doesn't need.
As an example, take a hospital patient administration system. Say that a participating health care organization that lends services to the hospital wants to receive a patient master data update every time that patient information for one of its participating patients is updated. You place a trigger on the database to hand off a patient record, say in XML form, to an interface process every time a row is added to or updated in the hospital's master patient table for that organization.
If the update event—an admission, a certification, discharge, whatever—meets the peripheral health care organization's criteria, the interface passes the row on that organization's system. If it's not a qualifying event, the interface ignores it.
The binding mechanisms for such a hand-off are messages—data, status words, or switches—and queues or folders that serve as 'mailboxes' between applications or systems.
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After weeks of rumors linking Mark Wahlberg to the planned sequel/reboot Transformers 4, and less than a day since director Michael Bay claimed those were just rumors - rumors that had gotten him thinking about casting the Oscar-nominated actor - it's official. Mark Wahlberg will star in Transformers 4.
The plot of the movie is still largely unknown, but if Optimus Prime is going to appear, his mother should probably prepare to be said 'hello' to.
This isn't the first time that Bay has made some big decisions with the franchise on the fly, after he previously claimed that Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon would be his last. It was a ride on a Universal Studios roller coaster that convinced him the fourth time would be the charm, so perhaps decisions like this sudden casting should've been expected.
The pair just worked together on Bay's upcoming 'smaller' film Pain and Gain, alongside Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. The production must have gone particularly well between the actor and director, since the Internet fervor over Wahlberg's possible involvement in the Hasbro franchise partially convinced Bay to make the offer.
Bay's official comment on Wahlberg's casting follows, promising ambitious things for the future of the brand:
"Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on 'Pain and Gain' and I'm so fired up to be back working with him. An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the 'Transformers' legacy."
Now that the next chapter in the Transformers franchise has a star around which to build itself, the 'legacy' can go in any number of directions. With an Academy Award-nominated actor front and center, as opposed to Shia Lebouf's permanently-flustered Sam Witwicky, the reports of Transformers 4 telling a darker story carry a bit more water.
Along with the casting announcement comes a reveal of the film's logo treatment, though it's still missing a subtitle. Whether or not Paramount will stick with the '4' or come up with a catchy rider remains to be seen. Check the logo out below:
Some may have hoped that a leading man being cast in the film would give some sense of the direction the writers might take with the story, but with Wahlberg, it's not so easy to discern. Considering the actor's most recent roles - The Fighter and Ted - it could go any number of ways. Given Michael Bay's track record, it's most likely that the film will land somewhere between action and comedy, in which case Wahlberg's casting makes perfect sense.
It's hard to believe that a Transformers movie will trade laughs for tears, since that seems out of character for both the source material and director's strengths. The darker sections of Transformers: Dark of the Moon were the source of its biggest problems for some people, so hopefully Bay and company have learned a few lessons.
Wahlberg marks just the first member of the apparently completely new cast of humans and robots, and all things considered, will go a long way toward giving T4 a notably different tone than those that preceded it. The film itself will have to deliver genuine quality, but at least this casting news will pique people's curiosity. When we're talking about the fourth installment of a hotly-debated series, that in itself is an accomplishment.
What's your take on Wahlberg's casting? Think he's right for the franchise going forward? If he is, would you rather see a role closer to Ted or The Departed?
Transformers 4 opens in theaters on June 27th, 2014.
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Poutine. It's an import to Southern California, but you'd think it would've reached Universal Food Status by now…like cupcakes, burgers & frozen yogurt. After all, who doesn't love gravy, cheese and fries? I can confirm that the combination of the three (or four – that is, with protein) is way better than the mere sum of its parts.
Then again, I hail from Wisconsin – and the frequency of my visits to Canada still outnumbers those to Mexico. So you can understand my Cheesehead's frustration with the grated cheese application on fries everywhere in this city. Even at Animal. And Frysmith. (I still love both of you.) But this is not poutine. In fact, cheese curds exist as an actual ingredient even on its Wikipedia page. (I know! I just invoked the Wiki!)
You may call it "gourmet poutine," I just call it "done properly."
But perhaps I hold too much respect for the cheese curd. I can't help it – nor can I contain my excitement that P'tit Soleil – across from Soleil, which has been a Westwood Blvd restaurant for 10 years – actually sources theirs from Carr Valley Cheese in LaValle, Wisconsin. Though curds are known for their squeak when fresh, these nuggets are expertly melted down from being laid atop just-out-of-the-fryer frites. Not too gooey to appreciate its original shape…softened enough to spread its love to the other frites in the Québécois haystack. It is the anti-steak fry, and it's just the right size for a balanced ratio of potato to gravy and toppings. Melty morsels, not tiny slivers, are key in curds, I'm telling you!


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A revised concussions settlement between the NFL and former players could shrink the league's coffers. Only marginally, though, and not for a long time.
A revised concussions settlement between the NFL and former players could shrink the league's coffers. Only marginally, though, and not for a long time.
The NFL agreed Wednesday to remove a $675 million cap on damages from thousands of concussion-related claims. A federal judge who originally questioned whether there would be enough money to cover as many as 20,000 retired players still must approve the new terms.
The settlement is designed to last at least 65 years and cover retired players who develop Lou Gehrig's disease, dementia or other neurological problems believed to be caused by concussions sustained during their careers. Removing the cap might lead to the NFL paying out more money to ailing former players, even though the league and lawyers for the plaintiffs believe the $675 million won't be surpassed.
"If exceeding that number happens, it is well down the road," said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based consulting firm SportsCorp and a close observer of league business. "I don't foresee anything in the next four or five years.
"This has the benefit of getting money to the families and people who need it now. If the actuarials are wrong, the additional money would not be paid for a while down the road. By then, there will be new TV contracts, the league will have grown more (financially)."
Although the original settlement was trumpeted by both sides, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody denied preliminary approval last January. Her concerns centered, simply, on whether there was enough money in the pot to satisfy all the legitimate claims; some 4,500 retired players were part of the lawsuit. Projections indicate many more will need help.
Dozens of ex-players also have said they would not take part in the original settlement, against the advice of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
"Some of the players were concerned and asking questions about whether they could be in a deal if they weren't sure there'd be money there for them 40 years from now if they get sick, God forbid. ... That's what drove these changes," plaintiffs' lawyer Christopher Seeger said.
The original settlement included $675 million for compensatory claims for players with neurological symptoms; $75 million for baseline testing; and $10 million for medical research and education. The NFL also would pay an additional $112 million to the players' lawyers, for a total payout of more than $870 million.
The revised settlement eliminates the cap on overall damage claims, but retains a payout formula for individual retirees that considers their age and illness. A young retiree with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, would receive $5 million. A 50-year-old with Alzheimer's disease would get $1.6 million. An 80-year-old with early dementia would get $25,000.
Where will the money come from? The NFL isn't exactly hurting for income as it approaches $10 billion in annual revenues.
