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The Lancaster Dixie Baseball AA all-stars had a rousing start to launch their district tournament hopes at Gandy Field in the Wylie Park Complex on Monday night.
The Lancaster County Dixie Softball Angels all-stars remained unbeaten in the district tournament with a 10-4 win over Jefferson on Monday night at the Rodman Athletic Complex.
ved to 4-0 on the season with a 338-241 win over host Camden on Saturday.
The Tigers, in the 97-point win, were paced by Charlee Brooke Henry, Lauren Spencer, Makenzie Henry, Jonah Faile and Jory Pettit who had four firsts each. Jonathan Wade, Brayden Kennington and Simon Wright each had three wins in the victory.
Brandy Baker posted two wins to highlight Lancaster Motor Speedway action on Saturday night.
Baker won the Super Street race and took the Crate Sportsman checkers.
Thomas "Happy" McCrorey
GREAT FALLS – Thomas 'Happy' McCrorey died Monday, June 27, 2011.
The family is receiving friends at the home.
Flags will be at half staff from sunup to sundown on Thursday, June 30, in honor of Sgt. 1st Class Alvin A. Boatwright, of Lodge, S.C. who died on June 18, 2011 in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Christopher Sardelli
A man was killed and another was wounded after they were shot early Sunday morning.
Lancaster police officers are investigating what happened to the two men, who were both found shot within an hour of each other.
Officers, as well as Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies and Emergency Medical Services workers, found one of the men after responding to a report of a shooting victim at 507 Harris St., according to a police department press release.
I have breaking news: Our neighborhoods have disappeared.
The young folks moved away and the older folks have gotten older or moved on, too.
What happened? Our neighborhoods are now full of strangers who seldom speak, much less wave.
Why are there no children riding tricycles or scooters on the sidewalks?
Shucks, most recently developed neighborhoods don't even have sidewalks. For that matter, most of the residents don't even know what a scooter is.
Nov. 4, 1828, (183 years ago) must have been a big day in the little upcountry town of Lancasterville. On that day, Stephen Decatur Miller headed a state delegation to inspect the new Lancasterville Courthouse.
One month later, Miller, who was born in the Waxhaws of Lancaster County, would be elected the new governor of South Carolina.
Christopher Sardelli
They've become a common sight along roadways, vendors selling various wares from the back of vans or underneath tents.
Often called peddlers, they offer everything from rugs to furniture to pet supplies, all from the comfort of a parking lot or a patch of grass. But with the sagging economy still impacting businesses, many local residents and business owners are worried how these unlicensed vendors will impact their sales.
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She's sweet on Wagner!!!
Most of you know that I, the lovely Doreen from Waukesha, am a stay at home Mom. But I also work on Saturdays and Sundays in a bank lockbox as a Lead. During the afternoon when we are getting ready to do our daily deposits, I spend most of my time keying payments and often listen to my CD Player while keying. On Saturday, I ran into a CD that I listened to from the first to the last song and wondered how many of these CDs that I actually own that I would do that to. So I compiled a list of my top five and would be interested in hearing what you all have to add. Now, let me just add that I sang with the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus for five years and one of my CDs is classical-So dont laugh!
1.) U2-The Joshua Tree
2.) Prince-Purple Rain
3.) Giacomo Puccini-Turandot
4.) The Gap Band-The Best of the Gap Band
5.) INXS-kick
I have added James' top picks also:
1.) ELO – El Dorado
2.) ELO – Out of the Blue
3.) Van Morrison- Moon Dance
4.) Bob Dylan – Blood on the tracks
5.) Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
You can definitely tell that James and I have different musical tastes. Let's just say that when I am listening to my 70's funk music, that James is not around or I am in my car alone.

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Last night, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. President Obama issued the following statement this morning:
"The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in NATO remains a vital cornerstone of U.S. foreign, security, and economic policy. So too is our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond. The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security, and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world."
Secretary Jack Lew of the Treasury Department also issued a statement:
"The people of the United Kingdom have spoken and we respect their decision. We will work closely with both London and Brussels and our international parterners to ensure continued economic stability, securtiy, and prosperity in Europe and beyond. We continue to monitor developments in financial markets. I have been in regular contact in recent weeks with my counterparts and financial market participants in the UK, EU and globally and we are continuing to consult closely. The UK and other policy makers have the tools necessary to support financial stability, which is key to economic growth."
