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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
add it as a game machine. the template exists for generic gaming console.tell it the inputsadd a ps3 ir dongle for extra pointsbe donethink people!-golgoj4
I realize this is couple weeks behind the conversation but... But IR control from the USR-UIRT to a Logitech Harmony PS3 adaptor (bassically an IR to Bluetooth converter) takes IR codes and sends the bluetooth codes to the PS3. Supports all functionality of the PS3 BD remote control.I have 2 of these converters with USB-UIRTs sending IR from LMCE and controlling my PS3s wonderfully. Easy, simple, no fuss, no re-inventing the wheel, it just works.J.
Could you elaborate more on this? You are using a harmony to talk to both the USB-UIRT AND the harmony bluetooth adapter? or have the USB-UIRT facing the bluetooth adapter and have LMCE sending the commands directly to the bluetooth adapter which is connected to the PS3?


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How can you find the right debt management solution? Nearly everyone needs a good debt management solution, whether it's one they developed and use on their own, or through the services of a professional debt management company.
The ability to properly manage debt is one of the primary determinants of an individual's, and many businesses, financial success or failure. Managing debt correctly will allow you to effectively use leverage, one of the most powerful wealth generating financial principles.
Effective debt management will minimize extraneous fees and other charges that chip away at your financial well being, and competently managing your debt will allow you to keep a high credit score. The importance of a high credit score cannot be understated, especially in the really ugly credit situation that has developed over the past couple of years. Don't get me started on that, please.
What is the right debt management solution for you? Determining that requires looking at your financial situation and taking stock of not only where you are, but how you got there. Debt management is one of the things that, to put it bluntly, many people screw up royally. Get it right and you could be living in fat (phat?)city. Get it wrong and bankruptcy could be a few short stops down the line.
One of the biggest problems is that too many people simply don't manage their debt at all. They don't look at what's causing them to be in debt, and they put little or no planning into getting in debt or getting out of it. They're not proactive, they just react to their next Visa bill with a mixture of fear and derision. You can avoid being part of that vicious cycle by actively planning what level of debt you'll take on, and why. Include a percentage for emergencies. How much emergency debt you'll provide for varies depending on your financial situation.
Here are some debt management rules that will help you develop a personal debt management solution -
Debt Management Rule 6
Avoid going into debt for depreciating assets. Unfortunately few people can manage this step as they use one of their largest depreciating assets to get them to work everyday. As the average price of a new car has gone above $25,000, few people can afford to purchase one without an attending rise in their debt level.
There are some ways to mitigate this. You can purchase a used car. Depending on the car, a large percentage of depreciation is gone after the first 2 years. Buying a car that is 2 to 3 years old will still get you a solid, reliable car, with years of trouble free service ahead, and much of the depreciation behind it.
The wrench in this works is very low or zero percent financing. You can get low interest, incentive financing plans with some manufacturer's certified used car programs, and promotional financing offers change daily, so check into these before you take on more car debt.
Other depreciating assets are nearly anything besides your house or certain investments. That is where many people make a huge mistake. Not only do they go into debt purchasing depreciating assets, they also violate debt management rule number 5.
Debt Management Rule 5
Don't go into debt for non-essential items. Sadly, much of America (and the rest of the world) completely ignores this debt management rule, treating the next sale at Macy's or Bloomingdale's as a date not to be missed. In the majority of cases, this pilgrimage to the pillars of modern consumerism is financed entirely by debt. Not just any debt mind you, but the 17%, plus a hefty annual fee variety. Although many would argue vigorously the other way, that new sweater just doesn't qualify as an essential item.
Debt Management Rule 4
Time your debt correctly. Timing of debt is very important. Too many people put something on a credit card or other type of credit account when they could have waited one or two days and paid for the item with cash. This is poor debt management. You're increasing your debt levels unnecessarily, and in most cases it is magnified by simultaneously violating debt management rule 1 or 2 (possibly both).
Debt Management Rule 3
Make your debt payments automatic. This automates a good part of your debt management tasks. It will help prevent you from making your payments late or forgetting to make a payment; two of the sins of debt and credit that can follow you around for years. Not only that, but it's a heck of a lot easier than writing all those checks every month.
Debt Management Rule 2
Make money on your debt. Only go into debt when you will earn a higher return on your debt than it costs you. If you go into debt at 7%, you should earn at least 8% on the debt. If you can do this, you've won the debt management game and debt is your friend. You can go deep into debt and come out ahead; way ahead. Unfortunately the majority of people are never able to put this rule into effect, and suffer instead form years of oppressive credit card and other high interest consumer debt that costs, rather than pays, them money.
Debt Management Rule 1
The number one rule of debt management is spend less than you make. That will allow you to follow all the other rules, and use debt rather than having it use (and abuse) you.
You may not be able to effectively develop or implement a personal debt management solution. You may have to retain the services of a debt management professional. There are all sorts of pros, and like any other profession, some are very good, and others border on criminal.
Due to the circumstances surrounding individuals seeking debt management services, the industry can attract more than its share of the latter, so be careful. There are definitely benefits to using a good firm. They can get you out of debt comparatively quickly and help increase your credit score.
Keep in mind that there are two definitions to debt management. Some debt management firms negotiate down your debt with the credit card companies or other creditors. After they've done this, they then put you on a strict payment plan through the debt management agency itself. While this can result in your getting out of debt much more quickly than you would otherwise, be prepared to take a fairly large credit score hit, and heaven forbid you should miss a payment or two. You could lose much or all of their fees or other money you've paid in.
Other debt management firms are more akin to credit counseling agencies. Here's what to look for if you're contemplating using a debt management solution company. Although this is not a hard and fast list, and there may be some excellent firms that do not meet some of the criteria, it's a great place to start.
Make sure the company is a member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling or the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies. Although it's not mandatory, look for non profit firms (Don't ever confuse non-profit with free).
Make sure they show exactly what will be required of you and give you a list of their fee structure. Get from them exactly what services they provide and when they'll provide them. In most cases paying for all their services in advance is huge red flag and you should run like the wind should they ask you to do so.
One thing a good debt management firm can do for you is to get your account 're-aged' where it no longer appears as past due on your credit report. This takes some sweet talking to the creditor, but if they have a good relationship with said creditor, it is often done.
Debt management and a good debt management solution can often be the difference between coming out on top financially and slogging through years of huge Visa bills. It's up to you.

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text: After a fairly successful run of the 2005 simulation, McGillicuddy and He have been putting 2006 observations into their model and running it simultaneously with the spring season. The map on the left shows concentrations of Alexandrium as observed by shipboard measurements; the map on the right shows the computer-modeled simulation, which combines observations of the cyst beds left by the 2005 bloom, weather observations from this spring, and projections of coastal currents and Alexandrium dynamics. (Data visualization by Ruoying He and Dennis McGillicuddy, WHOI)


