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if i read this correctly, there will only be 1 map at a time available.
s2, plz dont let this mistake happen. you have made a VERY smart decision by making the game fun in a way dota and league havent done yet - doing what wc3 did
so please have a tab or some other page that has some sort of list of games, not everyone will want to play the same game, but there should be enough people that want to play each game.
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Looks fun. But could we please, please, please, have chaos mode as an a possibility for midwars?
This is a really good idea for a few reasons, but I think the one that will fly under the radar the most is how easy it would be to monetize this in the future in such a way that rewards community involvement and playtime.
Something like Merrick's Wishing Well: where every patch cycle - players can put 1 Goblin Coin in the well and 'wish' for which community map they would like on the 3rd slot rotation for the next patch cycle. For others who can't spend the Goblin Coin, they get the opportunity to play 10 games of some kind.
Indeed it's a great addition to newerth, and the contest is the thing I'm most happy about. I was worried we weren't introducing any sort of custom maps but rather we were privileged to make some maps which replace rift wars... with the entire community involved we're thus closer to the original goal and eventually we may get there.
This is the best idea s2 announced since ultimate avatars. I am very excited to see where this is heading!
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Oh mah god, this... is... WONDERFUL!!!
I used to hate S2 cus of no support for custom maps... Now i hate em for gold coins prices :O
Good game, well played!
Edit: Also... wish there was some kind of an MPRR... new ranking to see how you adapt to a variety of maps-modes...
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Heh, ive played with the editor a looong time ago, we made a few maps, including a hero defense if i'm not mistaken.
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This announcement almost gave me a heart attack! Dont do this to me guys!
No but seriously this is absolutely fantastic.
Best map I've ever tested in SBT.
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The concept of maps like wc3 custom maps is the best thing HoN has ever done, literally, and it's something that puts it above LoL and DotA2, if only S2 could get the word out that they have this and DotA2 does not.
HOWEVER, this is ruined if only 1 map is going to be available at a time. Let people choose from multiple options! There is no good reason not to do this. Imagine if wc3 battle.net was like "this week only wintermaul, next week only hero siege, 3rd week only hero arena"
that would SUCK.
Also Prophet mode is an interesting idea but I think it sucks, so for example I'm shafted.
Omg guys, you did it again Awesome idea, big thumbs up!
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found the transformation relies on at least two other molecules that can be modified with existing drugs, opening the possibility that they may be able to use the established drugs to treat brain tumors.
The study, reported in Cancer Research, was conducted in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that leads to the development of benign and malignant tumors.
"In addition to opening up several new, exciting possibilities for brain tumor treatment both in NF1 and generally, this research is leading to what could be a very important set of insights into fundamental mechanisms of tumor formation," says the paper's senior author, Joshua Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, neurology and of neurobiology.
Rubin studies general pediatric brain tumor development. His colleague and co-author David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology, specializes in NF1 research and directs the University's Neurofibromatosis Center, where the research took place.
The signaling molecule that scientists studied, CXCL12, binds to a receptor called CXCR4 on the surfaces of brain cells. Other researchers first identified CXCR4 while searching for receptors targeted by HIV during infection. Initially, they assumed that CXCR4's primary responsibility was controlling the movement of immune system cells. However, when they genetically disabled the receptor in mice, it had catastrophic effects on organ systems throughout the body. Further study showed the receptor was associated not only with cell movement but also with cell survival and replication.
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Updated: 01/09/2009 - The Ford County attorney says the county commission unintentionally violated the state's open meetings law last fall when talking to a casino developer.
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Updated: 01/09/2009 - Israeli jets and helicopters bombarded Gaza Friday and Hamas responded with a barrage of rockets on two cities as both sides defied a U.N. call for an immediate cease-fire.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - Gov. Rod Blagojevich faces almost certain impeachment by the Illinois House, a simple majority vote will be enough to impeach. With defenders almost impossible to find, the outcome appears set.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December, the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - Researchers at Cornell University have discovered that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - the ones that spread diseases like yellow and dengue fever - alter their wing vibrations in a mating signal.
