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I updated Questing, the beginning part before the tutorials, and some of the Factions/Clans tutorial. I plan on re-addressing everything over the next few days, and adding some more tutorials based on the suggestions I was given by Zone (and any more that might appear on this thread).


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Thousands of Rape Survivors in Thailand Are Silent; Abortion Laws Remain Stringent
Women's groups are fighting to help rape survivors in Thailand, where the stigma and shame associated with rape has pushed thousands of young women into muted suffering and suicide. The rape of young girls is also an important part of a larger campaign that will widen Thai women's access to abortion and to legal counsel. Abortion remains illegal in Thailand, except in circumstances where the mother's life is threatened or in which the women can prove in court that they have been raped. An estimated 300,000 Thai women undergo illegal abortions every year.
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Most of the larger projects we've undertaken at Cardboard Citizens use documentary evidence as a starting point. Although we make use of verbatim material, I am not a purist. I respect the rights of a speaker to not have their words excessively interfered with, but I prefer to integrate testimony into the warp and weft of a production, rather than treating it as inviolable. Sometimes when you work on a project from research to completion, discoveries and coincidences abound in such a spooky way that you sometimes can't help thinking it was meant to be. Rather than leaving these interesting gobbets on the cutting-room floor, I am inclined to include them in the final product wherever possible.
Five years ago, while developing a version of Shakespeare's Pericles in our co-production with the RSC, I made a small-scale version of the play to tour for a couple of weeks in refugee centres around London. I had a hunch that the play – a sequence of exile, journey, shipwreck, separation and reunion – might resonate with the audience. The eponymous hero experiences a painful series of events, including the birth at sea of his daughter (Marina) and loss of his wife (Thaisa), inviting extraordinary sympathy. Our plan was for audiences to watch our cut-down, hour-long version and tell us their own stories afterwards. We incorporated some of these tales in a full-scale production six months later.
The tour of mini-Pericles was seen by a mere 150 people. But we were right: we met people whose families had been separated by disasters and wars; we met a man who knew the orange groves of Tyre; we heard of amazing reunions, rivalling Shakespeare's own beautiful recognition scene. The play clearly spoke profoundly to displaced people. The most remarkable of these encounters was a woman I found in tears after the show played at a club for Latin American elder exiles in Lambeth. She said that her mother was both born at sea and called Marina – just like Pericles's daughter. We interviewed her at length and wove her words into the production, along with four other key contemporary stories.
With a flawed piece such as Pericles, there is enough cuttable non-Shakespearean material to accommodate extra stories without the piece becoming too long. Jan Kott's thesis of Shakespeare as our contemporary remains as powerful a guide as ever; the Bard is never dated but always reinvented and reread by each theatre-making generation in the light of world events of the time.
In 2001 we did the first excursion of the production we are currently reviving, Mincemeat, which is based on the extraordinary story of a second-world-war deception whereby the Allies made the Germans believe that the landing in Europe in 1943 would be through Sardinia rather than Sicily. The deception involved a corpse whose identity was a state secret known only to the originator of the operation, Ewen Montagu, who took the secret to the grave. The journey from idea to production was circuitous and fraught.
Early in the devising process, I spoke about it to a friend of my father-in-law's. To my amazement, he told me he knew the undertaker who had moved that body in the dead of night from St Pancras to Hackney mortuary. In 2001, I did a filmed interview with Ivor Leverton, head of the distinguished firm of north London undertakers who also dealt with the death of Princess Diana (he died a few years later). Our reasoning was that when you have film of an extraordinary figure such as this, why have his words relayed by an actor? We project the video of the interview on stage, and the performers interact with it as if he is speaking via satellite link – a cheap gag in some respects, but that's theatre. If it's well-executed, we suspend disbelief here as everywhere.
Elsewhere in Mincemeat, we are fortunate enough to have access to a number of real artefacts, such as photos and newly released documents from the Public Records Office. This is a gift for a theatre-maker of my inclination. There is something so authentic about these papers – for example, the actual identity card used for the body – that we project images of them on to monitors. In some places we had to draw the line: there were also macabre pictures the intelligence officers took of this body on the slab, but to use these would have been a further exploitation of an already unconsulted subject.
One character in the play is referred to as bearing a physical resemblance to Charlie Chaplin. This led us on another journey of exploration, only to learn that Hitler and Chaplin were born within days of each other. We found that the extraordinary final speech of the Great Dictator made a fitting end to the tortuous history told in Mincemeat. So we borrow it and put half of it into the Charlie character's mouth and project the other half on to a screen in the closing minutes. We then discovered that Chaplin was inspired to make that film partly at the urging of a left-leaning friend of his – who turned out to be none other than Ivor Montagu, brother of Ewen Montagu, the originator of Operation Mincemeat. As Hamlet said, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio …"


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10-01-2011 #261racer0018 Guest
I think that time will tell. And didn't your mother always tell you that good things come to those who wait. Look how long it took for someone to break the ps3. Now it will take a while for them to do it again. But i am sure it will happen. Thanks
10-01-2011 #262HackSoul Guest
Well, I still believe in the JFW DH and I think we are going to get a proof of a 3.7+/3.6+ game running soon! I would love to see they booting Child of Eden! XD It would be better than seeing a Portal 2 Video.
10-02-2011 #263vn88holden Guest
i so can't wait for this awesome news.
10-05-2011 #264tulla2010 Guest
while this would be great I am still sceptical, this after all is the interweb & until there is some concrete proof, ie a 3.6+ game running then this is nothing more than vaporware, but on the other hand it has been a while since anything has emerged hack wise so maybe they have been working on exploits behind the scenes.
keeping fingers crossed this isn't a hoax.
10-05-2011 #265minnal Guest
PS3 Custom FirmWare...
I have been offline for a while and now I'm back. I have used geohot method to jailbreak my PS3 and installed Kmeaw CFW 3.55.
I can see the latest firmware version is 3.71.
What is the latest version of CFW? Anybody please give me a link to a guide to update to the available latest custom firmware from my 3.55.
10-05-2011 #266HeyManHRU Guest
You're already on the latest CFW my friend.
10-05-2011 #267azoreseuropa Guest
Actually, the latest firmware version is not 3.71.. Its 3.72. Yes, you are already on the latest CFW according to HeyManHRU.
10-05-2011 #268minnal Guest
so all the new games, which require atleast fw 3.60... how to play them?
10-05-2011 #269marc2590 Guest
You have two options
1. Upgrade your PS3 to OFW 3.72 and buy the games or
2. Buy a new PS3 upgrade it to OFW 3.72 and buy the games
the benefit of #2 is that u still have a PS3 on CFW
10-05-2011 #270NTA Guest
I hear this new firmware coming out soon will be able to support those games.


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Birdsville pushes heat record
Temperatures are expected to hit 47 degrees Celsius in parts of outback Queensland today.
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The scorching weather combined with strong winds and low humidity means there's a severe fire danger for several towns.
Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Julia Creek, Richmond, Hughenden, Winton, Longreach, Boulia, Bedourie, Birdsville, Windorah, Quilpie, Thargomindah and Cunnamulla are all at risk.
At Adavale, west of Charleville, police officer Chris Seng says cooling off under the cold tap will not be an option today.
"The water here is artesian bore water - it comes up at 85 degrees as it is," he says.
Weather bureau spokesman Jonty Hall says Birdsville residents are no strangers to the heat.
He says the hottest day on record in the town was 49.5 degrees Celsius, recorded back in 1972.
"Once you're getting up to within one or two degrees of those long-term records, it's quite a significant event," he says.
A ridge over central Australia is expected to produce a heatwave of almost a week over much of the nation.
Winton is expected to get to 43 degrees today, and 41 degrees is forecast at both Longreach and Mount Isa.
One Longreach local, who's lived in the area for 35 years, says she can't remember experiencing "such a prolonged heat".
"I'm over it," Kate Klem says.
"I've got neighbours in their 80s, and they were born here, and they don't remember it being so hot for such a long period".
Ms Klem says she beats the heat by staying inside and reading library books.
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Baseball: Max Fried picks UCLA
October 1, 2010 | 4:28 pm
Junior pitcher Max Fried from Van Nuys Montclair Prep announced Friday that he has committed to UCLA. Fried, a left-hander, has one of the best curveballs in Southern California.
He made a favorable impression in the Area Code Games and will be a key player in trying to help the Mounties win a Southern Section championship this spring.
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The 14th annual Clays For Kids Sporting Clay Classic took place Saturday, Oct. 12. The shooting event hosted 58 teams over three flights throughout the day. Shooters from all across the area came together to participate in a day of sporting clays.
"We are pleased to report another sell-out event for the seventh year in a row," said Cindy Westfall, executive director at Beaumont Junior Achievement. "Volunteers from area businesses and industries worked together to make this event the most organized and successful one to date."
Paul McCormick took first place in the event and was awarded a Texas-shaped trophy and a $50 certificate to Pop Family Popcorn in Beaumont. Casey Hart of Motiva won the raffle and a $1,000 gift card to Gander Mountain.
"The shooters enjoyed beautiful weather, great food and a great competition," Westfall said. "We appreciate each and every one of our shooters and volunteers for giving up their Saturday to spend with us. We are already hard at work planning our 2013 event."
About $90,000 was raised, and all proceeds benefit area youth by providing Junior Achievement's workforce readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs. Locally, Junior Achievement programs will reach 15,000 students during the 2012-13 school year across a nine-county region. For more information, visit www.ja.org [3].
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Dell OEM has partnered with businesses in over 40 verticals including healthcare, retail, industrial and telecommunications. Most recently, Dell OEM has also partnered with Duluth, Ga.-based healthcare technology firm SoloHealth, on a health and wellness kiosk, and Airbus, an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of European aerospace company EADS, on an electronic flight bag service.
Brian Toomey, senior director of sales and marketing for Arrow Electronics OEM computing solutions, said Arrow Electronics operates on an outsource business model for OEMs and has been involved on the inventory management level of the Dell OEM/PRC partnership.
"All of us are specializing in specific vertical markets. Dell is strong in the healthcare field, industrial computing, data center, and is jumping into the telecom space and will be very successful there too," Toomey said.
Toomey said looking at the year pipeline for solutions created for a very specific group of end users, like the Latitude 10 tablets with Accent 1000, is imperative.
"In healthcare and a lot of other fields, mobility is becoming a big factor in all the areas we are touching these days. Our people are out there dealing with these types of innovative companies. We have an opportunity to help guide our customers as far as what is coming down the pipe the next 5 years," Toomey said.
Dell's Mullen said, "The trick is not selling the first tablet, it's about managing the product life cycle." Managing the product life cycle and assisting customers at looking into the future of innovation helps to ensure specialized products last longer, a common need for more targeted end users, according to Mullen and Toomey.
The Latitude 10 with Accent 1000 could be seen as one product with the added benefit of carrying deeper rewards for companies involved with producing and deploying the solution: knowing the end user will experience giant leaps in his or her quality of life.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Shuttle Rocket Booster Maker to Launch Private Space Taxi by 2015
The aerospace company that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA's space shuttle fleet announced plans today (May 9) to develop its own private launch system — a spaceship and rocket — to fly astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. The first manned flight could launch in about three years, company officials said.
Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, announced the new project here at the first Spacecraft Technology Expo, where thousands of government and industry officials have gathered to discuss innovative new technologies and the future of human spaceflight.
ATK had already been working on a new private rocket, called Liberty, which it submitted as a contender in the second round of NASA's Commercial Crew Development program last year. Ultimately, the Liberty rocket was not selected to receive funding, but ATK continued development of the booster under an unfunded Space Act Agreement with NASA. As part of this arrangement, NASA shares its expertise in designing and testing the rocket but does not provide money for the project.
Now, ATK has unveiled plans for a complete launch system centered around the Liberty rocket. The design includes a space capsule to carry passengers to destinations in low-Earth orbit, such as the International Space Station, said Kent Rominger, vice president and program manager for Liberty.
"The goal is to provide a new launch capability for the nation," Rominger told SPACE.com. "The vehicle is designed to be very, very simple, and inherently more safe and reliable. We really believe the whole system is designed for success."
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The spacecraft will be able to carry seven passengers, or various combinations of crew and cargo. ATK also hopes to provide launch services for U.S. government satellites eventually, Rominger said.
The composite crew module was built by ATK at its Iuka, Miss., facility as part of an earlier NASA program headed by the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. from 2007 to 2010. The program aimed to assess whether composite materials were a viable alternative to aluminum lithium on NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, which is being built for future manned exploration flights to deep space.
"For Liberty, it made a huge amount of sense since composites were one of our competencies," Rominger said. "We wanted to pull in all the supplies and leverage all the work that has already gone into the system."
The look of the capsule will be similar to the Orion capsule, except it will only perform flights to and from low-Earth orbit. The capsule, which will land over water, will be reusable up to 10 times, Rominger said.
But ATK is hoping to use Liberty for more than just taxi rides to the space station.
"We are looking at space tourism," Rominger said. "Also other [space] stations, such as Bigelow — we can help build the station. We're also looking at other nations that aren't partners on the space station that would like to have stand-alone missions."
ATK is aiming to begin test flights of the Liberty system in 2014, with the first manned mission expected to occur in late 2015, ATK officials said. This schedule means that Liberty could be available to NASA and other potential customers by 2016.
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In September, ATK completed a full-scale test of Liberty's five-segment solid motor — the world's largest solid rocket motor, which was originally designed to be the first stage of the Ares 1 rocket that NASA planned to use to launch the Orion capsule on trips to the moon. The rocket was shelved after the agency's moon-bound Constellation program was scrapped.
