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Cessna's Citation Latitude
Last October, Cessna introduced the first in a new series of midsize business jets. The $14.9 million (2011 dollars) Citation Latitude features seating for eight, a large fuselage and a range of 2,300 nautical miles.
The fuselage is the most striking feature. The fuselage cross section used on Cessna's current midsize cabin offerings–the Citation XLS+, Sovereign and X–began life on the Citation III in 1979. It is flying again on the new, almost supersonic Citation Ten, which is now in flight test and scheduled to enter service in 2014. But with new product competition from Bombardier and Embraer, Cessna executives knew it was time for a change if the company was going to rebuild its diminishing share of the midsize market. A trip to the "back to the future parts bin" wasn't an option. Any new midsize aircraft would need to offer stand-up headroom as well as better overall cabin space and functionality.
Enter the cavern. The Latitude's flexible, flat-floor cabin is 27 feet, six inches long; 72 inches tall; and 77 inches wide. For a Cessna, that's large. And the company's designers used a clever combination of lighting and seat and window positioning to create an illusion of even greater interior space. One example: the passenger service units feature cabin-length indirect overhead LED lighting, with variable adjustment for direct reading lights. Proprietary software can control both the intensity and shape of the LED beam.
There's more than high-tech lighting for your "inner nerd" to love on the Latitude. Passengers increasingly want the latest and greatest electronic options regardless of cabin size, especially on longer flights. In a midsize aircraft, this presents challenges in terms of both space and weight. Cessna plans to address the issue by incorporating the black boxes for the new Clairity cabin-management and IFE systems into the aircraft's Garmin G5000 avionics system. It's the same one being developed for the larger Citation Longitude that Cessna unveiled in May; the barely subsonic Citation Ten that is now in flight test; and the 525 Relentless super-medium twin helicopter that sister company Bell Helicopter announced in February.
The G5000 in the Latitude's cockpit features three 14-inch LCD primary and multifunction displays and four touch-screen control panels. It includes synthetic-vision technology, electronic charts, the safe-taxi system, a dual flight-management system, precision GPS landing technology, solid-state weather radar with turbulence detection and vertical scan capability, an integrated terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS), and data link. Satellite weather is optional.
The fiber-optic Clairity cabin-management system allows completely wireless control of cabin functions. It will be fully compatible with personal devices such as iPhones and Droids and will gain the ability to add features, such as VoIP, over time. It also has plenty of reserve power: Each passenger can watch a different movie but that taxes only 7 percent of the system.
The Latitude's standard seating arrangement accommodates passengers with a forward, two-seat, side-facing couch, a club-four grouping of single seats and two more single seats aft of that. The six pedestal single seats track forward and aft seven inches and laterally four inches on the seat base with 180-degree swiveling capability and infinite recline positions.
Seats have traditionally been the Achilles heel in a midsize Cessna cabin–about as aesthetically appealing and comfortable as church pews. Several years ago,
Cessna began to design a seat for its next-generation aircraft with the goal of improving both comfort and function. The Latitude's cabin seats use the same structure and are the same size as those in the new Citation Ten. The seats feature an exposed pedestal to maximize space for feet and small carry-ons for stowage below. Omitting pedestal shrouds also eliminates unsightly scuff marks and broken connectors. The new seat has been sampled by multiple focus groups of various shapes and sizes. Larger Latitude passengers will appreciate the new armrests–they fold up and retract into the seat back, providing additional thigh room.
While incorporating more comfort and new technology that is well along on the development path, Cessna eschewed adoption of the relatively exotic, such as fly-by-wire actuation for the flight surfaces. The cruciform tail and the tweaked airfoil are basically the same as those on the current Cessna XLS+.
Cessna is also going with the tried and true when it comes to the engines. A pair of FADEC (full authority digital engine control) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306D turbofans (5,700 pounds of thrust each) will power the Latitude. PW300-series engines have been in use for 20 years, have accumulated more than 6.9 million flight hours and are installed on a variety of business jets from the Dassault Falcon 7X trijet to the Cessna Citation Sovereign and the Learjet 60.
The powerplants will propel the Latitude to 43,000 feet in 23 minutes en route to a maximum cruise altitude of 45,000 feet. Like its predecessors, the Latitude will have good short-runway capability. Cessna estimates runway distance required at maximum takeoff weight to be 3,900 feet.
A bigger cabin combined with good operating economics should make the Latitude a popular choice for those seeking a modern midsize business jet.
Cessna expects to fly the Citation Latitude in 2014 and begin deliveries the following year. The second model in the new family–the Longitude– has a planned first-flight date in 2016.
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Here's a few RJS tips that don't seem to be documented very well. If you have a tip to share, please add it to this thread.
Outputting Javascript Directly
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This will call reset on the first form in the document, just as if you typed the javascript directly inline!
Selecting Multiple Tags
Prototype offers the ability to select HTML elements through a powerful CSS like syntax. Ruby makes this even more powerful by allowing you to use Ruby blocks to iterate through the selected HTML elements. For example.
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This will reset all of the forms on the page. As mentioned the selectors are similar to CSS, so you can do this:
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This will hide all of the elements with the class 'book'. Very handy!
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This will find an HTML element with the id 'greeting' and replace its content with "Hello World!". Instead of specifying the DOM id as the first element, you can place it in square brackets like this:
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This feels better to me.
