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I had a post earlier, but here's lots more information via Hulu's CEO Jason Kilar's post on the Hulu.com blog (images and embedded video removed):
Introducing Hulu Plus: More wherever. More whenever. Than ever.
Everyone on the Hulu team shares three things in common. I'll cover two of those immediately. We'll get to the last one at the end of this post.
First, we are proud to say that we love TV shows. TV shows entertain billions of people across the globe and are among the most durable, high quality forms of storytelling in our society. TV shows play a significant role in billions of people's daily routines.
Second, we believe that the TV show experience — while already great — has the opportunity to be even better. We have great conviction that consumers should be able to watch the TV shows they'd like to watch, whenever they want to watch them, wherever they want to watch them. The Hulu team has taken that conviction and built a very special service we're calling Hulu Plus. The Hulu Plus service is our answer to the question of "What if your favorite TV shows loved you back?"
Hulu Plus is not a replacement for Hulu.com. Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product that is incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service. For almost all of the current broadcast shows on our service, Hulu Plus offers the full season. Every single episode of the current season will be available, not just a handful of trailing episodes. Now there's never a bad time to jump in on a hot new show like Modern Family (which I recommend highly). From Family Guy to Glee, from The Office to 30 Rock, from Grey's Anatomy to Desperate Housewives, from Parks & Recreation to Parenthood, from House to Saturday Night Live, and dozens of other hits, the best time to jump in on any series is any time, and with any episode, that's right for you.
As a Hulu Plus subscriber, you'll now also have access to back seasons or full runs of some of TV's greatest shows. All nine seasons of The X-Files. All three seasons of Arrested Development. Ten seasons of Law and Order: SVU. All five seasons of Ally McBeal. Seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and three seasons of Roswell. Every episode ever of Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives. Classic skits from the first five and most recent five seasons of Saturday Night Live. The list goes on. This is all on top of hundreds of shows already on Hulu.com today. It's a treasure chest in the cloud for TV lovers.
How can someone watch all these TV shows? The only possible way is if someone could pull up these shows wherever they were, on whatever device they happened to have available. That's why we're excited to announce that Hulu Plus subscribers can now watch their favorites through more than just the browser on their Mac or PC.
Let's start in your living room. You're sitting down for dinner, and you'd like to pull Hulu up on your TV. Today you'd have to plug a computer into the TV and try to connect the audio from your computer to your sound system. It's certainly doable, but it's not as easy as it could be. Starting today, Hulu Plus subscribers who own select Samsung Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players can download a Hulu Plus application from the Samsung app store and start streaming Hulu Plus directly.
Now let's say you migrate from the living room to your den or bedroom or patio where you don't have a TV. You can always pull up Hulu Plus on your laptop, but starting today you can access Hulu content via Wi-Fi or 3G on another device: the Apple iPad. I've been watching Hulu on my iPad for several weeks now, and I've watched more TV through the iPad than any other device.
Now let's head out of the house and onto the road. Wouldn't it be nice if, while you were waiting for your coffee order at the local cafe, you could finish watching that episode you started watching that morning on your iPad? Starting today, if you're a Hulu Plus subscriber and you own an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 or third-generation iPod Touch, you can.
The Hulu Plus app on the iPhone streams over 3G and Wi-Fi. It's TV shows in the palm of your hand. A spare five minutes will never be as boring again. You can start watching a show on your HDTV one night, pick up where you left off on your laptop at lunch, watch another chunk on the bus ride home on your iPhone, and finish watching in bed on your iPad. The time to watch your favorite shows is any time you want.
These are the devices shipping with Hulu Plus today. But this is just the first step in our mission to bring you TV wherever you are. We are already hard at work on porting Hulu Plus to other devices and platforms, with PlayStation 3 coming soon. But that's a story for another day.
More content. More devices. But that's not all. We want to take full advantage of beautiful display devices like your HDTV connected to your Samsung Blu-ray player, or your iPad. So for all Hulu Plus subscribers, we'll now stream all native HD content in 720p high definition.
The last question, and an obvious one, is how much this costs. We wanted Hulu Plus to be priced for as many people as possible. We're thrilled to be able to bring all of this to you for the price of just $9.99 a month.
How do you sign up for Hulu Plus? Starting today, we're issuing invitations to become a Hulu Plus subscriber. If you're interested, you can request an invitation here. To ensure we're offering the best experience for all our Hulu Plus customers, we'll be sending out invitations in waves [hint: if you follow Hulu on Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com/hulu) or "Like" Hulu on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/hulu), we'll be handing out invites to a random set from each of those groups from time to time over the coming months]. We'll be sending out as many invitations as we can each week, and as soon as we're ready, we'll remove the need for an invitation and start bringing in new subscribers without delay.
