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This is a great idea! I'm going to show my friends and see if I can drum up some interest, as I want to see this project get more exposure.
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter computer game where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
As the CEO put in charge of taking over the planet, it is your job to build large base complex's containing all the facilities you need, construct factories to produce robotic troops, research high technology to give you an edge over the competition and of course direct your army to annihilate the opposing company.
Each facility is designed to snap easily together with another to create a seamless complex, which can then be upgraded with defence turrets, doors, forcefields and many other exciting technologies to help defend you from attack.
As well as building you base, you will also need to control your armies to attack, defend and conquer new ground using high tech weaponry and cunning strategies to defeat your opponent. From nimble robots who are the back bone to your army, to heavy tanks and walkers to crush all who oppose. Along side your troops you will have access to long range artillery and missiles to take out unsuspecting units from afar.
Scattered across the map are various resources to help you improve and build your operation, from Thorium crystals to help boost power, to random meteorite impacts to give you rare resources for constructing the most powerful of units.
Have you ever played your favourite strategy game and wished you were down there with your troops? In Executive Assault you can be!
Take control of any of your units from down on the ground as a robot or tank or take to the skies and bomb from your fighter jets or huge shielded hover cruisers, its completely up to you!
Unlike most RTS games with FPS elements in Executive Assault you will be able to enter the buildings that have been constructed and fight from inside adding a whole new dimension to the RTS genre. Be down there in your robot factory defending it from the oncoming hordes, or assault the opposing power station by breaking in and sabotaging their power grid.
Each unit in Executive assault can be designed and customized to meet the needs of the battle. So if you find your being attacked by heavy walkers, then counter with heavy beam lasers to slice them down to size. Or if you find hordes of little bots are your problem, then upgrade your turrets with machine guns to rip them to shreds. In Executive assault the decision is yours.
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I am very excited to announce that Executive Assault is now live on the Steam store, ready to come out as Early Access on the 11th of March for £14.99: Store.steampowered.com
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
The current Early Access version of Executive Assault has both single player skirmish mode, multiplayer (player vs player), over 100 different technologies, 16 controllable units (Robots/Air/Vehicles), 5 exciting maps to play, base and unit design, resource gathering and much more.
A link to the Steam video is below.
This is a great idea! I'm going to show my friends and see if I can drum up some interest, as I want to see this project get more exposure.
That would be awesome! Currently working on a graphical update so should be looking a bit nicer soon.
Very nice. It's like a 3D Cortex Command.
Best of luck to you, and I'll be watching eagerly.
You were inspired by a game call Urban Assault by Microsoft weren't you?
Looks great though man. Heck I might even buy it when done.
Hmm, not heard of Urban assault, but looks interesting though. The inspiration was more playing RTS/FPS/4x games for over a decade now(shows my age) and thinking "Wouldn't it be exciting to be down there in the combat too?". Also like Rudd in the comment below said about the lack of innovation in RTS, thought it would be fun to make something that has a bit more depth and concentrates on game play and excitement.
Ah ok.
Are you making this yourself?
Nice to see some innovation in RTS at last! It's been so dead for ages!
looks good! is a linux version planned?
Possibly, it would be nice to have the game on Linux as well as on the Mac
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A server application program is disclosed that runs on a server and provides a client with multilingual support, but does not have a multilingual database on the server and does not need to access a remote multilingual database as the application program is running. The server application program, having at least one module written in an interpreted language, interacts with locally available language module files. These files contain extracts from multilingual databases, but are formatted to be read as variables containing text strings by the interpreter used in conjunction with the sever application module written in an interpreted language. This allows extremely fast and dynamic access to a set of multilingual text strings, providing multilingual support of an application on a server with significantly greater speed and versatility than previous designs.
1. A method of providing multilingual support to a client computer across a computer network, comprising:
receiving a service request from a user over the computer network,
determining a language choice from the service request;
determining that the language choice can be supported by one of a set comprising: a local language module and an optional language module;
if the language choice can be supported by the local language module, then using the local language module to interact with the user;
if the language choice can be supported by the optional language module, then obtaining the optional language module and using the optional language module to interact with the user, wherein using the optional language module comprises extracting text strings from the optional language module as a set of extracted strings, providing the set of extracted text strings as a set of local variables to an interpreted-language program; and
fulfilling the service request and presenting the set of extracted text strings to the user.