Liberty will use the original Ares 1 engine as a first stage and European aerospace firm Astrium's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket as the second stage. The massive Liberty rocket will tower at 300 feet (91 meters) tall, company officials have said. [The World's Tallest Rockets: How They Stack Up]
"Liberty can lift more than any other system," Rominger said. "Our capabilities can carry seven crew and significant cargo, which I think is unique. We really are a launch system designed for the 21st century to bring better reliability and safety."
With NASA's space shuttle fleet retired (the last shuttle missions flew in 2011), the space agency now relies on Russian Soyuz rockets and spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the space station until commercial alternatives in the U.S. become available. NASA hopes that happens by 2017.
The agency pays approximately $63 million per seat on Soyuz flights. But the Liberty system is designed to be more cost-effective, Rominger said. He did not disclose the projected price per seat, but did say it will be "significantly less than what we're paying the Russians today."
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October 18, 2014
The Hayden Planetarium invites our Youngest Astronomers for an evening of star hopping as we look at the fall and winter constellations of the night sky using the Zeiss Star projector. See if you can find the beautiful "deep-sky" objects hiding in plain sight. Explore star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, and learn how our understanding of the stars and these deep-sky treasures has grown over the centuries. (This program is recommended for children ages 4-11).
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Hey everyone, long time no see.
A lot has happened since I last went on SoM, but that's besides the point.
I am now currently into divination. I've done readings with the deck I have (it's a Faery deck, I'm not quite sure the name, I received it from a good friend), and I'm pretty much a natural at giving a good reading, but only when I look up the book definition.
The problem is, I can't memorize the cards on this deck. It is just not for beginners. It's a beautiful deck, it works great, but I'm just not reading the language of the deck yet. I need a new deck, something that is great for beginners.
I went to a psychic, and he told me to use the Rider Waite deck. I get that it's great for learning on, but I hate that's it Christian based. I am not Christian, I don't won't to learn on a Christian deck.
Sooo, has anybody learned on something they absolutely loved besides Rider Waite? I'm just being so put off by the fact that it's a TAROT deck, made to be Christian based. Christians aren't supposed to dabble in magicks, what are they doing creating something for divination?
I want something that speaks to me, I have pretty good intuition, it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe something simple like RW would be good, but with a more Egyptian/Greek/Celtic/Norse base. Any would work.
Thanks in advance. Merry part and merry meet again my fellow Pagans/Wiccans/Occultists.


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|[jwt-dev] Re: STP IM and JWT metamodel
Hi Florian,
Looking forward to working with you guys, Best wishes, Adrian.
On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Andrea Zoppello wrote:
See the comments inline.
Florian Lautenbacher ha scritto:Hi Adrian, hi Andrea,
thanks for your helpful clarification about the metamodel of STP IM. I now
had a closer look at the metamodel in your SVN and it is (in my opinion)
much better designed than the one that is shown on your web site. In fact
the core concepts are very similar to the core metamodel of JWT (which can
be found on [1]). In STP IM you got a Process which contains * Steps and *
Transitions. Each step has a name, a description, a number of
sourceTransitions and targetTransitions as well as several
observableAttributes. You also got ControlServices with subclasses like
SplitControl or JoinControl. There can be normal Transitions or
TransitionsUnderCondition. And (nearly?) everything is a configurable
Now looking at the JWT metamodel it is very much alike: here everything is a
ModelElement. There are ActivityNodes which are connected via ActivityEdges
(using source, target, in and out with same cardinality as
sourceTransitions, targetTransitions etc. in STP IM). There can be several
types of ActivityNodes: one would be an Action (probably a Step in IM) or it
could be a ControlNode such as a ForkNode or a JoinNode. An ActivityEdge
might have a Guard (making it a "TransitionUnderCondition") whereas the
Guard is specified in a GuardSpecification (with only a proprietary notation
Regarding your description of Properties and ObservableAttributes I guess
that data that is necessary for execution (which might have been added to
BPMN and shall be transformed into BPEL e.g.) is added as a property to the
relevant step, am I right?
For example for a Step that is configured with Service [StartService] ServiceBinding [HTTP-InputBindingComponent] the
properties will be driven by the HTTP-InputBindingComponet, So the step will have properties like:
URL: isSoap: and so on.
Quite different is the concept of relevant data:
Relevant data are extracted when the process is executed, evluating expression on messages ( exchanged by endpoint in the case of Jbi )
or variable in the case of ( BPEL).
An example of relevant data is customerID extracted by /RECORD/ @customerId
Thanks for clarification about the owner attribute. Yes, I was more thinkingabout a participant or role than about an owner. Is this data (e.g. which isAs i say in previous post we'e not yet provided in the stp intermediate model the concept of participiant role.
available in a swimlane or pool in BPMN) then added as a property right now
to each Step?
BTW i think that we could support this in BPMN editor in two ways:
1) Using the lane ( ant this will add some additional property on the step, or better it will configure a particular
RolebAssignedStep, HumanTaskStep )
2) Get a view with a participiant list that we could drag anbd drop on the activities
We cannot use the BPMN pool concept beacuse a pool in the im is mapped in to a process.
I agree with Adrian and Marc that a first step would be having aYou're welcome. Ask what you want???
transformation from JWT to STP IM (and the other way round). However, since
the metamodels are quite similar, this should not be so hard. Here at JWT we
need to discuss who will be responsible for this task. Maybe somebody of STP
might be able to assist us here!?
I am still wondering how you are planning to include the information fromIntermediate Model is a very generic model so you could have situations where some properties ( for example
one metamodel in a way that it is clear in a next transformation step where
it should go. So, if I specify the owner of a step in a pool or lane in
BPMN, how is this information kept in STP IM so I can work with that when
generating e.g. BPEL or XPDL-code? I guess you need some predefined values
as properties that both model transformations use!? Or will there be a
query language (such as RQL or SPARQL) where you can find the "semantics" of
the property?
Best regards and looking forward to some more fruitful discussions,
of the step ) will be important by code generator A and others will be need by code generator B.
The concept is that IM bring you the information in a very generic way, than is
responsibility of specific code generator to transform that information in something executable.
To bring you an example, now i'm working in generating servicemix service assembly applications from intermediate
model, and it's my codegenerator plugins that knows ( for example how to organize service units, how to make cfg files
and so on .... ).
I don't know if it's clear, if you've some doubt please write me.
Regards Andrea[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/2/2f/AgilPro_MetamodelDescription.pdf
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Von: Andrea Zoppello [mailto:andrea.zoppello@xxxxxx] Gesendet: Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 10:15
An: Florian Lautenbacher
Cc: Adrian Skehill; Adrian Mos
Betreff: Re: Current state of STP IM?
Sorry for the late response but i'm just come back from Javapolis.
See comments inline Adrian Skehill ha scritto:
I think version on the wiki is not updated. The version that we're going toFlorian Lautenbacher wrote:
I am wondering what the current state of the STP Intermediate model is? Is the version on the Wiki [1] up to date?
commit will be the really the first version.
If so, I am curious why a step is part of a process, but the transition is not?