At the start, I mentioned I'd come back to the third thing that all of us at Hulu have in common. That third thing is this: we believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of our customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our content suppliers.
With Hulu Plus, we believe we've met that goal. For our end users, we're offering them the most convenient way to access their favorite shows, on devices they love, in high definition, at a fair price. For our advertisers, who allow us to keep our Hulu Plus price low with the support of ad revenue, we offer one of the world's most effective advertising platforms, with the ability to speak effectively to users across a variety of devices, anywhere they happen to be. And finally, for our content partners, we offer revenues that compensate them fairly for bearing the cost of producing the shows we love.
Is our work done? Not even close. There are more shows to license, more countries to expand into, and more product features to build. And we will.
But for today, we just want to share our latest project with you. We think it's pretty great. We hope you do, too.


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Anthrax is a bacterial disease caused by Bacillus (B.) anthracis. In humans, three types of anthrax infections can occur based on the route of exposure.
For detailed information on Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations on protective gear for your employees, contact your local CDC representative or visit their Web site at www.cdc.gov.
Transmittal and Characteristics
The most common, naturally occurring anthrax infection. May be transmitted via skin contact with contaminated meat, wool, hides, or leather from infected animals. Incubation is from 1 to 12 days. Infection occurs through scratches or skin abrasions.
Infection appears as a raised bump resembling a spider bite. Within 1 to 2 days, it develops into a blister and then a painless ulcer, with a black necrotic (dying) area in the center. The lesion may cause fever, malaise, and headache. Lymph glands in the area may swell.
Anthrax spores must be aerosolized to cause inhalational anthrax. It is contracted by inhaling spores and occurs in workers handling infected animal hides, wool, and fur. The number of spores that cause infection is unknown. Incubation period is unclear, but may range from 1 to 7 days or up to 60 days.
Inhalation anthrax resembles a viral respiratory illness. Initial symptoms include sore throat, mild fever, muscle aches, and malaise. Symptoms may progress to respiratory failure and shock with meningitis. After incubation of 1 to 7 days, the onset of inhalation anthrax is gradual.
Gastrointestinal anthrax usually follows consumption of raw or undercooked contaminated meat and has an incubation period of 1 to 7 days.
Causes acute inflammation of the intestinal tract. Initial signs are nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, fever followed by abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea.
How to Limit Exposure to a Suspicious Substance in the Mail
Develop an emergency plan for steps in response to a known or a possible exposure to a suspicious substance.
Train workers in how to recognize and handle a suspicious piece of mail.
Identify a single point of contact to open mail.
Screen all mail for suspicious packages.
Do not open mail in an area where other personnel are present.
If appropriate, have gloves available for employees who handle mail.

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2010-2011 New SUVs, Trucks, and Minivans: The Ultimate Guide, Part 2
What a difference a year makes. Trucks, vans, and SUVs survived last year's gas price spike to live another day. The notion of what a sport/utility is has evolved. And crossover utility vehicle (CUV) is a more common acronym than ever. Confused? Don't sweat it. We sort it out for you right here, including specs on all the new models,…Read More


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Re "Funding frenzy," editorial, May 24
Your editorial failed to recognize major accomplishments that Congress has achieved under the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including an increase in the minimum wage, the first significant changes to fuel economy standards in decades, new funding for veterans healthcare and college aid, and rebates to provide urgently needed fiscal stimulus.
At the same time, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which I chair, and other committees have reinvigorated oversight and uncovered billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. None of this has been easy given the determined opposition of President Bush and Republicans in Congress, and many of us wish for more change. But the Democratic Congress is providing a new direction for the nation.
Henry A. Waxman
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Health officials on alert for tick fever
By Cindy Yurth
Tséyi' Bureau
WINDOW ROCK, May 24, 2012
S ummer is almost here, which means the Navajo Nation Veterinary and Livestock Program is once again bracing for an epidemic the Navajo Nation has managed to avoid for several years through, near as anybody can tell, sheer luck.
Since 2003, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever has been identified in Arizona. There have been 194 cases and 17 deaths - all Native Americans living on three reservations near Phoenix, and mostly children under eight years old.
Glenda Davis, head of the Veterinary and Livestock Program, says it's no mystery why Arizona's Natives are most susceptible to the sometimes fatal disease.
"It's our culture," she said. "We think we have to let our dogs run free."
The bacterium that causes spotted fever, Rickettsia rickettsii, is transmitted by ticks, and ticks are transmitted by dogs.
For years, it was thought that only three species of tick - the deer tick, the Rocky Mountain wood tick and the Lone Star tick - carried the bacterium. But lately, it has turned up in the brown dog tick. That's the extremely common tick that, unless you regularly treat your dog for ticks and fleas, is probably sucking blood from him right now.
