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BYRON CENTER -- A local woman known as the "School Supply Santa" is once again gearing up for her annual end-of-summer school supply drive to help area children in need.
Byron Center resident Denise Kooiker, a hair stylist, first decided to hold a drive to collect school supplies seven years ago when one of her clients told her about numerous families not being able to purchase backpacks, crayons, pencils, notebooks, and other items that students need to start the school year.
Kooiker felt a calling to help fill that need.
"This is such a passionate thing for me," she said. "There is such a great need right here. These donations are truly going to a child who otherwise would have nothing."
Her first school supply drive resulted in donations that filled a few boxes that she was able to deliver to area school districts by herself. Last year, Kooiker collected enough school supplies to fill six vehicles, and about 25 adult and child volunteers helped her deliver the items.
The donations are given to administrators at Byron Center, Kentwood, Wyoming, Kelloggsville, Godwin, and Godfrey-Lee schools along with Vista Charter Academy. School officials give the supplies to students who are in the most need.
This year's collection will be held from Aug. 1 – 22. There are about 60 drop-off sites located across West Michigan from Byron Center to Kentwood to Hudsonville to Holland to Cascade. Some of the drop-off locations include the 18 branches of the Kent District Library, local Starbucks coffeehouses, Talsma Furniture stores, Byron Community Recreation, and Gaines Township Hall.
And, new this year, Kooiker is hosting a competition between the drop-off sites, with the location collecting the largest number of back-to-school supplies receiving recognition on the School Supply Santa Facebook page. "I want to get people even more excited to give," she said.
For more information and a complete list of drop-off locations, email Kooiker at email@example.com. Or, visit the School Supply Santa Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SchoolSupplySanta.

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The Quilting Fans have been meeting in LaPlace for more than 20 years. They share the craft of quilting with each other, and their finished work with family, friends and strangers who need comfort and warmth.
Beverly Gary started the group by sharing her expertise with others. Anyone interested in quilting was invited to come. Experienced quilters, like Joan Acosta, St. Rose, Lorraine Oubre, Lutcher, and Rose Marie Perilloux, LaPlace, said they came to meet and enjoy the company of other quilters.
The group also drew the attention of quilting novices, like Judy Perilloux, LaPlace who is Rose Marie's sister-in-law. Judy Perilloux said she enjoyed seeing Rose Marie's projects and when Judy retired from Sears and was looking for a hobby, quilting appealed to her.
"Quilting is a gift from God that came to me," Judy Perilloux said. "It's a blessing that I learned how to do this because I could hardly thread a needle. I needed a hobby and that did the trick."
Acosta, Oubre and Judy Perilloux are the remaining charter members of Quilting Fans.
At each meeting members share what they have recently learned or discovered, like a new technique, a good sale on fabric or the name of an organization or hospital that needs quilts.
Paula Favalora, Lutcher, recently showed members how to create a twisted pinwheel pattern and introduced an inexpensive stabilizer.
Member and St. John Parish librarian Margaret Carlson, Metairie, shares new library books on quilting as well as her quilting work.
Other regular features of the meetings are projects to engage members' creativity. Oubre said she enjoys the mystery quilt segment where each month they receive instructions on creating the next piece of a quilt. "It's fun. You don't know what it's going to look like until it's finished," she said.
In the "crayon challenge," members blindly choose a crayon and then create something using that color and black and white.
The group is also strong on community service. During show and tell many of the members presented a piece as a "charity quilt" meaning it is one that will be donated to an organization for use or to be sold as a fundraiser.
Recently the group partnered with Susan Dufrene and Lara's Gowns for Smiles, founded in 2012. "We give her fabric, they make gowns, and we get the scraps back to make quilts for Children's Hospital in New Orleans," said Quilting Fan Lynda Galloway, LaPlace. Many members also participate in "sit and sew days" where they cut and sew the gowns.
On sit and sew days members meet at the library and work on community projects or personal projects. President Loretta Webre, LaPlace, said they bring lunch and spend the entire day working and enjoying each other's company.
Quilting is not only for quilts. Members showed a variety of projects completed or in progress. Kathleen Deroche, Paulina, showed various crafts including a purse she customized to fit her needs. Irene Barclay, LaPlace, shared a valentine she made for her husband. "He said he wanted a handmade valentine this year, so I went online and found this pattern," she said.
While many of the members joined shortly after Quilting Fans began, Acosta said there are currently 25 members and they have had as many as 35. New members join as founding members leave. Rose Marie Perilloux recently moved from the area, but new quilting enthusiasts like Jenny Vedros, Paulina, continue to join. She is Oubre's sister. "I always loved Lorraine's quilts, but never dreamed I'd want to make one," Vedros said. Last year she was hooked. Together they made nine quilts for Christmas gifts.
Quilting is a labor of love for many. For others it's a creative outlet that challenges them to find the best combination of patterns, colors and techniques. "What the quilter does with the colors and ideas is up to them," said Webre.
Quilting Fans meet at 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at the Main Branch of the St. John Parish Library in LaPlace.
Quilting Fans is a member of Gulf States Quilting Association's and many of its members plan to attend the GSQA's 2014 Quilt Show from 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 21-22 at the Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd. in Slidell. Admission is $7; a Two Day Pass is $10. A "Pineapple Fields Forever" quilt crafted by members will be auctioned.
The Gulf States Quilting Association was organized in 1984 to create, stimulate, maintain and demonstrate an interest in all things relating to quilts and the art of quilt making by sponsoring community service endeavors such as quilting shows, seminars, workshops and lectures.
The Association has a membership of more than 1,300 women and men. Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in quilts or quilt making.


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I'm planning to ski with Chris Dehnel at Okemo Mountain Resort in central Vermont this weekend. Chris is the business editor/ snowsports columnist at the Connecticut based Journal Inquirer. Being more of a daredevil than me, Chris has taken great interest in a bus that will be moved onto the slopes this afternoon and ready for action this weekend.
Here's an update from Chris:
At Okemo, a good chunk of real estate is being taken up by a bus.
In the terrain park.
The "Pepsi Amp Bus" is scheduled to make its debut at Okemo Saturday at 10 a.m. At that time, Ross Powers, Olympic gold medalist and the mountain's snowboarding ambassador, will take the ceremonial first ride over the bus.
Pepsi supplied the bus and it has been in a garage in South Londonderry for weeks being custom fitted. The bus will sit perpendicular to the slope with rails taking the place of both the front and rear bumpers. A box element has been put into the hood and a plexiglass bowl has been fashioned into the side of the bus to create a sort of quarterpipe effect.
Oh, and it is surrounded by a pretty powerful sound system. The jury is still out regarding which song will be played during that first run. An Iron Maiden or Metallica selection, perhaps?
Okemo is featuring two new trails this season at Jackson Gore -Rolling Thunder and White Lightning, but without snowmaking only a huge dump will get them open this weekend. Okemo still has more that 40 trails open right now and could have as many as 50 when the Jackson Gore lifts go online Saturday. It already had 15 trails open with four solid top-to-bottom runs on Nov. 22.
In an attempt to alleviate some of the congestion at the base lodge, Okemo officials have installed a loading carpet on the South Ridge Quad B Lift (the one on the left) to help beginners and novices navigate the lift line. The carpet was tested on Monday and should be ready to go for the weekend crowd.


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According to my understanding of congregational polity, a pastor has the authority to turn down money. But not this much money.
Rarely does blatant commercial hypocrisy sit so close to artistic excellence as was the case at the Hollywood screening of Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut.
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CAMDEN, N.J. -- A 34-year-old Camden man was sentenced today to 74 years in prison for raping a teenage girl after pleading guilty in April to the charges.
Kareem Ali Jr., of the 2400 block of Sherman Avenue, was charged with molesting the girl beginning at age 11, sexually assaulting her between the ages of 13 to 16 and eventually impregnating her at some point.
A statement read at the trial, written by the victim, described the emotional turmoil the attacks put her through and the horror of having an abortion after learning that her rapist had impregnated her.
The Superior Court judge cited the following reasons as aggravating factors responsible for the lengthy sentence issued:
-- The nature and circumstances of the crime, including the age of the victim.
-- Ali's lengthy criminal history, which included convictions for theft, eluding, arson and one conviction for assaulting a police officer.
-- The fact that the defendant took advantage of a position of trust or confidence in committing his crime.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Kick off 12.45pm
Craig Hope reports from Liberty Stadium ...
GEORDIE striker Andy Carroll was Newcastle United's point saver as his late header rescued the draw to send Chris Hughton's men back to the top of the Championship.
The Magpies were headed for back-to-back away defeats with just three minutes left on the clock when substitute Leon Best hoisted a cross to the far post and Carroll soared to nod beyond Dorus de Vries for his ninth of the season.
