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Monsters University (2013)
Monsters University SynopsisEver since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarerand he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mikes plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, Sulley (voice of John Goodman), a natural-born Scarer. The pairs out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the Universitys elite Scare Program. To make matters worse, they realize they will have to work together, along with an odd bunch of misfit monsters, if they ever hope to make things right.
Screaming with laughter and oozing with heart, DisneyPixars Monsters University is directed by Dan Scanlon (Cars, Mater and the Ghostlight, Tracy,), produced by Kori Rae (Up, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc.) and features music from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and award-winning composer Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3 ). The film opens in U.S. theaters on June 21, 2013, and will be shown in 3D in select theaters.
Monsters University Release Date
In Theaters June 21, 2013
Monsters University Credits
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Dave Foley, Sean P. Hayes, Joel Murray, Peter Sohn, Charlie Day, Nathan Fillion, Bobby Moynihan, Julia Sweeney, Aubrey Plaza, Tyler Labine, John Krasinski, Bonnie Hunt, Beth Behrs and John Ratzenberger
Written by: Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton
Directed by: Dan Scanlon
Produced by: Kori Rae
MPAA Rating: [ G ]
Distributor: The Walt Disney Company
External Info: Monsters University Official Website
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As you've seen, heard or read in the news, notifying everyone within the path of a wildfire is difficult, so there are some things everyone should know if you do become caught at your home in a wildfire.
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Outside your house
• Remove all combustible items from around the outside of your house. This includes lawn furniture, barbecues, wood piles and anything else that, if it catches fire, could add heat and possibly contribute to starting your house on fire.
• If possible, close outside attic, eve and basement vents. Sparks and embers could enter your house through these or any other openings.
• Have your garden hose ready with enough hose to reach any place on the house. Use a spray-gun type nozzle and turn your faucet on so it's ready to go when needed. If you have a portable gasoline-powered pump to take water from a tank, pond or irrigation ditch, make sure it operates and is ready to go.
• Place large plastic trash cans or buckets around the perimeter of your house and fill them with water. Soak burlap sacks, rags or small rugs to use in beating out burning embers or small fires. Needless to say, every home should have a working fire extinguisher.
• Place a ladder against the roof of the house opposite the side of the approaching fire. A lawn sprinkler set on a combustible roof is more effective than just using your garden hose. Conserve water, as wetting down wood too far ahead of time wastes water and is ineffective.
Inside your home
• Close all your windows and doors, but don't lock them. Firefighters may arrive and need instant access.
• Close all doors inside your home to block the circulation of air and help prevent fire from going room to room.
• If you have a fireplace, open the damper to help stabilize outside and inside pressure, but close the fireplace screen so sparks don't ignite the room.
• Turn off gas at the meter, but turn on a light in each room of the house, on the porch, in the garden and in the yard. This will make the house more visible in heavy smoke at night.
• Fill bathtubs, sinks and other water containers with water. Don't forget that toilets and water heaters are important water sources.
• If you have time, take down flammable drapes and curtains. If you don't have time, leave them open. Close all fire resistant window coverings to reduce the amount of heat radiating into your home.
• Move overstuffed furniture away from windows and sliding glass doors and into the center of the room.
• If you have a garage, park your car in it, facing out for a quick departure. Close the car windows and leave the keys in the ignition. Place valuable documents and mementos inside the car and don't forget the pets. Close the garage door, but leave it unlocked. Disconnect the automatic garage door opener.
If the fire comes
OK, you are not able to escape and the fire is coming at you. You have done all you can. Get inside your home with your family, closing but not locking the doors. Keep your family together and remain calm. Stay inside the house as the fire passes. It takes time for a fire to burn from the outside into the interior of the house. But leave the house if it becomes apparent the fire is burning inside the house. Consider using the house to block you from the outside radiant heat.
Once the fire passes, check the roof immediately. Extinguish any sparks or embers using a garden hose, barrels of water, or your gasoline-powered water pump. Then, check inside the attic for hidden sparks. Check under and on combustible porches and decks for embers and fire. Keep the windows and doors closed in the house. Continue checking for at least six to 10 hours after the fire is thought to be out.
I hesitate to put this information out, because it may encourage some to stay in their home. It may also create "panic" for others. That's not my intent or purpose.
Creating a defensible space and early evacuation are the keys to giving yourself, your family and your home the best chance of surviving a wildfire. These are the right individual choices, so when a wildfire happens, you have already taken steps to mitigate the fire.
Wildfire has been, and will continue to be, a part of living in Garfield County. We will not avoid wildfire, but we can prepare for it.
Please be safe, and my thoughts and prayers are with those individuals and communities currently experiencing a wildfire.
- Kevin Whelan has been a firefighter and emergency medical responder for 32 years, the last decade with the Rifle Fire Protection District and the last six years as the department's fire marshall.

