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Author's Note: For the LJ community Pokeprompts. Specifically, the prompt in question was "reality shift." There's supposed to be a joke in here having to do with the number of words for each part, but for whatever reason, FFNet is telling me that my word counter is lying.
In any case, happy Halloween!
Edit: Thanks to ChocolateLover for pointing out the confusion concerning the dragons. It's been fixed as of this update (11/5/11). If there's any other oddities, feel free to drop a review, and I'll get it fixed up as soon as I can.
Leaf knows.
She knows it was sunny the day she left. She remembers the softness of her mother's kiss on her forehead, the way the grass scratched her bare calves, the gruffness of the old professor's voice as he rushed to her. She remembers the plastic smoothness of each poké ball in his laboratory. She remembers the way that bulbasaur, her bulbasaur, croaked and smiled at her.
Her entire world is full of memories. It took her a week to get to Pewter City but only fifteen minutes for Bulbasaur to defeat Brock's pokémon. The white light that surrounded Bulbasaur's body was so bright, so beautiful that Leaf nearly cried when she watched it. Pidgey and Rattata were envious for weeks.
Leaf thought Misty was cool, Erika was nice, and Sabrina was scary. She didn't care for the male gym leaders that much, not because she didn't like boys but instead because they were so old and talked about things she didn't understand. Leaf wasn't exactly stupid, but she was young. The girls understood this.
She remembers her rival, Blue. He was annoying at first, but then, one day she saw him at Lavender Tower, his gaze towards the ceiling, his arms wrapped around himself even though it wasn't cold. When he saw her, for a brief second, she thought his eyes were red, but then, he did his best to swallow it all, to storm at her, to push her and battle her and take out all his anger on her. And she let him because she didn't know what to say.
Team Rocket. She remembers them. She remembers their black suits, their twisting hideouts, the way the people in Silph trembled and begged her to help them. She remembers his smirk most of all, the one of the eighth gym leader – smirking at her in the president's office (triumphant then, as if losing to her was just part of his plan) and then in Viridian Gym (wistfully, as if he lost something).
She remembers the Elite Four, Blue, the thrill of battle, all of her hard work coming to that one point. At the end, she wanted to apologize to Blue for everything, but she never got the chance. The Hall of Fame waited for her – her, the Champion.
Leaf knows. She knows she was a hero. She knows she saved the region from Team Rocket, defeated the strongest trainers in Kanto, captured legends. Everyone should be talking about her.
But then, when she came home, her mother looked up, smiled at her as if she was a stranger, and apologized for her son's absence.
Leaf knows she doesn't have a brother.
Bill remembers.
There's a reason why he's standing at the top of the stairs of the pokémon center in Ecruteak City, but he only vaguely knows why. He was there to fix something, but what?
Lately, he's been remembering multiple dreams all at once. In one of them, he's there because he fixed a time machine. It's his latest work, and he's proud of it because only he could be brilliant enough to defy the laws of time and space. In another one, he's there because they needed someone to fix the region's wi-fi, which doesn't make sense to him, but he feels like this memory is what's supposed to be true this time around.
There are other lives, too – ones where he helps save the world and others where he only serves as a teacher. He doesn't know how many different lifetimes he's led, but they're all bleeding into one another, one detail crossing with another until he's not sure whether or not he's awake this time.
He wanders downstairs and approaches the desk. His mouth knows what to say, but the rest of him doesn't. This is when a girl approaches him. He turns and finds her, brown-haired (Wasn't she supposed to be blue-haired?) and wide-eyed with a typhlosion (Didn't she have a meganium?) by her side. It's his cue. He introduces himself and speaks before she can, explaining that he's there for the wi-fi system.
But his mouth stumbles partway through. He mentions the storage system and Lanette (who doesn't exist in any of the other dreams except two), but he feels like the trainer already knows that, like his words no longer have meaning. But he can't stop. It's his cue. He has to say something. They wanted everything to be as close to the old timeline as possible. It's not his fault they made him redundant!
Bill knows he's just barely grasped something when it slips away from him. Something's nagging at his mind – the thought that he just came to be one day, as dictated by someone else. He barely remembers a computer, a line of text, a face just beyond a glass screen. But that's ridiculous! He had a childhood! He went to school! He has an entire history beyond this—
This what?
The girl stares at him. He shakes himself from his thoughts and quickly excuses himself. As he walks towards the door, he can't help but feel very, very tired, and he wonders if this is just another one of his dreams. The memories of a lack of childhood and the other lifetimes are already fading away.
Bill remembers, but he isn't sure what.
Courtney feels.
In her mind, there are multiple rifts, jagged chasms between one truth and the next. She knows that Team Magma, where her loyalties lie, is trying to awaken Groudon so that it will create a new landmass on which people and pokémon can live, and in one truth, she is the admin of Team Magma, the organization stealing submarines and sensitive documents to achieve this goal. She also knows that Team Aqua, her sworn enemy, is trying to awaken Kyogre so that it may produce more water that people and pokémon can use to live, and in another truth, she is the admin of Team Magma, the organization using all of its power and reserves to stop them. And in her mind, there are three realities: one in which Aqua nearly succeeds and almost drowns the world, one in which Magma nearly succeeds and almost burns the world beneath bright sunlight, and one in which Aqua and Magma nearly succeed in destroying the world together.
Courtney stands on the shore of Lilycove City. In the distance, she sees a small mountain jut out of the waves. There was once a cave there, and within it was Magma's hideout.
No. That's not right. It was Aqua's. Magma never needed to hide.
No. That's not right. Magma needed to hide, but they did so in Mt. Chimney, nestled between fire and rock.
They disbanded. Maxie saw the errors of his ways when Groudon scorched the earth, right? No. It was because they had no purpose now that Team Aqua saw what Kyogre could do. No. It was because the world was nearly destroyed because of the both of them, and Maxie and Archie knew this.
Courtney fell to her knees, her fingers worming their way into the warm sand. She wasn't sure why her head throbbed. The truth, the mess of one reality clashing into another was never an issue until recently. Why? Why now? Did she dream something? Was she sick?
Who are you?
She froze. She lifted her chin, and all of a sudden, she felt eyes staring deep into her body.
Are you good, or are you evil?
How could something ask her that? She was good! She was always good! Sure, Magma never always had the best methods, but—
They always had the best methods! They never stole anything; that was Aqua!
Are you sure?
She was sure! Was she?
She couldn't be a thief. And even if she was, it was for the best, right?
"Stop judging me!" she screams.
It echoes. The feeling of something staring at her won't go away.
Courtney feels as if she's breaking apart.
Mars hates.
She has an entire list of reasons of who and what she hates. She hates Jupiter for her attitude. She hates Charon for his ideals. She hates Saturn for refusing to leave when Charon declared himself the leader of Team Galactic. She hates the child from Twinleaf Town who defeated Cyrus – her only true superior – so easily. She hates Giratina for dragging Cyrus into the Distortion World.
But right now, she stands at the peak of Mt. Coronet, her hands tracing along the rock surfaces of each broken pillar and each shattered wall. Every fiber of her being hopes and prays that in the next instant, she'll see a glimmer of something – anything – that would be a clue as to where she could enter the Distortion World.
She imagines it's Hell. Mars doesn't necessarily believe in Hell, but she imagines it's a dark place where Cyrus is alone, each thread of his mind unraveling one by one.
Her pace quickens. In her mind, she finds herself exploring what-ifs. What if she was stronger? What if she stopped the child from Twinleaf? What if she stayed and tried to pull Cyrus from the dark pit Giratina dragged him into?
What if only one of the gods had appeared that day?
In her mind, there is another reality. Within this one, there is only Palkia or Dialga, not both. Giratina never notices, never reaches through the barrier between this world and its own, never takes Cyrus. Instead, Cyrus sees it as a disappointment and vanishes, but Mars still hopes. Even though she knows Team Galactic would die without him, she sees herself in that other reality, not tracing rock with numb fingertips but instead searching the world over for Cyrus. She would find him in that reality, and she feels that in that one, she has a chance to convince him to go with her, to go back to Sinnoh and Galactic.
Within this reality, her heart doesn't want to accept anything but the hope that she might find the entrance to the Distortion World, and beyond that, she doesn't want to believe in any other possibility than the one in which Cyrus listens to her. But her rational mind says she should give up hope, and Jupiter called her crazy for it.
But how could she be crazy? The world needs Cyrus. She needs Cyrus. And it's possible, isn't it? Her other self found a way, and so will she. She will break through to the other world. She will find Cyrus and bring him back, no matter how long it takes. She will. She swears.
Mars hates everyone who tells her otherwise.
N understands.
His home, Unova, came pre-fractured. It wasn't just subtle differences like which team was good and evil. It was entire places. He knows that in one Unova, there are vast cities, oceans of light glowing softly in the night, and in another Unova, those same glass towers are trees and stone walls. In one Unova, he rides the white dragon of truth; in the other, the black dragon of ideals. Sometimes, he wonders which of the legendary heroes he is because of this confusion, but it doesn't bother him much because he knows why the rifts are there.
From his vantage point above Cinnabar Island, he notices the girl from Pallet Town first. Her lapras carries her up and down the coastline, edging the foot of the ruined mountain. Strands of her brown hair fly in her face, flicking across tired eyes. She hasn't slept in days, and N doesn't need any special powers to get this from the look on her face.
He knows why she's here, and he feels sorry for her. She was a change, but because they wanted the storyline to be perfect – to be exactly as it was the first time around – she was quickly forgotten. And now, this is her purpose, to search for that creature from the first timeline, the one with the power to unravel reality. N wonders if it's true that it's still there, even though he knows it hasn't been seen since the beginning of the first timeline, since before Cinnabar was nothing but a ruined volcano.
Part of him is curious, but he knows he shouldn't be curious – because if this girl is right, then it would all be over.
She doesn't understand. Why would change be a bad thing? Why would it be so terrible to be reassigned a purpose?
The rifts are there for a reason.
He has this dragon for a reason.
They're forcing him to wander the world for a reason.
She has no right to fight it. Destiny is a beautiful thing. Soon, he'll receive a third timeline, and with that, he will have another purpose. His mind reeled with the possibilities that this new life would give him. Why won't she understand?
He has his purpose now. They want him to stop her and all the others who know. All of them are suffering; all of their minds are coming apart. Not his. No, not his because Unova was always fractured. He will help them all: the one in Johto, the one in Hoenn, the one in Sinnoh.
And her.
He orders his dragon to descend.
N understands, and he wants you to understand too.