And, on the other hand, why there is only one edge between a step and a transition with cardinality *. In many other standards (like UML activity diagrams) there are always two edges between a node (=ActivityNode in UML) and a transition (=ActivityEdge in UML) specifying that a transition has exactly two ends (cardinality of 1 at each edge)?
In the version that we're going to commit a process will have a set of steps
and a set of transitions. A transition wil have a source step and a target
step then in the A step there will be two inverse relations a relation
called sourceTransitions 1.* ( all transition for which the step is a source
step ) and a realtion called targetTransition ( all transition for whcih the
step is target )
How are the conditions at TransitionUnderCondition specified? Are these boolean conditions connected with AND, OR, XOR and NOT? Or is this open to each implementation (BPMN, SCA, JBI, etc.)?
The transition under condition will have a "Condition" ( Condition abstract
entity ) where a condition could be an "ExpressionCondition" ( a condition
expressed in some language Xpath, groovy, or a condition on header
properties "PropertyCondition".
In the actual version of the Intermediate Model we've introduced theDo only Transitions have ObservableAttributes? How about attributes that are specified at a step?
relation between Observable Attribute and Step ( 1..* each step could have
one or more observable attribute ).
By the way what's important is to clarify the difference between "ObservableAttribute" and "Property" of a Step.
Properties are information needed to configure the step in a particular
runtime,and the properties set depends by ServiceBinding.
Observable attribute are data that will be extracted when the process will
be executed to be visualuzed and monitored, by monitoring tools.
Does a process or a step has no owner, but only a service?
A process is a subclass of service so process could have owner.
What's important is to make distinct the concept of "Owner" from the
concept of "Participiant/Actor/Role" as we mean when we talk about workflow
and in general process that require "human task".
At the moment we've not in the model the concept of "Particpiant/ Actor/Role"
for the support of worflow concept, but in the future we're going to
introduce something about.
Basically ( it's just an idea that we need to discuss with other members
) we'll introduce the concept of role, and a subclass of Step entity ( let
me say RoleAssignedStep or HumanTaskStep ) where we model the relation
beteween a step and a role.
For "Owner" instead we mean the provider of a service ( process ) as it is
in service registry ( UDDI ) world.
But this part is not complete yet.
Looking forward to your answers,
Feel free to contact me if you need other information.
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My Vow To You - Poem by Stanley Oguh
I vow to help you love life
To always show you the warmth of my care
To always be by your side at all times
To always hold you in tenderness
To have the patience that love demands
I vow to fix and love you in all your forms
To speak when words are needed
And to share the silence when they are not
To agree and to disagree
I promise never to forget that this is a once in a life time
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We'll always find a way back to each other
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NASA cut short a spacewalk outside the International Space Station after carbon dioxide began building up in one astronaut's spacesuit, officials said.world Updated: Jul 23, 2009 09:48 IST
NASA cut short a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday after carbon dioxide began building up in one astronaut's spacesuit, officials said.
The outing, by shuttle Endeavour's lead spacewalker David Wolf and rookie astronaut Chris Cassidy, was called off shortly before 4 pm (2000 GMT) as the astronauts were replacing batteries in the station's solar power system.
Two of four batteries were installed when Mission Control told the crew to head back to the airlock. They had been spacewalking for about six hours when Cassidy's suit began having problems.
Sensors showed a build up of carbon dioxide. The gas, a byproduct of breathing, typically is chemically removed by a canister of lithium hydroxide.
"It seems like the canister itself is experiencing some problems," astronaut Aki Hoshide radioed to the Endeavour crew from Mission Control in Houston.
"It's not an imminent failure," Hoshide added. "We just wanted to make sure that you guys are back in the airlock."
The spacewalk was the third of five planned during shuttle Endeavour's ongoing mission at the space station.
Also on Wednesday tests on the fuel tank earmarked for NASA's next space shuttle launch in August show no problem with how the insulating foam is bonded to the tank, an agency spokesman said on Wednesday.
The test result could clear a hurdle for NASA's next shuttle launch.
NASA ordered tests of the fuel tank scheduled for use during the shuttle Discovery's launch to station after an unusually large amount of foam fell off the shuttle Endeavour's tank during its launch last week.
NASA has been fastidious about in-flight debris since losing the shuttle Columbia in 2003. A piece of foam that fell off Columbia's tank during launch smashed into the ship's wing, breaching a heat-resistant panel. The shuttle broke apart as it flew through the atmosphere for landing 16 days later, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
Most of the foam shed during Endeavour's climb into orbit on July 15 fell off so late during ascent that there was not enough atmospheric force for free-flying debris to slam into the ship and cause damage.
NASA, however, wants to be sure that whatever problem triggered the foam loss on Endeavour does not reoccur, especially while the shuttle is in the early phases of launch when debris impacts could do harm.
Engineers believe a bonding problem may have triggered the foam loss on Endeavour's tank.
Tests at the shuttle tank manufacturing plant outside New Orleans show normal adhesion of the foam on Discovery's fuel tank, said Steve Roy, a spokesman with the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, which oversees shuttle fuel tank production.
"That's what we expected to see and that's what we saw," Roy told Reuters.
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians' season 8 premiere on June 2 focused mostly on the women in the Kardashian-Jenner family, but episode two was all about the men — in particular, Brody and Bruce Jenner. As teased in a sneak peek from the June 9 episode, Brody confronted his father about not being there for him when he was growing up.
The drama between the two began when Brody and his brother Brandon joined Bruce, Kendall, and Kylie for a day at the beach. Watching Bruce with the girls, Brody was surprised to see how affectionate and playful his dad was — especially considering the 29-year-old reality star's own relationship with the 63-year-old former Olympian.
"Bruce, my dad — I don't know which one to call him — Bruce and my mother, they had some sort of messy divorce," Brody explained in a confessional interview. "I was the one child who didn't really have the greatest relationship with Bruce."
"I grew up with my stepdad," he continued. "Bruce was never around for me. I can't even tell you how many birthdays went by where Bruce wasn't there. And I resent him for that."
Later, seeing Bruce joke around with Brandon over lunch, Brody felt another twinge of jealousy. "The way I see Bruce with Kendall and Kylie and Brandon, I'm actually so happy for them," he said. "I think Bruce is an incredible human being and I think that Bruce is an incredible father — he just wasn't a great father to me."
After lunch, Brody pulled his dad aside for a little heart to heart — only to be shot down yet again. "It's interesting to watch how you are with the girls," he began. "Because it's something I'm not really used to. You weren't around when I was a kid and it's like…"
"Now's not the time to talk about it," Bruce said curtly. Later, he blamed Brody for being distant and argued that his son had never really understood how his divorce from Linda Thompson affected their relationship.
The Jenner patriarch had a change of heart, though, when Rob Kardashian lamented the fact that he'd never be able to have a sit-down with with his own father, who died of cancer in 2003. At his family's urging, Bruce orchestrated a talk with Brody, in which he explained that "there came a point [during the divorce] where it became too difficult" to continue the relationship with his son. He admitted that he hadn't handled things well and said not being a good dad was "the biggest regret of his life."