The hosts had seized the lead on 57 minutes when winger David Cotterill curled beyond the reach of Steve Harper from 20 yards.
But Carroll's last-gasp effort takes United back above West Bromwich Albion with a home clash against Coventry City next up on Wednesday night.
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And there blows the final whistle, 1-1.
90+1min - United are swarming forward in search of a winner and only the last-ditch boot of Monkl prevents Routledge from bursting clear on goal after the winger had forced his way through two white shirts 30 yards out.
There will be three minutes added time.
87min - NEWCASTLE GOAL (1-1): And The Magpies duly locate that get-out-of-jail card when Leon Best hoists a cross to the far post for Andy Carroll, having peeled away from his marker, to head back across goal and into the far corner for his ninth of the season.
86min - United have just five minutes to find a leveller.
82min - Andy Carroll is shown a yellow card when his stray arm leaves minder Garry Monk in a heap on the edge of the area.
80min -Tom Butler replaces Nathan Dyer for the hosts.
78min - Cotterill tries to repeat the trick of cutting in from the right before directing a measured effort towards the bottom corner. Harper, though, wise to the technique that drew the opener, reads the winger's intentions and dives to save.
74min - Hall tracks Orlandi's left-wing burst and blocks the Spaniard's cross at the expense of a corner. Cotterill centres and Williams, shuffling away from goal, is unable to generate any power on his header and Harper gathers.
68min - Best immediately turns a header back across goal from Guthrie's free-kick but fellow new signing Fitz Hall is unable to force on target as he tangles with Williams on the edge of the six-yard area.
67min - Can Leon Best spark a comeback? He is on for Peter Lovenkrands.
66min - Cotterill's corner is helped on by Monk at the near post and defensive partner Ashley Williams, stealing into the six-yard area, somehow heads over the crossbar - that should have been two.
64min - Another opening for the hosts sees Angel Rangel, receiving Pratley's pullback 20 yards from goal, fire tamely towards the United target allowing Steve Harper to kneel and collect with comfort - still, though, it's The Swans that press.
63min - Orlandi goes in search of a second but he blazes high over the crossbar from 25 yards.
61min - There's half an hour for United to find a reply but still it's Swansea who control possession.
56min - SWANSEA GOAL (1-0): Nathan Dyer's cute dummy allows a crossfield ball to run to David Cotterill, lurking in space on the left-hand edge of the penalty area. The former Sheffield United midfielder steps inside two closing yellow shirts before planting an inch-perfect curler beyond Steve Harper from 20 yards out and the hosts are in front.
52min - A misunderstanding between Pratley and Dyer sees the pair go for the same ball having stolen a yard between Hall and Coloccini to race onto Allen's high delivery. The Swans duo collide on the edge of the area and Harper is the grateful recepient of a ball which loops in the air - that was a let off for the visitors.
49min - Dyer drifts infield from the right and is unlucky when his dipping strike skids inches wide of Harper's far post - the effort had the home fans on their feet.
47min - The best move of the game opens up United's rearguard and Dyer finds himself the wrong side of van Aanholt after racing onto Pratley's angled throughball. The former Sheffield United winger draws a low cross back towards the penalty spot, Routledge, though, arrives to intercept only to lose possession to Kuqi. The Finnish forward is off balance and his studded shot travels barely a couple of yards before being swiped clear.
The teams are back out with no further changes for either side during the break. United get us started attacking the end where the Toon Army are gathered.
A drab first half draws to a close with the game still goalless - United have been the better team, though, during these last 15 minutes or so.
45min - van Aanholt forces a corner after some good work down the left. Guthrie's hoist is turned on goal by the head of Carroll, from six yards, but his effort, headed for the bottom corner, is kept out by the gloves of a falling de Vries who does well to hold.
43min - A wild Williams slice from Simpson's centre sees United win a corner on the right, Guthrie delivers but he fails to beat the first man and another chance to break the deadlock goes begging.
41min - Guthrie's tries to spring Lovenkrands clear with an inventive, first-time pass only for the ball to overrun on a bobbly playing surface and carry through into the arms of de Vries.
39min - United have started to come into this a little since the half-hour mark.
35min - Peter Lovenkrands tries to manufacture space for himself with a toe away from Monk 20 yards out. The Dane evades his marker but his attempted lob is miscued and de Vries watches as the ball bounces tamely wide.
34min - Orlandi fires in the deadball but a well-placed Steve Harper stoops to smother at his near post - safe hands there from the Toon stopper.
33min - Coloccini enters the book as he dives in on Nathan Dyer on the right and Swansea have a free-kick.
29min - United's first real chance falls the way of Kevin Nolan when his 12 -yard header, from Coloccini's left-wing wedge, loops wide of de Vries' frame.
28min - Dutch stopper de Vries dahses from his line a bid to collect Danny Guthrie's free-kick from deep. The keeper climbs above a sea of bodies but snatches at the ball and it spills free from his grasp. Luckily, though, for the hosts, a composed David Cotterill is on hand to clean up and clear.
27min - Still the game meanders along without any real incident of note - Swansea have certainly shaded the opening half hour, though.
22min - Spaniard Orlandi beats the United wall with a 30-yard free-kick but the ambitious effort also travels wide of Steve Harper's target - the United stopper was scrambling to get there, though.
21min - Swansea continue to coax short passes around the United half without any incisive penetration.
18min - The visitors do manage to fashion an angle for Routledge to cross from the right but his ball has far too much weight and carries beyond the expectant heads of Lovenkrands and Carroll inside the area.
13min - United are yet to enjoy any sustained possession in the City half and it is the hosts who have enjoyed the company of the football during these early exchanges.
8min - We're back to 11 versus 11 as Angel Rangel replaces the injured Bessone.
7min - Nolan fires a crisp pass to the forward-running van Aanholt down the left as United look to capitalise upon their momentary man advantage. The Dutch full-back delivers a first-time ball to the near post but it's the boot of Monk which greets its arrival and the skipper is happy to prod away for a corner. Guthrie's tall centre is comfortably dealt with by the Swans backline and the chance is gone.
5min - City have a problem with former Barcelona youngster Federico Bassone grounded with what looks like a lower leg injury.
1min - The hosts are quickly on the offensive and win a corner following some intricate build-up play down the right flank. A high delivery from Cotterill is fisted clear of the six-yard area by Harper before another flag kick comes the way of City when Simpson blocks Dyer's attempted cross. Cotterill's near-post swing is headed away for yet another corner by Alan Smith. This time, though, Harper claims Cotterill's lofted centre with ease and United breathe a sigh of relief.
The Swans get us started with United defending the end where their support is housed.
The United players are quick to acknowledge the 1,500-strong gathering of away fans who have journeyed to south Wales.
Alan Smith leads a yellow-kitted United from the Main Stand tunnel down beneath us with The Swans headed by captain Garry Monk.
CHRIS Hughton makes three changes to the side which was beaten at Derby County during the week for today's lunchtime kick off at the Liberty Stadium.
Mike Williamson, Jonas Gutierrez and Leon Best drop out, with Fabricio Coloccini, Alan Smith and Peter Lovenkrands their replacement.
That means United, who only a need a draw to return to the top of the table, are likely to stick with a 4-4-2 formation.
Coloccini is back from a two-game hamstring absence and partners Fitz Hall at the centre of the defence, Danny Simpson and Patrick van Aanholt occupying the full-back slots.
Skipper Smith is restored to the starting line-up having came from the bench at Pride Park after a thigh layoff - Wayne Routledge, Danny Guthrie and Kevin Nolan completing the midfield.
Lovenkrands, who has scored six times since the turn of the year, comes in to join Andy Carroll in attack.
Jonas Gutierrez and Shola Ameobi both miss out because of minor knocks.
SCFC: Dorus de Vries, Ashley Williams, Alan Tate, Garry Monk (c), Darren Pratley, Andrea Orlandi, Nathan Dyer, Federico Bessone, David Cotterill, Shefki Kuqi, Joe Allen
Subs: David Cornell, Gorka Pintado, Mark Gower, Tom Butler, Angel Rangel, Lee Trundle, Ashley Richards
NUFC: Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fitz Hall, Fabricio Coloccini, Patrick van Aanholt, Danny Guthrie, Alan Smith (c), Kevin Nolan, Wayne Routledge, Andy Carroll, Peter Lovenkrands
Subs: Mike Williamson, Ryan Taylor, Leon Best, Fabrice Pancrate, Tamas Kadar, Tim Krul, Nile Ranger
Referee: Andy Woolmer
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|Di Serio, C.; Lamina, C. (2003): Bayesian P-Splines to investigate the impact of covariates on Multiple Sclerosis clinical course. Collaborative Research Center 386, Discussion Paper 353
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This paper aims at proposing suitable statistical tools to address heterogeneity in repeated measures, within a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) longitudinal study. Indeed, due to unobservable sources of heterogeneity, modelling the effect of covariates on MS severity evolves as a very difficult feature. Bayesian P-Splines are suggested for modelling non linear smooth effects of covariates within generalized additive models. Thus, based on a pooled MS data set, we show how extending Bayesian P-splines to mixed effects models (Lang and Brezger, 2001), represents an attractive statistical approach to investigate the role of prognostic factors in affecting individual change in disability.
