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IBM thinks these cognitive systems will connect to all of our other senses. You can read more about sight, smell, taste, and touch technology in this year's IBM 5 in 5.
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Feb. 13, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT (13-11) shrugged off a sluggish first half by posting a 51-point effort in the second as the Engineers rallied to defeat Lasell College (13-10), 76-68, in Rockwell Cage, Tuesday night. Sophomore Jimmy Bartolotta and freshman Erich Bracht served as double-double machines, with Bartolotta pacing the attack with a game-high 27 points, and a game and career-high 21 boards.
Bracht finished with 18 points and 14 rebounds and closed 6-of-6 at the free-throw line. The entire MIT team looked strong at the charity stripe, knocking down 26-of-27 of its free attempts. Senior Alex Krull led the team with eight free throws in as many chances. Krull shouldered Tech's offensive attack in the first half and finished with 25 points. Bartolotta enjoyed another dazzling performance, adding six assists, three blocks and two steals to the Engineers' totals.
Both teams struggled from the field during the first part of the tilt. MIT, which finished 0-of-14 from three-point range last Saturday, missed its first five shots from deep against the Lasers. Krull finally snapped the drought with a triple at 12:02 that gave the Engineers an 11-8 lead. Led by the inside presence of Jose Guitian, Lasell responded with a 12-2 run over the next four minutes to grab a seven-point lead.
Lasell stretch the lead to 27-19 with 1:54 remaining in the half, but the Cardinal and Gray scored six of the final eight points in the period to trail 29-25 at the break. Bartolotta delivered a great pass to Bracht for an easy lay-up in the final second.
MIT asserted control in the second half, although it would take six minutes before the Engineers grabbed their first lead of the half. After a lay-up by Bartolotta pushed MIT in front, 44-43, with 13:27 still on the board, the Engineers never looked back. Jude Biton canned mid-range jumpers on consecutive possessions to keep the Lasers within sight, but MIT slowly expanded the lead behind 56% shooting and an 18-of-18 performance from the free-throw line.
After Krull connected on his third three of the night, the Engineers pushed their lead to 60-50 with less than five minutes to go. The Lasers got as close as five with 2:15 left in regulation, but were unable to edge any closer thanks to MIT's perfect touch at the foul line.
Guitian roared out of the gate and finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds to pace Lasell. Junior Sanival added 14 points, Brad Carvoulias chipped in 12, and Dwayne Powell closed with 13 points and five assists. Jaime Crawford, who entered Tuesday's game averaging 19 points per game, was held to three points on 1-of-6 shooting.