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|US-69 / US-160 in Columbus
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K-47 in Girard
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K-7 and US-73 leave Leavenworth going west until intersecting K-192, then turn north, intersecting K-74 near Potter. At Atchison, K-7's overlap with US-73 ends at its intersection with U.S. Route 59. After winding its way through Atchison, K-7 continues north and intersects K-20 near Bendena and U.S. Route 36 west of Troy. The highway turns northwest along an alignment closely parallelling the Missouri River and after passing through White Cloud, ends at the Nebraska border northwest of White Cloud. No corresponding state highway in Nebraska continues from K-7, although a county road continues northwest to Rulo, Nebraska.


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Chicago's Cardinal George, 78, dies after long fight with cancer
Cardinal Francis E. George, the first native Chicagoan to head the archdiocese, died Friday at his residence after nearly 10 years battling cancer.
Cardinal Francis E. George, the first native Chicagoan to head the archdiocese, died Friday at his residence after nearly 10 years battling cancer.
Cardinal Francis George, retired archbishop of Chicago, has been readmitted to Loyola University Medical Center for treatment of hydration issues and pain management, according to archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan Burritt.
In a brief statement Saturday, Burritt said the cardinal had requested the update about his health be released. "He asks for and is grateful for your continued prayers," she added.
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Cardinal Francis George, retired archbishop of Chicago, was admitted to Loyola University Medical Center on Sunday to undergo several days of tests.
A news release from the Chicago archdiocese on Tuesday said the tests were being conducted to evaluate his condition since he stopped treatment for cancer in late January.
"The cardinal continues to count on the prayers of so many who have written to wish him God's blessings," the statement said.
Doctors have exhausted all options in Cardinal Francis George's cancer treatment and have moved on to palliative care.
The cardinal shared that information with news media during a Jan. 30 news conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, following a luncheon where he received the Knights of Columbus' highest honor, the Gaudium et Spes Award.
"They've run out of tricks in the bag, if you like," said George, 78, Chicago's retired archbishop.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George has been dropped from the experimental cancer treatment program at the University of Chicago, according to a press release from the Chicago archdiocese's Department of Communications and Public Relations.
"Recent scans showed that this experimental drug has not been effective in his case, but the physicians and others who are overseeing this trial assured him that the information that they had gathered during his course of treatment will be of benefit to others," the statement said.
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Before an overflow crowd, the archbishop said he had "a bit of a panic attack" when he saw the day's Gospel reading was about Jesus walking on water and calling his disciples to follow him.
NCR Today: Blase Cupich's concelebration choice is noteworthy -- he paid public respect to a mentor while perhaps describing the kind of bishop he would like to be.
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The Art of the Unintellectual Critique of Palin's 'Insufficient Intellectualism'
2:17 PM, Nov 17, 2009 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM
There are thoughtful arguments to be made against Sarah Palin's future as a national politician, her persona as a conservative folk hero, her political ideology. Relatively few liberals or critics in the media bother to make them. It's a testament to how thoroughly they caricatured her the first time around, and how little respect she warrants in some circles, that all questions about her are presumed perfectly settled, and serious engagement about her is often treated as a nuisance to be avoided.
To them, Palin is audacious (not in that good, Obama way) and out-of-line to even write a book. Her criticisms of the McCain campaign leakers who anonymously bashed her while the campaign was still going on are "ungrateful." To venture to promote the book is more audacious still, and means she gets exactly what's coming to her in all interviews and coverage, no matter how unfair. The fact that the book she's daring to promote is selling extremely well means more license still to sully the woman from Alaska once again. I've heard each of these sentiments uttered or implied by pundits or reporters in print, on Twitter, or on TV this week.
