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On the Wednesday of last week I asked four friends if they would like to own a certain new electronic object. One said yes, definitely, because it would result in fewer gadgets in her handbag. One ummmed and aaahed, raising doubts about the object's battery longevity. One expressed a small reservation about its size, then became unfeasibly excited because she thought that I, through the miraculous power of the Guardian, was offering her a pre-release version. And the fourth person didn't know what I was banging on about.
Admittedly it's not the most exhaustive piece of research ever undertaken, but it's still an impressive result - a 75% awareness of an electronic device that had been announced by a balding man with questionable phone manners in California less than 24 hours earlier; a device that won't even be available in this country for another nine months.
I'm talking about the iPhone of course, another mouth-watering product of the Apple development kitchen that seems to whisk together genuine product innovation, perfect usability and drop-dead design on a regular basis.
Whether the product will be reliable enough, available enough, small enough and whether, unlike the iPod, its battery lives long enough - all that is to be seen. But from what we have already witnessed, Apple is playing another marketing blinder.
Since the iPod hit the streets, Apple has dabbled with rumour, never quite denying or confirming the possibility of the iPhone. This has led to feverish speculation in the blogosphere where people have been debating what it might do, mocking up what it might look like and, in a couple of cases, on YouTube for example, even speculating about how it might be advertised. Apple, fully aware of its user base of passionate creatives (a user base the firm enabled with its own hardware and software of course), has fed the beast perfectly to whip up anticipation.
Then last Tuesday it was showtime. Steve Jobs' yearly speeches at the MacWorld Expo are like a cross between budget speeches and feeding time at the zoo; the question is not whether we'll spend our money but what we're going to buy; not whether we'll like what he gives us but how quickly we can lap it up. On Tuesday the geek king turned largest shareholder of Disney combined technology with entertainment effortlessly. He invoked history, comparing the iPhone to the iMac and iPod. He invoked prophecy, parading a row of smartphones and predicting how insufficient they would start to feel. And he used humour, making a prank call to a local Starbucks, ordering 4,000 lattes before abruptly hanging up. The media, who had fled from Gates in Vegas to come to Frisco, swooned and, within minutes, Jobs and his little iPod-cum-BlackBerry were on every news site across the world. I don't know how much Jobs spends on presentation training or how much the MacWorld Expo costs the company but, in marketing terms, the combination is priceless.
Then, after the rumour and after the show, came the brochure. Although, in the iPhone's case, the brochure was an immaculate quick-time tour of the iPhone uploaded onto the Apple site, showcasing the beautiful design by Who's Who newbie Jonathan Ives and also the impressive touch-screen technology in action. The result is maximum salivation - you can't wait to get your hands, or the tips of your fingers, on one.
But wait you will have to. iPhone goes on sale in the States in the summer and later across the world. Has Apple announced too early? Not at all. In the US the iPhone is tied to the Cingular network, but elsewhere its network partners are to be decided. The early launch has kickstarted an early network bidding war that can only benefit Apple. An early launch can also benefit potential customers who may think twice about upgrading to a Nokia N or a Sony Ericsson Walkman, which may lock them in a contract and prevent them switching to a sleek new iPhone the day it goes on sale.
With networks bidding and customers salivating, it seems that Apple has launched its iPhone to perfection. Later in the year, advertising will be used to prompt and close the sale. But when your advertising is standing on the shoulders of a product development process that creates desirability and a launch strategy that brilliantly converts that desirability into desire, then most of the job is done. You need outrageously brave advertising creativity to make Hondas seem more than the minicabs they are, but you need no such thing for an iPhone, just the charming and blissfully simple product-centric advertising that Apple and its agency TBWA seem to specialise in. If all products were developed with Apple-like vision and launched with Apple-like flair, advertising would be a lot easier.


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Nova rolled her eyes and grabbed most of her shoe rack, adding them to the pile of clothes she had created and began to sort everything out over the rail of her lofted bed. Finally, she stepped back to look at the seven or so outfits she'd created and turned towards us. "Discussion time." Inwardly, I groaned. As much as I loved Nova, her method of shopping and getting dressed often got on my nerves. Whenever we went out shopping together, she'd debate the pros and cons of each clothing piece with herself.
Needless to say, Nova wasn't the best impulse shopper. Really, impulse anything just wasn't her style.
"I kind of like this one," I said halfheartedly, pointing at one of the outfits Nova had lain out in front of us. It was about knee length, with a classic fifties style cut and a high boat neck. Instantly, Simon responded by making a face.
"It's too housewife for your style. I love you, Boo, but you just can't pull of the fifties look."
"What about this one?" Nova asked, holding a two piece outfit out by the shirt. I didn't mind that as much as some of the others, because it seemed to cover up a lot more of me than anything else might.
