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The course will likely be attended by SQL Server report creators who are interested in alternative methods of presenting data.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases and reporting.
- Some basic knowledge of data warehouse schema topology (including star and snowflake schemas).
- Some exposure to basic programming constructs (such as looping and branching).
- An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications – particularly Excel.
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- Perform Power BI desktop data transformation.
- Describe Power BI desktop modelling.
- Create a Power BI desktop visualization.
- Implement the Power BI service.
- Describe how to connect to Excel data.
- Describe how to collaborate with Power BI data.
- Connect directly to data stores.
- Describe the Power BI developer API.
- Describe the Power BI mobile app.
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Finding the Garden of Eden
- Retrieve the geck.
- (Optional) Rescue Fawkes from the Observation Cells.
- Escape from Vault 87.
- Bottle Caps (M)
- Pre-War Money (x3)
- Turpentine (x3)
- Railway Spikes (M)
- Mentats
- Stimpaks (M)
- .32 Caliber Rounds (M)
- .32 Pistol
- Stealth Boy
- Combat Knife (x2)
- Nuka-Cola
- Carton of Cigarettes (x6)
- Med-X
- Whiskey (x2)
- Knife (x4)
- 10mm Rounds (M)
- 5.56mm Rounds (M)
- Frag Grenade (M)
- Blood Pack
- Dirty Water
- Metal Armor
- .44 Magnum Rounds (M)
- Scoped .44 Magnum
- RadAway (M)
- Laser Rifle
- Pugilism Illustrated
- Microfusion Cell (M)
- Nuka-Cola Quantum
- Rad-X (M)
- Purified Water (x4)
- Leather Armor
- Recon Armor (x2)
- 5mm Rounds (M)
- 10mm Pistol
- Pre-War Money (M)
- Scotch
- Recon Armor Helmet
- Laser Pistol
- Advanced Radiation Suit
- Merc Adventurer Outfit
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As has been the case with several quests so far in the game, the ending of the last quest will work in seamlessly with the beginning of this quest. Again, this walkthrough assumes that you've accessed Vault 87 via the door at the back end of Little Lamplight. You can access the Vault via Murder Pass if you speak to the mayor and gain access to it, but why do that if you don't have to?
In the room adjacent to the initial room you enter after breaking through the Vault's barrier door, you'll find plenty of goods. Search the bins, filing cabinets and locked safe; you should find some Bottle Caps, Turpentine, Mentats, a Stimpak and more. In the safe, you'll find a .32 Pistol and some .32 Rounds, as well as a Stealth Boy and more. You should also take time to access the journal entries on a nearby computer (most are corrupted, however). These should give you a decent illustration of live in Vault 87. Now, it may seem as if you can't go anywhere from here, but nothing's further from the truth. Next to the computer is a door and a switch to open that door; you just need to bust through some debris in order to access it.
Proceed out of the door and swing leftward at the first chance you get (heading forward to the door will lead to a small room with a mannequin standing there, and little else). Head up the stairs and continue down the linear pathway you encounter from there. When you reach the end of the path and you can head either right or left, you'll want to head left. Heading right will lead to Murder Pass, which is the alternate route you'd have to use to access Vault 87 if not for your hacking abilities in getting in here through the front door. You can scour this path to kill enemies you would have otherwise missed for precious experience and dropped goods, but it's not necessary. Instead, when you head left at the juncture, you'll run into a couple of Super Mutants, which you can quickly drop before scouring the room. You won't find much of value, but searching carefully will net you a valuable Sensor Module, as well as plenty of Wonderglue.
When you're ready to proceed, head through the other door in the room, down a short corridor, and up the stairs on the other side. When you arrive in this next room, chances are you'll be dealing with another Super Mutant (although ours was armed with only a Nailboard, so he was easy to take down). After killing him, swing around the square-shaped corridor to the dead end just to the right of the door, where you can grab some Whiskey. Then, head up another set of stairs off of this room and through the red-illuminated door waiting for you. This is Vault 87's living quarters, but you'll find this initial room to be rather quiet. The glass-covered corridors on either side of this room are empty, so to proceed, head through the door ahead and climb yet another flight of stairs thereafter.
When you run up these stairs, expect to find a couple of Super Mutants, including a powerful Super Mutant Master waiting for you at the top. Point-blank them in their domes, scouring their bodies for any goods you might need. Then, run up another nearby staircase to go even higher into Vault 87. This dark room has a primary exit out of it via a door on the far side of the room, but first you'll want to explore the room and the four small offices that extend from each corner of the room. A thorough examination of your surroundings should net you all sorts of goods, from a Stimpak, Medical Braces and Med-X to a couple of Combat Knives, a Nuka-Cola and a couple of bottles of Whiskey, amongst other goods.
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Now, the only unsearched room we've left behind is the room behind a door straight ahead. Within this room are some gross Gore Bags, some shelves, and a lot of other stuff that makes this room a bona fide mess. Search through everything in here to find quite a few useful goods. You can find a Leaf Blower and a Lawn Mower Blade, some 10mm Rounds and 5.56mm Rounds, five Frag Grenades, a Blood Pack, some Dirty Water, and more. After grabbing all of that stuff, head back into the previous room and go to the doorway with the stairs leading downward that you took into this room in the first place. While facing that doorway, look to your left for an unexplored corridor. Traverse it towards the staircase and head on upstairs from there, with your gun at the ready, since Super Mutant variations can be around any corner.
Expect a Super Mutant Master at the top of the stairs, who should be dealt with posthaste before proceeding. There are several rooms off of this corridor that are worth exploring, the first of which being the bathroom you encounter on your right. Grab the Pack of Cigarettes from the garbage can before going back into the corridor. The next room over on your right is also a bathroom will little of interest within. Both doors on your left, however, will lead to the series of catwalks overlooking a previous area we've traversed. Expect to Super Mutant Masters to bust out of the door on the far side of the catwalks, both armed with Chinese Assault Rifles. These guys can be a handful, so chuck some grenades at them and plant some mines at your feet before backtracking down the corridor and down the staircase. The two foes' health meter should both be significantly damaged from the barrage of explosives you sent their way, so as they come down the stairs after you, have your strongest Mutant-killing weapon equipped (like a Plasma Rifle) to take them both down with some well-aimed VATS-assisted headshots.
With those foes dead, you can proceed ahead with relative immunity. Swing to your left (ignoring everything on your right for now, since that's the direction we'll have to ultimately head down). The final room on your left will have a locked door within it (we couldn't open it), so head down the stairs at the end of the corridor into a secluded office below. A couple of Super Mutant Masters will likely be waiting here, so again, damage them with explosives and lure them up the stairs and onto the corridor, where damage can be dealt safely and from a distance. When they're dead, head down to the office they were guarding. Metal Armor, a Steam Gauge Assemly and a Conductor are amongst the valuables in there. If you examine the computer and read each file there, you can also unlock the wall safe near the computer, where more items can be found, including a Scoped .44 Magnum and .44 Rounds as well.
Now it's time to head back upstairs in order to explore the rest of that corridor. The only unexplored corridor will be on your left as you head down the pathway in the other direction. Explore it to find plenty of items, including three doses of RadAway, Pugilism Illustrated, some Microfusion Cells and a Laser Rifle, amongst some other goods. After exploring that room, make sure you have your strongest rifle strapped and ready to go, and head up the stairs to the corridors above. Immediately on your right, you'll see a corridor blocked off by some debris with at least two Super Mutants on the other side. Take care of them through holes in the debris so you don't have to deal with them later. Some well-aimed Frag Grenades will do them in nicely when combined with a spattering of Plasma Rifle shots. How you handle them is up to you, but since they are tough Super Mutant Masters, it's in your best interest to handle them here before you run into them face-to-face a little later.