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I'm a sucker for a handsome face. I like men with symmetrical features who are easy on the eye. No ruggedly handsome, craggy types with a two-day stubble and unkempt hair for me. My fantasy hero has a smooth jaw line that doesn't scratch my tender skin, a gorgeous face to match a well-toned body, and smells fresh enough to have stepped from the shower. He's confident and commanding and not afraid to love a woman. That's my type of man and the hero I created for DO ME GOOD.
The hero of DO ME GOOD, Gunnar, is my first otherworldly protagonist, and I admit I've developed a crush on him. He's a fearless Nordic warrior cast into eternal servitude during a time when mortals served gods and goddesses. He becomes a celestial in the pre-Christian period before those who interacted with both gods and mortals were called angels. Gunnar is a Nordic Light Elf and so handsome he is "fairer to look upon than the sun."
I hope you enjoy DO ME GOOD as much as I enjoyed creating this story. Here's a sample of the book with a summary and excerpt. Thanks for reading.
DO ME GOOD by Adele Dubois
Release Date: April 14, 2010, Ellora's Cave
Penny throws her hot, but worthless mooch of a boyfriend out on her front lawn with his clothes, and vows never again to be a bum magnet. Exhausted by overwork and mountainous debt, Penny pleads for divine intervention.
Gunnar, a rebellious Nordic warrior cast into servitude by an angry god to learn humility, answers. While Penny sleeps, the celestial arrives to complete her household chores, but she awakens and finds him. The handsome immortal kisses her, sparking a passionate, forbidden sexual encounter.
Dark forces seeking vengeance for Gunnar's past misdeeds mark Penny as a target. To protect his lover, Gunnar tests immortality in a death battle using a god's magical sword. But the strength of Penny's love might be what saves them both.
He smoothed the hair at her temple and then rubbed a thick tendril between his thumb and forefinger. "I am Gunnar." He pronounced the name "Goo-nar".
A coarse brand of the sun, surrounded by a circle on the back of his hand, and covering the areas between his thumb, index knuckle and wrist caught her eye. His hand looked muscular and powerful beneath her gaze.
She touched the scarred skin with the tips of her fingers while he held a length of her hair, recognizing Freyr's sacred insignia from her textbooks. "The pain must have been excruciating." Without thinking, she lifted the old wound to her mouth and laid four kisses against its perimeter before pressing a fifth to the emblem inside.
A low tremor vibrated across her lips as they touched the ancient symbol on the white, extended hand. The brand grew warm and then hot on her mouth, though it did not burn. Her lips tingled and her body hummed with the pleasant sensations. She ran her tongue over the thick scars to erase the heat and then licked the center with the tip of her tongue in a tiny swirl before lifting her head.
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"Have I offended you? I'm sorry." She searched his face for clues as to what to do next. Behind his shocked expression she found desire and longing and something completely unexpected.
Penny waited for his reply without letting go of his disfigured hand. She could tell his next words didn't come easily.
"Kindness isn't something I'm used to finding. Perhaps you'd be less inclined toward compassion if you knew what I'd done to deserve this brand of servitude."
She reached out and hooked her arm around his neck to bring his face closer to hers. "I am Penelope. And if you are from Alfheim, I know who and what you are. I just don't understand why you've come." How could she deserve his rare, benevolent gifts? She was just an ordinary woman, barely scraping by.
"Sometimes we get what we need, simply because we ask. That's the beauty and power of the unexpected." His warm breath grazed her cheek in shallow rushes, lifting goose bumps across her skin. His wide, firm mouth smelled of sweet ground parsley and fresh-picked mint.
Their gazes locked and held, assessing, appraising.
Gunnar's eyes were like pools of deep blue water speckled with light that pulled her in and down. Down. Her breathing slowed as the sound of her heartbeat intensified in her ears and the inside of her mouth moistened. She licked her lips and became intensely aware of every nerve ending shimmering along her body. Her muscles tensed as if waiting for something unexpected to happen.
As if meeting a Nordic Light Elf in the flesh wasn't amazing enough.
Just when she wondered how his mouth would taste, he brought his lips to hers and kissed her. An explosion of kinetic energy shot vibrations through her body that prickled every fiber and muscle, held her taut and then released, leaving her breathless
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1. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoRamesh Reddy May 17, 2012 10:27 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
Please use Teiid Designer 7.7 and see if you can replicate the error. Then post the details for any further resolutions. Sometimes these errors may already have been solved in later releases.
2. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 18, 2012 7:24 AM (in response to Ramesh Reddy)
Thanks Ramesh,
Teiid designer 7.7 works fine for me. Now I am able to create VDB and war file using JBossWS-CXF war option in eclipse, but while deploying both in JBoss 5.1.0 GA server and tried to start server, following exception occurs.
Caused by: org.jboss.ws.WSException: Cannot build meta data: Could not find QualVDB.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.java:73)
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.start(UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.java:64)
at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:129)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:76)
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.AbstractWebServiceDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractWebServiceDeployer.java:60)
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)
... 24 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find QualVDB.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!
at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.ArchiveDeploymentImpl.getMetaDataFileURL(ArchiveDeploymentImpl.java:143)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSProviderMetaDataBuilder.buildProviderMetaData(JAXWSProviderMetaDataBuilder.java:125)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.setupProviderOrWebService(JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.java:55)
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.java:61)
... 30 more
03:43:41,899 WARN [HDScanner] Failed to process changes
org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.IncompleteDeploymentException: Summary of incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS):
*** DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR: Name -> Error
vfszip:/E:/Teiid%20Utility/Teiid%20Utility/jboss-5.1.0.GA/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/QualVDB.war/ -> org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException:.
Ramesh, my requirement is to retrieve the above webservice response through SOAP UI.
3. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoRamesh Reddy May 18, 2012 8:44 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Yes, your requirement can be met. The WAR file needs JDK for compilation purposes, are you using JDK to run the JBoss AS? Or using simple JRE without the javac?
4. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 20, 2012 12:40 AM (in response to Ramesh Reddy)
Ramesh, I used jdk 1.6 version and tryed to deploy war file.
5. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 21, 2012 7:02 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
Let me explain all about the Teiid Webservice, what I was trying using Teiid 7.7.0 and Eclipse Indigo.
My WSDL file looks like this: (My wsdl comprises of xsd references such as *.xsd, *Message.xsd, *Data.xsd)
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:tns=".../ServiceCode**/2011_08_11" xmlns:err="..." xmlns:pmns="http://.../xsd/ServiceCode**ServiceMessage/2011_08_11" xmlns:ns="http://.../xsd/***/2011_08_11" xmlns:ns2=".../xsd/ServiceCode****ServiceData/2011_08_11" targetNamespace=".../services/ServiceCode***-v1/2011_08_11">
<wsdl:types> ... </wsdl:types>
<wsdl:message .... </wsdl:message>
<wsdl:portType name=..
<wsdl:operation name=...
<wsdl:binding name=..
<soap:binding style=..
<wsdl:operation name=..
<wsdl:service name=..
<wsdl:port name=..
<soap:address location=..
Here we have xmls and corresponding xsds, xmls contains complex data(with in parent tag, lots of child tag present and data kept in the hirerchy format from parent to child tags).
Task: To import different WSDL and demonstrate webservice response through SOAP UI.
Steps we performed:
- Create a model project in Teiid
- Import wsdl into that.
- Create a relational model from that wsdl
- Map the request and response data into that relational model
- Here we got 2 xmi, one is for source and another is for view.
- Now from view xmi, select create webservice, where the it generated flat xsds, webservice model etc
- Then create vdb file from that newly created webservice
- Now i created one instance by configuring Teiid Admin connection, Teiid JDBC connection.
- Then I deploy the VDB file in JBoss application Server
- Now generate JbossWS-CXF war using VDB file
- Deploy vdb and war file in JBoss AS and access through SOAP UI with endpoints
Ramesh, please confirm wheather these are the right approach for tha above task.
Exception we are getting:
While deploying War file(using Generate JBossWS-CXF war oprion) in JBOss application server,
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException.rethrowAsDeploymentException(DeploymentException.java:49)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:177)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doDeploy(DeployersImpl.java:1439)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.doInstallParentFirst(DeployersImpl.java:1157)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.install(DeployersImpl.java:1098)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1631)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:934)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:984)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:822)\par
at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:553)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployersImpl.process(DeployersImpl.java:781)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.main.MainDeployerImpl.process(MainDeployerImpl.java:702)\par
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.MainDeployerAdapter.process(MainDeployerAdapter.java:117)\par
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.scan(HDScanner.java:362)\par
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner.run(HDScanner.java:255)\par
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)\par
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)\par
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)\par
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)\par
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:181)\par
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:205)\par
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)\par
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)\par
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)\par
Caused by: org.jboss.ws.WSException: Cannot build meta data: Could not find QualVDB.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!\par
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.java:73)\par
at org.jboss.wsf.stack.jbws.UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.start(UnifiedMetaDataDeploymentAspect.java:64)\par
at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.deploy(DeploymentAspectManagerImpl.java:129)\par
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:76)\par
at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss50.deployer.AbstractWebServiceDeployer.internalDeploy(AbstractWebServiceDeployer.java:60)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployer.helpers.AbstractRealDeployer.deploy(AbstractRealDeployer.java:50)\par
at org.jboss.deployers.plugins.deployers.DeployerWrapper.deploy(DeployerWrapper.java:171)\par
... 24 more\par
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find QualVDB.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!\par
at org.jboss.wsf.framework.deployment.ArchiveDeploymentImpl.getMetaDataFileURL(ArchiveDeploymentImpl.java:143)\par
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSProviderMetaDataBuilder.buildProviderMetaData(JAXWSProviderMetaDataBuilder.java:125)\par
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.setupProviderOrWebService(JAXWSServerMetaDataBuilder.java:55)\par
at org.jboss.ws.metadata.builder.jaxws.JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.buildMetaData(JAXWSMetaDataBuilderJSE.java:61)\par
... 30 more\par
Please suggest any resolution for this issue.
6. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoRamesh Reddy May 21, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
The steps are correct. The error shows above is "Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not find QualVDB.wsdl in the additional metadatafiles!\par", can you check the WAR file for the WSDL? Also, this feature requires that you install JBoss-CXF in JBoss AS.
7. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 22, 2012 8:20 AM (in response to Ramesh Reddy)
8. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoTed Jones May 22, 2012 1:44 PM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
That is an old error from a few releases back. When you upgrade Teiid Designer it is recommended that you use a fresh install of Eclipse and then install the Teiid Designer bits. The older versions of the Teiid Designer jars are not cleaned up if you try to upgrade by overlaying and can lead to some quirky bevavior such as this. If, in fact, you are using a clean Eclipse environment before installing Teiid Designer, can you please attach your WAR and or Model Project set so that we can try to reproduce?
9. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 30, 2012 10:59 AM (in response to Ted Jones)
I have taken a fresh Teiid designer and also using a fresh Eclipse, but the issue remained same.
So I am attaching my view(Model Project) created from WSDL, which can give more clarity on the problem issue.
Please take a look on that view, and suggest me if any resolution finds.
10. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoTed Jones May 30, 2012 11:39 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
Just so that I fully understand your use case...
1.) You have a web service that you want to expose relationally in Teiid
a.) You import the WSDL into Designer using the WSDL to Source importer and create physical and view models
2.) You then want to expose the generated models as a web service
a.) You generate web service models from the models generated in step 1
b.) You generate a WAR
Is this correct? If so, I have to ask if the WAR requirement is really a hard requirement or just a route you are taking to connect to the underlying web service?
If it is a requirement to have a web service war exposing the web service, I would add a view table on top of the wrapper procedure and generate the web service model from that.
If the requirement is just to access the underlying web service, you can just use the models generated from step 1 directly.
11. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 30, 2012 1:18 PM (in response to Ted Jones)
Thanks Ted, for your prompt reply.
The attachment in above was really a view model, generated from existing WSDL.
The steps you mentioned are right, once view model is generated then I selected, Modelling->Create Webservice option,
because I want to demonstrate the newly created webservice using SOAP UI.
In order to achieve this functionality, I have to create war using JBoss-CXF and then deploy that war in JBoss AS and the access that
webservice using SOAP UI and to get Proper response. This is my plan for webservice.
So please suggest me, is there any other way to achieve the above functionality apart from creating war file and deploying the same in JBOss AS
12. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar May 31, 2012 8:22 AM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
Hi Ted,
Did you get any resolution, for the above issue, as the issue remained un resolved.
13. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoTed Jones May 31, 2012 1:04 PM (in response to Saurendra Kumar)
Your view model only has a request and response document. Also, I noticed you generated in MESSAGE mode, was that your intention? MESSAGE mode is used when you need to add SOAP Header values to the SOAP Envelope, otherwise you just need PAYLOAD. You also need a "wrapper" procedure that ties the two procedures together and returns a relational table. If you can give me your WSDL, I will generate that for you, otherwise you can get the latest here: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/nightly/soa-tooling/3.3.x.Nightly/2012-05-31_05-53-31-H54/all/repo/ and do it yourself. Once you have that procedure, you can put a virtual table around it that is source by the procedure and generate your web service from that.
14. Re: Error while creating webservice in Teiid designer 7.5 and eclipse indigoSaurendra Kumar Jun 1, 2012 5:53 AM (in response to Ted Jones)
Hi Ted,
Please find the attached WSDL, please create webservice and wrapper procedure, and also tell me how to access that using SOAP UI.
myFirstService.wsdl.zip 927 bytes