The thoughtlessness of these critics, who never see the irony in attacking Palin's alleged anti-intellectualism using debunked doctored photos of the governor in a bikini, is crystallized in Ana Marie Cox's review of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue today. It is perhaps overly generous to call the Washington Post piece a review. It reads like an off-the-cuff e-mail to a friend with very low standards in e-mail correspondence. It's atrocious, not in its assessments necessarily (of which there are few), but in its laziness. I hesitate to excerpt much of it, because at 379 words, I would quickly be dealing with questions of fair use, but here's a taste:
It's a Washington Post book review, for goodness' sake, not a note you pass in between classes before that book report you totz didn't prepare for. In the print version of the article, Cox is introduced as a national correspondent for Air America who has described Palin as "crazypants with arrogant sauce on top," right before she criticizes Palin's take on campaign strategy as unsophisticated. Feel free to click over and read her devastating, postcard-length critique of Palin's, ahem, lack of substance.
But if you're short on time, skip it, and read our own Matt Continetti's thoughtful review of the same book, also in the Washington Post today-a juxtaposition by which Cox's effort suffers all the more. Sure, I'm biased, so here's a taste of his review by which you can judge:
I was originally just going to use this post to tout Continetti's review, but Cox's review was so emblematic of the frequent laziness and lack of professionalism that characterizes media coverage of Palin, that I thought it important to point out.
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Policies result from practical arguments that offer reasons for taking a specific policy action (Ball, 1995). These practical deliberations (also referred to as policy arguments; see, e.g., Dunn, 1990; Fischer, 1980; 2007; Manzer, 1984; Marston and Watts, 2003; Stone, 2001) often involve what science says about likely outcomes of different policy choices. As emphasized in Chapter 1, they also involve political considerations insofar as policy choices influence who has and retains power and normative considerations regarding the desirability (or undesirability) of a proposed action, value judgments, and considerations of legitimacy (Esterling, 2004; Gasper, 1996).
Policy arguments have identifiable characteristics. For example, they are based on "a process through which diverse assumptions, interpretations, and contentions are commonly deliberated through an extended critical debate about policy recommendations and other proposals for public action" (Dunn, 1990, p. 324). Policy arguments generally constitute a package of considerations backed by reasons presented to persuade particular audiences of the validity of and need for a given action (Majone, 1989). The arguments consider not just the policy choice at hand, but how that policy interacts over time with many other policies—does opening a charter school in the community decrease or increase housing prices; do housing prices affect the local labor supply; does the labor supply affect whether a chain store locates in the community?
Obviously, it is a complex undertaking to sort out how the multiple characteristics of policy argument function together to yield a coherent, valid, and persuasive argument (Gasper, 1996; Hambrick, 1974; Toulmin, 1969). Although such an appraisal of policy arguments is necessary to understanding how science is used, that exercise is outside the scope of our report. It serves our purposes simply to emphasize that scientific findings, warrants, inferences, data and qualifications attached to these features of science are assembled in policy arguments in more or less compelling, fair, and balanced ways. This raises familiar issues: is relevant science ignored; does the quality and strength of evidence support the policy claims made; is evidence (pro and con) fully presented, etc.
More specifically, understanding how science is used in policy requires investigating what makes for reliable, valid, and compelling policy arguments from the perspective of policy makers and those they need to persuade. For example, arguments that certain consequences will follow from an intervention in a specific circumstance may involve a chain of reasoning


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Mutated Zebrafish Gene Sheds Light On Human Blindness
Among zebrafish, the eyes have it. Inside them is a mosaic of light-sensitive cells whose structure and functions are nearly identical to those of humans. There, biologists at The Florida State University discovered a gene mutation that determines if the cells develop as rods (the photoreceptors responsible for dim-light vision) or as cones (the photoreceptors needed for color vision).
Described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the landmark study of retinal development in zebrafish larvae and the genetic switch it has identified should shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying that development and, consequently, provide needed insight on inherited retinal diseases in humans.