"I certainly want to be part of all my kids' lives," he told Brody, who agreed to move forward and "work on establishing a better relationship.
"Regardless of what happened in the past, I want to have a relationship with my son," Bruce said in a confessional. "And the bottom line is, I have to take the responsibility."
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Gov. Paterson is raising money for Senate Democratic candidates, signaling an end of the truce with Republicans.
NYRA is champing at the bit to counter horse racing's decline.
The voting registration deadline is approaching and some regsions, such as Long Island are seeing a surge in new voters.
The venerable Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund is changing its name as part of a move to reach the broader Hispanic population.
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani eyes the governor's mansion, and some of current Mayor Michael Bloomberg's friends contributed to Senate candidate Daniel Squadron.
A new audit will spell headaches for Albany County DA David Soares.
Senate Republicans have already spent more than $3.5 million, and they are dropping their Troopergate lawsuit in which they had been seeking records in the 2007 affair.
With fewer drivers, the Thruway Authority is scaling back some of its construction plans.
New York magazine profiles the governor.
In election '08, Republicans are questioning some of Obama's small contributions.
Sarah Palin was on the attack, linking Obama to one-time weatherman William Ayers.
Some of her remarks came in Nebraska, which is emerging as an unlikely battleground.
Joe Biden's mother-in-law passed away on Sunday.
The November elections will have a lot of bearing on the Supreme Court.
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Degeneres Degenerate thought she was just making small talk when she bragged on her television talk show, Lesbian Lip, that she'd abandoned the puppy she'd adopted a few days earlier because the canine couldn't get along with her pussy.
However, critics are not laughing at the lesbian's antics. In fact, the owner of Mutts and Moms, the pet adoption agency from whom Degenerate acquired the puppy, took the dog back because the loudmouth comedienne didn't notify the agency that she was abandoning the puppy, as their contract required.
Degenerate's "small talk" earned her the ire of many, including the maniac members of People for the Extermination of Terrestrial Animals (PETA), who have made threats against Degenerate's pet cat, declaring it too late to threaten her career, since, in their words, "That's been over for years."
According to an anonymous spokesman for Mutts and Moms, Degenerate's behavior epitomizes the cruel and inhumane treatment that the rich and privileged think they can get away with, whether with regard to people or animals. "Since she has money and a large lesbian following, she thinks she can do whatever she pleases. She thinks she's above the law and beyond the rules."
In a blubbery plea, Degenerate begged her viewers to "save me" from the wrath of those who have threatened to harm her pet. She defended her abandonment of the pooch by declaring, "I had to protect my pussy."
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In the 1880s, a young Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the Elkhorn Ranch in his book, The Home Ranch...
My home ranch lies on both sides of the Little Missouri, the nearest ranchman above me being about twelve, and the nearest below me about ten, miles distant. The general course of the stream here is northerly, but, while flowing through my ranch, it takes a greater westerly reach of some three miles, walled in, as always, between chains of steep, high bluffs half a mile or more apart. The stream twists down through the valley in long sweeps, leaving oval wooded bottoms, first on one side and then on the other; and in an open glade among the thick-growing timber stands the long, low house of hewn logs.
Just in front of the ranch veranda is a line of old cottonwoods that shade it during the fierce heats of summer, rendering it always cool and pleasant. But a few feet beyond these trees comes the cut-off bank of the river, through whose broad, sandy bed the shallow stream winds as if lost, except when a freshet fills it from brim to brim with foaming yellow water. The bluffs that wall in the river-valley curve back in semicircles, rising from its alluvial bottom generally as abrupt cliffs, but often as steep, grassy slopes that lead up to create level plateaus; and the line is broken every mile or two by the entrance of a coulee, or dry creek, whose head branches may be twenty miles back. Above us, where the river comes round the bend, the valley is very narrow, and the high buttes bounding it rise sheer and barren, into scalped hill-peaks and naked knife-blade ridges.
Before he developed his barrel chest, and before he so strongly developed his conservation ethos, Theodore Roosevelt came to the Dakota Territory to hunt bison. It was the first foray in a landscape and way of life that, he would later admit, "took the snob" out of him.
Considering the year -- 1883 -- and the frontier landscape, that's not surprising. Here, in the rutted and rugged badlands that rise up around the Little Missouri River, the young Mr. Roosevelt felt himself pretty much out of his element, having grown up in New York City. But his thirst for the West was greatly visible to his companions, and his initial discomfort with the setting was recognized by Roosevelt himself.
"There were all kinds of things that I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to mean horses and gunfighters," he noted in a diary entry in 1883. "But by acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid."
Nearly broken by the death of his wife, Alice, two days after giving birth to their daughter, and his mother on the same day, Valentine's Day 1884, in the same house, Roosevelt exiled himself back to the Dakota Territory. He paid another man $400 so he could take over ranching the land along the Little Missouri that soon became the headquarters for his ranching operations, the Elkhorn Ranch.
The setting remains today, even some of the cottonwood trees that once shaded the ranch house and the porch from which the young Roosevelt would escape the heat with a book or simply to rock in his chair while taking in the Little Missouri and the badlands that it carved into the landscape.
The Elkhorn Ranch also gave the future president a place to mend after the loss of his wife and mother, and a place to think about what was transpiring in the West in terms of the declining bison herds and wildlife in general. The time spent there helped Roosevelt develop his thoughts on conservation, on setting aside lands forever from development.
"The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world," he would write.
And a bit later still he wrote, "it is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening."
Industrial Impacts Coming To Elkhorn?
Today, despite his hope that such "awakening" was coming to the country, oil and gas development seemingly is bearing down on his beloved Elkhorn Ranch. A proposal, first broached in the 1970s and recently risen back to the surface, would have a bridge span the Little Missouri in large measure for "increased traffic demands from the oil and gas industry."
The Little Missouri Crossing proposal being considered by the Federal Highway Administration, the North Dakota Department of Transportation, and Billings County (North Dakota) does not call for the bridge and the connecting road to physically intrude on the Elkhorn Ranch site that is a part of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. However, one of the options under consideration would bring the bridge and its envisioned traffic close enough to intrude on the site, according to opponents.
That option would place the bridge just downstream of the ranch, within both visible and audible distance. Those opposed to the bridge fear such traffic -- estimates range anywhere from 100 to 200 oilfield trucks a day -- would breach the peacefulness and solitude of the setting that not only soothed Roosevelt's emotionally tattered soul in the months after the loss of his wife and mother, but the place where he honed his conservation thoughts.
Many refer to the Elkhorn Ranch as "the cradle of conservation," says Tweed Roosevelt, the president's great-grandson. "And it was indeed where TR developed many of his ideas that he was later able to implement when he became president."
Adds Valerie Naylor, superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park: "It's where he saw first-hand the decline of the bison, elk, pronghorn, overgrazing, and other issues. He saw that the wilderness was disappearing even then, in the 1880s."