If an infected tick bites your dog, Davis explained, the bacterium gets into the animal's bloodstream, where it can infect the next tick that sucks its blood. If that tick then bites you or your child, it transmits the bacterium to you through its blood-thinning saliva.
If you're lucky, you will soon exhibit the classic spotted rash that characterizes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Your physician will recognize it and give you doxycycline, and you will start to recover in a few days.
But many victims don't exhibit the rash. Instead, they will have flu-like symptoms such as body aches, respiratory problems and nausea. It's quite possible their doctor will tell them they have a flu virus, and send them home with a prescription of aspirin and bed rest.
In eight days, their organs will start shutting down and they could die or be left with permanent neurological symptoms.
Since the Phoenix area tribes are plagued by stray dogs and many pet owners don't believe in confining their pets, the disease has spread rapidly - from 13 cases in 2004 to around 50 last year.
The only mystery, Davis said, is why it hasn't shown up in humans on Navajo, where an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 dogs are running free, and most have ticks.
According to Davis, the Centers for Disease Control sampled blood from dogs in all the Navajo Nation animal shelters in 2005, and found rickettsii in Shiprock and Crownpoint.
That has given the Navajo Nation some lead time in preparing for a possible outbreak.
Davis said her program has alerted the IHS, the community health representatives and the Navajo Housing Authority to be on the lookout for tick infestations and humans or animals exhibiting symptoms of the disease.
But, as with any health problem, the bottom line is personal responsibility.
"This is a very, very preventable disease," she said, "but we have to change our cultural outlook."
The best thing an individual family can do, Davis said, is to stay away from ticks. Check yourself and your children daily for the insects and tweeze them out straight up if you find them. Don't crush them to death with a thumbnail - if they're gorged with infected blood, you may just be spreading the bacterium. Instead, drop them into a bottle of alcohol or bleach.
Once you've been bitten, watch carefully for flu-like symptoms and rush to the doctor if you suspect tick fever. Be sure to tell your physician you've had a tick bite so he doesn't dismiss the symptoms as an ordinary flu.
Here are some other tips:
Treat all your dogs for ticks and fleas, and don't let them roam at large where they can mingle with strays Wash pet and human bedding frequently and dry in dryer (but be aware this isn't a cure - in some life stages, ticks can survive a trip through both the washer and dryer) Keep pet and human sleeping areas separate Don't stack wood against your house Use an insect repellent with DEET when you go outdoors in the summer, or before handling tick-infested pets If you suspect you have a tick infestation in your home, have it professionally fumigated Trim back thick vegetation around your home, and drain standing water (ticks can go weeks without feeding on blood, but need regular drinks of water) Don't leave old mattresses or couches outdoors for summer sleeping - ticks love hiding out in old upholstery Spay or neuter your pet to prevent overpopulation and more roaming strays Turn unwanted pets over to Animal Control rather than releasing them to fend for themselves
In the meantime, arm yourself with education. The NNVLP can provide plenty of written material, or a training seminar for your chapter, church or housing unit.
If everyone is on the alert, it could mean the difference between an epidemic on Navajo and a disease that - so far - we've only heard about.


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Edvin Karl Stromsten, an architect, urban planner, professor of architecture, and part-time resident of Copeces Lane in Springs, died at Southampton Hospital on Aug. 27 after a massive heart attack. He was 80.
Mr. Stromsten earned a certificate of architecture from Cooper Union in New York City, a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master's degree in urban design and planning from City College.
He became a teaching fellow at the University of California and a professor of architecture at Cooper Union, the New York Institute of Technology, and City College. He also lectured at the New School in New York.
He was born on Oct. 4, 1930, to Norwegian immigrant parents. He was raised in Port Jefferson and lived much of his life in New York City and Springs. Mr. Stromsten was an Army veteran of the Korean War.
As a practicing architect, he worked in California, London, and New York City in partnership with other architects and under his own flag. He won awards for large-scale urban renewal projects in Europe and in this country. He designed schools, institutional and religious buildings, university buildings, parks, mass-transit stations, and commercial and residential properties.
The most celebrated and publicized recent work by Mr. Stromsten was a house on Copeces Lane, one of the East End's first attempts at a "net zero" building. The structure is earth-sheltered with radiant heating and cooling and photovoltaic panels that provide most of the energy required by way of a small heat pump. The building was launched as a "green trial" by John Mayo, a volunteer resident who sought to reduce his carbon footprint.
Mr. Stromsten represented the Peconic chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He was part of the Southampton Town task force that redesigned the flow of County Road 39 and helped that town's efforts to rework its standards for waste treatment.
Close to his heart was a project to establish a regional sustainable-design institute that would serve as a resource for all East End municipal planning boards and conservation groups.