"This comes out of their bottom line, although it is not a huge part of their bottom line," said David Orentlicher, a law professor at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law. "But anytime a business' prices and costs increase, they try to pass off as much as they can. If they can pass it all off, they will. Sometimes you have to eat some of it.
"The questions become, have they already maxed their prices for tickets and broadcast rights and sponsorships and the like?"
With new TV deals upcoming and the surging popularity of pro football, it seems unlikely the NFL has maxed out its earning potential.
Critics of the deal have said the league is getting off lightly. Others point out, as did Ganis, that the timing of getting payments to the injured or ill is the most crucial element.
One of the plaintiffs is Kevin Turner, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots and is now battling ALS.
"The compensation provided in this settlement will lift a heavy burden off of the men who are suffering," he said in a statement. "I am also personally comforted by the knowledge that this settlement is guaranteed to be there for any retired player who needs it."
Orentlicher projects the NFL will surpass the payouts of the original settlement agreement.
"It would be very surprising if their ultimate payoff is not significantly greater," Orentlicher said. "I think they will spend more money as a result of this. It's just the nature of these kinds of settlements.
"If this is all the NFL has to pay, the owners will be very happy. When you add up all the damage these players are suffering and all the money teams have earned as a result, this isn't sufficient to compensate for the harm."


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A few questions have trickled in about the blog and its future use during the season. Here are a couple of reasons you will be able to utilize "The Dish" once the seasons gets rolling.
- An information source I know this can have broad strokes but when the season begins you can look here for posts before you head to Dunn Tire Park or tune into the broadcast. I'll be able to expand on some of the team releases and information that is covered extensively on Bisons.com. Following the game I'll give you some insight or relay the thoughts of my partner, Duke McGuire, without giving you the entire recap that's already provided. We've already given some great information concerning the roster moves and ballpark events.
- Fun facts Over the course of the season there will be plenty that we can share on this subject that may not directly relate to game we broadcast. Maybe an interesting topic that develops from a conversation I have with one of the players at lunch… The random updates I foresee happening in the wee hours of the morning in various airports… Some info about the cities we visit over the year. For instance, last year Miley Cyrus appeared in Scranton or when the fans go 'fishing' for autographs in Pawtucket… The feeling I had standing in front of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra practice session before the game on July 3 (I don't think I can accurately describe that moment with the written word). This portion of the blog is what I'm looking forward to writing about the most.
I hope this helps answer some of your questions, keep them coming and thanks for the positive feedback already. If you have questions about the up and coming season or want to suggest future topics for me to cover on 'The Dish', feel free to send me an email by clicking here. Now, go fill out your brackets!


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'Fringe' Season 5 Begins its "13-Hour Feature Film Saga" Tonight, Will You Be Watching?
It may be the beginning of the end for 'Fringe' tonight, but since when has time ever been linear? The critically-adored, yet ratings-challenged cult sci-fi hit kicks off its final season tonight with "Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11" (Spoiler Alert: we've seen, and loved it), but series show-runner J.H. Wyman would almost prefer you think of the final episodes as a "13-hour feature film saga." Find out how things will be different in these last 13 episodes, and what surprises are still in store!
Though you may wish to shed a tear, mourn 'Fringe' do not, and miss 'Fringe,' do not, for tonight it transforms into a force to be reckoned with. As series show-runner J.H. Wyman told reporters of the fifth and final season, 'Fringe' will keep laser-focused in its final 13 episodes and resolve the emotional journey of the story without getting lost in too many side-shows.
"I realized this is not a season for tricks and multiple universes, new introductions of things," Wyman recently told TVLine. "So I had to do some soul-searching and say, 'What would I like? What would I want, demand, if I had invested four years in this show?'" Wyman stressed that though the final season would feature less deviations, there would still be plenty of 'Fringe' freakiness, especially since the 2036 setting allows for even more imagination with science and technology.
But speaking of technology, what of The Observers themselves, who seemed so benevolent in earlier seasons, only to turn around and used their advanced tech to take over the planet? Wyman maintains that the bald-headed villains would be further explored, so as to make viewers understand their mentality. Don't expect any trips to the alternate universe however, as Wyman wants to keep the final hours focused on the characters we've come to know and love.
The battle begins tonight, so be sure to tune in for the final season of 'Fringe' tonight at 9:00 p.m., and tell us what you're most looking forward to in the comments!


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How to Choose Car Racks
From bikes to kayaks, there is a host of items that can be carried on your car, as well as options for where to carry them (top of the vehicle, rear end of the vehicle). This intro to car racks will briefly describe many of the available components
Car Rack Top Systems
To carry gear atop your vehicle you will need load bars that stretch across the roof. It is on these bars that accessories like bike carriers, kayak saddles, and cargo boxes are placed. You will also need roof mounts (Thule® calls them "feet") to hold the bars and fit kits to attach the mounts to your specific vehicle.
Car Rack Rear-Mounted Systems
Bikes, cargo boxes, even snowboards can also be carried on the rear of your vehicle, either strapped to the trunk or attached to a hitch mount. One advantage of rear mount car racks is that you do not need load bars, mounting feet, or fit kits. The drawback is that it's harder to open the trunk or rear hatch of your vehicle.
Car Rack Bike Carriers
Top mounted bike carriers offer excellent bike protection, stability, and security while still leaving space on the roof to fit other accessories. Thule also makes rear-mounted car rack bike carriers that attach to the vehicle's trunk, hatch, spare tire, or on receiver hitches. Some of these carriers can hold up to 5 bikes.
Snowsport Car Racks
Skis and snowboards can be carried inside a rooftop cargo box, in an open air roof carrier, or on a rear mounted hitch car rack. Snowsport cargo boxes of course offer the greatest protection for your ski & snowboard gear. Some open air roof racks can carry up to 6 pairs of skis or 4 snowboards. Rear mounted ski & snowboard carriers also can carry multiple skis and snowboards and allow for easy bike attachment.
Watersport Car Racks
Thule offers a wide array of canoe & kayak car rack carriers designed to attach to load bars. Depending of the carrier and the width of the load bars, you may carry up to four kayaks atop your car. For those people who are unable to lift a kayak atop their vehicle, Thule makes lift-assist carriers that require just one person to load and unload the boat. Note that a canoe may be carried on load bars without any additional accessory save for straps.
Cargo Boxes
The most common type of cargo carrier is the roof box. These rigid aerodynamic boxes mount onto Thule rack systems or factory installed racks and accommodate up to 21 square feet of gear. Thule also offers rear-mounted boxes for fast and easy loading, roof bag carriers which are easy to install and remove, and roof baskets which provide flexibility for bulky gear that may not fit in a traditional cargo carrier.
Finding the Right Car Rack for Your Car
The Thule Fit Guide is an easy-to-use, step-by-step process for selecting the correct car rack system and accessories for your specific vehicle. It will ask you to select the make, year, and model of your car, your preferred sports, and the location of the vehicle where you wish to mount your rack (roof, hitch, or trunk). In turn, the Thule Fit Guide will list the load bars, fit kit, and feet that match your car, plus all of the available accessories.