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ADMISSION AND RETENTION REQUIREMENTSStudents entering the School of Social Work as freshmen are required to meet the admissions standards of the University set forth in the section titled "Admissions" in this catalog. The University accepts transferred credit from accredited associate of arts programs (see "Admissions" in this catalog). The School of Social Work also accepts those hours, but requires that all students meet the course requirements for the bachelor of social work degree. An evaluation of each transferred course is made by the University's Academic Records Office or the registrar of the School of Social Work. Any transfer credit of a social work course must be approved by the program chair. No academic credit, course waivers, or credit for field practicum shall be granted for life experience or for previous work experience. Transfer credit from four-year institutions is accepted as long as the specified requirements for the B.S.W. degree are met. Credit for 400-level social work courses can be granted only for such courses taken in a CSWE-accredited social work program. Social work courses below the 400 level taken in programs without CSWE accreditation are evaluated for transfer credit on a course-by-course basis. Because of the number of social work courses required of junior- and senior-level students, it is difficult for a transfer student to enter the School of Social Work after the first semester of the junior year and complete the program within an additional two-year period, unless the general education requirements have been completed during the first two years of study. Most transfer students attend at least one summer session. University of Alabama students who have completed 45 semester hours or more of academic work and who wish to transfer from any other UA division to the School of Social Work must have grade point averages of 2.0 or higher for all college work. Admission to the professional program. The priority deadline for application to enter the upper division (professional program) in social work is February 15 of each year for admission in the following fall semester. Application forms are available from the School's registrar in 113 Little Hall. Each student must take a writing examination through arrangements with the B.S.W. program secretary in 117-C Little Hall. Each applicant must have completed at least 7 semester hours of the following courses (or their equivalents if transferring from another institution): SOC 101, PY 101, and BSC 109, and be concurrently enrolled in the other prerequisite courses at the time of application. An applicant must have qualified for UA Core Curriculum-level math courses either by placement score or by having earned a "C" or higher in MATH 100. He or she must also have completed at least 45 hours toward the degree with an overall grade point average of 2.25 and have an average of at least 2.5 in all social work courses taken to be considered for admission. Spaces for students in the upper division are limited. Two faculty readers will score each application and make tentative admission decisions to the upper division by April 15. Depending on the number of applications and spaces available, some applicants who meet minimum admissions requirements may be placed on a waiting list. Students who are tentatively admitted in April must retain overall grade point averages of at least 2.25 (and 2.5 in social work courses) through the spring semester or the tentative offer of admission will be withdrawn. No later than June 1, the faculty will also make decisions about admissions to the upper division for students on the waiting list and for those who submitted their applications after the priority application deadline. After the completion of approximately 54 hours toward the social work degree, with the required overall and social work grade point averages, students who have been admitted to the professional program begin taking the professional courses, which are the 400-level social work courses listed in the "Program Requirements" section that follows. Performance and retention policies. To continue in the social work professional program, students must meet the following criteria:
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128-Voice Expandable Synthesizer/Sample Playback Module
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Cardiff Railway Locomotive No '19'
(Amgueddfa Cymru regrets that we are not able to provide an image for this item at this time. This is either due to copyright restrictions, or the item is awaiting digitisation. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.)
Date: 1965
Media: watercolour on paper
Size: 257 x 385 mm
Acquired: 1969; Gift
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The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) collaborates with Insulin for Life Australia (IFL) to distribute emergency diabetes supplies in situations of acute need. IDF cannot receive donations of insulin or other diabetes supplies, so any offers from individuals or organizations should be directed to Insulin for Life.
IFL is a non-profit organisation that collects and distributes insulin and other diabetes supplies that would otherwise be wasted. These are donated to recognised organisations in many countries, with agreed monitoring systems, on an ongoing, sustainable basis, and following emergencies. Recipient organisations include children's diabetes camps, programmess involving Australian medical students, Diabetes Associations and clinics.
Insulin for Life distributes supplies through a network of affiliates located around the world. Countries that currently form part of the network include Austria, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the USA.
For more information on how to support the work of Insulin for Life and donate supplies, visit www.insulinforlife.org.


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The Nipmuck Trail Marathon is a classic old-school trail race now in its 33rd year. It is held in the quiet countryside of eastern CT and is run as a double out & back along the blue-blazed Nipmuck Trail.WHAT IT'S NOT: These days you have an overwhelming array of choices for outdoor adventures. This race seeks to preserve many of the qualities from the early days of the New England trail racing scene. You won't find:
The NipMuck Trail Marathon race course follows a 13 mile segment in the middle of the 36 mile Nipmuck Trail starting on Perry Hill Road in Ashford. The marathon runs south for 6.2 miles down to Rt 44, then back to the start, then north for 7 miles to Boston Hollow Road, then turns around and back to the finish at Perry Hill Road. 60% of your time will be spent in the second half of the race due to hills and a bit more distance. We'll have people out there if you choose to do a marathon in up to 8 hours, the time limit for this race. We will be enforcing a 3:15 cutoff at the mid-point and 5:20 at the 2nd half turnaround. Please respect our volunteers who are putting in a long day in the woods on your behalf and do not continue if you don't make the cutoff.


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While Rick Ross may not have released a solo project in 2011, his appeal is arguably at a career apex thanks to a series of high-profile guest spots ("I'm On One," "Lord Knows," "John") and a revamped Maybach Music Group roster that is steadily coming to fruition. "Rich Forever" doesn't necessarily hinder Ross' momentum for the oft-delayed God Forgives, I Don't, but it also doesn't establish a convincing tone that the album is as flawless as the Bawse would have us believe.
This isn't to say "Rich Forever" is void of any gems. Teaming up with Nas on "Triple Beam Dreams," the two emcees recollect earlier days of corner life over vivid production from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. The title-track offers a more pensive yet triumphant Rozay, and with the addition of John Legend's piercing soulful vocals bringing the record full circle, there's a clear indication that Ross and Legend have found lightning in a bottle with their collaborations. Ross then plays the right role on Kelly Rowland-assisted "Mine Games," while "Keys To The Crib" appropriately enlists a colorful wall of sound that The Inkredibles have been lacing Ross with since Deeper Than Rap.
With this small window of exceptional versatility exhibited, the biggest issue with the mixtape is that it's frankly too much and too little at the same time. 19 tracks is a lot to burn through, and with Ross lyrically fixated on the power of the dollar (hence the title), "Rich Forever" reverts back to an arduous dose of rubber band stacks and ambitious dealings that seemingly blend together. Pick and choose your favorite production out of "King Of Diamonds," "I Swear To God" and "MMG Untouchable"; the results are all the same, and the listener walks away none the wiser. His lyrical dexterity comes to screeching halt on "Yella Diamonds" when every one of his bars ends with the same noun. Take them out, and he's literally just snarling over a sinister beat.