When they're dead, continue along the pathway, ignoring the radiation-laced and extremely dark corridor on your left (it leads to a dead end, and you'll get radiation sickness real quick if you aren't careful). Instead, follow the pathway as it winds towards an office on the inside of the corridor on your left. Within should be another Super Mutant, so eliminate him any way you can, and then explore the office he was guarding. The first thing you'll want to do is hack the computer sitting on the desk, which will open a wall on the safe. Then, explore the contents of the safe and the rest of the room to find all sorts of good stuff, including (but not limited to) a bunch of Microfusion Cells, some Rad-X, a Conductor, lots of Purified Water, RadAway, Stimpaks and more. After exploring here, continue along the linear corridor. If you go left and down a staircase at some point, you're going in the wrong direction. Instead, proceed until you get to a staircase leading up to a door bathing in a bright red light. You're on the right track once you've found this door.
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Once you're through into Vault 87's testing area, the first room you're going to want to search is on your right. However, a Super Mutant Brute is likely to come out in search of you first, so let him come out, cap him, and then explore the room he was guarding thoroughly. 5mm Rounds, 10mm Rounds, Scotch, Pre-War Money and more will be yours upon careful exploration. Thereafter, head back into the corridor and continue down it for a brief time until you find a door on your left, marked Test Chamber 01. Within, you'll find a horribly mutated body. Just what's going on in this vault!? Regardless, when you emerge from the mildly-irradiated room, expect to run into another Super Mutant and one of their Centaur friends, both of which can be felled rather easily.
Eventually, you'll come to a red-hued area of the corridor with a door on either side of the pathway. The door on your left can be opened, but is otherwise blocked by debris, so there's not much we can do there right now. On the right, however, you can find an unlocked office with plenty of goods to grab within. You can even read another computer's worth of information about the going-ons at Vault 87. Either way, don't leave without grabbing some goods, including a Stimpak, some Dirty Water, a Medical Brace, and more. Once back out on the pathway, simply proceed forward until you hear a voice asking you for help. Just who could that be!?
The grumbling you hear is from an imprisoned Super Mutant named Fawkes, who is begging you to let him out. This is most unusual, of course, because not only have we heard much in the way of comprehensible language from Super Mutants in the past, but this one doesn't seem violent at all. Instead, he's asking for some help. Gamers looking for bad karma shouldn't free Fawkes unless they intend on killing him once he's freed. Those looking for some good karma and a much easier finish to this side quest should, indeed, free Fawkes. It turns out he really is a good Super Mutant and will prove himself invaluable once you free him.
To free him, you have to seek out a fire alarm system that, once activated, will open all of the locked cells in the area, including Fawkes'. To get there, head left, and then forward from Fawkes' cell, swinging left again down a red-hued corridor. All of the doors on this corridor are locked and can be unlocked with a high hacking skill, but you can skip all of that and head to the final room on your right, which is guarded by a couple of Super Mutants. Upon killing those foes, examine the computer setup they were guarding. The larger mechanism will free all of the cells, but if you want to specify which cells to open, you can try to hack the adjacent computer. We recommend opening all of the cells at once, however. The experience gained from killing the foes you encounter is well worth it. When you leave the room, get ready to kill the Centaurs, the human named Cid, and any other enemy you freed. But it's reuniting with the now-free Fawkes that's of the utmost importance here, because he's going to make your life a lot easier going forward.
Talk to Fawkes to learn more about his unfortunate situation. You should also offer to trade equipment with him so you can grab the three Stimpaks on his person before proceeding. From here, for quite a while, it's going to be all about following Fawkes as he traverses these corridors he's plenty familiar with. The first hostile area he'll lead you to will be at the end of the corridor away from his holding cell, where you'll encounter two well-armed Super Mutants. Let Fawkes get into the fray to help you out, but be extremely careful of two things. The first thing is, you don't want your stray fire to hit Fawkes. Do this a few times, and he'll permanently turn on you, forcing you to pacify him by killing him (which would be unfortunate). The second thing to be careful of going forward is to get in on the kills. Laying the killing blow on the Super Mutant enemies here is the only way you're going to be able to earn experience from their deaths, so make it count. Fawkes can do a lot of damage, but you'll ultimately want to gain the experience for killing those foes for yourself.
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Beyond the room where the two Super Mutants were killed is another room with two doors leading out. Unfortunately, one of those doors is locked, so follow Fawkes as he goes through the other door and up a flight of stairs thereafter. Fawkes will likely run forward from here to engage another Super Mutant Master waiting up ahead. Let Fawkes do him in, trying to get some shots in on the foe as well. From here, Fawkes will then turn left and through a door into another room (following the corridor to its conclusion will lead to a door we couldn't pick open). It's in this room that you'll find another important computer terminal. Make sure to hack this computer here. Once hacked, activate the computer again and unlock the storage room door. This storage room, which we've yet visited, has something very important you're going to need if you want to survive the following adventurous end to our mission.
Remember that door we just mentioned that we couldn't open? Well, once that computer is hacked and the storage room is opened, you can now open that door. Why? Because that door leads to the small storage area, and you're going to want to make sure you visit it before proceeding. It has an Advanced Radiation Suit within that you're going to need shortly, as well as some other goods, like Recon Armor, a Recon Armor Helmet, a Laser Pistol and more. Once you grab the goods, backtrack towards the computer and continue along the linear pathways ahead. Chances are Fawkes has outrun you considerably by now, so you won't catch up with him for a minute. In the meantime, clear the next room you reach as you follow the corridor of any Super Mutants, and explore the room for a Steam Gauge Assembly and two Vacuum Cleaners, valuable items for resale if you have the room to carry them at this point (chances are, you don't).
When you get to a room washed in a green light, you know you're on the right track. This is likely where you're going to run into Fawkes again. Let him clear the rest of the way for you if you're running low on health (otherwise, get involved in the fray). Eventually, the action will stop and Fawkes will turn to you to let you know that you're close to the G.E.C.K. The radiation suit we got earlier was important to acquire because of the simple reason that if you don't want to send Fawkes in to get it for you (or don't have that option because you killed him), you can don the suit and, combined with RadAway and Rad-X use, survive the run to get the G.E.C.K. Otherwise, there's simply no reason not to send Fawkes in to get the G.E.C.K. When he returns with it, grab it from him and he'll run off, leaving you to your own devices.
It's time to leave Vault 87. Since all of the enemies within should already be cleared, you can run back towards the way you came without having to deal with any stray foes. However, you won't get very far in your run. As you run down any given corridor, you're likely to be overcome by Enclave forces, and soon thereafter approached by an Enclave military leader named Colonel Autumn. After seizing the G.E.C.K., you'll wake up in an Enclave cell being interrogated by the Colonel. Resist him, and soon John Henry Eden, the president of the Enclave himself, will begin speaking with you. And just like that, this quest comes to a conclusion.
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Seattle's amber-voiced indie-folk artist, Shelby Earl, wasn't born a songwriter. She became one. And in the words of NPR's Ann Powers "She writes for those of us who've been through a few things." Earl recognized from long stints in other bands, singing other people's songs, that she was moved to do more — to become the kind of generative artist she'd long admired. The break up of her band, The Hope, in 2007 began Earl's search for a role beyond being just "lead singer." It was that search, and her belief in the rewarding work of songwriting, that led Earl to quit her corporate job in 2009 and start sharing her astoundingly powerful songs. In 2011 she released her debut solo album Burn the Boats, produced by John Roderick of the Long Winters and released on Local 638 Records. The title was inspired by her stepfather telling someone that Earl had "pulled all the boats ashore and burned them" to live her dreams. Earl's music, as a result of her determination and daring, lives gracefully at the intersection of romanticism and strength. Burn the Boats revealed vulnerability and wisdom that had long been building under the smooth surface as she performed other people's music. Bringing in friends from various Seattle bands (Fleet Foxes, Telekinesis, the Long Winters, the Maldives, and more) to lend their talents, Burn the Boats was Earl stepping out from her community, with the help of it. Since its release, Earl has garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Paste, NPR, Pop Matters, Spinner, KEXP, City Arts, and more, and has shared stages with artists such as Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Rhett Miller, David Bazan, Damien Jurado, Crooked Fingers, The White Buffalo, Loudon Wainwright III, and Lavender Diamond. During the inception of her follow-up album, Swift Arrows, Earl approached celebrated Seattle folk artist, Damien Jurado, for his help as a producer. Expecting reluctance, Jurado surprised Earl by starting their first meeting with an enthusiastic "HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO!" and proceeding to lay out an entire plan for recording and production. And here is what they were going to do, and did: A big room. Earl playing live and exposed – one mic on her voice and one mic on her guitar – just how people used to make records and just how she'd wanted it since she hauled her boats ashore and set them alight. Two other players flanking her on either side with acoustic guitars, playing just what she played, adding spine-chilling depth and life to the sound, ripping it out of frail singer-songwriter territory. All the basic tracks on Swift Arrows, including lead vocals, were tracked live at Columbia City Theater in Seattle, WA. Damien Jurado partnered with engineer/mixer/producer Gary Mula to capture the big, lush sound he was going for. Half the songs were recorded with just vocals and acoustic guitars (piano, drums, and other overdubs added later), and the other half were tracked with the full band playing live together in the room. The entire record was made in only eight days and the experience was magical for everyone involved. Earl describes the result as "more raw, and I suppose in some ways more flawed than the last record…but it's honest and it feels good…I laid my heart out on tape and I believe people will be able to hear and feel that." Swift Arrows is a record full of dark corners and dazzling shafts of light. An exploration in gamboling piano lines slowing into lingering, thrumming ballads, Earl sounds as though she's singing from the very boat she burned before- throwing breakaway melodies into a whipping wind of resonant choral singers. An album about the fraying of love, about its anger and its mercy, about despair and boundless hope, knotted together with lush strings and steady, distant drums, It is clear Earl knows that once one has "burned the boats" there is no going back, only going forward, headlong into one's new life. Swift Arrows is about doing just that, and doing it boldly.