Mr. Stromsten served as chairman of the planning and government standing committee of the Peconic chapter of A.I.A. from 2006 to 2010. The chapter encouraged green planning, sustainable community development, and the establishment of a public transportation system for the East End. He also reviewed projects with the chapter's design awards committee.
Mr. Stromsten is survived by Gabriele Roos, his partner for 23 years. He also leaves a brother, Martin Stromsten of Riverhead. A memorial gathering of friends is planned for Oct. 1 at 61 Copeces Lane.


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Introduction to Web Design Basics
HTML can be a little intimidating for those not accustomed to looking at code. That's why we wrote this article as an introduction to web design basics. Once you familiarize your self with the basics, it becomes easier to write your website using HTML code. This article will break down the basics of how to get your HTML page created. We will go over what HTML is, how to create an HTML page, HTML basics, and what program you can use to edit the HTML.
What is HTML?
HTML is Hyper Text Markup language. Web pages read HTML in order to display your website content. Saying "HTML page" is the same as saying "Web page". HTML tags format the document and adds functionality. For example, the headline of your site can use the headline tags
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 and so forth. This makes text larger and bold for headline. The
 being the largest. The
 tag is for paragraphs and so forth. You will learn more about this in our next article called Understanding Basic HTML Tags.
Important! In order for your home page to load, you will need to name it "index" (all lower case because Linux is case sensitive). If you name your home page home for example, the server will not recognize it as the home page.
What program do I use to edit my HTML
There are many ways to create HTML pages. You can use the File Manager code editor, a program like DreamWeaver, Notepad ++, Kompozer, PageBreeze, CoffeCup, Edit Plus or any text editor to create an HTML page. HTML is stored in regular text files. You simply name the file .html or .htm file extension. Our servers view .htm before .html in the normal file indexing. So if you have a file called index.htm and a file called index.html, the index.htm will load and not the index.html when visiting your site.
HTML basics: open and closed tags
In HTML, there are 2 types of tags: Open and Closed tags.
The opening and closing tag
A tag that closes has 2 tags: an opening and a closing tag. See the following example;
The  is the beginning or opening tag and the  is the ending or closing tag. These tags have content or other HTML tags within them. Tags within another tag is called an Element. The following example shows the  with an Element in it.

This is text in my website.

The beginning  tag tells the browser that the body of the page starts there and the  tag tells the browser the body of the page stops there. The
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The self closing tag
The tag that is left open has only one tag. The end of the tag contains a ( / ) telling the browser that the tag ends. An example of a tag that is left open is the following:
<link href="/support/" rel="" type="" >
There is no content that goes in this type of tag. These tags store HTML attributes that are used to reference other files or have attributes added to them. Common tags that don't close are the <link />, <input />,
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How to create your first HTML page
In order to create a web page so it is properly read by the web browser, you will need 4 different HTML tags. Below is a table explaining the necessary tags for your webpage.
Important! <!DOCTYPE html> The <!DOCTYPE html> type tells the browser how the webpage is coded. This allows some sites to be rendered strict to the newest coding standard or to use a transitional type that allows older deprecated HTML tags in the document type. Don't worry about the type of document type for now. This is not a tag; however, it is needed at very top of the webpage code.
Basic webpage tags
The  tag tells the browser that the code is an html document.
The <title> tag sets the text of the page for the browser toolbar and search results. This is not seen on the webpage itself. This is required in the head section of your Webpage.
The  tag is where code is stored that processes styles, scripts and links to internal documents and so forth. These do not display on the webpage. The tags used in the head section are <title>,


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To honor James Marston Fitch's legacy during the centennial year of his birth, the Fitch Foundation will engage today's leading heritage protection experts in one of Professor Fitch's most passionate topics of discussion and reflection, the roles of esthetics in architectural preservation.
Speakers: Erica Avrami, Susan Buck, Rick Cook, David DeLong, Andrew Dolkart, William Higgins, Alison Hirsch, Charles Lockwood, Randy Mason, Frank Matero, Theo Prudon, John Stubbs, Michael Van Valkenburgh, George Wheeler
Saturday, 26 September, 2009
9am - 5pm
at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, New York City
The opening reception will be held Friday evening from 6pm to 8pm at the Arsenal in Central Park, located on Fifth Avenue at 64th Street.
Hosted by the Fitch Foundation and Columbia University's Preservation Alumni.
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The Administrator's Council is the ARS' chief deliberative body, bringing together line management, program management, and program support to confer on issues of importance to the agency. The AC supports the Administrator by providing in-depth discussion and counterpoint as input to high-level decisions and broad agency policy. The AC maintains an active discussion on issues with future implications for the Agency. The purpose of the AC is to provide the leadership that will ensure the most effective and efficient support, direction, and management of research in the Agency.