In other instances, it's almost as if Ross is discarding records for the sake of keeping his industry buddies in good spirits. No better example of this comes on "New Bugatti," where an inevitable train wreck accelerated by Diddy's gaudy rhymes ("Fuck a chick all in the shower like I'm trying to drown / Turn my back just like a king I'll let her wipe me down") takes a turn for the worse. Similarly, "Off The Boat" is saturated with the type of negligent, simple-minded methodology that would make Waka Flocka blush, and "Ring Ring" fails right from the first note of Future's deplorable hook. Blunder after blunder, you get the feeling one too many records were created during the process of his new album.
To Ross' credit, "Rich Forever" is the epitome of what a mixtape can be; a project created to gauge feedback prior to a major release and adjust accordingly. It's something he did with the Albert Anastasia EP in 2010, which paid dividends for Teflon Don through "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" . There are a handful of records here that could have a similar impact for God Forgives, I Don't. However, in an era where artists have transformed mixtapes into celebrated relics, the replay value for "Rich Forever" won't last much longer than a few months.
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Yes, you could very soon own something from one of these companies… Volcom, Rome, Capita, Oakley, Holden, 686, Technine, Airblaster, Electric, DC, Burton, Forum, Never Summer, Von Zipper, and oh so more. Sale happens on the hill, next to The Fox, 10am-6pm. Call 303-374-3275 or visit www.satelliteboardshop.com for more information.
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Bodine in NTB, Service Central and Valvoline Colors at Kansas
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Bodine in NTB, Service Central and Valvoline Colors at Kansas
Bodine is the Reigning Truck Series Champion after earning his 2nd title in 2010
Bodine is Third Driver in Truck Series History to Win Multiple Titles, and Clinch Early
Bodine Owns 21 Truck Series wins with Germain Racing and 36 NASCAR career wins
He has one win at Kansas and last year finished 3rd
Mooresville, N.C. (June 2, 2011) - Germain Racing will show up in Kansas sporting a look similar to what they debuted in Daytona on the No. 30 Tundra. The reigning NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, Todd Bodine, will drive the No. 30 NTB/Service Central/Valvoline Tundra at Kansas Speedway, a track where he finished third last year, and, a track where he and his crew, led by Mike Hillman Jr., know how to win. After a tough weekend in front of the home crowd at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bodine and Hillman are ready for some vindication in Kansas.
"We need to get back on track and Kansas is as good a place as any. Mile and a half tracks are our strong suit and we hope to prove that once again. The track has some wear on it and has continued to grow character. Drivers can move around the track into different grooves and make their trucks run faster. We are taking a brand new race truck for Germain Racing and the No. 30 NTB/Service Central/Valvoline Tundra should be great," said Bodine.
Kansas Speedway is a much different track than Charlotte Motor Speedway. Bodine explains that the shape of the Kansas circuit means momentum and corner speed are the focus.
"Kansas is really wide and the field does spread out there. It drives more like a Michigan or California. There's a lot more momentum than most mile and a half tracks. You have to keep the center of the corner speed up to get a good lap time and that's been one of our strong points. Hopefully we can make it work to our advantage with our No. 30 NTB/Service Central/Valvoline Tundra this weekend," said Bodine.
Bodine is strapping into racing chassis GR-019 for Saturday's Kansas Speedway Truck Series race. He is currently ranked eleventh in the championship standings.
Watch Bodine in the No. 30 Tire Kingdom Tundra on Saturday, June 4th, at Kansas Speedway on SPEED. Practice coverage airs at 12:30 and 3:00 PM Eastern on Friday, June 3rd, with qualifying at 10:30 AM on Saturday morning and racing action at 2:00 PM, preceded by the NCWTS Setup at 1:30 PM. Not in front of a TV? Tune your radio to your local MRN affiliate.
Follow Germain Racing on Twitter @GermainRacing or on the web at Germainracing.com or become a fan on Facebook: Facebook.com/pages/Germain-Racing/198863890135.
Service Central® is the automotive service offering available exclusively at Tire Kingdom®, NTB-National Tire and Battery®, Merchant's Tire and Auto®, and Big O Tires®. Available at nearly 1,300 locations nationwide, its trained and certified ASE technicians use state-of-the art equipment to provide quality service on cars or trucks. The nationwide warranty provides peace of mind while it protects consumers and their investment in over 40 states. (http://www.facebook.com/ServiceCentralRacing & www.servicecentralauto.com)
Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, TBC Retail Group, Inc., a subsidiary of TBC Corporation, operates more than 800 tire and automotive service centers under the brands: Tire Kingdom®, NTB - National Tire and Battery®, and Merchant's Tire and Auto Centers®, along with nearly 500 franchised Big O Tires® locations. The contingent of nearly 1300 stores has trained and certified ASE technicians who use state-of-the-art equipment to provide quality service on cars and trucks. The nationwide warranty provides peace of mind while it protects consumers and their investment in over 40 states. TBC Retail Group employs more than 300 associates at its Juno Beach, Fla. headquarters and approximately 10,000 associates nationally. To locate a store near you, call 800-NEW-TIRE. TBC Corporation, headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is one of the nation's largest marketers of automotive replacement tires through a multi-channel retail and wholesale strategy.
Valvoline, a brand of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), has been serving American motorists longer than any other motor oil. The Valvoline family of products includes Eagle One(r) appearance products, Car Brite(r) car restoration products, Zerex(r) antifreeze, SynPower(r) performance products and MaxLife(r) products created for higher-mileage engines. With more than 870 locations throughout the United States, Valvoline Instant Oil Change(r) is a leader in serving the quick lube market.


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WHEELING - Taking a page out of the book of the parent Pittsburgh Penguins, the Wheeling Nailers are starting a "Ticket Exchange Program" during the 2013-14 season.