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First fireworks of the New Year 2013
explode over the Opera House in Sydney Australia.
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Check the Daily Mail for more as New Year's Eve around the world unfolds.
As you know the primary focus of this blog is on political issues and one cannot escape the fact that 2012 was a disappointment for me, for conservatives and for many who seek effective solutions to our nation's problems. Here's hoping 2013 will be better. I have my doubts. In the first four years of his presidency Barack Hussein Obama proved that he preferred partisan score settling to the leadership necessary to solve America's mounting problems. His attitude in the recent so-called fiscal cliff setup proved that there is every reason to believe he will continue that path.
Our nation's only chance is to hope we prosper in spite of Obama's best efforts to stymie private sector growth. The one bright spot on the horizon is growth in the energy sector, particularly natural gas development. If Republicans in Congress can forestall Obama's efforts to restrict that development in order to favor his campaign contributor's investments in more expensive green energy we might have a chance.
Motivating my thinking are the millions of Americans continue to face a New Year with grim economic prospects. For them we hold out hope.
Whatever happens over the next year you can count on Mike's America to continue the fight. For inspiration we look once again to Winston Churchill. First the British establishment tried to sideline him then the Nazis tried to silence him. Neither succeeded and his vision, leadership and strength of character made history. Let his example serve as a model as we move forward.
Let us resolve to make the most of this New Year and begin now on the long road to prepare for the day when wiser heads will prevail.


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It's the last day of the Italian election today, and results will start coming in just after 9 AM ET.
Paul Krugman devotes his column today to the broader significance of the election, explaining why so many people in Europe and in financial circles care about the result.
Basically, he notes, it's the first real referendum on austerity.
Italy has played everything by the book, dutifully cutting spending, raising taxes, and so forth, just as the ECB and Germany have demanded.
And what has Italy gotten for it? A weaker economy and the prospect that radicals, clowns, and comedians could come to power. That's note a joke. The man who managed all of the austerity, Mario Monti, is currently running in fourth place behind anti-bank comedian Beppe Grillo.
Outside observers are terrified about Italy's election, and rightly so: even if the nightmare of a Berlusconi return to power fails to materialize, a strong showing by Mr. Berlusconi, Mr. Grillo, or both would destabilize not just Italy but Europe as a whole. But remember, Italy isn't unique: disreputable politicians are on the rise all across Southern Europe. And the reason this is happening is that respectable Europeans won't admit that the policies they have imposed on debtors are a disastrous failure. If that doesn't change, the Italian election will be just a foretaste of the dangerous radicalization to come.
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My Freesco 0.3.5 do not boot correctly any more many times it hangs like this:
If i shall reinstall which files do I need to copy if I want to keep all settings of this system?
Can I take the file in question above to a new 0.4.x system?
I would have already suspected such a thing because from the logs it looks like the drive is not physically damaged, but rather electronically damaged.
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Fight Is On Between Oracle And Google Over Java API Copyrights
from the shouldn't-have-gotten-this-far deptLast summer, we noted that there was an interesting "sideshow" in the patent dispute between Oracle and Google -- a question of whether or not Java's APIs are covered by copyright. That "sideshow" has become the main attraction now that the trial has started and many of the patent claims have been kicked out.
Oracle has been quite public with its argument (pdf), which is mostly based on taking snippets from Google emails that suggest a need to license Java. The favorite of the bunch is this one:
They also point to some snippets of code that do appeared to be copied:
If you just see that side of it, you might be convinced, but the details suggest a much less convincing story. First off, there are serious concerns about whether or not an API even can be covered by copyright. In fact, before Sun was acquired by Oracle, Sun's own CTO had said that "internet specifications are not protectable under copyright," which (you might think) gives Google an implied go ahead to make use of the API. Furthermore, many of the email snippets that Oracle presents are taken out of context -- they show little snippets of big emails and pull from very very different time periods -- ranging from 2005 to 2010, when different factors applied. Oracle also scrubbed a blog from former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in which he warmly welcomed Google to the Java family when the company launched Android.
Perhaps more damning: Larry Ellison himself in 2009 at the JavaOne event spoke about Google's Android development and how they were contributing code back to Java. Ellison himself was put on the stand and appeared to contradict his own depositions when it came time to discuss the specifics of the copyright. That can't go over well. Not only that, but he stumbled, and claimed he was "not sure" when asked specific questions:
On cross-examination, Google came out firing and the room got tense quickly. "Do you understand that no one owns the Java programming language?" lead counsel Robert Van Nest asked.Oracle's response, of course, will be that it just meant for developing apps, not for using the API -- but its other statements are a lot less clear on that. Either way, it seems pretty clear that Sun gave an implied open license to these things, so to come back now and insist otherwise is pretty questionable. Furthermore, there still are questions as to whether or not an API can actually be covered by copyright at all.
Ellison began a longer answer, but Judge William Alsup interrupted him and said it was a "yes or no" question. Finally Ellison said, "I'm not sure."
"And anyone can use it without royalty?" Van Nest followed up.
"I'm not sure," Ellison said again.
Then Van Nest showed a video of Ellison receiving the same question on a deposition video and answering "That's correct" to both.
Separately, Oracle keeps talking about just how much work it is to create APIs, and even points to some Google statements about the difficulty of doing so. That's smoke and mirrors. Difficulty has no bearing on copyright law. It's kind of surprising that Oracle's lawyers would even bring it up, as "sweat of the brow" arguments won't get very far. Hell, even if it biases a jury, it would get rejected on appeal. It seems like Oracle's strategy here is just to confuse the jury and go for guilty by association because they're going to have trouble showing actual guilt.
As for the specific code snippets shown above, those a few lines out of 50,000 or so files. Under copyright there's a defense known as de minimis copying, if you're just found to have copied a very tiny portion of something. It seems like that might apply here as well.
Also, you may have heard stories about the results of this trial potentially being worth billions of dollars or something, but that was before most of the patents got thrown out. The patents left over aren't worth very much at all, and the end result means that if Oracle wins, it'll likely get less than $100 million. That's still a significant sum, but it's a lot less than what Oracle had hoped to get in this lawsuit.
In the end, as it seemed from the beginning, Oracle's case looks pretty weak (and getting weaker).
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Use pthread_getspecific(3THR) to get the calling thread's binding for key, and store it in the location pointed to by value.
Prototype: int pthread_getspecific(pthread_key_t key);
#include <pthread.h> pthread_key_t key; void *value; /* key previously created */ value = pthread_getspecific(key);
No errors are returned.