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Listening to pundits and some Republican advocates, I keep hearing the opinion that big money authorized by the Citizens United Supreme Court decision will not really make a difference in politics. When I hear this, I am reminded of a common saying I've heard for many years: "Money talks and BS walks."
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The power of money has been amply displayed, along with its effectiveness, by the public relations program put on by British Petroleum. There are a constant series of ads touting how well Gulf Coast states are doing since the terrible oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Slick and beautiful TV ads claim that never before have Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama done better than they have since the disastrous oil spill. Unfortunately, it's a one-sided fight. Advocates of the ecology do not have the wherewithal to compete with such a well-orchestrated and well-funded public relations program. No one is telling the story of how many estuaries and hatching grounds for sea life have been destroyed or what impact the residual chemicals placed in the Gulf of Mexico will have on supplies of seafood, game fish or recreation well into the future.
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Timestamp Average
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Timestamp Average
Works with PostgreSQL
Written in
Depends on
Here is the code to efficiently compute an average of a timestamp column. I've only tested this on 9.1, but it will probably work on earlier versions as well. Note, you'll need to cast the column to a plain timestamp (e.g. SELECT avg(tstz_col AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') FROM mytable) in order to use it with columns of type 'timestamp with time zone'.
Author: Josh Kupershmidt
-- In order to have a reasonably efficient accumulator -- function, we need a state variable keeping a running -- total of seconds since the epoch, along with the number -- of elements processed already. CREATE TYPE ts_accum_typ AS ( running_total numeric, num_elems bigint ); -- Accumulator function. Keep a running total of the -- number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01), as well -- as the number of elements we have processed already. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ts_accum (existing ts_accum_typ, newval TIMESTAMP) RETURNS ts_accum_typ AS $$ DECLARE retval ts_accum_typ; BEGIN IF newval IS NULL THEN RETURN existing; END IF; IF existing IS NULL THEN retval.running_total = EXTRACT(epoch FROM newval); retval.num_elems = 1; RETURN retval; ELSE existing.running_total = existing.running_total + EXTRACT(epoch FROM newval); existing.num_elems = existing.num_elems + 1; RETURN existing; END IF; END; $$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL IMMUTABLE; -- Final function for the timestamp 'avg' aggregate. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ts_avg (existing ts_accum_typ) RETURNS TIMESTAMP AS $$ DECLARE since_epoch numeric; BEGIN -- Handle the case when avg() is called with no rows: answer should be NULL. IF existing IS NULL THEN RETURN NULL; END IF; since_epoch = existing.running_total / existing.num_elems; RETURN TO_TIMESTAMP(since_epoch); END; $$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL IMMUTABLE; CREATE AGGREGATE AVG (TIMESTAMP) ( sfunc = ts_accum, stype = ts_accum_typ, finalfunc = ts_avg );


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Skype Accused Of Handing Out Private Info To Private Company
from the massive-fail dept
The security firm, iSIGHT, was hired by PayPal to investigate the attacks, and an employee of the company reached out to Skype seeking information about one user who he thought might be involved. And Skype coughed up the info -- including username, real name, email address and home address -- no questions asked. As the article notes, there was no court order or anything like that. Just a guy from a private company asking and Skype said, "sure, here's all the info."
There are questions about whether this move violated some European privacy directives. At the very least it seems clear that it violated Skype's own policies, which include not providing customer data unless required by law, or if official law enforcement is involved. In this case, neither thing is true. One hopes that this is just a one-off mistake by Skype, but it's worrying nonetheless.


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The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, commissioned to rethink the east campus at LACMA, continues to provide new insight into the meaning and function of an encyclopedic museum and the relationship of architecture to its site. The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, an exhibition that was on view at the museum through September 15, 2013, presented the future of the museum's campus through a detailed examination of the museum's buildings within the complicated history of Hancock Park. The exhibition highlighted Zumthor's preliminary plans for a new building to house the permanent collection, and included several large models built by the architect's studio.
The exhibition also presented key projects in Zumthor's career that are relevant to his vision for LACMA: the Therme Vals in Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, and the Kolumba Art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese in Germany. These projects have resulted in Zumthor winning the highest accolades in the field of architecture, including The Pritzker Prize (2009) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2013). Together, these examples elucidate key aspects of Zumthor's practice – his interest in the geologic history of the site; his passion for materials, craftsmanship, and sensory experience; and his commitment to an architecture of total integration.
The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. This collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together seventeen cultural institutions for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of the city as a whole, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city's development and ongoing impact in new ways. Learn more.
The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and major support for the exhibition was provided by the Getty Foundation and Hyundai Motor America. This exhibition was also made possible in part by LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Director's Endowment Fund.
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Images: Installation views, The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, June 9—September 15, 2013, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Photo © 2013 Museum Associates/LACMA.
The Museum, Reimagined
The Museum, Reimagined is a film by Lucy Walker. It presents a conversation between architect Peter Zumthor and Michael Govan, Wallis Annenberg Director and CEO at LACMA, about Zumthor's concept for a new building to house LACMA's permanent collection.
Michael Govan on Reconsidering LACMA with Peter Zumthor
This week may turn out to be a historic moment for LACMA and Los Angeles County if indeed we proceed with the new museum plan that we have sketched out with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, and that we are exhibiting in The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA—opening to members on Thursday and to the public on Sunday, and presented under the auspices of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time Presents series of architecture exhibitions. To complement the other, more historical shows that are part of that initiative, ours is a glimpse of a potential future for architecture in Los Angeles.
The History (and Future) of a Museum in a Park
In planning The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, we decided to begin our story with the famed La Brea Tar Pits. While it may seem unusual to start an architectural history in the Ice Age, we were inspired by Zumthor's deep investigation of his project sites. We soon found that LACMA's unique location has impacted its buildings almost from the very beginning…