President Roosevelt Greatly Valued Conservation
As president, Theodore Roosevelt created five national parks, 150 national forests, 51 national wildlife refuges, four national game preserves, and signed the enabling legislation for the Antiquities Act, which presidents ever since have turned to to protect landscapes from development. Roosevelt himself used the Act to protect the Grand Canyon, Devils Tower, Muir Woods, Lassen Peak, Mount Olympus (later Olympic National Park), and many other landscapes that today lie within the National Park System.
That he developed his conservation ethics at Elkhorn makes preservation of the ranch, and a minimization of any impacts on the nature of that setting, so important, say those opposed to the bridge.
Already there are intrusions on the site. Across the river to the southeast a pump jack nods and rises round-the-clock on a ridge that looks down on the ranch. More directly across the river from where the ranch house's veranda stood lies a plot on a hill's rutted flanks that a businessman hopes to turn into a gravel pit that can feed the stone needed for the growing ranks of drill pads rising around northwestern North Dakota.
The bridge proposal attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which recently declared the Elkhorn Ranch one of its 11 most-endangered historic sites in the country.
"This is a project that has been proposed in various iterations over the past 30 years, and we've been monitoring over that course of time and it has kind of come and gone and has come again," says Jennifer Buddenborg, a field officer working out of the Trust's Denver office. "We see this as an opportunity for us to finally squash this threat that could do potential harm to the veiwshed and the serene setting and landscape of the Elkhorn Ranch."
Ms. Buddenborg explained that the organization hopes enough opposition can be mounted to the bridge project during the environmental regulatory process to block it from crossing the river so close to Elkhorn.
"Theodore Roosevelt was a big personality in a lot of different ways, and there are a lot of sites associated with him. The reason we think Elkhorn Ranch is so important is because truly this is where the former president developed his ideas on conservation," she explained.
"Elkhorn Ranch is where he sought solace and where he found it, and it's where he really started to see, even back in the late 1800s, the effects of development on wildlife and wilderness, and so it really put into motion his time out in the badlands, in the Dakota Territory, what it meant to have these national resources be put at risk. And so he developed his conservation ethic which, you probably know, was one of the strongest of any president we've had in the United States."
Preserving A Sense Of The Past
Tweed Roosevelt, along with arguing against the Little Missouri Crossing project and the gravel pit, would like to see a larger monument, one that encompasses lands surrounding the Elkhorn Ranch and on which his great-grandfather ran cattle on, protected as a national monument.
"North Dakota is now wrestling with the issue of all this oil and gas devleopment, and there's no need to develop every last square inch of the state, and many, many people in the state understand that and don't want it to happen," he said during a phone call from his Massachuetts home. "These are the same elements that TR battled during his presidency, when he was making national parks and national monuments, the same short-term greed. They want to make a few bucks over a few years, and that's what this is all about...
"What more appropriate thing to honor TR, a man who arguably did more for the environment, what we have environmentally here today in national monuments, etc., than to declare it a national monument in his honor?" he added a moment later. "Any arguments about, 'Well, that takes land out of potential use for ranchers,' it's just BS. They've got 45 million acres (in North Dakota). Who would buy that argument?"
So determined is Tweed Roosevelt to see such a monument created that he mentioned it to President Obama earlier this year when he was in the Oval Office for a ceremony to honor his stepmother. In a followup letter to the president he wrote that, "What better way to protect this extraordinarily important site from these and future threats than to make it a National Monument in honor of the man who in 1906 developed the concept and established the first National Monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming."
Back at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Superintendent Naylor said the setting of the ranch should be preserved and protected as much as possible so future visitors to the site can gain an appreciation for the environment that swayed Roosevelt so.
"The Elkhorn Ranch site is a place that is maintained for its solitude and it is the place where Roosevelt went to find solitude, and the entire experience of the Elkhorn Ranch is dependent on natural sound, lack of visual intrusion, and the ability to experience what Theodore Roosevelt experienced," she said. "So it is an extremely significant historic site on a national level, and one that we need to preserve."
Watch this short video to see Elkhorn today.


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Wouldn't it be fun to spend New Year's Eve in New Orleans? I can imagine dining on any number of Louisiana specialties — with beignets for breakfast on New Year's morn! Yum.
We hope to pay a visit to New Orleans sometime in the next couple of years, but in the meantime can enjoy a couple of that city's culinary specialties, courtesy of former Worthingtonian Kevin Lease, now of suburban Milwaukee, Wis. Kevin writes that he works with a woman, Cindy Cheramie, who hails from Louisiana, and she owns a boat that has been christened Lagniappe — the name of my column. Lagniappe (pronounced lan-yap), is a creole term that means "a little something extra," like getting 13 beignets when you order 12. Kevin talked Cindy into sharing a couple of recipes from her native city, including this one for gumbo. Stay tuned for an etouffee recipe tomorrow.
Chicken Gumbo
3 pounds cut-up boneless chicken
1 pound sausage sliced thin
3 small onions chopped
½ bunch green onions chopped
½ cup chopped parsley
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
2 ribs celery chopped
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 tablespoons bleached flour
Salt and pepper to taste
Hot Sauce to taste
Heat oil to sizzling, add flour and keep stirring constantly until the roux is golden brown (the darker the better, but be careful not to burn it. Once browned, quickly add celery, onions, green onions and garlic, sauté until soft, stirring constantly to keep roux from burning.
Add meat and sauté until cooked on all sides. Add water just enough to cover the meat. Add salt, pepper and hot sauce. Reduce heat and cook 60 minutes, stirring occasionally to keep from sticking, add more water if needed to keep meat covered.
At the end of the hour, add 3 to 4 additional cups of water and cook on low for another 60 minutes. Sprinkle parsley as garnish on top and filé powder (ground sassafras leaves, a common seasoning in creole cooking) if desired.
Seafood can be substituted for chicken and sausage if desired.


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Linux Signals for the Application Programmer
There are many system calls and signal-supported library functions, which provide an easy and efficient way of handling the signals in a process. We start with the standard old signal system call, then we discuss some useful functions like sigaction, sigaddset, sigemptyset, sigdelset, sigismember and kill.
The signal system call is used to catch, ignore or set the default action of a specified signal. It takes two arguments: a signal number and a pointer to a user-defined signal handler. Two reserved predefined signal handlers are available in Linux: SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL. SIG_IGN will ignore a specified signal, and SIG_DFL will set the signal handler to the default action for that signal (see man 2 signal).
On success, the system call returns the previous value of the signal handler for the specified signal. If the signal call fails, it returns SIG_ERR. Listing 1 explains how to catch, ignore and set the default action of SIGINT. Try pressing Ctrl-C, which sends SIGINT, during each part.
The sigaction system call can be used instead of signal because it has lot of control over a given signal. The syntax of sigaction is:
int sigaction ( int signum, const struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact);
The first argument, signum, is a specified signal; the second argument, sigaction, is used to set the new action of the signal signum; and the third argument is used to store the previous action, usually NULL.