From FSU's Department of Biological Science and Program in Neuroscience, doctoral candidate Karen Alvarez-Delfin (first author of the PNAS paper), postdoctoral fellow Ann Morris (second author), and Associate Professor James M. Fadool are the first scientists to identify the crucial function of a previously known gene called "tbx2b." The researchers have named the newfound allele (a different form of a gene) "lor" — for "lots-of-rods" — because the mutation results in too many rods and fewer ultraviolet cones than in the normal eye.
"Our goal is to generate animal models of inherited diseases of the eye and retina to understand the progression of disease and find more effective treatments for blindness," said Fadool, faculty advisor to Alvarez-Delfin and principal investigator for Morris's ongoing research. "We are excited about the mutation that Karen has identified because it is one of the few mutations in this clinically critical pathway that is responsible for cells developing into one photoreceptor subtype rather than another."
"What is striking in this case is that the photoreceptor cell changes we observed in the retinas of zebrafish are opposite to the changes identified in Enhanced S-cone syndrome (ESCS), an inherited human retinal dystrophy in which the rods express genes usually only found in cones, eventually leading to blindness," Alvarez-Delfin said. "Equally surprising is that this study and others from our lab show that while alterations in photoreceptor development in the human and mouse eyes lead to retinal degeneration and blindness, they don't in zebrafish. Therefore, the work from our Florida State lab and with our collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University and the University of Louisville should provide a model for better understanding the differences in outcomes between mammals and fish, and why the human mutation leads to degenerative disease."
Morris calls the zebrafish an ideal genetic model for studies of development and disease. The common aquarium species are vertebrates, like humans. Their retinal organization and cell types are similar to those in humans. Zebrafish mature rapidly, and lay many eggs. The embryos are transparent, and they develop externally, unlike mammals, which develop in utero.
"This lets us study developmental processes such as the formation of tissues and organs in living animals," she said.
"From a developmental biology perspective, our research will help us unravel the competing signals necessary for generating the different photoreceptor cell types in their appropriate numbers and arrangement," Morris said. "The highly specialized nature of rods and cones may make them particularly vulnerable to inherited diseases and environmental damage in humans. Understanding the genetic processes of photoreceptor development could lead to clinical treatments for the millions of people affected by photoreceptor cell dystrophies such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration."
The mosaic arrangement of photoreceptors in fish was first described more than 100 years ago, but the J. Fadool laboratory at Florida State was the first to successfully take advantage of the pattern to identify mutations affecting photoreceptor development and degeneration.
"Imagine a tile mosaic," Fadool said. "That is the kind of geometric pattern formed by the rod and cone photoreceptors in the zebrafish retina. This mosaic is similar to the pattern of a checkerboard but with four colors rather than two alternating in a square pattern. The red-, green-, blue-, and ultraviolet-sensitive cones are always arranged in a precise repeating pattern. Human retinas have a photoreceptor mosaic, too, but here the term is used loosely, because while the arrangement of the different photoreceptors is nonrandom, they don't form the geometric pattern observed in zebrafish.
"So how do we ask a fish if it has photoreceptor defects?" he asked.
Fadool explained that because the mosaic pattern of zebrafish photoreceptors is so precise, mutations causing subtle alterations are easier to uncover than in retinas with a "messier" arrangement.
"Just as we can easily recognize a checkerboard mistakenly manufactured with some of the squares changed from black to red or with all-black squares, by using fluorescent labeling and fluorescence microscopes we can see similar changes in the pattern of the zebrafish photoreceptor mosaic," he said. "Karen showed that within the mosaic of the lots-of-rod fish, the position on the checkerboard normally occupied by a UV cone is replaced with a rod. The identity of the mutated gene is then discovered using a combination of classical genetics and genomic resources."
Funding for the Fadool laboratory's zebrafish research comes in large part from a five-year grant totaling more than $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health.