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Lewiston resident and TAM Ceramics owner Jerry Williams lambasted Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours at Monday's Village of Lewiston Board of Trustees meeting, questioning the company's existence in the River Region and claiming its operators have not fulfilled the obligations of their lease agreement.
"I don't understand what benefit he brings," Williams said of WJBT President John Kinney.
"I think this board needs to terminate the lease," he added.
WJBT operates off docks located on Water Street through a 40-year lease with the Village of Lewiston. When the Village of Lewiston received this waterfront land from the state of New York in 1994, Williams said the municipality was not entitled to lease that property to a for-profit entity. He cited the 1972 Court of Appeals of New York public trust case Lake George Steamboat Co. Inc., et al. v. Robert M. Blais, et al., as trustees of the Village of Lake George.
In that case, an Article 78 proceeding was initiated to bring about the discontinuance of privately used village dock facilities. The Court of Appeals ruled the village had no authority to make an agreement with a for-profit organization, writing the "village received the lands for public use and could not lease dock and related facilities to privately owned corporation which operated sight-seeing boats."
Williams also cited the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, ruling in the matter of James M. Kenney, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Garden City, et al. The court held that "public trust for recreational uses was impressed upon property, precluding its lease to private commercial entity."
In an e-mail response, Kinney wrote, "WJBT owns commercial property in the Lewiston waterfront. The property has been used commercially for over 100 years. WJBT operations on the Niagara River and in the Lewiston waterfront are 100 percent legal."
Moreover, in a phone call to the Sentinel, Kinney said Williams' point here "is moot" because "we own land there" (purchased from the Turgeon family in 2002).
Kinney said WJBT, technically speaking, really doesn't need a lease agreement, as it operates off its own property. In fact, he said, those riding a jet boat have to cross over WJBT property to enter on to village land. But, "We don't want to inhibit the public access," he said.
Newly appointed Village of Lewiston Attorney Edward Jesella said he hadn't been privy to the Village of Lewiston's lease agreement with WJBT, but would look into the matter.
Shoreline Damage?
Williams said the jet boats are creating a conflict with recreational boaters. Williams is, himself, a recreational boater.
"There's a constant hammering of our shoreline," he said, adding, "Environmental disasters happen slowly. That's why they're environmental disasters."
To this charge, Kinney wrote, "During WJBT 2007 lease renewal with the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, WJBT was mandated to fund a study relating to shoreline erosion. The study was conducted by Urban & Environmental Management. UEM is Niagara's leading firm relating to the Niagara River Gorge. The study clearly and scientifically shows that the greatest forms of erosion on the Niagara River and Lake Ontario are from the effects of the raising and lowering cycles of the power plants and the impacts of wind-generated waves and ice scour on the shorelines. The greatest areas of erosion were found along Lake Ontario at Niagara Shores Park off Lake Shore Road and the Lake Ontario shoreline east of Fort Niagara. The commonality of these two areas beside having tremendous erosion is that jet boats do not operate in these areas of significant erosion. The areas where jet boats do operate were found to have minimal or no erosion. The results of this study were found to be consistent with studies conducted by the New York State Power Authority."
Unpaid Bills?
Next, Williams said WJBT does not pay its lease agreement on time, or in full. Village records obtained by the Sentinel indicate WJBT has no outstanding balance. According to the village's records, WJBT is paid in full as of April 30.
The Village of Lewiston entered into a contract with WJBT in 1996. That lease agreement was revised and modified in 2002. Accordingly, WJBT is to pay a base rent of $10,000 this year and next (plus 1.25 percent of jet boating sales, up to a maximum of $25,000) and then $15,000 (plus 1.5 percent/up to $32,000) through May 1, 2017. The maximum rent expands to $40,000 for years 2018-22. At that point, WJBT can opt out of the lease agreement, or continue through May 1, 2042.
Kinney responded by writing, "WJBT is currently working with the Village of Lewiston to improve the waterfront in Lewiston for village residents, local boaters, and the visiting public. Over the last 13 years WJBT has paid the Village of Lewiston over $250,000 in lease payments for property which WJBT owns. WJBT has also paid the property taxes on this property. In June, WJBT made a proposal to the village to jointly improve the waterfront. The proposal maintains the revenues enjoyed by the village in our current agreement in spite of the property ownership matters.
"It has been about 35 years since the Lewiston waterfront has had a 'face-lift.' As the president of WJBT and the owner of the Water Street Landing property, my objective is to enhance Lewiston's waterfront and grow the business and employment opportunities WJBT believes are available to the village."
Not Giving Back?
Williams also asserted WJBT is not a good neighbor in terms of contributing back to the community.
"I don't know if he (Kinney) provides any massive economic (contribution to the) village," Williams said. "I see buses come in, and buses go out."
"Does he give any money back to the community?" he asked.
Kinney said WJBT does, in fact, bolster the local economy.
"WJBT has consistently sponsored Artpark, Peach, and Jazz festivals, and countless fundraisers for medical and social causes," he wrote. "Our generosity has been acknowledged by the Artpark board, the Village of Lewiston, the NTCC (Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp.), and multitudes of private causes."
Not Hiring Locals?
Williams said, "This guy doesn't hire anybody (locally)," and suggested all of the WJBT workers live in Canada and are boated over to Lewiston each working day.
Kinney said, "Just like the Maid of the Mist, WJBT are Canadian registered vessels. Under maritime law, the crews of vessels must be from the country of origin of the vessel. That being said, WJBT and Water Street Landing (a restaurant WJBT owns) employ about 50-60 staff from Lewiston and Western NY that support our boating operations and restaurant facility."
Other residents have intimated to the Sentinel that Kinney subverts customs and immigration checkpoints.
That's not true, Kinney wrote.
"As it relates to border security, I don't think it would surprise anyone that U.S. Customs and Border Protection take their job very seriously. Every member of the WJBT is pre-screened by USCBP and must be interviewed at U.S. Immigration prior to crossing the river by boat. Every time the boat crosses the river, the crew on board must be reported to U.S. and Canadian Customs and Immigration. Furthermore, WJBT assists U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard in border security matters. Recent examples of this include WJBT's identification of fugitive Bucky Phillips' attempt to enter Canada by raft in the Niagara Gorge. By alerting U.S. and Canadian authorities of Phillips inflating a raft on the U.S. shoreline within the gorge, Phillips had to abort his attempt to cross into Canada and elude U.S. authorities. Also, just two weeks ago, two persons operating a motorized 'zodiac' flipped their boat in the rapids, and were turned over to the USCG, Niagara County Sheriff, U.S. Border Patrol and Lewiston Police by WJBT."
Next Steps
Lewiston Mayor Terry Collesano said his board would re-assess the village's relationship with WJBT.
"At this time, we are in negotiations with (Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours)," he said.
Without going into specific detail, Jesella said municipal decisions were made prior to his appointment that "I would never have allowed.
"Now we have to unravel what was done."
Kinney said WJBT has hired an independent land surveyor to assess the property lines and tax mapping related to his business. He said his company is in the news as a result of the state's 20-year easement lease with the Village of Lewiston. That agreement ended on July 18.
Regardless of lease agreements, or lack thereof, Kinney said WJBT "would like to work collaboratively with the village" to create a better Lewiston waterfront -- and waterfront experience -- for both residents and tourists.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Rob McAndrew '05 became the first player in the history of the men's volleyball program to be inducted into the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) Hall of Fame. Although he only played during his junior and senior years, he earned NECVA New England Division Co-Player of the Year accolades and led the Engineers to their first of seven straight NECVA Championship Tournament appearances.
McAndrew graduated as MIT's all-time leader in kills (968), kills in a season (488), kills per set in a season (4.95), block assists in a season (109), total blocks in a season (135), and career blocks per set (1.29). He continues to hold the records for career kills per set (4.91), kills in a match and five-set match (38), total blocks in a match and four-set match (15), and total blocks in a five-set match (12).
McAndrew also earned top-10 rankings at MIT in the following categories:
- Hitting percentage (career and season)
- Total blocks (career)
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- Blocks per set (season)
- Digs (career and season)
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- Aces (career and season)
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Check out the video below of the NECVA Hall of Fame induction ceremony.