Setting Element Attributes
Let's say you have a text field:
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And you want to set the value of this text field through RJS dynamically. No problem, just grab the element as shown previously, then set the 'value' attribute just like you would a normal Ruby object.
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That is so cool!
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- 1 chicken (3 to 4 pounds), cut up into 10 pieces
- Kosher salt
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- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika
- 2 teaspoons cayenne
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons chile paste (such as sambal)
- Peanut oil, for deep-frying
Put the chicken in a large bowl. Add cold water, by the quart, to cover the chicken by about 1 inch. Add 1 tablespoon of salt to each quart of water. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
When you're ready to cook, mix the flour, garlic and onion powders, paprika, and cayenne in a large, shallow platter until well blended; season generously with salt and pepper. Stir together the buttermilk and hot sauce in another large, deep platter or wide, shallow bowl; season with salt and pepper.
Drain the chicken in a colander and pat it dry. Dredge the pieces a few at a time in the flour mixture. Dip them into the buttermilk and then roll them in the seasoned flour again to make a good crust. Put the chicken pieces on a piece of parchment or waxed paper, or on a clean platter, while you heat the oil.
Pour about 3 inches of oil into a large deep pot; the oil should not come more than half way up the sides of the pot. Put the pot over medium-high heat and heat the oil to 375 degrees F on a deep-fry thermometer. Working in batches, add the chicken pieces to the hot oil, 3 or 4 at a time and fry, turning the pieces occasionally, until evenly golden brown and cooked through, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and transfer to a rack to drain; repeat to cook the remaining pieces. Serve hot.
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The United States is in the midst of a peaceful political transition from one administration to another. Simultaneously, other nations such as Guinea, Somalia, and Thailand are also facing transitions – albeit with mixed results.
What are the key elements that lead toward a peaceful political transition?
Anthony in U.S.A. writes:
LEGITIMACY. Plain and Simple.
Also there obviously needs to be an understanding amongst the outgoing administration that they are part of a picture bigger than themselves. This eliminates foolish, selfish, "but mommy, the toy is MINE!!" element.
This is VITAL.When a political party is being molded and shaped, it is key that the "mastermind" behind the crafting, not instill an element of PRIDE or ENTITLEMENT into his "masterpiece." Then when it comes time to "change the chanel" one finds one operating the "station" without "static." Hence : Smooth Transition.
The citizens are easy enough to craft. It's those in positions of influence and power that prove the most difficult. They forget to dance with who brung um. They become incapable of getting off the horse so the next "rider" can mount. They threaten to spill the beans. This is a cancerous element, but unfortunately, it goes with the territory.
Elizabeth in Israel writes:
The key is to keep some of the high ranking officials who served under President Bush.
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Mahdad in Iran writes:
In my Opinion Political Tolerance among Different Political parties and institutions based on Democratic Principles as well as strong civil society are vital toward a peaceful political transition for which the United States is an excellent hallmark.
Benn in Massachusetts writes:
Equal access to power is also important.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Using the U.S. model as the example, the key elements to a peaceful transition are to maintain a strong police state, isolate dissenters from t.v. coverage, remove all questionable participants from political gatherings, enact laws to make it a crime to assemble in a public place without a permit, disarm the public and infiltrate all dissenting groups, wiretap their communications, place their names on lists, and investigate anyone who seriously challenges government propaganda.
Jordan in South Dakota writes:
@ Zharkov, your Stalin-istic ideas are farfetched and fascist to say the least. I think that the exact opposite of your ideas leads to a democratic form of peaceable transition. I suppose you are playing a "tongue-and-cheek" play on words here to point towards the use of the N.S.A. Eavesdropping, or the historical Operation Shamrock (N.S.A.) done in cooperation with Operation Chaos (C.I.A.) to spy on domestic college anti-war protesters. Actions such as those in no way can represent a free society. On Liberty, written by John Stuart Mill, talks extensively about the dissentient voice and its importance to obtain truth in conflicting ideas between opposing parties. The debate over information and its regulation by a government, as a means of self-defense, goes as far back as governments have been established. However, this also does not foreclose the importance of the public forum. The establishment of the public forum coincides with Machiavelli's ideas written in The Prince, that one can judge a king by his counsel. The interesting paradox in the Greek Democracy or the Roman Republic through the venue of the forum is that the counsel to the king are the subjects whom he governs. Hence, this idea is represented in the first three words of the United States Constitution's Preamble, "We the People." This lends to the supposition that the people are the government, and through forms of representation we are an autonomously regulated society.
I think the most important factor with political transitions is to insure and establish a basis of faith from the subjects of the government in the political system which is enduring the transition. Senator John McCain in his presidential candidacy spoke-out about the need for a restoration of faith in the government from the American people. Corruption has inundated every facet of our government, and its institutions, from the Senate to your local religious parishes. Further the historical connotation of elections stemming from the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Gore v. Bush, clearly illustrates the disintegration of our democracy into that of a tyranny, or rule by the few elite in this nation. In that election, whether we like it or not, was not decided by the American people, but by lifetime appointed legal experts of our age, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
With the diminishing faith in the justifiability of the actions of our government, and the continuing trend of scandals, immorality, and self-serving aristocratic governance by our representatives, the establishment of a form of accountability to establish that faith must be founded.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Jordan in South Dakota, Faith is something one believes in without emperical evidence to back it up with.