"And what do you call this style?" Simon asked snippily, rolling his eyes at Nova as though he couldn't believe she actually made that suggestion. "Slutty flight attendant?" He shrugged. "Sorry, but a vest and a skirt? Do you want him to see you as a member of the mile-high club?"
"I'm sorry, but do you have anything positive to contribute?" asked Nova, frowning. "At least I'm making an effort. You're just being negative as always." She leaned over and pushed her fingers against his chest.
He mirrored his frown and narrowed his eyes at her. Uh-oh. I could see where this was heading. As he opened his mouth to say something nasty back to her, I grabbed his arm and dug my fingernails into his skin. "Hey, Simon, what do you think I should wear?"
He turned away from Nova and scanned the outfits. He pulled a pair of shoes off of a pair of pants and snagged a dress from another set, leaving the shawl that Nova had paired it with behind. "This is your thing, Boo. It'll look gorgeous." As quickly as I could, I shimmied into the dress behind the Chinese screen that Nova reserved especially for outfit changes. It was asymmetrically cut, baring my entire right arm while the sole sleeve ran down to my left wrist. White silk fabric with muted blush lace covering overtop; it clung tightly to my thighs and made it slightly more difficult for me to walk out from behind the screen.
Nova nodded slowly as I turned in a circle for her and glanced in the full length mirror on the back of her closet door. It was…really short. Wow. "Be careful how you sit and try not to rip the lace," Nova said, crossing her legs and sitting down in her computer chair.
"Do I want to know how much this thing costs?" I asked as Simon pulled me down next to him onto the couch so that he could buckle in the strappy heels he'd chosen for me. Nova thought for a minute and shook her head as Simon's deft hands moved around my ankles, working with the buckles faster than I would have. As he finished, he pushed me so I was standing up and grinned.
"I like the full effect," he said thoughtfully. "Although you should probably wear that all home, so you get used to the feeling of it."
"I agree, but there is no way she's getting on the bus wearing that," Nova sighed. "Take my car. I'm not going to go anywhere tonight." She tossed the keys at me and I caught them easily with one hand, grinning pleasantly at the reflexes that being a cyborg had awarded me. It had become easier to forget that I was different, easier to slip away from it, but the thought was never fully out of my mind.
My phone alarm chimed, signaling that it was time for my afternoon pills and I frowned. "I need to head out if I'm going to make it back to the house in time to finish getting ready. Nova, I'll see you tomorrow for breakfast and Simon, I'll see you…well, I'll just see you later, I guess."
"Yeah, you know it, Boo," he said, rolling his eyes as he picked up yet another fashion magazine. "Now go. You have someone to look nice for. Embrace it."


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It was achieved by Galatasaray Spor Kulubu (Turkey) at the Ali Sami Yen Sport Complex Turk Telekom Arena, in Istanbul, Turkey, on 3/18/2011, according to the Guiness Book of World Records. A Jet Engine taking off is approximately 140.
2. Americans are expected to eat over a billion hot wings during the weekend of football's biggest game every year.
That's according to speculation. The number of chickens used to meet demand for hot wings during football's largest game is rumored to be the size of the population of New York City.
3. There's a stadium that can (almost) accommodate the entire population of the city in which it's located (and it's not in Alaska).
"The Big House" at U Michigan is one of the largest stadiums in the world. Its official capacity is less than 110,000 but has hosted over 114,00. In 2012 the city of Ann Arbor was estimated to contain 116,121 people, according to the US Census Bureau. If we're going by official 2010 numbers, the entire town could conceivably fit, and they already have tried.
4. Pittsburgh is the only city in the US where all of their professional sports teams currently share the same colors.
Black and gold. It wasn't always true, but it is now.
5. In 2012 over 800 people showed up to shovel snow at Lambeau Field so they could have a game two days later.
So many people showed up, they had to start turning them away.
6. In 1999, a collector paid $8,000 at auction for a famous baseball player's dentures, showing just how far a fan will go to own a piece of history.
The player was Ty Cobb, and the collector was Karen Shemonsky.
7. A soccer fan once walked 600 miles to celebrate his favorite team's championship victory.
A die-hard fan named Vahid Čehaja came up with a crazy idea as he sat down to watch his favorite team Bayern Munich play in the Champions League Final. He vowed if they won for a fifth time, he'd walk from his native Bosnia to Munich, through five countries — one for each title. They won, and he did.
8. There's a sports tradition that actually involves throwing an octopus into the rink.
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9. Usually the only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games are the day before and the day after the Baseball All-Star Game.
That includes major league baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. Widely believed by the Internet to be always true, although it doesn't account for painful lockouts and messed up schedules.
