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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Pfc. Dennis J. Miller, Jr., 21, of La Salle, Mich., died Nov. 10 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit came under enemy attack and a rocket-propelled grenade struck his M1A1 Abrams tank. Miller was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armor Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey, Korea.


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Best Place to Drink and Get Your Hair Cut St. Louis 2004 - Bar Salon Ahh
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Longtime hairdresser Donna Pelley had a unique idea for her hair salon: Serve booze. It helped that the stately old building she was moving into was equipped with a beautiful antique wooden bar. Unfortunately, city officials thought there were already too many bars in the area, so they didn't grant Donna a liquor license. In the end, she figured out a way to take those lemons and make 'em into lemonade. Scratch that. She took those lemons and made 'em into a Tom Collins. Donna gives away booze to her customers while they wait to get their 'do did. Ostensibly, you've got to purchase a five-dollar raffle ticket to get a "free" drink, but that makes you eligible for a drawing that could net you 35 bucks off your next appointment. It's amazing what a whiskey sour and a trim can do for your outlook.


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Just saw the the TDKR trailer and it looked good... im warming up for Hathaway, but only her lines and how she delivers them.
Why cant he just put a woman with sex appeal in this role? Catwoman who is arguably the sexiest fictional character ever written. He doesnt have a problem by casting men with sex appeal so why not women? - I dont approve of female actresses who only have good looks to offer (Megan Fox - Transformers/Boobs with legs), but if you need to play one of the sexiest fictional characters ever - please cast an actress that makes me purr.
Nolan sucks at casting women... Urgh! Maggie Gyllenhaal as the love interest between the goddamn Batman and Harvey Dent, Katie Holmes who is good looking but a terrible actress and now Anne Hathaway who is a weak actress with a pleasent face but zero sex appeal. So far i dont have enough material to say whenever she will play the part of Catwoman, but URGH her look - i hate it. And whats up with the high heels??
Nolan is trying to aim for a realistic Batman, yet he gives his Catwoman 8 inch heels and long hair that isnt tucked away. Even the modern (new 52) Catwoman doesnt wear high heels, she uses tactical boots with atlethic rubber soles. She havent worn high heels for ages.
I always hated the fact that all female superheroes had to wear these stupid high heels, sure... i guess it looks sexy, but it just doesnt make sense. Im glad that we're past that... apparently not in movies though.


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When EPCOT Center opened its gates to the world in 1982, guests were greeted by boundless optimism and never-before-seen wonders. Two of Epcot's most famous characters, however, did not make their appearance until 1983. These beloved characters, created by Disney especially for Epcot, were an integral part of the EPCOT experience until 1998.
For 15 years, Dreamfinder, along with his dragon-like friend Figment, entertained guests in Audio-Animatronic form in the Journey into Imagination attraction housed in the two glass pyramids located near the Land pavilion in Future World and in person near the "Jellyfish Fountains" located outside. After the debacle of the 1999 Journey into YOUR Imagination, a Figment-free renovation that generated mountains of guest complaints, the attraction reopened in 2002 as Journey into Imagination with Figment. While Dreamfinder is still absent (and replaced with a filmed host played by Eric Idle), Figment returned, as did the wonderful Richard and Robert Sherman song entitled "One Little Spark," complete with additional verses. While the current version is in no way shape or form as charming as the first, Figment's return was a welcome one indeed.
There have been rumors circulating for years that the entire pavilion is scheduled for a much-needed makeover. The tired Captain EO, the less-than-stellar ride, and the absence of the Image Works, a two-story playground that once delighted EPCOT Center guests, all but scream for a renovation. As recently as December 2013, some Disney fan-based websites listed Journey into Imagination with Figment as closing in early January 2014 for a complete overhaul. As of this writing, however, the pavilion remains open with the same attraction and the 1986 Michael Jackson "tribute" presentation of Captain EO.
Recently, however, a small announcement sent hopeful shockwaves through the hearts of Figment fans everywhere:
This summer, journey into the exciting depts. Of your own imagination in FIGMENT #1, the new Disney Kingdoms series created by the unique collaboration between Marvel and Walt Disney Imagineering.
Could this new series of comic books signal a rebirth for the original attraction?
A Little Figment History
In its original incarnation, Journey into Imagination was a 14-minute ride that, according to Steve Birnbaum Brings You the Best of Walt Disney World 1985, brought guests through "an assortment of scenes that are handsome and scary by turns . . . [presenting an] organized exploration of how imagination works and the areas of life in which it functions." Dreamfinder, a jolly red-bearded Santa Claus like character, accompanied guests on their exploration, accompanied by Figment, an eccentric purple character "with a lizard's body, a crocodile's nose, a steer's horns, two big yellow eyes, two small wings, and a pinch of childish delight." The entire affair was made even more memorable by a wonderful song, written by the Academy Awarding winning brothers Richard and Robert Sherman. "One Little Spark" captured not only the story and heart of the imagination pavilion, but in many ways, the philosophy of Walt Disney Imagineering. It's no wonder that Figment became a favorite mascot for EPCOT Center, a favorite image featured on exclusive EPCOT Center merchandise, and something of a pet at Walt Disney Imagineering. Disney Legends Tony Baxter and John Hench deserve much of the credit for the look, design, and concepts for this classic bit of Disney history.
This incarnation of the attraction remains its best. When EPCOT originally opened, it was designed with a slightly different purpose than the Magic Kingdom. Thus, many of the themes in Future World and the experiences in World Showcase were designed—intentionally - with an older demographic in mind. Journey into Imagination was the one exception—an experience designed for a younger crowd. Figment's frolics and the Dreamfinder's encouragement became an integral part of the Future World experience. For many of us who, to borrow a phrase from the wonderful Passport to Dreams Old and New, consider ourselves part of the "Epcot Generation," treasure memories of our experiences at the original EPCOT during our formative years.
A Sad Bit of Dreamfinder History
In 1999, a new version of this attraction debuted, this time connected to a 3D film inspired by the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids series of comedies produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Gone were the detailed audio-animatronic versions of Figment and Dreamfinder, replaced by static film clips featuring Eric Idle as the host of the Imagination Institute. Gone, also, were the reassuring purple shades of the original, replaced by garish yellow and oranges that clashed with the skyline and always seemed sadly out of place. And, like so many of early EPCOT Center's wonderful original music, "One Little Spark" disappeared as well. Image Works, an elaborate multi-story playground, was shuttered. It's not only that technological wonders of the original were gutted, but the charm, wit, and warmth of the original were completely obliterated.
In 2002, after endless guests complaints and requests, the pavilion was reimagined once again as Journey into Imagination with Figment. An odd combination of the YOUR Imagination debacle with lots of Figment additions, this version is nowhere as cohesive as the original; the joyous finale, featuring a plethora of Figments and that wonderful "One Little Spark" song, almost make up for it. The fact that Figment and "One Little Spark" returned to the pavilion after only two years of Journey into YOUR Imagination is indicative of the staying power of both Figment and Dreamfinder.
Looking to the Future
In the news release announcing this summer's new series, editor Bill Rosemann poses some enticing questions: "Can you imagine the never-before-revealed origin of one of Disney's most creative characters? Can you picture a Marvel spin on the Epcot Theme Park's mind-expanding attraction, Journey Into Imagination? Have you ever wondered how the inventor known as Dreamfinder created a certain inquisitive purple dragon? Be prepared for all of these answers—not to mention amazing creatures, magical lands, and cool clockwork contraptions—in FIGMENT!"