Secretary Lew also joined the finance ministers of the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the U.S.) and Central Bank Governors in making the following statement:
We, G7 Ministers and Governors, respect the intention expressed today by the people of the United Kingdom to exit from the European Union.
We are monitoring market developments following the outcome of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. We affirm our assessment that the UK economy and financial sector remain resilient and are confident that the UK authorities are well-positioned to address the consequences of the referendum outcome.
We recognize that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability.
G7 central banks have taken steps to ensure adequate liquidity and to support the functioning of markets. We stand ready to use the established liquidity instruments to that end.
We will continue to consult closely on market movements and financial stability, and cooperate as appropriate. We remain united and continue to maintain our solidarity as G7.


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text: Los Angeles County is home to more than 10.4 million residents, more than a quarter of California's population. As the state's most populace county, it follows that the number of its citizens who need County services, such as mental health interventions, immunizations and child welfare assistance, are in the tens of thousands. How can a small change or new program make a noticeable impact in such a vast infrastructure? How can you communicate effectively when you are trying to reach so many? Three programs in Los Angeles County demonstrate how and do so in a way that, no matter the size of county, can be replicated with success.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - A popular way to cook your holiday turkey can also be dangerous.
Turkey fryers caused an estimated 900 house fires and five deaths nationwide last year, according to Orange County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Jon M. Haskett.
"It's something they probably don't do all that much, maybe once a year. It's a very dangerous thing to do when you're dealing with a large vat of oil. I think maybe they just don't know how dangerous it is."
Firefighters invited Local 6 to a demonstration to see just how quickly a fire can spread. The oil heats to around 350 degrees. A common mistake is attempting to fry a bird that is not fully thawed.
"Because it's frozen, the water that's in the turkey will expand. When water goes to vapor it can expand up to 1700 times, and you can get a large flame from it."
Filling the oil too high, causing it to overflow and come into contact with the flame is also a common mistake. Chief Haskett reminds you to take into account the size of the bird, and remember it will displace the oil. If you do notice the oil is too high, the chief says removed the turkey, turn off the flame, and empty some of the oil after it cools.
Always use a fryer outdoors and not on a covered porch or carport. A fire can spread quickly.
"Seconds. It happens fast," he said.
The correct way to fry a turkey is to lower it slowly into the vat. The chief says never leave a fryer unattended, and keep a dry chemical extinguisher nearby.
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The Bell Inn in Tillington is a very popular pub/restaurant just outside the western fringe of Hereford. It is warm and welcoming, and always full, because, quite simply, it offers food to suit young and old at a variety of prices. There are three chefs turning out consistently good food. The steaks are always cooked to order, and they are always succulent and tasty. There is a dining room just off the bar, but customers can eat at the bar tables as well. The staff are very friendly.
You need to book early to get in the dining room. They serve meals all week; lunch time and evening, with the exception of Sunday night, and real ales have always been a speciality there.
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Saint Augustine was born to a Catholic mother and a pagan father on November 13, 354, at Tagasta, near Algiers. He studied Latin literature and later taught rhetoric in Rome and Milan. He originally joined the Manicheans, a religious sect, but grew unhappy with some of their philosophies. He soon turned to Christianity and was baptized in 386. One of Augustine's major goals was a single, unified church. He was ordained a priest in 391 and appointed Bishop of Hippo, in Roman Africa, in 396, His writings and arguments with other sects include the Donatists and the Pelagians. On the Trinity, The City of God, and On Nature and Grace are some of his important writings. Confessions, which is considered his masterpiece, is an autobiographical work that recounts his restless youth and details the spiritual experiences that led him to Christianity. Many of Augustine's ideas, such as those concerning sin and predestination, became integral to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Augustine died on August 28, 430.