Trust on the other hand is based upon data derived over time.
Trust is only gained through mutual respect, and thus respect is The Key element in any peaceful political transition.
Respect for the will of the people, and in service to all the people, not just one's constituants and suporters.
Thus the outgoing leader passes the torch to the newly elected, who is charged with the same responsibility to this nation.
It is respect that sets the tone of transition, for without it, nothing can be accomplished in the halls of government. We the people would be badly served in that case by those we trust to lead us wisely.
Welcome to the blog by the way, even though I strongly disagree with your assesment (and Zharkov's) of the results of the outgoing administration's policies.
If you stick around long enough, you'll realize that Zharkov doesn't actually believe what he writes, and only does so to get a rise out of folks.
(just a bit of observational analysis over time)
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Other than the U.S. model for peaceful transition, we have the Nazi model using secret police and a "citizens national security corps" which president-alleged Obama said would be "more powerful and better funded than the military". This will ensure no disruption of government activity by unwilling citizens who no longer consent to be slaves.
The concept of punishing citizens before they violate laws arose during the Bush Administration and no doubt this will carry over into the Obama Administration when a Department of Pre-Crime will be established to arrest new born babies based on their genetic pre-disposition for criminal activity in the same way as they are now experimenting with in Britain.
The price for maintaining our class structure and political status quo cannot be raised too high. We must crush all dissent to avoid disrupting the "peace". Orwell's imaginary tale has become official US policy.
"Peace" at any price, at any cost. Government oppression must continue without objection -- issue National I.D. cards, an internal passport, to track and categorize the citizens and allow internal security police to demand "documents" at random checkpoints; analyze the voters to identify any potential threats to the political establishment. Wiretap us all. All are guilty of something in the New World Order.
Is a "peaceful transition" always desirable? King George thought so when he ordered the British Army to kill General Washington and destroy the First Continental Army. Suppressing dissent and preventing colonial rebellion is a British tradition, not an American one. America is not a colony of the federal government.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
If you think you're being watched, you're probably right.
Government employees are not exempt. When you leave government service, you will still be watched because you are considered a potential criminal.
The American Civil Liberties Union posted a website Monday showing that government-financed surveillance cameras are running rampant across the United States.
All the while, studies suggest they do nothing to cut down on violent crime. San Francisco, for example, has spent $700,000 for dozens of public cameras, but a University of California study just concluded there was "no evidence" they curtailed violent crime or terrorism.
The ACLU's website, "You Are Being Watched," shows a map of the 50 U.S. states with links to news accounts about where surveillance cameras are in each state. The federal government has given state and local governments $300 million in grants to fund an ever-growing array of cameras.
Two questions posed on the ACLU site ask:
1. "Do we want a society where an innocent individual can't walk down the street without being considered a potential criminal?" and
2. "Do we want a society where people are comfortable with constant surveillance?"
I would ask more questions:
3. Should our government be watching us, or should we be watching our government?
4. Do we want government officials protected from dissent, or do we want dissent protected from government officials?
Joe in Tennessee writes:
1. There can be duality of theology; but, one objective in any democracy: The representation of the People served for the Greater Good of All Citizens.
2. The open respect shown by each party toward each other. The example set by both parties at this juncture of American History is a direct reflection of the productive and proactive nature of a true democracy.
Not much more than that in actuality; but, I would like to add: If the Press would get on board with showing the better side of both parties working together on a daily basis, which they do more often than not, the benefit of a proactive Free Press in a democracy would also be realized. Freedom of the Press was to provide another Check and Balance to the people and not meant for the sole purpose of Profit. So:
3. An Objective Free Press which also works for the Greater Good and not sensationalism for profit.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Respect should extend to foreign nations which share living space on the same planet with us, such as Iran. Israel has two arguments for bombing Iran's reactors while the world news media is distracted by the U.S. presidential inauguration:
1. Iran may have plans to make nuclear weapons, and,
2. Iran's president rejects Israel's right to exist.
Iran denies having a goal to make nuclear weapons. Other than Iran having been given plans to make a bomb, there is no evidence Iran wants one. There is no evidence that it can make one. There is no evidence that Iran would use nuclear weapons against any country if it had one -- which leads us to item #2 -- Iran's president doesn't like Israel.
As Dick Cheney might say, so what? A lot of people don't like the Israeli government, but we can't go to war with all of their countries.
If a national leader doesn't like Israel, should that condemn his entire country to war on the basis of the personal opinion of one guy?
America has nuclear weapons -- thousands of them. Suppose Mr. Bush hated British royalty, should Britain attack America on that basis? What if the British Queen hated the American welfare system, should we militarily attack Britain for that?
Should the Iranian people have any collective responsibility for the personal opinions of its President? Did they even know before the election what their president's opinions were?
Should the personal views of a national leader be sufficient cause for war against his people?
Collective responsibility, in the form of group punishment, is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed societies and institutions, such as dictatorships, boarding schools, military units, prisons, psychiatric facilities, etc.
Imposing collective responsibility on an entire group because of the views of only one of its members is almost always a sign of authoritarian tendencies in the institution or its home society. For example, in the Soviet Gulags, all members of a brigada (work unit) were punished for bad performance of any of its members. In Nazi Germany, all people in a village were subject to be punished if they refused to disclose the location of an escaped prisoner.