Image 1: This fireworks display is actually a microscope image of a zebrafish retina immunolabeled for ultraviolet cones (magenta) and rods (green). The image shows the regular pattern of the cones and the scattered pattern of the rods typical of a normal fish. The labeling was performed by Karen Alverez-Delfin, doctoral candidate at Florida State University. Credit: Florida State Associate Professor James Fadool and Alverez-Delfin
Image 2: Adult zebrafish are about one inch in length and recognized by many as a popular aquarium species. Credit: Charles Badland, Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University
Image 3: The trio of Florida State University biologists whose research on retinal development in zebrafish larvae sheds new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying that development and provides needed insight on inherited retinal diseases in humans. From l to r: Karen Alvarez-Delfin (doctoral candidate); Ann Morris (postdoctoral fellow); Associate Professor James M. Fadool. Credit: Michele Edmunds, Florida State University Photo Lab
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Health Care Proxy
A health care proxy enables you to appoint, in advance, someone you trust to make health care decisions for you should you become temporarily or permanently incapacitated to such an extent (due to, for example, dementia, stroke or bad car accident) that you are unable to make these decisions for yourself. Your agent can make all the decisions you would be asked to make were you to still be competent, including the decision to terminate life-extending treatments.
Who can make a health care proxy?
Under the New York Health Care Proxy Law, any person over the age of 18 (or if under 18, a person who is married or the parent of at least one child), may make a health care proxy. The proxy law presumes you are competent for these matters unless you have been declared otherwise by a judge or if a guardian has been lawfully appointed to oversee healthcare decisions for you.
Why should I consider a health care proxy?
If you become incapacitated suddenly, someone you trust and who knows what you want will already be in place to make urgent decisions that may save your life or, in the case you have instructed otherwise, avoid drawn out treatment you don't want.
You can avoid family discord: If you think various family members will disagree about what health care decisions to make for you, you can appoint a particular family member or a friend you trust to unburden the rest of the family and avoid disputes.
When does a health care proxy become active?
Your health care proxy activates when an attending physician determines that you lack capacity to make health care decisions—that is, that you lack "the ability to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of health care decisions," and are unable to reach an informed decision about health care treatment options, including the benefits, risks, and alternatives of each option. Note that the physician's initial decision isn't always final:
The physician must inform you orally and in writing of the decision that you lack competency. If you say you are still competent to make decisions, there is a presumption that you are competent, unless a court determines otherwise;
The physician must continuously check to determine if you continue to lack capacity before complying with your agent's decisions on matters that were not part of the initial determination that you lacked capacity.
Note that it is important to make sure your agent knows you have made the health care proxy; a proxy is useless if the agent is unaware of it and/or cannot demonstrate to health care providers that you have appointed an agent. You should give your agent a copy of the proxy.
How do I revoke my health care proxy?
As long as you are competent, you may revoke your health care proxy in any of the following ways:
- By executing a subsequent proxy;
- By notifying the agent orally or in writing that you have revoked the proxy; or
- By engaging in any other act that indicates your intent to revoke the proxy. This can include tearing or burning the proxy or telling everyone you know, including your doctor, that you have revoked your health care proxy.
I want to make a health care proxy:
- Consider who you trust enough to name as your agent and make sure that person is willing to undertake the responsibility.
- A good health care proxy form is available at the New York State Department of Health website. This is an important form, and if you don't otherwise need to see a lawyer about estate planning, you can fill one out and sign it in front of witnesses.
- If you have other estate planning needs to complete along with the health care proxy, get in touch with an experienced estate planning or elder law lawyer.
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Beyond the ballot measures raising the minimum wage in Albuquerque and San Jose and raising wages for hotel workers in Long Beach, there was mixed news for workers, unions, and schools on the ballot measure front.