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7. A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed by a computer, provide multilingual support to a client computer across a computer network, by:
receiving a service request from a user over the computer network,
determining a language choice from the service request;
determining that the language choice can be supported by a one of a set comprising: a local language module and an optional language module;
if the language choice can be supported by the local language module then using the local language module to interact with the user;
if the language choice can be supported by the optional language module then obtaining the optional language module and using the optional language module to interact with the user, wherein using the optional language module comprises extracting a set of text strings from the optional language module as a set of extracted text strings, providing the set of extracted text strings as a set of local variables to an interpreted-language program; and
fulfilling the service request and presenting the set of extracted text strings to the user.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/666,028, filed Sep. 20, 2000, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,687,736.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention pertains generally to software application programs requiring multiple language support. More particularly this invention is directed to an improved system and method for providing multiple language support to an application having a remote language database.
2. The Prior Art
Application programs that are expected to be used by persons speaking different languages require multiple language support. This requirement falls on all applications having any type of user interface, from older character-cell based user interfaces to the most current graphical display user interfaces. In each case, there will be text displayed that must be in the language of the user. In some cases multiple languages will be in use at the same time.
Initially application programs were rewritten for each target language. This solution required a separate code base for each target language. Having multiple code bases for a single application creates problems. Considerable logistical complexity is created when there are multiple code bases. Multiple code bases also create significant maintenance problems because of the coordination and propagation of changes between multiple parallel development efforts. The separate code base solution proved prohibitively expensive for continuing multilingual distribution of applications.
The next solution in providing multilingual support avoided the multiple code base problems by introducing a single code base with different software modules that contained language text strings. Text strings, and other variables used by the program, are all placed in one location. This location, a separate module and often a separate file, gets compiled into the final program and contains text strings for all the places in the user interface that have textual portions in the display. Files containing variables needed during the execution of a program are sometime called environmental files, and generally contain data that is expected to be changed during the life of the program with more frequency than the code base. Depending on the application text strings where kept in separate modules, files, or with other data in environmental files.
In the case of providing different language support, modules would include text strings from one or more languages that are to be used in the user interface, or could have a different language module for each supported language. These files are then built-in to the application program by being part of the program build, or being in the complied version of the program. Thus, the application is built using specified language modules or files whose contents may vary depending on the compiled program's target audience.
The physical topology of computer systems used for the two multilingual support solutions just discussed were the large, centralized computers predominant one to two decades ago. In such installations there would be a computer or set of computers in a centralized location, examples being IBM 360s or CDC Cyber 6000s. User interface equipment consisted of hardwired terminals, coupled with the central computers using MUXes and similar equipment. As a result of the physical architecture, all the software on this system is colocated with the central computer or computers. Everything from the operating system to the application is on one machine or a closely coupled set of machines in close physical proximity with dedicated high-speed system interconnects.
As network technology matured typical system topology evolved, changes began occurring in typical systems topologies, especially at the front-end connections to the traditional computer rooms. There was still a central computer or cluster of computers, which typically had a relatively large amount of secondary storage, including any databases, connected directly to the centralized computers. Example computers would include mainframes such as DEC VAX 8000 series or IBM 390 series, or "midi" machines such as DEC VAX 6000-series. The significant changes were occurring at the system's front-end. Terminals were now typically connected through a LAN rather than through dedicated terminal connections. An example of such a connection is DEC's LAT protocol running on an Ethernet-based LAN. In addition small local LANs having a relatively small number of individual systems, mostly IBM PC's or clones running some version of MS-DOS, were connected through the LANs to the centralized systems. Applications were typically terminal emulators with character-cell based applications, or with very limited graphics.
The physical system topology just discussed had the property of maintaining large or complex application programs on the central computer systems because the smaller systems didn't have the computing capability nor the storage capability to run larger applications. Networks were relatively slow, and the user interfaces where virtually all character-cell based.
Referring again to multilingual support for software that was evolving along with the hardware, the use of a single code base with language modules took care of the maintenance problems found with multiple code bases. Other limitations still existed, however. When language modules are compiled into an application, changes to the language files require recompiling and reinstalling the program. Thus when changes occurred the program would have to be stopped, perhaps uninstalled, and the newly compiled version installed. In addition to being a fair amount of work for the system administrators, this necessitated periods of time when the application wasn't available ("down-time"). Down-time was expected, even if barely tolerated, when most applications ran on main-frames inside of computer centers. The issue became increasingly problematic as the availability of smaller, individualized, local systems came into increasingly common use. As more machines were being used by people not disciplined or tolerant in the ways of the centrally controlled main-frames with their scheduled downtimes, users pushed for no down time. No down-time is often characterized by the system's availability in hours (up to 24) and days (up to 7); no down-time corresponds to all-hours, all-days availability or 24�7 availability.