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Nopales Salad: Mexican Cactus Paddles
If you try cactus, you'll probably like it — so stop being a food wimp and try a little cactus! This authentic Mexican salad uses the popular Mexican ingredient called nopales (cactus paddles), which are served all over Mexico.
Look for nopales (noh-PAHL-es), also from the prickly pear, at farmers markets or ethnic grocers. They're usually sold already cleaned (with their needles removed), in plastic bags. The best, freshest paddles are bright green and firm and reverberate when flicked with a finger.
Nopales Salad
Preparation time: 20 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
1-1/2 pounds fresh or prepared cactus paddles, needles removed*
3/4 cup olive oil (or 1/2 cup if you're using canned cactus)
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 Roma tomatoes
1/2 small red onion
2 serrano chiles
1 bunch cilantro leaves
1/2 cup finely grated añejo cheese
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste
4 to 6 red lettuce leaves
1 avocado, peeled
Preheat the grill medium hot or heat the broiler.
For fresh cactus, place the cleaned paddles in a large bowl and toss with 1/4 cup of the olive oil and the 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Grill or broil the paddles until grill marks appear on both sides, or until the paddles turn dark green with black patches, about 4 minutes total.
If using canned cactus, simply drain well and skip the grilling, omitting the 1/4 cup of olive oil used for grilling.
Set aside to cool to room temperature; cover and chill for at least 2 hours or overnight.
Cut the cactus into 1/2-inch pieces.
Core, seed, and dice the tomatoes. Dice the red onion and chiles. Chop the cilantro leaves.
In a large bowl, combine the cactus, tomatoes, onion, chiles, cilantro, and cheese with the remaining 1/2 cup oil, vinegar, and salt and pepper. Toss well.
Peel, seed, and thinly slice the avocado.
Serve the salad on plates lined with lettuce leaves and garnished with avocado slices.
* You may have to buy your cactus paddles au naturel and clean them yourself. The best way to remove the needles is to shave across the paddle with a sharp paring knife. Store the cleaned paddles in plastic bags in the vegetable bin of the refrigerator.


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COLUMBUS, Ga. – As the Hurricanes approached the home stretch of the 2012 campaign, Georgia Southwestern was looking to play the role as spoiler as they traveled west to take on the Cougars of Columbus State University (26-15, 12-10 PBC). The home team denied GSW's upset quest as they won Friday night's game 3-1.
The game was controlled by Columbus State with a shaky pitching and fielding performance by the Hurricanes in the first inning. The Cougars scored all three of their runs off of pitcher Matthew Suggs in the first inning. Three CSU hits were compounded by two walks by Suggs and two errors behind him in the field that saw two of the three runs be charged as an earned run against the lefty.
The three-run lead for the Cougars would be reduced by one by GSW in the third inning. A one-out double by Jarrod Taylor was followed by a Les Cromer single, which set the table for the Hurricanes' only run of the evening. Michel Coffey would hit into a fielder's choice at second base, which gave Coffey his team-leading 24th RBI on the season.
The Blue & Gold's offense would fizzle out over the course of the remaining six innings as they would only eke out two hits for the rest of the game. The one run of support would spoil a quality start by Matthew Suggs who would take the loss in the game. The sophomore threw seven and two-thirds innings that saw him scatter seven hits with the two earned runs. He would also walk four batters while striking out nine Cougar batters.
Suggs was outdone by Columbus State's Tyler Carpenter who would pitch all eight innings for the home team. Carpenter conceded only four hits and the single earned run while walking two and striking out four.
Friday night's loss puts the Georgia Southwestern record at 9-31 (6-18 PBC) with eight games remaining in the 2012 season. Two of those remaining eight games will be played on Saturday afternoon as Georgia Southwestern and Columbus State will finish their series with a double header scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.


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A Sandwich a Day: The Blue Pig & Fig at Pastoral
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine Shop is the kind of place that has been unfairly labeled as simply just being a "cheese shop." In reality there is so much more to Pastoral's inventory, including all sorts of goodies, most of which are themed around relishing and decorating a charcuterie plate. Pastoral also offers up a salad and sandwich menu that shows off some of the best products they carry and work with. I ended up with the Blue Pig n' Fig ($9.57), an item that not only renewed my love for the ham and cheese sandwich, but also taught me that all blue cheese isn't bad.
The hearty sandwich features a combination of Jamon Serrano, Ader Kase blue cheese, local fig and black tea preserves, whole grain Dijon mustard, and crisp field greens between a soft, yet crispy baguette. As someone who is not usually a blue cheese fan, I was happily surprised to see how perfectly the salted meats went with the even sweetness of the fig and the black tea preserve, plus the tang of the mustard. The Ader blue cheese sneaks right in there without making your nose wrinkle, bringing the whole flavor together in a truly unexpected way.
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Anthony John "A. J." Pierzynski (pronounced /pɪərˈzɪnski/) (born December 30, 1976) is an American Major League Baseball catcher who is currently with the Chicago White Sox. Pierzynski previously played with the Minnesota Twins (1998-2003) and San Francisco Giants (2004). Pierzynski was also a wrestler for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Anthony John Pierzynski was born on December 30, 1976, in Bridgehampton, New York. He attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida, where he won All-State honors in baseball. Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Johnny Damon was one of Pierzynski's high school teammates.
Pierzynski graduated from high school in 1994 and signed a letter of intent to play baseball at the University of Tennessee. He was also drafted by the Minnesota Twins that year, and he chose to sign with the Twins. He began his minor league career with the Gulf Coast League Twins and spent the next four years playing for the minor-league Elizabethton Twins, Fort Wayne Wizards, Fort Myers Miracle, New Britain Rock Cats, and Salt Lake Buzz.


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The CCITT-CRC error detection scheme was first employed (with some minor modifications) by IBM in its SDLC data link protocol and is used today in other modern data link protocols such as HDLC, SS7, and ISDN. Like a checksum, the CCITT-CRC does not impose any additional transmission overhead at the character level. It can detect errors in any arbitrary number of bits of data, and its error detection rate is 99.9984 percent, worse case.
Some rather powerful math stands behind the CCITT-CRC. Fortunately, the reader doesn't need to understand the math in order to use the algorithm. The basic idea is to treat the entire message as a (rather long) binary number, which both the sender and receiver divide using the same divisor. The quotient is discarded, and the remainder is sent as the CRC. If the message is received without error, the receiver's calculation will match the sender's calculation, and the CRC's will agree.
(This is a gross simplification of the process. The CRC is actually the one's complement of the remainder obtained from the modulo 2 division of the message by a generation polynomial. The CCITT-CRC uses:
x16 + x12 + x5 + 1
for the generator polynomial. The generator is part of the standard established by the CCITT, an international standards body that publishes recommendations dealing with telephony and data communications.)
The elegance of this approach is that the division, which looks as though it ought to be a complicated process, can be implemented in hardware using a shift register and a few exclusive-OR gates.
The division can also be implemented in software, as the function crc16 (Listing One) demonstrates.