As the second installment in the Disney Kingdoms series, Figment builds on Marvel's imprint for comics that were inspired by Walt Disney Imagineering, theme park attractions, and never realized ideas in the Imagineering vaults. Seekers of the Weird, the first series in the Disney Kingdom publications, was inspired by Imagineer Rolly Crump's 1960s concepts for a "Museum of the Weird" that was to be build as part of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion expansion. (For a fun look at art and models for the Museum of the Weird, check out the Disney Treasures DVD set about Disneyland. Wally Crump shows his models to Walt Disney himself!)
So, does this new "franchise" approach to Figment and Dreamfinder interest you? Does it inspire hope for a new version of the iconic glass pyramids of the Imagination Pavilion? One look at the visually stunning cover work for the new series, combined with the anticipation of learning Dreamfinder's backstory, makes me cautiously optimistic that the legendary abilities of Walt Disney Imagineers will once again breath life into the much-loved Epcot attraction.


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The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Testedby Anand Lal Shimpi on October 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST
AMD's FX architecture was designed for very high clock speeds. With Piledriver we're able to see some of that expressed in overclocking headroom. All of these chips should be good for close to 5GHz depending on your luck of the draw and cooling. For all of these overclocking tests I used AMD's branded closed loop liquid cooler which debuted back with the original FX launch. I didn't have enough time to go through every chip so I picked the FX-8350 and FX-4300 to show the range of overclocks that may be possible. In my case the FX-4300 hit 5GHz with minimal effort, while the FX-8350 topped out at 4.8GHz (I could hit 5GHz but it wasn't stable through all of our tests). Both of these overclocks were achieved with no more than 10% additional core voltage and by simple multiplier adjustments (hooray for unlocked everything). The increase in performance is substantial:
The increase in power consumption is pretty bad however, you do pay for these types of voltage driven overclocks:
The 5GHz FX-4300 is pushed into FX-8300 territory, while the 4.8GHz 8350 is in a league of its own at just under 300W of total system power consumption.
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Got my first AMD - Thursday, May 08, 2014 - linkI OC my 8320 to 4.7 GHz and only have to raise the voltage .0125 from stock. Why is it that you think AMD is worthless. They are all for the consumer and I am grateful for it. I'm really sick of your ignorance. Really sick of it. Reply
cbrown - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - linkWhat everyone will get "sick" of in a hurry is if AMD falls on its face with its "crap" cpu manufacturing... Intel will double their pricing on cpus again, same as they were during the time period AMD released it's "crap" slot athlon 500. AMD also has a decent gpu to fall back on since they bought ATI which was a smart move.
*AMD released Slot A Athlon 500 Intel slashed it's prices in half same day to match.
*If ATI hadn't stepped up to the plate and suceeded when nVidia bought 3dfx Everyone would be crying about the prices of gaming cards
*Sure AMD is lagging behind right now but never underestimate the importance of competition and the effect it has on affordable upgrades for everyone...
I love AMD for the pricing they have brought to us this day and time... with cpu's AND gpu's
I am fixing to build my FIRST intel platform since the since amd released the slot a athlon simply because I want a hackentosh... there is simply too much heartache building one on a AMD CPU/MOBO combo for the simple fact apple does not support them. I dont know if you would call me a amd fanboy or not, your opinion, I simply have supported a company that brought affordability to everyone.... I am either MAC (intel, no choice really) or AMD for the windows platform...
Anyone that cannot see the reasoning behind this, now I would say they are a intel fanboy though.... Everyone has the right to choose..... Reply
saintalchemyst - Saturday, July 04, 2015 - linkWatch and relize the fan boy you are. Intel is great at what they do...SO IS AMD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE Reply
sleekz - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - linkPriced cheaply, but they don't match price/performance wise. Price is not a valid argument against intel. Reply
Abdussamad - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkDo the math on electricity consumption and you find it is not priced decently at all. Let's say you run a system with an idle FX 8350 for 8 hours a day everyday for 5 years and electricity costs you $0.16 per kwh:
(( 8 hours * (74.2 - 57.5) * 365 days * 5 years ) / 1000) * 0.16 = $39
(74.2 - 57.5 is the difference in idle power consumption between an fx-8350 and i5-3570)
So add $40 to the price of the FX 8350 before you do a comparison. More if you run your system 24/7. Reply
lostinspacex - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - linkduuude its 40 dollars in 5 years, you spend more going to a restaurant once , and u are multiplying watts with kilowatts xD, basic math mistake Reply
chekk42 - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - linkLook closer. The math is correct. However, yes, $40 over 5 years is not really a concern. Reply
ninza228248 - Monday, April 14, 2014 - linkAfter 5 years add $40 to AMD and you will get mind blowing processor compared to Intel Core i5-3570 or any intel processor after 5 years in that price bracket... Reply
Operandi - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkLooks like Piledriver delivered. Granted the bar was set pretty low with Bulldozer but this at least has a use case, highly threaded applications but considering this is a process node behind Intel I'd say its pretty good. If they can keep this pace up and hit IPC a bit harder AMD could be back in a pretty good position. Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkAt least now they can say they beat Intel in a lot of multithreaded situations. Losing to Intel AND using more power was unpalatable. I'd like to see an undervolted 8350, perhaps AMD's conservative side is rearing its ugly head again.
I'm a bit concerned that, even with hard-edge flops and the RCM, the clock speed difference is about 11% for the same power. I'd have thought that even the former would shave off a decent amount, unless RCM doesn't work so well at higher speeds. Still, there's one disadvantage to be had - overclocking won't work so well due to the flop change.
If AMD can beat Intel now in multithreading in most circumstances, Steamroller is just going to let them pull away. Single-threaded workloads are the worry, though. Still, at least they can say that they finally beat Nehalem even in single-threaded work. I did lament the lack of an appearance of Phenom II, but looking at the results, they've buried that particular ghost. Reply


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Exploring Durham
Durham's role in African-American history is well known, and the strides that were made in Durham crossed many lines to foster equality in many ways. One of the lesser known is in business.
Parrish Street is known as Black Wall Street because in the early 1900s African-American businesses prospered on this street. NC Mutual Life Insurance and Mechanics and Farmers Bank both operated here. The street also figured largely in the Civil Rights Movement with several sit-ins occurring there.
Today, Parrish Street is home to several new businesses that reflect Durham's vibrant food and arts culture. Mechanics and Farmers Bank still has a branch there, and there is now a community and cultural center called The Parrish Street Forum that offers a window on the history and those who made it, as well as event and meeting space.
Insider Tip: See six bronze sculptures along Parrish Street, each an historical marker on a different theme.
The Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau (DCVB) is Durham's official marketing agency. For more information about things to see and do in Durham, visit www.Durham-NC.com and www.DurhamEventCalendar.com, or stop by the Visitors Information Center at 101. E. Morgan St. in Downtown Durham and pick up the Official Durham Visitor & Relocation Guide.


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VESTAL, N.Y. – Junior Alli Rozelle (Stratham, N.H.) scored with 1:10 remaining in regulation to lift the University of New Hampshire to a 1-1 tie against Binghamton University in Thursday night's America East match at Bearcats Sports Complex. The tie assured the Wildcats a spot in next week's conference tournament for an America East-record 10th-straight season.
|Amy Avitabile
The Wildcats move to 8-6-4 on the season, including 4-2-1 in America East play, while the Bearcats run their record to 4-10-2 overall and 2-3-2 in the conference.