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Cub Scout Ice Skating
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Belt Loop and Pin
Ice Skating Sports Belt Loop
Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- 1. Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
- 2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of skating.
- 3. Go ice skating with a family member or den for at least three hours. Chart your time.
Sports Pin Requirements
Earn the Ice Skating belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- 1. Participate in a pack or community skating event.
- 2. Demonstrate how to sharpen your skates correctly.
- 3. Demonstrate how to lace, assemble, and dissemble your skates correctly.
- 4. On two occasions, spend at least 30 minutes practicing warm-up exercises before skating.
- 5. Play a skating game on the ice.
- 6. Learn two new figure-skating skills: Forward Swizzles, Glides, Backward Swizzles, and Backward Wiggle.
- 7. Demonstrate how to "start" in a speed skating race.
- 8. Explain the difference between long-track and short-track speed skating.
- 9. Participate in a skating skill development clinic.
- 10. Tell about an Olympian athlete in figure skating or speed skating. What were some of his or her best traits?
- 11. Play a game of ice hockey.
- 12. Participate in a hockey skill dvelopment clinic.
- Earning the Cub Scout Ice Skating Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is an option for requirement 3 of the Sportsman Activity Badge.
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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
RETRY_ONLY is the internal name of the Retry-only error process. The purpose of this error handling process is to alert an administrator when an error occurs in a process and prompt the administrator to retry the process in error. The process automatically terminates when the error is no longer active.
Although you cannot edit the Retry-only process, the process is flexible enough for you to customize its behavior. You can define two item type attributes called WF_ADMINISTRATOR and ERROR_TIMEOUT in your item type that calls the Retry-only process to control the error processing that is performed.
The Initialize Error activity calls a PL/SQL procedure named WF_STANDARD.INITIALIZEERRORS. This procedure determines if the item type of the errored process has an item type attribute defined with an internal name of WF_ADMINISTRATOR. If it does, it sets the performer of the subsequent notification activity, NTF with RETRY Only, to the role stored in WF_ADMINISTRATOR. If it does not, the subsequent notification activity remains set to the default performer, System Administrator.
By checking for an item attribute called WF_ADMINISTRATOR in your errored process' item type, the Initialize Error activity lets you specify who you want a notification to be sent to in the case of an error in your specific process without modifying the error process.
The NTF with RETRY Only activity sends the Retry As Only Option message to a performer (the System Administrator or whatever role is stored in your item type's WF_ADMINISTRATOR item attribute). The message indicates that an error has occurred in the specified process and prompts the administrator to retry the activity that errored. The error process then transitions to the Retry function activity and ends the Retry-only error process.
Note: The notification message's embedded URL link displays the process in error in the Workflow Monitor with full administrator privileges. You can perform actions such as retrying, skipping or rolling back part of your process within the Workflow Monitor to resolve the error.
The subject and body of the Retry As Only Option message are as follows:
Subject: Error in Workflow &ERROR_ITEM_TYPE/&ERROR_ITEM_KEY
Body: An Error occurred in the following Workflow.
Item Type = &ERROR_ITEM_TYPE
Item Key = &ERROR_ITEM_KEY
User Key =&ERROR_USER_KEY
Error Name = &ERROR_NAME
Error Message = &ERROR_MESSAGE
Error Stack = &ERROR_STACK
Activity Id = &ERROR_ACTIVITY_ID
Activity Label = &ERROR_ACTIVITY_LABEL
Result Code = &ERROR_RESULT_CODE
Notification Id = &ERROR_NOTIFICATION_ID
Assigned User = &ERROR_ASSIGNED_USER
The NTF with RETRY Only notification activity has a dynamic timeout value assigned to it. It checks the item type of the process in error for an item attribute that has an internal name called ERROR_TIMEOUT. ERROR_TIMEOUT must be an attribute of type NUMBER. The Workflow Engine interprets the timeout value of this attribute as a relative offset from the begin date of the activity, in the unit of MINUTES. If ERROR_TIMEOUT contains a null value, a value of zero, or is not defined at all, then NTF with RETRY Only has no timeout.
The Workflow Engine initiates the Error Still Active function activity if the NTF with RETRY Only activity times out.
The Error Still Active activity calls a PL/SQL procedure called WF_STANDARD.CHECKERRORACTIVE. The purpose of the Error Still Active activity is to determine whether the errored process is still in error before continuing with the error handling. If it is, Error Still Active returns TRUE and the Workflow Engine transitions back to the NTF with RETRY Only notification activity to send another notification to the administrator. If the errored process is no longer in error, this activity returns False and the error handling process ends, as modelled in the process diagram.