- In California, two labor-related measures went the right way. Voters passed Proposition 30, which raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent and institutes a 1/4 cent sales tax to fund schools and public safety. They also rejected Prop. 32, which would have limited unions' ability to raise money for political purposes, leaving corporations and billionaires virtually unchallenged in state politics.
- There was also good news in Idaho, where voters strongly rejected laws that promoted online education (which would funnel profits to companies that backed Idaho Superintendent of Public Education Tom Luna, who pushed these laws), used test scores to evaluate teachers and hand out bonuses, and cut collective bargaining rights for teachers.
- Michigan provided some mixed news. On the one hand, the state's anti-democratic Emergency Manager law was defeated. But on the other hand, the attempt to put collective bargaining rights in the state constitution was defeated, as was a proposal to improve conditions for home care workers and the people they serve. The defeat of the Emergency Manager law is a BFD, though.
- The bad news is that charter school initiatives were passing narrowly in Washington and strongly in Georgia. Charter school proponents outspent opponents 17 to one in Washington thanks to money from billionaires like Bill Gates and Alice Walton, overcoming an electorate that had repeatedly rejected such measures in recent years.
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RoleEnvironment.Stopping Event
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Occurs when a role instance is about to be stopped. Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime
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The Stopping event is used to run code when a role instance is being stopped. This event is raised after the role instance has been taken out of the rotation of the load balancer, but before the OnStop method is called. You can use this event to run code that is required for a role instance to shut down correctly. The Stopping event is not raised when the virtual machine of the role instance is rebooted.
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MM 878.1 Titusville Municipal Marina
We try always to stay at this marina.
Titusville was 95 cents a foot with a Boat US discount, electricity $3 for 30 amp, and they gave us a splitter which they locked to the dock, plus 6% tax. We always enjoy it there. They have an email line for cruisers outside the office under an awning so it is always available.
They will not tell you if they have a slip for you until after 10 a.m. because that's when they walk the docks and see who's still there.
They have floating docks, but I don't know why - there's no tide to speak of. They have several washers and three dryers, of which dryers only 2 work well. You can sign up by 8:15 in the a.m. and they will pick you up at 8:30 to go to ACE hardware. Bob did this and he was able to get some things he needed. We walked over to the shopping center and ate in the Tex Mex place for dinner. Some people anchor outside the marina entrance.
There is a resident manatee population in the marina.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A sign at the Birmingham airport fell on a family Friday, killing a 10-year boy and injuring other family members.
Deputy Coroner Derrick Perryman said 10-year-old Luke Bresette was pronounced dead at Children's of Alabama. Two other children were being treated there, and the mother, Heather Bresette, was taken to University Hospital, where spokeswoman Nicole Wyatt said she was in critical condition. Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Derrick Perryman confirms the family is from Overland Park, Kan.
Firefighters estimated the arrival-departure sign weighed 300 to 400 pounds.
Albert Osorio, 46, of Birmingham told al.com (http://bit.ly/XvWV7p) that he was close by when the sign fell. He said a loud boom was followed by screams from the family and witnesses. Then he and five other passers-by lifted off the sign.
"The whole thing flipped down on those kids. It took all of us here to stand it up," he said.
Airport spokeswoman Toni Herrera-Bast said officials aren't sure how the sign fell. She said it happened about 1:30 p.m. Friday in a pre-security area of the airport. The airport continued operating while rescue workers tended to the family.
The airport completed the first phase of a more than $201 million modernization effort and opened newly renovated concourses last week.
Mayor William Bell issued a statement saying the city offered its full support to the Airport Authority in investigating the accident.
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In STO you are required to think about your ship build, and you are required to think about your opponents' abilities while you play. As you advance the game becomes more difficult. The Klingon Front is very simple: you simply fly around and shoot things. The Romulan Front offers slightly more complex battle requirements: you are required to start thinking about tactics and the ships you are fighting and how to survive those encounters. This pattern continues all the way to the Borg Front when you are in the Admiral Ranks and needing to deal with Remodulating and other Borg Faction abilities. The point is to learn as you go: your skill is supposed to grow as your character's grows.