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BASINGSTOKE Town deservedly lifted the Hampshire Senior Cup at the end of a dramatic and thrilling final at Fratton Park last night.
Jason Bristow's men were comfortably the better side on the night and seemed to be cruising to victory, leading 2-0 going into the final five minutes of normal time.
Then, disaster struck. Jay Gasson brought down Christian Nanetti in the area and the winger slotted home from the penalty spot to set up a nervous finale.
The atmosphere got even more tense when the fourth official indicated that there would be six minutes of added time, and while Basingstoke were able to survive five of them, they were unable to see the game out.
Havant sent goalkeeper Charlie Searle forward for one final corner and when it was not cleared properly, Nanetti's ball back in was poked home by makeshift striker Ed Harris, despite the best efforts of Adam Green on the goal-line.
The scenes of delirium on the pitch were matched in the stands as the Havant fans, who were out-sung by their north Hampshire counterparts all night, erupted.
Town heads dropped, but a pre-extra-time team talk from Bristow seemed to pep them up, though they were fortunate to survive a sticky spell just after the halfway point in the additional 30 minutes.
A penalty shoot-out was looming large, but Town found the energy for one final push. Andrew Jenkinson saw his free-kick excellently saved by Havant goalkeeper Charlie Searle, but there was to be one final chance.
Fortunately, it fell to deadly marksman Liam Enver-Marum, who created the opportunity out of nothing with two minutes remaining. Picking the ball up on the right side of the area, he drove at the Havant defence before smashing a low drive past Searle at his near post from an acute angle.
Now, it was the Town fans' turn to celebrate wildly, while Enver-Marum was mobbed by his team-mates. Even Bristow was unable to hide his emotions on the touchline.
This time, there was no comeback – and Basingstoke saw the game out to lift the county cup for a sixth time.
Overall, the game was an excellent advert for non-league football, and only the most ardent Havant fan would deny that Town were fully deserving of their victory.
They were the better side for the first 85 minutes, passing the ball brilliantly, creating chances and defending stoutly.
Nathan Smart had the first opportunity of the match, firing straight at Searle, and while Scott Jones went close for Havant after beating Town goalkeeper Joe McDonnell to a loose ball, Basingstoke grabbed a deserved lead on 18 minutes.
Louie Soares and Enver-Marum linked up down the left. The striker lifted the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper and while he was denied by Daniel Blanchett on the line, Manny Williams was on hand to force the ball home from close range.
The lead should have been extended eight minutes later. Williams played Nicholas Bignall through but the striker fluffed his lines, firing wide with just Searle to beat.
Simon Dunn also had a couple of decent efforts from long range as the half came to a close with Town comfortably on top.
Havant improved at the start of the second half, but it was Town who looked more likely to score. Bignall's touch let him down when Smart found him in the area, while Williams fired a good opportunity wide and Enver-Marum was just unable to get on the end of Dunn's low centre.
Havant were reduced to shots from medium to long range, failing to trouble McDonnell, and the game seemed to be over when Enver-Marum doubled the lead on 70 minutes. Williams' clever pass found the striker in behind and his finish was clinical, slotting under the onrushing goalkeeper to make it 2-0.
Havant threw caution to the wind, but Town almost got a third when Searle struggled to deal with Soares' shot from distance.
The game seemed to be up, but Nanetti's penalty gave Havant some much-needed momentum and it took a fantastic save from McDonnell to stop Ryan Woodford levelling the scores deep in stoppage-time, with the 'keeper then smothering Jake Newton's follow-up effort.
To their credit, Havant kept going, getting the equaliser with virtually the final kick of the game to set up extra-time.
The first half of the additional period was cagey, but Havant enjoyed a strong spell just after the change of ends. Alek Przespolewski was denied by the legs of McDonnell after being played in, Harris' acrobatic effort went wide and Nanetti missed a great chance, curling wide when left unmarked in the area.
It was not to be for the south Hampshire side though and while Jenkinson was denied by Searle, Enver-Marum's second goal of an incredible final secured the Hampshire Senior Cup for Basingstoke.
Click here to see a post-match interview with Basingstoke Town manager Jason Bristow
Basingstoke Town: McDonnell, Smart, Jenkinson, Dunn (sub Green 63min), Gasson, Rice, Daly, Soares, Enver-Marum (sub Matthews 120min), Bignall, Williams (sub Ibe 85min). Subs (not used): Adams, Maylen.
Havant and Waterlooville: Searle, Stugnell, Blanchett (sub Cummings 32min), Monteiro (sub Przespolewski 45min), Woodford, Harris, Ciardini, Atangana, Jones (sub Newton 75min), Nanetti, Ryan. Subs (not used): Bevan, Wedlake.
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Santa Barbara News-Press -- They were called the Lost Boys of Sudan, who saw their parents killed and villages burned as civil war raged in the Sudan in Africa during the 1980s.
Mou Riiny was one of them.
After graduating from the University of San Diego in 2011, Mr. Riiny, 25, returned to the village from which he escaped in South Sudan: Thiou has a population of about 400 and is located about 400 miles northwest of Juba, the country's largest city. (Download courtesy of the Santa Barbara News-Press)


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The NHSC Scholarship Program is a competitive Federal program that awards scholarships to students in return for a commitment to provide care in underserved communities. The program pays tuition and fees and provides a living stipend to students enrolled in accredited medical (M.D. or D.O.), dental, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistant training. Upon graduation, scholarship recipients serve as primary care providers between two and four years in a community-based site in a high-need health professional shortage area (HPSA) that has applied to and been approved by the NHSC as a service site. Awards are made to applicants most committed to serving underserved people and most likely to build successful careers in HPSAs and meet future needs for care throughout the Nation.
You can take advantage of this powerful financial benefit provided by NHSC and then do your payback as a Commissioned officer in USPHS. The Indian Health Service (IHS), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have sites that are HPSA qualified and allow concurrent pay back of your NHSC obligation while receiving one of the most comprehensive benefit packages available to health care providers as officers serving in the USPHS.
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nthota necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 299 design presentati da 59 designer.
We need a logo which looks professional yet creative which can help us build our identity in the current competitive corporate world. It should be clear and elegant looking. We want to use it in our website, business cards, all stationary, promotional material etc.
Adroit People
Do not have one, will take any good suggestions
Desired Color Scheme:
Orange, Blue, Black and Grey but usage of any good looking and eye catching colours are welcome
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our company name is Adroit People Ltd. We need a logo either with the text Adroit People and a symbol or even a unique text font alone with out a symbol will do. The word ADROIT means skillfull and Able. The logo should represent the same. It should tell the world that our company is a skilled one and able to do any sort of work.
It should not contain the pictures of computer related items please....
The logo should look good both in colour and also in Black & White.
Colours like Orange, blue, grey and black are prefered but any good looking and informative colours usage is welcome.
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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dmd0029 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 151 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Dietrich & Co. is needing a new logo for big marketing campaign in 2009.
Dietrich & Co. Real Estate Appraisals
The company provides real estate appraisals for nationwide financial companies, local banks, mortgage brokerage firms, insurance companies, attorneys, builders, investors, and individual property owners. We are based in Fort Worth & the service area is Dallas/Fort Worth and surrounding counties.
We are preparing for a big marketing campaign for 2009 and looking for a new look. The logo will be used for business cards, stationary, letters, web page, and signs, etc.
1) Conservative, clean, professional
2) The current logo has black and red but we also like blue. The current logo is nothing but lettering in black and red. We need some type of symbol to go with our name. We are open to different color schemes, so do not feel constrained by colors. We are more concerned with the logo itself and will change colors as needed.
3) The logo for this project does not need to contain some form of a house, rooftop, buildings, or city scape since it will state Real Estate Appraisals. We are not opposed to using these type of designs, but we have seen the logo with a rooftop over the company name. Please do not limit yourself to this criterion.
3) You need to be able to see Dietrich & Co in large signs. You also need to be able to read the logo on a business card too.
4) The logo must be provided in a vector and standard format so we can use it at various sizes.
- Please no cartoon looking logos or clipart type logos
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Nintendo guards its intellectual properties closely. It doesn't just hand out the rights to its beloved games all willy nilly. Know what happened the few times it did? Super Mario Bros the movie and the Legend of Zelda CD-i games. As such, it isn't too surprising that the gaming giant has shown reluctance to embrace mobile platforms not branded with its own name. But today, a wild app appeared in the iTunes App Store, and it's likely to be super effective in attracting Pokémon fanatics. The Pokédex is officially available on iOS today.
Developed by Nintendo subsidiary The Pokémon Company, the Pokédex app is an interactive listing of over 640 pocket monsters that exist inside the Pokémon universe. Taking advantage of the Retina display on Apple devices, the app gives prospective Pokémon trainers a look at their creatures in high definition. Search through the extensive list of creatures using custom conditions like skills or type to find the exact Pokémon you are after. Detailed information about each Pokémon, from height and evolutions to abilities and locations, are all available in the app.
It's worth noting that the app only comes with Pokémon in the Unova region, covered in Pokémon Black and White versions 1 and 2. If you'd like access to all 640 pocket monsters on your Pokédex app, you'll have to fork over a bit of cash. The app itself costs $2 and each region of Pokémon, four in total, costs an additional $6. So to really catch 'em all, you'll be dropping around $26. That's a pricey commitment to an app that just houses information about made up animals in a game that you have to play on another device. To each their own, though. We're not here to judge you, fanboys.
You can download the Pokédex app in the iTunes App Store for $2.


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Re: What do you do when you're not on BFFC?
Yeah in Tucson right now it gets well over 100 every day now. And the slowly rising humidity as monsoon season approaches will just make it wrose. At least, it will if it doesn't cool down after a storm.
Life in the Dune Sea right? Yeah, it's been well over 100 for a while here as well in my corner of the state; I think the forcast said 111 for today. And no clouds, no wind, nothing at all to take the edge off of it... At least it had kind of a late start. The last few years we've been holding out until really late in May and even early June before we start breaking 100. Usually we're up there once or twice before April is out... Good ol' Globle Warming eh?