Trailing 1-0 late in the 89th minute, the Wildcats received a jolt from Rozelle, who chose no better time to net her first goal of the season. After senior Amy Avitabile (Pembroke, Mass.) blasted a shot off the crossbar from 30 yards out, UNH's feeling of deflation quickly dissolved as Rozelle, UNH's America East Player of the Game, collected the rebound and tapped the ball into the empty net to tie the game at one.
UNH dominated the first overtime period as they outshot Binghamton, 3-0, but goalkeeper Carrie Martin, who made 10 saves on the day, kept the game knotted. The Bearcats held a 1-0 shot advantage in the second overtime, with that one shot nearly ending the game 8:37 in. Jamie Holliday broke free and was 1-on-1 with freshman goalkeeper Erica Correa (Cheshire, Conn.), who thwarted the opportunity from 10 yards away. Correa stopped six shots for the Wildcats.
It was Holliday, Binghamton's America East Player of the Game, who nearly scored the game-winner in the 56th minute when she received a feed from Sarah Furminger and sent a shot from 20 yards out on the right side that found the back of the net just inside the near post to give Binghamton the 1-0 lead.
The Wildcats had a dangerous chance in what ended up being a scoreless first half when junior Brooke Duchaney (Hampton Falls, N.H.) ripped a point-blank shot from 10 yards out that was saved by Martin with eight minutes left.
UNH held a 16-9 shot advantage, while Binghamton owned a 4-1 edge in corner kicks.
The Wildcats return to action when they wrap up their regular season Sunday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. against the University of Hartford. It will be Senior Day at Lewis Fields as the 'Cats honor their five-member senior class. A win will earn UNH the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the America East Championship tournament.


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Excerpt from Evidence: John Baldessari at Pomona by Glenn Phillips
In the fall of 1970, artist John Baldessari and curator Helene Winer each began new jobs: Baldessari as a professor of "post-studio art" at the newly formed California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and Winer as director and curator of the Pomona College Museum of Art. CalArts operated its first year out of temporary quarters in Burbank, as it finished the construction of its new campus in Valencia, California, a small town near the expansive northwestern edge of Los Angeles County. Pomona College is sixty miles away from Valencia, at Los Angeles County's southeastern edge, in the town of Claremont. As Baldessari and Winer both settled into their jobs, these two unlikely communities on the outer fringes of Los Angeles County would become host to some of the most radical and advanced ideas about art making occurring anywhere in Los Angeles.
Winer's first exhibition of (mostly) Los Angeles artists at Pomona took place in December 1970. Titled "Monoprints," the exhibition aimed, according to the press release, to present "original work that can, in a loose interpretation of the term, be considered a print." "Monoprints" included work by Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, and Joe Goode, among others. While many works in the show took the notion of a print loosely (LeWitt, for instance, folded and unfolded paper to produce a textured grid), Baldessari produced two works that challenged nearly every notion of what a "print" might mean. Evidence: Bowl Handed to Helene Winer Dec. 1, 70 (1970) consisted of a wide white bowl that had been dusted with graphite powder to reveal fingerprints. Evidence: A Potential Print (1970) took the form of ashes scattered in a corner of the gallery, with a footprint in their midst.
Baldessari had struggled as a painter for more than a decade before moving, in the mid-1960s, to a Conceptual practice that examined the process of art making and its reception as a system of rules and relationships. In 1966, he began a series of text paintings that aimed to remove his "hand" from the artwork by separating him from the work's process of fabrication. Baldessari chose simple texts, often derived from art books and instruction manuals, and then hired out production of the canvas: "Someone else built and primed the canvases and took them to the sign painter, the texts are quotations from art books, and the sign painter was instructed not to attempt to make attractive artful lettering but to letter the information in the most simple way." Many of these works also included banal or compositionally awkward photographs that were transferred to the canvas using a photo-emulsion process. Wrong (1967), for instance, includes an image of the artist standing in front of a palm tree, illustrating a "bad" composition that makes the tree appear to be growing from his head.
In July of 1970, Baldessari conceived to make his painterly self-effacement retroactive by burning in a mortuary crematorium all of his pre-1966 paintings that were still in his possession. He published a death notice in his hometown San Diego newspaper, and he began to repurpose the cremated ashes for new works. Some, for instance, were sealed into an urn as part of the documentation of the Cremation Project; others were baked into cookies. The ashes sprinkled in the corner at Pomona for Evidence: A Potential Print were also, of course, from the cremated paintings.
In a statement published alongside the Pomona works, Baldessari noted, "What is seen here is an attempt to avoid both ink and paper, but also the ACT, or at least delay the act or stretch it out in time." That is, Baldessari was trying not only to separate the printmaking process from the use of ink and paper, but also from the "act" of printing at all, substituting in its place the often inadvertent act of leaving "evidence"—footprints, fingerprints—as marks of one's presence. Production of the works required a bit of trickery: under the guise of a friendly dinner, Baldessari invited Winer to his home, making sure to hand her the white bowl during her visit so that he could capture her fingerprints. The footprint in the ashes was more mysterious and unidentified, but it pointed to a previous presence within the gallery, while also tempting gallery visitors to leave their own surreptitious marks within the powder. Together, the works pointed to art making as a larger system of relations: the curator has a literal "hand" in the process, providing opportunities and occasion to produce new work, and viewers form a constant, though often unacknowledged, backdrop to an artwork's life on view.


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Symposium on diversity and community and Martin Luther King Jr. Day offer range of speakers, workshops
On Monday, Jan. 21, Whitman will combine the traditional celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its second Symposium on Diversity and Community: Unfolding Identities.
The symposium plenary session, which is open to the public, will run from 10 a.m. to noon in Cordiner Hall, and will feature a welcome from President George Bridges, presentations by Whitman professors, students and staff, and a performance by Whitman's Chamber Singers.
The afternoon workshops are for Whitman community members only and will run from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in locations around campus. The traditional candlelight Martin Luther King Jr. Day March will begin in front of Reid Campus Center at 6:30 p.m., proceed downtown and return to Cordiner Hall, where at 7:30 p.m. Patricia Williams, attorney, law professor and columnist, will present "Seeing a Color Blind Future." Free tickets are available at the Whitman College Bookstore beginning Jan. 14, and at the door on the evening of Jan. 21. The Whitman Jazz Combo also will perform.
Campus survives windstorm with all but landscape intact
The removal of the sculpture "Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder" and the historic tree that split it asunder has left a startlingly blank landscape between Memorial Building and Penrose Library. The Jan. 4 windstorm that wreaked havoc on Whitman and Walla Walla also took its toll on another 50 or so campus trees, but building damage was minimal, and no injuries were reported on campus. Late last week the sculpture was taken to The Walla Walla Foundry for reconstruction, and Dan Park, director of the physical plant, estimated another week would be needed for complete cleanup on campus.
Staff breakfast covers several bases
Two days after participating in a formal hearing in Seattle for Whitman's accreditation review, President George Bridges was back on campus to host an informal staff breakfast Thursday in Olin 130.
Bridges used the occasion to acknowledge staff for their recent efforts in response to the windstorm that ravaged the campus, update the community on administrative matters and answer questions from staff.
Highlights of the session:
Staff Profile: Summer Singer
Conferences and Events Coordinator
Mariners caravan returns to campus Jan. 16
The Seattle Mariners pre-season caravan will stop at Sherwood Center on Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The event is designed to generate excitement for the 2008 Mariners baseball season, with appearances by the Mariner Moose and some players, including local favorite Eric O'Flaherty and Mark Lowe. The event is free and open to the Whitman community as well as the general public, so feel free to bring your families and tell your friends.