What that means, is season ticket holders who may not be able to make a particular game will be able to trade those tickets in and receive tickets of equal or lesser value to a future game of their choice. The catch is, you must do this at least 48 hours before the game and then choose your alternate game at the time of exchange.
The traded-in tickets will then be re-sold by the Nailers, helping to ensure that more seats are filled on a nightly basis.
"I feel the new ticket exchange program will give our season ticket holders more flexibility on games throughout the year,'' Paul Melanko, the team's director of ticket sales, said. "This program also gives us the chance to re-sell that unused ticket to the general public, which could better enhance their game experience.''
Season ticket holders who miss a game or the 48-hour window to exchange, the Nailers will offer two redemption nights throughout the season. Any unused tickets will be eligible for exchange for those two games.
Nobody asked me, but I think this is a tremendous idea. Not only does it provide flexibility, but it prevents tickets from going unused and seats being empty.
Ring 'Em Up
While waiting for my weekly men's basketball game to be played Monday at the YMCA in Elm Grove, I got a chance to talk to the facility's program director, Adam Shinsky. Boy, did he have a funny story to pass along.
A former hoops standout at Bishop Donahue and now a well-known area referee, Shinsky was recently officiating an AAU tournament in Pittsburgh when a coach became unruly and demonstrative toward a first-year member of Shinsky's crew. After this had gone on for a while, Shinsky finally had enough and rang the coach up with a technical.
This particular coach was particularly impressed that Shinsky had the "gumption" to make that call and eventually simmered down - for a while. When the coach started again, Shinsky told him something to the effect of "I could throw you out right now, and went on to tell the him that if he thought it was so easy, the coach should go to his local board, take the officiating course and give it a try."
After the game the coach approached Shinsky and reiterated that he was impressed with the guts it took to make that call, and that he indeed believe he could call a game with little problem. That was right before the coach informed Shinsky that he had to hop on a flight to New York to work the Knicks-Celtics playoff game.
The coach's name? NBA referee Scott Foster.
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The charter of the Database Group at Microsoft Research Redmond is to increase the usefulness of database system technology to users by creating, extending, and applying database technology. To that end, we consult with product groups at Microsoft and take part in exploratory research projects in several data management systems topics. See our current projects list for an overview of our active research areas.
The Database group has a long tradition of building systems as part of our research. Several of our projects have contributed major technical innovations to Microsoft products. Examples include the Hekaton main-memory OLTP engine, SQL Server Apollo column storage, and the StreamInsight event processing system.
Selected Professional Activities
We actively participate in the database research community. Current activities include the following Conferences activities, and Editorships and Board Memberships:
Major Conferences
(3 on program committee)
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Editorships and Board Memberships
- ACM SIGMOD: chair
- Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal: editorial board
- Bulletin of the IEEE TC on Data Engineering: editor-in-chief
- IEEE CS Board of Governors: member
- VLDB Endowment: Board of Trustees members
- IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Data Engineering: 2 on executive committee
- IEEE-CS Conference Advisory Committee: co-chair
- Big Data
Businesses today operate on the monitor-mine-manage (M3) cycle: they monitor and archive large amounts of data, which they mine to derive insights such as models. The models are used during the manage phase to add value to the business, e.g., by scoring the models with real-time data. This project looks at the broad area of platforms and applications for big data analytics, from a database-oriented perspective, in the context of achieving a frictionless M3 cycle.
- Cipherbase = Encrypt(Database)
One of the barriers to adoption cloud database technologies such as SQL Azure is data security and privacy. Data is a valuable asset to most organizations and storing the data in the cloud is often perceived as a security risk. This project investigates encryption as a mechanism to address such data security concerns. In particular, the goal of the project is to research, design, and build a comprehensive database system that supports encryption as a first class citizen.
- Column store technology
Column store technology can provide very substantial performance improvements on data warehousing workloads. This project investigated how to integrate columnar storage into SQL Server. The solution adopted was to add a new index type, columnstore index, that stores data column wise instead of row wise. Columnstore indexes first shipped in SQL Server 2012, significant enhancements were added in SQL Server 2014, and further improvements will be included in the next release.
- Deuteronomy
Traditionally, a DBMS kernel has recovery, concurrency control and access method code tightly bound together. We factor the kernel into a transactional component (TC) that knows about transactions and their "logical" concurrency control and undo/redo recovery, and a data component (DC) that knows about the access methods and supports a record oriented interface with atomic operations. The interaction of the components is governed by a contract or covenant.
- Main-Memory Databases
Current database systems were designed assuming that data resides on disk. This assumption is no longer valid; main memories have become sufficiently large that most OLTP databases can reside entirely in memory. In this project we investigate what architectural changes and new techniques are required to realize the potential for great performance improvements offered by storing data in main memory.
- Streams
The streams research project proposes novel architectures, processing techniques, models, and applications to support time-oriented queries over temporal and real-time data streams. This research shipped in 2010 as Microsoft StreamInsight - a commercial stream processing system that is part of SQL Server. Our currect focus areas include scale-out, high-availability, query optimization, and new platforms for stream processing.
- Leilani Battle, Danyel Fisher, Robert DeLine, Mike Barnett, Badrish Chandramouli, and Jonatahn Goldstein, Making Sense of Temporal Queries with Interactive Visualization, in Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2016), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, 7 May 2016.
- Darko Makreshanski, Justin Levandoski, and Ryan Stutsman, To Lock, Swap, or Elide: On the Interplay of Hardware Transactional Memory and Lock-Free Indexing, in Proceedings of the VDLB Endowment, vol. 8, no. 11, August 2015.
- Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Mike Barnett, Robert DeLine, Danyel Fisher, John C. Platt, James F. Terwilliger, and John Wernsing, Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics, VLDB – Very Large Data Bases, August 2015.