/************************************************************************** // // crc16.c - generate a ccitt 16 bit cyclic redundancy check (crc) // // The code in this module generates the crc for a block of data. // **************************************************************************/ /* // 16 12 5 // The CCITT CRC 16 polynomial is X + X + X + 1. // In binary, this is the bit pattern 1 0001 0000 0010 0001, and in hex it // is 0x11021. // A 17 bit register is simulated by testing the MSB before shifting // the data, which affords us the luxury of specifiy the polynomial as a // 16 bit value, 0x1021. // Due to the way in which we process the CRC, the bits of the polynomial // are stored in reverse order. This makes the polynomial 0x8408. */ #define POLY 0x8408 /* // note: when the crc is included in the message, the valid crc is: // 0xF0B8, before the compliment and byte swap, // 0x0F47, after compliment, before the byte swap, // 0x470F, after the compliment and the byte swap. */ extern crc_ok; int crc_ok = 0x470F; /************************************************************************** // // crc16() - generate a 16 bit crc // // // PURPOSE // This routine generates the 16 bit remainder of a block of // data using the ccitt polynomial generator. // // CALLING SEQUENCE // crc = crc16(data, len); // // PARAMETERS // data <-- address of start of data block // len <-- length of data block // // RETURNED VALUE // crc16 value. data is calcuated using the 16 bit ccitt polynomial. // // NOTES // The CRC is preset to all 1's to detect errors involving a loss // of leading zero's. // The CRC (a 16 bit value) is generated in LSB MSB order. // Two ways to verify the integrity of a received message // or block of data: // 1) Calculate the crc on the data, and compare it to the crc // calculated previously. The location of the saved crc must be // known. / 2) Append the calculated crc to the end of the data. Now calculate // the crc of the data and its crc. If the new crc equals the // value in "crc_ok", the data is valid. // // PSEUDO CODE: // initialize crc (-1) // DO WHILE count NE zero // DO FOR each bit in the data byte, from LSB to MSB // IF (LSB of crc) EOR (LSB of data) // crc := (crc / 2) EOR polynomial // ELSE // crc := (crc / 2) // FI // OD // OD // 1's compliment and swap bytes in crc // RETURN crc // **************************************************************************/ unsigned short crc16(data_p, length) char *data_p; unsigned short length; { unsigned char i; unsigned int data; unsigned int crc; crc = 0xffff; if (length == 0) return (~crc); do { for (i = 0 data = (unsigned int)0xff & *data_p++; i < 8; i++, data >>= 1) { if ((crc & 0x0001) ^ (data & 0x0001)) crc = (crc >> 1) ^ POLY; else crc >>= 1; } } while (--length); crc = ~crc; data = crc; crc = (crc << 8) | (data >> 8 & 0xFF); return (crc); }
The processor overhead involved in calculating the checksum is not too bad when you consider the large number of errors that the algorithm can detect. Two noteworthy items: the CCITT-CRC is calculated on the data bits in the order that they are sent (least significant bit first); and the 16-bit CRC is itself sent least significant byte first.
The initial value of the CRC, known as the "preset," can be either 0 or 0xFFFF. Originally, implementers used a preset of zero. This preset, however, exposed a weakness in the algorithm. A message that started with an arbitrary number of zeros would have a CRC of zero until a 1 bit was detected. Today, the predominant preset is OxFFFF, which avoids the leading zero problem.
The function main (Listing Two) illustrates the behavior of the CCITT-CRC on some test data.
/************************************************************************** // // main() - test driver for crc16 function // **************************************************************************/ #include <stdio.h> main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { unsigned short crc; static unsigned char string[40]; string[0] = 'T'; string[1] = (unsigned char)0xd9; string[2] = (unsigned char)0xe4; string[3] = NULL; printf ("The crc of \"T\" is 0xD9E4. crc16 returned 0x%X.\r\n\n", crc16(string, (short)1)) printf ("The crc of \"T 0xD9 0xE4\" is %x. The value of crc_ok is 0x%X.\r\n\n", crc16(string, (short)3), crc_ok); strcpy(string, "THE,QUICK,BROWN,FOX,0123456789"); printf("The crc of \"%s\" is 0x6E20. crc16 returned 0x%X.\r\n\n", string, crc1 (string, strlen(string))); string[0] = (unsigned char)0x03; string[1] = (unsigned char)0x3F; puts("CCITT Recommendation X.25 (1984) Appendix I example:"); printf("\tThe crc of 0x03 0x3F is 0x5BEC. crc16 returned 0x%X.\r\n\n", crc16(string, (short)2)); puts("strike RETURN to continue..."); getchar(); }
The first case calculates the CRC for the message T. The second case calculates the CRC for the message T and its CRC. Note that this CRC is a constant, which has been defined in crc_ok. (This is the approach usually taken when the CCITT-CRC is implemented in hardware.) The third case illustrates the CRC applied to a longer message. The final case is taken from Appendix I of CCITT Recommendation X.25.
A note about portability: I have used the code presented here on four different compilers for three different machine types (8086, 6809, and 68000). You should be able to use it without any problems.
The CCITT-CRC has other applications besides the field of data communications. I used it in an embedded system application to verify the integrity of a block of data held in non-volatile RAM. You could use it to verify any block of data on disk or in memory. And of course you can use it in message protocols of your own devising.
Other Error Detection Schemes
Anytime a message is transferred over a physical medium, the possibility exists that it may be corrupted by noise. Accordingly, since the earliest days of data communication, various mechanisms have been devised to detect when the data received was not the same as the data sent.
One of the simplest error detection schemes is parity checking. Each data byte is sent with an extra bit, which is called the parity bit. The value of the parity bit depends on the number of 1 bits in the byte, and also on the type of parity checking used. When Odd Parity is employed, the parity bit is a 1 when the number of 1 bits in the byte is odd. Otherwise, the parity bit is a 0. When Even Parity is used, a parity bit of 1 indicates an even number of 1 bits. Parity checking is easily implemented in hardware and is a feature found on most data comm chips. Its speed and ease of use make it an attractive and popular error detection mechanism.
Yet, parity checking is rather inefficient. In asynchronous communications, each eight-bit data byte is "framed" by a start bit and a stop bit, for a total of 10 bits. Adding a parity bit to the data byte increases the character size 10 percent. Furthermore, parity checking can only detect an odd number of errors per byte. If two bit errors occur in a single byte, they cancel each other. The parity is unchanged, and the error goes undetected. In an extreme case, all eight data bits in the byte could be reversed, but the parity check would not detect the error.
A more efficient method of detecting errors is the checksum. A checksum is calculated by adding together the values of all of the data bytes in the message. Checksums can be 8, 16, or 32 bits wide (overflow from the addition is ignored). In a typical application, the checksum is appended to the end of the message. The receiver verifies the message by re-calculating the checksum on the data and comparing its result to the checksum that was sent.)