At the same time, application developers were making increasing use of databases to support multilingual applications. This meshed with the increasing need for 24�7 availability for applications having multilingual capabilities. Using a database allows the application to stay up regardless of what was happening to the database. It allows for changes to be made to the database independently from the running application, and allowed very substantial changes to be made to the data stored in data bases without affecting the running application. If a switch-over from one set of data to another was needed, it could be accomplished in a few minutes rather than the hours re-installing the application might take.
Using databases in conjunction with an application requiring multilingual support provided the kind of functionality and availability not found in previous solutions, and is presently in use. With the growth of the internet such support is even more critical now, as there can be dynamic requests for different languages (in the past there would typically be one language used per session) within a single page or session, and availability of application available on the internet must be as close to 24�7 as technology can get.
The physical topology of a typical system that corresponds to the distributed multilingual support just described is shown in
Clients are operably connected to a network in standard ways well known in the art, including internet, WAN, or LAN interfaces. Network 108 is shown as a cloud, indicating it includes the interfaces and transport mechanisms well known in the art. Additionally, any number of clients may be connected to network 108, including more client systems as shown by the ellipses between client systems 102 and 104, and more client devices as indicated by the ellipses between client devices 104 and 106.
Server system 110 is also connected to the network 104 in ways well known in the art, including standard LAN, WAN, and internet connections. Server system 110 as a whole is of conventional design using well known components, including a hardware base and an operating system such as a Sun Microsystems Ultra 10 Model 333 Workstation running the Solaris v.7 operating system, and includes a server application program running on the system such as a web server. Technical details of the example system may be found on Sun Microsystems' website.
The server application program may be a compiled program written in a language such as C, C++, or other well known language, or an interpreted application written in a language such as Perl. For the purposes of this disclosure when referring to a server it means a server system as just described including a standard hardware base, a standard operating system, and having the capability to fully support a server application program running on the server system so that the server application can make full and normal use of the system interfaces to the network 108 to which it is operably attached.
As is now common, server 110 is remotely located from database machines 114 and 116. Typically the database machines will be rackmounted and in close physical proximity to disk arrays, shown as disks 118 and 120 coupled to database machine 116, and disks 122, 124, and 126 coupled to database machine 116. Close physical proximity allows higher-speed connections to be made for better overall throughput, as is well known in the art. In larger companies or companies serving a large number of clients, there will be many servers in addition to the single one shown for illustrative purposes. The server application running on server 110 will access database machine 114 and/or 116 over network 112 as it needs to retrieve language-specific display fields for portions of any given user display.
Recently, the demands the server application program on server 110 makes on database machines 114 and 116 have increased significantly. This is due to several factors, but in particular the tremendous increase in the use of web-based servers, which are typically accompanied with display pages having considerably more complexity than previous user interfaces. Even a simple user interface display page, shown as 200 in
Typically server 110 would not have the capability to handle the database on database machines 114 and 116. There are several critical reasons why server 110 cannot have a full database as exists on database machine 114 and 116. One is secondary storage considerations. Server 110 would typically not have enough secondary storage to download an entire database, as its primary function is to run server applications which require, overall, less secondary storage than database applications. Adding additional secondary storage is often not an option because of the extra space, cost, and complexity associated with the amount of storage a reasonably sized database would need. It is desirable that servers not be required to be directly connected to large disk arrays. Another critical reason servers do not have entire databases on them is based in system resource allocation. Servers need to be tuned to provide maximum throughput to clients who have outstanding requests. Resource contention within a server needs to be skewed towards its primary function, serving clients, at the expense of contending jobs such as a database manager if one were to be installed on server 110. This includes network I/O resources and bandwidth as well as peripheral storage throughput considerations.
Thus, at a time when it is necessary that the typical server be remote from the database machine, the number of interactions between the server application and the database machine is steadily rising. The results of this have probably been noted by most web-server users—it can take a noticeable amount of time for a page to complete as it retrieves portions of its display. And is typical of current implementations, text string retrieved for current use are associated with specific fields in a specific page and are "lost" (released, no longer used) after a new page is invoked or after a relatively short time period. Although there may be delays at several steps or links in the overall connection, it is now the case that the traffic between server 110 and database machine 114 over network 112 accounts for a measurable portion of it. This problem will continue to worsen as additional demands are made on servers.