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I am not repulsed by what is inside the crisp skin of a hot dog. It always sounds like a good option to me. I will always want a hot dog, especially a dirty water one on the street in New York City, when its painfully cold outside, possibly right after we have finished ice skating, our breath coming out in big white clouds.
In addition to the delicious NY hot dogs, I love it when vendors sell sausages outside of nightclubs in Los Angeles, late night/early morning, fried with onions and peppers until the skins are blistered, served up with a heavy portion of grease spilled onto a stale-ish white bun. These are more of a sausage variety, the insides revealing chewy knots of fat and cartilage, as opposed to the uniform pink of a regular frank. The smell is intoxicating and good to soak up the booze and whatever else you might have enjoyed during your night out on the town. Its best to eat away the damage that bars and clubs and rock shows can do, at least I always have, the faster the food the better. Its disgusting in the brute sunlit reality of 9am, but I choose that dry mouth regret over an un-braced for hangover.
Generally, I am of the belief that hot dogs are made of the mess on the kill floor, the butcher's aftermath, whatever can be swept and salvaged and formed into tubes. The mass of protein which is likely – blood, brains, nerves, glands, eyelids and eyeballs, teeth, gums, jowls, jaws, bones, marrow, organs, skin, jowls, fat, hair, a good bit of fear and terror and confusion in there too, all the chemicals and drugs they've been fed, as well as undigested grain and fecal matter – everything nose to tail – smashed up and spiced and heavily salted and packed into tight, toothsome skins, possibly intestines but maybe an edible beef extract injected plastic-like skin that spurts a tiny, satistfying spray of brine when bitten into, mimicking an itsy bitsy blood spatter. We are predators after all.
Yes they say hot dogs are 100% beef, which I do not doubt, but what makes up the 100% may not be the percentage of the beast you would choose to consume. 100% means all of it. Are you ready for all of it? All the truth? All the misery? All the offal? all the awful?
I say if you are going to eat the animal, eat the whole thing. Honor the life you have taken and don't waste a bit. Make no assumption that you are humane by eating only the sanctioned portions of muscle neatly surrounding the bone, such as in an expertly seared, pepper crusted t-bone steak, and don't think that you'll be getting this when you come over to my house to eat. None of my heat sources will get hot enough to sear meat properly, and I refuse to light the propane grill outside. It's always scared me and I have never used it with the simple ease or homey comfort that barbecuing is supposed to represent. My meat is always grey and tough and we should have hot dogs instead. That would be the better option.
If you think it's inhumane, you are right. Yes, wake up and smell the blood. We who eat animals have no right to call ourselves humane. We eat, we kill, there is blood on our hands and in our mouths, meat is murder, it really is, and its real, and its ok and it's pretty good. Admit it and pass the mustard.


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Justice Dept. turns over docs in Fast and Furious
WASHINGTON – Newly released Justice Department emails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressional inquiry into a gun-smuggling operation indicate that the head of the department's criminal division suggested letting some illicit "straw" weapons buyers in the U.S. transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested.
According to the emails turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday night, the Justice official, Lanny Breuer, made the suggestion to Mexican officials because it "may send a strong message to arms traffickers."
Mexico has stringent gun control laws with long prison terms as opposed to the U.S., where small-time "straw" buyers working for major arms traffickers seldom face jail time.
Breuer made the remarks in February 2011, around the time that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were telling congressional investigators that the ATF had allowed hundreds of illicitly purchased guns in the operation known as Fast and Furious flow into Mexico — a controversial tactic known as "gun-walking" aimed at following gun buyers to major traffickers.
In Fast and Furious, the ATF lost track of the guns and many were eventually recovered from crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico, including one location near Nogales, Ariz., where U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry was slain on Dec. 14, 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were connected to Operation Fast and Furious.
The documents on Breuer were among 486 pages of material turned over to the House committee chaired by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California.
Also among the documents are Justice Department emails involving a former top aide to Attorney General Eric Holder. The emails show that then-deputy chief of staff Monty Wilkinson was notified by then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke the day after Terry was slain that guns found at the murder scene were connected to an investigation that Burke and Wilkinson had planned to discuss. The emails did not identify the investigation, but it was Operation Fast and Furious.
In a letter to the committee, the Justice Department said that Wilkinson does not recall a follow-up call with Burke and that Wilkinson does not recall discussing this aspect of the matter with the attorney general. According to the letter, the department has been advised that Burke has no recollection of discussing this aspect of the matter with Wilkinson.


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Tim Hortons Inc. (THI) bondholders will pay a price if they relinquish their debt under threat of a downgrade to junk because of the doughnut chain's purchase by Burger King Worldwide Inc.
Under what's known as a change-of-control provision, investors have the option to hand the debt back at a price of 101 percent of face value, or five cents less than what the bonds traded at before the second-largest U.S. burger company agreed this week to acquire Oakville, Ontario-based Tim Hortons for about C$12.5 billion (US$11.4 billion).
Investors will probably choose the so-called poison put to avoid deeper losses given that Burger King is rated five levels lower, according to Noel Hebert, an analyst who follows the restaurant industry for Bloomberg Intelligence. DBRS Ltd., the only firm that rates Tim Hortons' C$1.2 billion of bonds, said yesterday it was reviewing the BBB ratings for downgrade and that its credit risk profile "will no longer be consistent with an investment-grade rating."
Tim Hortons is becoming the test case for a campaign by the Canadian Bond Investors' Association (CBIA) to expand the use of poison puts to protect investors from credit-damaging leveraged buyouts such as the one by 3G Capital, the investment firm that owns about 70 percent of Burger King. Flaws are emerging in the strategy amid a rallying corporate bond market that has pushed up the average price of bonds tracked by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Canada Corporate Index to 108.5 from 105 at the start of the year.
"The typical structure of having a $101 fixed price makes no sense since its usefulness and value vary depending not only on spread markets, but also on the underlying benchmark," said Bill Girard, a fund manager at Bank of Nova Scotia's 1832 Asset Management LP. "THI bondholders are learning this the hard way right now as the $101 put is significantly lower than where the bonds were trading pre-announcement."
Girard, who doesn't hold Tim Hortons' bonds, advocates a put based on market valuations at the time of the put. In Europe, so-called Spens clauses force borrowers to redeem investors at a rate closer to the market value.
A downgrade would push the price on Tim Hortons' 4.52 percent notes due in December 2023 bonds to trade as low as 90 cents on the dollar and a yield of 6 percent, Hebert estimates. The bonds fell to 101 cents yesterday, from 106 at the start of the week.
'Mark-to-Market Hit'
"You're better off putting them back to the company at 101 rather than taking a full mark-to-market hit," Hebert said by phone from New York yesterday. "The Hortons bonds would likely get downgraded because post-deal leverage will look more like Burger King than Tim Hortons."
Burger King, which is raising $12.5 billion to fund the deal, has debt equivalent to five times its cash flows, Daniel Schwartz, the fast-food chain's chief executive, said on a conference call with analysts yesterday. That compares with leverage of three times for Tim Hortons as of March.
Moody's Investors Service said today it was reviewing its Burger King for a downgrade, including the fast-food chain's B3 unsecured bond rating and B2 corporate rating. Moody's cited the company's rising debt burden to acquire Tim Hortons, calculating leverage of more than 6.4 times compared with 3.8 times before the deal.
On the conference call yesterday, Tim Hortons Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Devine said the change of control provision for the company's bonds would be honored.
"We'll work through the details of it," Devine said. "We recognize the provisions that are in there" and "along with the Burger King team, we'll work through some of the details on those things."
Tim Hortons succumbed last year to pressure from activist shareholders for share buybacks, issuing C$900 million of bonds to finance the purchases. The debt triggered ratings cuts.
In its most-recent bond issues, the coffee outlet extended scenarios that trigger the put clause, giving investors the right to sell if a downgrade results from a new board installed by activists as well as a takeover, Mark Rasile, co-head of financial services at Toronto law firm Bennett Jones LLP who worked with the CBIA to draft the clauses, said yesterday in an interview.
Though the put protected investors from activists, it couldn't protect them from a global bond market rally.
"One day, if and when rates are much higher, we could be in the reverse situation, where the bonds trade well below the put price," Girard said. "I am a very strong advocate of including the COC clause, I just don't like the fixed-price convention that has been adopted; it should better reflect the pre-transaction market level."