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Pratt & Whitney confirms investigation found employees in Israel altered test data
EAST HARTFORD -- Jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney said Monday it has uncovered fraudulent testing of engine parts involving falsified records, but that no recalls or other problems resulted.
The subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. said an investigation was begun in June 2011 when an employee anonymously alleged that test data had been altered over 15 years at Carmel Forge, another United Technologies unit, in Israel.
"Carmel Forge produced test records that were not accurate," Pratt & Whitney spokeswoman Stephanie Duvall said in an email. "That is a serious matter for an engine manufacturer, and we have treated it very seriously."
An internal investigation found that employees doctored metallurgical test results to make certain engine forgings appear to meet strict standards when in fact they did not, the company said.
The doctored data did not lead to any flight safety risks nor did Pratt & Whitney have to issue airworthiness directives or service bulletins for delivered components.
Pratt & Whitney, based in East Hartford, Conn., said Carmel Forge has made personnel changes, established stronger software controls, purchased test equipment and taken other steps to prevent adjustments to original test data.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement it found no evidence of non-conforming parts at Carmel Forge and did not issue fines or other penalties.
The agency also said no special FAA assessments or reviews of the facility are underway. It said it agreed with Pratt & Whitney's corrective action plan and agrees with Pratt & Whitney's assessment that there are no data indicating any in-service issues.
No maintenance schedules were adjusted as a result of the investigation, and the parts are performing as expected, the FAA said.
The Wall Street Journal reported the findings in Monday's editions. In afternoon trading, shares of United Technologies fell $1.27, or 1.4 percent, to $88.86. They are still near the high end of their 52-week range of $70.71 set last June and $91.51 on Feb. 19.


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He's going home and going back to No. 23. After four years in Miami wearing No. 6 for the Heat, LeBron announced today via Instagram that he will wear the same No. 23 he wore in high school at Akron's Saint Vincent-Saint Mary and during his first seven seasons in the NBA with the Cavaliers.
It's the same No. 23 that Michael Jordan made famous with the Chicago Bulls, which was retired in Miami. LeBron already knows that 23 looks good on him from his first stint in Cleveland. So it couldn't have been too tough a decision.


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Chicken Tortilla Soup
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 4 jalapeno peppers (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 pound of chicken thighs (cut into bite sized pieces)
- 4 cups of chicken broth or chicken stock
- 1 28 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 10 ounce can salsa verde
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 2 small corn tortillas (sliced and toasted, or tortilla chips)
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onions and saute until tender, about 3-5 minutes.
- Add the garlic and the jalapeno peppers and saute until fragrant for a minute.
- Add the chili and cumin powders and saute for a minute.
- Add the chicken, stock, tomatoes, salsa verde, oregano, bay leaf, salt and pepper.
- Simmer for about an hour. (You could serve as soon as the chicken is cooked if you are in a hurry.)
- Turn off the heat and stir in the corn and cilantro.
- Serve with your favorite garnishes such as sour cream, shredded cheese, avocado, etc.
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OPINION: Think before you cut school programs
Dear Board of Education Members:
My name is Lindsey Peterson and I'm standing before you as a senior at Torrington High School, only a few short months away from graduating the high school and the Torrington Public School System.
It may seem silly to some that I'm so invested in this school's future when, come June, I'll be graduating and then going off to college, but I'm moved and shocked, to say the least, at what I've been hearing lately.
When my parents decided, over eight years ago, that Torrington was where they were going to move their family to, I know for a fact that they looked into the quality of the school system here. I know for a fact, with three kids to enroll here, they would not have picked a town with a poor school system. That is, without a doubt, part of the reason we moved here. Of course, that was almost nine years ago. Now, if my parents were faced with this same decision at this present time, I'm almost certain they would not pick Torrington again.
For the past couple years, I've heard numerous threats targeting our language curriculums, our sports teams, our music programs, and our AP level courses, and I'm upset by that fact. Having only been to a couple meetings in the past, I won't pretend that I know every detail about what's been discussed, but I've heard plenty, and this is what it is.
You want to cut our language courses from the middle school and severely cripple them in our high school, language courses which, by the way, are a requirement to graduate and get into college. You want to cut JV and freshman sports teams, making it impossible for us to have as many student-athletes as we do now.
I've even heard talks of wanting to cut our AP/Uconn courses, when those classes have already suffered cuts in the past.
Well, let me tell you something I bet you haven't heard. My older brother is a sophomore in college at the University of Rhode Island, the same school that I plan on attending this fall. Because of the AP and Uconn level courses that he took here at THS, including levels 4 and 5 of Italian, he already has enough credits to graduate from college this fall. Let me remind you that he is only a sophomore. Yet, the credits he received from Uconn through the courses he took here, that transferred over to his university, allowed him to have enough credits to graduate in half the time the average student attends college for. His credits have allowed him to almost fully complete his requirements for a minor in Italian, a feat he would not have been able to accomplish so quickly if the language programs were cut, and I know he's not the only one who benefited in this way.
I am in the same position, where the AP/Uconn classes I have taken over the past couple years will allow me to go into college with a few credits tucked under my belt, something I am very proud of and very lucky to be able to say.
But now, you're telling me that you want to take away this opportunity? You want to take away a middle school child's opportunity to enter high school with a head start? You want to take away a high school student's ability to enter college with an even greater head start? Tell me, how is that fair?
And how is it fair to threaten to take away JV and freshman sports, leaving only varsity? I played soccer for all four years of my high school career, and for three of those years I was on JV. I made varsity one year, this year, my senior year.
So, let's just say that you do cut JV and Freshman sports, and in a couple years a girl like me comes along. She's played soccer for most of her life. She loves the game and she tries hard, but maybe she's not as good as the twenty other girls the coach needs to create a varsity team. Then what? She doesn't get to play soccer? Is that what happens? She doesn't get the chance to play with her friends, she doesn't get the chance to better herself, she doesn't have four years of a sport she loves to put on her high school resume, a resume that colleges will see. She may not get the opportunity to become a well-rounded, diverse student, the kind of student that colleges look for.
That's the kind of student that I am -- the kind of student who was lucky enough to play soccer for four years because, even though I wasn't a star athlete. I was able to play on our JV team. I am not the only one; soccer is not the only sport. I have friends who run track or cross-country, friends who play basketball, friends who play baseball, and friends who swim, and all of these people that I know will be affected. Their teammates, their teams, their sports, will all be affected by cuts to JV and freshman teams, so I can tell you right now that I'm not the only one. I'm also not the only one who takes AP/Uconn courses, and I'm not the only one who has suffered from cuts in the past and would continue to suffer if it were not for the fact that I'm graduating.
These upper level courses are what keep us on par with the rest of the world, with the rest of the school systems, schools that offer courses like AP US Government and Politics or offer Chinese as a language. We need these classes, and I sincerely hope that no further cuts will be made to them. Of course, I understand that a budget is a budget, that cuts must be made somewhere, but I'm standing in front of you as a soon-to-be graduate from Torrington High School, as a student who, in less than a week will be able to vote, a student who is the future of this town, this state, and this country, asking you to think about what you're planning on doing.
On behalf of the student body, many of whom I know feel the same way, I'm asking you to carefully consider the dramatic impacts of the cuts you plan on making. I'm asking you to hesitate and realize that you are not the ones affected by the decisions you make, we, the students of Torrington High School and of the Torrington Public School System, are the ones who are affected.
Lindsey Peterson is a senior at Torrington High School.