Comings and goings
Whitman extends a warm welcome to Alicia B. Riley, outdoor rental shop manager, Reid Campus Center. The college bids fond farewells to Jennifer Toy, admission officer; Cheyenne Wissenbach, academic technology consultant; and Lori Hunt, assistant director of admission, Western Regional Office; and offers best wishes in retirement to Roy Baughman, custodian, academic/administrative building; and Barbara Stubblefield, director of the annual fund, who will retire in February.
Coming Events
All events are free unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, Jan. 17
Opening reception: The Sheehan Art Gallery hosts the opening reception of "Ruminations and Pontifications," an exhibit of paintings and installations by artist John Feodorov. Feodorov will present the opening lecture at 5 p.m. in Olin 130, and the official opening reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery. New works by studio art faculty member Ben Bloch will be featured in the South Alcove Gallery #2.
Sunday, Jan. 20
Recital: The Whitman College Hall of Music presents Susan Pickett, violin, and Tania Cronin, piano. 3 p.m., Chism Recital Hall.
Monday, Jan. 21
Symposium, march, lecture: Whitman's second Symposium on Diversity and Community, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; traditional Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March at 6:30 p.m.; "Seeing a Color Blind Future" by Patricia Williams at 7:30 p.m. (See story, this issue.)
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Watmore at the double for U21s
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Honours even at the SoL v Blues.
Sunderland U21 2 Chelsea U21 2
Sunderland's development squad went to the top of the Barclays under-21 Premier League with a 2-2 draw with Chelsea at the Stadium of Light.
Duncan Watmore scored twice for the young Black Cats either side of strikes from Islam Feruz and Alex Kiwomya for the visitors.
Wes Brown played the full 90 minutes for Kevin Ball's side and put in an assured performance as the development squad maintained their unbeaten record on Wearside this season.
The hosts went ahead on five minutes after a wonderfully worked move found Liam Marrs on the right hand side before he cut back for Watmore to curl in a fine strike with his left foot.
However, the Blues were level just four minutes later as Feruz closed down a short back pass and slotted past Joel Dixon from close range.
Alex Gorrin then had a great chance to put Sunderland back in the lead but he placed when well positioned after Chelsea failed to clear.
Connor Wickham could have put the hosts ahead after great play by Marrs but, when the Cramlington-born full back cut back from the byline, the England U21 international dragged wide.
Dixon then denied the visitors on a couple of occasions before Brown headed David Moberg Karlsson's cross just over.
Lewis Baker nearly finished off a neat move for Chelsea before the Blues eventually did take the lead 25 minutes from time as Kiwomya drove home sweetly from 25 yards.
Sunderland reacted well to the goal as Liam Agnew nearly equalised immediately only to be thwarted by a fine save from Bradley Collins after he had headed Gorrin's cross towards the top corner.
The young Black Cats were level just five minutes later as the on-rushing Watmore drove home Wickham's lob from eight yards out.
Wickham was twice denied a late winner by the excellent Collins as Moberg Karlsson and Watmore provided opportunities for the former Ipswich man.
The point sends Ball's side top of the Barclays U21 Premier League with West Ham United and Fulham playing later in the week.
The youngsters next play on Monday 4th November when West Bromwich Albion travel to Eppleton CW.
Sunderland: Dixon, Marrs, Ferguson, Cabral (Lynch, 80), Brown, Diakite, Watmore, Ba (Agnew, 30), Wickham, Gorrin, Moberg Karlsson (Mitchell, 88).
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By: Jeff Youngs, 12/5/2013
Black Friday sales promotions weren't the only reason consumers were in a shopping mood. Healthy tax breaks on vehicles with Gross Combined Vehicle Weight ratings of more than 6,000 lbs. expire on December 31, so businesses are buying trucks. Ford sold more than 65,000 F-Series trucks in November alone, and Ram pickup sales were up 22% over the same time last year. General Motors saw a gain of 19% for its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, thanks to great deals on outgoing 2013 models and completely redesigned versions of the 2014 Silverado 1500 and Sierra 1500.
These aren't the only factors driving car sales, though. GM Chief Economist Mustafa Mohatarem told Automotive News that other factors positively impacting sales include falling gas prices, improving labor markets, and record household net wealth. Given that last point, perhaps it is not at all surprising that the brands with the strongest monthly gains in November were luxury makers Maserati (up 173%) and Jaguar (up 103%).
Clearly, though, not all consumers are ready to spend big on a new set of wheels. Mitsubishi slotted in behind Jaguar with a 48% gain, followed by Smart at 36%. Notably, Subaru continues its sales hot streak, one that proved impervious to the Great Recession. The company's sales rose 30%, compared with last November, good for a fifth-place finish in terms of year-over-year increases.
Among major automakers, Chrysler Group realized the biggest gain of 16%, thanks in part to strong sales of the redesigned 2014 Jeep Cherokee. GM (up 14%), Nissan (up 11%), and Toyota (up 10%) also enjoyed double-digital sales gains in November. Based on current numbers, it looks like the Toyota Camry will once again be crowned the best-selling car in America, while Mercedes-Benz is closing in on the luxury vehicle sales crown for 2013.
November wasn't a good month for every brand, however. Mini, Fiat, Volkswagen, and Volvo saw double-digit declines, compared with November 2012. Honda Civic sales were also down 13%, perhaps the result of announcements at the beginning of the month regarding improvements coming for the 2014 model year. And although BMW brand sales were up 1.7% for the month, the German luxury automaker watched its archrival's taillights start to fade on strong sales of the new Mercedes-Benz CLA250, which at $29,900 is the least expensive model currently wearing a three-pointed star.


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Here's an excellent clip via upworthy.com - an old school irish journalist repeatedly foils an ECB banker's attempts to dodge his questions, leaving the banker eventually speechless. Watch out for his highly skilled battle with the chair at 1.40 as she attempts to move on to another questioner:
"We have a tradition in Irish journalism that we pursue issues and that when somebody doesn't answer a question we follow through on it, and I hope that tradition will be respected."


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Kepler-452b revolves around a sun much like our own.
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Researchers have mapped out the DNA of what some scientists claim to be an arsenic loving bacterium.
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Researchers have mapped out the DNA of what some scientists claim to be an arsenic loving bacterium.
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New research suggests that a controversial class of stem cells originates in the heart and retains some ability to repair damaged tissue.
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Editor's choice in immunology
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Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.
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Researchers probe the genetics of a group of bacteria known to extensively swap DNA sequences with other species—blurring the species boundaries.
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Researchers show that the bacterial species in probiotic, fermented dairy products may alter gene expression and metabolism in native gut microbiota.
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Inadequate poultry immunization programs may cause higher mutations rates in the bird flu virus, rendering the vaccine ineffective and increasing the threat of cross-species transmission.


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The finalists are set for the senior/adult age group of WSGC Radio's Elberton Idol Competition.
Narrowed down from six semi-finalists who all competed Tuesday evening at the Elbert 12-County Fair, a total of three was expected to move on.
However, a tie made things interesting, and in proper fashion the tying contestants were both moved on to Saturday's finals.
This year's finalists for the Elberton Idol adult age group are, in no particular order:
Briane Williams
Lilly Eaves
Celeste Moon
Diane Lunceford
The finals will be held at the Elbert 12-County Fair on Saturday October the 12th at 7:00pm, and will be broadcast on 105.3 WSGC.
Coming up this evening, the junior age group semi-finalists will compete for a shot a performing on Saturday as well.
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The seven ages of saving
October 12, 2011
In "As You Like It," William Shakespeare wrote of the "seven ages" of life, the different phases a person goes through over the course of a lifetime. It can be useful to break down saving money in a similar fashion. After all, saving money is always important, but you have to approach it differently at different stages of your life.