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Jeepers, creepers! Where'd you find those peepers?
If you drive north of Kingston on Division Street for about an hour, you will reach a biologist's paradise.
The 3,200-hectare property lies at the meeting point of distinct southern and northern environments and contains a wide range of habitats and species. The diversity is astounding. There are small freshwater lakes and the large Lake Opinicon, wet swamps and dry shrublands, abandoned farmlands that are recovering from decades of human activity and second-growth forests that have not been touched for many decades.
This hub for research activity is the Queen's University Biological Station, known affectionately as "QUBS" (pronounced cubes), which has been steadily increasing in size and reputation since it began operations in 1945. The field station now regularly hosts researchers and students from Queen's as well as institutions across North America and abroad.
Nick Cairns is very familiar with the appeal of research at QUBS. He recently finished his master's degree at Carleton University based on research on turtles at the field station. In September 2013, he returned to QUBS to begin his PhD at Queen's. With a focus on understanding the origins of biodiversity, he is researching speciation in spring peepers – a small brown frog that is commonly found in eastern Canadian wetlands in springtime.
Cairns said QUBS is a prime place for collaborative research, and for younger students to meet professionals – and mentors – in their discipline.
"It's very accessible and has a great community with an open-door feel, where researchers of every academic echelon and local visitors converse with, and question, each other," Cairns said. "It's a beautiful place."
Researchers study everything from birds and fish, to plants and rocks. They live in cabins and cottages that can lodge up to 90 people, sharing group meals in the large, welcoming Raleigh J. Robertson Biodiversity Centre.
While living at QUBS for his master's degree, Cairns met Dr. Stephen Lougheed, a professor of biology at Queen's and director of QUBS. Cairns immediately became interested in Lougheed's research on spring peepers.
"It was the questions you could ask about these little frogs as a model for speciation that most interested me," Cairns said. "My work focuses on understanding the evolutionary history of spring peepers over the last few million years."
Previous studies have shown that there are six distinct evolutionary lineages within the geographic distribution of spring peepers. These lineages appear to differ in important aspects of their behaviour, morphology, and development. For example, males of different lineages have distinct mating calls used during the breeding season. Females appear to differentiate among calls and choose their mates accordingly. Such differences in the mating system are usually found between different species, not within one species, and therefore Cairns' research will focus on understanding the origins and causes of these divergences. He will also examine the genetic differences among these lineages to evaluate whether such differences might ultimately disappear, or if they are on their way to becoming different species.
"I hope to get up to QUBS as much as possible," Cairns said with a laugh. He said the genomic analysis would be completed on the main Queen's campus, while the behavioural research and field components of his doctoral work will be conducted at QUBS.
The thing that Cairns is looking forward to most at QUBS is seeing the vernal pools that form after the first spring rainfalls.
"The vernal pools become absolutely filled with salamanders and frogs, and it's a really neat experience because you just don't see these animals most of the time," Cairns said. "When they all gather at one time it's a spectacular display of diversity … this, along with the comfort and camaraderie of QUBS, is what makes it a great place for biological research."
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Rosslyn Bay Harbour is a hive of activity with ferries regularly departing for Great Keppel Island, along with Keppel Bay cruises, bareboat charters and recreational fishing cruises. Local fishing trawlers also make use of the harbour, returning with freshly caught reef fish, prawns, bugs and mud crabs. Visitors can indulge in this mouth-watering bounty at the Rosslyn Bay Fisherman's Co-op where it's guaranteed fresh!
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Those Were the Days
American Roy C Farrell and Australian Sydney H de Kantzow founded Cathay Pacific Airways on 24 September, 1946. Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline. Legend has it that Farrell and a group of foreign correspondents thought up the airline's unique name in the bar at the Manila Hotel!
An Investment In the Future
The new company began to operate passenger flights to Manila, Bangkok, Singapore and Shanghai. Expansion was fast and, in 1948, one of Hong Kong's leading trading companies, Butterfield & Swire (today known as the Swire Group) took a 45% share in the company. Under the leadership of John Kidston Swire, Butterfield & Swire became wholly responsible for the management of the airline.


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1. Bryce Brown, RB, Philadelphia Eagles (66.1 percent):
Brown has been listed in this space for three straight weeks, but he's still a free agent in far too many leagues. The once unknown runner has posted enormous fantasy totals in the absence of LeSean McCoy and needs to be owned in all formats. He's performing on the level of an elite No. 1 runner right now.
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2. Russell Wilson, QB, Seattle Seahawks (81.9 percent):
Don't look now, but Wilson has become a legitimate starter in fantasy land. The rookie posted 26.82 fantasy points against the Chicago Bears and has scored 16-plus fantasy points in each of his last five games. He does face a tough Arizona Cardinals defense next, but Wilson has found a lot of success on his home turf.
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3. Colin Kaepernick, QB, San Francisco 49ers (73.9 percent):
Kaepernick didn't put up a huge stat line against the St. Louis Rams, but he still scored just under 15 fantasy points. He's posted an average of 17.66 points in his last four games, and a matchup against the Miami Dolphins is favorable. Unless the Niners go back to Alex Smith, Kaepernick should be owned.
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4. Jonathan Dwyer, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers (77.7 percent):
Dwyer was a hot waiver pickup a few weeks back, but a lot of owners dropped him once Rashard Mendenhall returned. Well, Mendenhall was a healthy scratch against the Baltimore Ravens leaving Dwyer as the new starting running back. In an offense that needs to lean on the run, Dwyer could be an asset.
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5. Knowshon Moreno, RB, Denver Broncos (68.2 percent):
We now know that Moreno is the top running back for coach John Fox, as he has now dominated the backfield touches in each of the last two weeks without Willis McGahee. With great matchups against the Oakland Raiders, Ravens and Cleveland Browns in the fantasy postseason, Moreno could be a nice flex option.
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6. Sidney Rice, WR, Seattle Seahawks (64.3 percent):
Rice is having his best fantasy season since 2009, but he's still available in several NFL.com leagues. He needs to be owned in most formats, though, as Rice has scored double-digit fantasy points in four of his last five games overall. Much like his teammate, Golden Tate, he should be on fantasy rosters.
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Tate has become a major option in the offense for Wilson, scoring four touchdowns in his last four games. He's also posted double digits in three of those contests, including 15.60 in a win over the Bears. If you need a wide receiver for the fantasy postseason, this Golden Domer is well worth a look off the wire.
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8. T.Y. Hilton, WR, Indianapolis Colts (82.6 percent):
Hilton has been in this space several times, but he's still a free agent in a ton of NFL.com leagues. That should change, as he put up his third 100-yard game in the last five weeks in a win over the Detroit Lions. All told, Hilton has put up double-digit fantasy points in three of his last five games.
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9. Brandon Myers, TE, Oakland Raiders (77.9 percent):
Despite what was a bad matchup on paper, Myers still ripped the Cleveland Browns for 130 yards, one touchdown and 19.00 points in Week 13. One of the better tight ends in fantasy in the last several weeks, Myers now needs to be owned in all leagues. He has a great matchup against the Denver Broncos up next.
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A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Need a simple and professional design, that can be read at a distance easily.
This is a logo that is going to be used on the "for sale" board used outside a house for sale.
However, the website helps people both sell and buy house more cheapily - so the logo should NOT be focused on the 'sale' aspect.
This is a service that homeowners use, to help them save money selling or buying houses, and NOT an estate agent (realtor).
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The New Voice Of Aflac Found In Minnesota
After Gilbert Gottfried lost his job as the voice of the Aflac Duck Alfac went on a nationwide search to find a new voice. They found him in Minnesota. Daniel Mckeague is his name and he's a radio sales manager for KQRS in Minneapolis. Check him out as he gets the call.