Have we not advanced philosophically beyond the concept of collective responsibility for the opinion of only one individual even if he is a national leader?
There is no reason to attack Iran -- there are only rumors and Iran says they are false.
One does not attack another nation merely on rumor and gossip.
The case against attacking Iran is far stronger than the case in favor of an attack. So far, Iran admits guilt of nothing other than occasional hostage-taking, and the Iranian people certainly should not earn a death penalty for foolish acts of their government.
An Israeli military attack on Iran today cannot be justified by any facts presently known.


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Skip to comments.Sandy Hook: this man helped save six children is now getting harassed for it
Posted on 01/15/2013 3:50:57 PM PST by Dead Dog
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(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
In a time with little additional or non conflicting information on the shooting, this shows up? Seems odd
Yes, sadly, there are Sandy Hook truthers on the right. These are the Alex Jones crowd. You don't have to look far for these conspiracy folks.
Yep, some are on this site.
Seitz-Wald is a gun-banner.
At the time of the shooting, I read about how this man found six children in his driveway, found out that there had been a shooting, and did all he could to help them. It was a sad and touching story. I know that there are crazy people on the right as well as the left. However, I often feel that the volume and intensity on the right is increased by the opposition. They are going to suppress gun rights any which way they can, and I don't care if you think I'm also crazy.
I haven't seen anyone on this site suggest this was a staged, false flag event.
What I have seen is FReepers questioning whether the "let no crisis go to waste" regime that inhabits our Government would have people in place to exploit it.
I also see "FReepers" like you defend the Government at every turn of screwing the American people in the backside.
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No. Not only no, but Hell No.
Not only Hell No, but...
Watch and decide for your self, the man changed his story three different times....you decide.
A) He's a member of the Screen Actors Guild
B) Google Nick and Laura Phelps Sexton
Just saying... check it out. It's just plain weird that two married people are identical to two other married people who are "crisis actors."
I don't know anybody who would harass this man but I tell you this, if I did I would punch them in the face come what may.
Wasn't there something similar after Jared Loughner went berserk? Some strange publicity-hound sort of guy who claimed to be one of the wounded?
Yep, I can't recall his name, but they even locked the guy up briefly for a psyche evaluation or something like that. The way these events bring the crazies out of the woodwork, it's hard to know how far to trust this fellow.
Sadly, the media and the Democrats have manipulated the details on this tragedy so much that there is plenty to be skeptical about. First we were told by CNN:
"Three weapons were recovered from the school: a semi-automatic .223 Bushmaster found in a car in the school parking lot, and a Glock and a Sig Sauer found with Lanza's body, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said. The weapons were legally purchased by Lanza's mother, the official said."
Then it turns out that the weapon found in the trunk was a shotgun. Two weeks later we are told that most of the victims were shot with a Bushmaster AR-15 and not hand guns as originally reported. This is just one example of the conflicting stories coming out of this horrible disaster. Some of the other coverage has been much further out on the fringe. This is the story that the gun grabbers hope will give them the momentum they need to push the constitution aside.
It doesn't suprise me at all that the story has been badly manipulated and that some who have been following it have become skeptical of the coverage.
Of course the left exploits things like this, they don't make any secret of it. That's not even an argument.
I also see "FReepers" like you defend the Government at every turn of screwing the American people in the backside.
Speaking for myself, I sure as hell do come down on conspiracy theorists. We don't need that loony crap in the conservative movement. When I see truthers I call them out for that sick nonsense. When I see Paulbots spewing "Bankster" conspiracies that sound like something they got from the occutard movement, you're darn right I call that out.
The public isn't going to vote for a movement shot through with loopy conspiracy theorists. Last I checked that Alex Jones craziness isn't really welcome here or on most other serious, reputable conservative sites. As a movement we are responsible for calling out lunacy in our ranks, so you bet that's what I will do.
It's not made up, not "conspiracy", it's the man in HIS OWN WORDS.
Not only that, his 'performance' did not pass the gut check. I was horrified that people were saying this, but after researching all the 'twins' of relatives who are crisis actors and in the SAME FAMILY (for instance, the brother of Vicki Soto is identical to a nephew of the twin couple of Nick and Laura Phelps.
Check out this video if you dare...
And honestly, I was on FR the other defending the whole "Emilie was with the President."
I used to think like you.
Benghazi, Fast & Furious?
Are those conspiracy theories too?
You're forgetting Rahm's creed, never let a crisis go to waste?
You defend oabmmies eligibility?
"FEMA Was Running a "Drill" Between 9am and 4pm on December 14th, in Connecticut"
Submitted by zooamerica on Wed, 12/26/2012
People did die at Sandy Hook. The murders became another set of crimes even while shots were being fired.
"Project Longevity Launched To Combat Gun Violence In Three Connecticut Cities"
November 27, 2012
Holder and Malloy spoke.
There remain a number of unanswered questions to this, Aurora, and other events. This cabal, this coven of destroyers will do anything.
EXACTLY! Benghazi being a 'conspiracy theory' isn't a conspiracy theory, it's facts that are being ignored! And this massive "SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN WITH GUN CONTROL" that is being pushed... well, something here stinks.
They may bear a passing resemblance, but they are by no means identical.
Seriously, passing resemblance? Really?