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In federations, federations member contain part of the data that is in a federation. The range of data contained in a federation member depends on the layout of the partitioning you have in your federations. There could be 10s or 100s of federation members covering the full range of values of the federation key. When connecting to federation member, apps use the USE FEDERATION command. USE FEDERATION takes a federation name (f1 below), a federation distribution key name (id below) and a atomic unit value (the guid value in the example below).
1: use federation f1(id='82855FD2-BA4C-4F72-BFB5-78523741C5A8')
2: with reset, filtering=off
USE FEDERATION provides 2 connection types.
#1 The unfiltering connection is just a regular connection to the whole federation member containing this atomic unit. This is no different than connecting to the db name of the federation member. In the example below, I express to connect to a GUID value, however when I query t1 for all rows, I get back all data that is in this federation member's range.
1: use federation f1(id='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')
3: go
4: select * from t1
5: go
1: c1 c2
2: ------------------------------------ ------
3: 08FFE74B-1BC0-460B-AA47-044E2DD7C0E0 b
4: 732ABAAE-8727-4C49-B40B-8013DFB3C735 b
#2 The Filtering connection is a new concept that is available with federations. Filtering connection connect to a slice of a database that contains your atomic unit as opposed to the whole federation member (database). The filtering connection simply eliminates the need to express the federation key value in every query against federated tables. SQL Azure automatically injects the WHERE <federation_column>=federation_filtering_value(…) into all queries that target a federated table. This means the above example returns no rows since there is not rows present for '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' in t1. If I connect to an existing value such as … I only get the rows that are in the atomic unit for t1 for my query. See the example below;
1: use federation f1(id='08FFE74B-1BC0-460B-AA47-044E2DD7C0E0')
2: with reset, filtering=on;
If you establish a filtering connection to a federation member, we do provide the following handy function to return the value back to you in the federation member.
2: with reset, filtering=on
4: select federation_filtering_value('id') as filtering_value
1: filtering_value
2: ------------------------------------
You can also use the function to maintain the federation distribution column in federated tables for DML statements such as INSERTs. In the example below, t1 is created with a default based on this function. once a filtering connection is established, insert statements only specify the value to insert to column c2 and value of c1 is maintained automatically for you by the default property on table t1. Here is a full end to end example;
1: use federation root with reset
2: go
3: create federation f1(id uniqueidentifier range)
4: go
5: select 'use federation f1(id='''+cast(newid() as varchar(100))+''')
6: with reset, filtering=on'
7: go
8: use federation f1(id='82855FD2-BA4C-4F72-BFB5-78523741C5A8')
9: with reset, filtering=off
10: go
11: create table t1(
12: c1 uniqueidentifier primary key default federation_filtering_value('id'),
13: c2 nvarchar(100))
14: federated on (id=c1)
15: go
16: select 'use federation f1(id='''+cast(newid() as varchar(100))+''')
17: with reset, filtering=on'
18: go
19: use federation f1(id='732ABAAE-8727-4C49-B40B-8013DFB3C735')
20: with reset, filtering=on
21: go
22: -- value of c1 is set to the atomic unit value in the filtering connection
24: insert into t1(c2) values('a')
25: go
26: select federation_filtering_value('id')
27: go
28: select 'use federation f1(id='''+cast(newid() as varchar(100))+''')
29: with reset, filtering=on'
30: go
31: use federation f1(id='08FFE74B-1BC0-460B-AA47-044E2DD7C0E0')
32: with reset, filtering=on
33: go
34: -- value of c1 is set to the atomic unit value in the filtering connection
36: insert into t1(c2) values('b')
37: go
38: select federation_filtering_value('id')
39: go
40: use federation f1(id='00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')
41: with reset, filtering=off;
42: go
43: select * from t1
44: go
If you happen to connect using a unfiltering connection, federation_filtering_value() will return NULL as we do not have a known filtering value. That will cause violation due to NOT NULL requirement for federation columns so app will be responsible for specifying an explicit value. I expect bulk inserting and updating of data for example will always explicitly specify federation key value.