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Using LED lighting technology paired with sleek design and feather-light adjustability, Koncept fixtures, available at Lightology, are used in trend-setting interior designs and have earned recognition for excellence in both design and energy efficiency.
The Equo™ desk and floor lamps use a counterweight design that requires only one finger to adjust its position. The special neck joint maintains the head's tilt as the arm swings up or down, while brightness is controlled by sliding or touching a finger along the touchstrip. To date, it has earned 10 awards, including the coveted Red Dot Award for design excellence in 2011.
The Koncept Lighting flagship series, Z-Bar™, is super-adjustable, with a three-bar design that can spin in its socket, sweep side to side and rotate around the end of the arm to point in any direction. Various versions of the Z-bar are featured in the Chicago Museum of Sciences Smart Home, numerous movies and TV shows and at McDonalds headquarters in Australia. The Z-bar has also earned recognition from publications such as the International Design Magazine and Time Magazine.
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As I must have mentioned many times over I used to be a Ferrari mechanic when I was a teenager. I mainly worked on and restored vintage Ferrari race cars. The 2 cars that I am most fond of and spent the most time with are the Ferrari 250 SWB and the Ferrari 330 P3/4. I absolutely adored these cars and often wondered why more people didn't know about them. The P stands for "prototype" and very few of them were produced, which may explain why not too many people knew about them.
I was so pleased to hear someone else shared my passion for the P3/4 and announced that coach builder, Pininfarina, was commissioned to build a modern-day version of this mythical beast. In 2006 James Glickenhaus, stock exchange magnate and known car collector, collaborated with the Turin coach builder to produce a modern version of the Ferrari P.
With sketches drawn up by the extremely talented Jason Castriota and styling team leader Ken Okuyama, the goal was to stay clear of any retro design and move towards a forward thinking supercar. That they did using the last unsold Ferrari Enzo (F60) as the basis for this build. More than 200 components were designed especially for the car while moving through computer aided sculpture and stringent wind tunnel testing. Most components including engine and drive train were modified from the original Enzo which now goes 0-62 in 3.0 seconds (0.5 seconds quicker than the Enzo) and has a top speed of 233 mph, not too shabby! The V12 produces 660 bhp at 7800 rpm and 485 lb-ft torque at 5500. She redlines at 8200 rpm and uses the 6 speed semi-automatic transmission from the Enzo. Oh yeah one last thing…it cost $4 Million! To be honest that is the absolute best way to spend $4 million and I thank god there are people out there like James Glickenhaus that know how to enjoy their wealth while sharing it at the same time.
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A prosecutor describes as "deplorable" the conditions in a southwestern Illinois home where a teenage girl says she was held captive and sexually assaulted every day for two years.
St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly said Friday that the girl's account of her captivity in Washington Park is "horrific." Kelly has not visited the home but heard about it from investigators.
The teen told police she escaped this week with a relative's help.
Authorities raided the house Thursday and arrested a 24-year-old man and his mother. They also recovered the teen's child, who she said is the result of rape by her captor.
Kelly says he believes "there's something to it."
Police have not named the man or his mother because they had not been charged as of Friday.


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A San Bernardino man pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to charges that he allegedly pushed a woman to the ground, covered her mouth, grabbed her by the leg and dragged her until bystanders intervened, officials said.
Derek Rawlins, 34, was arrested just after 9 a.m. Wednesday and booked on charges of kidnapping, assault and battery, according to police and the Orange County Superior Court website.
Rawlins allegedly approached a woman sitting in a car in the 3500 block of Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa on Wednesday morning, then pounded on the window. The woman drove away and called a security company, a Costa Mesa Police Department news release said.
Not long after that, a suspect police later identified as Rawlins came up behind a second woman as she was entering a secure building and asked her to let him in to use the bathroom.
The 44-year-old woman refused, and Rawlins allegedly pushed her into the building.
Police say the woman tried to escape and started screaming as she struggled with the suspect.
When employees working in the building came to the woman's aid, police said, the suspect fled.
Rawlins was arrested when a police officer saw him walking near Harbor and Warner Avenue in Santa Ana, the release said.
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Our good friend Andrew Reed, a frequent contributor who runs the excellent Fighting the Youth blog and currently resides in Argentina, has a thing for MILFS. Or at least he was excited enough about them to compile the definitive list (minus last year's "The Reader") of Top 10 Movie Cougars.
Urbandictionary defines cougar as "a 35+ year old female who is on the hunt for a much younger male.†Some would say that any definition requires use of the word "pounce.†But whatever your take on the definition, let's take a moment to celebrate the women who teach more than they tease–the Top 10 Movie Cougars.
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Korean Air launches nonstop service between Seoul and Houston
Korean Air announced Wednesday it is launching a nonstop service between Houston and Seoul.
The four-day-a-week flight will launch in May between Bush Intercontinental and Incheon International Airports. The flights will depart every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. This is the second destination for the airline in Texas.
"We're very bullish on the Americas," says John Jackson, the airline's vice president of marketing for North and South America, in a statement. "Houston is the fifth largest metro area in the U.S. with a very strong travel market to Asia. We've decided to earn our fair share of the market with a highly competitive product and service that's hard to beat."
Mayor Annise Parker said that the route will be an exceptional business opportunity for the Korean Air team.
"Houston's dynamic economy and diverse population continue to strengthen its position on the world stage," said Houston Mayor Annise Parker, in a statement. "This new nonstop flight to Seoul is an excellent example of Houston's enhanced status as a gateway city and key player in the global marketplace."