For example, personal savings rates in the U.S. have been a little over 5 percent in recent years. Is that high or low? It's probably too low overall, but whether it's right for you depends largely on what stage of life you are in.
To illustrate this, here are seven ages of saving:
- Saving up. This is saving as most people first encounter it as a child. There's something specific you want to buy, and you start saving up your allowance or wages till you can afford it. This form of saving is simple and direct, but still an important demonstration of how discipline can be rewarded.
- Stretching a paycheck. You may start out living paycheck-to-paycheck, but if you continue to live that way, you will always feel you are on a treadmill, running hard but going nowhere. Beginning with your first pay raise, make sure that each paycheck starts to stretch a little beyond the next payday.
- Emergency preparedness. Once you've started to stretch your paycheck, build a little cushion of savings for emergencies. As you do so, look for savings account interest rates that will add the most to your savings.
- Working towards multiple goals. Once you start to establish your career, your savings rates should not only grow, but your saving should become more goal-oriented. This means learning how to juggle short-term goals (your next vacation) with medium-term goals (a down payment on a house) and long-term goals (retirement).
- Maximization. From your mid-40s to your mid-60s, you will probably experience your peak-earnings years. These should also be the years where your savings rates are also the highest. Don't limit yourself to just meeting your savings goals; if you can exceed them, save the extra money. After all, you still have a long future, and the future is always filled with uncertainty. Now's the time to build wealth.
- Reset. Speaking of uncertainty, something unexpected is bound to crop up in even the most well-planned savings program: a career setback, or perhaps an expense you didn't anticipate. Don't let this get you out of the habit of saving; regroup, reset your goals to the new reality, and move on.
- Preservation. The goal in retirement should not be to spend down your assets; it should be to preserve them for as long as possible. After all, you don't know how long you will live, and if you can leave something behind to give someone else a boost in the early ages of saving, so much the better.
One overall lesson in all of this: Even as you move from age to age and the way you approach saving changes, the importance of saving remains a constant throughout your life.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to protect people from dubious medicines and remove drugs approved in part on faulty trial data, says a new report published by ProPublica. Nearly 100 approvals for drugs, ranging from blood thinners to chemotherapeutics and painkillers, relied on falsified data from the contract research organization, Cetero Research, according to the publication. While the European Medicines Agency has recalled seven of the drugs, the FDA has done little to address the problem, according to ProPublica. Although the FDA asked the companies to repeat critical testing, two deadlines for those data have passed with no consequences. Many of the questionable drugs, nearly 80 percent of them generics, are still on the market and the FDA won't reveal which ones they are. ProPublica identified five of the drugs: Temodar IV Injection from Merck, Torisel Injection from Pfizer, Lazanda Nasal spray from Archimedes Pharma, Generic Ibuprofen Gelatin Capsules from Banner Pharmacaps, and Generic Tramadol Extended-release capsules from Cipher Pharmaceuticals. Only Banner has satisfied the FDA requirement.
AbbVie, the prescription medicine spinoff of Abbott Laboratories, will lay off hundreds of employees in response to projected losses from competition for its cholesterol-lowering drugs by generics manufacturers. Generics for TriCor, Niaspan, and TriLipix, all prescribed to reduce triglycerides and elevate HDL-C, have either already entered the market or are expected to by the end of 2013. Employees and contract salespeople working with these drugs will be affected by the proposed layoffs. AbbVie has not officially announced the job losses, but in January 2013 chief financial officer William Chase projected 2013 and 2014 as "a time of transition for AbbVie." Adelle Infante, an AbbVie spokeswoman, declined to comment to Bloomberg on the firings.
The first of more than a dozen lawsuits against California-based Intuitive Surgical went to trial this week in Washington state. The wife of a man who died following robotic surgery is suing the maker of the Da Vinci surgical system. The lawsuit indicates a tension between adequate physician training and aggressive marketing by Intuitive. In this particular case, a doctor chose to use the robot for a patient in a non-recommended class; the patient weighed 280 pounds and had a body mass index of 39, great enough to make him ineligible for robotic surgery according to the training Intuitive provided to the doctor. The lawsuit claims that aggressive marketing overpowered any training the doctor received. The lawyer for the widow, Richard Friedman, said that although Intuitive had a training program for its robot as a requirement of FDA approval, over time the training was "watered down," allowing Intuitive to sell more units. The robots were used in more than 300,000 U.S. operations in 2011.
AstraZeneca's new CEO, Pascal Soriot, may not receive the complete sign-on bonus originally promised to him by the company's board of directors. Shareholders are upset at the $1.5 million portion of his offer package, described as compensation for having to forfeit a bonus from Roche when he left in October 2012. In particular, a pension group that owns 2 percent of AstraZeneca shares has sent a letter to its members asking them to oppose the remuneration report. Kieran Quinn, chairman of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, says the organization doesn't agree that executives "be paid for performance they have not actually achieved. That means we will challenge such awards whenever we see them, and will advise voting against the company's remuneration report."
A committee of the European Medicines Agency placed restrictions on Protelos, the osteoporosis drug, in response to a review of safety data from clinical studies in 7,500 patients that showed an increased risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular adverse side effects. These data, in combination with concerns from 2012 regarding blood clots and rare serious skin reactions, warranted the new restrictions. The EMA recommended that patients with heart disease, vascular disease or untreated hypertension discontinue the drug. The drug, which is not sold in the U.S., is prescribed to both men and women to reduce the risk of fracture and is effective since it has two mechanisms of action; it increases deposits of new bone cells, called osteoblasts, and also reduces the degradation and remodeling of bone by cells known as osteoclasts.
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A method and apparatus for implementing a run-time configuration change for domain data in a database for an information systems where the domain data defines entities which are acted upon by the information system and where the reconfiguration of the domain data can take place without taking the information system offline and making it inaccessible to users.
1. In a train dispatching system for controlling the movement of plural trains over plural track resources, the plural track resources being defined by domain data, a method of modifying the domain data comprising:
(a) developing a first change set of intended modifications to the domain data, wherein the domain data defines the physical assets and devices that make up the rail network over which the plural trains travel,
(b) developing a second change set of intended modifications to the domain data which reverses the modifications made by the first change set,
(c) implementing the first change set to a domain data baseline in real-time while the dispatch system remains online and operational to users of the dispatching system during implementation of the modification to the domain data, including
(i) determining the domain data to be modified by the first change set,
(ii) making the domain data to be modified inaccessible to users of the dispatching system until the first change set has been successfully implemented,
(iii) preventing the implementation of the first change set if the domain data to be modified is currently being accessed by the dispatching system; and
(iv) notifying a user if the implementation of the first change set is prevented;
(d) evaluating the operational implementation of the first change set in real-time against a predetermined criteria; and
(e) implementing the second change set in real time if the evaluation of the first change set does not satisfy the predetermined criteria to return the domain data to the domain data baseline.
2. The method of
(i) determining the domain data to be modified by the first change set; and
(ii) making the domain data to be modified inaccessible to users of the dispatching system until the first change set has been successfully implemented.
3. The method of
(iii) preventing the implementation of the first change set if the domain data to be modified is currently being accessed by the dispatching system.
4. The method of
5. The method of
6. The method of
(i) identifying the domain data to be modified by the first change set that is subject to a safety constraint; and
(ii) applying the safety constraint to the identified domain data prior to implementation of the modifications.
7. The method of
8. The method of
(iii) reapplying the safety constraint following implementation of the modifications.