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As executives strive to meet profitability targets in this new world, they face a constant drumbeat to reduce costs across the enterprise. In a recent survey of data management professionals working in capital markets, Accenture and Greenwich Associates found that the costs and impacts associated with poor data quality are underestimated at best and sometimes ignored entirely.
Make no mistake: Data quality issues are affecting the top and bottom lines of firms across the industry. Pre-crisis underinvestment in data quality now poses a threat to post-crisis control, costs, and future growth and expansion. High capital ratios, changes in risk-weighted asset levels and increasingly stringent regulatory reporting rules are profoundly impacting business fundamentals. Meanwhile, bad data quality is limiting the ability of banks to act decisively and respond effectively.
Sources: Accenture Research, Burton-Taylor International Consulting, LLC
of firms indicate data quality affects costs
actively measure the cost of bad data
understand the problem but cannot quantify the cost
Give your CDO the authority and tools to tackle the problem.
Source: Accenture Research, Greenwich Associates
Results from our recent study suggest that data quality is a much larger issue than you might think.1 Although 70 percent of firms cite data quality as their biggest day-to-day issue, barely 11 percent track or measure the cost of bad data. In other words, most firms have no way of knowing the true impact of bad data on their business performance.
There are many examples of enterprise-wide data initiatives being abandoned due to cost or insufficient benefit. Throwing money at the problem has proved unfruitful, yet more than a third of survey respondents are still projecting increases in their data and processing costs. There seems to be a considerable gap between data quality issues and potential solutions. It's time to stop grasping at straws. No single initiative will solve the problem. A broad, holistic approach is the answer.
Many initiatives disappoint because they fail to truly comprehend the problem they are trying to solve. There remains a serious disconnect between the perceptions of business owners, or data users, and internal data solution providers. All too often, users are complaining about the consistency, completeness, structural integrity or functionality of the enterprise's data solutions at the same time that internal data providers are claiming to have built a best-in-class solution.
Just 17 percent of firms that participated in our survey reportedly develop their data management strategies directly in response to the needs of the business. Many approach the challenge as simply an IT or operations issue, completely ignoring the underlying business needs. Others believe that data quality is a matter of governance, but like other issues in the investment banking industry, the problem runs much deeper. Data quality needs to be viewed as an enterprise-wide business challenge impacting all parts of the firm's operations. Virtually all calculations performed by the firm, from capital allocation to regulatory reporting, must have a margin of error built in to account for bad data.
70% of firms indicate data quality affects costs
11% actively measure the cost of bad data
59% understand the problem but cannot quantify the cost
Source: Accenture Research, Greenwich Associates
A chief data officer (CDO) can be the key to success here, assuming the role is well defined. Virtually every bank has a CDO in place, but there seems to be no industry-wide consensus on what that role should entail, with some firms treating it as an IT function and others viewing it as highly theoretical (setting policy without veering into execution).
Specifically, the CDO should have control of the entire data lifecycle—one of the primary barriers to achieving efficiency across the organization. With those elements in place, the CDO can focus on:
Governance: Creating an effective control framework for defining and executing policy throughout the firm.
Business solutions: Identifying strategic and tactical tasks that will drive business value while improving data quality.
Rationalization and efficiency: Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve processes and reduce operational waste.
Innovation: Finding the hidden value in data that has been plagued by quality issues.
The first step a CDO should undertake is to create a strategy or approach that is practical, tactical and focused on business challenges. Forty-seven percent of firms in our survey find it difficult to deliver solutions that can adapt to the evolving requirements of their businesses, mainly because their data management strategies are not driven by business needs. Too often, we see a rush to action, with a focus on potential solutions: implement this EDM package, plug in this utility or define a firm-wide taxonomy. To be clear: none of these options is inherently bad, but they all fail to address the issue at hand.
Rather than trying to address data needs with a one-size-fits-all approach, careful consideration must be given to the challenges and best practices in each business vertical. Viewing data as an asset instead of a liability can help firms manage it appropriately and see new ways to extract its hidden value.
At this point, the CDO becomes instrumental in driving business priorities for data solutions and securing sponsorship across the firm. To achieve measurable business benefits, the enterprise must take concrete steps to increase data quality instead of embarking on ambitious programs that fail before completion or struggle to deliver the promised results.
One of the biggest obstacles to improving data quality is finding an effective way to measure it. Most often, firms estimate data quality based on the impact of data errors on their business (e.g., trading errors and regulatory fines). What they really need is an objective way to measure quality that fits within the capabilities of their organization.
Analytics can unlock that metric and shed light on how to improve data procedures. Firms can use analytics to understand which processes use which data, who purchases data and from whom, and where processing bottlenecks exist. Advanced analytics can be incorporated throughout the data management lifecycle to generate data-driven insights for advanced monitoring and running of core operations.
When confronted with a data quality challenge, the sheer volume of issues can be daunting— especially when data cleansing costs are fully quantified. The typical solution for repetitive and non-subjective tasks is low-cost business process outsourcing (BPO), but these jobs are prone to error, often require knowledge of in-house processes and/or systems, and are subject to processing peaks and troughs. Investment banks need a scalable, flexible and sustainable solution.
Robotic process automation has the potential to fundamentally change how the world and companies in it operate. Oxford University predicts that 35 percent or more of US jobs could be automated in the next 10 to 20 years.2 Organizations that have already adopted robotic process automation solutions are driving the change, using robotics technology to eliminate human error from key processes and reduce processing costs by up to 80 percent.
With the right support, CDOs can be data champions and catalysts. They can help resolve data quality issues by driving pragmatic and cost-effective change in a reference data program and using that success to build a culture of quality throughout the organization.
But, it all starts at the top of the house. Chief operating officers (COOs) at investment banks can begin to tackle the data challenge by asking themselves some key questions:
How much did bad data cost our firm last year? If an answer is not available and a reliable estimate is not even possible, it is time to take action.
Do we have a CDO to manage this issue? If not, the time is now.
Does our CDO have the tools and mandate to succeed? If not, what steps can we take to provide that support?
Let's be clear: The journey to quality data is long, but the steps mentioned above can help ensure that firms are well positioned to reach that goal.
1 https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-reference-data-management-capital-markets
2 http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
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BAFTA-winning short filmmaker Hattie Dalton makes an auspicious feature debut with this poignant but still screamingly funny paean to making the most of life while you still can. James invites his three closest friends to join him on a road trip to his favourite place in the world.
Like many an impulsive group holiday, however, the undertaking proves fraught with practical difficulties, surreal encounters and emotionally ravaging revelations... With a vibrant, witty and insightful script by Vaughan Sivell, and a quartet of excellent lead performances from the UK's finest young actors, this is a moving, pertinent and unpredictable film, and a fantastic showcase of new and promising British film talent.


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Stand-Up Paddleboard Workout: Apparel Executive Has Board, Will Travel
Anne Wiper of Colorado Prefers Playing in the Water to the Mountains
Anne Wiper may live in the Colorado Rockies, but the apparel executive prefers playing in the water to the mountains. When she travels, her stand-up paddleboard goes with her.
Ms. Wiper, vice president of product for SmartWool, an outdoor apparel brand based in Steamboat Springs, Colo., got hooked on the sport six years while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos. "I remember the first time I went. I looked down and saw a lemon shark nursery," she says....