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Introduction to Zend Framework
Learning Zend Framework
Zend Framework Reference
Coupling of data-access and the domain model often requires the use of a database for testing purposes. But the database is persistent across different tests which leads to test results that can affect each other. Furthermore setting up the database to be able to run a test is quite some work. PHPUnit's Database extension simplifies testing with a database by offering a very simple mechanism to set up and teardown the database between different tests. This component extends the PHPUnit Database extension with Zend Framework specific code, such that writing database tests against a Zend Framework application is simplified.
Database Testing can be explained with two conceptual entities, DataSets and DataTables.
Internally the PHPUnit Database extension can build up an object structure of a database,
its tables and containing rows from configuration files or the real database content. This
abstract object graph can then be compared using assertions. A common use-case in database
testing is setting up some tables with seed data, then performing some operations, and
finally asserting that the operated on database-state is equal to some predefined expected
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db simplifies this task by allowing to
generate DataSets and DataTables from existing
Zend_Db_Table_Rowset_Abstract instances.
Furthermore this component allows to integrate any
Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract for testing whereas the original extension
only works with PDO. A Test Adapter implementation for
Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract is also included in this component. It
allows to instantiate a Db Adapter that requires no database at all and acts as an
SQL and result stack which is used by the API methods.
We are now writting some database tests for the Bug Database example in the
Zend_Db_Table documentation. First we begin to test that
inserting a new bug is actually saved in the database correctly. First we have to
setup a test-class that extends
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase. This class extends the
PHPUnit Database Extension, which in turn extends the basic
PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase. A database testcase contains two
abstract methods that have to be implemented, one for the database connection and
one for the initial dataset that should be used as seed or fixture.
You should be familiar with the PHPUnit Database extension to follow this quickstart easily. Although all the concepts are explained in this documentation it may be helpful to read the PHPUnit documentation first.
class BugsTest extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase
private $_connectionMock;
* Returns the test database connection.
* @return PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_DB_IDatabaseConnection
protected function getConnection()
if($this->_connectionMock == null) {
$connection = Zend_Db::factory(...);
$this->_connectionMock = $this->createZendDbConnection(
$connection, 'zfunittests'
return $this->_connectionMock;
* @return PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_DataSet_IDataSet
protected function getDataSet()
return $this->createFlatXmlDataSet(
dirname(__FILE__) . '/_files/bugsSeed.xml'
Here we create the database connection and seed some data into the database. Some important details should be noted on this code:
You cannot directly return a
from the
getConnection() method, but a PHPUnit
specific wrapper which is generated with the
createZendDbConnection() method.
The database schema (tables and database) is not re-created on every testrun. The database and tables have to be created manually before running the tests.
Database tests by default truncate the data during
setUp() and then insert the seed data which is
returned from the
getDataSet() method.
DataSets have to implement the interface
There is a wide range of XML and YAML configuration file
types included in PHPUnit which allows to specifiy how the tables and datasets
should look like and you should look into the PHPUnit documentation to get the
latest information on these dataset specifications.
In the previous setup for the database testcase we have specified a seed file for the database fixture. We now create this file specified in the Flat XML format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<zfbugs bug_id="1" bug_description="system needs electricity to run"
bug_status="NEW" created_on="2007-04-01 00:00:00"
updated_on="2007-04-01 00:00:00" reported_by="goofy"
assigned_to="mmouse" verified_by="dduck" />
<zfbugs bug_id="2" bug_description="Implement Do What I Mean function"
bug_status="VERIFIED" created_on="2007-04-02 00:00:00"
updated_on="2007-04-02 00:00:00" reported_by="goofy"
assigned_to="mmouse" verified_by="dduck" />
<zfbugs bug_id="3" bug_description="Where are my keys?" bug_status="FIXED"
created_on="2007-04-03 00:00:00" updated_on="2007-04-03 00:00:00"
reported_by="dduck" assigned_to="mmouse" verified_by="dduck" />
<zfbugs bug_id="4" bug_description="Bug no product" bug_status="INCOMPLETE"
created_on="2007-04-04 00:00:00" updated_on="2007-04-04 00:00:00"
reported_by="mmouse" assigned_to="goofy" verified_by="dduck" />
We will work with this four entries in the database table "zfbugs" in the next examples. The required MySQL schema for this example is:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `zfbugs` (
`bug_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`bug_description` varchar(100) default NULL,
`bug_status` varchar(20) default NULL,
`created_on` datetime default NULL,
`updated_on` datetime default NULL,
`reported_by` varchar(100) default NULL,
`assigned_to` varchar(100) default NULL,
`verified_by` varchar(100) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`bug_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
Now that we have implemented the two required abstract methods of the
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase and specified the seed
database content, which will be re-created for each new test, we can go about to make
our first assertion. This will be a test to insert a new bug.
class BugsTest extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase
public function testBugInsertedIntoDatabase()
$bugsTable = new Bugs();
$data = array(
'created_on' => '2007-03-22 00:00:00',
'updated_on' => '2007-03-22 00:00:00',
'bug_description' => 'Something wrong',
'bug_status' => 'NEW',
'reported_by' => 'garfield',
'verified_by' => 'garfield',
'assigned_to' => 'mmouse',
$ds = new Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_DataSet_QueryDataSet(
$ds->addTable('zfbugs', 'SELECT * FROM zfbugs');
. "/_files/bugsInsertIntoAssertion.xml"),
Now up to the
$bugsTable->insert($data); everything looks
familiar. The lines after that contain the assertion methodname. We want to verify
that after inserting the new bug the database has been updated correctly with the
given data. For this we create a
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_DataSet_QueryDataSet instance and give
it a database connection. We will then tell this dataset that it contains a table
"zfbugs" which is given by an SQL statement. This current/actual
state of the database is compared to the expected database state which is contained in
another XML file "bugsInsertIntoAssertions.xml". This
XML file is a slight deviation from the one given above and contains
another row with the expected data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- previous 4 rows -->
<zfbugs bug_id="5" bug_description="Something wrong" bug_status="NEW"
created_on="2007-03-22 00:00:00" updated_on="2007-03-22 00:00:00"
reported_by="garfield" assigned_to="mmouse" verified_by="garfield" />
There are other ways to assert that the current database state equals an expected state. The "Bugs" table in the example already knows a lot about its inner state, so why not use this to our advantage? The next example will assert that deleting from the database is possible:
class BugsTest extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase
public function testBugDelete()
$bugsTable = new Bugs();
$bugsTable->getAdapter()->quoteInto("bug_id = ?", 4)
$ds = new Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_DataSet_DbTableDataSet();
. "/_files/bugsDeleteAssertion.xml"),
We have created a
dataset here, which takes any
Zend_Db_Table_Abstract instance
and adds it to the dataset with its table name, in this example "zfbugs". You could
add several tables more if you wanted using the method
addTable() if you want to check for expected database state
in more than one table.
Here we only have one table and check against an expected database state in "bugsDeleteAssertion.xml" which is the original seed dataset without the row with id 4.
Since we have only checked that two specific tables (not datasets) are equal in the previous examples we should also look at how to assert that two tables are equal. Therefore we will add another test to our TestCase which verifies updating behaviour of a dataset.
class BugsTest extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase
public function testBugUpdate()
$bugsTable = new Bugs();
$data = array(
'updated_on' => '2007-05-23',
'bug_status' => 'FIXED'
$where = $bugsTable->getAdapter()->quoteInto('bug_id = ?', 1);
$bugsTable->update($data, $where);
$rowset = $bugsTable->fetchAll();
$ds = new Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_DataSet_DbRowset($rowset);
$assertion = $this->createFlatXmlDataSet(
dirname(__FILE__) . '/_files/bugsUpdateAssertion.xml'
$expectedRowsets = $assertion->getTable('zfbugs');
$expectedRowsets, $ds
Here we create the current database state from a
Zend_Db_Table_Rowset_Abstract instance in conjunction with
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_DataSet_DbRowset($rowset) instance
which creates an internal data-representation of the rowset. This can again be
compared against another data-table by using the
$this->assertTablesEqual() assertion.
The Quickstart already gave a good introduction on how database testing can be done using
PHPUnit and the Zend Framework. This section gives an overview over the
API that the
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db component comes
with and how it works internally.
|Some Remarks on Database Testing
Just as the Controller TestCase is testing an application at an integration level, the Database TestCase is an integration testing method. Its using several different application layers for testing purposes and therefore should be consumed with caution.
It should be noted that testing domain and business logic with integration tests such as Zend Framework's Controller and Database TestCases is a bad practice. The purpose of an Integration test is to check that several parts of an application work smoothly when wired together. These integration tests do not replace the need for a set of unit tests that test the domain and business logic at a much smaller level, the isolated class.
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase class derives from the
PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase which allows to setup tests
with a fresh database fixture on each run easily. The Zend implementation offers some
additional convenience features over the PHPUnit Database extension when it comes to
Zend_Db resources inside your tests. The workflow of a
database test-case can be described as follows.
For each test PHPUnit creates a new instance of the TestCase and calls the
setUp() method.
The Database TestCase creates an instance of a Database Tester which handles the setting up and tearing down of the database.
The database tester collects the information on the database connection and
initial dataset from
getConnection() and
getDataSet() which are both abstract methods and have
to be implemented by any Database Testcase.
By default the database tester truncates the tables specified in the given dataset, and then inserts the data given as initial fixture.
When the database tester has finished setting up the database, PHPUnit runs the test.
After running the test,
tearDown() is called. Because
the database is wiped in
setUp() before inserting the
required initial fixture, no actions are executed by the database tester at this
The Database TestCase expects the database schema and tables to be setup correctly to run the tests. There is no mechanism to create and tear down database tables.
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase class has some convenience
functions that can help writing tests that interact with the database and the database
testing extension.
The next table lists only the new methods compared to the
PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase, whose API is documented in
the PHPUnit Documentation.
Table 67.1. Zend_Test_PHPUnit_DatabaseTestCase API Methods
createZendDbConnection(Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract $connection,
Create a PHPUnit Database Extension compatible Connection instance from
Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract instance. This method
should be used in for testcase setup when implementing the abstract
getConnection() method of the database
Convenience method to access the underlying
Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract instance which is nested
inside the PHPUnit database connection created with
createDbRowset(Zend_Db_Table_Rowset_Abstract $rowset,
$tableName = null)
Create a DataTable Object that is filled with the data from a given
Zend_Db_Table_Rowset_Abstract instance. The table
the rowset is connected to is chosen when
createDbTable(Zend_Db_Table_Abstract $table, $where = null,
$order = null, $count = null, $offset = null)
Create a DataTable object that represents the data contained in a
Zend_Db_Table_Abstract instance. For retrieving
the data
fetchAll() is used, where the optional
parameters can be used to restrict the data table to a certain subset.
createDbTableDataSet(array $tables=array())
Create a DataSet containing the given
$tables, an
array of
Zend_Db_Table_Abstract instances.
Because PHP does not support multiple inheritance it is not possible
to use the Controller and Database testcases in conjunction. However you can use the
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_SimpleTester database tester in your
controller test-case to setup a database enviroment fixture for each new controller
test. The Database TestCase in general is only a set of convenience functions which can
also be accessed and used without the test case.
Example 67.3. Database integration example
This example extends the User Controller Test from the
Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase documentation to include
a database setup.
class UserControllerTest extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase
public function setUp()
$this->bootstrap = array($this, 'appBootstrap');
public function setupDatabase()
$db = Zend_Db::factory(...);
$connection = new Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_Connection($db,
$databaseTester = new Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db_SimpleTester($connection);
$databaseFixture =
new PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_DataSet_FlatXmlDataSet(
dirname(__FILE__) . '/_files/initialUserFixture.xml'
Now the Flat XML dataset "initialUserFixture.xml" is used to set the database into an initial state before each test, exactly as the DatabaseTestCase works internally.
There are times when you don't want to test parts of your application with a real database,
but are forced to because of coupling. The
Zend_Test_DbAdapter offers
a convenient way to use a implementation of
without having to open a database connection. Furthermore this Adapter is very easy to mock
from within your PHPUnit testsuite, since it requires no constructor arguments.
The Test Adapter acts as a stack for various database results. Its order of results have to be userland implemented, which might be a tedious task for tests that call many different database queries, but its just the right helper for tests where only a handful of queries are executed and you know the exact order of the results that have to be returned to your userland code.
$adapter = new Zend_Test_DbAdapter();
$stmt1Rows = array(array('foo' => 'bar'), array('foo' => 'baz'));
$stmt1 = Zend_Test_DbStatement::createSelectStatement($stmt1Rows);
$stmt2Rows = array(array('foo' => 'bar'), array('foo' => 'baz'));
$stmt2 = Zend_Test_DbStatement::createSelectStatement($stmt2Rows);
$rs = $adapter->query('SELECT ...'); // Returns Statement 2
while ($row = $rs->fetch()) {
echo $rs['foo']; // Prints "Bar", "Baz"
$rs = $adapter->query('SELECT ...'); // Returns Statement 1
Behaviour of any real database adapter is simulated as much as possible such that methods
fetchColumn and more are working for the test adapter.
You can also put INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statement onto the result stack, these however
only return a statement which allows to specifiy the result of
$adapter = new Zend_Test_DbAdapter();
By default the query profiler is enabled, so that you can retrieve the executed SQL statements and their bound parameters to check for the correctness of the execution.
$adapter = new Zend_Test_DbAdapter();
$stmt = $adapter->query("SELECT * FROM bugs");
$qp = $adapter->getProfiler()->getLastQueryProfile();
echo $qp->getQuerY(); // SELECT * FROM bugs
The test adapter never checks if the query specified is really of the type SELECT, DELETE, INSERT or UPDATE which is returned next from the stack. The correct order of returning the data has to be implemented by the user of the test adapter.
The Test adapter also specifies methods to simulate the use of the methods
describeTables() and
lastInsertId(). Additionally using the
setQuoteIdentifierSymbol() you can specify which
symbol should be used for quoting, by default none is used.