Given the ever increasing demand on servers and the associated increase in database retrievals and the accompanying network traffic, there is an urgent need to find efficient ways of reducing the number of accesses a server makes with the database machine where text strings reside. This must be accomplished while maintaining the server and database machines as separate systems carrying out their primary tasks.
It is therefore a goal of this invention is to provide a method and system for reducing the amount of traffic between a server application and its associated database machine while providing dynamic multilingual support.
The present invention provides a system and method of use that allows a server application program to provide multilingual support to client programs without the need to be in regular contact with a remote multilingual database. The system includes a server and a server application program running on the server, where the server application program is designed to use language module files that are local, that is, can be accessed without going over a network. The language module file or files are specifically formatted to allow an interpreter to load them in as text string variables when a server application written in an interpreted language is being run. This provides both dynamic loading and use, unusually fast response, and freedom from the remotely located multilingual database.
The server application program determines the language being requested by the client by first parsing though the client's request and looking for an explicit language indicator. If there is no explicit language request, the server application program will use a default language. The server application program may also make use of a history of language usage that corresponds to this request, session, or client. Such a history may be quite simple and limited for smaller applications and consist of a single default language choice. It may also be quite complex, keeping histories of clients and sessions that allow reasonably complicated heuristic searches to be performed to determine a language choice. As is well known in the art, any individual request from a client is part of a session (there may also be more than one session with a single client, depending on the client device). The methods used will depend on the complexity of expected use of the server application program, and the types and kinds of clients expected in each case.
As an option, the server program will generate requests for language module files from the multilingual database after determining a language requested by a client cannot be satisfied with locally available language module files. After receiving a language module file from a remote multilingual database, the server application program will make use of them locally.
Person of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following description of the present invention is illustrative only and not in any way limiting. Other embodiments of the invention will readily suggest themselves to such skilled persons having the benefit of this disclosure.
When viewing the figures, it is intended that similar designations used in this disclosure are intended to designate substantially similar matter.
The present invention addresses the need to reduce delays over a network connecting a server to the server's multilingual database, when the multilingual database is remote to the server.
Application 318 is a server program according to the present invention. Overall, the server program is written to be responsive to requests from clients, providing information and feedback of any type that may be included in a server program. This could include anything from simple information requests for numeric or textual information on the server, to complex interactive server programs such as the high end of web-servers or games. The actual implementation of a server according to the present invention may be implemented in a traditional compiled language such as C or C++, or may be implemented in an interpreted language such as Perl. As will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art and with the benefit of the present disclosure, the server program may be implemented in any number of ways and with considerable variance in functionality while still encompassing the inventive nature of the present disclosure.
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There are also a set of language modules, shown as 328 and 330. There may be any number of language modules; only two are shown for illustrative purposes. The language modules contain formatted strings of text, exported from a language database. The modules may contain strings in more than one language. The language modules are kept on the server locally, having been generated at an earlier time using a central database.
It is possible to make requests of the language database and generate language module files when needed, as would be the case for unusual language requests. The contents of such a language module file will be specified by the server program of the current invention, but is an optional component explained more fully below.
When language strings are needed by server program 318 which is running an interpreted language application 324, having previously called in the appropriate interpreter 308, interpreter 308 reads the needed language modules 328, 300, parses them, and then enters the lines of text found in the language modules as variables into text string variable area 314. Text string variable area 314 is contained in state and general variable file 312, shown as a separate area for clarity. The text strings, stored as variables, are now ready to be used and can accessed with extreme rapidity as individual variables by the interpreted application.
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Language modules, shown loaded into main memory as 336, are memory resident while being accessed by the interpreter. After the interpreter extracts the text strings contained in the language module and builds them into the set of variables available in variable file 334, it will typically not remain memory resident, as its use is completed and memory space is needed for other files, programs, etc. Those of ordinary skill in the art and with the benefit of the present disclosure will be able to see any number of ways of determining which language modules to copy into main memory and when, and then when to free up the space taken by language module 336 in main memory.