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Vera Wang has opened up about the breakdown of her marriage to Arthur Becker, saying, "We were like the original 'When Harry Met Sally.' " In a "Fashion Icons" discussion with Fern Mallis hosted by the 92nd Street Y and Martini Sparkling Wines, Wang said despite their separation after 23 years, she remains very close to Becker, with whom she has two daughters, Cecilia and Josephine. Vera referred to Arthur as "my husband," telling Mallis, "He is someone that will always be in my life." Their shocking split last July led to speculation that he would have to leave his role as an adviser to her wildly successful business. But Wang — likening their relationship to the iconic couple played by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal who worried sex would ruin their longtime friendship in the 1989 Nora Ephron romantic comedy — told Mallis, "He's never not been a part of the business." She also dashed chatter of an affair with Olympic skater Evan Lysacek, which was sparked when he stayed at her Beverly Hills mansion last summer, branding it a "rumor" and adding she was just his mentor. Wang, who wed Becker at 39, had previously described herself as "the girl nobody thought would ever get married," confessing she used to "live" in the Vogue closet and at Studio 54. She explained, "I couldn't get a husband, but I could get into a nightclub." When she went into business for herself, she said a big turning point was the 2005 CFDA Awards when she won "Womenswear Designer of the Year." Wang explained, "My daughters did not come. I didn't want them to cry if I lost like they did when Michelle Kwan lost at the Olympics. But I was sitting next to Anna Wintour, and she said, 'Get your daughters here . . . I don't sit with losers.' She didn't know I was going to win, no, but she had a very good feeling it was my moment. And it was a moment. That was my moment. She actually sent for my children to come, it was the nicest thing."
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After all the tedious stripping, bodywork, primer-blocking, and then laying down the paint, the true reward is only gained after the cut and polish is completed. In the old days, the process was called burnishing, and it meant taking an abrasive to a surface until perfectly smooth and flat, and then polishing it to a mirror finish. In the world of custom automotive finishes, the cut and polish job is the route to those show-stopping paint finishes that are the envy of all.
Although it takes considerable skill to achieve a beautifully polished paint finish, it's a skill that can be quickly mastered by those willing to put in the effort. The list of equipment required is relatively short, with the only specialized item being the paint buffer itself. As the terminology implies, a cut-and-polish effort is really two separate tasks, the first being to sand the freshly cured paint, followed by the polishing process.
It might seem drastic to take sandpaper to that gleaming fresh paint, but that's just how the job begins--with wet-sanding of the surface. Specialty sandpaper of a very fine grit is used, which creates sanding scratches of minimal depth so that they can be polished out in the buffing process. There's no question that a variety of paint sins can be improved by the cut-and-polish process, but it holds true that the better the quality of the finish "off-the-gun," the better the final results. Ideally, we would recommend the finest paper practical for the sanding process, but if the finish is showing fairly heavy texture, or "orange-peel," beginning with a coarser paper may be the only practical choice. Generally speaking, 1,000 grit is the coarsest normally used for wet-sanding the finish, while 1,500 is the norm, and as fine as 2,000 grit is preferred by some.
During the sanding process, it's important to keep the surface wet and cleared of sanding debris. An ample supply of water is required, most commonly supplied by a large sponge and bucket. Use a small amount of dish soap in the water to help lubricate the surface, and work the sandpaper in long, consistent strokes. To improve leveling, it's advisable to use a flexible hand pad, or block, to back up the sandpaper, rather than working the surface by hand. The objective is to get a perfectly smooth and flat surface, devoid of any gloss. It's impossible to tell if the paint is sufficiently sanded while the surface is still wet since the water will impart a false gloss to the paint. The procedure is to sand, wipe dry, and check, and then sand some more or move on.
Polishing is the process of bringing back the luster and shine of the paint, which has been made dull by sanding. To do so the surface of the paint is evenly polished down until all the surface is below the level of the sanding scratches and perfectly smooth. Although many painters have their own favorite techniques, processes, and materials, the most common approach includes two steps: a coarse rubbing-compound cut, followed by a fine-polishing compound or glaze. The compounding cut is usually done with a coarser-texture pad on the buffer, and the objective is to remove the bulk of the sanding scratches, quickly taking the paint down to a relatively smooth shine.
The aggressive action of the compound, however, isn't fine enough for the brilliant and smooth show-car finish we're after and typically shows distinct swirl marks in the paint surface. To correct this, we have a second stage of the polishing effort. The finishing compound, or glaze, is a much finer compound and removes a minimum of paint material, while polishing the surface to a brilliant shine. Normally, a much finer polishing bonnet is used for this step. Follow along as we work through all of the cutting and polishing steps on our recently painted aftermarket L88 hood.


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A few big-picture, more-or-less inchoate ideas:Stephen Carlson wrote:Well, the typical approach to making intermediate grammars is to abridge earlier reference grammars, so without any recent activity on the reference grammar front, I fear that new intermediate grammars are unlikely to be up-to-date. To make an up-to-date intermediate grammar, I think one would pretty much need to do the work for a real reference, so why not go for the big ring?David M. Miller wrote:It seems to me that there is a real need for an up-to-date intermediate grammar that gets at how Greek works, and that avoids categories based merely on English translation or on context. To be sure, we need a reference grammar as well http://hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2013/01/ ... ratum.html, but that sort of thing tends to be the work of a life-time; an intermediate level textbook is a more realistic option. Who is up for the challenge?
But while we're waiting for one to be produced, here we can at least speculate what should go into such a work.
(1) Structure: Instead of patterning the grammar around some ideal language system (e.g., the noun system, prepositions, the verbal system, discourse), the book should be student-centered. By that I mean, concepts should be introduced so as to help students who are actively reading Hellenistic Greek. I have typically had my Syntax students work through a chapter or so from Luke's Gospel during the semester, with the reading forming a syntactical sand-box. This time around, I'd like to include more reading, and focus more on reading than on the grammar. As everyone gets up-to-speed after the summer break, I plan to begin with conjunctions (drawing on Runge's chapter 2) because there is an immediate discourse pay-off. From there we might move to prepositions (cf. Nunn), since neither conjunctions nor prepositions change form. Once students have had a chance to review their rusty first-year morphology, we can return to nouns, etc.
(2) Function: As I read through Runge's Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament and Beckman's Williams' Hebrew Syntax at the same time this summer, I am more convinced than ever that a proliferation of categories is unhelpful. Again, the grammar should try to get at how the language works, avoiding categories that merely represent interpretive or translation options. Instead, the grammar should try to get at the "root" idea of, say, the genitive--what it is about the Greek, as Greek, that leads to the exegetical variety that we experience when we read. Students don't need to know 20 genitive categories; they do need to be able to consider the options. The grammar should also try to explain how a Greek-speaker would experience exegetical options.
(3) Pay-off: A grammar should emphasize substantive ways that knowledge of how the language works affects interpretation. I am finding Runge to be a stellar example of how this could be done.
As an aside, can anyone recommend a discussion of Hebrew grammar that explains how the language works at a level suitable for second-year students?


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Dear Liz: My wife and her brother are selling their parents' home. The parents transferred the deed to their children's names years ago. My wife should receive about $85,000 from the sale. Our yearly income (one salary; she's a stay-at-home mom) is around $75,000. My wife is worried about capital gains taxes and wants to reinvest in another real estate property because she's heard that that will eliminate the capital gains tax. Is that correct? I would really rather invest that money in our current home (finish the basement into a family room, update some items) and pay off our car loan than worry about another property to take care of. What do you think?
Answer: A 1031 exchange is a tax maneuver that allows owners of business or investment property to swap the real estate they have with another property, a transaction that can defer (but not necessarily eliminate) capital gains taxes.
It's questionable whether your in-laws' home would qualify as business or investment property, said Mark Luscombe, principal federal tax analyst for tax research firm CCH.
"Were the parents paying rent to the children after the title was passed to the children? If the kids owned the property and the parents were living there without paying rent, I do not think that would constitute investment property," Luscombe said. "Perhaps if the parents were still paying upkeep expenses and real estate taxes, that might approach the equivalence of rent."