Born in France, Thomas Merton was the son of an American artist and poet and her New Zealander husband, a painter. Merton lost both parents before he had finished high school, and his younger brother was killed in World War II. Something of the ephemeral character of human endeavor marked all his works, deepening the pathos of his writings and drawing him close to Eastern, especially Buddhist, forms of monasticism. After an initial education in the United States, France, and England, he completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. His parents, nominally friends, had given him little religious guidance, and in 1938, he converted to Roman Catholicism. The following year he received an M.A. from Columbia University and in 1941, he entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where he remained until a short time before his death. His working life was spent as a Trappist monk. At Gethsemani, he wrote his famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948); there he labored and prayed through the days and years of a constant regimen that began with daily prayer at 2:00 a.m. As his contemplative life developed, he still maintained contact with the outside world, his many books and articles increasing steadily as the years went by. Reading them, it is hard to think of him as only a "guilty bystander," to use the title of one of his many collections of essays. He was vehement in his opposition to the Vietnam War, to the nuclear arms race, to racial oppression. Having received permission to leave his monastery, he went on a journey to confer with mystics of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He was accidentally electrocuted in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968.
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A Fake Mustache and Fat Suit Could Double Your Prison Time
If you're the Mesh Mask Bandit, anyway.
That's the case if you're the Mesh Mask Bandit, anyway. Former immigrants rights activist Luis De la Garza, of Farmers Branch, pled guilty last November to robbing five banks with a BB pistol and a mask apparently made of mesh.
Now, according to the Morning News, prosecutors are asking that De la Garza be sentenced this Thursday to 20 years in prison, when the usual sentence for his crimes would be 8-10 years. Their justification is evidence that he showed no signs of giving up his bank-robbing ways at the time he was arrested:
They found inside his vehicle a pair of black gloves, two black ballcaps, a black neoprene mask, two women's stockings (tan), a fake mustache and a "fat suit" to disguise his appearance, the motion said.
"The only way to curb his appetite for high-risk behavior and protect the public from further crimes of the defendant is to sentence him to an adequate term of imprisonment," [prosecutor Keith] Robinson said in the motion.


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Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. hot
Abstract Data Base Connector is an abstact OOP way to connect to several databases.
Acquired Virtual Distribution
AVD is a continuation of the swim project. The goal is to create a suitable SQL server from swim's not-installed DB, and to maintain the swim client. AVD will be used as a gBootRoot method.
Acra is a database protection suite with selective encryption and intrusion detection. It helps you to easily secure your databases in distributed, microservice-rich environments. It allows you to selectively encrypt sensitive records with strong multi-layer cryptography, detect potential intrusions and SQL injections and cryptographically compartment data stored in large sharded schemes
auth postgresql
auth postgresql would provide the capability to keep all users info in a PostgreSQL database instead than in plain text files (as usually) and even more have a more performant system than NIS+.
BabelQL is a C preprocessor script that allows many different SQL dialects to be generated from a single source file.
Barman (backup and recovery manager) is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and help DBAs during the recovery phase.
Broadcast Oracle Sql
A Python/Perl/Ruby script useful to submit a SQL statement to several Oracle instances.
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG. Read more
cliPSafe is a command line interface (CLI) to Password Safe databases. cliPSafe only works with version 3 databases and it currently only operates in read-only mode.
Contains a number of Python scripts that handle Oracle DBA tasks in a cross platform manner.
DataDiff is a utility for comparing the contents of two identical sets of tables in MySQL and returning the rows that differ between the two.
A dialog interface to the four major RDMS (Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL and MySQL). It is written in bash, and uses the dialog and Xdialog facility to let a DBA perform various administration tasks.
dbauth is a command-based utility used for creating, updating, removing and/or importing user's authenticated information such as: user IDs, passwords, groups and optionally comments, in a DB or DBM database format. dbauth supports three types of password encryption method and all types of Apache Limit directives.
DBConsole is a database shell that currently supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
A DBI driver for InterBase, written using InterBase C API.
A database schema update and porting tool. dbischema is written in perl, it requires DBI, XML::Parser, and DBD::mysql, DBD::Pg or both.
dbo is a database object relational mapper (ORM) written entirely in Python. Tables are represented using a straightforward python class and row instances are encapsulated as python instances. Joins, views, transactions, and more.
DBOW is a database compiler-compiler or front-end. It takes table definitions in a meta language and prepares C, C++, PHP, Perl (etc) functions for manipulating the database. It will also produce SQL table data for MySQL.