10. The first most popular sport in the world is soccer, but the second most popular sport is reportedly … cricket!
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - June 19, 1997, New Braunfels, Texas TELEVISION CLOSE-UP: Rick Reynolds By Eirik Knutzen Cooley News Service Somehow, dysfunctional does not adequately describe the early years of Rick Reynolds' life. But he put a comedic spin on it five years ago and wrote a successful one-man stage show based on the tatters of his childhood called "Only the Truth is Funny." Enamored with his creation, Reynolds worked closely with NBC to develop the show's premise into a sitcom titled "My Family." Although hailed by dysfunctional television critics, the network's brass deemed the characters in the project a bit too dysfunctional and pulled the plug after the pilot was in the can. All Reynolds got out of the experience was a healthy chunk of money, a highly amusing comedy CD called "Only the Truth is Funny" and an Emmy Award nomination. It allowed him to spend several years at home in the San Francisco area, making money by selling three feature film scripts - though none have been produced so far - and watching his two sons grow. He also wrote and performed another one-man show, "All Grown Up and No Place to Go," which now serves as the model for "Life ... and Stuff," a sitcom enjoying a six-week trial run on CBS. "The one-man show is basically about my (real life) marriage falling apart and therapy saving it," Reynolds explains. "I weave humor with my philosophy and a therapeutic message as I dredge up a lot of very sad stuff - a fairly funny and cathartic show," continues the former standup comedian. "The network wants the sitcom version to be just funny, so that's what we're trying for." He portrays Rick Boswell, a stressed-out advertising executive opposite Pam Dawber's Ronnie, his equally harried wife and full-time mother of their two young boys. Their quest is to maintain a spark of passion in their marriage as the outside forces of the '90s chips away at it. Reynolds, 45, has kept the sitcom's concept very close to reality. "As in the show, my wife and I live in the Bay area with two sons. Ronnie and Rick have been married IO years; Lisa and I for 14 years. Tanner Lee Prairie (Jerry) and Brandon Allen (Shawn) basically play our sons, Cooper and Jack, 6 and 4. A therapist saved our marriage; Martin Mull plays a therapist trying to save our screen marriage." Although "Life ... And Stuff" has a little more edge than most sitcoms, according to the whispy-haired Reynolds, it has a much greater chance of reaching mainstream audiences than "My Family" ever did. "It was way too heavy," he admits in retrospect. "I had me. Both drank. He was in and out for a while. There were 'uncles' and awful people living with us for periods of time. 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It is the middle of the week so I thought I'd update everyone on what is going down over here at the sass&peril HQ!
First off, Patchwork Long Beach was awesome! Yes, it rained all during setup and it was cold at first, but at 11:00 the sun came out and the day was a blast! It is always so much fun meeting all of you and getting to put a face to the names of my favorite vendors, bloggers, tweeps, and shoppers. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello! This Sunday we are at it again but this time with Patchwork in Culver City. The forecast calls for rain yet again, but guess what? The event is now indoors! We are booth #78 in the Washington Room of the Helms Bakery. Looking forward to another fun-filled weekend of Patchworkin'!
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The IC-9100 combines Icom experiences of many years in one radio. The shortwave receiver has inherited many features of the top radios: selectable roofing filters [3], doble super heterodyne receiver, IF DSP, two separate receivers and much more. Plus the well renowned tradition of Icoms V/UHF radios - now all in one radio.
Two independent receivers allow operation on two different bands, for example on shortwave + VHF or UHF, or VHF + UHF. In front of the first IF stage up to three selectable roofing filters reduce the bandwidth offered to the next stage. A 15 kHz roofing filter comes installed, optionally a 6 kHz or 3 kHz filter can be installed. Especially the narrow filters enhance selectivity on HF and 50MHz. Each receiver has it's own DSP which supports functions like IF filtering, notch filters, AGC control,pas band tuning, noise reduction and much more.
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Also for the communication to the external world Icom uses well-proven and state of the art technology: the CI-V CAT interface, in use since more than 20 years is still available as well as a powerful USB socket. This USB socket offers not only CAT and remote control functions but also an audio interface. This turns the radio into a modem, it act's as an external soundcard to the computer. No more interface hassle required to get started with all computer-based modes! To decode RTTY you don't even need a computer at all, the IC-9100 does this internally.
Here you will find a preliminary datasheet of the IC-9100 (PDF, english).[1]: Operation on 23cm requires the optional UX-9100 module
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The IC-9100 accepts most known accessories by Icom and other suppliers. The transceiver has a 13-pin ACC socket, just like the IC-706, IC-7000, IC-7200 and IC-718.
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Fashion Stories That Changed 2012
2012 was a big year in the fashion industry. There has been designer musical chairs and lawsuits gallore. Before the ball drops at midnight and we ring in 2013, let's take a look back at the biggest moments and how they've changed the fashion landscape.
Raf Simons Leaves Jil Sander
Back in February, Jil Sander set the tone for what would be a year of designer shift at major fashion houses, when they announced that Raf Simons was leaving the label and would be replaced by founding designer Jil Sander. The announcement was made just days before Simons showed his standout fall 2012 collection at Jil Sander and there are still no answers as to why the switch was made.