Note: This functionality will be in the final version of the product however this does not work on the preview bits just yet. If you are in the technology preview program for federations today, you will get this functionality when we refresh the build to a more recent build.
I would like to use SQL Azure but I want to be able to scale to high volume of data in the future so I started to look at SQL Federations. But I am having issues designing this. Here's a sample
Let's look at the example of a high volume auction site. I am going to use AuctionID as the federation key.
We also have users on the site that both buy and sell at auctions (and also provide ratings to other buyers and sellers).
My federation atomic unit is based on AuctionID. Now it is easy to select the appropriate federation and get the relevant data.
But when I want to find out all auctions my UserID (say 101) sold in, which could be in different federations, how would I go about it? I will have to scan all federations, right?
Now I also want to find out all auctions where my UserID bought from another seller. Again, I will have to scan all federations, right?
The problem is that an atomic unit from Auctions standpoint is different from an atomic unit from a Buyer's (User table) stand point and an atomic unit from a Seller's (still the User's table) is
still different from both.
So how would I solve this problem where I need 3 different atomic units (based on AuctionID or based on UserID from Buyer's stand point or from Seller's standpoint) with SQL Azure federations when
all of this data is related through foreign key relationships??
The bottom line is that I want to be able to filter by Auction (Auctions table) properties, by the buyer properties (Users table) and by the Seller properties (Users table). There is no difference
between buyer and seller from the User table stand point but they are on different side of transaction (the same user can be a buyer for some auctions and seller for other auctions).
If you draw this on a piece of paper, the problem will be readily apparent or maybe I am completely missing something!
Would you or someone on your team please look at this and provide suggestions on how I could do this with SQL Azure Federations?
Thanks for the example. Sharding as a pattern deals with this problem in a few ways. With federations This type of many-to-many relationship can be achieved but requires work in the app side. Here are a few options;
#1 yes; You can search all data for finding the UserIDs: this won't be very efficient especially if this type of query is in a much exercised path of the product.
#2 You can create more federations in your database; one federation scaling out the users and another for the auctions. User_fed can maintain a table that reference to the auctions that the user has a relation to. OR Auction_fed can contain users table to maintain a list of users. However the maintenance of the tables is not done by sql azure federations. It needs to be done by the app. the maintenance can be done lazy or eagerly. Some apps use background consistency checkers to maintain relationships like this across federations, others do cleanup as they retrieve data by validating the data, others utilize broadcast of updates to many tables to maintain the information).
This is fairly brief but hopefully gets to the point. I will do a detailed blog on this topic soon and look forward to more questions there.
Thank you.
Thank you. I like option #2. It does require more storage and application logic but gives the benefit of scalability.
So in the example, I could create a table in Users_Fed called UserAuctions and maintain the AuctionIDs for each UserID. I might need to also maintain some kind of auction summary in this table so that I can build the "My Auctions" list for a user without scanning all individual Auction federations. When the user clicks on a particular auction from the list, I can then retrieve the auction details from that particular Auction federation.
Now I need to figure out how to do the federations with Entity Framework!
In future we hope to make this more automated. Also, there is a post coming on entity framework and federations soon.
Thanks. Looking forward to the blog post with Entity Framework and Federations.
Despite the learning curve, I am also considering Azure Table storage in conjunction with SQL Azure and Lucene.Net (text indexing/searching) as the cost of SQL Azure for low margin high data volume web application is prohibitively expensive (that's an understatement when you consider 50GB for $499.95 per month!)!
I haven't found any good guidelines/tutorials for maintaining indexes in SQL Azure and storing text data in Azure Table storage. But I will keep looking.