DBTCP is a proxy server for ODBC connection.
It allows you to make a query from a linux machine to a database in a Windows machine through ODBC.
dbtool can be used to store and retrieve data in a key/value format in a hash database. Perl compatible regular expressions are supported both for storing and retrieving of data. It's main advantages are the ability to maintain huge amounts of data and speed. As of version 1.4 dbtool supports encrypted databases using the RIJNDAEL cipher algorithm.
A collection of tools for IBM's DB2 UDB
DiaDbDesigner is a standalone module for constructing databases with the help of the diagram creation program Dia. In an easy to use environment you can join multiple diagrams together to form one model of interconnected tables.
Dumpgdbm is a batch or interactive tool which can dump keys and data from a GNU DBM file. It can display data in ASCII, decimal, hex, and octal formats. Posix regexp search functions are also provided.
ElyCA is a certification authority (as well known as CA) written in Python released the General Public License (GPL) which provides an easy to use web interface to generate private keys, certificates, pkcs#12 and CRLs.
Emacs Photo Database
Emacs Photo Database provides functions for managing a collection of photographic films, negatives, and prints stored in a SQL database. It is targeted at fine-art photographers and other people who use a wet-process workflow instead of digital imaging.
EMS MySQL Manager
(commercial) EMS MySQL Manager is a powerful tool for MySQL® Database Server administration and development. MySQL Manager works with any MySQL versions from 3.23 to 5.02 and supports all of the latest MySQL features including views, stored procedures and functions, InnoDB foreign keys and so on. It offers plenty of powerful tools for experienced users to satisfy all their needs. MySQL Manager has a new state-of-the-art graphical user interface with well-described wizard system, so clear in use that even a newbie will not be confused with it.
EMS MySQL Utils
(commercial) Provides powerful data management utilities for MySQL Server, which make your work with the server much easier and faster. Currently MySQL Utils include MySQL Export - a powerful tool for MySQL data export, and MySQL Import - an utility for quick importing data to MySQL tables.
EMS PostgreSQL Utils
(commercial) Powerful data management utilities for PostgreSQL Server, which make your work with the server much easier and faster. Currently PostgreSQL Utils include PostgreSQL Export - a powerful tool for PostgreSQL data export, and PostgreSQL Import - an utility for quick importing data to PostgreSQL tables.
FileExtender is a Perl script to evaluate embedded SQL statements in any kind of text file (incl. HTML files) and extends these files with results from the database queries.
Freedbtool is a component of the Cjukebox music management system. It is a commandline tool for accessing the freedb.org database. It supports both download and upload of database files via the http version of the protocol. It also includes a modified version of Jeremy D. Zawodny's discid program
Fsdb, the flatfile streaming database, is a package of commands for manipulating flat-ASCII databases from shell scripts. Fsdb is useful to process medium amounts of data (with very little data you'd do it by hand, with megabytes you might want a real database). Fsdb was known as as Jdb.
GTK Entry: a program to do data entry into a MySQL database using an GTK GUI application.
Graffiti is an RDF store based on dynamic translation of RDF queries into SQL. It allows you to map any relational database schema into RDF semantics and vice-versa, and to store any RDF data in a relational database.
GreenSQL is a database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works in a proxy mode and has built-in support for MySQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known DB administrative commands (such as DROP and CREATE).
GTK DBF Editor
GTK DBF Editor is a simple DBF editor built with GTK+. It allows basic editing of DBF (dBase) files.
HandySQL is a perl interface for MySQL. It connects directly to MySQL server, not using DBI/DBD and Mysql-msql modules. The main routines are written in C, and the top-level object-oriented interface is done in perl.
HashMan Database Tool
A tool for managing GDBM, traditional DBM and Berkeley/Sleepycat DB hashfiles. Database through a command line interface or an interactive terminal based interface.
IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about both movies and people. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database.
InnoInfo is a small command-line utility to analyze and dump data from innodb databases. It works completely seperate from MySQL and accesses the innodb data files directly. It can also be used to recover data from broken innodb stores.