Example 2-2 shows an excerpt from a multithreaded program. This code is executed by any number of threads, but it has references to two global variables, errno and mywindow, that really should be references to items private to each thread.
body() { ... while (write(fd, buffer, size) == -1) { if (errno != EINTR) { fprintf(mywindow, "%s\n", strerror(errno)); exit(1); } } ... }
References to errno should get the system error code from the routine called by this thread, not by some other thread. So, references to errno by one thread refer to a different storage location than references to errno by other threads.
The mywindow variable is intended to refer to a stdio stream connected to a window that is private to the referring thread. So, as with errno, references to mywindow by one thread should refer to a different storage location (and, ultimately, a different window) than references to mywindow by other threads. The only difference here is that the threads library takes care of errno, but the programmer must somehow make this work for mywindow.
The next example shows how the references to mywindow work. The preprocessor converts references to mywindow into invocations of the _mywindow() procedure.
This routine in turn invokes pthread_getspecific(), passing it the mywindow_key global variable (it really is a global variable) and an output parameter, win, that receives the identity of this thread's window.
thread_key_t mywin_key; FILE *_mywindow(void) { FILE *win; pthread_getspecific(mywin_key, &win); return(win); } #define mywindow _mywindow() void routine_uses_win( FILE *win) { ... } void thread_start(...) { ... make_mywin(); ... routine_uses_win( mywindow ) ... }
The mywin_key variable identifies a class of variables for which each thread has its own private copy; that is, these variables are thread-specific data. Each thread calls make_mywin() to initialize its window and to arrange for its instance of mywindow to refer to it.
Once this routine is called, the thread can safely refer to mywindow and, after _mywindow(), the thread gets the reference to its private window. So, references to mywindow behave as if they were direct references to data private to the thread.
Example 2-4 shows how to set this up.
void make_mywindow(void) { FILE **win; static pthread_once_t mykeycreated = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT; pthread_once(&mykeycreated, mykeycreate); win = malloc(sizeof(*win)); create_window(win, ...); pthread_setspecific(mywindow_key, win); } void mykeycreate(void) { pthread_keycreate(&mywindow_key, free_key); } void free_key(void *win) { free(win); }
First, get a unique value for the key, mywin_key. This key is used to identify the thread-specific class of data. So, the first thread to call make_mywin() eventually calls pthread_keycreate(), which assigns to its first argument a unique key. The second argument is a destructor function that is used to deallocate a thread's instance of this thread-specific data item once the thread terminates.
The next step is to allocate the storage for the caller's instance of this thread-specific data item. Having allocated the storage, a call is made to the create_window() routine, which sets up a window for the thread and sets the storage pointed to by win to refer to it. Finally, a call is made to pthread_setspecific(), which associates the value contained in win (that is, the location of the storage containing the reference to the window) with the key.
After this, whenever this thread calls pthread_getspecific(), passing the global key, it gets the value that was associated with this key by this thread when it called pthread_setspecific().
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As officials all but guarantee deadlier form of H1N1 will return later this year, draconian response measures have been established with the aid of deceptive scaremongering and hype
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
The H1N1 virus itself has claimed less lives than a normal flu outbreak would be expected to kill, but the architecture of martial law in the form of draconian measures readied to combat a pandemic has been firmly locked into place.
Health authorities are now toning down their apocalyptic predictions of a swine flu pandemic, after the virus proved to be milder than originally feared, but officials are warning that a deadlier form of the illness could return in autumn or winter.
The gargantuan fearmongering engaged in by western governments, despite the virus killing just one 23-month-old toddler in the U.S., has set the standard for what we can expect to see when the next outbreak occurs, which officials are already proclaiming will be later this year.
"With pandemics you get two phases. A first that is often very mild and then a much more serious one in the autumn and winter," said UK Health Secretary Alan Johnson, "So we have to not just deal with this outbreak now, but prepare, perhaps, for a second phase."
We know now what that preparation will entail – the creation of a vaccine to combat swine flu which, if recent history is to go by, will be more dangerous than the virus itself. Naturally, the vaccine will be voluntary to begin with but once another pandemic is unleashed and the fearmongering kicks into warp drive once again, calls for mandatory vaccination will reach a crescendo, and the media are already preparing American to accept that premise.
In addition, the Department of Homeland Security has established an outline of how BATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshals will be called upon to impose mandatory quarantines in the event of a widespread swine flu outbreak in the U.S. Under executive order 13375, if citizens attempt to free themselves from "involuntary isolation" they will be subject to a $250,000 fine and one year in jail.
Saturation media coverage of the H1N1 scare has acclimatized people to seeing images of armed soldiers on the streets giving orders and working with the police. Endless images of troops handing out face masks to citizens in Mexico City has entrenched the notion in the minds of the population that troops are there to "help" in times of crisis.
We also learn that, "Regional governments can invoke "draconian" powers if the swine flu virus reaches a worst-case scenario, from monitoring people in their own homes to seizing control of entire economies," according to an AFP report.
The Australian government's plan "allows for "extraordinary measures" including the power to manage the supply of goods and services, giving it effective control over the economy," states the article.
The swine flu virus has proven less deadly than the common cold in Britain and the U.S., yet the media is still awash with stories about school closures, cancelled events and every little detail about each individual case. Why is this still even in the news? Would it normally be a major national news story if you got the sniffles? The swine flu hoax has been a perfect beta-test for how the media will hype doomsday scenarios when the next pandemic occurs.
Governments could not have established such draconian response plans without the aid of media scaremongering, and now that these measures have been set in stone, we can only wait for them to be fully enacted the next time a deadlier outbreak occurs, as officials are so enthusiastic to promise.
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BERLIN – The Maryland General Assembly moved into its second week this week with a wide variety of bills introduced in both the House and the Senate. The following is just a sample of some bills introduced this week with potentially local importance:
Senate Bill 279-Death Penalty Repeal: This bill, if passed, would officially repeal the death penalty in Maryland.
Senate Bill 288: Smoking in a Vehicle Containing a Young Child: This bill would prohibit a driver from smoking in a vehicle in which a child under the age of eight is riding.
House Bill 72: Text Messaging while Driving: This bill would prohibit a person operating a motor vehicle from writing, sending or reading a text message while driving.
House Bill 205-Mandatory School Uniforms: This bill, if approved, would require each county in Maryland, including Worcester, to develop a county school uniform policy. Under the legislation, the county board's of education would work with the state superintendent of schools to develop an enforcement policy.
House Bill 212-Preliminary Breath Test as Evidence: This bill would allow the results of a preliminary breath test for alcohol to be used as evidence for probable cause to arrest a person on suspicion of drunk driving. Currently, preliminary breath tests are used by police to determine if there is reason to suspect an individual is driving under the influence, but cannot be used for probable cause.
House Bill 195-Proof of Lawful Presence Act of 2009: This bill would require an individual to provide documentation he or she is either a United States citizen or in the U.S. lawfully before the MVA can issue a driver's license or identification card to the individual.
House Bill 188-Property Assessments: This bill would require the State Department of Assessment and Taxation to reassess property values in Maryland every year rather than the current practice of reassessing property in a three-year rotating cycle.
Senate Bill 265-Driving Privileges: This bill would increase the minimum age at which an individual could receive a learner's permit to 16 years, up from 15 years, and increase the minimum age at which an individual could receive full driving privileges from the current 17 years old to 18 years old.
House Bill 197-Clotheslines on Residential Property: From the "don't they have more important things to do" department, this bill would not allow jurisdictions to prohibit the use of clotheslines on certain residential property regardless of lease agreements, bylaws, deeds, covenants or other means.


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Strasburg, Werth help Nationals beat Marlins 7-1
WASHINGTON (AP) After Stephen Strasburg failed to get out of the fifth inning in his second start this season, he had a little chat with Nationals teammate Ian Desmond about changing his approach on the mound.
"It was just: I don't need to go out there and trick guys, and I don't need to go out there and be perfect," Strasburg recalled. "I just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work."
Consider it done. In his third – and by far the best – outing of 2014, Strasburg struck out 12 in 6 2-3 innings on a day Washington really needed to rest its relievers, and Desmond and Jayson Werth homered, leading the Nationals past the Miami Marlins 7-1 Thursday for a three-game sweep.