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English FA Cup News
FA Cup first-round draw: Merstham to host Oxford in debut
The FA Cup first round draw will take place at around 7.10 p.m. BST on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016.
EFL chief Shaun Harvey wants FA Cup ties to shift to midweek
EFL chief Shaun Harvey believes moving the FA Cup fourth and fifth rounds to midweek would not only aid clubs financially but allow a winter break.
Tottenham have had little to cheer at the new Wembley Stadium
Tottenham play their first Champions League game at Wembley on Wednesday, but they have had few memorable moments there in the recent past.
Non-league Thamesmead score incredible wind-assisted FA Cup goal
Non-league Thamesmead scored an incredible wind-assisted FA Cup goal in qualifying at the weekend that needs to be seen to be believed.
New rule changes for FA Cup
A fourth substitute will be allowed if a game from the FA Cup quarter-finals onwards reaches extra-time, but what other game-changing rules have there been in the past?
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READINGTON — Have expenses related to the ongoing efforts by the township to buy Solberg land and/or development rights topped $5 million?
That appears to be the case when bills and interest payments on borrowing are added up, although the township could recoup a portion of the interest.
The township and Solberg family are awaiting a judge's ruling in the case, and on Monday, Nov. 4 at 7:45 p.m. the Township Commiitee plans a public hearing and final vote on an ordinance that could allow the township to seize the private airport and make it public.
That could only happen with the court's approval for the airport purchase outright.
The township has spent about $1.7 million in professional fees and expenses since July of 2005 in its effort to gain control of land surrounding or at Solberg Airport.
In addition to that, the township borrowed $22 million to buy the land and/or development rights after voters in 2006 approved the concept. The full amount wasn't immediately borrowed.
Township records requested by 34-year township resident Suzy Solberg Nagle on the interest paid on the borrowing total $3.17 million between Feb. 7, 2006 and yesterday, Oct. 30.
Township officials say that they haven't been required to keep a running total on all expenses since efforts began to preserve Solberg Family lands; the rough $1.7 million figure since 2005 comes from an internal spreadsheet maintained by the township administrator.
However, in Feb. 2002 the Democrat reported that the township was reporting expenses of $157,000 for the two years prior to the Fall of 2001. A citizen's group said that copies of invoices provided by the finance department at the time showed that about $440,000 had really been spent in 2000 and 2001.
And that still leaves gaps, because the issue has spread over 15 years.
The township would recoup some of the interest it has spent on the borrowing. Between the start of borrowing and Oct. 2011, administrator Vita Mekovetz said today, $1.84 million in interest was paid on the money set aside to buy Solberg land and development rights.
The amount placed in escrow was $21.7 million, reflecting appraisals in 2006 to buy 625 acres outright and the development rights to the 102-acres considered airport operations. The remaining $300,000 were spent on acquisition-related expenses.
Because the sale remains up in the air, the township was required to set aside the full appraised amount. It is considered temporary borrowing until a sale is made, therefore the interest rate on the borrowing has ranged from a high of 4.25% in 2006 to 1% for three of the past four years.
Last year the interest payments on the borrowing worked out to about $31 in property taxes on a house appraised at $400,000 in Readington, Allen said. This year it would be amount the same amount. In addition to that, Allen said that legal fees related to the issue this year breaks down to about $9 more on that same home, for a total of $40 in 2013.
The township's proposal before the courts now is to buy, through condemnation if necessary, all of the land, which would affect the final sale price.
In the early 2000s, public hearings on matters related to Solberg land acquisition often drew large crowds, some too large for the meeting space.
The upcoming hearing, on Monday, is set to be held at the Municipal Building on Route 523. The meeting room, officials said, holds about 200 people.
If the crowd is larger that, Mayor Julia Allen said today, the committee could carry the hearing to a later date in a larger space.
The late aviation pioneer Thor Solberg opened the airport here in 1941. His three children attended local schools and two of them still live here, as do grandchildren.
Grandson Gavin is also a volunteer with the Whitehouse Rescue Squad.
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Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Photoshop CS5's blend modes, part of Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery.
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All right, as I'm sure you're well aware by now, inside the Layers panel you have an Opacity value. That Opacity value allows you to mix the active layer with the layers below by making the active layer translucent. So if you set the Opacity value to 30 %, for example, then you're going to see 30% of the active layer mixed with the remaining 70%, that is 30 plus 70, equals a 100, the remaining 70% of all the layers below. That is one way of blending layers inside of Photoshop. The other way is to apply a Blend mode.
So right next door to the Opacity value, you'll see the word Normal, in the upper-left corner of the Layers panel. If you click on Normal, then you will reveal a list of 27 Blend modes here inside Photoshop CS5. So it's a huge list. Now, every single one of these Blend modes applies a separate mathematical operation, but rather than showing you what that operation is, because that would be fairly overwhelming I would think, and it wouldn't make all that much sense to most people, instead Adobe is trying to make the medicine go down a little more easily by assigning names to everyone of the Blend modes.
Only problem is those names don't really make any sense on their own, and of course there're 27 of them. Well, what we need to do, especially when not all Blend modes are treated equally; some are very, very useful, others not so much, well, we're going to run through every single one of them, so you'll have a sense of how they work. I'll spend extra time on the really great ones, but in the meantime, I'm going to introduce you to them. They are grouped more or less logically. I would have said very logically up until CS5. CS5 added a couple of new modes and just flumped them in here with difference in exclusion, which isn't really where they belong, but here is how they work.
Things start off in this black list. Notice that I've gone ahead and color- coded the various groups of Blend modes. In real life they don't appear in color, but they do appear in these groups. So we start things off with the Normal mode, which doesn't apply any special math. So you're just blending the layers subject to the Opacity level. If the Opacity value is set to 100%, then the layer is opaque, or as opaque as it gets, subject to the transparency of the individual pixels. Next comes the Dissolve mode. All Dissolve does is it treats transparency as a pixel pattern, so you get a dither pattern instead of straight on translucency.
I'll show you what I mean by that in a future exercise. In the next group, we have the Darken modes, which are sometimes called the Shadow modes. In the case of the Darkening modes, the active layer casts a shadow on the layers below. So we start things off with Darken. Then we move on to the better mode for most purposes, Multiply. Actually, Multiply is one of those great modes, one of the great Blend modes inside of Photoshop. Then we've got Color Burn, which ups the Saturation, also gives you more intense effect. Linear Burn, a little more intense still, but less over-the-top Saturation.
And Darker Color, which I have to say is generally worthless, but I'll show you how that works later. But for now, just bear in mind that Multiply is your really great Darkening mode, second to best is Linear Burn, and then the others you won't use that often. All right, next are the Lightening modes. We start things off with Lighten. Lighten is to the Lightening modes what Darken is to the Darkening modes. I'll show you what that means later, but for now, I just want you to know that every one of the Darkening modes, such as Multiply, has a buddy in the Lightning modes, and they're in the exact same place.
So in other words, Multiply is your best Darkening mode. Your best Lightening mode is Screen. Then we drop down to Color Dodge, which gives you a more intense effect, with higher Saturation values once again. Then if you want to tone those Saturation values down and get a still more intense effect, you drop down here to Linear Dodge (Add). Then finally we have Lighter Color, which is not particularly useful. So Screen is your number one mode of the Lightening modes, and then your number two is Linear Dodge. You won't use the others that often. All right, dropping down, once again we've got the Contrast modes.
The Contrast modes burn in the Shadows and lift the Highlights, which heightens the contrast of the image. So you're basically applying a combination of Multiply and Screen together in order to create a heightened Contrast effect. So your number one mode, the best of the bunch here is Overlay. Then if Overlay is coming on too strong, you can either reduce its Opacity value, but if you want to soften the effect, then you drop down here to Soft Light. If you want to enhance the effect, then you step it up to Hard Light, that is from Overlay to Hard Light.
Then if you want a more intense effect that also has heightened Saturation values, then you go with Vivid Light, which is essentially a combination of Color Burn and Color Dodge working together. Then if you want to take the Saturation down just a little bit, heighten the effect still further, then you go to Linear Light, which is essentially a combination of Linear Burn and Linear Dodge working together. Then you go to Pin Light, which is a numbskull mode, but I'll show you how that one works. And then Hard Mix, which basically boils your image down into eight colors.