JasperETL is a complete and ready-to-run data integration platform for organizations of all sizes, providing high performance data extract-transform-load (ETL) capabilities. JasperETL is appropriate for all analytic and operational data integration needs, regardless of complexity. When used as part of the JasperSoft BI Suite, organizations can develop, manage, and document data integration processes for more accurate, more comprehensive reporting and online analytical processing (OLAP) with JasperReports, JasperServer, and JasperAnalysis.
KESI is a tool to easily import CSV files into your SQL database tables. CSV files can be created using almost every spreadsheet and lots of other applications (E.g. KSpread). KESI can be configured to understand almost every possible CSV format. Additionally it is very easy to use, because of its KDE GUI.
KFreeDB is a KDE interface to the FreeDB CD information database. It allows you to query the FreeDB disc database and also submit discs yourself. It is one of the very few applications that supports submitting by HTTP protocol.
The KSqlAnalyzer is a tool for easy accessing the data of a MS-SQL-Database. It is made for developing and testing new SQL-Query's direclty on the Server. The functionality and the look&feel are similar to the program 'SQL-Query-Analyzer' written by Microsoft.
Lantica Sesame
(commercial) Lantica Sesame is a cross-platform database manager. It features a form and report designer, query by example, Symantec Q&A compatibility and translator, client/server operation, and an embedded programming language.
Libdejector is a database tool which defeats SQL injection attacks by performing context-free validation of queries. While written in C, SWIG wrappers exist for Python and other languages will be following soon.
Manqod is a desktop application for small companies to organize their data
on an interface customised for them by themselves
MDB Tools
MDB Tools is a set of libraries and utilities for reading Microsoft Access database (MDB) files.
mongoaudit is a CLI tool for auditing MongoDB servers, detecting poor security settings and performing automated penetration testing.
Mongotron is a Mongo DB GUI built using Electron, and Angular Js.
MTK-MYB provides a MySQL backup tool. This application was written with a focus on logging and monitoring. It comes with several addons for monitoring and reporting as well as backup integrity checks.
mtop (MySQL top) monitors a MySQL server showing the queries which are taking the most amount of time to complete. Features include 'zooming' in on a process to show the complete query, 'explaining' the query optimizer information for a query and 'killing' queries. In addition, server performance statistics, configuration information, and tuning tips are provided.
Mycli is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
mydbdoc is a command-line tool for auto-documenting MySQL schemas. Output formats include XML, HTML, and TXT. mysqldoc takes COMMENT arguments and translates them into useful formats.
A patch to MySQL that allow users to write procedures in a scripting language called LUA.
mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating backups of MySQL server's data files. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, makes an LVM snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again.
MySQL Cluster Administration Tools
The MyCAT project is a toolset for managing MySQL/Linux servers, and could be helpful for anyone managing a network of *nix servers whether running MySQL Cluster, standard replication, or not running MySQL at all.
MySQL Connector/Python
MySQL Connector/Python implements the MySQL client/server protocol in pure Python.
An authentication module for the Squid proxy server to authenticate users on an mysql database. The database is a single table, and the table is a very simple user-password pair, with plain or encrypted passwords.
A script that check, periodically the tables of a MySQL Server. Using the BACKUP, CHECK, OPTIMIZE and ANALYZE, the script checks if everything is ok and alert you if anything is wrong.
mysqlconf is a Linuxconf module to help you configure MySQL database. It currently supports basic configuration like creating/destroying databases and users. It also allows to configure a few parameters in the my.cnf file.
mysqldiff is a Perl script front-end to the CPAN module MySQL::Diff which compares the data structures (i.e. table definitions) of two MySQL databases, and returns the differences as a sequence of MySQL commands suitable for piping into mysql which will transform the structure of the first database to be identical to that of the second (c.f. diff and patch).
A command line utility for fast binary searching sorted flat file constant databases. Partial key searches and files with tab delimited fields are supported. The archive, ndex.tar.gz, consists of the ANSI Standard C sources for the ndex program, and the rename, program that can be used to update a database, without locking, in a multiuser environment.
Object Relational Membrane
The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other persistence storage systems. It is a thin compatibility layer between SQL table layouts and Object Oriented Python. While providing a good deal of functionality, it tries to be as small and simple as possible. It currently works with PostgreSQL, Firebird and MySQL.