The Retry function activity executes the PL/SQL procedure WF_STANDARD.RESETERROR to clear the activity that was in error and run it again. This procedure calls the WF_ENGINE.HandleError API to rerun the activity.
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What's that? You need some more Instagram news for Windows Phone to keep going? Well, we don't have any more info on an official app, though May keeps popping up. In the meantime, it looks like a new contender is getting ready to enter the field: Itsdagram.
Made by developer Daniel Gary (who also makes the popular Pinsation app), Itsdagram steps up its game against the current uploader Instagraph in that it allows unfettered, direct access to Instagram's service. That means you can create an account, upload directly for posting, deleting, commenting, liking, searching, tagging, etc.--just about everything else an official client can offer. Check out the video below to see it in action.
So how does it work if there is no middle-man server? Well, it uses the Instagram API, ahem.
Now that raises all sorts of issues, including if Instagram alters it and whether or not they will tolerate such an app on the Store. There is some precedent for either way, after all, all of those HD YouTube video and Pandora apps on Windows Phone are using "hacked" APIs too and they're still alive and kicking. However, Instagram is kind of a prickly company, so who knows how they will respond to this app.
Pricing looks to be set for $1.49 with a free trial (one upload to test) and we're looking at one to two weeks for submission as final features are being instantiated. The app itself has no filters, but with the small army of apps that already do this for Windows Phone, many of which are free, we don't see that as a problem.
Once again, the Windows Phone community finds a way. The only questions remain is if an official client is on the way and if it is any good (rumors suggest it's an iOS port with very few features—then again, it'll be free).
Stay tuned for more information on Itsdagram here at Windows Phone Central. Leave a comment and share your thoughts on this option for your heavy Instagram users. Yay or nay?


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Electrical Engineering Seniors Tackling Technological Projects
SOCORRO, N.M. December 9, 2009 – Five teams of electrical engineering seniors are culminating their undergraduate years with ambitious capstone projects.
The 20 budding engineers are working with National Laboratories, research organizations or professors to solve technological challenges for practical issues.
Each team has a difficult challenge in designing, simulating and building state-of-the art instruments. The projects span a diverse range of applications, from the analysis of lightning, the monitoring of cave and water conditions, to experiments involving lasers and high-speed protons.
In three of the cases, the teams have been asked to improve existing instruments to make them more efficient, more accurate, lighter or more robust – or all of the above.
Instructor Dr. Rene Arechiga said the Senior Design class is an important stepping stone for college students to make the transition to their first job or to graduate studies.
"This gives them the opportunity to explore their interests," Arechiga said. "These projects are challenging so they can feel confident that they'll be successful where they go."
The five projects:
1) Lightning Interferometer: Professor Dr. Bill Rison tasked a team of students to design, build and test a new interferometer using more modern instrumentation than the one built 20 years ago. Their advisor is Dr. Aly El-Osery.
2) Wireless Cave Sensing Network: Professor Dr. Anders Jorgensen asked students to modify an existing design to be less bulky and more powerful. Their advisor is Dr. Scott Teare.
3) Submersible Water Quality Sonde: Professors Dr. John Wilson and Dr. Michael Pullin want students to design the next generation of water chemistry sensor. Their advisor is Dr. Kevin Wedeward.
4) Barium Laser: Air Force Research Labs/Research-Directed Energy Lasers/Center for Excellence(AFRL/RDL/COE) are working with students to design a continuous beam barium laser. Their advisor is Dr. Hector Erives.
5) Beam Position Monitor: Los Alamos National Laboratory and National Instruments have asked that students extensively simulate and preliminarily implement a system to monitor the position of particles within the LANL particle accelerator. Their faculty advisor is Dr. Robert Bond.
Each of the teams has significant technical challenges and obstacles standing between them and success. The first three teams are working on improving existing instruments. Their obstacles are both technical – building a better mousetrap – and financial – staying within modest budgets.
Team 1 is Cody Winclechter, Ian Johnson, Austin Silva and Teague Bick. In their preliminary design review, they reported that they have extreme limitations in weight, size and power.
A former Tech graduate student designed a prototype of a network of sensors to monitor cave environments, but the original design was extremely bulky and required regular maintenance. Dr. Jorgensen now wants the electrical engineering team to modify the prototype to be lightweight, reliable and capable of running independently for an extended period of time.
Their challenge is to design a system that uses power-conserving processors and the latest generation of batteries and that can be programmed remotely.
Team 2 is Alejandro Valdivia, Patrick Leahy, Josh Aragon and James Smith. Their task is to design a submersible instrument that can measure temperature, pressure, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and other chemical analyses. Plus, they have to do it for less than $500.
Manufacturers currently offer these instruments, but they are expensive. Dr. Arechiga said the team may be able to reverse engineer an off-the-shelf sensor and design a new one.