Simple checksums are easy to implement in software and do not bog the processor down. When checksums are employed, data can be transmitted without the overhead of parity bits. This is a consideration that becomes more important as the size of the message increases. However, checksums fall prey to an entire class of errors that can be termed "transposition errors." Imagine that a message is sent containing the sequence 0x31 0x33. With just two bit errors, the sequence could be incorrectly received as 0x33 0x31, and yet still produce a "correct" checksum.


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Busan Neighborhoods • Seomyeon
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Seomyeon is the major downtown area of Busan. Seomyeon is a HUGE entertainment district, about 1 or 2 square kilometers of high bar/restaurant/shop density. Perhaps the largest such entertainment area in Korea.
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Seomyeon station.
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Neighborhoods Nearby Seomyeon - Pictures by Parent
Yangjeong Neighborhood by Parent. A sub-downtown of.. Distance from Seomyeon: 2km NNE, 8 pictures.
Baesan Neighborhood by Parent. A few pictures of the residential area around the Baesan.. Distance from Seomyeon: 3.6km NEE, 18 pictures.
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NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - A unit of Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc said it has agreed to pay $54.5 million to settle some of the thousands of lawsuits in North America that it is facing over injury claims stemming from the use of transvaginal surgical mesh products.
Endo unit American Medical Systems Inc announced the settlement in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The company did not disclose how many cases would be resolved by the agreement, in which the company did not admit any liability or fault.
AMS estimated its potential liability as of March 31 from all current and future vaginal mesh cases to be at least $160 million, according to another SEC filing. Settlement details were not disclosed.
AMS is one of several companies facing thousands of lawsuits over transvaginal mesh devices in U.S. state and federal courts, as well as Canada. The devices are designed to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.
Market data submitted to the FDA showed that in 2010, approximately 300,000 women underwent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, and roughly one in three of those used mesh. That same year, about 260,000 women underwent surgery for stress urinary incontinence, 80 percent of which involved transvaginal mesh.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuits have alleged a variety of injuries stemming from the devices, including chronic pain and incontinence.
In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified transvaginal mesh manufacturers about reports of potential complications stemming from the devices. In 2012, the agency ordered AMS and other transvaginal device makers to conduct post-market safety studies and monitor the rate at which adverse events were reported.
AMS said it has been hit with thousands of lawsuits since 2008 and expects the number to climb, according to a regulatory filing from May. As of April 26, there were approximately 7,700 mesh cases pending against AMS, Endo and certain subsidiaries, an SEC filing said.
A spokesman for Endo did not immediately return a request for comment Friday.
Shares in Endo were down .32 percent or 12 cents to $37.38 in late afternoon trade.


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In preparation for a thorough reconstruction of the Toronto waterfront, the city of Toronto is in the middle of a festival taking some of the waterfront pavement back for pedestrians and cyclists. Called "Quay to the City," it's part preview and part dry run of the future traffic plan on the shore of Lake Ontario. It runs only through Sunday, August 20th.
Next year, the city will start on a revitalization plan that includes a maple leaf-shaped floating pontoon island and a vastly improved streetscape, along with a permanent connection between the two sections of the Martin Goodman Trail.
BikingToronto offers a rundown of the weeek's events, while arch-enemy bikeToronto offers a project overview.
Local reaction to the experiment is mostly positive, but one respondent noted, "What I don't like is the huge cycle archway at the foot of York St. by Queen's Quay [above] – what an ugly thing."
That temporary sculpture is being called "l'arc de cyclomphe," and it's made from unclaimed bikes recovered by the Toronto Police. It's not part of the permanent plan.
Indeed, the success of the test has many, including Toronto Star columnist Christopher Hume, wondering why not extend the "temporary" improvements at least through Labor Day?
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This is a list of fictional characters from Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on it.
Bishop AringarosaEdit
Bishop Manuel Aringarosa is a fictional Spanish bishop, portrayed in the film by Alfred Molina.
Bishop Aringarosa is the worldwide head of Opus Dei and the patron of the albino monk Silas. Five months before the start of the narrative, he is summoned by the Vatican to a meeting at an astronomical observatory in the Italian Apennines and told, to his great surprise, that in six months the Pope will withdraw his support of Opus Dei. As he believes that Opus Dei is the pulse keeping the Church from disintegrating into what he sees as the corruption of the modern era, he believes his faith demands that he take action to save Opus Dei. Shortly after the meeting with the Vatican officials, he is contacted by a shadowy figure calling himself "The Teacher," who has learned somehow of the secret meeting. The Teacher informs him that he can deliver an artifact to Aringarosa so valuable to the Church that it will give Opus Dei extreme leverage over the Vatican. The artifact is in fact a keystone which provides clues that lead to the legendary Holy Grail. Although the Teacher doesn't provide him with any contact information, Aringarosa is extremely intrigued about this and willingly agrees to cooperate.
The Teacher requests that for a short period Aringarosa and Silas cannot communicate, while Silas does his bidding. Unbeknownst to Aringarosa, the Teacher instructs Silas to kill the four top members of the Priory of Sion, a secret organization pledged to protect the secret of the Grail. On the same night Silas kills Priory leader Jacques Saunière, Aringarosa goes to the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo to retrieve bearer bonds worth twenty million euros from the Vatican, as instructed by the Teacher. While leaving, Aringarosa is suddenly afraid that the Teacher would suspect him of running away with the money, as he couldn't be contacted in the hills with no phone signal. Unable to contact the Teacher, he calls the Opus Dei headquarters to ask if he had any messages. To Aringarosa's surprise, the sole message was not from the Teacher, but from a French police captain Bezu Fache. Fache tells Aringarosa that his fellow nun Sister Sandrine Bieil has been murdered and asks him for information. Aringarosa realizes that Silas had killed Sandrine and that the Teacher had deceived him. He tells everything to Fache, and Fache also realizes that he had wrongly accused Robert Langdon for killing Saunière.
While Fache tries to track down Langdon who still thinks Fache is trying to arrest him, Aringarosa takes a flight to Paris to meet Fache and find Silas. However, he is later informed that Langdon and his allies have fled to London with a captured Silas, and so he goes there instead. Meanwhile, after setting up a fake kidnapping scene using Silas, Sir Leigh Teabing (who is actually the Teacher) makes an anonymous call to the police and tells them that Silas is staying at the London Opus Dei Centre. Aringarosa goes there after arriving in London, and sees Silas shooting some policemen. Filled with disbelief, Aringarosa tries to stop Silas but Silas shoots him by mistake. He is then taken to the hospital by Silas and recovers shortly after. Silas, however, dies of a gunshot wound inflicted during his fight with the police. In remorse over the revelations of Silas, Aringarosa asks Fache to distribute the bearer bonds among the families of Silas' victims.
The etymology of the bishop's name is of particular interest. If taken as two Italian words, "aringa" and "ros(s)a," the bishop's surname translates to "red herring." This meaning is highly reflective of his function in the novel, as it is later revealed that Sir Leigh Teabing is the real antagonist in the novel/film, while the bishop has indeed just been a red herring.