So it gives you a highly posterized effect, but there is a way of tampering it using the Fill Opacity value. And Fill Opacity, the Fill value in the Layers panel, has a special effect, that is, it works differently than the straight on Opacity for a handful of the Blend modes, and I'll show you exactly what those are in future exercises. Next, we drop down to this sort of grab bag of modes right there, that used to be the Inversion modes, back when it was just Difference and Exclusion, because they're related to each other, but then in CS5, Adobe threw in Subtract and Divide, and they don't really belong here, but you might think of them as being Cancellation modes.
So the first two Blend modes use the active layer to invert those below. Similar colors become black in the case of Difference or gray in the case of Exclusion. The next two Subtract or Divide the active layer from the background. So when you're Subtracting, that is the math that happens. You're just Subtracting the active layer once again, so the Luminance of the active layer from the Luminance of the layers in the back of it. And when you're Dividing, you're Dividing the combination of Luminance levels of those layers in back of the active layer by the Luminance of the active layer.
That may not make all that much sense when I'm just sort of rattling it off to you, but I will show you examples of how these work. Ultimately, however, I will tell you, the Subtract mode is another Darkening mode. It's really the opposite of this guy right there, Linear Dodge (Add). It applies a very, very dark effect in most cases. Divide often ends up making your entire image look white, but there are uses for it if applied properly. Next, we have the Component modes. A pixel contains HSL, that is Hue, Saturation, Luminosity information, and Color, because there is that other mode right there.
In addition to Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity, we have Color. Color is a combination of Hue and Saturation working together. These modes mix the ingredients independently. So they're great for mixing full color images with each other. I will show you copious examples of every single one of these 27 Blend modes, and I will point you toward the ones that are really, really useful, as well as those that aren't that useful in the following exercises.
Recommended prerequisites: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals and Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced.
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- Exploring the capabilities of Bristle brushes and the Mixer Brush
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Washington Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau already respected Doug Yingst's hockey dedication after working beside him for two-plus seasons with the Hershey Bears.
That respect grew to awe-struck proportions when he heard that Yingst, president-GM of the Bears, had phoned Caps GM George McPhee Sunday night to discuss organizational business.
On Sunday morning, Yingst fell from the roof of his Derry Twp. home and sustained serious injuries. The phone call was made from his bed at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
"Doug is such a good friend," Boudreau said. "I kept hearing about the different injuries that occurred. It was amazing. Thank God he's such a strong man, because it could have been worse than it was.
"His wrists. Lung. His freakin' face. Skull. His ribs. Holy smokes. I was really sickened when I heard that."
Yingst broke both wrists and three ribs and suffered two skull fractures and a collapsed lung, along with facial and body bruising.
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Looking at my DOW charts from Oct 2003 until October 2007 (about a 48 month bull run) You can clearly see the segmented bull runs contracting and the minor corrections compressing. We all know what happened after that.
Equally I have regarded March 2009 with the DOW chart until now and it is practically a carbon copy. The segmented bull runs have equally contracted and the minor correction have compressed.
It is my opinion that this is going to culminate with in 2 weeks for a 500pt drop, equally we will stabilize after that as we did in the Oct-Dec 2007 time frame. Everyone will breathe and reassess. Unfortunately I believe the real correction will then occur ending in the middle of March at which point I will rebuy EVERYTHING I sold the other day. We are definitely headed to DOW 18,000 or somewhere stratospheric but for now I feel we have finally reached the moment of truth.
Heavy duty assessment which I will be more than happy to eat and reverse my positions. If I am right things will of course play out. If I am wrong, I will clearly be proven wrong in short order.


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CHICAGO — The Trail Blazers' long-shot odds of sneaking into the Western Conference playoffs have suffered a crippling blow during the first two games of a self-described "make-or-break" five-game trip.
And while this is perhaps no surprise to the impartial observer, even the most optimistic of Blazers fans are surely starting to begrudgingly accept the painful reality that a playoff berth is all-but impossible. From oregonlive message boards to my twitter account, evidence suggests that reality is settling in.
"Turn out the lights, the party is over (playoff party)," Edmund Dantes tweeted me on Wednesday.
"I guess I would say that's one more nail in the coffin," yankeeshogun wrote on the oregonlive Blazers Blog, referring to the Blazers' 102-95 loss to Milwaukee Tuesday night. "But the coffin was already nailed closed pretty well, and this sounds more like the coffin is already 6 feet under the ground with dirt falling on the top of it."
Added PinkStyx on the blog: "... I think everyone can admit that although we might not be statistically eliminated from the playoffs, we aren't making the playoffs."
But what about the Blazers? Have they accepted their fate?
Although it was clear their confidence had been dented and their resolve tested following the loss to the Bucks, to a man, the Blazers refused to pronounce their playoff hopes dead. Wesley Matthews, who from Day One has believed his team was playoff-worthy, said he was taking solace in the Blazers' brutal 15-game season-ending schedule that features 12 teams in the playoff hunt.
While it appears daunting, the way Matthews sees it, the Blazers have played their best basketball against the NBA's best teams all season, so a strong finish is possible — perhaps even likely. Even though he's playing with an assortment of ailments, including a howling left leg, Matthews says he will give everything he has until the Blazers are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.
"I'm going to play every game, no matter where it is, with heart," Matthews said. "I'm going to play to win. I'm going to sell out for my teammates. That's just how this game is supposed to be played."
Whether's it's blind optimism, lip service or a genuine belief that big things are ahead, the Blazers refuse to wilt. If nothing else, the Blazers have shown all season that they will fight and claw and scrap to the end. Resiliency always has been their best attribute. And it's clear they will continue their us-against-the-world battle to the end, regardless of what the odds say.
And, for the record, the odds say the Blazers have a 2 percent chance of making the playoffs. With 15 games left, the Blazers are in 11th place in the West, four games behind the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Lakers.
"I think as long as there's a chance for us to get in, that's what everybody's focus is," Damian Lillard said. "I don't think that'll change. As long as everybody wants to do it, there's a chance."
Coach Terry Stotts, in his first season with the rebuilding franchise, refuses to wave the white flag on a season that is slipping away. He played four of five starters more than 41 minutes against the Bucks, even though it was the second game of a back-to-back and three of them rank among the top nine in minutes played this season.
He, like his players, continues to believe. In their final 15 games, the Blazers will play five times against the four teams that are separating them from the eighth spot in the Western Conference — Houston, Utah (twice), Dallas and the Lakers. If they sweep those five games, Stotts suggested, anything's possible.
"The good thing is that we play Utah twice, we play LA, we play Dallas, we play Houston," he said. "So in some ways, after this road trip, we have the ability to affect our own outcome."
But even if they stunningly sweep those five games, it will take a lot more to avoid the NBA lottery. Not that they're admitting it.
"Not yet," Batum said after Tuesday's loss to the Bucks. "I won't say it. I'll never say it."
Late-season surge for Babbitt?
When Stotts inserted Victor Claver into his player rotation, it appeared Luke Babbitt's season — and perhaps his Blazers career — would end quietly at the end of the bench. From February 22 to March 16, Babbitt did not play in nine of the Blazers' 11 games. But, in part because Claver has been sidelined with a left ankle injury, and in part because the Blazers have needed his long-range shooting prowess late in games, Babbitt has seen a drastic uptick in his playing time on this trip.
In the last two games, Babbitt has played 25 minutes and scored 15 points — all in the fourth quarter — as he filled a vital role in the Blazers' close-but-not-quite rallies from large deficits. Against the Philadelphia 76ers, Babbitt made two threes in 12 fourth-quarter minutes as the Blazers fought to the final second in a close loss. Against the Bucks, he made 3 of 3 threes in 11 fourth-quarter minutes, helping the Blazers close a one-time 27-point deficit down to seven.
Babbitt played his way out of Stotts' rotation last month, but based on what he's done the last two games, Babbitt could be in line for a late-season resurgence.
Minutes crunch
Stotts has taken heat this season for playing his starters extended minutes, but he's not the only coach that has leaned hard on his top five.
Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau has two players ranked among the top nine in minutes played: Forward Luol Deng leads the NBA, averaging 39.1 per game, and center Joakim Noah is tied for ninth, averaging 37.9 per game.
When the Bulls host the Blazers at 5 tonight, the game will feature five players who rank among the top nine in minutes played. In addition to Deng and Noah, Batum is tied for second (38.7 per game), Lillard is fourth (38.6) and LaMarcus Aldridge is tied for ninth (37.9).
Double-double delight
Tonight's Blazers-Bulls matchup won't just feature a collection of players who play often. It will also feature some of the game's best double-double producers.