- Arvind Arasu, Ken Eguro, Manas Joglekar, Raghav Kaushik, Donald Kossmann, and Ravi Ramamurthy, Transaction Processing on Confidential Data using Cipherbase, in 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2015.
- Justin Levandoski, David Lomet, Sudipta Sengupta, Ryan Stutsman, and Rui Wang, High Performance Transactions in Deuteronomy, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2015), 4 January 2015.
- Danyel Fisher, Badrish Chandramouli, Robert DeLine, Jonathan Goldstein, Andrei Aron, Mike Barnett, John C. Platt, James F. Terwilliger, and John Wernsing, Tempe: An Interactive Data Science Environment for Exploration of Temporal and Streaming Data, no. MSR-TR-2014-148, November 2014.
- Arvind Arasu, Ken Eguro, Raghav Kaushik, and Ravi Ramamurthy, When is an Encrypted Database Secure?, no. MSR-TR-2014-133, September 2014.
- Ahmed Eldawy, Justin Levandoski, and Paul Larson, Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database, in International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB Vol. 7, Issue. 11), June 2014, VLDB – Very Large Data Bases, September 2014.
- Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, and Wenchao Zhou, Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices, in International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB Vol. 6, Issue. 13), August 2014.
- Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, and Abdul Quamar, Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud, in International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB Vol. 6, Issue. 14), August 2014.
- Arvind Arasu, Ken Eguro, Manas Joglekar, Raghav Kaushik, Donald Kossmann, and Ravi Ramamurthy, Transaction Processing on Confidential Data using Cipherbase, no. MSR-TR-2014-106, August 2014.
- Badrish Chandramouli and Jonathan Goldstein, Patience is a Virtue: Revisiting Merge and Sort on Modern Processors, in ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2014), ACM SIGMOD, June 2014.
- Justin Levandoski, David Lomet, Sudipta Sengupta, Adrian Birka, and Cristian Diaconu, Indexing on Modern Hardware: Hekaton and Beyond , in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2014 , ACM, June 2014.
- Arvind Arasu, Ken Eguro, Raghav Kaushik, and Ravi Ramamurthy, Querying Encrypted Data (Tutorial), in 2014 ACM SIGMOD Conference, June 2014.
- Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Mike Barnett, Robert DeLine, Danyel Fisher, John C. Platt, James F. Terwilliger, and John Wernsing, The Trill Incremental Analytics Engine, no. MSR-TR-2014-54, April 2014.
- Arvind Arasu and Raghav Kaushik, Oblivious Query Processing, in 17th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), March 2014.
- Arvind Arasu, Ken Eguro, Raghav Kaushik, Donald Kossmann, Ravi Ramamurthy, and Ramarathnam Venkatesan, A Secure Coprocessor for Database Applications, in 23rd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), September 2013.
- Karolina Alexiou, Donald Kossmann, and Per-Ake Larson, Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia, VLDB – Very Large Data Bases, September 2013.
- Justin Levandoski, David Lomet, and Sudipta Sengupta, LLAMA: A Cache/Storage Subsystem for Modern Hardware, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2013, VLDB – Very Large Data Bases, 20 August 2013.
- Ivo Santos, Marcel Tilly, Badrish Chandramouli, and Jonathan Goldstein, DiAl: Distributed Streaming Analytics Anywhere, Anytime, in International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., August 2013.
A number of interns visit the Database Group each summer. Some of our more recent interns are listed below:
- Yupeng Fu
University of California - San Diego
- Hamid Mousavi
University of California - Los Angeles
- Radu Stoica
- Khai Tran
University of Wisconsin
- Wenchao Zhou
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Researchers
The Database Group frequently hosts visiting researchers from academic institutions; the more recent visitors are listed here:
- Donald Kossmann
(2013-2014, joining the group in 2014)
ETH Zurich
- David Maier (2007, 2010)
Portland State University
- Mohamed Mokbel (2008, 2010)
University of Minnesota


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I upgraded my server from 7.2.0 to 8.0.0. There where no problems so far.
But only in the Addressbook a few contact-groups, not all, are empty and the sort from
A-Z works only if I change the language from german to english.
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Lloyd Kallsen
Lloyd Kallsen, 82, of LeMars passed away Thursday, October 13, 2011 at the Plymouth Manor Care Center in LeMars. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at St. John's Lutheran Church, E.L.C.A. in LeMars. Reverend Greg Gabriel will officiate. Burial with military rites conducted by Wasmer American Legion Post #241 of LeMars will be in Memorial Cemetery in LeMars. Visitation with the family present will be after 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 17, 2011 with a Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. all at the Carlsen Funeral Home in LeMars. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service on Tuesday at the church.
Expressions of sympathy can be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com
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Radler followed his initial success with more shrub roses, including Sunny Knock Out and Pink Knock Out. As the Knock Out series revolutionized the way American gardeners think of roses, it spurred other rose hybridizers to undertake breeding programs patterned on Radler's. The result is a new generation of undemanding, long-blooming roses. I call them simply "garden roses" because they are bred with garden performance in mind, as contrasted with the previous emphasis on perfect blooms for cutting or exhibition. Garden roses are useful in mass plantings, hedges, cottage gardens, and such.
The post–Knock Out generation allows gardeners to change the way we choose roses. We used to spend winter evenings browsing through catalogs filled with photos of beautiful flowers. These were hybrid tea varieties, for the most part, that bore glamorous flowers but displayed uniformly gangly growth habits; rose selection was based almost solely on the appearance of the flower. Today's roses grow in many different shapes and sizes, ranging from groundcovers to shrubs of all sizes, climbers, and ramblers. It is important to first think about how and where the rose will be used in the garden before looking at the flower.