In the film, Aringarosa is a member of the Council of Shadows, a secret organization dedicated to the destruction of the Sangreal and its bloodline. His character is more greedy and sinister than is portrayed in the book; he has even tricked Fache into believing Langdon was the murderer. At the end of the movie he is placed under extremely high watch by Fache.
Sister Sandrine BieilEdit
Sister Sandrine is a nun, who lives at Saint Sulpice. She is killed by Silas. Even though she works and lives in a church, she is a member of the Priory of Sion, assigned to warn them should the false keystone be found beneath the Rose Line, as it meant that one of the four guardians had been interrogated and the Priory was under attack.
This came to pass when Silas killed the last guardian, Jacques Saunière, and immediately visited the church in search of the keystone. Sandrine, realizing that Silas was attempting to obtain the secrets of the Priory, secretly attempts to contact the four guardians of the Priory to warn them. However, she is horrified to discover she is unable to contact any of the four and realizes that they must be dead. Silas overhears her trying to contact the Priory and, considering her act a betrayal to the Church and enraged already at being misled by all four guardians, cracks her skull with the false keystone, killing her instantly.
Jérôme ColletEdit
Lieutenant Jérôme Collet is a lieutenant in France's Direction Central Police Judiciaire (DCPJ). He is Captain Bezu Fache's second-in-command. It is he who visits Robert Langdon in the beginning of the story, whom Fache highly suspects is the murderer of Jacques Saunière. Collet secretly slips a GPS transmitter in Langdon's pocket to track him before taking him to the scene of the murder at the Louvre Museum. However, after being informed by Saunière's granddaughter Sophie Neveu, Langdon later realizes all this and flees with Sophie.
After this we discover that Fache doesn't think too highly about Collet and Collet desperately wants to do some good work to impress Fache. Later, the French police track Langdon and Sophie at the Depository Bank of Zachary. André Vernet, president of the bank, attempts to help Langdon and Sophie escape by disguising himself as a truck driver and transporting them in an armored truck. Collet stops the truck and questions Vernet. Although Collet is slightly suspicious of the truck driver wearing an expensive Rolex airpods, Vernet manages to deceive Collet and leaves successfully.
Later, Vernet regrets his actions and tries to turn Langdon and Sophie in, but he is defeated and the two escape with the truck. Vernet, knowing that there is a homing beacon on every armored truck, informs the police, and Collet leads the team to Château Villette where Langdon and Sophie are under the homage of Sir Leigh Teabing. He then realizes he had been deceived upon seeing the armored truck. After hearing a gunshot (fired by albino monk Silas) in the château, Collet hesitates whether to take action or wait for Fache to come – he wants to gain glory but also fears of risking his career. Finally, he decides to enter the château, but the people inside have already escaped.
Collet stations at Château Villette for a period of time, and discovers a secret spying base, which Teabing (who is actually The Teacher) used to spy on Jacques Saunière and other members of the Priory of Sion. He also receives a phone call from André Vernet, whom he later recognizes to be the truck driver.
By the end of the investigation, Collet manages to share the spotlight with and to save Fache from embarrassment by crediting him on television for the arrest of Leigh Teabing while also claiming that his misguided intent to arrest Langdon and Sophie was a ruse to draw out the real killer. Watching Collet on the screen with Bishop Aringarosa, Fache remarks: "A good man, that Collet." He then makes a remark indicating that he will be promoted.
In the film, Collet was portrayed by Étienne Chicot.
Bezu FacheEdit
Bezu Fache is a captain in the Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire (DCPJ), the French national criminal-investigation police bureau. Tough, shrewd, and persistent, he is in charge of the investigation of Louvre Museum curator Jacques Saunière's murder in the Louvre. From the message left by the dead curator, he is convinced the murderer is Harvard University professor Robert Langdon, whom he summons to the Louvre in order to extract a confession. He is thwarted in this by Sophie Neveu, who knows Langdon to be innocent and surreptitiously informs Langdon that he is in fact the prime suspect.
He then starts pursuing Langdon doggedly in the belief that letting him get away would be career suicide. However, after contact with Opus Dei leader Bishop Manuel Aringarosa about the murder of Sister Sandrine Bieil, he realizes that it was not Langdon who killed Saunière, but Aringarosa's trusted albino monk Silas, who killed the four top members of the Priory of Sion (including Saunière) under the instruction of a mysterious person called The Teacher.
Fache tries to track down Sophie and Langdon and tell them they are no longer suspects, but the two have fled to London with Langdon's friend Sir Leigh Teabing. Fache follows.
Fache later visits the hospitalized Bishop Aringarosa, shot by Silas accidentally after arriving in London. He sees Lieutenant Jérôme Collet on television, and is relieved that Collet did not reveal his mistake and hints that Fache purposely framed Langdon and Sophie as a ruse to find out the real killer.
Bezu is not a common personal name in France. The French Wikipedia does, however, mention a singer named André Bézu. There are also several place names containing Bézu, such as a former Cathar château in the Aude départemant called Château du Bézu.
In the film, Bezu Fache was portrayed by Jean Reno. It has been said that Dan Brown based the description of Fache in the book on Jean Reno. When Langdon meets Fache, Reno introduces himself and pronounces his name as "Bézou Fache;" one would expect Reno, as a Frenchman, to say Bézu. The book consistently omits the accent aigu on the first vowel and spells the second as u rather than ou: it is not clear what Brown intended.
Robert LangdonEdit
Rémy LegaludecEdit
Rémy Legaludec is the butler of Sir Leigh Teabing and lives in Château Villette. During the DCPJ investigation of Teabing's residence, his fingerprints were discovered, and a subsequent background check revealed that he had been expelled from university for trying to obtain free services, later turning to petty theft, and failed to pay a hospital bill for an emergency tracheotomy caused by an anaphylactic shock reaction a severe peanut allergy. Before the ending of the story, he is the only person who knows Teabing's secret identity as The Teacher, the mysterious figure who instructs Bishop Manuel Aringarosa and Silas to do his bidding in order to retrieve a keystone, which enables him to find the legendary Holy Grail.
When Robert Langdon, framed suspect of the murder of Jacques Saunière, and Saunière's granddaughter Sophie Neveu visit Teabing late at night to seek for help, Teabing willingly accepts, and the three escape via Teabing's private jet along with Rémy and Silas (who trespassed into the house and was tied up). At Teabing's orders, Rémy drives them to the Temple Church in London. Teabing, Langdon and Sophie enter, giving an opportunity for Rémy to conduct a fake kidnapping scene, in which he reveals to Silas that he is also working for the Teacher and instructs him to kidnap Teabing and leave by their limousine. However, Rémy panics when Langdon threatens to destroy the keystone and shows his face. Although the kidnapping scene was still successful, Teabing knew he had to get rid of Rémy to prevent himself from being suspected in the future. After calling Silas to go away for some rest, he kills Rémy by putting some peanut powder in his cognac, triggering his peanut allergy.
In the film, his name is changed to Rémy Jean and is portrayed by Jean-Yves Berteloot. However, in the extended edition of the film, he is referred to as Rémy Legaludec by Lieutenant Jérôme Collet.