"We actually talked after his last start, and he told me some things that he wanted to work on. And to see him go out and execute it today, exactly the way he wanted to change and what he was going to mess with, was pretty good to see," said Desmond, whose grand slam off reliever Arquimedes Caminero in the eighth broke open a tight game. "That's maturity. Everyone forgets how young he is. He's going to keep on getting better and better and today was proof of that."
The 25-year-old Strasburg (1-1) got 14 consecutive outs in one stretch and allowed only three hits, including Marcell Ozuna's homer in the seventh. The right-hander's lone walk was to the last batter he faced.
Washington's starter Wednesday, Jordan Zimmermann, left after a career-low 1 2-3 innings, leaving the bullpen "taxed," as manager Matt Williams put it. The Nationals won that game 10-7 on Werth's go-ahead grand slam in the eighth, and this time he connected in the third – a two-run shot off Tom Koehler (1-1) that put Washington ahead 2-0.
Werth hit a 3-0 pitch just to the left of straightaway center. After driving in a total of one run over the season's first seven games, Werth has seven RBIs in the past two.
"Got the green light from Matty," Werth said, referring to the manager. "Got a pitch up that was elevated and put a good swing on it."
Said Koehler: "Got to do a better job of … executing."
Strasburg lasted 4 1-3 innings in his previous start, a 6-2 loss to Atlanta on Sunday, and he entered Thursday 0-1 with a 6.10 ERA. But with the temperature 67 degrees at the unusual 4:05 p.m. start, and shadows creeping across the diamond, he was much better against Miami, mixing a 95-96 mph fastball with a seemingly unhittable changeup.
"You have to be in swing mode, expecting fastball, certainly," Williams said. "His changeup was really good off of it today and he used it a lot."
Some Marlins hitters did say the shadows were problematic.
"It was kind of tough to see out there," said Derek Dietrich, who was 0 for 3.
Still, the outset was inauspicious for Strasburg. Christian Yelich led off the game with a single up the middle, stole second and took third on an error. But he got caught in a rundown when he tried to head home on Dietrich's comebacker.
There wasn't another baserunner for Miami until shortstop Desmond booted Adeiny Hechavarria's grounder for an error in the fifth. But Strasburg struck out Jeff Mathis looking at a 95 mph fastball to end the inning, then hopped off the mound.
In the sixth, the Marlins' best hitter, Giancarlo Stanton, faced Strasburg with two aboard and one out in a 2-0 game.
"Any ball he puts in play can take somebody's head off," Strasburg said.
But Strasburg struck out Stanton looking, then got cleanup hitter Garrett Jones swinging at a high fastball for his 10th K – the 13th time the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 amateur draft had at least that many in a game.
Stanton's next at-bat came in the eighth against rookie Aaron Barrett, who struck him out with a slider.
"He's a bulldog," Strasburg said about Barrett. "He's not scared of anybody."
NOTES: Nationals pitchers struck out 17 Marlins batters, tying both franchises' records. … The Nationals open a three-game series at Atlanta on Friday, with RHP Tanner Roark (1-0, 3.00) facing Braves RHP Julio Teheran (1-1, 2.77). The Marlins head to Philadelphia, where RHP Jose Fernandez (2-0, 0.71) will start against Phillies RHP A.J. Burnett (0-1, 3.86).
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected claims of an increase in illegal gun imports.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit back at claims by the Liberal Party that her government has failed at protecting Australia's borders from illegal gun imports, saying that only 1 per cent of guns in Australia come from overseas.
Speaking to 2UE Radio in The Sydney Morning Herald office on Friday morning, Ms Gillard said that her government had "more than doubled" the number of interceptions of contraband parcels.
This follows criticism from the Coalition and the NSW government that Ms Gillard had asked Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare to investigate ways to reduce suburban violence.
Ms Gillard instructed Mr Clare to explore the limits of the federal government's legal and constitutional responsibilities in combating crime, in the wake of shootings in Sydney's west and south-west and unrest in Logan, south of Brisbane.
The NSW Police Minister, Michael Gallacher, accused Ms Gillard of ''gross hypocrisy'' over the announcement, which was made at the launch of the federal government's new cyber-safety program on Wednesday. He said the federal government was failing ''dismally'' to protect Australia's borders from illegal gun imports.
Opposition justice, customs and border protection spokesman, Michael Keenan, said that the government had slashed jobs in Customs and had ''contributed significantly'' to the problem of suburban violence.
On Thursday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott suggested the bid to reduce crime in the Sydney area was ''an election stunt'', with half of Labor's 10 most marginal seats being in western Sydney or on the central coast.
Ms Gillard said that while Australia did not have a National Rifle Association like the United States - "and thank goodness we don't" - Australia still had a problem with guns.
She said she didn't think it was "right or fair" that people in Sydney had to wonder if a bullet was going to hit their street.
Ms Gillard said that government research in 2011 had found only 1 per cent of Australian firearms came "over the borders'', adding that 44 per cent of firearms in the country had not been given back when they should have during the Howard government's buy-back scheme. A further 12 per cent had been stolen.
On Thursday, Mr Clare said voters in western Sydney were demanding the state and federal governments work together to address violence in that area, ''and that's what they'll get from me''.
Mr Clare is the federal member for Blaxland, which is based in the area and is considered under threat in this year's election.
"I'm from western Sydney,'' Mr Clare said. ''Western Sydney people are worried about crime and worried for the safety of their families. They want more police on the streets and more criminals off the streets.
''We are determined to help western Sydney because we think western Sydney should be safer.''
In November Fairfax Media revealed internal polling showed 10 seats in NSW, predominantly in western Sydney, could fall if an election were held immediately, including McMahon, held by the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, and Watson, held by the Environment Minister, Tony Burke. Others considered under threat were Parramatta, Barton, Reid, Werriwa, Fowler, Banks and Greenway. The seats of Blaxland and Chifley would be close calls.
Mr Clare said he had been asked to prepare options to address violence in western Sydney, but said he would ask the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission to speak to state and territory police across the country.
He said he would work with the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police and the head of the Australian Crime Commission and other federal law enforcement agencies to look at what assistance the federal government could provide.
Mr Clare's office said the question of police numbers would be discussed as part of the consultation. Funding for police numbers is the responsibility of the states and territories.
But Mr Abbott ridiculed the proposal.
''Is that an election stunt or is there a general role for the federal government?'' Mr Abbott asked.
He said if Ms Gillard was ''fair dinkum'' about reducing crime, her government would not have cut about $60 million out of the border protection budget.
Mr Clare said customs officials were now seizing twice as many parcels containing drugs or other contraband as they were five years ago. Mr Gallacher, rejected the suggestion that more police was the solution.


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Tony Bosch was one of 10 people charged Tuesday for distributing illegal drugs. USA TODAY Sports
Tony Bosch, the former director of the South Florida anti-aging clinic that became ground zero for baseball's biggest doping scandal, was one of 10 people charged Tuesday with distributing illegal drugs to professional and high school athletes.
Bosch, who helmed the Biogenesis clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., surrendered Tuesday morning and has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute testosterone, said Wilfredo Ferrer, U.S. attorney for the southern district of Florida.
Court documents do not specify whether the charges are directly related to the Major League Baseball scandal.
Officials said seven men were charged in the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, and three more charged in the distribution of the recreational drug molly.
Among those charged were Yuri Sucart, who is a cousin of suspended New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Nunez, a former associate of the ACES agency who was implicated in a scheme to exonerate All-Star Melky Cabrera after a positive 2012 testosterone test. Additionally, Carlos Acevedo, a longtime associate of Bosch's, Jorge Velasquez, Christopher Engroba and former University of Miami coach Lazer Collazo were arrested and charged.
Mark Trouville, special agent in charge of DEA Miami field division, said Acevedo was involved in both the PED and molly distribution.
"They were putting these athletes' health at risk," Ferrer, said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Bosch, Ferrer said, "has accepted responsibility for his criminal conduct" and will plead guilty at a later date.
Bosch could face a 10-year prison term for his involvement. However, terms of his plea agreement state that if he cooperates with investigators, prosecutors will recommend a reduced sentence.
Part of his cooperation may include working in an undercover role with, law enforcement officers.
Trouville said Bosch admitted supplying performance-enhancing drugs to 18 minors; many of the substances were purchased on the black market.