OpenLink ODBC Bench is an open-source ODBC Benchmarking tool providing real-time comparative benchmarking for ODBC Drivers, Database Engines, and Operating Systems combinations.
OpenFTS (Open Source Full Text Search engine) is an advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data and relevance ranking for database searching. Close integration with database allows use of metadata to restrict search results.
PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers.
It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB goes much further to ensure portability.
pgBadger is a PostgreSQL log analyzer build for speed with fully detailed reports from your PostgreSQL log file. It is a small Perl script that aims to replace and outperform the old php script pgFouine.
pgdiff compares the structures of two PostgreSQL databases and returns the differences as a sequence of SQL commands which can be fed to psql to transform the structure of the first to be identical to the second (analagous to diff and patch).
pgnotifyd connects to a PostgreSQL database, listening for the named asynchronous notification. When notification is received, it executes the given command.
PgSqlClient is an ADO.NET Data provider for PostgreSQL 7.4+ written in C#, 100% managed code, for use with MS .NET and Mono:: platforms, with support for the 3.0 protocol of PostgreSQL.
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension.
Postgresql AutoDoc
Postgresql AutoDoc is a utility which will run through PostgreSQL system tables and returns HTML, Dot, Dia and DocBook XML which describes the database.
PostgreSQL Table Log
PostgreSQL Table Log allows to track changes on a specific table.
A "data server prototype". It supports several data sources, such as XML and SQL databases and the communication protocol is highly configurable too.
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. It was written from scratch with the aim of being very small and fast, and stable as a rock. The main advantages of psycopg are that it supports the full Python DBAPI-2.0, being thread safe at level 2 and providing some very usefull extensions like the user-defined type casters.
pxview is a program to read Paradox DB files. It is based on the pxlib library. pxview allows to output csv for reading with spread sheets, sql to import into a relational database, html and sqlite.
Python Schema Diff
Python Schema Diff is a python-based tool which permits to give the differences between two database schema. Its HTML rendering makes it easy for sharing this useful information among a team.
Querylog is a console tool for performing SQL queries on a (log) files. Lines from one or more text files or stdin are matched, using regular expressions to an in memory database on which SQL queries can be performed.
RecDB is a recommendation engine built entirely inside PostgreSQL 9.2. RecDB allows application developers to build recommendation applications in a heartbeat through a wide variety of built-in recommendation algorithms like user-user collaborative filtering, item-item collaborative filtering, singular value decomposition.
Round-Robin SQL
Round Robin SQL (RRS) is a SQL implementation of a round robin database.
Ruby Dataquery Shell
RDQS is a shell for querying various datasources such as SQL from a common interface. It does/should offer different data outputs, syntax highlighting, (grammatical) completion, shell interaction (e.g. backticks) and programmability.
SCRMGR is a curses-based (text screen or 'console') screen manager and data entry system. It makes heavy use of "softkey labels" and "softkeys" (a.k.a. function keys F1-F10) to guide the user.
ShellSQL is a suite of programs designed to enable LINUX/UNIX shell scripts to connect to SQL engines and execute SQL queries and commands in a simple way enabling intergration with the rest of the script.
Simple DB
The general idea of simple-db is to wrap the native client API of the database system into as thin a layer as possible and to provide the simple and uniform API to the upper levels.
Skeleton Engine for MySQL
Skeleton Engine for MySQL is a full framework to plug in a new storage engine. It comes with prebuild autoconf files, and a full framework to plug in your own design. The AWS, HTTP, Memcache, Nitro, PBXT, and many other engines were put together from the skeleton engine.
SkunkDB is a collection of tools to deal with skunk databases. The aim is to create a library, support tools, and a format suitable for high-speed data retrieval. The database is a static key -> value mapping. The databases cannot be inserted into, or deleted from. They are designed to be created once and queried many times.