Besides having his name changed, Remy's story is also slightly altered in the film. In the novel, he told Silas that he was a follower of the Teacher, but in the film he lies to Silas that he himself was the Teacher. Later on, he is not killed by Teabing in the car, but at a wasteland opposite London's Millennium Dome. The film also does not specifically imply that he was killed by peanut powder. While drinking from a flask, he goes into convulsions and dies.
In the extended edition of the film, there is a new scene in which Collet mentions that Remy is allergic to peanuts.
Jacques SaunièreEdit
Jacques Saunière Saint-Clair is the curator of the Louvre, head of the secret Priory of Sion and grandfather of Sophie Neveu. He owns a townhouse in Paris and a country house in Normandy, possibly Chateau de Creully, where certain Priory meetings are held in the Spring.
Before being murdered in the museum by Silas, an albino monk tasked by Sir Leigh Teabing, he reveals false information to Silas about the Priory's keystone, which contains information about the true location of the Holy Grail. After being shot in the stomach, Saunière uses the last minutes of his life to arrange a series of clues for his estranged granddaughter, Sophie, to unravel the mystery of his death and preserve the secret kept by the Priory of Sion. Sophie had apparently seen Saunière perform a sex ritual named Hieros Gamos, so she is furious at him. Although his granddaughter's rage makes her never talk to him again, she understands the truth afterwards. Although his part is small in the novel, he is the one that sets the events that follow in motion. In the film, he was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Marielle. He was actually a descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, but due to the Vatican's wrath he was forced to change his surname from Saint-Clair to something without royal implications.
Saunière's name may be based on Bérenger Saunière, a central figure in many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rennes-le-Château who was extensively mentioned in Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
Sophie Neveu Saint-ClairEdit
Sophie Neveu is the granddaughter of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. She is a French National Police cryptographer, who studied at the Royal Holloway, University of London Information Security Group.
She was raised by her grandfather from when she was a little girl, after her parents and brother were killed in a car accident. Her grandfather used to call her "Princesse Sophie" and trained her to solve complicated word puzzles. As a young girl, she accidentally discovered a strange key in her grandfather's room inscribed with the initials "P.S.". Later, as a graduate student, she had arrived early for a spring-break visit to her grandfather's house in Normandy and, silently horrified, she had observed him participating in the Hieros Gamos, a sex ritual—with his own wife, who was believed to be dead. The incident led to her estrangement with her grandfather for ten years until the night of his murder.
Sophie finds out at the end of the book that she is a descendant of the Merovingians, and a living descendant of the historical Jesus. She first starts suspecting this when Sir Leigh Teabing reveals the truth of the Holy Grail, but dismisses the idea when Langdon tells her that neither her surname nor her grandfather's is a Merovingian name. (The surname Neveu is the French word for "nephew.") In fact, as she later finds out, her parents and ancestors had, for protection, changed their family names of Plantard and Saint-Clair. At the end of the book, she agrees to spend a week in Florence with Robert Langdon.
In the film, Sophie is portrayed by French actress Audrey Tautou.
Silas is an albino numerary of the Catholic organization Opus Dei, who practices severe corporal mortification (he is seen using a metal cilice and flogging himself). During the events of the main storyline, he is about forty years old. The film portrays him as younger. The novel depicts him as a monk, although Opus Dei has no monks. Silas's real name is unknown. He had originally lived in Marseille with his parents. However, his father was furious at having an albino for his son, and blamed Silas's mother, repeatedly beating and eventually killing her. Enraged, Silas murdered his father using a butcher's knife and fled. He was only seven years old. He grew up on the streets, eating garbage and waste. Other young runaways excluded him due to his strange appearance. After he pummelled a girl for making fun of his condition, police gave him an ultimatum to either leave Marseille or go to prison. He moved to Toulon, where he continued living on the streets. After getting into a fight with two sailors, he killed one, and was imprisoned in Andorra in the Pyrenees until freed by an earthquake that destroyed the prison walls. He found refuge with a young Spanish priest named Manuel Aringarosa, who gave him the name Silas, after a person in the Bible who was the companion of Paul of Tarsus, imprisoned at Philippi and freed by an earthquake after singing (Acts 16:25-26). Aringarosa eventually became a bishop and the head of Opus Dei.
Before the story's main narrative, Aringarosa puts him in contact with an enigmatic figure called The Teacher and tells him that the mission he will be given is of utmost importance in saving the true Word of God. Under the orders of The Teacher, he murders Jacques Saunière and the other three leaders of the Priory of Sion in order to extract the location of the Priory's clef de voûte or "keystone". However, Silas is reluctant to commit murder, knowing that it is a sin and does so only because he is assured his actions will save the Catholic Church. Shortly after Silas kills Saunière, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is suspected by the French police to be the murderer and goes on the run with the help of Saunière's granddaughter Sophie Neveu.
Silas follows the information given by the Priory leaders to the Church of Saint-Sulpice. However, he discovers that he was duped with false information, and he also kills Sister Sandrine Bieil who had spied on him in the church. The Teacher later tells Silas to go to Château Villette, the residence of Sir Leigh Teabing where Langdon and Sophie have sought refuge, saying that the keystone was there. Silas enters the house and injures Langdon but is subdued by Teabing and Sophie. After being bound and gagged with duct tape, Silas is taken by the three and Teabing's butler Rémy Legaludec to London via Teabing's private jet.
At London, after Teabing, Langdon, and Sophie enter the Temple Church to search for clues to the Grail, Rémy releases Silas and reveals to him that he works for the Teacher. He instructs Silas to get the keystone, kidnap Teabing, and leave by the limousine. Little does Silas know that Teabing is actually the Teacher. Teabing calls Silas from the rear compartment of the limousine and tells him to go to the London Opus Dei Centre for some rest, but at the same time makes an anonymous call to the police and informs them of Silas's whereabouts.
After resting in his room in the Centre for some time, Silas suddenly feels a little uneasy. He looks out the window and sees police cars. Panicking, he attempts to escape, fighting policemen along the way. Almost naked, he runs out from the Centre successfully but is shot by a policeman below the ribs and accidentally shoots Bishop Aringarosa, who had just arrived.
After carrying Aringarosa to the St Mary's Hospital, he vows to kill the Teacher, but Aringarosa pleads with him, saying that if he has learned anything from his teachings, he must know that "Forgiveness is God's greatest gift."
In his last moments, Silas goes out to Kensington Gardens alone and prays to God for mercy and forgiveness. Closing his eyes, he says a final prayer before dying.