The media usually get the story wrong, report events incorrectly, etc. If you've ever been a part of a story reported on the news, then you'll know firsthand the reporting is normally shoddy. They often get names wrong, weapon types wrong, suspects wrong, victims wrong, etc. It usually takes weeks or months for the media to get the story straight. Eventually though, the correct details are typically available if you are willing to do a little research. The fact that the media reports and stories are often wrong does not mean there is a conspiracy afoot.
There is no question in my mind the media and the left would like to use this to push through gun control legislation. We have no disagreement there. We are seeing that in action. But that doesn't mean they made it happen, or created the event, or some other weird conspiracy. Plenty of bad stuff happens anyway, nefarious plots are not necessary to explain awful events and tragedies.
What I don't agree with is the hints and suggestions from the conspiracy crowd that this is some kind of false flag event, that it didn't really happen, that government agents perpetrated it, that there are mystery shooters, that some kid was brainwashed by the CIA to do this so Obama could seize our guns, etc. That's just silly stuff, and we need to be sure that kind of nonsense is not associated with conservatives. We'll never win elections anywhere if the public associates conspiracy theorists with conservatism.
I agree, there are too many RED flags in this "incident"
Staged, I don't think so, people in the ready to exploit it, definitely.
I think Rosen is a byproduct of a feminized America. I know that Lanza murdered 20 kids. And I know that Obama and his merry band of fascists will exploit those deaths to advance their fascist ways. None of this or your video justifies harassing a weak man with a flair for the dramatic. But thats just me.
Nope. Those are cover ups. We basically know the stories there. One is a botched operation that was probably designed to further the idea that assault weapons going to Mexico from the US is some big problem. The other, Benghazi, appears to be complete incompetence and an attempted coverup after the fact.
You're forgetting Rahm's creed, never let a crisis go to waste?
Politicians try to take advantage of crisis. You know it's not just Rahm, right? I mean, he may be famous for saying that but its typical politician behavior. Heck, I'd venture to guess most people look to capitalize on a crisis to further an agenda. We don't see it that way because we believe in our ideas, but the effect is the same.
You defend oabmmies eligibility?
Yes, I think the birther stuff is silly conspiracy nonsense that will never, ever amount to anything. I think the reason Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity, etc, avoid that birther stuff like the plague is because they know if it gets associated with conservatism it seriously damages us.
Yes, really. If you actually look at their pictures side-by-side, they are clearly not the same people. Different shaped eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
I don't know what went down at Sandy Hook. Again the media and LE coverage on it is like something out of Alice in Wonderland. The above video I had not seen. Traumatic events do bring out the loonies...but the over-emoting for the camera time and time again? Wouldn't one be totally exhausted if those were real deep emotions?
Between this guy and the buffoon that was the MExaminer, and media blitz misinformation certainly feeds one's skeptic tendencies. Mine included.
...and no explanation how 6 children got out of the school during the shooting or how they ended up on a bus parked at his driveway........
Sorry but I just don't trust a 69 year old pet sitter who claims to be a retired psychologist.........
.Any word yet from the bus driver to confirm this story?
Speaking of Alex Jones, I saw that he and the Obamaphone lady got together. She's so mad about the payroll tax increase she's not voting for Obama in 2016!
Ping for later
I'm finding it difficult to have a discussion about the SH narrative anomalies on FR. Flamers are coming out of the woodwork on every thread like this, each and every time.
Salon headlined their story - Sandy Hook: this man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it.
My question is...how did he save these six children unless shooting was taking place outside of the school? They may have been running, but the official narrative of the moment says that no one was chasing the children. Hence, he did not save them by inviting them into his house. (Pregnant pause to consider this man inviting anybody else's children into his house.) And his on-camera delivery could use more polishing. Definitely not ready for prime-time.
This is just nuts. This gentleman was on TV. Six children who escaped were sitting in a circle in his driveway. They told him they couldn't go back to school because their teacher had died. Between he and a bus driver, they were able to reach the kids'frantic parents via their cell phone numbers. He took them inside and made cocoa for them. A sweet grandfather man, who was a retired psychologist. He offered comfort to those little ones until their parents arrived... a dear man put into extraordinary circumstances. He was understandably distraught when he told his story.... I cannot believe the heartlessness of people who would harass him for any reason. He's a hero, a decent citizen. What has happened to our world???
Why is no one asking why these kids ran PAST the fire station where all the other kids were to his house? Why did no one at the fire station stop them?
That said, a lot about this guy's story doesn't add up. It wouldn't be the first time someone used a disaster to get attention for themselves.
Just one point for instance. The staff locked the school down and demanded ID before they would even let the police in. So how did the kids get out? And if they went out the main entrance and down the road the first structure they would find is the fire station - where emergency responders were mustering. How did they end up past the fire station in a private home driveway?
There was one little boy in that first classroom that grabbed a few of his friends and ran when the shooting started. I'm assuming these were those children. They were all from Vicky Soto's class.
One of the Dad's said his son ran from a classroom and took some friends with him. The little boy was six. I'm assuming that it was this group of children and that they made their way to this man's driveway.
I'm not recommending he be harassed, nor am I willing to endorse the idea that this was a false flag operation, but watching Rosen's "performance" I can't help but think something is off-kilter.
He comes across as a drama queen who loves attention and wants to make it all about him. That's more than a little creepy.
His story doesn't make sense. Things don't add up.