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"My Passenger is Safe"
My Passenger is Safe
My Passenger is Safe Solution is a special solution that enables to monitor vehicles, passengers in the vehicle, the driver, the route and the carried cargo through special cameras. There are online monitoring or offline record monitoring options.
Web Based System FeaturesEasy to useQuick access to summary information based on organization, fleet and groupAbility to monitor the vehicles on the map by filtering according to 6 different optionsVehicle-based adhoc queryPeriodical monitoring according to timeAbility to get the density map of the vehicle or vehicles selected on the map at specific time intervalsTracking by entered and exited zonesTracking by control pointsTracking by violation valuesTracking feature on a map by vehicle, group, fleet and organizationDaily vehicle-based briefingDaily vehicle-based detail information screens and animation featureAbility to query vehicles passing through a certain pointZoom-in, zoom-out features on the map, shifting of the map, focusing by the carAddress, speed, total daily route, message warning and violation warning and number of vehicles on the same screenEasy user interface managementAbility to authorize the user for monitoring by user typesDriver identification and easy vehicle identification for driversAbility to receive reports about vehicle, driver, violation, overtime, area-route sensor, trailer, voyage, user and road computer (Note1)Ability to receive automatic mailing by scheduling reports for the desired timeAbility to receive the reports in pdf, excel and CSV formatsAbility to receive the reports in 9 different languagesAbility to see detailed notifications based on violation schedules defined for vehiclesAccess to educational videos of Expressive Web, Android and IOS applicationsNote1: Ability to report according to connected sensors
Programming Features (Tool and group basis)Determination of time frequencyDetermination of distance frequencyDetermination of turning angleDetermination of violation parametersTime to commence workTime to quit workSpeed limitInstant idle timeInstant stopped timeDaily stopped timeDaily movement timeLimiting the number of drives if drive id units are usedSudden take-off/stop or accident reportingNo GSM connection alertMotion alert when the ignition is offSudden fuel low alertMotion without driver alert, if drive ID units are usedAbility to receive all violations via mailGPS Antenna Breaking/Connection Status InformationAbility to program modular sensors (temperature, fuel level, humidity level) in vehiclesAbility to define periodical transactions (tax, maintenance, inspection ... etc.) of the vehicles and ability to receive alerts
Determination of Area Violation ParametersEntered zone alertExited zone alertEnter/exit alerts in control points
Quick reporting opportunitiesVehicle-based reportsViolation Based ReportsDriver Based reportsShift ReportsArea / route reportsSensor reportsTrailer based reportsUser reports
Input / OutputIgnition switch inputEmergency buttonDoor / cover / damper / mixer sensorFuel tank cover sensorTemperature sensorDriver ID setCard readerCANBus AccessoryCanbus and Card Reader accessory togetherImmobilizer engine blockIn-car audio alarmAnalogue fuel connectionOpportunity to Use Built-in BatterySpecial case extra keyTachograph data download
Additional Software ApplicationsTargetmaticMy child is safe solutionMy Passenger is Safe Camera Monitoring System CompatibilitySmart Bus Stop Tracking SoftwareCompatibility with Excavation SoftwareIPHONE / IPAD (iOS) Vehicle Tracking ApplicationANDROID Vehicle Tracking ApplicationOGS / HGS pass featureTachograph integration
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text: On 06/12/2012 03:47 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > We manage this by having users run this in the same Grid Engine > parallel environment they run their job in. This means they're > guaranteed to run the sync job on the same nodes their actual job runs > on. The copied files change so slowly that even on 1GbE network is > rarely a bottleneck, since we only transfer files that are changed. Our problem is we have many users and don't want 50,000 30 minute jobs to turn into a giant jobs that defeats the priority system while running. With an array job users can get 100% of the cluster if it's idle and quickly decay to their fair share when other higher priority jobs run. That way we can have the cluster 100% utilized, but new jobs (from users using less than their fair share) can get through the queue (which might well be months long) quickly.


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I've always wished that books had ratings like movies do. Here are my ratings for the books I'm reading.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Content Rating: 1.1.1
Category: YA, fairy-tale, fantasy
Published: 2008
Review: 3.5/5
Princess Ben is another in a growing list of embellished/expanded/reworked fairytales. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to those who like Shannon Hale and Gail Carson Levine books. Ben, short for Benevolence, has been raised very differently than a normal princess would be and doesn't understand what is required of her to behave as royalty should. Her aunt tries to teach her how to behave properly but Ben is very stubborn and self-centered. Ben is the narrator so she doesn't say this about herself but you start to realize after a while that although she is funny and likable, she also has some character flaws. That's the thing that sets this book apart from some of the other fairytale books I've read. Ben is not the normal princess that we usually find. I've wavered back and forth between giving this 3.5 and 4 stars. I've finally decided on 3.5 but I'm not exactly sure why. The romance part of it was a little underdeveloped, I think, but it's worth reading if you like this genre.
5 comments:
- chan said...
I agree about the romance being underdeveloped. They didn't go into it hardly at all! It was a fun clean read though.:)
- January 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- Suey said...
We got this one for Christmas, so it will surface on the TBR pile sometime this year I hope. But dang! I want romance! :)
- January 17, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- max said...
I just had a discussion about the idea of book ratings with a librarian this week. I suggested it was too bad there isn't one like with films, music, and video games.
Author James Patterson has a ten year-old son who doesn't like to read. So Patterson has established http://www.readkiddoread.com to help other reluctant readers.
I, too, grew up as a reluctant reader. And my father was the author of over 70 books. Now I write action-adventure and mystery books especially for tween boys. My blog, Books for boys, http://booksandboys.blogspot.com is # 4 on Google today.
Max Elliot Anderson
- January 18, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Jeanette said...
I just returned this one to the library, without reading it. Just too many library books checked out right now. I'm hoping to get it again (and actually read it) soon.
- January 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- NotNessie said...
I've been meaning to read this. Thanks for the review!
- April 25, 2009 at 6:26 PM