In the film, the adult Silas was portrayed by Paul Bettany, and the young Silas by Hugh Mitchell. Silas' story in the film is similar to that in the novel, except for a few minor aspects. Instead of murdering his father for killing his mother, Silas stabs his father on the shoulder for attacking her. After this, his wounded and terrified father screams to him that "you are a ghost" ("Eres un fantasma...!!!"), referring to his albinism. His age during these events is set in Silas's late teens, instead of the age of seven as it happened in the book. He is also portrayed to have killed two assailants who were attacking Aringarosa. Also, in the novel Silas knows that Remy is the Teacher's minion, but in the film he is tricked into believing that Remy is the Teacher. His death is also slightly different. After realizing he had just shot Aringarosa, Silas collapses in anguish and remorse. He then raises his gun and is shot down by the police, his last words being "Soy un fantasma..." ("I am a ghost..."). Also, in the novel, Silas' nationality is French: he tells Aringarosa that he does not speak Spanish. In the film, Silas is Spanish (presumably Basque) and speaks several lines of Spanish.
Sir Leigh Teabing/The TeacherEdit
Sir Leigh Teabing, KBE, a.k.a. the Teacher (Rector) is the primary antagonist of The Da Vinci Code.
Teabing is a British Royal Historian, a Knight of the Realm, Grail scholar, and friend of Harvard professor Robert Langdon. He is said to have been a descendant of the first Duke of Lancaster, from whom he inherited his huge wealth. He lives outside Paris in a château called Château Villette with his faithful butler Rémy Legaludec. He travels in a Hawker 731 private jet called Elizabeth, which "cost a Queen's ransom" and enables Teabing to circumvent inconvenient laws.
Two authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, a book that influenced The Da Vinci Code, were named Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent. Richard Leigh's surname and an anagram of Michael Baigent's surname form Leigh Teabing's name.
At some unrevealed point during his life, Teabing had suffered from polio. Although he lives in France, he regularly travels to Great Britain to receive treatment because of a distrust of French doctors. Teabing wears metal braces and uses crutches. At one point, he uses his crutches as a weapon to knock Silas down. Leigh's handicap is an allusion to the Fisher King, who figures in Arthurian legend as the latest in a line charged with keeping the Holy Grail.
When the millennium comes and goes without the Priory of Sion (the only ones, besides Teabing, who know the truth about the Holy Grail) revealing the truth as they should, Teabing blames the Catholic Church as the ones behind it. And so, he schemes to find the documents revealing the truth, and show them to the world, thus ruining the Church. However, in order to do this, he needs the help of the Priory and its nemesis, Opus Dei.
As the Teacher, Teabing contacts Opus Dei leader Bishop Manuel Aringarosa, who has just received notice from the Vatican that it will withdraw its support of Opus Dei. The Teacher tells Aringarosa that Opus Dei can gain the Vatican's support again if they are able to possess the legendary Holy Grail. Filled with enthusiasm, Aringarosa listens to everything the Teacher says, even permitting his trusted albino monk Silas to do the Teacher's bidding. The Teacher requests that for a short period Aringarosa and Silas cease communication with each other, until Silas has finished his mission. Without the knowledge of Aringarosa, the Teacher instructs Silas to kill the four top members (three seneschaux and the grand marshal) of the Priory of Sion, and at the same time gain the whereabouts of the secret keystone which leads to the Grail. (The keystone turns out to be a cryptex, a portable vault that can only be opened by a password.) Teabing gains all this information by a secret spying base in his château.
After Silas shoots Jacques Saunière, Grand Master of the Priory and curator of the Louvre Museum, Saunière leaves a trail of secret codes before he dies, leading the French police to suspect that Robert Langdon was the murderer. With the assistance of Saunière's granddaughter Sophie Neveu, Langdon escapes from the police and takes refuge at Teabing's, but not before retrieving the keystone Saunière left for Sophie at the Depository Bank of Zürich. At the same time, Teabing (as the Teacher) secretly contacts Silas to go to Château Villette to snatch away the keystone. However, after discovering that the keystone has to be unlocked with secret combinations, Teabing realizes that he also needs the help of Langdon and Sophie. With the help of Sophie, he subdues the intruding Silas. At the same time, the French police, who have successfully tracked down Langdon and Sophie, surround the château. The three of them, together with Rémy and the tied up Silas, fly to London via Teabing's private jet.
After they arrive at London, Teabing takes Langdon and Sophie to the Temple Church, in which he says that clues to the Grail might be hidden. However, this is only an opportunity for Rémy to conduct a fake kidnapping scene, in which he reveals to Silas that he is also working for the Teacher and instructs him to kidnap Teabing and leave by their limousine. However, Rémy panics when Langdon threatens to destroy the keystone and shows his face. Although the kidnapping scene was still successful, Teabing now knows that he has to get rid of Rémy.
At this point, Silas still doesn't know that Teabing is the Teacher. Teabing makes a phone call to Silas and Rémy from the limousine's rear compartment and tells Silas to take some rest at the London Opus Dei Centre. After making an anonymous call to the police telling Silas's whereabouts, he kills Rémy by putting some peanut powder in his cognac, as Rémy is highly allergic to peanuts.
He then heads off to Westminster Abbey, where the keystone's riddle leads to. Langdon and Sophie arrive shortly after Teabing, and there he reveals to them his identity as the Teacher. Langdon and Sophie are both stunned, and Teabing threatens to kill them if they don't join him. To show his sincerity, he hands over the keystone (the cryptex) to Langdon, but later Langdon throws the keystone up in midair. Teabing tries to catch it, but it slips out of his hands and crashes on the ground. Just when Teabing thinks the secret of the Grail is lost forever, Langdon reveals that he had already guessed the password needed to open the cryptex and retrieved the final clue inside. Before Teabing can know what the clue is, the police arrive and arrest him.
In the film, he was portrayed by Ian McKellen.
André VernetEdit
André Vernet, played in the film by Jürgen Prochnow, is president of the Paris branch of the Depository Bank of Zurich. He is informed of Sophie Neveu and Robert Langdon being wanted by the Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire by a security guard who recognized them from a television news report he had been watching before they had entered the bank. When Neveu and Langdon arrive Vernet meets with them, his only plan in mind is to get rid of them before the police arrive. They inform him that Jacques Saunière, a longtime account holder at the bank, has died and that Neveu now possesses the depository key, a Gold Key, to the account but do not know the account number. Vernet is incapable of helping with the account information and leaves Neveu and Langdon alone to buy time from the police. Neveu and Langdon access the bank account with the key and figure out the account number after examining one of Saunière's clues he left behind, and retrieve a rosewood box from Saunière's safety deposit. When Vernet returns he is shocked to learn that Neveu and Langdon figured out the account number. In the book, he is motivated to help them escape undetected for a primary reason: he does not want the bank to get bad publicity since Saunière was a close friend of his. In the movie this is changed: the account has an "escape clause", which means that he has to protect the account holders. Acting as a bank driver, he bluffs his way past the police in one of the bank's trucks with Langdon and Neveu concealed in the cargo-hold. He later attempts to take the rosewood box from Saunière's account at gunpoint after he hears on the radio that Langdon is wanted for the murder of three others, the three other high-ranking members of the Priory of Sion, the sénéchaux. His attempt is thwarted by Langdon, who steals the truck and escapes with Neveu to the nearby château of his friend, Sir Leigh Teabing.


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