JJ Hickson, Noah, Aldridge and Carlos Boozer rank among the NBA's Top 10 in double-doubles. Hickson ranks fifth with 37, Noah and Aldridge are tied for seventh with 33 and Boozer ranks 10th with 30. Aldridge and Hickson's 70 combined double-doubles are the most of any teammates in the NBA this season and Boozer and Noah's 63 are the second-most.
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About half of 662 nonprofit service providers that held contracts with the state have employees who received over $100,000 in annual compensation, according to a study released today by the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee.
At least 910 individuals who work for these nonprofits had earnings in excess of $200,000; 39 of them received compensation in excess of $1 million, according to tax forms submitted for 2010, the most recent year data was available.
Among those earning $1 million or more are the president and executive vice president of Lancaster General Hospital; the president of York Hospital; and the president of Chambersburg Hospital.
The compensation figures include more than salaries. It also included deferred compensation, employer-funded health care benefits and other fringe benefits.
The Legislative Budget and Finance Committee conducted this study at the request of lawmakers on financial and compensation data of nonprofit service providers for intellectual disability, mental health, child welfare and drug and alcohol services. It also looked at for-profit providers' compensation levels.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Adolph, R-Delaware, was among the lawmakers interested in taking this look at compensation at the service providers.
"He was interested in making sure the millions of dollars appropriated for services to Pennsylvanians are getting to those individuals who need them," said Mike Stoll, a spokesman for the committee. "That was his main concern."
Adolph had not yet had a chance to review the study's findings so he had no immediate reaction to the report, Stoll said.
A recent look by Pennlive at state government earnings topping $100,000 last year found 4,822 state employees had earnings in that range but none came close to the $1 million mark.
The House resolutions that launched this look at compensation levels at nonprofits and for-profits noted that in 2012-13, the state budgeted more than $2.6 billion to the agencies that provide these social services.
The study found that 446 of the nonprofits had less than $10 million in assets and 47 organizations had assets of more than $100 million.
Of the 113 for-profit organizations it looked at, the committee's staff relied on information collected through questionnaires and SEC filings. From that, it found 74 of the organizations had no one earning more than $100,000 in compensation and 16 indicated having one individual receiving more than $100,000.
The study also found that of the 992 nonprofits, 89 engaged in lobbying activities and 46 of those reported lobbying expenses to the Department of State.
Of those 46, the two organizations that spent the most on lobbying are University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which spent $1.2 million on lobbying, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, which spent more than $685,000.


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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is making it easier to travel its nearly 40,000 miles of road through a new free 511PA mobile app.
The application, available for iPhone and Android devices, offers hands-free and eyes-free travel alerts, speeds and cameras, according to a PennDOT news release.
In addition, users can tailor the alerts based on event, time between alerts, their location with a radius of up to 500 miles, and for which direction of travel the user wants to hear advisories.
When activated, the app plays audio alerts for traffic incidents or slowdowns.
To download the app, visit the iTunes or Google Play stores and search for "511PA."
The app includes information for select New Jersey and West Virginia roadways.
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FARGO - Chad Barstad had been waiting for his son to grow into his body.
When it finally happened, it made for a memorable finish.
Taylor Barstad polished off his senior season by scoring a takedown and nearly pinning Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm's Dylan Schnabel with a minute to go en route to a 6-4 decision in the 195-pound Class B state championship match Saturday at the Fargodome.
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Velva senior Taylor Barstad and his father and coach, Chad Barstad, set to embrace after Taylor rallied for a 6-4 decision to win the 195-pound championship at the Class B state tournament Saturday at the Fargodome.
Nerves hit him from the get-go, and he didn't kick into high gear until midway through the third period after trailing 4-1.
"I was pretty nervous for it," Taylor said. "I was shaking pretty good, so it was hard to shoot."
A few feet away, Chad Barstad wasn't doing much better.
"I get nervous when it's any of our regular kids out there, then I am the father and the coach; it's like double," Chad said. "I think the rest of my assistants have been watching out for me, making sure I don't pass out on the mat."
But the second-seeded Barstad took control with a takedown, turning Schnabel on his back and holding him down for three nearfall points in a move that essentially ate up the final minute.
It's been a long ride for Taylor (23-1), who his father said struggled with his coordination and footwork.
"He's always been a big kid," Chad said. "Finally the last couple of years, he grew into his body. ... He had big size 14 feet and he was stumbling over his own feet. Now, he's one of the most athletic 195-pounders out there."
Immediately following the match, Taylor embraced his father.
"That was pretty special for me," Taylor said. "It's been real special for him, always coaching me throughout the years."
Velva didn't make the Class B state dual tournament for the first time in more than a decade, but the Aggies showed why they have one of the strongest traditions in all of Class B.
Prior to Taylor Barstad's match, senior teammate Jimi Bridges edged South Border junior James Thielges by 5-1 decision to win the 182-pound title. The top-seeded Bridges finished his season 38-1.
Though Barstad said he didn't feel the Aggies had anything to prove, Bridges acknowledged a feeling of disappointment with not making it to state as a dual team.
"We'd been here every single year in state duals," Bridges said. "Not going was pretty disappointing. We had to finish strong and do it for the team and do it for the town of Velva."
But Chad Barstad told his athletes to look at the situation in a favorable light.
"When you're not in a dual, individuals should be wrestling a lot better," he said. "They're a little more rested up than the kids who have been in the duals, especially for Jimi Bridges' match. That kid had wrestled three more matches than Jimi had."
Velva got additional contributions from seniors Adam Dean (145) and Kiel Wierre (160), who both finished fifth. Senior Nathan Schmaltz (170) ended in sixth place. Velva was the highest finishing Region 3 team, taking eighth with 100 points.
With all five placewinners coming from the senior class, Chad Barstad said it was a group to remember.
"It'll be hard to replace this senior class, it really will," he said. "They were good leaders, all of them."


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TV Ratings: 'NCIS' crushes 'Idol' in viewers, but FOX still leads Tuesday
FOX wins commandingly among young viewers, close race overall
The season's first "American Idol" performance show carried FOX to Tuesday night wins, including a commanding victory among young viewers, but in their head-to-head hour, CBS' "NCIS" had a commanding lead in total viewers.
Meanwhile, the presence of "Idol" helped send a slew of shows on a downward trajectory from last week, including ABC's "Last Man Standing," "Cougar Town" and "The River," plus The CW's "Ringer."
Among adults 18-49, FOX averaged a 5.0 rating among adults 18-49, with CBS coming in a distant second in the key demographic with a 2.8 rating. NBC averaged a 2.0 rating, followed by ABC's 1.6 rating. The CW averaged a 0.4 rating for the night.
Overall, though, things were far closer. FOX won the night with a 9.3 rating/14 share and 15.835 million viewers, compared to 14.54 million viewers and a 9.2/14 for CBS, but obviously CBS won the 8-to-10 p.m. portion of primetime. ABC's 3.6/6 and 5.56 million viewers nipped the 3.5/5 and 5.5 million viewers for NBC. The CW averaged a 0.7/1 and 999,000 viewers.
8 p.m. - CBS started the night in first overall with 18.01 million viewers for "NCIS," coming in second with a 3.4 rating among adults 18-49. FOX's "American Idol" averaged 15.62 million viewers for second and won the hour with a 4.9 key demo rating. ABC was third overall and fourth in the demo with "Last Man Standing" (7.375 million viewers and a 2.1 key demo rating) and "Cougar Town" (4.3 million viewers and a 1.5 key demo rating), which both dropped against "Idol," but not hugely. NBC's "The Biggest Loser" averaged 5.48 million viewers and a 1.9 key demo rating. On The CW, a repeat of "Hart of Dixie" averaged 893,000 viewers.
9 p.m. - "American Idol" rose to 16.05 million viewers and a 5.1 rating among adults 18-49 to claim the 9 p.m. hour. CBS slipped to second with 15.67 million viewers and a 3.1 key demo rating for "NCIS: Los Angeles," which was actually up from last week among young viewers. NBC's "The Biggest Loser" averaged 5.89 million viewers and a 2.1 key demo rating in third. It was another week of dropping numbers for "The River," which averaged 4.09 million viewers and a 1.5 key demo rating for ABC. The CW's "Ringer" averaged 1.11 million viewers and a 0.4 key demo rating.
10 p.m. - CBS' "Unforgettable" lost more viewers this week, averaging 9.93 million and tied for the hour lead with a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49. ABC's "Body of Proof" was second with 6.75 million viewers and third with a 1.3 key demo rating. On NBC, "Parenthood" got a small bump for its season finale and averaged 5.13 million viewers and a 1.9 key demo rating.
All ratings information comes from preliminary Fast National Nielsen data, which includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are subject to change.