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This is not a word-for-word, day-by-day transcription of Margaret's original diaries. Instead, the editor, Virginia E. McCormick, chose to excerpt from Margaret's entries and present them to the reader according to topic. Interspersed with the excerpts are McCormick's observations and insights. I found these helpful especially in light of the fact that McCormick had read all of the diaries and I was reading only parts. Her thoughts add an interesting element to the book.
I have farmers among my ancestors and many of them lived during the years of Margaret's diaries, though not in the same location. (Margaret and her family lived about a mile outside the town of Bellefontaine, Ohio.) While I shouldn't assume that Margaret's life was identical to the lives of my ancestors, I think I can reasonably assume that some aspects of their lives were similar. Though the recipe for bread may have been different there is little doubt that farm wives in many locations and in several generations baked bread. The breed of dairy cows may have differed but tending cows would have been similar no matter where the farmer lived. No doubt crops varied from one place to the other but the actions required to prepare the soil and plant seed would have been repeated by farmers across the States The sum experience of farming, and being a farm wife, would probably have been similar, especially during the same years.
With that in mind, I'll tell you that I found this book very interesting and informative. Margaret was a very careful bookkeeper. She kept records of what was purchased and how much it cost, from sugar to buttons to cows. I know a little more about the economy of the time as well as the frugality of a farm wife. She also kept records of how much butter and how many eggs she carried to town, how much she was paid, and what she purchased (and what it cost) with the income from the butter and eggs. McCormick estimated that Margaret's butter and egg business earned between 20 and 30 percent of the farm's income. Margaret recorded the purchase prices of cows and pigs, their weights as they grew, their weights when they were sold, and the amount earned for each animal. She also recorded where they were sold and how they were transported to the sale location. The book was hugely enlightening.
Farm Wife answered several questions I've had about people from earlier times.
- For instance, I pondered what people did a hundred years ago when it suddenly snowed and they needed to go somewhere. It seemed an easy thing to get down the sleigh and more than once Margaret mentioned how good the snow was for sleighing.
- I've wondered about the sizes of previous generations. I have always had the impression that people then were smaller than people of our generation. Margaret and her husband purchased a scale to weigh their livestock. Several times when family came to visit, they were hosted to a tour of the neighborhood, ending at the scale where everyone got out of the buggies and weighed themselves. Margaret recorded the weights: they were little people! Of course it's possible that not everyone was the size of Margaret and her family but her record leads me to believe that people were generally smaller a hundred years ago.
- I learned that a horse and buggy traveled about 50 miles in 12 hours or a little over 4 miles per hour. (Though I didn't learn how fast a horse and wagon traveled when transporting a family for a move.)
If I have one complaint about the book it is its presentation by topics. We miss learning of Margaret's activities day by day, knowing all she accomplished in a day. We also miss an overall look at events and activities from season to season. However, I can imagine that to transcribe and publish all 10 years' worth of diaries would probably comprise several volumes and be of interest to few people. I was grateful to learn that all of Margaret's diaries are available at the Archives Library at the Ohio Historical Society.
If you have farmer ancestors in your family you may enjoy this book. If you're interested, I've included the chapter headings and most of the topics and sub-topics below.
Chapter heads, topics (and sub-topics) include:
- Weather
- Buildings, Equipment, and Hired Help (Farm Sales; Barns and Outbuildings; Farm Tools and Repairs; Windmills; Hired Men; Farm Chores
- Crops (Planting and Harvest; Corn; Hay; Cloverseed; Wheat)
- Livestock (Cattle; Hogs; Animal Accidents and Diseases; Horses; Pets)
- Home
- Housekeeping and Furnishings (Housecleaning; Hired Help; Painting and Papering; Quilts and Carpets; Kitchen; Furnace and Stoves; Yard and Flower Garden)
- Food (Orchard and Garden; Canning and Preserving; Meat and Butchering; Cooking and Baking)
- Butter and Egg Business
- Clothing (Sewing and Knitting; Dressmakers and Milliners; Male and Female Wardrobes)
- Health and Home Nursing (Accidents and Illness; Eyes, Ears, and Teeth; Birth and Death; Appendectomy)
- Parenting (Launching Careers; Courtship)
- Building a House for a Son and His Bride
- Leisure (Visiting; Hunting and Fishing; Hobbies; Winter Fun; Picnics and Sociables; Club Meetings and Parties; Leisure and Reading; Lectures and Concerts)
- Holidays (New Year's Day; Decoration Day; Fourth of July; Thanksgiving; Christmas; Miscellaneous Celebrations)
- Celebrations (Birthdays; Weddings; Anniversaries)
- County Fair
- Excursions
- School
- Religion (Sunday Services; Prayer Meetings and Revivals; Building Fund, Pledges, and Ladies Aid; Ministers; Sunday School and Young People's Group)
- Government (Taxes; Elections; Temperance; Citizenship)
- Transportation and Communication (Buggies, Sleighs, and Bicycles; Passenger and Freight Trains; News)


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This story picks up with hero Shivudu as he comes to terms with his legacy and the responsibility placed on him by this knowledge. Shivudu's quest aims to find the answer to the question: why did Kattappa kill Baahubali?
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Writer: S.S. Rajamouli and Vijayendra Prasad
Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty and Tamannaah Bhatia
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DELAND, Fla. - The merry month of May ended in disappointment for the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team.
Kennesaw State, the No. 7 seed in the Atlantic Sun Tournament, rallied to beat the Purple and Gold 4-2 Saturday morning at Stetson's Melching Field. The loss was the second in the tournament for the Bisons, the No. 6 seed.
"We can't make any excuses," LU coach Jeff Forehand said. "Kennesaw did what they needed to do. It is just baseball.
"We jumped out to a lead. Will Blalock put up several zeroes in a row. We thought we had a double play ball in the seventh but their guy beat it out. Then they put up three singles in a row and the inning got away from us."
The dugout was quiet. There were hugs and obvious disappointment. Center fielder Zach Lowery was at a loss for words, but his dirt-covered uniform spoke volumes about the effort of the Bisons.
The team met on the field following the loss. Forehand delivered his end of the season speech.
"I told them that we had really played well the last half of the season,the last third especially," Forehand said. "It is just hard any time it ends. I am proud of them and they know it."
The Bisons rallied in May posting a 10-4 record. Four hitters batted over .300 during that stretch led by Lowery with a .340 average. Gray Hutchinson batted .333 followed by Tyson Ashcraft with a .314 average and 13 runs batted in. Ashcraft also had four RBI in the tournament with two on a home run against Florida Gulf Coast and two on a single against Kennesaw State.
Lee Wilson batted .309 and Aaron Sandoval led with 14 runs batted in during May.
Much of the improvement for the last third of the season was the result of a meeting led by the senior members of the team after losing two of three games to Stetson the last weekend of April.
"We thought we should have swept the Stetson series ," said Hutchinson, a senior third baseman. "We got together and basically decided if we were going to do it (qualify for the A-Sun tournament) it was on us, not the coaches.
"All of the seniors got together with the team in left field after the last Stetson game. After that meeting we just had a different feeling. We were hot from then on. We won eight of our last nine conference games."
During the Jacksonville series, May 10-12, the Bisons started a pregame ritual which featured jumping jacks, called `Bison' jacks, and some kind of surprise element. Junior catcher Nick Rome was the ringleader with players feeding him ideas.
Before Friday's win over Florida Gulf Coast, catcher Tony DiFelice jumped out of an equipment bag. Saturday centered on a football touchdown pass.
"I have no idea how it got started," said Wilson, a senior right fielder. "In May we started relaxing and winning some games. We were having fun. We tried to mix it up every game.
"We wanted to go out there and have a memory - something we could do before every game. It just kind of clicked. We carried it into the postseason."
Forehand liked what he saw from his team during the pregame gatherings.
"Little things like that pregame ritual keep us going and make the game fun again," Forehand said. "And when you are winning those things are a lot more fun."
The Bisons fought until the end, leaving two runners on base in the ninth against Kennesaw State. Blalock and three other pitchers combined for eight shutout innings, but the four runs in the seventh were all Kennesaw State needed.
Forehand is encouraged by the effort his Bisons showed in the final month of the season.
"Everybody got on the same page a little bit more," Forehand said. "When you win a few games it always helps that."