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The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is so convinced clairvoyants are a scam that the non-profit group is offering a $1 million dollar prize to any celebrity psychic who can prove his or her power is real.
It won't be an easy challenge to win. Psychics meet with random strangers, so there's no opportunity to google their subjects. Cold reading techniques that fish around for answers using vague questions is also banned.
JREF founder James Randi is pretty confident his money is safe. He's been hosting this Million Dollar Challenge for several years now and nobody has claimed the prize. [JREF via Discovery News; Shutterstock]
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Dodgers' top three arms to get final tune-ups
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Dodgers' top three starters will get final tune-ups for the playoffs this weekend against the Rockies, with Clayton Kershaw pitching on Friday night, Zack Greinke on Saturday night and Hyun-Jin Ryu on Sunday.
Kershaw headed to the airport when the Dodgers took the field for batting practice at AT&T Park on Thursday to assure he gets normal rest. The club will fly home after the game.
Manager Don Mattingly said Kershaw and Greinke, pitching on an extra day of rest, will be allowed to go longer than Ryu, who is on a normal five-day cycle.
"It will be normal, within reason [for Kershaw and Greinke]," Mattingly said. "Not 115 or 120 pitches."
Kershaw's previous start came on an extra three days' rest, while Greinke's was cut short after five innings.


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Developer doc
Developers should also refer to the FusionForge Contribution Guide document, that is present in the sources (see a version here : https://fusionforge.org/docman/?group_id=6&view=listfile&dirid=5, built from "src/docs/docbook/docbook/contribution_guide/contribution_guide.xml")
Below is a few things to know about how the code works. Far from complete.
- 1 Internationalisation
- 2 Database access
- 3 URLs and links
- 4 Authentication
- 5 Permissions
- 6 exit functions API
- 7 System security
- 8 Configuration
- 9 Plugin development
- 10 Release process
See Translations.
Database access
Database queries go through the db_query_params() method (db_query() is being deprecated to help get rid of a whole class of potential SQL injection bugs). This is a wrapper around the PostgreSQL database access methods, which passes the variable parts of a query as separate parameters, removing the need for careful escaping and unescaping. To get the full benefits of that, it is important that the query itself be immutable, and all variable parts need to go into separate parameters. For instance, a query counting the groups with a given word in their name or their description should read:
$res = db_query_params ('SELECT count(*) FROM groups WHERE group_name LIKE $1 OR description LIKE $2', array ($word, $word)) ;
Thus, even if $word comes from a malicious user query, it can't do any harm in the database.
Note that this prevents usage of WHERE foo IN (...) constructs if the number of elements in the set is not constant. Fortunately, we can use an alternative way, with the WHERE foo = ANY($1), with the values built with the db_string_array_to_any_clause() or db_int_array_to_any_clause() methods:
$values = array (1, 2, 5, 8) ; $res = db_query_params ('SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE col = ANY($1)', array (db_int_array_to_any_clause($values))) ;
URLs and links
As described in FusionForge/Suggestions/URL relocation, URLs to pages in the forges should always be generated by the util_make_url() function. This allows to keep the URL scheme in a single point, so that individual pages don't have to know or care whether the forge runs in its own virtualhost, or on SSL, or in a subset of the URL space within a vhost, and so on.
util_make_link() can be used to generate links rather than just URLs, with extra parameters to add attributes to the <a ...> element in the generated HTML. A use case is to add a class for CSS styling.
The authentication uses an MD5 password stored in the database by default, but a hook allows to override that with a plugin (see ldapextauth for an example).
FIXME: there's now two user_pw and unix_pw. Also MD5 hashes now can be cracked with large pre-computed reverse hash lists, so it needs to go away.
Up to 5.0
The permission model is RBAC, role-based access control. 'Users' are members of any number of 'groups'. Each membership of a user in a group has a 'role', possibly shared by several users in a group. Each role is specific to a group (no cross-group sharing currently), and it has a set of 'role settings' which are permission bits for the members of the role on the tools of the group.
There is a global admin "role" given to all users member of the admin project, there is no premission control on this user that can add/remove all permissions he wants
There is a specific admin role given to the project admin, each project creator is by default project admin, he can manage roles for other users, give or remove admin role, design new roles, add/remove users of the group he is admin.
Starting with 5.1
The RBAC model has been extended to make it more powerful and flexible. The model and the API are documented on the Planetforge wiki. The main differences are that a user can have several roles inside a project, there are global roles not attached to a project in particular, and a project can reference external roles (global or belonging to another project) and grant them permissions.
Plugins can define new permissions, and these permissions will be managed by the same page editing the permissions for the traditional tools. See the Mediawiki plugin for an example, in particular the places involving the PluginSpecificRoleSetting class.
exit functions API
The current exit API is described in www/include/exit.php main exit function is exit_error :
function exit_error($text="", $toptab=)
$text is the error message to be display, $toptab is where you want user to land with the error message. There are some wrappers above exit_error :
function exit_permission_denied($reason_descr=,$toptab=)
which call the login system if you're not logged or call exit_error
function exit_no_group()
no params needed
function exit_missing_param($url=,$missing_params=array(),$toptab=)
url should be HTTP_REFERER or any URL you like. missing_params is an array that will be append to the standard error message Missing required parameters
function exit_disabled($toptab=)
to be used when specific functionnality is disabled
function exit_form_double_submit($toptab=)
to be used when double click on submit button. Need to be rethink... I presume.
System security
This describes the concepts of FusionForge that shall ensure security of the underlying server. It describes
- what the different components of FusionForge should do or not do,
- what exceptions currently exist,
- and what technical measures are taken to ensure this.
Web server
- should not write to the filesystem directly, except to
- should only read and write the database
- Technical measures:
- web server runs as user
- user
www-datahas usually no write access anywhere
- only where required, write access can be granted (explicitly?) by the admin
- web server runs as user
- Exceptions: ftp upload, some plugins
- Should write only in
/var/lib/gforge(if all repos, user & groups dirs are located there)
- Technical measures:
- cronjob runs as user
- most jobs restrict permissions to user
- user
gforgecan only write to
- cronjob runs as user
- Exceptions:
- pluginman:
- creates links in
- creates links in
- creates links in
- pluginman:
e.g. /opt/fusionforge, /usr/share/gforge...
- contains source code of FF
- server admin should not have to modify anything here (to simplify updates)
- modified only by FF developers
- Exceptions:
- Links in
/opt/gforge/www/pluginsare set up by pluginman
- Some plugins require modifications
- Links in
- contains configuration files of FF
- modified by server admin
- FF code should not modify anything here (to simplify updates)
- Exceptions:
- pluginman creates links here
- configman modifies
- setup autogenerates files here (e.g.
- Technical measures: no write permissions for
- contains files required by the current state of FF
- modifed by cronjobs
- Exceptions:
- ftp upload
- mediawiki upload
- Other plugins?
- Technical measures:
- write permissions for user
- no write permissions for user
- write permissions for user
Configuration was previously accessed through a mess of global variables. This is being deprecated in favour of a (hopefully) clean API:
- forge_get_config(name [, section]): get value of variable "name" in section "section" (defaults to "core");
- forge_define_config_item(name, section, default): define a new configuration item with given name/section and default value;
- forge_set_config_item_bool(name, section): tag the variable as boolean, which allows human-readable values in the configuration files (such as yes, true, on and 1; anything else is mapped to false)
- forge_read_config_file(file): read a *.ini file and inject its contents into the configuration.
- forge_read_config_dir(path): read all configuration files in a directory.
See Configuration for more details on existing configuration variables.
For shell scripts, there's also a forge_get_config command that behaves like its counterpart in the PHP API: it loads the configuration and prints out the value of the requested variable.
Plugins are encouraged to store their configuration into a pluginname.ini config file, within a section called pluginname. See examples in the existing plugins.
Migration from the previous system can be performed with the migrate-to-ini-files.sh script.
Plugin development
Release process
See Release process.
See also Development environment.