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. In a train dispatching system for controlling the movement of plural trains over plural track resources, the plural track resources being defined by domain data, a method of modifying the domain data comprising:
(a) developing a first change set of intended modifications to the domain data, wherein the domain data defines the physical assets and devices that make up the rail network over which the plural trains travel;
(b) developing a second change set of intended modifications to the domain data which reverses the modifications made by the first change set;
(c) implementing the first change set to a domain data baseline in real-time while the dispatching system associated with the domain data remains online and operational to users of the dispatching system during implementation of the modification to the domain data, including
(i) determining the domain data to be modified by the first change set,
(ii) making the domain data to be modified inaccessible to users of the dispatching system until the first change set has been successfully implemented,
(iii) preventing the implementation of the first change set if the domain data to be modified is currently being accessed by the dispatching system; and
(iv) notifying a user if the implementation of the first change set is prevented;
(d) evaluating the operational implementation of the first change set in real time against a predetermined criteria; and
(e) implementing the second change set in real time if the evaluation of the first change set does not satisfy the predetermined criteria to return the domain data to the domain data baseline.
12. The method of
This application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/583,359 filed Jun. 29, 2004, which is incorporated herein by reference.
This application is directed to implementing domain data configuration changes, additions, and deletions during the run-time operations of a software system.
Data is critical to virtually all information systems, and the accuracy, completeness, and availability of data is a distinct measure of an information system's value. Complex information systems, such as those supporting thousands of transactions, queries, and user interactions per hour, typically include one or more databases responsible for maintaining and managing the vast amounts of operational and archival data. Transient operational data is particularly sensitive to the disruption of run-time operations and, if the system is vital, often requires highly specialized measures to protect it (e.g., fail-over, redundancy, and hot-standbys for sustained operation, recovery, and prevention of data loss). Among the transient data in use, statically figured data normally defines the fixed domain environment or context within which the system operates, while dynamic data exists temporarily to facilitate operations and act as a vehicle for persisting event data. In some industries and public sector applications, the information systems in use do not require changes to the definition of their static domain environment data very often. In other businesses and government systems, however, the need to make such changes is both frequent and ongoing. Such an information system may require monthly, weekly, or even daily modifications to its statically configured domain data. Depending on system design and the extent of reconfiguration, implementing changes typically requires taking the software system off-line, either in full or in part, recompiling the software with the new configuration data, and bringing the system back online. For many businesses and government operations, this is not only a tremendous inconvenience; it is a costly and precarious procedure.
Routinely, in the course of maintaining a large, sophisticated information system, the need arises to reconfigure aspects of the domain environment that defines the system. Domain data can be considered both the arena within which the system operates and the static, semi-permanent constructs that serve as vehicles, parameters, and mechanisms for carrying out business operations through the system. Much of this static domain data represents actual, physical devices that are themselves subject to reconfiguration, replacement, and inclusion in the system. In general, a change to domain data is either driven by (1) changes to the physical environment emulated by the software, or (2) by a decision to reconfigure the definition of domain data to optimize, correct, or simply the role of these static elements in the information system. Once a change is decided upon, the development of the reconfiguration "change set" is invariably performed offline, usually by a back office system administrator, software engineer, or database personnel. Developing the "change set" offline has many advantages. It offers the opportunity to create the new configuration independent of the various technical and business constraints imposed by an operational environment, allows for desk-checking, automated testing, and database validation. Once ready for incorporation, the offline developer needs to make the change set available to the information system. Most prior art data reconfiguration methods produce an entirely new baseline database to be manually uploaded into the system at a time when the system can be taken down with relatively little impact on operations.
The loss of revenue due to "downtime", or worse yet the potential for human casualty, can make database changes (or upgrades) a harrowing ordeal for the maintainer of the system. Dispatching and control systems are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of downtime. Whether the system is responsible for controlling aircraft, trains, military drones, or satellites, the need to maintain continuous operation is essential. It is also imperative to minimize the affected area of the system and to constrain the disruption to the fewest functions possible. Clearly, a means of maintaining a high level of system availability while reconfiguring a system's static domain data during run-time is the ideal, but it can be as technologically challenging as changing the carpet out from under the feet of guests at a cocktail party. The difficulty lies in the established dependencies among transient data, the complex interactions among software objects, and the ability of the software to recognize and incorporate not only changes, but additions and deletions, as well, without adversely impacting or corrupting the system.
The present disclosure addresses the problems identified in the prior art by allowing reconfiguration of domain data to the run-time system without requiring the system to be taken down, and to limit reconfiguration to only the affected data.
In another aspect, the present disclosure maximizes the availability of system functions by limiting the reconfiguration to only the affected data. In a further aspect, the present disclosure minimizes the number of affected entities, offers alternative configuration changes from a common baseline, and performs run-time reconfiguration in real time. In another aspect the present application detects dynamic software entities currently using the domain data subject to change and (a) automatically removes from the system those dynamic entities that are non-critical, (b) coordinates the removal of problematic dynamic entities through a user interface, and (c) updates the remaining dynamic entities to reflect data changes.
When an information system is upgraded or altered in some way, it is typically done for one of three reasons: (1) to fix problems with the software (i.e., to apply a "patch"); (2) to enhance—or add new features to—the existing implementation (i.e., to install a version upgrade); or (3) to reconfigure domain parameters, or entities, upon which the software operates. Virtually every information system contains an array of domain-specific entities, emulated in software, which the software system must "know about", manipulate, and interact with during processing. For example, in an Airport Management System, these domain entities could be the runways available for landing, a fueling station, or a baggage-handling unit. When the airport gains a new runway as the result of an airport expansion project, there is a fundamental change to the domain environment within which the system operates. In a railroad dispatching system, domain entities include trains, stations, switches, track segments, signals, and electric locks, actual devices connected to field circuitry that receive controls and send indications via a specialized protocol. When one railroad loses a station to another railroad, perhaps due to an acquisition, there is a similar structural change that needs to be assimilated. In each of the above examples, for the information system to operate properly, a new configuration of static domain data needs to be defined and "uploaded" into the system.
In step 110, the upgrade is scheduled during a period of low system usage. Because reconfiguration of domain data typically requires that the software program using the data be taken offline, it is critical that the configuration upgrade be performed during an off-peak period of low resource usage. In order to take a critical software system offline, it is necessary to coordinate the operational activities that will be taking place during the period of downtime to ensure that access to the offline software system is not necessary, and to minimize any impact to the system. As used in this disclosure, when a system is taken off-line, it is accessible only to the personal performing maintenance and is not accessible to other programs or to end users.
In step 120, the software system is placed offline. When a system is placed offline, the operational user does not have access to the system resources, and is unable to perform normal operations, until the system is brought back online. In some systems, it may be possible to place only a portion of the system offline.
In step 130, the new configuration of domain data is loaded.
In step 140, the system is brought back online.
In step 150, a battery of tests is performed to ensure the new configuration is verified as complete and satisfactory. Once a change set has been applied, extensive testing and a functional "check-out" are performed by test, maintenance, and operational personnel to verify the correctness and integration of the new configuration. Importantly, if anomalies are detected, the configuration change must be reversed, and the system must be returned to its original configuration, to ensure the continuity of operations. Typically the "reversing" procedure requires placing the system offline again, in full or in part, reconfiguring the domain data, recompiling the software, if necessary installing the old software and bringing it back online. Thus, the typical method of incorporating a configuration change set requires that the system be taken offline both for the installation of the change set, as well as to return the system to its original configuration if problems are encountered during installation of the new domain data configuration.