"If they can modify an existing instrument and satisfy the constraints of the project, that would be great," he said. "But that would be hard to do. This project is not technologically easy."
Team 3 is Jennifer Leue, Andrew Ronquillo, Luke Uecker and Brian Kamer. Most lasers operate on pulses. Their challenge is to design a continuous beam barium laser. In their preliminary design review, they said they are examining methods of depopulating the metastable electrons in order to create a continuous beam.
Team 4 is Vanessa Salas, Nikos Arechiga, Will Taylor and Ryan Schlegel. They are designing and building a state of the art radio interferometer for the imaging of lightning.
The interferometer generates two-dimensional images of lightning by looking at the orientation of the radio wave emissions generated by lightning as they are received. The interferometer will complement the Lightning Mapping Array currently used by
Langmuir Labs in their mission to better understand lightning and its underlying processes.
"They will look at different interferometric techniques … to try to have a better picture of lightning," Professor Arechiga said.
Team 5 is Matthew Aurand, James Castillo, Dominic Candelaria and Scott Freund. They are working with scientists at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, or LANSCE, to simulate the monitoring of the position of a beam.
The Neutron Science Center is home to a massive, particle accelerator. Charged particles are shot through a mile-long tube, then directed toward a large circular accelerator and storage system (the proton storage ring). Los Alamos scientists want to monitor the position of the particles as they travel at nearly 85 percent the speed of light.
"They are simulating the acquisition and processing of data at very high speeds," Dr. Arechiga said.
Ultimately, the Neutron Science Center facility wants 20 of the NMT-designed monitors distributed around the proton storage ring, all connected to one computer.
The team has access to National Instruments products and engineers, as well as support and resources from Los Alamos staff scientists.
Each team has a sponsor to whom they report their findings and can offer advice, input and feedback, as well as a faculty advisor from the department to help the students adapt to the tough, industry environment.
Throughout the school year, the teams meet with their sponsors and faculty advisors, and also have periodic public presentations to a wide array of electrical engineering students, faculty and the department's advisory board.
The class isn't simply a technical challenge, though. The students also learn about ethical matters, teamwork, oral and written communication skills, budgets, planning and project management.
"We're preparing them for their next move," Arechiga said. "This is the final touch."
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Bayley said he was excited to learn that he got the award.
"I'm a non-traditional student, so for me to receive a scholarship is very helpful," he said. "It allows me not to worry about money."
Originally from Pennsylvania, Bayley worked as a plumber for 12 years before "finally getting the guts to go back to school," he said.
He is studying explosives and hopes his career plans involve work at Sandia National Laboratory.
Heister is a 2010 graduate of New Mexico Tech who is now pursuing his master's in mechatronics. He went to high school at Hope Christian School in Albuquerque.
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English-Greek Talking Dictionary for. A talking bidirectional dictionary that features advanced functionality and up to 1,000,000 entries. Ectaco LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary English - Greek for iPhone is an instant bilingual bidirectional translation solution. It incorporates the most complete databases and dependable accuracy. The Dictionary contains an extensive vocabulary, a choice of 5 display languages and advanced TTS (text-to-speech) voice capabilities. It is a user-friendly translation tool with robust search utilities, it ensures reliable results every time. LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary features: Comprehensive and fully updated bilingual, bidirectional vocabulary database. Advanced Synonym Search (provides a list of alternatives for the selected word) Translations complete with part of speech, gender, comment, transcription, and examples Includes transcriptions for all English entries Advanced TTS (text-to-speech) functionality Customizable interface English, French, German, Spanish and Russian display language options Input Line search finds any word matching the sequence of symbols you enter History function to view and select previously entered words.


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Dexter Pint Glass 4 Pack
Have a cold one with Dexter
- Set of 4 16 ounce pint glasses
- From the Showtime hit, Dexter
- Feature the Dexter show logo
After a long day of analyzing blood spatter and a long evening of murder, you deserve a nice cold drink. Maybe a beer? Or a soda? Some milk and cookies? Oooh, or a milkshake. Of course, that would involve the blender. Not sure that's clean after last time we used it...
Peel that plastic wrap off last night's leftovers, and while they're microwaving, pour yourself a nice cold beverage in one of your very own Dexter Pint Glasses. This set comes with four pint glasses, emblazoned with the Dexter logo.
Product Specifications
- Set of 4 pint glasses from the Showtime hit, Dexter
- Each holds 16 ounces of your favorite post-murder brew
- Emblazoned with the Dexter show logo
- Love your glasses: Hand wash to keep artwork looking great longer
- Officially licensed Dexter collectibles


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Why Aren't New Moms Using Their Maternity Leave?