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The WEC's final champion recently received the unsettling news that his UFC title shot is currently on hold, but that doesn't mean Anthony Pettis doesn't have a little reason to celebrate.
UFC brass today announced that Pettis will receive an official proclamation from his hometown of Milwaukee at a Thursday ceremony hosted by the city's mayor, Tom Barrett.
"This is an amazing feeling," Pettis stated in an official release detailing the honor. "It's been a crazy year. I've won a world title, been featured on MTV and 'SportsCenter' and threw out the first pitch at the Milwaukee Brewers game. I never imagined myself being in this position.
"I'm really thankful that Mayor Tom Barrett and the city of Milwaukee have chosen to honor me. Milwaukee means so much to me and I'm proud to represent it every time I compete."
Pettis was one of 2010's brightest breakout stars in mixed martial arts. In the cage, "Showtime" put together a perfect 4-0 mark that included a "Knockout of the Night" bonus at WEC 47 and a "Submission of the Night" award at WEC 50. The 23-year-old also picked up a win on the Spike TV-broadcast portion of the company's first pay-per-view event, WEC 48.
Of course, none of that compared to the thrilling finish to the main event of the WEC's final event, "WEC 53: Henderson vs. Pettis." In the fifth and final round of the final bout before the promotion's merger with the UFC, Pettis launched himself off the cage and floored former champion Ben Henderson with a "Showtime" kick that was recently dubbed by ESPN as the eight-best sporting highlight of all of 2010.
Outside of the cage, Pettis was also featured in MTV's critically acclaimed "World of Jenks" documentary series.
Pettis joins recent WEC imports Urijah Faber, Joseph Benavidez and Miguel Torres – as well as former WEC general manager Reed Harris – on a list of MMA personalities honored by their hometowns in official ceremonies.
Pettis next fight has yet to be officially announced, but UFC president Dana White on Tuesday confirmed that a potential matchup with fan-favorite Clay Guida is currently being discussed.
By virtue of his status as the WEC's final champion, Pettis was in line to face the winner of a Jan. 1 bout between current lightweight champion Frankie Edgar and top contender Gray Maynard. When the UFC 125 main-event ended in a draw, Pettis' shot was delayed. However, rather than wait on the sidelines for Edgar and Maynard to settle the score in a rematch, Pettis elected to take another contest in the interim and risk his status as No. 1 contender.
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Long time no post, I will try to update more often as time allows.
This shining example of what is wrong with men today caught my eye a couple weeks ago so...of course I took a picture. List in the comments all the problems you can spot with this doucher. I see at least six myself ;)
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Hey Pass Me A Beer
Pretty cool
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Unnecessary Censorship -- White House Correspondents' Dinner Edition
Fucking hilarious.
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Djurisic is from Connecticut by way of Montenegro, a small country located between Bosnia, Serbia and Albania. He speaks fluent Serbian and English while averaging 15 points and 10 rebounds a game in high school according to Chip Towers.
The kid claims offers from NC State, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, Utah and possibly Texas...which means Fox was in the right living room. He's described as a skilled European big man who can play inside and out.
More to the point, this is what interested me. Last summer, he played with the Montenegro U-18 team in the European Championships. His team wasn't very good, but his stat line isn't too shabby across 8 games:
- 24.1 minutes / game
- 14.1 points / game
- 7.0 rebounds / game
- 54.5% on 3 pointers
- 66.7% on FTs
Not every recruit needs to be a lottery pick, but they all need to contribute. The 2003 team that was pulled from the NCAA tourney in Harrick's last season had an RPI of 5 before the NCAA Tourney. That team had:
- 1 Lottery Pick (Jarvis)
1 2nd Round Pick (Rashad)
1 Undrafted Free Agent with a solid NBA career (Damien)
1 2nd Team All-SEC player (Ezra)
As for the prime time guys like Caldwell-Pope..from what I've been reading I like our chances with Evan Nolte (SF), Jordan Adams (SG/SF) and Jarmal Reid (SF/PF). That's two guys with brothers on the team and another guy (Adams) who was deciding between us and a UT program that's about to lose their coach. If we add Shaq Goodwin (PF) and another big man to that mix, I'll be thrilled.
See Also:
-- Dawgs get Verbal - ABH


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The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed the taxpayer's appeal in Morguard Corporation v The Queen.
(See our previous posts on the case here, here and here.)
Justice Sharlow wrote for the panel which also included Justice Evans and Justice Stratas. She agreed with the reasoning of the trial judge that Ikea Ltd. v. Canada is indeed the leading case on the characterization of extraordinary or unusual receipts in the business context, and found that his application of the principles stated by the Supreme Court of Canada in Ikea was correct. The court noted that Ikea was not based on a particular factual finding, but "involved consideration of a number of factors, including the commercial purpose of the payment and its relationship to the business operations of the recipient."
The Court of Appeal found that the trial judge made no error in concluding, on the facts of the case, that the break fee received by Morguard as the result of a failed takeover bid was income and not capital. The appeal was dismissed with costs.


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In America, 58% of the population plays video games. The European market for gaming is almost $20 billion, and Japan and China lead the pack when it comes to iPhone/iPad games. The world's fascination with games requires gaming providers to be within close proximity of partners and players if they want to expand their customer base and maintain user satisfaction.
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ALTOONA, Iowa – Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dipped his toe into the 2016 presidential waters Saturday night with a stinging critique of the Obama administration's handling of the new health law's rollout.
The 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, after a year of remaining largely behind the scenes in Washington, came to the first-in-the-nation caucus state to depict the troubled launch of the new law as "big government in practice."
"We are no longer looking at big government in theory anymore," Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, told an audience of nearly 800 Iowans gathered at an amusement park theater 15 miles outside Des Moines. Ostensibly, the appearance was meant as a fundraiser for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R), who said he grew close to Ryan when GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney selected him as his running mate and he stumped with Ryan in Iowa last year.
The 43-year-old Wisconsin congressmen presented the five-term governor with a Green Bay Packers cheesehead that had the mustachioed image of Branstad emblazoned on it.
Ryan did not mention his own political ambitions – he told the Des Moines Register earlier this week he would decide whether to join the next presidential race after the 2014 elections. This was his first appearance at any of the early 2016 primary and caucus battlegrounds, lagging far behind many of his potential rivals, who have descended on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina with a steady diet of drop-ins to gatherings large and small.
Despite Ryan's reluctance to engage in what has been called the "invisible primary," he flirted with his political future by telling the crowd that he, his wife and three children enjoyed their experience on the campaign trail last year. They particularly enjoyed the trips through Iowa.
"Maybe we should come back and do this more often," he said.
In an interview afterward, Branstad said that the Republicans should look to a governor as their presidential nominee in 2016 and that Ryan should focus on his leadership role in Congress trying to tame the swelling federal debt.
Ryan's 18-minute speech was a mix of policy discussion and political autopsy of why his ticket lost in 2012. It appeared to be well received but did not prompt the sort of passionate response that other recent 2016 contenders have gotten recently in Iowa.
The congressman acknowledged that he and Romney were stung by the loss to President Obama, leading to a period of deep reflection for both men. "We were in a funk for a good six months," he said.
His review of the 2012 defeat revealed a key political problem for the GOP ticket. Some major parts of the Obama agenda, including the mandate that individuals purchase a health plan, had not taken affect at election time last year. That left Romney and Ryan arguing against policies that had not yet taken shape, "big government in theory," Ryan said.
Now the administration is facing intense political heat for the health law's muddled rollout, and Obama has apologized for his previous claims that anyone who liked his or her health-care plan could keep that health-care plan.
"Either they were being dishonest, or they were incompetent. Frankly, I don't know which one is worse," Ryan told the crowd to cheers.
Hinting at his own future plans, Ryan devoted the final message of his speech to expanding the GOP agenda beyond the fixation on budget deficits. He said he wants to mount "a real war on poverty," calling on Republicans to no longer be just the "opposition party" but to also become the "proposition party."
Ryan offered no new policy proposals, but he suggested some were in the development stage.
"We also have to show who we are and what we believe in," Ryan said.