SQLIer takes an SQL Injection vulnerable URL and attempts to determine all the necessary information to build and exploit an SQL Injection hole by itself, requiring no user interaction at all (unless it can't guess the table/field names correctly). By doing so, SQLIer can build a UNION SELECT query designed to brute force passwords out of the database.
sqlmap is an automatic blind SQL injection tool, developed in python, capable to enumerate entire remote database, perform an active database fingerprint and much more. The aim of this project is to implement a fully functional database mapper tool which takes advantages of web application programming security flaws which lead to sql injection vulnerabilities.
The MySQL Sandbox
MySQL Sandbox is a tool for installing one or more MySQL servers in isolation, without affecting other servers.
A DBMS for UNIX-like systems. It has isam-like access, transaction control, rollback, commit, exclusive lock, access control by client IP address, and user authentication. If you like old but simple database programming environments like COBOL+VSAM(KSDS) or C+C-ISAM, you will like Tyserv.
umbrello2sql reads a umbrello entity relationship diagram and generates the correspondent SQL instructions to create a PostgreSQL database.
Universal Data Access Driver Suite
A collection of utlities for ODBC and JDBC Driver benchmarking, and Data Access API implementation diagnostics.
visual-db is a tool for the visualization of a PostgreSQL database as tables with relations between them.
Vitess is a storage platform for scaling MySQL. It is optimized to run as effectively in cloud architectures as it does on dedicated hardware. It combines many important features of MySQL with the scalability of a NoSQL database.
WAL-E is a program designed to perform continuous archiving of PostgreSQL WAL files and base backups.
XQuare Bridge
XQuare Bridge expands existing relational database functionalities with advanced XML import/export capabilities. It supports flexible extraction and publishing of relational data into any target XML format, using the XQuery language. Using a powerful mapping language, it can also perform efficient insertion of structured XML data into existing relational tables, while taking into account the database integrity constraints and transforming the implicit relations appearing in the XML document into explicit ones in the database.
XQuare Fusion
XQuare Fusion is a powerful information integration engine for querying in real-time multiple, heterogeneous and distributed data sources. Using XML-based data sources federation, it presents to applications a single, uniform XML view of all business information, which can then be queried with XQuery to produce XML documents.
XtraBackup an open-source, free MySQL backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM databases. It works with all versions of Percona Server, MySQL, and MariaDB. It performs streaming, compressed, and incremental backups. Read more
The main ZeosLib product is a set of native datasets and database components for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, MS SQL, Sybase, Oracle, DB/2 for Borland compilers such as Delphi, C++ Builder and Kyli
A python module needed as an interface between Zope and Kinterbasdb to access Firebird databases.


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Eastern Branch Entomology Departments
The following is a list of the entomology and related departments in the Eastern Branch. The list is under construction and will be expanded; if you have relevant links, please contact Dan Gilrein.
Cornell University
Penn Sate University
Rutgers University
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Delaware
University of Maine
Entomology Division in Dept. of Biological Sciences
Extension IPM office
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of New Hampshire (Dept. Natural Resources)
University of Rhode Island (Dept. of Plant Sciences)
University of Vermont (Dept. of Plant and Soil Science)
Virginia Tech
West Virginia University (Dept. of Plant and Soil Science)
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- Whole Wheat Ritz and a Side of Turkey Pepperoni
- Cocoa Almonds
- Yellow Pepper Strips
- Grapes
- Strawberries
- Water
What Came Home?
Your guess is as good as mine! SOMEONE left their lunch box on the bus. ugh. KIDS!
Adventures in Healthier Eating with 2 Kids and a Picky Husband
Roni started this blog in '05 to journal her weight loss. 70lbs later, she's committed to living a conscious, healthy life and hopes to inspire others along the way.
Read more on the RoniNoone.com or contact me.
Your guess is as good as mine! SOMEONE left their lunch box on the bus. ugh. KIDS!
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September 22, 2011
Hi Roni! I love seeing what your guy has in his lunch as I also have a six year old taking lunch to school! I was curious, where do you get those chocolate almonds?
September 22, 2011
They're by Emerald. They are in all the local stores here. I linked them above. Hope that helps!
September 22, 2011
I like (guesstimating) counting up the WW points in the lunches you make. It's always around 7 (old ww points) - which is great because that's how many I pack for my own lunches. So many great ideas for adult lunches here too! I hope Ryan finds his lunch box (and that you had a back-up bento box for him)!