While many details on Bosch and Biogenesis emerged via news reports and MLB's investigation, Trouville and Flores detailed how the operation extended deep within South Florida's youth baseball community, as well as the Dominican Republic. Trouville and Ferrer allege that Biogenesis' involvement included:
- Recruiting high school athletes in South Florida between the ages of 15-17; the athletes paid Biogenesis $250-$600 per month to obtain PEDs;
- Acevedo and Sucart expanded the operation to the Dominican, where they worked with the Scores management group. There, they recruited players ages 12 to 17 who hoped to prepare for the international signing period when they turned 16 or older. Bosch provided testosterone-loaded syringes to be distributed in the Dominican, and street agents, or buscones, would administer the drugs.
- Collazo, whose ties to the University of Miami baseball program date to his role as a reliever on their 1985 national champion team, recruited area players on the behalf of Biogenesis. Collazo spent 26 years involved with the baseball programs at Miami and the University of South Florida.
Alex Rodriguez was implicated as a client of Biogenesis in documents that Major League Baseball used in its case against him last year; MLB suspended him for 211 games, a ban that eventually was reduced to 162 games by an arbitrator. Sucart's name also appeared in the documents.
Court documents allege that Bosch, now 50, distributed testosterone from October 2008 through December 2012.
Athletes or others who received performance-enhancing drugs from Bosch are not named in the court documents, and such investigations typically target distributors, and not users.
Major leaguers tied to Bosch and Biogenesis number more than a dozen; 14 were suspended last summer, most notably Rodriguez and Ryan Braun. Rodriguez is still serving his ban that will last through this season. Braun served a season-ending 65-game suspension that began in July 2013.
And a dozen more served 50-game suspensions last season - their punishment coming from Major League Baseball exactly one year before Bosch surrendered to federal authorities.
His testimony was crucial to Major League Baseball's efforts to discipline those linked to Biogenesis. Bosch agreed to cooperate with MLB and his dossier of doping calendars, e-mails and text messages became the backbone of baseball's case. Bosch eventually testified in an arbitration hearing that resulted in 162 games of Rodriguez's 211-game suspension getting upheld.
GALLERY: Players tied to Biogenesis
In return for his cooperation, MLB vowed to put in a good word for Bosch in any legal proceeding. That time apparently has come.
Bosch's operation was revealed when one of his former associates, Porter Fischer, revealed details of Biogenesis' PED distribution to the Miami New Times in January 2013; Fischer, who went to the media because Bosch owed him $4,000, later alleged that Bosch distributed performance-enhancing drugs to minors.
Dozens of players' names appeared in Biogenesis documents, and its clients included two players - outfielder Melky Cabrera and pitcher Bartolo Colon - who served 50-game suspensions in 2012 after testing positive for testosterone.
Rodriguez, Braun and others suspended in 2013 did not test positive under Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Agreement.
Contributing: Rachel Axon, Peter Barzilai
GALLERY: MLB suspensions after Biogenesis


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Bella 12345 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Top U.S. Colleges - http://www.top-us-colleges.com
We are Fruxar Inc. A new kick-ass startup in Silicon Valley, California. We are building college search/comparison engine.
We believe that finding the right college is extremely hard. Regardless if you know what you want to study or not, we want to make this process bullet proof and dead simple. The end goal is to find a school for every person that wants to go to college, making society smarter and to empower America.
If you have any questions. Call me or shoot me an email. I am here to help. Helping you to create an awesome design is my number 1 priority.
Email: founder [at] fruxar [dot] com
Phone: (650) 427-9759
We are targeting: Working Professionals (not high school students)
Age approximately: 25 - 45
Race mix is:
35% are Hispanic
25% are African American
40% are Caucasian
The majority of them lives at the East/West coast (CA, NY) and some in the more southern parts of the U.S..
We need 3 pages for our website. Please see the URLs of our current website (below).
Important to us is:
- It must be easy, dead simple.
- We want to keep the social media integration as is and the login process
- Feel free to get creative with the rest of the site. Do not restrict your creativity by our current design. You can change any picture/colors/text you want.
- The workflow is important to us. In the current prototype we had a hard time highlighting the navigational elements that bring a user from the profile page to the search, the university detail page, the track status page etc. Please make them stand out.
- We will have no ads - so don't reserver space for them
- You can change/shorten the content/text too. If not also o.k.
The goal of the site/prototype is to create a workflow that puts structure in place for the prospective student when he does his research for the right school. There is a profile page that serves as their "research center", almost like a home page. From there he goes to the other places.
Please see the 3 pages i need below in the existing website. Go to http://www.top-us-colleges.com and use our product.
We want:
- General Homepage that describes what "Top U.S. Colleges" is all about and has a big element that leads into the Profile Page. (we had a very hard time doing this - that's why the homepage is so empty right now)
- Profile Page focuses on 2 things. A.) Explaining new visitors how the research process works and how they can start their first search and B.) it allows existing users to see their research stats, bookmarked schools etc.
- Search Results page. Here want to encourage the user to do one of the following A.) Visit a School, B.) Bookmark a School, C.) Go back and change his search or D.) go back to his profile page. The order is important, meaning we really want everybody to do A.), most people to do B.), some people to do C.) and less people to do D.).
We have created a first prototype with a simple layout/design. The pages that I would like you to focus on are:
Homepage: http://www.top-us-colleges.com/
Profile Page: http://www.top-us-colleges.com/accounts/profile/
Search Results Page: http://rpx.me/eeob
Here my current website:
Homepage: http://www.top-us-colleges.com/
Profile Page: http://www.top-us-colleges.com/accounts/profile/
Search Results Page: http://rpx.me/eeob
Other websites in the college space are:


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U.S. Allows Plan-B Without Restrictions, and More
What's News: The federal government drops its appeal in a long-running case and allows Plan-B to be sold without point of sale restrictions. Protests crescendo in Taksim Square in Turkey. Lululemon's CEO steps down. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Getty
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|System: X360, PS3, PC
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Black Rock Studio
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Disney Interactive
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: May 18, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
Despite the game's lack of modes, its arcade style of gameplay makes this title very easy to pick up and play. The controls are very simple: use the triggers to accelerate/brake, and use two of the face buttons to use your Power Plays. Navigating and steering your vehicle is simple enough, but using the drift function is a little tricky, as the game doesn't have the quick handbrake drift and instead uses a reaction-based, simple brake system to initiate drifting.
Still, after you get the hand of the drifting, the game is very easy to control and requires no precision to handle. Although this stays true to the game's arcade format, it can make the gameplay feel a little shallow, and automotive fans may be a little disappointed with how simple the driving mechanics are.
Visuals in Split/Second, much like other aspects of the game, are fairly good, but not outstanding. Cars sport some detail, but they all follow a generic template. Tracks also feature some detail, but have a lot of common elements. The only real area where the visuals shine is the explosion animations, which look fantastic.
Split/Second is certainly not the best automotive title we have ever seen, but it gets one thing right: arcade-style racing. This game is ridiculously fun, and using the Power Plays to blow away the buildings, structures, and vehicles around you is a great gimmick to get players into this new franchise.
Unfortunately, this game suffers from being a little too shallow, and after playing the same tracks over and over, it's a little too easy to tire of the game after the main story mode has been completed. Still, I would hope that there will be a sequel to this title, as the premise is solid. The execution just needs a little fleshing out.
Amanda L. Kondolojy
CCC Staff Contributor
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A.G. Schneiderman Announces Up To $20 Million To Rebuild And Reinvest In Communities Still Recovering From The Housing Crisis
Funds Will Be Drawn From Last Year's $25 Billion Settlement With Nation's Largest Banks To Help Struggling Homeowners
New York's Eight "Land Banks" Are Eligible For Funding To Rehabilitate Vacant And Abandoned Properties, Revitalizing Depressed Neighborhoods
SYRACUSE –Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that up to $20 million over two years – obtained in last year's settlement with the nation's largest banks – will be made available to communities to rebuild and restore neighborhoods hit hard by the housing crisis. Following the collapse of the housing market, the New York State Legislature passed legislation in 2011 establishing "land banks" that could acquire vacant, abandoned, or foreclosed properties, and choose to rebuild, demolish, or redesign them. By restoring vacant or abandoned properties, land banks lower costs for local governments, benefit public schools, reduce crime and boost the local economy.