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A regional director for the securities industry's self-regulatory agency resigned several weeks after the organization received a letter revealing the official had pleaded guilty two decades ago to charitable bingo fraud.
The letter, which was reviewed by Reuters, was sent on May 21 by former securities broker David Evansen to Richard Ketchum, the chief executive officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Susan Axelrod, FINRA's executive vice president of regulatory operations.
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The four-page letter said Mitchell C. Atkins, who up until this week was a regional director and head of FINRA's District 7, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida, was indicted in 1993 in Louisiana "for felony theft and charitable bingo fraud."
The indictment by the 19th Judicial District in East Baton Rouge Parish was confirmed by the clerk's office for the East Baton Rouge Parish court.
Atkins pleaded guilty in December 1993 to one charge of charitable bingo fraud, according to a copy of court records reviewed by Reuters.
Court records reviewed by Reuters state that Atkins was sentenced in January 1994 to a year of probation, 100 hours of community service and $1,000 in fines for the bingo fraud.
Atkins, 42, who resigned from FINRA earlier this week, could not be reached for comment and FINRA declined to provide a forwarding contact phone number for him.
Nancy Condon, a spokeswoman for FINRA, said: "Mitch Atkins resigned to pursue other interests." She declined to comment on the letter.
Atkins' office oversees the work of brokers and brokerages working in southern states from Florida to Texas.
FINRA oversees securities brokers and investment advisers, maintaining a database of their registration and disciplinary statuses and handling customer disputes. It shares regulatory duties with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has the power to ban brokers and registered investment advisers from the industry.
Evansen said he had been banned from the brokerage business by FINRA. His publicly available broker's record indicated the ban was enacted in June, 2011 after Evansen failed to respond to a request for information. The record did not specify the nature of the request. Evansen said he is appealing the ban.
In his letter to the FINRA executives, Evansen described a whistleblower complaint he had filed with the SEC alleging fraud in a Texas-based financial clearinghouse.
"It was for no small purpose, that Mr. Atkins and FINRA, went to such lengths, to prevent the sunlight from illuminating the truth," Evansen wrote in his letter.
(Reporting by Emily Flitter; additional reporting by Jennifer Cummings and Suzanne Barlyn; edited by Matthew Goldstein and Kenneth Barry)


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Fiennes Committed to Fifth Potter Film; Talks Goblet on ComingSoon.net
Aug 08, 2005
Ralph Fiennes, who plays Lord Voldemort in the Goblet of Fire film, gave an interview to Comingsoon.net as part of press for The Constant Gardener, a new political thriller in which he stars.
He says he will play Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which will start filming in January or February and will be helmed by David Yates. He says of previous Potter films:
"Certainly Alfonso Cuaron lifted the whole filmmaking onto another level, and I think that Mike Newell is going to make a really strong film. I think as long as the producers are smart. I think probably the first two films were a little too saccharine and glib, even for Harry Potter fans."
Fiennes also dubbed his voice onto the Goblet of Fire video game, which you can preorder for many different platforms here at the Cauldron Shop.


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After a tumultuous year for Western Highlands, the regional mental-health agency is starting 2013 on stronger financial footing.
Western Highlands Board Chairman Charles E. Vines (who is also Mitchell County manager) says the agency was able to close a $4.2 million budget gap and end 2012 in the black. He says that was accomplished largely through the state increasing the "per member per month" rate last fall, along with cost-cutting measures undertaken by Western Highlands staff and consultants hired to help the agency get back on its feet.
"As of December, we are back in the black," says Vines.
Western Highlands connects people who need government services for mental health, developmental and intellectual disabilities and substance abuse with providers of those services. The network covers eight Western North Carolina counties: Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania and Yancey.
In January 2012, Western Highlands became the second local management entity in North Carolina to convert to a managed-care agency, in which local officials manage federal Medicaid dollars funneled through the state. But six months into the new system, the agency made headlines when a multimillion-dollar deficit was revealed, and the board fired CEO Arthur Carder Jr. (See "Under the Gun," Aug. 7, 2012, Xpress.)
Since then, the agency has been operating under the leadership of Interim CEO Charles Schoenheit.
At a special meeting Jan. 17, Western Highlands board members interviewed a third candidate for the CEO position, Vines says, though no decision was made. Board members are specifically seeking a chief executive officer with managed-care experience.
The agency also has begun looking for a new chief financial officer to replace CFO Sharon Lentz, who is retiring at the end of June, says Vines. She faced criticism from at least one Western Highlands board member last summer for noticing budget problems but not promptly reporting them to the board.
Contributing editor Tracy Rose lives in Asheville.


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Huizinga on President's List
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- Published on 24 March 2014
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Cole Huizinga was listed on the President's List at Lubbock Christian University for the Fall 2013 semester. Mr. Huizinga is a junior studying Criminal Justice.
The criterion for the President's list is a student taking a minimum of 12 semester hours must achieve a 4.0 grade point average for the semester. Mr. Huizinga is the son of Rob and Susan Huizinga of Mount Vernon.


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Hi everyone,Applied to four schools with 16 years experience, MS,5 scientific publications, and 3.6 graduate gpa. I am at a loss as to what law schools want. Waitlisted for one school. I think USNWR has changed things were the emphasis is on LSAT scores to improve rankings. Honestly, I get the impression that the only post-bac accomplishment which demonstrates intellectual potential for law school is the LSAT. This process seems a bit myopic. I have a friend who has a PhD and is the same boat as I am. The sheer volume of applicants, some from grade inflated schools/degrees, and rankings make it more difficult for a non-tradtional science applicant to get accepted. A fact that I found out recently was that graduate transcripts are not sent to the law school as part of your LSDAS report. Thus, the law school don't see those grades. Personally, I am going to place all my efforts in getting a better LSAT score. For my application fee, I wished they examined these applications with greater scrunity. Anybody have any thoughts on how to leverage significant work experience and post-graduate academic accomplishments to gain admissions to law school? It is difficult to explain to a law school admissions committee why the critical thinking and technical writing gained through post-bac experience are important for law school. Do you think having a diverse profession experience helps or hinders an applicant? Why do you feel this way?Thanks,NW
Hi Frybread,PM? Stats: 2.6 Undergraduate GPA, 3.6 Graduate GPA, and 157 LSAT. My point is with this post is that there are other indicators of intellectual potential. The question is how do I convince an admissions committee they are important?I am seriously considering writing to law professor in patent law or contributing to his blog to get advice and support for my application.Any thoughts?
Hi Lessig,Do you really think the cost of an admissions consultant is worth it? Would a better investment of money be in a prep LSAT class?I need to get into a solid but not great school (eg University of Houston, SMU, Texas Tech, or University of Oklahoma). My goal is to become a patent attorney. I have an excellent technical background for this work but just need the legal education. Does the soft factors play an role at all especially if you know how you want to use your legal education and have an excellent non-legal background to accomplish that goal?If you score >165, does writing a weak essay make any difference? Admissions recruiters don't have the expertise to assess whether someone's background is a significant intellectual accomplishment. If what you say makes a difference, how can I couch my experience in a language that might resonate with them? Is it ok in an addendum to justify why you deserve a slot over the typical candidate undergraduate candidate with a liberal arts degree (with 160 LSAT) and no experience?Thanks,NW


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Liz Williams is president and CEO of the Southern Food and Beverage Institute (aka the SoFAB Institute). In today's podcast, Williams explains what the SoFAB Institute is and describes some of the institute's various projects. One of the SoFAB Institute's most recent initiatives is the SoFAB Culinary Library and Archive, which opened Oct. 30, 2013. According to Williams, many interesting people have contributed to the culinary library, and many have donated exotic cookbooks. "We have cookbooks from all over the world and the United States," Williams says. "It's not just a Southern library." Williams also shares some of the exciting plans she has for the future of the library and for the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.


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eDock needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 115 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Logo for an agricultural product wich increases crophealth, decreases illness under harvest and has the potential to increase yield substantial.
I'am looking for a logo for a product which
increases crophealth, decreases illness under harvest and has the potential to increase yield substantial. It is a liquid product which can be add to the water supply of the plants and different crops. It is a new product and we are taking major tests at this moment which all look very promissing.
We are a small dutch company and we're expecting a lot of this product. Not only the benefits mentioned above, but also can this product decrease the use of chemicals and make the product therefore more healthy and free of any for human harm causing elements.
- natural colours or combination of green/red.
- possibillity to us the same logo for other products which are devellopped as we spreek by taking out "Comfort" and replacing it for another word.
- Reliable and trustworthy charisma
- Try to keep the benefits which it has in mind
- Easy to recocnise and to read
- JPEG, PNG, Indesign, PDF formats.
- Use of to bright and many colours
- Not too busy
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