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Mallory Fix-Lopez
- M.S. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Temple University
- B.S in Secondary Education/History, Temple University
Recent Activities
- Education Director of the Garces Foundation
- Adjunct Faculty of Education at Temple University
- Invited to present at the 34th Annual New York State Applied Linguistics Conference at Teachers College, Colombia University (Spring 2013); topic of helping students to become linguistically independent
- Invited to present on strategies for teaching writing- The University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2012)
- Recently invited to design an English language program for restaurant workers in Philadelphia (Spring 2013); various restaurants in Philadelphia
- The School District of Philadelphia, 9th Grade Social Studies Teacher, August 2007-January 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Awards & Fellowships
- The Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, March 2, 2013
- Presented at the 34th Annual New York State Applied Linguistics Conference, "The 5: Approaches to Developing Autonomous Learners with and without Technology."
- Presented "Reframing for TOEFL: making connections between core course activities and TOEFL prep" on techniques for supporting timed writing in the classroom, in relation to TOEFL preparation.


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I've had the bodices for these t-shirts cut and then folded and put away since... 2006, maybe. Each time I was thinking of what to sew next I would take them out, think "meh, boring" and put them back in the drawer... But not yesterday!
Here's the result of barely two hours of sewing. Very basic and comfy! I made them quite long, both because I have a long torso (my rtw tops usually have to be pulled back down every two seconds, I do have better things to do, lol) and also so I can wear these both with jeans and with leggings.
Just before I finished the second t-shirt, I managed to slip with the scissors and make a tiny hole in the fabric in the front... Hence the somewhat random flower applique. Fairly good save, though.
I used this 1960's pattern for the sleeves and the neckline on the purple t-shirt.
And of course I had some help from Pippin the cat, who tends to step on everything I'm holding, eat thread and play football with anything that falls to the floor...


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C2P (With Venues): Connect to Protect® Partnerships For Youth Prevention Interventions
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00271908
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 4, 2006
Last Update Posted : February 28, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Behavioral: Community Mobilization
Phase III's objective is to initiate and complete a community mobilization intervention aimed at reducing HIV incidence and prevalence among youth. The intervention will consist of guiding C2P coalitions through a strategic planning process that will result in the development and implementation of a local action plan. The action plan will focus on changing structural elements of the affected communities that are believed to be associated with youth HIV acquisition and transmission. The effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated by tracking venues where the population of interest congregates and trends in risk factors associated with HIV acquisition and transmission.
ATN 040b evaluates annual anonymous data collection of two cohorts per participating ATN/C2P site. Both cohorts will represent a site's population of focus, but will be recruited in different ways and for different activities.
Cohort #1 will be referred to the site via Official Community Partners and word of mouth. Each year of the study, 10 to 20 individuals will be recruited to complete venue-tracking surveys as described in Section 2.1 (N = 40-80 per site over four years). The results will either confirm that the population of focus can still be reached at previously identified congregation venues or reveal new ones that should be considered for further research activities. Each year, based on data from Cohort #1, ATN/C2P site staff will go to two to three of the confirmed and/or new congregation venues to recruit 20 to 30 participants per venue for Cohort #2. These participants will complete the HIV-related risk survey, with the addition of the HIV-Ab assay in the final year only (N = 160-360 per site over four years). Data will be used to evaluate the intervention within and across ATN/C2P sites.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|4472 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Connect to Protect® Partnerships for Youth Prevention Interventions Phase III: Full Evaluation
|Study Start Date :
|February 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2010
Cohort #1
Venue-tracking survey subjects recruited annually for 4 years: N= 320-640 (10-20 members of the population of focus per site, per year). The purpose of this cohort is to identify and track venues at which the population of focus congregates.
Behavioral: Community Mobilization
ATN 040b is the evaluation sub-study for ATN 040, Phase III of C2P. Phase III is a community mobilization intervention aimed at reducing HIV rates among youth via community structural change. ATN 040b involves annual anonymous data collection with two cohorts per participating ATN/C2P site. Both cohorts will represent the site's target population, or "population of focus."
Other Name: No other names
Cohort #2
HIV-related risk survey subjects recruited annually for 4 years: N = 1280-2880 (20-30 members of the population of focus per 2-3 congregation venues, per site, per year). These subjects will complete a survey designed to assess HIV-related risk. In the fourth and final year only, HIV Antibody [Ab] assays will also be conducted with survey participants to assess HIV serostatus. The survey and HIVAb assay data will be used to evaluate the intervention within and across sites.
Behavioral: Community Mobilization
ATN 040b is the evaluation sub-study for ATN 040, Phase III of C2P. Phase III is a community mobilization intervention aimed at reducing HIV rates among youth via community structural change. ATN 040b involves annual anonymous data collection with two cohorts per participating ATN/C2P site. Both cohorts will represent the site's target population, or "population of focus."
Other Name: No other names
- Collect data that will be used to evaluate the overall efficacy of the community mobilization intervention [ Time Frame: 4 years ]The aim of ATN 040b is to collect data that will be used to evaluate the overall efficacy of the community mobilization intervention and to assess changes in HIV-related risks over time.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years to 24 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- An individual who provides verbal confirmation that his or her age falls within the range of the site's population of focus (which must be within 12 through 24 years, inclusive);
- Verbal confirmation of demographic and sexual orientation/experience profile reflective of the site's population of focus;
- Must report engaging in any voluntary sexual activity (vaginal, anal or oral sex) within the past 12 months, regardless of sexual abuse history; and
- Ability to understand and willingness to provide verbal informed consent/assent in English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Visibly distraught and/or visibly emotionally unstable (e.g., depressive mood; exhibiting manic, suicidal, or violent behavior);*
- Visibly intoxicated or under the influence of psychoactive agents#; or
Presents as acutely ill.
Although it is very unlikely that an individual from the community will overtly show signs of suicidality, youth with any of these exclusion criteria may be approached at a later date if encountered again at the venue and earlier exclusionary conditions are resolved.
- For sites targeting drug users, this may pose challenges. Potential participants who are visibly under the influence are to be further assessed in terms of their level of alertness, coherency, and abilities to understand and respond to questions. This is to be done keeping staff and participant safety in mind, as well as follow-up procedures such as providing service referrals.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00271908
|United States, California
|Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90054
|University of California at San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|United States, District of Columbia
|Childrens Hospital National Medical Center
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010
|United States, Florida
|University of South Florida
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
|United States, Illinois
|Stroger Hospital of Cook County
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Maryland
|University of Maryland
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, New York
|Mount Sinai Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10128
|Puerto Rico
|University Pediatric Hospital
|San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936
|Study Chair:
|Jonathan Ellen, MD
|Johns Hopkins University
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00271908 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
ATN 040b
|First Posted:
|January 4, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 28, 2017
|Last Verified:
|March 2016
Keywords provided by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
Structural Changes
HIV Seronegativity
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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Yakima was Mentioned on Katie Couric, But it Wasn't for the Best Reasons
Obesity is a crisis in this country that cuts across race, class, age and gender and stretches from coast to coast. In Yakima, Washington, more than a third of the city is considered obese. In Reading, Pennsylvania it's about the same. The fattest place in America is the McAllen, Texas area, where the obesity rate is more than 38%. And then there's Atlanta, Georgia where nearly a quarter of the population is obese.
That is how the viewers of Katie Couric know Yakima, Washington. As one of the most obese cities in the country. Now it's true, but changing the tide is done by people making better personal choices. I also think raising awareness and educating people to make those choices will help.
I never used to workout regularly or very hard for that matter. A friend of mine invited me to join Achieve Health and Fitness and, for me, it was a good fit. What it comes down to is you doing what you want to do with your life. It's your health and, frankly, we live in one of the fruit bowls of the valley so eating fresh and healthy should be easier.
Doing things like the Color Naches Fun Run and taking advantage of our 300 days of sunshine put us in prime position to change that stat. Come on Yakima, let's get back in shape!