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Expect some jubilant back-slapping at the David Clark Co. tomorrow, provided Austrian daredevil and skydiver Felix Baumgartner successfully breaks the sound barrier in his 22-mile-plus plunge to Earth from a capsule suspended by a huge helium balloon.
The 43-year-old is making the dive in a suit designed by the Worcester firm, which has been pioneering air and space crew protective gear since 1941.
The "space jump," which is being sponsored by Red Bull, the energy drink maker, is expected to take place weather-permitting at 6 a.m. Mountain Time (8 a.m. Easter Standard Time) tomorrow.
If successful, Mr. Baumgartner will break the record set in 1960 by former U.S. Air Force Col. Joseph Kittinger.
Mr. Baumgartner hopes to make a free fall jump from 120,000 feet up, a little more than 22 miles into the atmosphere. Col. Kittinger's drop measured 102,800 feet, just over 19 miles.
The stunt showcases Worcester's deep involvement over the decades in the development of equipment for the space age.
"The city has played a prominent role," said William D. Wallace, the director of the Worcester Historical Museum.
David Clark employees have been working on the suit, which is similar to gear used by pilots who fly supersonic jets, since 2010.
The 28-pound unit is designed to protect the wearer in a hostile environment where there is little or no air pressure and where the temperatures down to is expected to drop to 70 degrees below freezing.
Mr. Baumgartner will be making his jump from a pressurized capsule that's attached to a high-altitude helium balloon.
Red Bull officials said they hope Mr. Baumgartner will be launched around sunrise from a parcel near Roswell, N.M. The balloon — when inflated with the non-flammable, lighter than air gas — will be larger in height higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The ascent will take about three hours.
Mr. Baumgartner is expected to break the sound barrier about 35 seconds into his jump, at a speed of 690 miles per hour.
Matthew Koss, an associate professor of physics at the College of the Holy Cross, said the stunt presents a number of challenges but added there's no new technological innovation that will be used.
"NASA, for example, has been sending up balloons for years," he said.
Mr. Koss said the descent itself will probably be the trickiest. He explained that the drop will build up tremendous energy and heat, which Mr. Baumgartner must work to dissipate.
Mr. Koss said the suit, which is probably made of non-metal materials like ceramics and fiber glass, will do much of the work. He added, however, that Mr. Baumgartner would have to control his drop.
"He might try to glide into some S-curves," Mr. Koss explained.
He said that Mr. Baumgartner would want to avoid a flat dive, which would provide more body surface that would build more friction and resistance. Mr. Koss said the diver will feel very little difference when he hits the sound barrier.
"If you were an observer, you'd hear a sonic sound of some sort," Mr. Koss said. "But there's no real impact on the individual doing the dive."
Meanwhile, Mr. Wallace said David Clark is one of many Central Massachusetts firms that have played a role in aeronautics and space travel. He said Wyman-Gordon Co., for example, provided components for booster rockets; Norton Co. made a water testing device for the moon; FLEXcon manufactured reflective material for the lunar lander, and Allegro Micro Systems Inc. produced the chip that stored the greetings of world leaders for the moon landing.
Neil Armstrong's "One Small Step for Man" address from the moon was carried over a headset and sound system manufactured by David Clark.
"We had astronauts flying into Worcester all the time to be fitted for space suits," Mr. Wallace said.
David Clark officials could not be reached for comment.


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My original question asked why the where clause below, which includes a sub query, would not work on an SDE database but the same query against a file geodatabase would work. I had thought the problem was in the SQL.
As it turns out, the SQL syntax below is correct. The issue is with the structure of versioned SDE tables. It appears that the sub query select statement will only work on tables with records in the base table. In other words, if the table is versioned without the option to move edits to the base table, the sub query returns no records because the base table is empty. All of the records exist in the version tables. However, if you register the table as versioned WITH the option to move edits to base, the subquery works fine, because values exist in the base table. The sub squery will also work on a non-versioned table.
Not sure I understand why the subquery doesn't see the values in the delta tables. Is there a way to format the SQL so the subquery works on the version table without the base option?
The following query works on a table within a File geodatabase:
"GlobalID" IN (SELECT "GlobalID" FROM Inspections WHERE "CompletedDate" > date '2012-01-01 00:00:00')
However, when formating the query for SQL Server and running it against the same table within a SQL Server Express geodatabase, the query returns no records.
GlobalID IN (SELECT GlobalID FROM Storm.DBO.Inspections WHERE CompletedDate > '2012-01-01 00:00:00')
I've tried a variety of different SELECT statements with inner queries against the table in the SQL Server Express geodatabase, and cannot get them to work. What am I missing in the SQL statement?


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Moot Court gives Wabash students the opportunity to practice real-world oral advocacy whether they plan on pursuing a career in law or not. A perfect example is 2010 Moot Court winner Donovan Bisbee '12, who plans to go into teaching.
Moot Court began at Wabash in 1995 and remains one of the few undergraduate Moot Court competitions in the country. This year's event started with 24 Wabash men and was paired down to Kyle Bender '12, Riley Floyd '13, Steve Maynard '11, and Bisbee.
See photo album from 2010 Moot Court here. You can watch the entire Moot Court competition on Wabash's YouTube page.
The students argue their case in front of three real judges and a Wabash College professor. The judging panel was led by John Tinder, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 7th District, Paul D. Mathias, Indiana Court of Appeals, and Tim Oakes '86, Marion Superior Court.
The Wabash judge was Dean David Timmerman of Monmouth College. Timmerman ended 16 years as a Wabash Rhetoric professor over the summer to become Dean of Faculty at the Illinois College. He also was one of the guiding forces in growing Wabash's Moot Court.
Wabash alumni play an active role in shaping the case, advising the students, and judging the preliminary rounds. This year's case tested a state statute limiting the ability of a business to sell or rent violent video games.
The judges' panel was aggressive from the start, peppering each of the respondents with a question before they even got to their prepared remarks.
"It feels really incredible and wasn't something I was expecting," Bisbee said of the win. "This was such a strong round; it could have easily been any of the other three guys."
Bisbee had participated as a freshman and in his words "just got demolished, rightfully, in the semi-finals." The lesson he learned from his previous experience was the necessity of preparation. "I spent a lot more time just researching the precedents and the facts of the case and trying to look at how to tie the arguments together," the junior said. "I picked up some really valuable skills in the preliminary rounds. I got great advice on how to turn the judges to your argument."
Bisbee, a rhetoric and English major, plans to go to graduate school and then pursue teaching.
Each year one of the judges is Wabash alumnus. Tim Oakes '86 said he enjoyed coming back for Moot Court. "It's a great experience to see the tradition of oral advocacy, sort of in the tradition of Vic Powell and others who were here before, to carry on the strong Wabash tradition of oral advocacy," he said. "It was just great to see that the College is still as strong as ever based on the performances here this evening."
Afterwards, the three sitting judges praised the students for their preparation. But Oakes got the biggest ovation when he talked about his pride and the joy of seeing the students early in their careers. He expressed his confidence the students would grow into self-confident, and perhaps even difficult or irascible attorneys.
But he expressed that sentiment in more common terms any Wabash man would clearly understand.
In photos: Judge Tinder presents Donovan Bisbee the Top Advocate Award. Below, is all of the students, alumni and faculty participating in the 2010 Moot Court Competition.