Stefano Pilati Leaves YSL
Just five days after the Raf Simons/Jil Sander bombshell was dropped, news of another major designer ousting surfaced. YSL confirmed the rumors that Stefano Pilati was exiting the company.
Hearst Gets Sued by Former Intern
Former Harper's Bazaar intern filed suit against Hearst, accusing them of violating state and federal wage and hour laws by not paying her when she was doing the work of a paid employee. Since then the suit has turned into a class action one, involving over 3,000 Hearst employees. The suit is still ongoing and has had greater ramifications for the publishing industry. Conde Nast has taken action and announced they would be enforcing stricter regulations for their internship program and mandatory mentorships.
Model Issues Rise to the Forefront
In February of this year, the The Model Alliance, a non-profit organization founded by Sara Ziff, officially launched with the goal of "helping models in the American fashion industry organize for safe, fair, and healthy standards in their workplace." Soon after, the CFDA released new guidelines which stipulated that, among other things, models would have to be ID'd, and those under the age of 16 should not walk the runway. While some major designers and agencies violated these guidelines, the modeling industry found a powerful ally in Vogue: In May, the 19 international editors of the magazine signed an agreement to never feature models that looked unhealthy or were under the age of 16.


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"It's large coming back here to drive as a champion although I was at the Speedway as a spectator for the Formula One race [in June]. This is the best track in the world, bar none and, as the season is winding down, there's not much chance to get into the car so I like that,"
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The Rolling Stones may be making at appearance at Coachella 2013. According to Rolling Stone (the magazine, not the group), the band's mobel app listed a live date on April 12th at the Indio, California festival. While the date was quickly taken out of the app, fans saw it and shared screengrabs across the internet.
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A confession: I have never read an issue of Areté, the literary magazine edited by Craig Raine. I have a problem: its name. From the ancient Greek for virtue, or excellence. I mean, why not put more people off and use the Greek letters? So when its editor pressed this selection from its contents over the last, or first, 13 years of its existence on me in the course of a rather one‑sided correspondence, I felt rather burdened; and not least because the book is printed on some kind of paper that would appear to be as dense as sheet steel.
However, after a while I found that Mr Raine was pushing at an open door. Once I had done my exercises and was strong enough to pick the book up, I found wonders. Areté's editorial brief is simple: they publish anything they like. Raine being pretty well-connected as these things go, this means he can draw on a large pool of talent; having experienced his powers of persuasion at first hand, I now begin to see how he could have got Ian McEwan to contribute a chapter of Solar for nothing – which, Raine says in his introduction, is like being given £5,000. Contributors, both known and unknown, are not paid, but you can't really call this exploitation.
There are close to 50 pieces in here, and they range all over the shop. They are also all very good. I can imagine that after 39 issues (this being, in effect, issue 40) there may well be enough material to make a decent selection, and even at 500 pages this does not feel stretched. Everything in here works. It's as simple as that. (James Fenton's dig at Jeremy Prynne is perhaps not as funny as he thinks: "Jeremy Prynne / Jeremy Prynne / Isn't your oeuvre rather thynne?", but then it's all part of the anti-Cambridge thing going on – the magazine is Oxford-based, but don't let that put you off.) Subjects include, in no particular order: Matthew Norman on what it's like to be stabbed; Sam Leith on living alone in New York, trying to get interviews out of relatives of those who died on 9/11; William Boyd on how to make a film; Nicholas Hytner on directing Alan Bennett; Ralph Fiennes on acting Shakespeare; Frances Stonor Saunders on the scandal of the Swiss Verdingkinder, or "earning children", (orphans tendered out to families for sale and slavery, a medieval practice that didn't end until the early 1950s); and other pieces that invite the reader to contemplate modes of existence beyond the comforts of the sedentary, literary life: training at Sandhurst, or being in Afghanistan, or aboard the USS Roosevelt.
There will, inevitably, be pieces that take us back to the desk. There are not too many book reviews here, but the ones that are included are interesting, to put it mildly. I have written, in this very slot, praise for Robert Macfarlane; here, Graeme Richardson scrutinises the prose rather more fiercely (well, he has more space than I do; one of the paradoxical things about not being paid is that you don't worry about word-counts). He gives Macfarlane his due, but delivers a few Chinese burns along the way. Ann Pasternak Slater looks closely at Carole Seymour-Jones's biography of TS Eliot's first wife, Vivienne, and delivers, plausibly and with both conviction and the evidence to back it up, the verdict that it is a "maliciously misrepresentative" work.
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You have now been all over the VSTA development environment and have been introduced to the different languages that move SSIS development into the managed code arena. Now, it is time to dig into some of the techniques for hardening your code for unexpected issues that may occur during runtime, and to look at some ways to troubleshoot SSIS packages. Any differences between the Script Task and the Script Component for some of these techniques are highlighted.