Language module request generator 406 generates language module requests that can be understood by the server's multilingual database machine. This module is an optional module, and is not expected to be included in base systems or systems with limited capacity interfaces (such as ATMs and other user-accessible limited-function interface machines) where the number of screens and text strings on the screens are relatively limited when compared to, say, a general purpose internet server application. Language module request generator 406 is shown in more detail at 406-I, language module request generator internals.
Language modules requested by language module request generator 406 can be constructed in a number of ways. One set of construction request modules according to the present invention is shown in block 406-I. The data to extract from the multilingual database is determined by a combination of criteria. Program module 408 keeps track of the current user display or user page, or in some cases data requests, and determines what text strings are needed to fulfill any or most of the choices on the current display. Program module 410 makes a deterministic or heuristically-based assessment of the likely sequence of display or pages that may be used in the current session based on current and recent past usage. Program modules 412 and 414 keep track of language usage history and current language choice or choices (there may be more than one language in use at one time, depending on the client's requests). Program module 416 makes use of the data generated by modules 408 through 414 to make an assessment of the text strings that are and will most likely be needed in order to serve both current client requests and probable near-term future client requests. It also knows which language modules are local, and if the requests can be fulfilled using the local modules. Program module 418 uses the output of program module 416 to format a request that can be understood by the server application program's multilingual database. This includes both data extraction from the database and output file formatting information.
It will be appreciated by persons of ordinary skill in the art and given the benefit of the present disclosure that server application program 400, language module interface 404, and language module request generator 406 can be implemented in a number of ways. Readily discernable implementations include writing additional code modules implementing language module interface 404 and language module request generator 406 and building them into an existing server application program using one of the standard languages such as C or C++, to a new implementation having language module interface 404 and language module request generator 406 embedded in other modules written in an interpreted language such as Perl. It is contemplated that the inventive features of the current invention encompass these and other implementations that will come to mind to those of ordinary skill in the art with the benefit of the present disclosure.
Although it is expected that the majority of applications using the present invention will involved remote clients, it is also possible to configure a client on the same physical machine as the server.
Server 502 is operably connected to network 506 in ways standard in the industry and according to the needs of the particular installation. The range of possible connection topologies and related protocols includes but is not limited to WANs, open LANs, virtual private networks or LANs, dedicated LANs, and interfaces to and the ability to work over the internet. The origin of the multilingual language module files used on server 502 are shown as database machines 114 and 116, on which a database management application runs. Depending on the application, these files may have been generated at any time previous to their use (from seconds to years), and may include anything from the entire contents of the multilingual database (for limited applications) to a small subset of the available text strings in the database. Disk 510 through 518 have portions of the current database on them as indicated by 520 and 522, as well as a portion of the data in the databases being on 502.
Server 502 having server application program 504 is connected to network 602, being the same network providing the connection between client machines 100 and 102, and client devices 104 and 106 (as well as any other clients). As in
The system shown in
As will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art and with the benefit of the present disclosure that the database systems shown in
If, at diamond 708, there was a language choice previously made and used for this client's session it will be the case that the language strings needed have already been loaded into the local variable file from a local language module file. In this case diamond 708 is exited with a "Yes" to action block 710, where the language variables associated with the language choice are used to fulfill any text string requests. After completing any needed retrievals the process is again at block 700, ready to receive and process the next client request.
If there was a language choice indicated at diamond 702 the process exits through the "Yes" branch and goes to diamond 704. At 704 it is determined if the language module file needed to support the indicated language choice is already local. If it is, the process goes to block 710 where any needed text strings associated with the client's request is fulfilled through the use of text-string variables read into the interpreter's variable set from the local language module file. After the request is handled, the process goes back to block 700 and is ready to receive and process the next client request.
If there is no language module associated with the language choice, the "No" branch is taken out of diamond 704 to block 706. In block 706 the server sends an error message to the client, and makes use of a default language for any needed text strings. After the request is handled, the process goes back to block 700 and is ready to receive and process the next client request.
Proceeding now to
If the optional module is present, then the "YES" exit is taken and diamond 806 entered. If the multilingual database can fulfill the request for a language module, diamond 806 is exited through the "YES" branch and block 812 entered. The requested language module file is sent to the server. After the server has received the requested language module file, block 814 is entered. The server can now fulfill the client's request through the use of the language module file by using the language module interface to read the newly received language module file and put the needed text strings in place in the local variables file. After fulfilling the client's request, the process flows back to box 800, ready to receive another language request not supported by local language module files.