For example, if you need a mass planting that stays low, select from among the shorter groundcover roses. For a tall hedge, pick a variety with upright growth. Want to cover an arch over a garden gate? A well-mannered climber is the choice. When choosing among today's easy-care roses, start by determining the rose's purpose in the landscape.
To make the process easier, many roses today are sold in families or series made up of roses having similar characteristics. The following families of easy-care roses are widely available from garden centers and mail-order nurseries.
Photography by Patrick Montero
Drift Series
The Conard-Pyle Company, which also markets Knock Out, developed Drift roses by crossing groundcover and miniature roses. From the groundcover roses, they gain a spreading growth habit; from the miniatures, nonstop flowering. They are well suited to tumbling over walls, massing in landscape beds, edging the front of a flower border, and growing in large pots on a deck. Their versatility makes them a valuable addition to gardens.
Drift roses are available in seven colors, including Coral Drift, Red Drift, and the newest introduction, ivory-and-yellow Popcorn Drift. They take well to being shaped and groomed throughout the season. A simple clip with a pair of hedge shears will keep them compact and tidy. They produce sprays of small blossoms (multiple flowers per stem) and are hardy to USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 4.
Biltmore Garden Rose Collection
As the creator of Biltmore, a Gilded Age estate in Asheville, North Carolina, George Vanderbilt gathered treasures from around the world. Continuing in Vanderbilt's vein, the estate, now open to the public, has assembled a group of great garden roses from the world over and previously not available in North America. The growth habits of roses in this collection vary from shrubs to climbers, making them useful for containers, mass planting, flower borders, and training on arbors and pillars. Diversity is intentional in this group, but two common characteristics are inherent: disease resistance and fragrance.
The collection includes Flamenco Rosita, a large shrub with cherry-red blooms; salmon-colored Lady Ashe, a climber; and Loretta Lynn Van Lear, which bears ruffled peach blooms on a compact plant. Use a light hand to trim and shape the roses during the growing season. While the collection is comprised of roses from different breeders, all are hardy to Zone 5. Their flowering habits include some borne one to a stem and others that flower in clusters.
Oso Easy Series
Part of the Proven Winners brand, these roses have been bred for compact growth. They thrive in containers, where they can be underplanted with tumbling herbs. Try them as a low hedge lining a walkway, massed in a single bed in the lawn, or mingling with annuals and perennials in a traditional English cottage-style garden.
Mango Salsa, with nearly nonstop blooms in a bright coral-red color, is an outstanding variety in this series. Oso Easy roses bloom mostly in sprays. All are hardy to Zone 4 and some even to Zone 3.
Easy Elegance Collection
From Bailey Nurseries, shrub roses in this series range in size from 2 to 4 feet. Their compact nature makes them a good choice for pots, front-of-the-border placement, or mass planting. They have a broad range of colors and bloom shapes, including pastel pink-and-yellow Music Box, a new release. The flowers appear mostly in sprays, but some of the larger blooms are one or two to a stem.
Care is typical for garden roses. Use a light hand in trimming during the season; cut them back hard occasionally to bring forth new wood. All are hardy to Zone 4.
David Austin Roses
English rose breeder David Austin deserves credit for reviving the idea of roses as garden plants in the United States. His roses combine old-fashioned flowers and form with today's characteristics of repeat blooming and disease resistance. More-recent releases such as Munstead Wood (velvety crimson), Molineux (bright gold, shown here), and Carding Mill (apricot pink) particularly make outstanding garden roses. Austin roses come in all shapes and sizes, so evaluate each variety individually for its garden use.
In general, Austin roses respond well to the heavier pruning tactics traditionally utilized for hybrid teas. They can be cut back hard in late winter; in fact, some varieties rebloom best if you prune them hard after each bloom flush. The taller ones are good for training on a pillar. All David Austin roses are fragrant and hardy to Zone 5, with some being hardy to Zone 4.
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Pokemon: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice (2013) DVDRip XviD-ViP3R
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Genre: Animation
Ash and Pikachu along with their friends Iris and Cilan are on a train headed to the next stop on their journey. From the train Ash spots an injured Pokemon one he's never seen before. He's trying to figure out how he can help when the train is attacked by the Legendary Kyurem a Dragon-type Pokemon with immense power! Ash and the others barely manage to escape the rampaging Kyurem's attack and as the dust settles they turn their attention to the injured Pokemon.
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text: A New York City man credits his guide dog for saving his life after he fainted and fell onto subway tracks on Tuesday, just as a train was approaching. The dog, Orlando, is credited with nudging his owner Cecil Williams into a space between the train and its rails, as at least one subway car rolled over them. Orlando walked away without a scratch and his owner was hospitalized with minor injuries.


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Miami, FL (Sports Network) - The Miami Heat have officially signed former No.
1 draft pick Greg Oden, who hasn't played a game in the NBA the last three
seasons due to injuries.
It was reported last week that it's a two-year contract. The second year has a
player option.
"I am very excited and happy to be here," Oden said. "I'm thankful to the
Miami Heat organization for bringing me in and I'm ready to get to work."
Since being taken as the top overall pick by Portland in 2007, Oden has played
in only 82 contests. The Trail Blazers waived Oden on March 15, 2012. That was
after he made nearly $23.3 million in salary.
The 7-foot Oden will join a team that has won back-to-back NBA titles and
consists of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Oden has had three microfracture surgeries on his knees, most recently on Feb.
20, 2012. The last game Oden appeared in was Dec. 5, 2009. He averaged 8.9
points and 7.0 rebounds in his first season in the league and then 11.1 points
and 8.5 boards in 21 contests in the 2009-10 campaign.
"After many months of discussion, evaluations and speaking with Greg, we felt
it was the perfect time for him to make his comeback and re-enter the NBA with
the Miami Heat," team president Pat Riley said.