His "lines" sound rehearsed. I suppose after he's told the story multiple times it isn't surprising that he would use similar phrases, but watching multiple "performances" by him really makes the lines sound rehearsed. Also, I'd expect some modification in his delivery after a while, but with each retelling he had the same overwrought forced weepiness.
I think what strikes me the most is that I would expect some other emotions. If I'd just saved 6 kids lives (not sure that he did, but that's what people are claiming) from a horrific murder, I would first be shocked, then I'd be angry about the murders of the other children, and then I would be joyful about the 6 I'd saved, and at some point I would probably feel proud that I'd been able to help. None of that from him. Just drama queen weepiness.
I'm not an actor, but I suspect that if I were supposed to act like I was crying over and over for the media, it would come out looking like Rosen. Kind of a fake sounding sad voice, but unable to produce actual tears.
Not saying he's an actor and this is fake, but I am saying that his "performance" doesn't ring true.
These are the kids that ran from the 2nd classroom where the 2nd teacher and I think four kids were killed. The teacher put some in the closet and others in cupboards and when the shooter came in she lied and said the kids were at some other activity.
He shot her and most of the kids hidden in cupboards bolted. 4 killed, 6 escaped BEFORE any response arrived. They ran like rabbits and ended up in this guys driveway.
He did those kids a solid, taking them in, making cocoa, calling their parents and generally giving them as much normalcy as possible.
If you watch his "performances" he identifies the person with the children as a man in several of them and as a woman in several others. I find this EXTREMELY odd.
I can understand getting details confused. Almost anyone who's told a story multiple times will embellish it - like the classic fish story where the fish gets bigger with each retelling - but to change a man to a woman or vice versa? Really makes me wonder if such a person existed.
Yes, this is part of the narrative that involves "I think" and other suppositions. The mortar of this narrative began to crumble at many places in the first week after the event and since that time, much patching of the story has taken place.
And the explanations are always...sensible.
But why so much defense of this narrative on FR in face of FReepers expressing desire for much more information, not just persuasion. See what I'm saying? A newsjockey doing a stand-up report in front of a location does not constitute evidence of anything other than he/she has a job.
>> Im assuming these were those children.
> Your presumption should be easy to prove. But it isn't delineated that well in the present and continuing narrative. The point is...we don't know.
The point is to not harass a private citizen until you KNOW he's lying.
Even if he is lying, what's the deal with all the death threats? It's crazy, egregiously horrible if the guy is innocent, and it makes those of us with genuine concerns for 2nd amendment rights look like idiotic, paranoid monsters.
For those who can't stand Salon (and I don't blame you) here's the story on Yahoo.
1. No one on FR is advocating harrassing this man or anyone. It's a bad, bad idea to do so.
2. I mentioned the headline in Salon but said nothing about my feelings regarding that website.
I didn't post a video, I wrote that the search would reveal questionable antics.
Says who, you, you're the arbiter of what is is a cover up or what is a conspiracy?
obama is a marxist plant, communism is taking over this Country, I guess that's a conspiracy too eh?
Never mind, you support it.
Here is a interview with a mother who was there on the scene that day and saw the kids running down to Gene Rosen's house which is by the firehouse:
I did and they are not crisis actors and not the same people. And they are also not the parents of the Green girl in the Tucson shooting which the same videomakers allege.
These videomakers are playing you for a fool.
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In the release 8.3.1, CUBRID comes up with two new data types, to improve the support for Large Objects (LOB), such as texts and binary files:
Before CUBRID 3.1 release, Large Objects were supported in CUBRID through the GLO data type (Generalized Large Object). Starting from 3.1, the GLO data type is no longer supported. Thus, if you plan on upgrading a database that uses the GLO data type, then you will need to modify the structure of the database to use the new LOB data types.
Before we dive in, let's review some of the important terms relevant to the topic of Large Objects.
|LOB (Large Object)
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|FBO (File Based Object)
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|Internal LOB
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|LOB Locator
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|LOB Data
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CLOB is a data type used to store large character string data.
Most importantly, LOB data (both BLOB and CLOB) is stored "outside" of the database in CUBRID, in external file(s).
CUBRID implementation specifics:
In MySQL the equivalent data type for CUBRID CLOB is TEXT. See CUBRID vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Data Type Mapping.
BLOB is a data type used to store large binary data such as images, videos, music, etc.
CUBRID implementation specifics:
The MySQL equivalent for this CUBRID data type is MySQL BLOB.
When LOB-type data is created and inserted, it will be stored in a file on the external storage, and the location information of the relevant file (LOB Locator) will be stored in the CUBRID database column.
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The following example shows how to create a database called testdb and specify "/home/data1" as a location for storing the LOB data files using the createdb utility provided by CUBRID. This command is executed in the command line terminal.
cubrid createdb --lob-base-path "file:/home1/data1" testdb
If the LOB Locator (the data in the database column) is deleted from the database, the file corresponding to the external storage will be deleted as well.
However, if the actual LOB data is accidentally (or intentionally) deleted from the physical storage, despite a LOB data file path still being registered in the database location file (databases.txt), the CUBRID services will not function properly. You should take appropriate actions to avoid the LOB files being deleted by mistake as consistency will not be guaranteed.
When storing LOB data in external storage, the following file naming convention will be used:
By using the CAST operator, you can execute an explicit data type converstion between BLOB/CLOB and other compatible binary type/string data types.