In practice, it is not uncommon to take a software system offline, implement a change, bring the system back online, encounter a problem, take the system offline again, reverse the configuration change, restore the original domain data configuration, and bring the system back online. Most of the problems encountered when reconfiguring domain data are due to the difficulty in identifying the interrelationships between entities and predicting the effect that a change to one entity will have on another entity. This is the "ripple effect" of data reconfiguration, and it is directly linked to the relationships among domain entities, relationships—often subtle and complex—that must be mined from the operational database schema.
If the software system taken offline is a critical system, it is likely that the denial of access to the system while offline has created adverse effects. Accordingly, in step 160, after the system is placed back online, it is necessary to remedy any adverse effect that may have been caused during the period that the system was offline.
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, and as described in greater detail below, the reconfiguration of domain data is accomplished without taking the software system offline. Instead, the system remains online for use by the operational user and access to the domain data is tightly controlled during the data reconfiguration, with greater flexibility provided to obviate some of the deficiencies noted in the prior art. For example, access may be granted to the domain data that is not subject to reconfiguration. The software system may be comprised of program modules, each of which may require access to portions of the domain data. Those program modules that require domain data undergoing reconfiguration may be disabled until the reconfiguration is complete, while those that do not require access to the data undergoing reconfiguration may be fully functional.
The example of a railroad dispatching system is used throughout this disclosure to demonstrate the complexities involved in applying a "change set" to an operational system and the challenges of incorporating changes within that environment, and discloses a suitable solution to incorporating run-time data changes. Those skilled in the art of data management will appreciate that the principles discussed herein may be applied to other systems, as well, and the present disclosure is in no way limited to railroad dispatching systems.
With respect to a railroad dispatching system where the domain data defines schedulable entities in the train network, the following examples illustrate some of the changes to domain data that may be implemented:
(1) Addition of a new entity. For example, a double-headed hold signal is added to a 20-mile section of track.
(2) Deletion of an existing entity. For example, the removal of two control points (including signals, switches, code stations and track).
(3) Association change, i.e., altering a relationship to another entity. For example, an association change may be (1) a dispatch territory is assigned to a different district, (2) a field traffic device is moved to a different track, or (3) a circuit is changed to indicate-in at a different code station.
(4) Attribute change, i.e., altering the setting of an entity's attribute. For example, an attribute change may be (1) the restoration time of a switch is changed from ten to thirty seconds, (2) a signal is changed from "slotting with transmit" to "no transmit", or (3) a station's name is changed from Edgewood to Tyler.
(5) Presentation change, i.e., altering the placement of an entity in a user's view. For example, a switch heater is moved from above track to below track.
In a railroad dispatching system, voluminous amounts of data are required to accurately emulate and interact with the railway infrastructure, trains, and the management information system responsible for planning train movements. When an aspect of a new system is replacing an old one, this data must be converted (as necessary), absorbed in the new system, and fully validated before the new system is approved for service. In the prior art systems, implementing the types of changes listed above typically could not be done online; the dispatching system would have to be placed offline and would not be available to the dispatcher during the downtime.
The impact of the addition of a double-headed hold signal is illustrated in
Note that the addition and deletion of railroad domain entities, particularly those that communicate to the dispatch center via an established protocol, invariably require reconfiguration of electronic circuitry in the field, which is usually done before the dispatching system is expected to accommodate the change. However, this does not obviate the need to upgrade the software, nor does it increase the likelihood of a "bug-free" upgrade. The only true benefit of procedurally upgrading the field before the office is being able to immediately begin testing the new configuration once the upgrade operation is complete.
In one embodiment, only those data configuration changes that affect dynamic entities that are unable to recover or incorporate the changes in the normal course of processing are rejected.
As part of applying the change set, a user interface is used to identify those entities that may be adversely affected by the domain data reconfiguration and disallows proceeding until the affected dynamic entities are either removed or suitably addressed. Other entities not adversely affected by the run-time reconfiguration are updated to reflect the domain data changes. To minimize the impact on operations, it is important to localize the affected region, or set of objects, to the smallest portion of interrelated domain data. Thus, in one embodiment, the system attempts to apply a reconfiguration of domain data at run-time that strictly localizes the affected region of the system, implements the upgrade in a matter of minutes, and maximizes the availability of system functions. For example, with reference to
In the present disclosure, a link is made between the operational system and the offline repository of change sets so that change sets can be readily retrieved, on demand, without taking the software system offline and with only minimal disruption to normal dispatching operations.
In one aspect of the present disclosure, strict configuration management is maintained by producing domain data change sets in pairs: (1) the user-defined change set; and (2) the automatically generated "reverse change set", or undo change set, which allows change set reversal by the same means of applying a new change set. Once a change set has been retrieved by the operational system, it is then "locked" from any further modification.
Operationally, in the railroad context, a dispatcher or supervisor initiates the online implementation of a change set. While change sets can be localized in practice, the present disclosure also allows the entire railroad's domain data to be loaded—or replaced—as a single change set, without any deviation from the normal procedure. The content and scope of a change set depends entirely on the configuration defined by the data manager.
In operation, the data manager is presented with the current configuration of the domain data baseline 400 and a list of "configuration versions" to which the system may migrate. Choosing a target configuration version is equivalent to applying a change set. For example, it may be desired to implement Configuration A by applying Change set A 410 to baseline 400.
During the application process 420, which may take anywhere from a few seconds (one device) to 60 minutes (an entire division) depending on the size of the change set, the run-time system disables the affected area by rendering the applicable domain data inaccessible in all users' displays via a graphical user interface, and by internally blocking access to the underlying data. Examples of how this may be accomplished include: (a) by disallowing access to user functions (e.g., by graying-out context menus and rendering user interface objects non-selectable), and (b) by internally rejecting requests to access the domain data subject to change.
In determining the extent of a change set, it is necessary to identify the entities that will be affected by the implementation of the change set to smartly schedule the reconfiguration event. This identification requires a thorough understanding of how static domain entities interact with dynamic entities in the system, and how various types of data changes will affect those relationships. As a result, it may be preferable to implement a series of change sets rather than a single change set. For example, in
In some cases, it may be preferable to produce several alternative change sets for a given software baseline. This might be needed for training purposes in a "test bed", or when the correct configuration of a large, complex set of domain data is not completely known or understood. In one embodiment of the present disclosure (see
In another embodiment in the present disclosure, the run-time reconfiguration process detects affected dynamic entities in the system and presents the user with a solution strategy. For example, if a movement authority, which is a dynamic railroad-domain entity authorizing movement of a train, were in the affected area prior to application of a change set, the change set solution would reject the dispatcher's attempt to apply the change set, identify the offending entity, and communicate that the movement authority needs to be removed in order to proceed. Likewise, there could be other offending entities in the affected area such as trains, bulletins, and trip plans. The change set solution identifies each offending entity, presents them in a list for the user to address, and applies the reverse change set process to the current baseline. Other dynamic entities, not considered critical, may be either automatically removed from the system during the change set process, or updated to reflect the data configuration changes once the change set process is complete.
Another aspect of the present disclosure involves the recreation of domain entities that are temporarily removed during the change process. For example, in one embodiment, the run-time reconfiguration process automatically reapplies track blocks over an affected area. For example, whenever a section of railroad topology is planned for reconfiguration, it is normal operating procedure for responsible personnel to put down one or more track blocks over the affected area, as a safety precaution, to prevent access to the tracks. These dynamic entities are not considered offending entities that inhibit application of a change set, nor are they suppose to be automatically removed from the system. They actually need to be reapplied, either in full or in part, based on the extent of the topology change. If the entire track they cover is being deleted, or the specific track used to initiate the block is being removed in the change set, then the block is automatically removed; otherwise, it is recreated on the remaining track.