Since the passage of this legislation, however, no state or federal funds have been dedicated to any of New York's land banks. Today, the Attorney General announced the start of a competitive application process for land banks to finally receive funding and fulfill their intended purpose: reviving neighborhoods still recovering from the housing collapse and the ensuing foreclosure crisis.
"Through last year's settlement with five banks that contributed to the collapse of the housing market, we've provided roughly $2 billion in relief to homeowners throughout the State—but it's not nearly enough," said Attorney General Schneiderman. "By dedicating money from that settlement to land banks across New York, we'll empower local communities to rebuild their own neighborhoods, house by house, block by block. The road to recovery is long, but it will take innovative approaches like this – driven and managed by those who know the community best – to boost local economies and finally put this crisis behind us."
U.S. Representative Dan Maffeisaid, "I applaud Attorney General Schneiderman for dedicating these critical funds to be invested in upstate land banks. With nearly 2,000 unoccupied and blighted structures in Syracuse, Central New York stands to benefit if our land banks can acquire these properties and work with buyers to responsibly redevelop and repurpose them to serve our community. Developing these properties will help create jobs in our region. I look forward to continuing to work with Attorney General Schneiderman and leaders throughout the state to spur Central New York's economy, create new jobs and grow our middle class."
"I commend Attorney General Schneiderman for recognizing the importance of neighborhood revitalization to the economy as a whole," State Senator David Valesky said. "These grants will augment the work of land banks across the state, resulting in lower costs for local governments, lower crime rates in neighborhoods and a better quality of life for residents."
State Assemblyman William Magnarellisaid, "As a major sponsor of the 2011 Land Bank legislation and a fervent advocate for this vehicle to help remedy the conditions of our city neighborhoods due to vacant, abandoned or foreclosed properties, I applaud Attorney General Schneiderman for creating an application process that can provide substantial funding for the Syracuse Land Bank."
"We're proud that the city and county have collaborated to get one of the first land banks in the state up and running," said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner. "I applaud the Attorney General for securing this funding source and making it available to help us revitalize neighborhoods."
"I applaud Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for investing in New York's land banks," said Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney. "Communities across New York State are struggling with many abandoned and otherwise vacant houses and land banks are an excellent way to ensure these properties are handled in a way that best serves neighborhoods. Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse formed a land bank in 2012 and funds like these can help support our continued efforts to revitalize our community, increase property values and improve the quality of life for our residents."
"Support of New York's land banks will provide our communities with the unique ability to address some of our city's worst properties that have for so long remained uncared for, vacant and tax delinquent," said Kerry Quaglia, Home HeadQuarters Executive Director.
Utilizing funds from the National Mortgage Settlement, the Attorney General's office will invite competitive proposals from land banks to directly address the effects and aftermath of the foreclosure crisis. The eight land banks in New York State are located in:
- Cities of Buffalo, Lackawanna, Tonawanda and Erie County
- City of Syracuse and Onondaga County
- City of Schenectady, County of Schenectady and City of Amsterdam
- Chautauqua County
- City of Newburgh
- Broome County
- City of Rochester
- Suffolk County
Funding from the Attorney General's office will be awarded in two rounds, which gives the office an opportunity to support land banks next year that may not be eligible this year.
While abandoned and vacant properties depress property values, discourage property ownership, and attract criminal activities in the surrounding area, a land bank provides tools to quickly turn these properties back into assets that reinvest in the community's long-term vision for its neighborhood. Land bank programs act as an economic and community development tool to revitalize blighted neighborhoods and business districts. Land banks can benefit urban schools, improve tax revenues, expand housing opportunities, remove public nuisances, assist in crime prevention and promote economic development.
By transferring vacant and abandoned properties to responsible land owners, local governments benefit because they avoid the significant cost burden of property maintenance, like mowing and snow removal. In addition, local governments benefit from increased revenue because the new property owners pay taxes on the property. In turn, local schools benefit because they receive more funding when there is an increase in property owners in their school districts. Land bank programs can also increase the variety of mixed-income housing offered and provide more opportunities for affordable housing.
Land bank properties which become owner-occupied discourage criminal activity, benefiting public safety and decreasing the cost burden on the local police and fire departments. Finally, the more residents and businesses that occupy property in a neighborhood, the more services and amenities will be needed, which boosts local economic activity.
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10. You wake up every morning thinking that maybe possibly you are at home in your own bed. You then realize that you are in the 122nd hotel room of the season, inducing an attempt at smothering yourself with a pillow.
9. You frown and grimace with each bite of another sandwich from the spread table. With nothing else to eat, you still finish it, have a second, and then look pissed off for no apparent reason.
8. You go to the field and hide every object within the visual spectrum, blunt or sharp, to avoid harming yourself or others.
7. Out of boredom, you find yourself dipping or chewing during games even though you don't dip or chew.
6. You blame everything on a single teammate (every team has a team scapegoat). When this gets old, you blame everything on the trainer, which is never good since he's had a case of the Overworked Ass since February.
5. You had an off-day and wanted to do nothing but sit by yourself with your headphones on.
4. You're tired of sitting in a hotel room so you decide to go to the field early. Upon reaching the field, you find that you're tired of baseball stadiums, and wish you were back in the hotel room.
3. You start howling at the moon for no apparent reason, even during the day, even in public places. You wish the moon would howl back just so you would have someone else to talk to.
2. While walking to lunch, you yell at a random person, "Who's crazy?!" and then just keep on walking.
1. You've already made plans for the first week after the season ends, and think of these plans while banging your head against a wall and crushing another pack of sunflower seeds.


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In Munich exclusive shopping, fashionable streets and monumental buildings co-exist with Lederhosen, brass music and rustic beer halls. Visitors can start their day in a simple bar with knuckle of pork and sauerkraut, and end it in a gourmet temple with white linen tablecloths. Moreover, Germany's most cheerful residents live here.
1 Euro, € = 100 cents
110 Police
112 Fire brigade, Ambulance
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Münchner Merkur
Prinz (events)
Prinz (events)
Department stores and large shops are open from about 10am to 8pm Monday to Friday. Saturdays from 10am to 6pm (larger ones until 8pm). Grocery shops often open from 7am. The shops are closed on Sundays. A small selection of food is available in garages, at the central station and also at the airport.
1.5 million
City Hall (Rathaus)
Address: Marienplatz 2, 80331 Munich
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-7:30pm,
Sat 9am-4pm,
Sun + public holidays 10am-2pm
Grand Central Station
Address: Bahnhofplatz 2, 80335 Munich
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 9am-8pm,
Sun + public holidays 10am-6pm
In Munich, it's the mix that makes the message. Old meets new, past meets present and future, the modern blends harmoniously with the traditional, bits and bytes with beer, business and leisure. For the visitor, there is never any shortage of sights to see or activities to engage in.
The Bavarian Metropolis with its 1.5 million inhabitants lies virtually at the centre of Europe.
Munich's origin goes back to an early settlement of monks from the Tegernsee Monastery which was called "ad Munichen" (the monks' home).
The situation leading to its later growth was treated by an act of violence of Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria from the House of Guelph. At that time the salt transports coming from Reichenhall and Hallein had to go over a bridge spanning the Isar River at Föhring north of Munich. The bridge passage was accompanied by a toll, and this traffic brought considerable revenue to the Bishop of Freising in whose territory Föhring was located. Henry the Lion had this bridge destroyed forcing the salt transports to use his new bridge a few miles upstream in ducal territory. On June 14, 1158, the new bridge, the market, the customs office and the mint at "Munichen" were approved by imperial decree thus in one fell swoop the monastic settlement assumed a completely different function. The rapidly prospering town was selected by the ruling family of the Wittelsbach in the middle of the 13th century as its Residence due to a territorial split and in 1294 it was granted a new municipal charter. During the reign of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian – of the Wittelsbach family – the city extended its walls six fold and in 1504 it finally became the capital of the reunited Duchy of Bavaria. Under the 700 years of Wittelsbach reign as dukes, electors and kings Munich attained increasingly the reputation of being a European centre of culture.