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Raima Database Manager (or RDM) is an ACID-compliant embedded database management system designed for use in embedded systems applications. RDM has been designed to utilize multi-core computers, networking (local or wide area), and on-disk or in-memory storage management. RDM provides support for multiple application programming interfaces (APIs): low-level C API, C++, and SQL(native, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and LabView). RDM is highly portable and is available on Windows, Linux, Unix and several real-time or embedded operating systems. A source-code license is also available.
RDM has support for both non-SQL (record and cursor level database access) and SQL database design and manipulation capabilities. The non-SQL features are important for the most resource-restricted embedded system environments where high performance in a very small footprint is the priority. SQL is important in providing a widely known standard database access method yet in a small enough footprint for most embedded systems environments.
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- 5 References
- 6 External links
Raima Inc.originally released RDM in 1984 and was called db_VISTA. It was one of the first microcomputer network model database management systems designed exclusively for use with C language applications. A companion product called db_QUERY was introduced in 1986, which was the first SQL-like query and report writing utility for a network model database.
A db_VISTA derivative DBMS designed to provide a high performance, transaction processing client-server SQL DBMS called Raima Database Server (RDS) was released in 1993.This was the first DBMS that provided an ODBC API as its native SQL interface. It was also the first SQL system that incorporated use of the network model inits DDL features. Soon thereafter, RDS was renamed Velocis and in 2001, RDM Server. Version 8.4 of RDM Server was released in 2012.
Uninterrupted development of RDM (also known as RDM Embedded) has continued where the most recent feature additions include database mirroring use in support of highly available (HA) systems, database replication, multi-version concurrency with read-only transactions, multiple transactional file server access, encryption, and an SQL designed specifically for use in embedded systems applications. Version 12.0 of RDM was released in 2013.
Also in 2013, RDM introduced the first,on-platform SQL DBMS available for use with National Instruments' LabView graphical programming language and was named the National Instruments' LabView Embedded Tools Network Product of the Year.[1]
Product Features[edit]
Database Design Language (DDL)[edit]
Non-SQL(core) DDL Features:
- C struct-like record type (table) declarations.
- Network model set declarations for defining 1-many inter-record relationships.
- Support for direct, B-tree, and hashed record access.
- In-memory database or file declarations. A database can be designed to be either on-disk or in-memory or a hybrid where some parts reside in-memory while others are stored on disk.
- Circular record types (tables). Circular tables store a user-specified maximum number of records (rows). When that maximum has been reached, newly inserted records are stored in the location occupied by the oldest one. Circular tables are important for storing status data on resource-restricted devices.
- Supported datatypes: 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit signed or unsigned integers, float, double, decimal (BCD), fixed or variable-length character or wide character, binary or character large objects (blobs), date, time, timestamp, guid/uuid, and db_addr (database address—aka, rowid).
- Support for struct and array data fields.
- Optional user-control over database file organization and page sizes.
SQL DDL Features:
- Declared referential integrity support automatically implemented using RDM's network model sets.
- Support for direct, B-tree, and hashed row access.
- In-memory database or table declarations.
- Circular tables.
- Virtual tables declarations that provide SQL access to external data sources (e.g., real-time sensor data).
- Supported data types: boolean, tinyint, smallint, integer, bigint, decimal, real, float/double, binary/varbinary, long varbinary, char/varchar, wchar/wvarchar, long varchar, long wvarchar, date, time, timestamp, guid/uuid, rowid (foreign and primary keys).
- domain declarations.
Transactional File Server[edit]
The RDM Transactional File Server (TFS) specializes in the serving and managing of database files on a given medium. The TFS is a set of functions called by the RDM runtime to manage the sharing of database files among one or more runtime library instances. In a normal multi-user configuration, the TFS functions are wrapped into a server process called TFServer. Standard TCP/IP can be used to make the connection, whether the runtime library and TFServer are on the same computer or different computers. However, when on the same computer a faster, shared-memory protocol is available by default.
The figure shows that one RDM client runtime may have connections to multiple TFServers, and one TFServer may be used by multiple client runtimes. To the applications using the RDM runtime and the TFServers, the locations of the other processes are invisible, so all processes may be on one computer, or all may be on different computers. This provides opportunities for true distributed processing.
A TFServer should be considered a "database controller" in much the same way as a disk controller manages a storage device. A TFS is initialized with a root directory in which are stored all files managed by the TFS. If one computer has multiple disk controllers, it is recommended that one TFServer be assigned to each controller. This facilitates parallelism on one computer, especially when multiple CPU cores are also present.
A complete application system may have multiple TFServers running on one computer, and multiple computers networked together. Each TFServer will be able to run in parallel with the others, allowing the performance to scale accordingly.
The TFS functions are used by the RDM runtime, so the programmer has no visibility of the calls made to them. These functions are made available to the runtime library in three forms. For descriptive reasons,we call them TFSr, TFSt and TFSs:
- TFSt: The actual, full-featured TFS functions, called directly by the runtime library. Supports multiple threads in a single application.
- TFSr: The RPC (Remote Procedure Call) library. When called by the runtime library, these functions connect to one or more TFServer processes and call the TFS functions within them. A client/server configuration.
- TFSs: "Standalone" TFS functions called directly by the runtime library, but intended only for single-process use (if multiple threads are used, each must be accessing a different database only). To be used for high-throughput batch operations while the database(s) are otherwise offline. Unsafe (but fast) updates are allowed.
Database Unions[edit]
RDM's database union feature provides a unified view of multiple identically structured databases. Since RDM allows highly distributed data storage and processing, this feature provides a mechanism for unifying the distributed data, giving it the appearance of a single, large database.
As a simple illustration, consider a widely distributed database for an organization that has its headquarters in Seattle, and branch offices in Boston, London and Mumbai. Each office owns and maintains employee records locally, but the headquarters also performs reporting on the entire organization. The database at each location has a structure identical to the others, and although it is a fully contained database at each location, it is also considered a partition of the larger global database. In this case, the partitioning is based on geographical location. The mechanism for querying a distributed database is simple for the programmer. When the database is opened,all partitions are referenced together, with OR symbols ("|") between the individual partition names.
Partitioning and unified queries are also used for scaling the performance. Consider a database where each operation begins with a lookup of a record's primary key. If the"database" is composed of four partitions, each stored on the same multi-core computer, but on different disks controlled by different disk controllers then the only requirement is a scheme that divides the primary key among the four partitions. If that scheme is a modulo of the primary key, then the application quickly determines which partition to store a record into or read the record from. Since there are multiple CPU cores to run the multiple processes (both the applications and the TFSs), and the four partitions are accessible in parallel (the four controllers permit this), the processing capacity is four times larger than with a single-core, single-disk, and single-partition configuration.
Database Encryption[edit]
RDM allows all database content to be encrypted before it is transported across a network and written to the database files. RDM's encryption supports the Rijndael/AES encryption algorithm with 128, 192 or 256 bit keys based on an application-specified encryption key.
Database Mirroring and HA Support[edit]
Database mirroring in RDM reproduces an exact, byte-for-byte copy of a master database onto the mirrored (or slave) database. Database mirroring is an important database feature for applications that require high availability (HA) where should a TFServer fails for some reason, then the application's HA monitor can automatically switch over to the mirrored TFServer.
RDM provides synchronous mirroring where each transaction that is committed on the master TFServer is also securely committed to the mirror TFServer. RDM also provides a set HA support API functions that can be called from the application's HA monitor to monitor the operational status of the TFServers.
Mirroring can also be used to support maintaining multiple copies of a database in which updates are only made to the master but readers are directed to one of the mirrored slaves in order to distribute many possible database readers across multiple computers. In this situation, it is not necessary for the master to wait for each slave to confirm a successful commit of each transaction and the mirroring process can run asynchronously.
RDM database mirroring requires that the master and all mirrored databases be maintained on the same computer/operating system platforms.
Database Replication[edit]
Replication is similar to mirroring but it not really intended for HA support but for transferring all or, more likely, portions of one database (master) to another database (slave). Replication is designed to work where the databases are not necessarily being maintained on the same platform. The slave databases can be other RDM managed databases or they can be a 3rd party DBMS.
RDM's replication includes support for multiple master to single slave selective replication of circular table data—important for embedded computers and devices at the edge of the data grid where status and condition monitoring occurs. The status data stored in each master's circular table is replicated to a central control systems which maintains a permanent history of all device statuses which can then be made available for a variety of time series and other analyses.
RDM also provides a database change notification API library that allows a slave to access the master replication logs without the data be stored and managed in a database. This allows, for example, a master to store device control information in a database that is replicated to the device through the notification API in order to efficiently control device operation.
RDM SQL has been designed specifically for use in embedded systems applications. Some of the more important features of RDM SQL include:
- Small footprint—no SQL views or security is provided as these are usually unnecessary in embedded systems apps and their absence helps to keep the SQL footprint small.[2]
- Standard SQL transaction and referential integrity support.