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A Pilot Gaming Adherence Program for Youth Living With HIV
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01887210
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 26, 2013
Results First Posted : September 26, 2018
Last Update Posted : September 26, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Adherence to HIV Treatment and Medication
|Behavioral: IMB Gaming Adherence Intervention Behavioral: Enhanced treatment as usual
|Not Applicable
Despite need for consistent adherence to medical care, youth living with HIV (YLWH) have suboptimal rates of retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral medication (ARV) treatment. There are few adherence studies with YLWH and the results are mixed, so there is a great need for the development of novel interventions. Results of adult HIV adherence studies indicate that participants are interested in using technology-based methods and are most receptive toward interventions that couple technological devices with motivational components. Pill taking monitoring devices have been found to be a sensitive measure of adherence to ARV medications, but do not lead to sustained improvements in adherence or intrinsic motivation when used alone. Building on this knowledge, this study will examine a multi-level technology that integrates a medication monitoring device WITH an interactive smartphone based app/game that is attractive and engaging to YLWH. This multi-level approach will integrate theory driven content with novel, but intuitive, technology to improve HIV treatment adherence.
In this study, data on opening of the pill bottle will be transferred wirelessly from the bottle cap and a text on adherence sent to the phone. This developmental project will adapt and refine a smartphone app/game to include content consistent with the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model. Creation and adaptation will occur from in-depth interviews with YLWH on ART (n=25) and an open trial of the Intervention (n=20). While gaming, participants will experience absorbing action-oriented adventures that increase information about their health (e.g. knowledge about HIV treatment), improve motivation (e.g. action-figures experience health benefits of adherence), and build skills (e.g. utilize clinicians as partners). A small randomized controlled pilot study (24 weeks) among 60 YLWH will examine the preliminary efficacy of the IMB Gaming Adherence Intervention (integration of the smart cap with the IMB informed app/game) compared to a comparison group who receive the smart cap and smartphone but no IMB game, on adherence and biological measures.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|66 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Gaming Adherence Program for Youth Living With HIV
|Actual Study Start Date :
|September 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 9, 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2017
Experimental: IMB Gaming Adherence Intervention
Combination of smart pill bottle cap with mobile gaming application tailored for those living with HIV
Behavioral: IMB Gaming Adherence Intervention
Combination of smart pill bottle cap with mobile gaming application tailored for those living with HIV
Active Comparator: Enhanced treatment as usual
Smart pill bottle cap and mobile phone but no game
Behavioral: Enhanced treatment as usual
Smart pill bottle cap and mobile phone but no game
- Log10 HIV-1 Viral Load [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Log viral load at end of study for participants with available viral load data (Log10 copies/ml)
- Electronically Measured Past 7-day Adherence [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Past 7 day medication adherence as measured by electronic medication monitoring device.
- Number of Kept Medical Appointments [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Number of kept medical appointments since baseline.
- Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Behavioral Skills Scale [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Behavioral Skills subscale from the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) scale. This subscale measures self-efficacy for adherence to medical care related to antiretroviral medication and treatment. Five items were summed to get a total Behavioral Skills subscale score. Scores range from 5-25 where higher scores indicate greater self-efficacy for adherence to medical care related to ART medication and treatment.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|14 Years to 26 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- English speaking
- in medical care for HIV and receiving antiretroviral treatment
- aware of their HIV status as per clinician and clinical record
- able to give consent/assent and not impaired by cognitive or medical limitations as per clinical assessment
- detectable viral load
Exclusion Criteria:
- none
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): NCT01887210
|United States, Rhode Island
|Rhode Island Hospital
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
|Principal Investigator:
|Larry K Brown, MD
|Rhode Island Hospital
|Study Director:
|Laura Whiteley, MD
|Rhode Island Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Larry K. Brown, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Rhode Island Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01HD074846-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|June 26, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|September 26, 2018
|Last Update Posted:
|September 26, 2018
|Last Verified:
|August 2018
medical adherence


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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun installing millions of sensors on just about anything that costs more than $50. The technology will be used to track medical equipment, supplies, specimens and implants -- and eventually, medical personnel and patients.
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday said it had received a $543 million, five-year contract to begin deploying Real-Time Location System (RTLS) technology throughout VA facilities nationwide. RTLS is an umbrella term for a range of wireless and scanning technologies that include Wi-Fi-based location tracking, as well as RFID tags.
This system is intended to make the VA more efficient in how it uses supplies, manages inventory and delivers services to patients. It will be able to send alerts if equipment is moved outside a designated area, or if a patient has moved into a restricted area. It can also monitor the temperatures of supplies.
The VA believes the impact of RTLS technology on patient care can be "significant" and said it will improve the quality of patient care, reduce asset management cost and improve safety.
With RTLS, the VA will also be able to help determine, for instance, whether equipment has been sterilized after use, or how long it has been waiting to cleaned, according to one of the procurement documents.
Although the contract is big, Ray Bjorklund, vice president and chief knowledge officer at Deltek, a market research firms, said it's a small amount for the VA. The VA spends about $2 billion on IT contracts annually, he said.
Debbie Elgot, the portfolio manager for RTLS Solutions in HP Enterprise Services, said the system will also enable faster locating of supplies. Some medical staffers now hoard supplies and stock more than a really need because of fears of they won't be able find them when needed, she said.
Many suppliers are now shipping products with tags for use in RFDI and Wi-Fi systems, said Elgot.
The initial deployment will only focus on supplies and equipment, not people.
A big part of the contract will be discovering new ways to use the massive amount of data to improve workflow and operations, said Elgot.
The contract was initially awarded last year, but there was a protest about the move and stop-work issues. The proposals were reevaluated and HP was again selected, according to a statement from the VA.
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The HP Officejet 150 Mobile is ostensibly the same chassis as the HP Officejet 100. The new model includes a touch screen that doesn't actually add value to the printing functions, although it does skyrocket the retail price up to an unreasonable $399. While Bluetooth connectivity and multiple scanning options are certainly beneficial to anyone needing printer access away from the office, the Officejet 150 isn't worth the cost when the previous model retains its core functionality at a fraction of the price.
Design and features
The HP Officejet 150 mobile printer's physical composition is nearly identical to its predecessor with the exception of the 2.36-inch touch screen that folds back flush into the machine while in transport mode. A series of virtual buttons for menu navigation surround the display immediately to the left and right, while the other side of the control panel features four backlit icons that illuminate to indicate the status of a Bluetooth connection as well as your print, copy, and scan job monitors.
The Officejet 150 retains the exact same silver color scheme with a large lid that extends over the entire machine. Like the older version, the corners are contoured and the output bay, lid, and ink cartridge cover all fold neatly into the body of the printer for streamlined transport.
Two cartridges load easily into the ink bay that sits in the center of the unit: one for tricolor inks and a separate black cartridge. I won't quibble too much about the dual inks since this HP correctly assumes business travelers will conserve ink while traveling. Also, the page yields for the standard-size HP 95/98 cartridges listed on the site factor to about 3 cents per color page -- about average for a single-function inkjet. HP also cuts you a deal with its extra-large capacity cartridges and combo packs that cost slightly more up front but save money in the long term.
The Officejet 150 is compact for easy transport, measuring just smaller than a single-function inkjet printer at 13.98 inches wide, 6.95 inches deep, and 3.52 inches high. With the included lithium ion rechargeable battery, rated to last 500 pages (unverified) with a full charge, the printer only weighs 6.4 pounds, or roughly the weight of an older laptop computer.
The top of the rectangular printer pops up to reveal an integrated 50-sheet paper input guide with an adjustable slider to fit a short range of media sizes from regular 8.5-inch-by-11-inch paper down to 3-inch-by-5-inch index cards. You'll also find another slider in front of the control panel that lets you adjust the size of an original document feeding into the single-sheet scanner.
Using either the onscreen control panel or the driver software that comes on the CD included in the box, you can specify the destination for the scan job--directly to an attached PC, embedded as an attachment to an e-mail message, to a USB key, or directly to an SD/MMC expansion card that sits on the side of the machine. The USB port on the back is also PictBridge compatible for printing snapshots directly off a digital camera.