Another aspect of the present disclosure is that when domain data has been successfully reconfigured, the movement planner is notified and the movement plan is will then automatically update the existing movement plans to take into account the changes made to the domain data. The automatic regeneration of the movement plan helps minimize any disruptions that may be caused by the reconfiguration of the domain data.
In summary, the change set solution provided by the present disclosure minimizes disruption of dispatching operations, offers easy application of multiple change sets complete with the ability to reverse those changes, and accommodates the interaction of dynamic domain objects by rejecting requests, automatically deleting objects, and recreating objects in the new, reconfigured environment.
While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, it is to be understood that the embodiments described are illustrative only and the scope of the invention is to be defined solely by the appended claims when afforded a full range of equivalents, many variations and modifications naturally occurring to those of skill in the art form a perusal hereof.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Savannah Polansky was startled by Walter Furley during one of her early harp lessons with his wife in their home.
"I was about 11," the now 27-year-old woman said. "I stopped playing when he walked in, then he asked me to keep playing. He liked it because I played louder than most students."
She was quiet Saturday, as harps played at a public memorial service celebrating the longtime KZTV news anchor's life. Furley, whose broadcast for decades was a staple in many Corpus Christi homes, died Jan. 9 in his home after a five-month battle with cancer. He was 84.
The Polansky's were among more than 400 people at First United Methodist Church, where Furley sang in the choir for more than 60 years. They came to celebrate the life of the man with the golden voice who they trusted and believed.
"Walter would have loved every minute," said his wife Patricia Furley, while greeting an hourlong line of well-wishers after the service.
She and her husband were introduced on a blind date by a mutual friend at the church.
They made more than a love connection, said Rev. Gloria Lear.
They shared a love of theater, church, family and community throughout their life, Lear said.
"Walter gave more of his self with more joy to more people than anyone I know," Lear said. "His presence was powerful, he stood apart, and yet was in the midst of all."
Eulogists who worked with Furley, sang with him and who grew up around him, cried and laughed as they shared stories.
"People's love for my dad was absolutely mind-blowing," said the Furleys' son Ric. "It was well deserved, and I'm very, very happy Dad touched so many people."
Rev. Greg Hackett sang verses of Walter Furley's signature song "Try to Remember," from the musical comedy "The Fantasticks" before, during and after his heartfelt sermon.
"I once said during service I wanted to be Walter Furley," Hackett said. "He had the voice of God, and hair." It earned chuckles because of Hackett's obvious baldness.
The sentiment of all was clearly respect and admiration for Furley's many faceted life.
"Walter was a hoot," said Robert Reed, executive director of Corpus Christi Symphony, who knew him from many roles as a program narrator, vocalist, actor and community icon. "He was a serious professional, with a fun side with delivery that could crack you up. He simply connected with people."
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CHURUBUSCO — Churubusco's volleyball team fell to visiting Heritage Tuesday in four sets on senior night.
Despite the defeat, the Lady Eagles end the regular season above .500 at 15-13.
Conference play looms Saturday, though, and the postseason tournament begins next week.
Against the Lady Patriots, Churubusco Head Volleyball Coach Trinda Goings said her team played better as the match went longer.
"We played with more confidence as the night went along," she said.
Heritage won by a final of 25-17, 25-9, 26-24 and 25-23.
FORT WAYNE — Columbia City paced Whitley County schools by advancing three cross country runners to regional action Saturday.
Gage Emrick, Samantha Roush and Brooke Werstler of Columbia City all qualified at the Fort Wayne Northrop sectional.
Whitko's Brigit Nemitz qualifed for regionals at the Northrop meet. Churubusco's Jacob Eyer and Blake Gross both advanced from the West Noble sectional.
As a team, the Columbia City girls finished sixth overall with 163 points.
WOLF LAKE — A church worked to generate a rather hefty donation for children.
The Whitley County Engineer's office, who spearheads an annual collection of pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, received a donation of 149 pounds of tabs from the Living Waters Lutheran Church in Wolf Lake.
Darlene Hagen, a church member, said that members and guests have been collecting aluminum tabs for several years.
The people at the church wanted to donate the tabs, but couldn't move them. County engineer office employees used their vehicle and personal time to pick up the tabs.
COLUMBIA CITY — "It's a grand night for singing," as the popular Broadway tune says.
A special evening is being planned for elementary school students who might be interested in singing with Whitley Community Children's Choir (WCCC).
Thursday, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., children and parents can visit the choir at Northern Heights Elementary School, north of Columbia City.
Those attending should enter the school through door three.
This is a no-obligation opportunity to participate with the choir, the night is just to "try it and see if there is an interest in joining."
COLUMBIA CITY — Purple ribbons may be decorating downtown Columbia City commemorating Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but the color purple held a different meaning Tuesday night.
Relay for Life of Whitley County began assembling its committee for the 24-hour walk in June.
Purple is the event's color and the shade worn by cancer survivors at the relay.
It may seem premature to begin generating to-do lists and plans for a fundraiser more than seven months away, but there is much work to be done.
COLUMBIA CITY — While many view court-ordered community service as punishment, more positives than negatives come from the work crew, according to its leader Thor Hodges.
Many have seen the yellow community service van around Whitley County, at the schools, working in the streets and parks, but Hodges said there are misconceptions about the people working on those crews.
"They're not bad people," Hodges said. "They're people who have made a mistake and were ordered to do community service for it."
COLUMBIA CITY — A man convicted for using drugs at a local bar in Columbia City received the maximum prison sentence Monday.
Chadwick L. Sweet, 36, was sentenced to three years to the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC), for maintaining a common nuisance, a Class D felony.
Sweet was ordered by Whitley County Circuit Court Judge James Heuer to serve the entire time behind bars.
The maximum sentence for a Class D felony is three years.
Sweet was originally arrested in April, when he was caught using drugs in the restroom at Duff's in Columbia City.


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Schroon Lake Schroon Lake shared the stage with Hollywood during a recent film festival in Italy.
Emily Rossi-Snook of Schroon Lake attended the Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia in Bologna recently to show family movies taken during the production of "Marjorie Morningstar." The 1957 movie starring Natalie Wood was filmed in Schroon Lake.
Members of the Rossi family — brothers John, Steve and Charlie — owned and operated movie theaters in the Schroon Lake, Port Henry and Crown Point from 1934-1982. A movie fan, Charlie Rossi made home movies during the filming of "Marjorie Morning Star" in Schroon Lake and of "On the Waterfront" in Hoboken, N.J., in 1953.
The family's love of film has spanned generations. When Emily Rossi-Snook's daughter, Elena, learned of the home movies she urged her mother to act.
"My daughter, Elena Rossi-Snook, is presently a film archivist at The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center in New York City," Emily said. "While interning at film labs in Hollywood, she encouraged me to deposit Uncle Charlie's home movies of the filming of 'Marjorie Morningstar' in Schroon Lake in 1957 and 'On the Waterfront' in Hoboken in 1953 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood where they preserved the original 16mm film footage."
"Lynne Kirste, curator at the Academy Film Archive, contacted me early this fall to inform me that she would like to use my footage in a home movie film festival in Bologna, Italy, in a program titled 'Hollywood Home Movies'," Emily continued. "She asked if I was interested in participating in the festival by introducing my films."
The festival, "Archivio Aperto," was a program at the Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia and was held in a Renaissance-era church in Bologna. The event had about 200 attendees.
The festival was organized to celebrate UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, an annual event that helps promote audiovisual archives and their preservation.
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