If the result of diamond 806 is "NO", that is, the multilingual database could not fulfill the request from the server, block 808 is entered. The server sends an appropriate message to the client that its language request could not be fulfilled. Any text strings needed to fulfill the current request are taken from a default language, and the process continues to box 800, ready to receive another language request not supported by local language module files.
The present invention has been partially described through the use of a flow chart. As is appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art and with the benefit of the present disclosure, the procedures described herein may be repeated as continuously, as often, or as little as necessary to satisfy the needs described and details or order of steps may vary without departing from the basic concepts of the present invention.
As will be readily apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the art and having the benefit of this disclosure, there will be a large number of possible ways of representing the data that will be communicated between the multilingual database and the server, and how the data is stored on machine readable media once the data has arrived on the server. All such implementations are contemplated by the present invention, and may be used while staying within the spirit of the disclosure. The present invention also encompasses machine readable media on which are stored embodiments (data and data structures) of the information to be communicated between the multilingual database and the server. It is contemplated that any media suitable for using and retrieving the data and its stored form as data structures is within the scope of the present invention. Examples would include magnetic, optical, or semiconductor media.
While embodiments and applications of this invention have been shown and described, it will be apparent to those or ordinary skill in the art and with the benefit of the present disclosure that many more modifications than mentioned above are possible without departing from the inventive concepts contained herein. The invention, therefore, is not to be restricted except in the spirit of the associated claims.
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A horse and buggy alongside buses provided transportation tonight around to the various venues of First Night Westport Weston 2008. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com
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Westport flew the flags of United Nations members today on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge as First Night festivities got underway. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com
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UPDATE A suspected shoplifter being pursued by Westport police crashed his car head-on into a parked pickup truck today on Coleytown Road near Easton Road after a high speed chase on the Merritt Parkway.
A shoplifting suspect's vehicle crashed into a parked and unoccupied pickup truck today on Coleytown Road near Easton Road. Two water company workers moments earlier had been working on the box between the vehicles. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
The man, later identified as a Chilean national, Manuel Galacia, 65, was injured in the crash and taken to Norwalk Hospital by Westport EMS. He was later released and held at Westport police headquarters on $25,000 bond pending a court appearance Wednesday.
During the chase, the suspect tossed items out of his window apparently taken from Parfumerie Douglas Cosmetics at 57 Main St., according to detectives who recovered the merchandise.
Two water company workers had just left an equipment box next to where the crash occurred and were uninjured.
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New Year's Eve Run
These runners were out early today on Westport's Clapboard Hill Road for a New Year's Eve run. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
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Three runners got in their exercise on the last day of 2007 on Westport's Clapboard Hill Road. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Metro-North Operating Extra New Year's Eve Service
Metro-North's New Haven Line is operating extra service today for New Year's Eve.
The line is operating a regular Saturday schedule today with additional service during the morning and evening peaks.
In addition, it will have extra afternoon and evening inbound service, and overnight service into the "wee hours" of Tuesday, New Year's Day. Last trains will leave Grand Central Terminal between 5 a.m. and 5:33 a.m.
Off-peak fares will be in effect today and Tuesday. December commutation tickets will be valid on New Year's morning between midnight and 6:30 a.m., as well as for one additional courtesy ride until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the railroad said.
Round Pond Reflections
A thin layer of ice covered Round Pond off of Compo Road South on Sunday. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com
Monday, December 31, 2007
Westport Town Hall and public schools are closed except for First Night events. The Westport Public Library is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
3 p.m. to midnight - various locations - First Night Westport/Weston: see FNWW Web site for event and venue information
Four in Hand
This young man had his hands full today taking his charges for a walk on Westport's Compo Beach. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com
Puppy Protest Anniversary
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Cleaning Up
Westport firefighters clean up after a two-vehicle accident today at the intersection of Post Road East and Imperial Avenue. No one was injured in the accident but a pickup truck involved had to be taken from the scene. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Toys 'R' Us Begins Closing Sale on Post Road East
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Bank suspect: caught on video. Contributed photoUPDATE A man robbed a bank at Westport's Stop & Shop supermarket today near the Fairfield line, police said.
The robbery at the People's United Bank branch inside the store at 1790 Post Road East occurred at 11:20 a.m. The amount of money taken was not immediately known.
Police said the robber approached the counter, demanded money, and then left by the store's east exit. A note was recovered at the scene. The man, described as about 5-foot-7, in his 50s, and wearing a black jacket, jeans, and sunglasses, did not display a weapon, police said.