The sigaction structure is defined as:
struct sigaction { void (*sa_handler)(int); void (*sa_sigaction)(int, siginfo_t *, void *); sigset_t sa_mask; int sa_flags; }
The members of the sigaction structure are described as follows.
sa_hander: a pointer to a user-defined signal handler or predefined signal handler (SIG_IGN or SIG_DFL).
sa_mask: specifies a mask of signals when the signal is handled. To avoid the blocking of signals, the SA_NODEFER or SA_NOMASK flags can be used.
sa_flags: specifies the action of signal. Sets of flags are available for controlling the signal in a different manner. More than one flag can be used by ORing:
SA_NOCLDSTOP: if we specify the SIGCHLD signal, when the child has stopped its execution it does not receive notification.
SA_ONESHOT or SA_RESETHAND: restores the default action of the signal after the user-defined signal handler is executed. To avoid setting the default action, SA_RESTART can be used.
SA_NOMASK or SA_NODEFER prevents masking the signal. SA_SIGINFO is used to receive signal-related information.
sa_sigaction: if the SA_SIGINFO flag is used in sa_flags, instead of specifying the signal handler in sa_handler, sa_sigaction should be used.
sa_sigaction is a pointer to a function that takes three arguments, not one as sa_handler does, for example:
void my_handler (int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *context)
Here, signo is the signal number, and info is a pointer to the structure of type siginfo_t, which specifies the signal-related information; and context is a pointer to an object of type ucontext_t, which refers to the receiving process context that was interrupted with the delivered signal.
Listing 2 is similar to Listing 1 but uses the sigaction system call instead of the signal system call. Listing 3 explains signal-related information using the SIG_INFO flag.
Listing 2. Same as Listing 1, but with Sigaction
Listing 3. Using SA_SIGINFO and sa_sigaction to Extract Information from a Signal
Until now, we've been pressing Ctrl-C to send SIGINT from the shell. To do it from a program, use the kill system call, which accepts two arguments, process ID and signal number:
int kill ( pid_t process_id, int signal_number );
If the pid is positive, the signal is sent to a particular process. If the pid is negative, the signal is sent to the process whose group ID matches the absolute value of pid.
As you might expect, the kill command, which exists as a standalone program (/bin/kill) and is also built into bash (try help kill) uses the kill system call to send a signal.
Not all processes can send signals to each other. In order for one process to send a signal to another, either the sender must be running as root, or the sender's real or effective user ID must be the same as the real or saved ID of the receiver. This means your shell, running as you, can signal a setuid program that you started, but that is now running as root, for example:
cp /bin/sleep ~/rootsleep sudo chmod u+s ~/rootsleep ./rootsleep 40 killall rootsleep rm ~/rootsleep
A normal user can't send signals to system processes such as swapper and init.
You also can use kill to find out if a process exists. Specify a signal number of 0, and if the process exists, the kill returns zero; if it doesn't, kill returns -1.
Listing 4. Programs to Send and Receive SIGINT
Listings 4 and 4a explain how to use the kill system call. First, execute the 4a program in one window and get its process ID. Now, run the Listing 4 program in another window and give the 4a example's pid as the input.
This article should help you understand the fundamental concept of a signal and some of its importance. Try the sample programs, and see the man pages for the system calls and the references in Resources for more information.
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Dr B. Thangaraju received a PhD in Physics and worked as a research associate for five years at the Indian Institute of Science, India. He is presently working as a manager at Talent Transformation, Wipro Technologies, India. He has published many research papers in renowned international journals. His current areas of research, study and knowledge dissemination are the Linux kernel, device drivers and real-time Linux.
What if I want to define my signal
I want to define a signal 'SIGCUST 90'
but when i send this signal using kill it say unspecified signal ......
help required ......
Very good introduction
Thanks for the article. This is the shortest (but best) explanation of signals programming I've found.
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Dear Author, The article is very interesting and gives a very simple way to understand the tough concept. I am very pleased to see your Physics background with the rich knowledge in Computer Science. Can simply recall the line that Physics is the mother of all Science.
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He will be replaced by former Papa John's and Pizza Hut marketer Simon Wallis, who starts in June.
A Domino's spokesman said: "We have known about Robin's departure for some time. He has received a number of offers and is currently considering his options."
Auld has played a key part in the pizza chains' business strategy since his arrival from consultancy HeadlightVision in 2004. He joined the board of directors and became sales and marketing director in 2006.
He was responsible for a £12m marketing budget last year and worked with a number of agencies, including Arena BLM, BLM Quantum, Big, CHS and Data Lateral.
Chris Moore, chief executive of Dominos, said: "We are delighted that Simon will be joining the team. Robin Auld has done a fantastic job since he joined Domino's in 2004, but after six years, he has expressed a desire to pursue new challenges during 2010."
Domino's Pizza defied the downturn last year to post an 8.6% rise in like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland in the fourth-quarter of 2009.
Growth has reportedly been fuelled through online sales and successful marketing initiatives, including sponsorship of the UK's most popular TV show Britain's Got Talent.
The company has forecast full-year earnings will for 2009 will now exceed market expectations after system sales – takings from stores and online – in the 13 weeks to 27 December were up 15.6% to £112.4m.
Domino's Pizza is also the broadcast sponsor for ITV dating show 'Take Me Out' presented by comedian Paddy McGuinness and produced by talkbackThames.


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Pret A Manger goes wireless
Wave goodbye to cash
Double, tall, skinny, hold the foam latte drinkers rejoice - café chain Pret A Manger will soon let you pay for your coffee and sandwiches wirelessly.
By April next year, the chain plans to have installed Near-Field Communications (NFC) equipment – the principal technology behind wireless payments – in 171 of its UK stores. The chain's already trialled use of wireless payment technology in seven other stores, bringing the total to 178 NFC-enabled Prets.
Barclaycard and NFC tech firm Commidea, the main drivers behind Pret's wireless payment rollout, claimed that the chain's wireless installation will "dramatically reduce queuing times" for its hungry customers.
Several restaurant chains have already installed similar wireless payment technologies, including Yo! Sushi, while Starbucks rival Coffee Republic has also installed NFC in some stores.
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Confirmed: Unity08 in talks with Bloomberg Staff About Presidential Run
Over the December holiday break, the Associated Press confirmed the whispers of a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial. Advisers to Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are in talks with Unity08:
Kevin Sheekey, a deputy mayor and Bloomberg's close adviser who is credited with masterminding his landslide re-election last year, makes no secret of the fact that he is urging the billionaire to jump in and shake up the race.
Aides acknowledge that Bloomberg quietly sought advice from veteran political operatives. They say he also asked his lawyers to investigate what it would take to get on a general election ballot, though he is said to have concluded the state-by-state process is too bothersome.
Sheekey himself has met with the founders of Unity08, a fledgling alternative to the two parties that is trying to position itself as the vehicle for a centrist run at the White House. Unity08's goal is to provide such a campaign with a ready-made political and financial base of 20 million voters and to help navigate the complicated ballot access system.