"It's a great challenge for him," Riley added. "We know all about his past
injuries, but we feel that there is a huge upside and the possibility of him
helping us. We will continue his program and then we will tackle basketball
issues after that."
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The PlayStation 2's requirement for a rare metal in its manufacturing process helped fuel a bloody, decade-long conflict in Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an investigative report on Toward Freedom.
The site alleges that demand for coltan by Sony and other personal electronics manufacturers led Rwandan troops and Western companies to exploit the people and mineral resources of Congo, with children often forced to work in mines.
Oona King, a former member of the British Parliament, told Toward Freedom:
Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms.
So, what is coltan? From the report:
After it is refined, coltan becomes a bluish-gray powder called tantalum… [which] has one significant use: to satisfy the West's insatiable appetite for personal technology. Tantalum is used to make cell phones, laptops and other electronics made, for example, by SONY, a multi-billion dollar multinational based in Japan that manufactures the iconic PlayStation…
Researcher David Barouski commented:
[The] PlayStation 2 launch… was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan… SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don't care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan.
A Sony rep told Toward Freedom that the company now takes steps to ensure that it does not use coltan illegally obtained from Congo in its manufacturing processes.


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London 2012 - The 4x400m relay team from the Bahamas celebrate winning the first men's gold medal in any event for the island nation.
London 2012 - Bahaman men huddle to congratulate each other on winning the 4x400m relay, the first men's gold for the Bahamas in any Olympic event.
London 2012 - The United states misses out on gold in the men's 4x400m relay for the first time since 1980 as Ramon Miller of the Bahamas passes Angelo Taylor on the final stretch to the line. The Bahamas celebrate winning the first gold medal ever a men's event in the Olympics.
London 2012 - Tony McQuay of the United States holds his flag to commemorate silver in the men's 4x400m relay. McQuay put the Americans in the lead during his third leg of the relay, but they finish second to the Bahamas, ending a USA winning streak in this event dating to the 1984 games.
London 2012 - South Africa's 4x400m relay team was already running in last position before passing the baton to Oscar Pistorius, who runs anchor on prosthetic legs finishing last in the final but recording a season's best time for his team.
London 2012 - Cuba's William Collazo finds a unique place to store the baton prior to the start of the men's 4x400m relay final.


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West Greene teachers, staff, community members and parents will rally around the varsity softball team Thursday afternoon before the 19 girls leave for their WPIAL championship game.
Students from the Jefferson-Morgan High School's Art Club once again brought smiles and tears of joy to the patients at Rolling Meadows Nursing Home.
Rices Landing will celebrate the start of summer June 10-11 with its annual Riverfest.
Mapletown High School will graduate 42 seniors during its commencement ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the high school gymnasium.
A Jefferson man was acquitted of illegally possessing firearm.
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The American Red Cross of Southwestern Pennsylvania is assisting two people whose Monessen home was damaged by fire Sunday.
Joann Braunegg, 91, was a devoted spouse and mother of three in Charleroi. But it wasn't until three years ago that her two sons and one daughter found out an incredible facet of her life: she was a World War II veteran.
A vacant former department store in Monessen will be converted into mixed-income apartments.
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Staff from the office of sstate Rep. Peter J. Daley, D-California, will offer free help with any state program during outreach visits at three locations in June:
Several communities in the area held Memorial Day services and parades Monday.
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W e pause today on Memorial Day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.
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Tony Gwynn was one of the great baseball players of his or any era. The eight-time batting champion amassed 3,141 hits in his 20-year career, with a .338 lifetime batting average, and he was a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee in 2007.
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Garmin to ride Cervélo's R3 Mud at Roubaix
- By Nick Legan
- Published Apr. 4, 2012
- Updated Oct. 30, 2014 at 10:08 AM EDT
- Vanmarcke rides a 58cm R3, a 13cm stem and 175mm cranks. The Kortrijk native is in his element during the classics. Photo: Nick Legan
- Geoff Brown gives Vanmarcke's R3 Mud a bolt check. The Canadian wrench was all smiles thanks to the fine weather but was ready for a sloppy Roubaix on Sunday. Photo: Nick Legan
- Sep Vanmarcke is one of Garmin's protected riders at the classics, impressive for a 23 year old. Photo: Nick Legan
- The SL fork crown on the R3 Mud is wider, moving the blades outboard. Head mechanic Geoff Brown noted that you can change brake pads without squeezing the caliper (unlike you must do on most forks). Wheelbase is also slightly increased on the R3 Mud. Photo: Nick Legan
- Another view of the widened fork crown on the R3 Mud fork. Photo: Nick Legan
- Sep Vanmarcke's Cervélo R3 Mud has plenty of clearance for big tires and sloppy roads. The brake bridge is higher (notice the brake pads at the bottom of the adjustment slot) and the seatstays are splayed for more room. Photo: Nick Legan
- An arsenal of Cervélos for Scheldeprijs and Roubaix were being tuned by Garmin's team mechanics, Alex Banyay and Geoff Brown, the day we stopped by. Photo: Nick Legan
- Garmin mechanics had their Roubaix wheels stacked and ready to go in the basement of the team hotel. Photo: Nick Legan
- Garmin will be aboard Mavic M40 carbon tubulars with French handmade 27mm tubulars. They measured 28.5mm on our calipers. Day of the race, the team will forego sealant and pump the tires to between 65 and 72.5 psi. Photo: Nick Legan
- Tyler Farrar's R3 was outfitted with Mavic M80 wheels and Rotor's oval chainrings for Scheldeprijs. Photo: Nick Legan
- Half of Garmin's classics squad is now using Rotor's oval chainrings, like these time trial versions on Tyler Farrar's R3. Photo: Nick Legan
Cervélo's R3 is something of a king of the cobbles. In fact, a rider aboard an R-series bike has been on every Paris-Roubaix podium since its debut in 2006. That includes three wins on the bike thanks to Fabian Cancellara, Stuart O'Grady and Johan Vansummeren.