Structured Exception Handling
Structured exception handling (SEH) enables you to catch specific errors as they occur and perform any appropriate action needed. In many cases, you just want to log the error and stop execution, but in some cases you may want to try a different plan of action, depending on the error.
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public void Main()
string fileText = string.Empty;
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Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Failure;
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
Dim fileText As String fileText =
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Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Failure
End Try
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
End Sub
This trivial example attempts to read the contents of the file at C:\data.csv into a string variable. The code makes some assumptions that might not be true. An obvious assumption is that the file exists. That is why this code was placed in a Try block. It is trying to perform an action that has the potential for failure. If the file isn't there, a System.IO.FileNotFoundException is thrown. A Try block marks a section of code that contains function calls with potentially known exceptions. In this case, the FileSystem ReadAllText function has the potentia l to throw a concrete exception.
The Catch block is the error handler for this specific exception. You would probably want to add some code to log the error inside the Catch block. For now, the exception is sent to the message box as a string so that it can be viewed. This code obviously originates from a Scripting Task, as it returns a result. The result is set to Failure, and the script is exited with the Return statement if the exception occurs. If the file is found, no exception is thrown, and the next line of code is executed. In this case, it would go to the line that sets the TaskResult to the value of the Success enumeration, right after the End Try statement.
If an exception is not caught, it propagates up the call stack until an appropriate handler is found. If none is found, the exception stops execution. You can have as many Catch blocks associated with a Try block as you wish. When an exception is raised, the Catch blocks are walked from top to bottom until an appropriate one is found that fits the context of the exception. Only the first block that matches is executed. Execution does not fall through to the next block, so it's important to place the most specific Catch block first and descend to the least specific. A Catch block specified with no filter will catch all exceptions. Typically, the coarsest Catch block is listed last. The previous code was written to anticipate the error of a file not being found, so not only does the developer have an opportunity to add some recovery code, but the framework assumes that you will handle the details of the error itself. If the same code contained only a generic Catch statement, the error would simply be written to the package output. To see what this looks like, replace the Catch statement in the preceding code snippet with these:
In this case, the error would simply be written to the package output like this:
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" starting.
Error: 0x1 at VB Script Task:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException, mscorlib
System.IO.FileNotFoundException, mscorlib
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been
thrown by the
target of an invocation. —> System.IO.FileNotFoundException:
not find file 'C:\data.csv'.
File name: 'C:\data.csv'
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess
access, Int32
rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize,
options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean
Task failed: VB Script Task
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" finished: Success.
The full stack is omitted for brevity and to point out that the task status shows that it failed.
Another feature of structured error handling is the Finally block. The Finally block exists inside a Try block and executes after any code in the Try block and any Catch blocks that were entered. Code in the Finally block is always executed, regardless of what happens in the Try block and in any Catch blocks. You would put code to dispose of any resources, such as open files or database connections, in the Finally block. Following is an example of using the Finally block to free up a connection resource:
public void OpenConnection(string myConStr)
qlConnection con = new SqlConnection(myConStr);
//do stuff with con
atch (SqlException ex)
/log error here
f (con != null)
Public Sub OpenConnection(myConStr as String)
Dim con As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(myConStr)
'do stuff with con
Catch ex As SqlException
'Log Error Here
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Failure
If Not con Is Nothing Then con.Dispose()
End Try
End Sub
In this example, the Finally block is hit regardless of whether the connection is open or not. A logical If statement checks whether the connection is open and closes it to conserve resources. Typically, you want to follow this pattern if you are doing anything resource intensive like using the System.IO or System.Data assemblies.
NOTE For a full explanation of the Try/Catch/Finally structure in Visual Basic or C#, see the language reference in MSDN .
Script Debugging and Troubleshooting
Debugging is an important feature of scripting in SSIS. You can still use the technique of popping up a message box function to see the value of variables, but there are more sophisticated techniques that will help you pinpoint the problem. Using the Visual Studio Tools for Applications environment, you now have the capability to set breakpoints, examine variables, and even evaluate expressions interactively.
Breakpoints enable you to flag a line of code where execution pauses while debugging. Breakpoints are invaluable for determining what's going on inside your code, as they enable you to step into it to see what's happening as it executes.
NOTE A new feature since Integration Services 2012 is the ability to debug Script Components, which includes breakpoints and step abilities.
You can set a breakpoint in several ways. One way is to click in the gray margin at the left of the text editor at the line where you wish to stop execution. Another way is to move the cursor to the line you wish to break on and press F9. Yet another way is to select Debug ⇒ Toggle Breakpoint.
To continue execution from a breakpoint, press F10 to step to the next line, or F5 to run all the way through to the next breakpoint. When you have a breakpoint set on a line, the line has a red highlight like the one shown in below screen shot (though you can't see the color in this Screenshot).