- The SQL system catalog and stored procedures can be stored in a file or as statically declared data structures in C modules.
- Cost-based query optimization with a rich set of built-in scalar and aggregate functions. A variety of table access methods are available for consideration by the optimizer: direct row access (through rowid primarykeys), optimal primary/foreign key join access through network model sets, B-tree and hash indexes.
- Ability to extend SQL capabilities through C-based user-defined scalar and aggregate functions.
- Ability to extend SQL capabilities through C-based user-defined virtual table interfaces that provide SQL access to external data sources such as real-time sensor data.
- Database table import/export to/from comma-delimited or XML files.
- Ability to have read-only access from SQL to a non-SQL (i.e.,core level) database. This means, for example, that a remote RDM SQL application can access a non-SQL RDM database running on a very resource-restricted device.
Application Programming Interfaces[edit]
RDM provides application programming interfaces that allow application development in a variety of programming languages:
- Core (C) API—RDM's low-level, record-oriented, navigational C API. Two access methods are supported. The currency model allows the programmer complete control over how record occurrences are accessed through the network model sets. The cursor model can be used which encapsulates the network model navigation within a cursor, greatly simplifying record access programming.
- C++ API—Uses methods which have been created from the RDM non-SQL DDL specification.
- Native SQL C API—Similar to the ODBC API but designed specifically for RDM SQL so that it is both more efficient (e.g., it doesn't have to handle all of the ODBC features that aren't supported by RDM SQL) and easier to use (e.g., C enum types are extensively used instead of ODBC's #define constants).
- ODBC—The Open Database Connectivity API for C program access to RDM SQL. RDM's implementation does not require the use of the ODBC driver manager except when needed by a 3rd party ODBC tool (e.g., MS Access).
- JDBC—The Java Database Connectivity API for Java program access to RDM SQL.
- ADO.NET—Microsoft's .NET API for any MS-Windows program access to RDM SQL.
- LabView—National Instrument's graphical programming language API to RDM SQL.
Besides the above database manipulation APIs, RDM also provides a variety of support APIs that are available for use by RDM applications. Two of note are:
- Non-C data type manipulation API—provides access to all of the BCD arithmetic functions as well as a rich set of functions for manipulating date, time, and timestamp data values.
- Platform Support Package API—provides access to the operating system independent functions used by RDM itself including: memory management, thread management and synchronization primitives.
Supported Platforms[edit]
RDM has been ported to a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Packages are available for the following platforms:
- MS Windows 32, 64 bit
- Linux 32, 64 bit
- Android
- QNX Neutrino ARM/x86/PPC 32 bit
- Wind River VxWorks
- Green Hills Integrity
- Mac OS X 64 bit
- HPUX PA-Risc/Itanium 32, 64 bit
- Solaris SPARC/x86 32, 64 bit
- AIX PPC 32, 64 bit.
- iOS
RDM Packages[edit]
RDM consists of the packages RDM Mobile (Android and iOS), RDM Embedded (Integrity, QNX, VxWorks) and RDM Workgroup (GNU/Linux, iOS, Unix and Windows) for the different environments. RDM Mobile Edition is a database management system for a smartphone or tablet device. RDM Embedded Edition is a database management system for embedded devices. RDM Workgroup Edition is a database management system for desktop and server environments. The plus versions include additional functionality such as mirroring and replication.
Customers and Applications[edit]
RDM based applications are used today in all major industries including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Business Automation, Financial, Government, Industrial Automation, Medical, and Telecommunication. A sampling of RDM users includes the following:
- Mitsubishi Electric—iQ Platform C Controller PLC
- Schneider Electric—"ezXOS" in OASyS DNA product
- Hydro-Québec—CEDA system to manage set up and configuration of power plantalternators
- General Dynamics—"TIEF" – Tactical Information Exchange Capability database agent
- Boeing—"AWACS"– Airborne Warning and Control System's radar electronics system.
- Raytheon—low-level tactical flight profile management in Pave Hawk
- Lockheed Martin—flight simulators
- Benu Networks—Broadband Service Delivery Platform
- Johnson & Johnson—VITROS patient systems
- Beckman Coulter—UniCel DxC 800 Synchron clinical system
- Siemens—RapidPoint 400 medical fluid test equipment
- IBM—ClearCase source code control system
- Magellan Navigation—MAPSEND GPS used in PC-based and embedded products
- NSE—reliable stock trade data storage
- NCDEX—real-time database services for trading application
- ^ https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ni-news-in-real-time/blog/2013/08/05/top-alliance-partner-achievements-recognized-during-niweek-2013?espuid=CNATL000007133147
- ^ http://embedded-computing.com/white-papers/white-computer-application-trying-squeeze-elephant-a-mini/.


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CNY Jazz Central will celebrate its 15th season with concerts that span a tribute to American great Woody Herman to a modern take on a classic by Mussorgsky.
CNY Jazz Executive Director Larry Luttinger says the plan is to use jazz as the vehicle to explore a wide variety of entertainment.
The season starts Oct. 3 with a fundraising concert to benefit Jazz Central.
Bob Brown and his troupe from Salt City Playhouse will produce and perform a Broadway-style cabaret.
The Central New York Jazz Orchestra series includes three concerts in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center's Carrier Theater and the popular Black History Month Cabaret, at the Sheraton University Hotel's Grand Ballroom.
A tribute to Woody Herman kicks off the season for the big band on Oct. 23. Octogenarian Frank Tiberi will be the featured guest on clarinet to honor Herman. Tiberi was the man who replaced Herman when the bandleader became ill during the Woody Herman Band's 50th anniversary season in 1986.
"Pictures at an Exhibition," on March 19, will feature Charles Pillow as guest composer and artist. The multimedia event will pair Pillow's jazz suite based on Mussorgsky's famous "Pictures at an Exhibition" with paintings and photography.
"Conflict: Peace and War" on April 16 is a Syracuse Symposium event with guest saxophonist and flutist David Liebman. The concert features the world premiere of the commissioned composition by CNYJO Artistic Director Bret Zvacek.
Vocalist Antoinette Montague will return to the Black History Month Cabaret, Feb. 13 on the Syracuse University Hill.
CNY Jazz Central season
Oct. 3: "Broadway Cabaret 2010," Orange Line Theater at Jazz Central, $20 at the door.
Oct. 23: "Tribute to Woody Herman," 8 p.m., Carrier Theater, Civic Center.
Feb. 13: "Black History Month Cabaret," 6 p.m., Sheraton University Grand Ballroom.
March 19: "Pictures at an Exhibition," 8 p.m., Carrier Theater, Civic Center.
April 16: "Conflict: Peace and War," 8 p.m., Carrier Theater, Civic Center.
Feb. 13: "Black History Month Cabaret," 6 p.m., Sheraton University Grand Ballroom.
Tickets: Season subscriptions start at $74. Go to www.cnyjazz.org or call 479-5299. Individual tickets are $19.50, $24.50 and $27.50, available at the Oncenter box office and by calling 315-435-2121.
Mark Bialczak can be reached at 315-470-2175 or email@example.com. He posts frequently at www.syracuse.com/entertainment.


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Mother asks judge for drug addiction help for daughter, 25, of Salem
LISBON – Making a plea for her daughter's life, Brenda Hamilton asked for drug addiction help for her daughter, Danielle Stanley, who was appearing before Judge Scott Washam in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court facing two counts of possession of drugs.
Hamilton told Washam she has been trying to help her daughter battle addiction for more than a year. At one point she had enrolled her in a drug program in Cleveland, but then brought her back to Columbiana County.
"I believe she should be drug tested more often," Hamilton said, who then looked at her daughter and added, "And you may be mad at me for saying this. We have a huge problem in our city and the surrounding cities. We need to stand up, or we're going to lose all our children."
Stanley, 25, New Garden Avenue, Salem, was in court on Friday morning with a plan to plead guilty to the two fifth-degree felony drug possession charges for having both heroin and meth in her purse during a traffic stop on July 25, 2013. Stanley and her defense attorney Jennifer Gorby had hopes of receiving intervention in lieu of conviction, which would have meant avoiding incarceration, possible counseling and probation time.
However, while in the process of pleading Stanley admitted she used heroin within the past couple days. She also reportedly told the probation officer conducting her presentencing investigation on that date she had also used heroin in the past couple days. Those admissions drew red flags from both Washam and Assistant County Prosecutor John Gamble.
Gamble suggested instead of just probation, Stanley be sent to the Eastern Ohio Correctional Center. He noted she appears to be high risk for recommitting drug-related crimes, and he believed she may be using even more frequently than she was admitting.
"There's going to have to be a way for her to physically remove herself," Gamble said, noting, "This is not a way of punishing her, but a way to give her the best chances of succeeding during her intervention program."