Damon Rinard is Cervélo's senior advanced research and design engineer. He explained why some riders, including Sep Vanmarcke, use the bike in races before Roubaix:
"The Cervélo R3 Mud frames we supplied to the [Garmin-Barracudea] team are stock R3s except for a few millimeters here and there, all for tire clearance. Technically, a stock R3 would work in dry conditions, but in case of rain we want a little extra clearance between tire and frame (hence the "Mud" moniker – ed.). Since weather is fairly uncertain until a few days before, the team chooses to ride the Muds in the weeks prior so they're on familiar bikes in case race day turns out to be wet."
Each of the special Mud frames is handmade in Toronto at Vroomen.White.Design by Robert Pike, one of Cervélo's design engineers. Pike supplied Garmin with similarly altered R3's last year. The previous version of the R3 also got this treatment in 2010 and in 2009 Cervélo tweaked its RS model, now out of production.
The front triangles are entirely stock. Changes are made to fork and rear chainstays to increase tire clearance in case of bad weather conditions.
The Mud fork has the same axle-to-crown length, but the brake hole is positioned higher on the crown to keep the caliper from clogging. The "crotch" of the fork, the underside of the crown, is also higher and the fork blades are spaced further apart.
Both the seatstays and chainstays are widened for increased tire/debris clearance. The chainstays are also lengthened by five millimeters. That's not really for a longer wheelbase, but instead to accommodate the increased height of wider tires.
Everything else on the bike remains the same: bottom bracket height, fork offset, frame geometry and stack and reach. Even the carbon layup is the same as a stock R3.
Cervélo's engineers experimented in the past with oversized seat tubes and seatposts, but feedback from Cervélo team riders led them to keep the smaller, more flexible size.
Rinard added that changing too much isn't necessary, saying, "Keeping everything the same makes sense, because we've had great success with the R-series."
FILED UNDER: Bikes and Tech / Pro Bikes TAGS: Cervelo / Garmin-Barracuda / Nick Legan / Paris-Roubaix


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With the 71st Map of the Week we continue in the borderlands town of Óðinn's House in the Kingdom of Slovania. This week we take a look at the the Bronze Forge Smithy owned by the master smith Regína. The Bronze Forge is an important stop for PCs who need to buy bronze weapons or armor or who need to have their existing weapons or armor repaired. Because the forge employs both weaponsmiths, armor makers and blacksmiths, other metal work including horseshoes and the shoeing of horses also is available. Customers who want to commission a master weapon or master armor from Regína, must be prepared to pay double the normal price. Regína's apprentices, Berta and Milan, are responsible for making horseshoes and shoeing horses. They will shoe a horse for 1 silver piece. Anyone wishing to do business with the forge needs to use the main entry (Location No. 10) to enter the office, where they can work out details with Regína.
Cellar Level
The cellar serves only as a storage and drainage area. Water used in smithing is poured into drains on the ground floor. The water goes down shafts into a bricked trench in the cellar floor, which in turn leads the water into a drain that returned the water to the under round water table.
1. Stairway from the Ground Floor.
2. Torch. This hand torch is kept burning during the hours when the smithy is open. It can be removed from the wall socket and be carried as one moves through the otherwise dark cellar.
3. Stone Pillars. These are necessary to support the smithy's stone tile ground floor.
4. Drainage Trench.
5. Drain Shafts from the Ground Floor.
6. Well Shaft.
Ground Floor
8. Outhouse. This is a two-seater.
9. Entry to the Smithy.
10. Main Entry to the Office.
11. Office.
12. Large Oven.
13. Smiths' Furnaces.
14. Rear Door to Outhouse.
15. Cellar Door.
The Bronze Forge is cooled by opening all the shutters and windows and then letting the hot air drift upward into the open loft beneath the roof, where it escapes through four roof vents. The wooden catwalks with safety railings are used to open and close the vents. To avoid being set afire by the heat from the furnaces below, the catwalks circumvent the hot areas.
16. Catwalks.
17. Roof Vents.
You can get the maps in two versions:
1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 map in FMP format, fully editable, from our Jörðgarð web page (16 MB).
2. Three JPG flat maps of 2500 Pixels x 2250 Pixels each (6 MB), available above
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð web site.
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On June 1, 2002, an up-and-coming star at "Harper's Bazaar" magazine suffered an accident in a swimming pool that left him completely paralyzed. Francesco Clark's injuries made him unable to do most things on his own. Even his sweat glands no longer worked the same way, a change that gave Francesco a terrible problem with acne. His father, a physician and homeopath, started experimenting with various botanical blends, looking for a way to safely treat Francesco's acne. From there, Dr. Arthur Clark and Francesco took the remedies and turned them into the Clark's Botanicals skin care collection.
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Until Zimbra supports this directly, I figured out a way to get a list of today's tasks, past-due tasks, etc. using Saved Searches.
- Create 2 folders: Tasks and Completed Tasks.
- Whenever you complete a task, move it to the Completed Tasks folder.
- Then create the following Saved Searches:
- in:tasks appt-end:+0day (today's tasks)
- in:tasks appt-end:+1day (tomorrow's tasks)
- in:tasks appt-end:+0week (this week's tasks)
- in:tasks appt-end:<+0day (past-due tasks)
According to the search grammar, I should be able to query within attribute fields directly (e.g. search the last name of contacts using "#lastname:Jones"). I was hoping to find something for tasks like "#status:Completed", but alas no luck (hence the Completed Tasks folder workaround). I even tried going through the source code but the code is so well abstracted that I couldn't figure out where to find a list of these indexed fields (if a Zimbra employee is reading this, perhaps you can help?).


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