When a Script Task has a breakpoint set somewhere in the code, it will have a red dot on it similar to the one in below screen shot.
Row Count Component and Data Viewers
Previously, you looked at using the Visual Studio Tools for Applications environment to debug a Script Task or Script Component using breakpoints and other tools. Alternatively, you can inspect the data as it moves through the Data Flow using the Row Count Component or a Data Viewer.
The Row Count Component is very straightforward; it simply states how many rows passed through it. The Data Viewer contains additional information if desired. To add a Data Viewer, select the connector arrow that leaves the component for which you want to see data. In the previous example, this would be the connector from the Script Component to the Conditional Split Task. Right-click this connection, and select Enable Data Viewer. This automatically adds a Data Viewer that will show all columns on the stream. To remove any columns, double click the connector and select the Data Viewer menu. Below screen shot shows how to turn on the Data Viewer on the Data Flow Path.
Now when you run this package again, you will get a Data Viewer window after the Script Component has executed. This view will show the data output by the Script Component. below screen shot shows an example. Click the play button to continue package execution, or simply close the window.
While using the Data Viewer certainly helps with debugging, it is no replacement for being able to step into the code. An alternative is to use the FireInformation event on the ComponentMetaData class in the Script Component. It is like the message box but without the modal effect.
Autos, Locals, and Watches
The SQL Server Data Tools environment provides you with some powerful views into what is happening with the execution of your code. These views consist of three windows: the Autos window, the Locals window, and the Watch window. These windows share a similar layout and display the value of expressions and variables, though each has a distinct method determining what data to display.
The Locals window displays variables that are local to the current statement,as well as three statements behind and in front of the current statement. For a running example, the Locals window would appear (see below screen shot).
Watches are another very important feature of debugging. Watches enable you to specify a variable to watch. You can set up a watch to break execution when a variable's value changes or some other condition is met. This enables you to see exactly when something is happening, such as a variable that has an unexpected value.
To add a watch, select the variable you want to watch inside the script, rightclick it, and select Add Watch. This will add an entry to the Watch window.
You can also use the Quick Watch window, accessible from the Debug menu, or through the Ctrl+Alt+Q key combination. The Watch window shown in below screen shot is in the middle of a breakpoint, and you can see the value of Iterator as it is being assigned the variable value of 2.
This window enables you to evaluate an expression at runtime and see the result in the window. You can then click the Add Watch button to move it to the Watch window.
The Immediate Window
The Immediate window enables you to evaluate expressions, execute procedures, and print out variable values. It is really a mode of the Command window, which enables you to issue commands to the IDE. Unfortunately, this too is useful only when you are within a breakpoint, and this can be done only within a Script Task.
NOTE If you can't find the Immediate window but see the Command window, just type the command immed and press Enter.
The Immediate window is very useful while testing. You can see the outcome of several different scenarios. Suppose you have an object obj of type MyType, and MyType declares a method called DoMyStuff() that takes a single integer as an argument. Using the Immediate window, you could pass different values into the DoMyStuff() method and see the results. To evaluate an expression in the Immediate window and see its results, you must start the command with a question mark (?):
Commands are terminated by pressing the Enter key. The results of the execution are printed on the next line. In this case, calling DoMyStuff() with a value of 2 returns the string "Hello."
You can also use the Immediate window to change the value of variables. If you have a variable defined in your script and you want to change its value, perhaps for negative error testing, you can use this window, shown in below screen shoot.
In this case, the value of the variable greeting is printed out on the line directly below the expression. After the value is printed, it is changed to "Goodbye Cruel World." The value is then queried again, and the new value is printed. If you are in a Script Task and need to get additional information, this is a useful way to do it.


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at 14:01 PM
Exeter City 1Dunne 46
Argyle 0
by RICK COWDERY
ARGYLE'S League 1 life was not extinguished at St James' Park, as many had feared it might be a few weeks ago, but neither is their fate now in their own hands following a desperate Devon Expressway Derby defeat.
Just when the Pilgrims needed a bravura performance to add to the gutsy displays that had raised hopes of survival from the wreckage of a gruesome season, they failed to deliver.
They must surely win their remaining two home games, against Southampton on Monday and Leyton Orient next Saturday, to avoid relegation. Even then, they will need the helping hand of rivals at the bottom losing.
A goal seconds into the second half from James Dunne put Exeter on their way. The Exeter midfielder slammed home his first goal of the season with a right-foot volley that gave Argyle goalkeeper David Button no chance.It showed excellent technique and no less than the home side deserved after dictating much of a game in which the Pilgrims looked like the nervous outfit they had every right to be.
Things did not get any better for the Greens after the goal, and, to be honest, an equaliser always looked a remote possibility until the final stages when they threw everything forward and caused City's previously untroubled back four some concern.