Many companies in the US don't offer paid maternity leave to new moms. And now that nearly 40 percent of them are their family's sole breadwinner, a new survey finds mothers aren't taking much time off before going back to work.
A CareerBuilder survey of 600 working moms revealed that a quarter of them who've had a baby in the past three years didn't take all the maternity leave allowed by their employers. More than a third were off less than six weeks, and one in 10 took only two weeks of R&R after giving birth.
Increasing financial pressures have also meant moms are having a harder time balancing their personal and professional lives, with a quarter saying they've missed at least three significant events in their children's lives in the last year due to work obligations. Even worse, 30 percent of working moms report spending less than two hours a day with their kids.
Hope Gurion, chief development officer at CareerBuilder, said, "As more moms assume the sole or primary breadwinner role in their households, they're feeling increasingly torn between providing financial security for their families and having quality time at home."


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UNIFORM | Wolverine 1000 Mile Collection by Samanta Pleet
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that it's taken me the better part of a year to blog about the Samantha Pleet for Wolverine collection. It's been on my list since last Spring, but it wasn't until this weekend at the Echo Park boutique Myrtle that I actually saw the boots in person, held them, and tried them on. I knew I'd be a fan from the photos and all I read, but now I can say confidentially that these boots are a good buy. They're comfortable, great-looking, versatile, made in the USA, and each style is named after a famous adventuress—what else do you want from a pair of boots!? Because Myrtle owner Whitney Bickers is a true blue friend of Tomboy Style, she's offering readers 30% off of Samantha Pleet clothing, like this blazer and shorts combo through Friday 12/14 (prices already marked down on website). You can also purchase Samantha Pleet X Wolverine's Bonny Boot (named for 18th century treasure hunter Anne Bonny) and The Blixen Boot (named for Danish explorer Karen Blixen, made famous by Meryl Streep's portrayal in Out of Africa) through Myrtle and get free shipping with the code VERYMERRY.
4 comments:
- Tassels and Ties said...
Those boots look amazing and versatile. I regret that they aren't made in my size :/ Thanks for sharing.
- December 9, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Whitney said...
For Tassels and Ties--
Though you will see 6-10 in most stores, Wolverine does special order as small as a 5 and as large as an 11!
- December 9, 2012 at 5:25 PM
- Joy said...
the boots are pure perfection. seriously considering getting them.
- December 9, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- megan kathleen mcisaac said...
seriously can't wait to walk a thousand miles in my pair.
- December 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM
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PORIRUA, New Zealand, March 25 (UPI) -- Shoppers at a New Zealand store said they were shocked to see a baby left alone in a car with a note and phone number from the mother.
A man who asked not to be named told The New Zealand Herald he arrived with his family at the Pak'n'Save in Porirua around 9 a.m. Saturday and he spotted a baby alone in a neighboring car.
The man said there was a note with the baby.
"It was written from the baby's perspective, and it said, 'My mum's in doing the shopping, call her if I need anything', and it had the cellphone number," the man said. "We waited there for a little bit, wondering if the mum was just going to be two seconds and come back. And my wife said, 'I'm not going in without someone being here with the baby.'"
The couple said they went inside when another pair of customers agreed to stand vigil until the mother emerged. The newly arrived couple called the cellphone number on the note and asked the mother to come out.
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I remember watching this movie a long time ago - and just laughing and crying - but somehow watching it this week as I gpt ready to make my card - I appreciated this movie at a whole different level. I think it is because this is the first time I am re-watching the movie after becoming a mother... and the experience was totally different. I feel like I understood SaField's role sooo muc more - and the scene with Julia Robetrts and her baby - when her husband comes home ( - that scene just had me in tears - I can't imagine something like that - and it was hard for me to watch that - because I was thinking of my little wee ones... I adore adore Sally Field in this movie - she is such an inspiration - and her relationship with her daughter in this movie is so real, perfect and wonderful.
So it was that relationship that I wanted to honor and I used Julee's awesome sketch from this week's Mojo Monday #85 for this card - along with her beautiful stamps from Verve. The sentiment is from the Because of You stamp set and the flowers are from the Wishful Elegance set. I absolutely Adore this sentiment - and thought it really captured the mother/daughter relationship between Sally Fields and Julia Roberts.
I have to say that it wasn't until I became a mother -that the fullness of all that my mother had gone through and undergone really hit home. I have always always always adored, and admired my mother - she is my rock. And it was only when I held my first born that I truly understood that ache in a mother's heart --- it is an ache of love, of fierce protection, of letting go, of unconditional love -- a love so deep - that it can cut metal - a love so nourishing, that it can heal all wounds - a love so unbounded - that all sorrows melt into joy.
I only hope that I can be a quarter of the mother that my mom has been for me - she is truly inspirational and is the rock of my heart.
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