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'Topes Job Fair Scheduled for Saturday
It may be hard to believe, but of all the places in which to work, a ballpark has to rank among the best. Luckily for those of us that can't throw a baseball 90 miles per hour or otherwise possess any athletic aptitude, working at Isotopes Park is not reserved for those who can actually play baseball.
Enter the annual Isotopes Job Fair, where the 'Topes and their concessionaire, Ovations Food Service, hire seasonal employees to work any number of jobs during the season. These positions cover every conceivable area of the ballpark and include ushers, security, concession stand workers, pro shop employees, cooks, warehouse workers, ticket takers, bat boys, press box employees and much more. While these positions are seasonal, they are vitally important to the Isotopes operation in that many times they are on the front lines dealing directly with the 'Topes' great fans. For an organization that prides itself on taking care of its fans, having friendly faces on the concourse is extremely important.
Plus, Isotopes Park is a really great place to work. As a game day employee, you are part of the Isotopes family, which explains why we have so many people return from year to year.
To help save time, we have also posted the Isotopes Employment Application (click here) Fill it out and bring it with you on Saturday. If you have any questions, please give us a call (505) 924-2255.
See you on Saturday!
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Hey, welcome to the Dodger Family! I'm one of the regular knuckleheads on http://insidethedodgers.mlblogs.com/ and it's very exciting to see something like this pop up on our new AAA team! You're right when you said a couple of threads ago that we've got the best blog in the business and you can bet you'll get a few of us over here from time to time. You already heard from joepierre, who is a Dodger fan who used to watch them at Ebbets Field and is still bleeding Dodger Blue!
Anyway, welcome back to Dodger Blue, Albuquerque! But don't get used to seeing Andrew Lambo for any long period!
I am also one of the group on ITD and welcome you to our family. In the past, I have not paid much attention the the AAA team but I plan to keep an eye on you guys this season. Afterall, you are our Dodgers' future. Best wishes for a great season.
Like Eric & Tru said, welcome to the Dodger family! I am another poster from ITDInsidetheDodgers) blog. Looking forward to reports from our baby Blue Dodgers! -Emma


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I can't believe my last post was two weeks ago. Again! It's on page 112 and it was a fly-by, not even a real post. I'm so sorry! And most of all I'm sad that I don't even have the slightest clue what has been going on with you guys. I didn't even have the time to only read. School, internship, real life... Blah blah blah. I'm already boring myself. But what can I do... And since there has been so much activity around here (btw: YAY!), I can't even try to catch up with you all. So for now I'm just going to spew some random stuff that I stumbled upon over the last week and then I'm going to try to get back in the swing of things here again... You have no idea how much I hate having to say that every time. Anyways. Please let me in again?
First of: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEAN!! And thank you for giving me an excuse to post a Kristen pic again. LOVED her hair and make-up at the premiere. Yes, it would have been better if she wore a tan underdress, but I still LOVED the dress anyway.
You know how to make a girl laugh even in the midst of a very serious rant. But you are absolutely right! It is ridiculous. There's just no way to justify it. I haven't seen the photos or the video, but I can only imagine it looked a lot like the Black Friday riot video someone posted here. It's just... too crazy to even come up with an appropiate word.Jazz Girl wrote:Security is tighter than a frog's butt
Third: Remember when Robert was announched to appear on Jimmy Fallon and we all wished Jimmy would do one more Robert Is Bothered? Well, instead we got this beauty of a hilariously HOT wet-Rob. Which I will be ethernally gratefull for. (If only he could have worn the white see through shirt in stead of Jimmy...) But guess what?! Jimmy did a Robert Is Bothered as well last week! (And while you're at it, also watch his "Mirren, Mirren". I'm really becoming a Fallon fan...)
Fourth: I don't know if any of you watch New Girl, but there was this really funny quote in last weeks episode about Twilight. It's a conversation between Nick (Jess - aka New Girl - 's roommate) and Jess' father. Here it is:
Nick: - I'm writing a novel.
Jess' father: - Really, what's it about?
- It's about zombies. And it's a relationship story. It has a great love story in it that could be made into a movie, I think.
- And the love story is between…
- The zombie and Carol.
- And Carol is not a zombie? She's a regular person.
- No, she's just a girl.
- Oh, so it's like the Twilight thing where…
- It's not like the Twilight thing!
- … where the vampire falls in love with a regular person.
- No, you don't really get this! You don't get it.
- It's the same thing.
- Oh really, is there another guy in Twilight that there's a little bit of a love triangle with?!
- Uh, yes. It's the same as Twilight.
- Does Twilight have a wolf in it?
- Yes.
- It does?
- Yes.
- Is Twilight in Seattle?
- Uh, yes!
- Well… Then whoever wrote that is smart.
BWHAHAHA! It was so good. And for once this is a respectful reference to Twilight. Anyways, Thought I'd share.
Anyways, hope you enjoy the little things that help me get through this stressfull period. I hope you are all doing well. And hopefully I can come back within two weeks this time... Bye!
P.S. I hope this makes it in, because my pc is acting weird... Has it been that long since I've been here that my pc doesn''t even remember how to post...


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Plans to relocated Gunn house advance
WESTPORT -- Despite misgivings, the Historic District Commission and Architectural Review Board gave their conditional blessing Tuesday to plans to permit relocation of the historic Kemper Gunn House to a new site downtown.
To facilitate the project, a unanimous positive review was forwarded to the Planning and Zoning Commission regarding a proposed zone change for a portion of the Baldwin parking lot so the structure can be moved to the Elm Street site from Church Lane. The undertaking will make the Church Lane property available for redevelopment as part of the Bedford Square project planned at the site of the Westport Weston Family Y.
The zone change, if approved, would re-classify a section on the south corner of the parking lot from Residential A to BCD/H. The P&Z was scheduled to discuss the proposal Thursday night.
The two panels on Tuesday also jointly supported proposed modifications to the house, including adding a new stair tower and site work at the new location.
However, officials asked Bedford Square developer David Waldman and his partners to give them an unofficial say in the renovation details going forward.
Some confusion arose during the meeting over whether Waldman and his partners would be required to return before the panels in order to get material and design approval as renovation on the 130-year-old building got underway.
"You have to trust us," Waldman said. "We're not looking to sidestep anything. We just want to move forward."
But at least two commissioners expressed concern that if the details are not put in writing, there could be future repercussions.
"I feel like I would be remiss if I was sitting here and this was the moment of truth and there was no other opportunity," said Betsy Wacker, vice chairwoman of the historic commission.
Waldman pointed out, however, that under the current arrangement with the town, the developers are not required to address details of the restoration, which the historic commission and architectural board might recommend.
"Like the Spotted Horse (restaurant), we are restoring it to have the image of what it was in 1884," he said of the renovations envisioned for the house. "We're going to " do our best to mimic what existed (based on) as much as we can find historically."
"The less I have to do to spend money, the happier I am," Waldman added, but he pledged that when the project is completed it satisfy those who had hoped to see the house saved.
"I need flexibility," he said.
His partner Karen Johnson pointed out, "This is a cooperative process. This is one of the unique opportunities to have a true public-private process."
"We made a proposal to move the house," she said. "We're moving it to town land " we have to work out a long-term lease agreement for the land (but) at this point I'm not sure we have the level of detail that you may be looking for."
"There is a time constraint to get the house down and move it," said Representative Town Meeting member Matthew Mandell, District 1.
"What P&Z needs is that the look and shape of the house is good," he said. "For them, shingles, windows don't matter."
"We have to have a decision," Johnson said. "You have to say the plan that we presented to you is acceptable " We don't want to slow up our regulatory process."
After the P&Z's deliberations on the proposed zone change, Johnson said a hearing for the project's zoning permit and site plan is scheduled for April 24.