Year after year, Munich takes gold in German city rankings. When asked where they would prefer to live, most Germans say Munich. The reason is simple: a magic combination of a vigorous economy and top-notch leisure time activities and outstanding cultural offerings.
Munich has come to be associated with the Oktoberfest, the Hofbräuhaus, the Olympic grounds and the Fasching carnival. However, Munich also has an international reputation as a metropolis of both, art and culture. Its music scene ranges from classical to jazz and pop and the many museums display impressive collections.
BMW Welt
MUCA Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art
ESO Supernova Planetarium
Hi- Sky Munich
Hey Minga
Alte Pinakothek
Pinakothek der Moderne
Museum Brandhorst
Haus der Kunst
BMW Museum
Allianz Arena & FC Bayern Experience Centre
Schloss Nymphenburg
Die Residenz
Deutsches Museum
NS Documentation Center (NS Dokumentationszentrum)
Olympiapark München
Bier- und Oktoberfest Museum
Neues Rathaus and Glockenspiel
SIGHTseeing The original since 1890
Tierpark Hellabrunn (Munich's Zoo)
Altes Rathaus
Alter Peter (Peterskirche)
Englischer Garten
Munich offers a large selection of events when it comes to art, music, sports and traditional "fests" (parties). We have listed some important events below, but you can find more on:
Perhaps most people associate Munich with beer and there certainly are a lot of breweries and beer halls in the city. But don't miss Munich's classic high-calorie everyday cooking! Haxe is knuckle of pork and it tastes good together with sauerkraut and "Knoedel" (dumplings). We also recommend apple strudel and custard or a Dampfnudel (a kind of cream bun with chocolate or vanilla custard) for dessert.
Paulaner am Nockerberg
Das Weinheim
Savoy Schwabing
Königlicher Hirschgarten
Waldwirtschaft Großhesselohe
Paulaner im Tal
35 milli(m)eter
Käfer Café Kunsthalle
Park Café
The café culture in Munich is rather exclusive. Particularly if you stick to the area around Marienplatz and Odeonsplatz. Most cafés are open from 10am and serve breakfast as well as warm meals.
Café am Beethovenplatz
Café Marais
Hard Rock Café Munich
Café Glockenspiel
Schmalznudel - Cafe Frischhut
Cotidiano - The Bakery Restaurant
Café Rischart
Café Fräulein
FORUM Restaurant - Café - Bar
Mary's Coffee Club
Cafe Luitpold
Two in one store and coffee
Café Schneewittchen
Aroma Kaffebar
Football celebrities, musicians and media elite, Munich's nightlife is swarming with celebrities. The city offers a large selection of very trendy bars & nightclubs.
Falk's Bar
Schumann´s Bar (near Hofgarten)
Cafe Cord
Harry Klein
089 Bar
Ksar Barclub
Mister B.'s
Für Freunde
Cafe Kosmos
Gärtnerplatzviertel (Gärtnerplatz district)
N.V. Handels
Call me Drella
Frisches Bier
Weinbar Griabig
Kilians Irish Pub
No city break is complete without a good long stroll through the shops. Munich offers absolutely ideal conditions for a great big splurge: haute couture in the Maximilianstrasse, Theatinerstrasse, Residenzstrasse and Brienner Strasse, department and chain stores in the pedestrian precinct, trendy and flamboyant clothes between many galleries in such town districts as the Gärtnerplatz and Glockenbach area, Haidhausen or Schwabing, Bavarian local costumes, handicrafts and souvenirs in specialist shops, delicacies from all over the world at Dallmayr's or Käfer's, the leading delicatessens in Europe, or at the Victuals Market in the heart of the city. Another typical feature of Munich is the number of small shops that concentrate on a few articles, for example, umbrellas, felt, gloves, candles or wood carvings, and which are still to be found in the centre of town.
Munich's ultra-chic shopping area additionally covers Perusastrasse, Residenzstrasse, Brienner Strasse and Odeonsplatz. You will discover gems in the shop belonging to the Nymphenburg Porcelain factory (Odeonsplatz 1), which has been based in Munich for over 250 years. In the district of purveyors to the court, where not only the Bavarian king was a customer, you can go on a regal shopping expedition – from porcelain, jewellery and select delicacies to high-quality shoes and clothing.
The recently opened "Maximilianshöfe" – Maximilian's court yards - will also carry you off into the world of international design. You can take a break from shopping in the columned hall of the former "Marstall" – the royal stables, as a new restaurant has been established in the classified historical building.
Outside the old town centre, for example in Schwabing, Haidhausen, around the Gärtnerplatz and in the Glockenbach area, the shops – and the customers – are quite obviously more unconventional. The Gärtnerplatz and the Glockenbach district are also ideal shopping areas for gays and lesbians. Shop ateliers, boutiques and concept stores, with many cafés and bars in between that are open during the day, invite you to go shopping, to look and enjoy yourself.
Bargain-hunters are in their element at flea markets and designer outlets, or they amuse themselves in search of curiosities and crockery, junk and antiques at an old Munich institution, the street market-cum-funfair called the Auer Dult (in May, July/August and October).
Stachus Passagen: surprisingly stylish and central
The Pedestrian Area
Alter Hof / Platzl
Viktualienmarkt / victuals market
Sendlinger Straße / im Tal
Fünf Höfe
Motel One
Bayerischer Hof
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski
Hotel am Platzl
Kings Hotel
Hotel Müller München
Derag Appartments
Haus International
Ao Hostels
Mandarin Oriental
Munich Airport (MUC) is about 40 kilometres north of the city. The quickest way to get there is by commuter train (S8 or S1), which take respectively 41 and 35 minutes from Hauptbahnhof. S1 starts running at 03.45 and there is one train every twenty minutes until 23.25. S8 starts its first journey at 03.18 and runs every twenty minutes until 00.38.
The Airport-City bus runs every twenty minutes from Hauptbahnhof (Busbahnhof, Arnulfstr.) and takes just over 40 minutes. Please notice, as the bus route goes via the Autobahn, there is heavy traffic every afternoon and it may take up to 2 hours to get to and from the airport. The first bus from the city centre leaves at 05.10 and the last one is at 19.50. Departures commence from MUC at 06.20 (start Terminal 2) and operates until 21.40. A taxi costs about € 60.
Website: www.munich-airport.de
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Internet café
Coffee Fellows
Adress: Schützenstr. 14, 80335 Munich
Tel: +49 89 59 94 68 18
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Tourist information
The tourist information at the town hall and the central station arrange hotel rooms, book city tours or give out city plans.
Address: Marienplatz 8 or Bahnhofsplatz 2
Website: https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/home_en/Tourist-Office/Service/Tourist-Info.html
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M-WLAN: Free WiFi at Munich open spaces
M-WLAN is for residents and tourists - or simply for anyone with a mobile internet device. It's for free and it's fairly easy to use at many well-visited places - for example Marienplatz, Odeonsplatz, Stachus or Münchner Freiheit. Just accept the terms of service (TOS) and go. You don't even have to register. You can simple surf the internet for one hour before you're automatically logged off. If you want to browse a couple of more pages - no problem. Just log right back into M-WLAN.
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Rental bicycles
For 8 cents / minute you can discover Munich by bicycle. 1200 bicycles are available at central locations. To use them, you have to download the cost-free app "MVG more" and register once.
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Public Transport
There is a large network of underground, commuter trains and buses centered around Marienplatz and Karlsplatz/Stachus. It functions excellently in the inner city and is considerably easier than trying to get around by car. A day pass for the entire MVV network (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund) costs € 13,00 and for the central city zone € 6,70. The "Munich City Tour Card" for € 12,90 gives you reductions in some hotels, shops and museums and is valid as a ticket for unlimited travel in the inner city.
Phone: +49 89 41 42 43 44
Website: www.mvv-muenchen.de
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All registered taxi drivers have a numbered identity card on display for passengers.
Taxi München eG.
+49 89 216 10
+49 89 45 05 40
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Stamps can be purchased from vending machines and in post offices, as well as in some kiosks. The main post office is on:
Address: Bahnhofplatz 1
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Country code: +49
Area code: (0)89
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