Stanley qualified for the EOCC, something Gamble said is currently nearly impossible to do with new evaluation guidelines in place. However, there was no bed available at the EOCC until June 24.
Gamble then suggested he was against letting her stay at home until then, even on electronically monitored house arrest. Gamble noted there would be no way to control who came and went from her home.
"Her mother has grave concerns and has not given up on this woman yet," Gamble said. "But unless she is in an environment that is controlled… We are trying to save this woman's life."
Washam agreed telling Stanley that he feared if he allowed her to go stay at her father's home as she planned, she would not survive. Instead he had her taken into the custody of the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office and sent to the county jail with another hearing scheduled for May 15. Washam said he hopes another bed may become available by then at the EOCC.


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On July 27, the Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce will host a Before Hours Networking event at Dylan's RV Center, 2190 Delsea Dr., Sewell starting at 8 a.m. This event is co-hosted by The Marketing of Everything & Dylan's RV Center. The event is free and includes complimentary refreshments thanks to the host of the event. Members are encouraged to bring a guest. Guests are more than welcome to attend up to two networking events throughout the year. For more information and directions, please visit the Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce website at www.gloucestercountychamber.com or call Les Vail at 856-881-6560.
GCCC hosting Before Hours Networking event
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on July 25, 2011 at 9:21 AM, updated July 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM
on July 25, 2011 at 9:21 AM, updated July 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM


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Prof. Jim Garrett
Office: E & T A608
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-9:45am, Tuesday 11:45am-1:15pm
Phone: (323) 343-4163
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Course web site: http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/095/
Catalog Description
Prerequisite: English Placement Test (placement determined by student's score). Instruction in basic writing and reading. Focus on writing processes such as invention, revision, and editing. Use of personal experience and/or observation in writing narrative and expository essays. Graded CR/NC.
Learning Objectives
· Develop the ability to focus an essay upon a single assertion triggered by a writing prompt
· Use effective writing process strategies in invention, drafting, revising, and editing
· Develop critical reading strategies for both narrative and expository prose
· Use both narrative and expository structures to organize essays
· Demonstrate fluency by developing essays with sufficient specific detail
· Revise writing based on criteria articulated in the rubric and feedback from peers and the instructor
· Edit writing to eliminate major errors in English sentence structure, punctuation, and usage
English Department policy states that composition students must attend the first two classes of the quarter to retain their place in the class. Any student who is absent either the first or second class meeting will be dropped and the space given to another student who is trying to add.
Regular attendance is essential. Failure to attend class or arriving to class late will seriously damage your chances of passing this course. The English Department has a firm policy that states that no student may miss more than 20 percent of the class meetings. If you are more than 20 minutes late, consider yourself absent. If you must miss a class for a valid reason, please call the department number or email me and leave a message that includes how I can reach you so that we can make sure you don't fall behind the rest of the class.
Required Work
There will be weekly reading and writing assignments in this class. You will need to plan ahead carefully in order to complete the following tasks on time:
- Weekly reading assignments
- Five or six short essays
- Two revised essays (chosen from the short essays)
- One final exam essay
- Weekly Reading Journals (see Reading Project)
- Portfolio (see "Your Portfolio" later)
Please note that all assignments (the assigned readings, out-of-class readings and journals, the essays, and the revised essays) are required. I will not accept a portfolio from anyone who has failed to complete all of the assignments.
Texts, Supplies and Other Helpful Advice
Textbook: The following writing handbook has been ordered for this class and is the only required textbook:
Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer. Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Fourth Edition, 2009 (ISBN 978-0312594572)
All additional reading assignments will be supplied by the instructor.
Supplies: You will need some regular, lined notebook (8.5 x 11) paper and some dark-ink pens (blue or black).
Helpful Advice:
- If you do not already own one, it is a very good idea to purchase a decent American language dictionary.
- Throw nothing away. You will need all drafts of your portfolio essays so hang on to everything until at least the end of the term.
- Come prepared to class—bring paper and be prepared to write, take notes, read, and otherwise participate in class.
- In conjunction with regular attendance, you must keep up with the work. Late work is not acceptable.
Reading Project
Because the acquisition of language skills associated with reading is often an essential part of writing improvement, the Reading Project is an important part of this course. You will write reading summaries each week on opinion pieces and editorials posted online at the Los Angeles Times Online (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/) or at the OpinionSource (http://www.opinionsource.com/oped_links.jsp) web site. Here are the rules for selecting articles to complete the weekly reading project assignment:
1. You need to find two articles each week, unless instructed otherwise.
2. Each article must be taken from one of the two sources listed above.
3. Each article must have been published during the three weeks prior to the assignment due date.
4. You can and should read in areas of your own interest.
After you have found articles that meet the above conditions, you should set aside 15-20 minutes after reading each article to summarize what you've read and what the reading made you think about. Here's the procedure you should follow:
1. Write immediately after reading, or as soon as possible after reading.
2. Do not worry about grammar or correctness. I'll be looking for content only.
Begin each journal entry by noting the following information:
Article Title, Author, Source (name of magazine or newspaper), and Date
Below this information write your summary and response as follows:
Summary: In your summary, please tell me about the important points the reading makes as well as how the author establishes these points. Give me enough information so that I know what's going on, but please don't simply copy sections out of the article. Your summary should be about one-third of a typed page or about one-half of a handwritten page.
Response: The response is your opportunity to express what you think about what you've read. Try to connect what you've read with your own thoughts and experiences. You can disagree with the author, offer your opinion about what is happening in the reading, or write about what the reading reminds you of in your own life. Your response can be any length, but at a minimum it should be about one-half of a typed page or about one handwritten page.
Weekly reading project assignments are due on each Thursday of the quarter (unless otherwise instructed). See the schedule for details.
Although these reading project assignments will be done outside of class and will not become part of the final portfolio, failure to complete the required number will result in your final portfolio being disqualified.
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. I will take attendance at the start of every class. If you are not present I will mark you absent. Arriving late will count as half of an absence. You are allowed one absence without penalty. If you miss more than four classes you will be disqualified from taking the final and therefore will fail the class.
Your Portfolio: For this class, ultimately you will be evaluated on the basis of three writing samples—two essays written during the quarter, revised and edited (with rough drafts attached beneath the revision), and your final exam. Due dates for each revision are noted on the schedule. (Note: You are responsible for composing essays on all of the assigned topics and completing all assigned work. Failure to complete all assigned work will disqualify your portfolio.)
Grading Policy: Course grades are determined by an evaluation of your portfolio by two current English 095 instructors. The following grades are used:
CR—Credit: You pass the course and are eligible to
enroll in English 096
NC—No Credit: You must retake English 095
ADA Accommodations: Reasonable accommodation will be provided to any student who is registered with the Office of Students with Disabilities and requests needed accommodation.
Cell Phones and Pagers: Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, portable radios, televisions, computers, MP3/CD/Disc/Mini-disc players, and any other electronic communication and/or entertainment devices before coming to class.
Preparing for Class: Please read the assigned texts before class. Often I will offer some guidelines about future reading assignments in class. For example, I might tell you to focus on a particular character or scene for the next class meeting. If you are absent, you are responsible for getting the assignment from a classmate.
Academic Dishonesty/Cheating: Collaborating with others is encouraged when you are planning your papers, reviewing each other's work, preparing for presentations or for exams. Study or reading groups can be effective ways to study and learn. When you write your papers, however, the text needs to be your own.
You must carefully observe the standard rules for acknowledging the sources of words and ideas. If you make use of a phrase or a quote or if you paraphrase another writer's words or ideas, you must acknowledge the source of these words or ideas telling us the source of these materials. Use MLA format for citations. If you are unsure whether you need to cite or not, please ask me. (The general rule is if you think you might need to cite, then you probably do.) Failure to cite your sources properly might be construed as plagiarism, which is a violation of the university's academic honesty policy and grounds for failing the course, disciplinary action, and/or expulsion. If you plagiarize or otherwise misrepresent the source of your work, you will receive a zero on the assignment and be reported to the Student Disciplinary Officer. For definition and policy see statement on Academic Honesty in the current Schedule of Classes or on line at http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/stuaffrs/jao/doc/ah.pdf.


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Tribune Staff
Hig and Erin Higman took on North America's largest tidewater glacier to learn about climate change, trekking with their toddler and baby. They will talk about their experiences at 7 p.m. tonight at Islands and Ocean Visitors Center.
The talk is called "Life on Ice." Over the course of two months in the wilderness, they watched a world in transformation.
Dramatic coastal erosion, newborn lakes, disappearing rivers, giant bears, and forests on shifting ice make this 1,000-square mile glacier one of the most dynamic places in the world.
Along with the challenges, their experience is defined by this extraordinary glacier – the last of a dying breed – and by the day-to-day trek as a family of four.
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