Despite a 1-0 win over Milton Keynes at Home Park on Easter Monday, manager Peter Reid had reverted to an initial five-man midfield, recalling Luke Summerfield for his first start since August 21.
Captain Carl Fletcher and Kári Árnason anchored affairs, leaving Summerfield and Yala Bolasie - and not the dropped Joe Mason - to support Rory Fallon in the vanguard.
The back four was as it had been for the previous four games, three of which had been won without a goal being conceded, while Button, who has picked a good time to hit a rich vein of form, continued in goal. That was despite a worrying moment in the warm-up, when he fell heavily after tripping on a divot and required physiotherapist's Paul Atkinson' attention to his right shoulder.
Exeter, whose season effectively ended in a 4-0 crushing at Tranmere the previous Monday, made two changes and reverted from their previous 5-3-2 starting line-up to a 4-4-2 diamond.
Centre-back Matt Taylor was dropped to accommodate midfielder David Noble, who also took the captain's armband, while Daniel Nardiello, scorer of the last-gasp Johnstone's Paint Trophy winner between the two sides in November, came in up front for John O'Flynn.
Argyle's high back-line encouraged City to try to slip Nardiello and veteran Jamie Cureton in behind the defence, but the upside of the tactic was most of the early action took place a fair distance from the Pilgrims' goal.
The first threat on either goal came from Noble, who found space on the edge of the Argyle penalty area for a powerful shot on target that Duguid deflected with a diving header around his own penalty spot.
For a derby, and such an important match, the Green Army and the object of their adoration both found it hard to get into the game. Luckily, much the same could be said about their respective opponents.
Exeter's antidote to this was to play keep-ball, a bit like Milton Keynes had five days earlier. More chasing and more concentration required by the Pilgrims.
However, the home side's style did at least allow Argyle the opportunity to play the ball when they could get hold of it, and there was some enterprising play down the left which ended when Bolasie's cross went behind the goal.
Karl Duguid was given what looked like a final warning by referee Mark Halsey for what looked some verbals, but, all in all, it was a pretty tame affair as the first half nowhere near lived up to the pre-match expectations.
City should have taken the lead on the half-hour when some neat inter-passing ended with Cureton threading Nardiello through one-on-one with Button.
The Exeter striker toe-ended the ball around Button, but his touch was heavy and it took him away from goal with Nardiello running out of pitch before he could retrieve it.
Nonetheless, the break was indicative of City's growing superiority, especially in being able unpick Argyle's defence, and Curtis Nelson's alertness was key to the Pilgrims surviving more Exeter probing.
Ryan Harley, playing his final home match as a Grecian before completing his move to Swansea, began to have more of an influence on proceedings, and he helped City to again go close when a raid down the right ended with Nardiello being unable to get a crucial touch on the cross.
Argyle did escape the pressure on occasions and might have gone ahead against the run of play just before the interval when three Greens converged on the far post to meet Simon Walton's free-kick without any managing to get a significant touch.
Exeter then survived another scare, borne of their own incompetence, when Richard Duffy inexplicably passed the ball back to his goalkeeper, Artur Krysiak.
Cue the inevitable penalty-area mayhem, with the defensive wall marched back on to the goal-line; some bumping and boring that earned Stéphane Zubar and Troy Archibald-Henville a talking-to; and the inevitably deflected shot, from Walton.
Perhaps, though, the best that could be said for Argyle's first-half endeavours was that they reached the half-time break on level terms and with their goal intact.
That parity did not last long. Within seconds of the restart, the Pilgrims failed to clear their lines and allowed Dunne a clear and clean strike on goal that was simply unstoppable.
Peter Reid's more or less immediate response was to bring on Mason in place of a clearly disgruntled Walton.
Equally clearly, the match was in danger of slipping further out of Argyle's already flimsy grasp, with Exeter looking capable of adding to their lead at any moment.
There was a riposte, with Fallon beginning and ending a move that saw Jim Paterson send over a cross that was just a little too high for the big Kiwi to get a properly directed header on it.
Button came to the rescue and saved well at the feet of Liam Sercombe after more quick feet had released the City midfielder, and then from Nardiello's shot on the spin as City's quick inventiveness continued to shame the Pilgrims.
Rory Patterson joined the action in place of Summerfield as Reid rightly threw caution to the wind.
A long-range shot from Patterson which Krysiak briefly spilled raised the pulse, but the Pole still beat Fallon to the loose ball. Krysiak later held a seeker from Árnason.
Hope was raised when Fallon stroked the ball home after fine work by Bolasie, but that was snuffed out by the linesman's flag. Rightly, it has to be said.
More Bolasie magic ended with Krysiak saving the Argyle speedster's shot, again parrying the ball and again surviving his uncertain goakeeping when mason slipped on the dry muddied goalmouth in trying to reach the loose.