CAST (<bit_type_column_or_value> AS CLOB) CAST (<bit_type_column_or_value> AS BLOB) CAST (<char_type_column_or_value> AS BLOB) CAST (<char_type_column_or_value> AS CLOB)
The next table shows the SQL functions which can be used with BLOB/CLOB data types:
|Changes number data type, date/time data type, and CLOB data type to VARCHAR data type.
|Changes BLOB data type to VARYING BIT data type.
|Changes text string data type (CHAR, VARCHAR, NCHAR, and NVARCHAR) to CLOB data type.
|Changes bit array data type (BIT, VARYING BIT) to BLOB data type.
|Changes text string data type (CHAR, VARCHAR, NCHAR, and NVARCHAR) to BLOB data type.
|Reads file data from the provide file path and changes to CLOB data type data.
|Reads file data from the provided file path and changes to BLOB data type data. The file path specified in is interpreted using the same method as the CLOB_FROM_FILE( ) function.
|Returns the length of the LOB data stored in a CLOB file, in bytes.
|Returns the length of the LOB data stored in a BLOB file, in bytes.
|<BLOB_or_CLOB_column> IS NULL
|Use an IS NULL expression to compare whether it is a LOB column value (Locator) or a NULL; returns TRUE if NULL.
BLOB/CLOB type columns can be created/added/deleted by using a CREATE TABLE statement or an ALTER TABLE statement:
//creating a table and CLOB column CREATE TABLE doc_t ( doc_id VARCHAR(64) PRIMARY KEY, content CLOB );
Usage rules:
- You cannot create an index for a LOB type column.
- You cannot define the PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUE, and NOT NULL constraints for a LOB type column.
- When creating or editing a table, you cannot define the SHARED property for them, and the DEFAULT property can only be defined by the NULL value.
- A LOB type column/data cannot be the element of collection type data.
- If you are deleting a record containing a LOB type column, all files located inside a LOB column value (LOB Locator) and the external (files) storage will be deleted.
- When a record containing a LOB type column is deleted in a basic key table, and a record of a foreign key table that refers to the foregoing details is deleted at the same time, all LOB files located in a LOB column value (LOB Locator) and the external file(s) storage will be deleted. However, if the relevant table is deleted by using a DROP TABLE statement or a LOB column is deleted by using an ALTER DROP statement, only a LOB column value (LOB Locator) is deleted, and the LOB files inside the external storage to which a LOB column refers to will not be deleted.
//an error occurs when UNIQUE constraint IS defined ON CLOB COLUMN ALTER TABLE doc_t ADD CONSTRAINT content_unique UNIQUE(content);
//an error occurs when creating an INDEX ON CLOB COLUMN CREATE INDEX ON doc_t (content);
//creating a TABLE AND BLOB COLUMN CREATE TABLE image_t ( image_id VARCHAR(36) PRIMARY KEY, doc_id VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, image BLOB ); //an error occurs when adding a BLOB COLUMN WITH NOT NULL constraint ALTER TABLE image_t ADD COLUMN thumbnail BLOB NOT NULL;
//an error occurs when adding a BLOB COLUMN WITH DEFAULT attribute ALTER TABLE image_t ADD COLUMN thumbnail2 BLOB DEFAULT BIT_TO_BLOB(X'010101');
When you retrieve/query a LOB type column value, the data stored in a file to which the column refers will be displayed. You can execute an explicit type change by using CAST operator, CLOB_TO_CHAR( ) function, and BLOB_TO_BIT( ) function.
Usage rules:
Examples in CSQL in the command line terminal:
//displaying locator value when selecting CLOB and BLOB column in CSQL interpreter csql> SELECT doc_t.doc_id, content, image FROM doc_t, image_t WHERE doc_t.doc_id = image_t.doc_id; csql> ;xr === <Result of SELECT Command in Line 1> === doc_id content image ================================================================== 'doc-1' file:/home1/data1/ces_658/doc_t.00001282208855807171_7329 file:/ home1/data1/ces_318/image_t.00001282208855809474_7474 'doc-2' file:/home1/data1/ces_180/doc_t.00001282208854194135_5598 file:/ home1/data1/ces_519/image_t.00001282208854205773_1215 2 rows selected. //using string functions after coercing its type by CLOB_TO_CHAR( ) csql> SELECT CLOB_TO_CHAR(content), SUBSTRING(CLOB_TO_CHAR(content), 10) FROM doc_t; csql> ;xr === <Result of SELECT Command in Line 1> === clob_to_char(content) substring( clob_to_char(content) from 10) ============================================ 'This is a Dog' ' Dog' 'This is a Cat' ' Cat' 2 rows selected. csql> SELECT CLOB_TO_CHAR(content) FROM doc_t WHERE CLOB_TO_CHAR(content) LIKE ' %Dog%'; csql> ;xr === <Result of SELECT Command in Line 1> === clob_to_char(content) ====================== 'This is a Dog' csql> SELECT CLOB_TO_CHAR(content) FROM doc_t ORDER BY CLOB_TO_CHAR(content) csql> ;xr === <Result of SELECT Command in Line 1> === clob_to_char(content) ====================== 'This is a Cat' 'This is a Dog' 2 rows selected. //an error occurs when LOB column specified in WHERE/ORDER BY/GROUP BY clauses SELECT * FROM doc_t WHERE content LIKE 'This%'; SELECT * FROM doc_t ORDER BY content;
Usage rules:
//Inserting DATA after explicit type conversion INTO CLOB type COLUMN INSERT INTO doc_t (doc_id, content) VALUES ('doc-1', CHAR_TO_CLOB('This is a Dog')); INSERT INTO doc_t (doc_id, content) VALUES ('doc-2', CHAR_TO_CLOB('This is a Cat')); //Inserting DATA after explicit type conversion INTO BLOB type COLUMN INSERT INTO image_t VALUES ('image-0', 'doc-0', BIT_TO_BLOB(X'000001')); INSERT INTO image_t VALUES ('image-1', 'doc-1', BIT_TO_BLOB(X'000010')); INSERT INTO image_t VALUES ('image-2', 'doc-2', BIT_TO_BLOB(X'000100')); //Inserting DATA FROM a sub-query result INSERT INTO image_t SELECT 'image-1010', 'doc-1010', image FROM image_t WHERE image_id = 'image-0'; //Updating CLOB COLUMN value TO NULL UPDATE doc_t SET content = NULL WHERE doc_id = 'doc-1'; //Updating CLOB COLUMN value UPDATE doc_t SET content = CHAR_TO_CLOB('This is a Dog') WHERE doc_id = 'doc-1'; //Updating BLOB COLUMN value UPDATE image_t SET image = (SELECT image FROM image_t WHERE image_id = 'image-0') WHERE image_id = 'image-1'; //Deleting BLOB COLUMN value AND its referencing files DELETE FROM image_t WHERE image_id = 'image-1010';
Commit/rollback for LOB data changes is supported as with other data types. This means that CUBRID ensures the validation of the mapping between a LOB Locator and the actual LOB data within transactions, and it supports recovery if needed. This means that an error will be displayed in case of mapping errors between a LOB Locator and the LOB data.
Usage rules:
It's important to note that LOB type storage is not restored when you backup/restore a database. CUBRID does not include the LOB type data in the database backup/restore procedure, because they do not exist in a database volume, but stored outside of the database in a separate storage. Likewise, since the LOB type storage is not backed up together during database backup, LOB type storage is not restored during restoration. LOB type storage must be maintained separately.
The interfaces that process LOB data in JDBC is implemented based on JDBC 4.0 specification. The current constraints of the CUBRID JDBC API are:
Note: To use BLOB/CLOB data types in an environment where JDBC 4.0 specification is not supported, such as JDBC version 1.5 or earlier, you must convert a Connection object to CUBRIDConnection, explicitly. See the example below:
// JDK 1.6 or later import java.sql.*; Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, id, passwd); Blob blob = conn.createBlob(); … // JDK 1.5 or earlier import java.sql.*; import cubrid.jdbc.driver.*; Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, id, passwd); Blob blob = ((CUBRIDConnection)conn).createBlob(); …
The recommended way to bind LOB data types is:
Class.forName("cubrid.jdbc.driver.CUBRIDDriver"); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:cubrid:localhost:33000:image_db:::", "", ""); conn.setAutoCommit(false); PreparedStatement pstmt1 = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT image FROM doc WHERE image_id = ? "); pstmt1.setString(1, "image-21"); ResultSet rs = pstmt1.executeQuery(); while (rs.next()) { Blob bImage = rs.getBlob(1); PreparedStatement pstmt2 = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO doc(image_id, doc_id, image) VALUES (?,?,?)"); pstmt2.setString(1, "image-22") pstmt2.setString(2, "doc-22") pstmt2.setBlob(3, bImage); pstmt2.executeUpdate(); pstmt2.close(); } pstmt1.close(); conn.commit(); conn.setAutoCommit(true); conn.close();
The recommended way to retrieve LOB data types is:
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:cubrid:localhost:33000:image_db:::", "", ""); //Getting Blob data from ResultSet and getting data from the Blob object PrepareStatement pstmt2 = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT image FROM image_t WHERE image_id = ?"); pstmt2.setString(1,"image-20"); ResultSet rs = pstmt2.executeQuery(); while (rs.next()) { Blob bImage = rs.getBlob(1); Bytes[] bArray = bImange.getBytes(1, (int)bImage.length()); }
The CUBRID 8.3.1 and newer PHP Drivers have been updated to support these new data types. The deprecated GLO-related functions were removed from the PHP Driver.
The CUBRID PHP Driver and the documentation are available at http://www.cubrid.org/wiki_apis/entry/cubrid-php-driver.
The following functions were added to support LOB data type's manipulation:
|Retrieve LOB data
|Close handle/Free memory
|Retrieve LOB data size
|Export data from a LOB field
|Save LOB data
The following GLO-related functions were removed:
More information about the CUBRID PHP API 8.3.1 release can be found in PHP API Release Notes.
We will present in detail how to use these functions from PHP in a separate tutorial – stay tuned!
You may also want to refer to CUBRID vs. MySQL PHP functions comparison.
It is not in the scope of this tutorial to introduce in detail the available CCI support for the new LOB data types. We will only mention that you can create LOB data and bind the data by using the following CCI functions:
For more information, please visit: http://www.cubrid.org/webmanual/3.1/api/api_cci_intro_lob.htm.
This concludes the tutorial about the CUBRID 3.1 new data types. Please let us know your feedback and remember to periodically check the CUBRID web site for more tutorials and resources. For any issues, we always monitor @cubrid Twitter account. Feel free to leave your message there.


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