Police were not sure whether he escaped on foot or in a vehicle. Anyone with information regarding the suspect should contact the detective bureau at (203)341-6080.
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As 2007 draws to a close, peace advocates maintained their hour-long Saturday morning vigil today on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge over the Saugatuck River in Westport. The protest began two and a half years ago, in June of 2005, and has continued regardless of weather conditions with about 25 Westporters, sometimes augmented by out-of-town visitors. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com
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H.Con.Res.365 - Honoring the life of Robert Mondavi.110th Congress (2007-2008)
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|Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1] (Introduced 05/22/2008)
|House - Oversight and Government Reform
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|06/27/2008 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 857.
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Summary: H.Con.Res.365 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)All Bill Information (Except Text)
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Passed House without amendment (06/26/2008)
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Honors the life of Robert Mondavi, a pioneer and patriarch of the California wine industry.


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Books in this brand-new, illustrated series contain complete texts ofhakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see theard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with aodern "translation" on the facing page. The plays have endured, but over theourse of 400+ years, the English language has changed in many ways - whichs why today's students often find Shakespeare's idiom difficult toomprehend. Simply Shakespeare offers an excellent solution to their problem.ntroducing each play is a general essay covering Shakespeare's life andimes.;At the beginning of each act in every play, a two-page spreadescribes what is about to take place with - - An Introduction: Explains thetory's background - Characters: Briefly describes key people who will appearn the act - Things to Watch For: Summarizes how important characters reacto events taking place - Historical and Social Context: Discusses how widelyeld ideas in Shakespeare's time are reflected in the play's action - Staging:xplains how Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was suited for the play - Language:
Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it. Other editions appeared later, but even the more authoritative versions, such as that of 1599--probably drawn from Shakespeare's own manuscript copies--lack the detailed stage directions present in the actors' transcription; thus, modern editions incorporate several sources. ROMEO AND JULIET is among the most oft performed of Shakespeare's works, and it has been among the most beloved since its earliest days on the stage. Though the title page of the 1597 edition declares that ROMEO AND JULIET had been performed and enjoyed many times prior to its publication, the first extant direct record of the events of a production refer to a 1662 staging, in which the play was probably adapted or altered--adaption was particularly popular in the 17th century. One London stage ran different conclusions on alternative nights; audiences who went home glum on Friday could be uplifted by the play's ending if they returned on Saturday night. The story of ROMEO AND JULIET was derived by Shakespeare from many sources. The version most contemporary to his own was the 1562 poem "The Tragicall History of Romeus and Iuliet" by Arthur Brooke, which itself was an adaptation of a French piece by Pierre Boaistuau, which Boaistuau had adapted from the Italian. Indeed, aspects of the tragic story have recurred throughout Western literature since at least the third century. Shakespeare greatly intensified the pace by compressing a piece which had unfolded over the course of several months into the space of five days--a period in which much transpires at daybreak, including the famous balcony scene where Romeo declares, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry between his family, the Montagues--and Juliet's, the Capulets. Despite the intensity of their family's mutual disdain, the young lovers strive to marry. However, fate intervenes to keep them apart, and, when the Montagues and Capulets discover the folly of their ways, it's too late for Romeo and Juliet.
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State and county animal response teams will be even better prepared to help animals during house, barn and forest fires. The New Jersey Animal Emergency Working Group will hold its 15th Annual Symposium tomorrow at the Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center in Westampton.
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I have spent days trying to solve this problem and still stuck with this and I have posted some questions already on this website, but didn't get satisfactory answers. I am trying to be more clear this time and hope to get a better answer. I have gone through this article already http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michen/archive/2007/03/22/running-ssis-package-programmatically.aspx and here are my issues (I need to run the SSIS package from ASP.NET)
option 1 is not suitable for me, because it may recycle worker process if it consumes memory
option 2 is also not suitable because of security issues in creating a new process and passing the context to new process looks very complicated for me (according to the support article)
option 3 is not suitable because using SQL Server Agent to run SSIS package is not allowed by the company I am working for(I guesss it requires installation of db engine on application server, not sure). but SSIS is installed on the application server.
option 4&5 will have the same issues as options 1&2.
I guess the only option left now is to create a windows service and start the service from ASP.NET. but will this allow running multiple packages in parallel? OR is there a better alternate solution for this? please let me know. Thanks.