Michael Bloomberg could use a vehicle like Unity08 to insist that he is above partisanship and all that. And one can see why Unity08 would want someone like Bloomberg as an ally. The AP article continues:
He has money, money and more money. He spent more than $70 million of his own money in his first mayoral campaign, then he dropped $85 million into his re-election effort and doesn't have to worry about getting an early start to hit the political donor circuit.
All that has created Bloomberg buzz in Democratic and Republican circles.
"He is a man of immense financial capacity," observed former Democratic Party Chairman Donald Fowler. "He can spend $10 or $20 million and not miss it anymore than you or I would if we visited McDonald's."
If Bloomberg brings his megamillions to the table, Unity08 can kiss its considerable financial problems bye-bye. All very convenient for Michael Bloomberg and Unity08 in their hush-hush inner-sanctum negotiations. And, should the deal come together, the political inside operatives will be able to tally another smoke-filled back room political deal to their credit. The rest of us will be left on the side of the street, where convenient "grassroots" are meant to stay and help form a pretty campaign picture.


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Nearly ten years ago, I argued that understanding where information comes from and what economic, social, and cultural forces shape the creation and transmission of information should be part of what we call information literacy. While we could debate whether this means grafting on a strain of media literacy to our pedagogy, or whether what we're seeing emerge is transliteracy or a metaliteracy, my primary concern was that being able to evaluate sources depends in large part on understanding how various media choose stories to tell, how they validate claims, and how the ways audiences interact with these stories shape what becomes common knowledge.
Unfortunately, we tend to reduce the complexity of these issues to a few golden rules. Use scholarly sources. If you use Wikpedia, use it only as a jumping off point. At a slightly more sophisticated level, we might use the CRAP test: evaluate each source that you rely on for currency, reliability, authority, and point of view. Extra points if you take Marc Meola's advice and invite students to compare and corroborate sources.
But we rarely talk about how journalists get stories and use sources, and how that's different than how trade publishers decide which books to acquire, and how trade publishers' decisions are different from the way university presses operate. We describe sources by their external features and rank their quality by type. Even identifying sources by type can be confusing. Students may be told by a history professor that scholarly articles have few pictures and tend to be more than 20 pages long. An hour later, they're in a biology class, where their teacher would be surprised at the students' newly-minted definition of what proper published research looks like.
Superficial selection
We're instructing students to do what comes easily. If you use books, you're probably safe if the words "university press" appears on the title page. Limit your database search to scholarly articles. The assumption is that research that looks like scholarship is innately superior to other sorts of research, but we might as well be telling students that storks bring babies. I'd bet on the research that went into a New Yorker piece by John McPhee or Seymour Hersh against a large proportion of scholarly articles any day, and they have the added benefit of being understandable. We aren't really teaching students to think, we're teaching them to judge books by their covers. This seems even more superficial now that the formats are changing and traditional publishing models seem increasingly unsustainable. This week's kerfuffle as the renowned science publisher Springer published, then seemed to withdraw a book about intelligent design, illustrates why determining validity using brand names is tricky.
I'm thinking about this because I'm teaching a class that I designed around the idea that students need to know how information works, not just how to work information, like so many levers. As I mentioned last week, we just read and discussed Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay, "As We May Think," in which he sketches out a means of organizing and sharing information using "trails of association" rather than indexing. To dabble in the concept of "trails of association," we used a tool called Nowcomment to share our reactions. Students found it interesting to discuss the work this way, and see one another's insights as they were reading the essay. We also talked about other ways to create trails of association, by setting up RSS feeds and using social bookmarking tools and citation management software.
But that kind of ongoing interaction with ideas doesn't really work for undergraduates. Mostly they are asked to find and synthesize information about a topic that's largely unfamiliar to them. Our library tools are supposed to serve both the researcher who is continually drilling deeper into the vein they've mined for a decade and who personally know most of the living experts on the topic— as well as the undergraduate who has two weeks to learn enough about a topic they barely understand to make an argument about it. In the end, I'm not sure – even with the newest generation discovery layers and their filtering options – that we're really serving either population well.
Is it a UI problem?
A few days ago, Alan Jacobs, a Wheaton College English professor who blogs for The Atlantic wrote a short piece: "Google-Trained Minds Can't Deal With Terrible Research Database UI." He makes the point that Google has some features that work well for him. He searches JSTOR through Google because it automatically corrects his spelling. He complains that a reference librarian told him, when a specific search for a known journal article in a database produced pages and pages of random results, that he had to include the journal's ISSN; that seems so unlikely, I can only imagine that something was lost in translation. (It also illustrates that the use of a link resolver's list of locally accessible journals for locating a known item is fuzzy, even to people whose research skills are assumed to be sophisticated.) "The obvious answer to this problem is to train people to do better searches," he writes. "But the most obvious answer may not be the best one . . . there's one vital issue [librarians are] neglecting: research databases have the worst user interfaces in the whole world."
I don't disagree with him. Our databases are deeply, tragically lame. But I don't blame vendors. They have designed databases under our assumption that most information use involves locating sources by subject. Databases ask us to put into words what it is we need, when often we aren't quite sure—which is why librarians are trained to conduct reference interviews. What they deliver is usually a large number of roughly-sorted results, most of which are not actually useful.
The limits of information seeking
In spite of what Jacobs says, students are actually pretty good at finding five sources. The real problem they have is one we don't address very well in the library or the classroom. What about this issue they are investigating raises intriguing questions? How have other people been approaching it? How do those approaches inform one's own understanding? Why does it even matter?
Only a small percentage of information use starts with identifying an information need and seeking authoritative sources that will satisfy that need. Much information use involves creating paths for information to flow toward you (as experts do, building networks and following online conversations) or being able to make good judgments about information you encounter. We assume information is sought and that judgments can be made based on visible signals embedded in a source. As the information landscape changes, as definitions of authority and reputation change, as we move into a world where publishing will be fundamentally different, we need to rethink what we talk about when we talk about information literacy.


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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> how to capture the error when RID value not in the table (pl/sql question)
I have the following code in a pl/sql procedure (oracle 9i), which is called a lot.
SAVEPOINT sp123;
UPDATE Customers
SET Name = p_name
WHERE RID = p_CustomerRID;
ROLLBACK WORK TO SAVEPOINT sp123; RaiseError.TooManyUpdates('Customers'); ELSIF SQL%ROWCOUNT = 0 THEN RaiseError.NoRecordUpdated('Customers');END IF; The code works fine now. But I would to change the update sql to
UPDATE Customers SET Name = p_name WHERE RID = p_CustomerRID AND Name != p_name;
to avoid unnecessary redo writing. But if I check SQL%ROWCOUNT for this new query and get 0, I would not know if it is due to a non-exist RID (Which I want to capture this situation) or simply p_name already exists for that RID. Is there a better way of doing this kind of thing, minimize redo writing and capture the error the same time with only one sql run?
TIA. Guang
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