Suddenly, belatedly, Argyle were back in the game. Bolasie had come to life and saw another on-target shot saved by Krysiak at his near post.
Bolasie, again, nearly stole a late equaliser when he rose to meet Fletcher's expertly curled delivery, but the header passed just the wrong side of the post with Krysiak beaten.
Exeter, though, let the storm blow over - with Steve Tully making a fine tackle in the last minute of five added on to deny Patterson - and Argyle were left to wonder what might have been had their opening 75 minutes matched their last 15.
Exeter City (4-4-2): 30 Artur Krysiak; 2 Steve Tully, 3 Richard Duffy, 5 Troy Archibald Henville, 11 Scott Golbourne; 22 Liam Sercombe, 8 David Noble (capt, 6 Matt Taylor 67), 4 James Dunne, 7 Ryan Harley; 12 Jamie Cureton, 10 Daniel Nardiello (20 Richard Logan 82). Substitutes (not used): 14 Bertie Cozic, 18 Billy Jones, 21 Jake Thomson, 28 James Woods (gk), 37 Tom Nicholls.
Argyle (4-5-1): 31 David Button; 2 Karl Duguid, 35 Curtis Nelson, 36 Stéphane Zubar, 29 Jim Paterson; 20 Luke Summerfield (8 Rory Patterson 64), 4 Carl Fletcher (capt), 11 Kári Árnason, 28 Simon Walton (16 Joe Mason 52), 19 Yala Bolasie; 14 Rory Fallon. Substitutes (not used): 1 Romain Larrieu (gk), 3 Bondz N'Gala, 21 Anton Peterlin, 23 Krisztián Timár, 34 Luke Young.
Referee: Mark Halsey.
Attendance: 7,869 (1,169 away).
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If you had asked me a year ago which celebrities I fancied, I wouldn't have been able to tell you. A recent development means that actor Eddie Redmayne is now the sole occupant of this list.
But 'fancy' is still too strong a word; I have not sat up all night plotting kidnap scenarios. I have not stalked his significant other. In fact, I don't even know if he has one. I have not, reassuringly, found out what shoe size he is for my personal interest. Even if I knew where to find it.
I am not a very good member of the youth. I don't get my celebrity fi' fortnightly with Grazia and I don't peruse the Sidebar of Shame. I 'don't do' celebrity culture. Call me a philistine, but it is a consistent demonstration of everything I dislike about modern life, all mangled together in a hair-gelled web of disgust. I don't give a monkey's right hand that Beyoncé had her hair cut, or that she stuck it back on with extensions because clearly she had nothing better to do than eating Essex out of Nandos and being late for V-Fest. But Queen B is not the problem. The fans have lost sight of the squirrel.
Seeing the terrified expression on Eleanor Calder's face – girlfriend of One Direction's Louis Tomlinson – at the premiere of the band's film This Is Us reignited my faded interest in Si-Co's freakishly popular gang of scientifically engineered lab rats.
I will admit to having a One Direction sesh now and again. My flatmate and I used to cook and sing to them – mostly to annoy upstairs who preferred earlier boyband disasters NSync*. A choice few tracks are good for the gym – they're upbeat. And because you'll be dying to get as far away from them as possible, they're helpful for personal bests. There's no sadness with One Direction. Except, I guess, if you're a fan.
And like everything else, there's a name for them: 'directioners'. I am not going to dignify that without inverted commas. They've had some bad press lately: first, GQ's September issue awarded a cover for each band member, lighting the match for an online bushfire that had the editorial team threatened with mutilation. And then Channel Four's Crazy About One Direction glorified their very existence: girls as old as 19 sat cross-legged on their childhood beds spelling out their (increasingly bizarre) fantasies. Good luck to them in five years when Harry Styles has completed his Pete Doherty metamorphosis.
Modern life has dealt teenage fan bases a dodgy hand. We've all been there: songs on repeat, blue-tacking posters up, obligatory gig souvenir queues, and singing into a hairbrush. But in 2013, for a select breed of fans, there's less of the stage door activity and more of a 'stalk 'em until they're your manservant' type attitude. And that seems to be A Thing. Eugh.
From what I can deduce of my mum's still-captured (but healthy) enthusiasm for David Essex and the newsletter she used to get, there was no section that stated in any detail the measurements of his you-know-what. Pardon my surprise, for this is just one of the vital nuggets you might get from being a fan of Harry Styles. Or perhaps superfan, for the presence of their two albums on one's iPod does not prohibit access to such information. Clearly these girls have a thing for penises.
But it comes full circle. At the end of it all, celebrities still have belly button fluff, snot and – sadly – reproductive organs. Fingers too, in my book the defining factor when deciding that someone is in fact human. If in doubt, look at the hands. If their hands look like yours – see the identical hand twin Friends episode for clarification – then they're probably human. And if not, then we've got more than just celebrity culture to deal with.
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