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In Jesus name I wish somebody would just give him some praise
In the name of Jesus, is there anybody that could open up their mouth
And just begin to praise the Lord, my God (hallelujah)
In the name of Jesus,
Trials and The Tribulations
He promised you He will never leave you nor forsaken you
But He never promised that you wouldn´t have no Trials or Tribulations
These things are necessary
In your growth and your development in God
The trials and the tribulations, activate the oil on your life
They activate the strength that lays dormant in you
The struggle, the pressure, the law
All these things contribute in defining who you are
The story of your life
That is that precious, precious oil
It´s the handiwork and will of God
Is there anybody that could just begin to declare that God is good
Is there anybody that could just stand up right now
Open up your mouth and tell somebody that God brought me through?
Is there anybody right now that has a testimony that will just call up right now
And tell of the goodness, tell of the mercy of the Lord?
Is He God?
Is He God all by himself?
Somebody give him a praise!
Somebody give him a shout!
Oh hallelujah, glory!
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With the Wireless Charging Case, charging is as simple as placing your AirPods in the case and laying it on a Qi-compatible charging mat. The LED indicator on the front of the case lets you know that your AirPods are charging. And when you're away from a charging mat, you can use the Lightning port to charge. The Wireless Charging Case works with all generations of AirPods and can hold multiple charges.
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Portland, Oregon's 'Green' Garbage Plan
WSJ's Joel Millman checks in on Mean Street to discuss Portland, Oregon, which abolished weekly garbage pickup and now has the attention of other U.S cities that want to copy its "green" waste pickup efforts. Photo: Leah Nash for The Wall Street Journal.
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Cecily Strong will join Seth Meyers as the co-anchor of "Weekend Update" when Saturday Night Livereturns for its 39th season later this month, the New York Times reports.
"Lets hope I make it through the first show without barfing or fainting!" Strong tweeted to MeyersSunday.
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Strong was a fixture on the "Weekend Update" desk in her first year with the sketch show, with her character "Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party."
"As for The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with, it's prob safe to assume that she died somewhere, mid-conversation," Meyers tweeted Sunday.
Responded Strong: "I'm pretty sure she joined a cult."
Meyers, who has hosted "Weekend Update" solo since Amy Poehler left in 2008, is leavingSNL in early 2014 to take over hosting duties at Late Night, but SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels told the Times that he'd love to have Meyers come back to host "Weekend Update" after he's settled in at his new gig.
Season 39 of Saturday Night Live premieres Saturday, Sept. 28 at 11:30/10:30c, with Tina Fey hosting and Arcade Fire performing. Are you looking forward to seeing Cecily and Seth team up for "Weekend Update"?


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Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955) is an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. His work can be seen on Fox, A&E, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal Planet, AMC, Bravo, and The History Channel.
A film and television fan since childhood, Burns grew up in Niskayuna, New York and graduated cum laude from Hamilton College in 1977. In 1981 he received both a master's degree in film from Boston University's College of Communication and a Student Academy Award for his first film, I Remember Barbra (a humorous documentary short which profiled Barbra Streisand's impact on her former Brooklyn, New York neighbors). After graduation, Burns taught film production at the university, as well as heading the school's "Film Unit", a group that allowed students to gain real world experience by producing commercials, PSAs, documentaries and other projects for clients. In 1988, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working as an executive at 20th Century Fox Television.
While at Fox, Burns co-founded Foxstar Productions, the production unit responsible for creating a series of Alien Nation movies for television. In 1994, while serving as Senior VP of Foxstar, Burns founded Van Ness Films, a non-fiction and documentary production unit. That same year, he met Jon Jashni, a Fox film executive who shared Burns' interest in the works of legendary Hollywood producer, Irwin Allen.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Hitting a clutch 3-pointer helped Charlie Villanueva forget a critical mistake.
Villanueva big shot with 9.7 seconds left and Rodney Stuckey's two free throws led the Detroit Pistons past the Milwaukee Bucks 105-100 on Saturday night.
Brandon Jennings, who scored 26 points, took an inbounds pass from Monta Ellis and made a tough fadeaway shot with 47.8 seconds left, but Jose Calderon, who tied his season high with 23 points, came back with a running layup for Detroit that tied it at 100.
After a timeout, the Pistons worked the ball to Villanueva, who got it at the top of the key and swished a 3 with 9.7 seconds left. On the Bucks' next possession, Jennings fired up a 31-foot 3-point attempt with 3.2 seconds left.
''I was kind of disappointed I made a turnover,'' Villanueva said after making a bad pass with less than a minute to play and the game tied at 98. ''I was down on that for a little bit, but I jumped on the next play right away.''
Villanueva said his teammates just made the play happen.
''The guys made the right play. I don't even know who passed it to me,'' he said. ''Once it hit my hand, I wanted to make sure it went in so they could forget about that turnover I did.''
Stuckey's two free throws with 1.6 seconds remaining were the final margin.
Calderon could forgive one miscue, but the team couldn't make another one.
''It doesn't matter if we make a mistake, everybody is going to make a turnover one time,'' he said. ''But, don't make two in a row. Let's slow down.''
Calderon had 10 assists and three steals in his fourth game since coming to the Pistons in a trade on January 30.
''He's jelling. He's jelling,'' Villanueva said. ''He's a tremendous player. We're so glad he's on this team. Finding guys in the right places, very unselfish player. Knows how to play the game. That's what I expect from him.''
Stuckey finished with 19 points, Villanueva 18 and Greg Monroe 14 to lead the Pistons to their third win in four meetings against the Bucks this season. Villanueva also had a season-high 13 rebounds. Kyle Singler had 11 points and Will Bynum added 12 to give Detroit six players in double figures.
''Their team was playing harder than us,'' Jennings said. ''We are not competing to their type of game. It's going to take a team effort.''
Ersan Ilyasova scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Samuel Dalembert had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Milwaukee, which lost its third in a row and fifth out of the last six.
''I don't think I'm reaching when I say we're obviously not on the same page now,'' Mike Dunleavy said after scoring 10 points. ''We're in a funk. Everybody's got their own little issues.''
It was the second game Detroit was without rookie big man Andre Drummond, who is expected to miss four to six weeks because of a stress fracture in his back suffered in Sunday's loss to Los Angeles.
Monroe, starting for Drummond, was not as dominating as he was in Detroit's 119-109 victory over the short-handed San Antonio Spurs on Friday night when he had 26 points and 16 rebounds.
''As a team, we definitely did a good job of staying poised,'' Monroe said. ''Obviously, Charlie hit a big shot, but we got some stops late.''
The Bucks were without the injured Larry Sanders, the NBA leader in blocked shots.
Detroit won the battle in the paint with 52 points to Milwaukee's 38.
Neither team got more than a three-point lead in the fourth.
The Bucks opened the third with a 16-5 run capped by Jennings' steal and layup that gave the Bucks their biggest lead 72-62 at 6:13. Detroit fought right back with a 19-10 run keyed by Stuckey's eight points. His two free throws pulled Detroit to 82-81 heading into the fourth.
Milwaukee made it a close game in the second quarter, but couldn't pull away as the Pistons dominated the paint with 34 points to 18 for the Bucks. Detroit also ran off 16 fastbreak points to five for Milwaukee.
The Bucks erased the Pistons' 33-22 first-quarter lead and went ahead 56-55 on Ilyasova's 3-pointer with under a minute to play in the half. Singler answered for Detroit with a jumper from in close that gave the Pistons a 57-56 lead after two quarters.
Calderon and Monroe had 21 points combined in the Pistons' 33-22 first quarter.
Calderon scored 11 points and had four assists, three rebounds and two steals. Monroe added 10 points, grabbed five rebounds and made three steals. Detroit's defense hounded the Bucks, forcing eight turnovers and converting them into 14 points. Their offense ran off 16 fastbreak points to none for Milwaukee.
NOTES: Detroit shot 60 percent in the first quarter, making 15 of 25 shots. Milwaukee made eight of 23 attempts for 34.8 percent. ... Sanders missed his second consecutive game with a lower back contusion. He landed on his tailbone late in the game with the Denver Nuggets. He is day-to-day. ... Bucks G/F Marquis Daniels missed the game due to a family matter. ... Bucks F Luc Mbah a Moute returned after missing one game with a sore right knee.