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Poll: ME, NH, VT - which has the best 2A future?
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Maine has "Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned" written into it's constitution, no registration, no restrictions on private sales (as long as both parties are ME residents, and you don't have reason to believe the buyer is intending to use the gun to commit a crime) open carry, and it's pretty easy to get your CCW. Also, it's still primarily rural, there are no major cities, and hunting is a huge money maker for the state, so the majority of the population is pretty gun friendly.
But I agree that most of the gun owners would only put up a fight when something effects them directly, so I'm not sure how an assault weapon ban would play out. I don't think it would pass, but I've been wrong before.
I chose Vermont anyway. Vermont is a rabidly independent state, and most of the Vermonters I've met have been quite apposed to their government restricting their freedom. In Vermont I would expect to see a fairly large percentage of non gun owners vote against gun restrictions as unwanted government intrusion even if they had no plans to own a gun.
New Hampshire I didn't pick just because eastern NH is slowly turning into a suburb of Boston, and I imagine a fair number of transplants are bringing their anti-gun ideas with them.
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by Christopher Freeburn | November 28, 2012 1:21 pm
[1]McDonald's (NYSE:MCD[2]) plans to introduce two new items to its popular Value Menu[3].
The iconic burger chain will roll out Snack Size Fish McBites and a Grilled Cheese Onion Burger late this year and early in 2013, each priced at $1, Restaurant News notes.
Emphasizing low-cost menu items is meant to combat lackluster sales growth. McDonald's is facing increased competition from a variety of rivals, including Burger King (NYSE:BKW[4]), Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN[5]) and Yum Brands' (NYSE:YUM[6]) Taco Bell.
While the two new value menu items won approval from McDonald's franchisees, two sub-$1 items were rejected. Plans by McDonald's Operators National Advertising Fund to promote a 69-cent hamburger and an 89-cent cheeseburger were recently voted down by franchise operators.
Shares of McDonald's rose fractionally in Wednesday afternoon trading.
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Arthur Arutkin (Fanatic / North) made his debut on the PWA World Tour last season at the age of just sixteen years old. The French youngster competed in both Gran Canaria and Tenerife, with his best result seeing him finish in twenty-fifth place. Now as Arutkin looks to further enhance his level he decided to head to the world class location of Chile for his winter training.
During the month of February Arutkin was lucky enough to spend three weeks in Chile, sailing at various spots such as Matanzas, Topocalma and Pupuya, as well as having the opportunity to sail with other world class sailors; Victor Fernandez (Fanatic / North) and Klaas Voget (Fanatic / Simmer / MFC). In the company of two of the best wave sailors in the world the sixteen year old was able to progress a lot as Arutkin links some delicious waves combined with aerials. AA also looks adept in the air with big stalled forwards and table tops forwards as well as several perfect backloops.
Unfortunately upon return to his homeland, France, Arutkin suffered a knee injury which required surgery, so we would like to take the opportunity to wish him a fast and successful recovery and we hope he his back on the water ripping soon.
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Everton defender Phil Jagielka feels he's taken his game to a new level this season.
After five-and-a-half years at Goodison Park, Jagielka feels the Club's recent peak has led to him rediscovering his own best form.
"I think they would be up there," he told evertontv when asked to reflect on his recent displays. "Just before I got injured [in 2009], I was flying quite high as well, though obviously I was a little bit younger then.
"That was nice, but I think it's easy to play in a team doing well when the confidence is up there. When we're not doing well, especially as a defender, it is a lot harder to perform at a good level.
"But the team is performing well at the moment, and that's the be all and end all. If you can chip in and play well as well, it's a bonus, and most of the squad have been doing that this season."


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Israel Considers Seeking Foreign Assistance for Jet Fuel Contamination Crisis
Israel contacts three chemical laboratories abroad after U.S. Air Force laboratory in Frankfurt refused to test material sent to them by Israeli firm Paz Oil.
Zohar Blumenkrantz is the aviation correspondent for Haaretz Newspaper.
Israel contacts three chemical laboratories abroad after U.S. Air Force laboratory in Frankfurt refused to test material sent to them by Israeli firm Paz Oil.
Discovery of 'greasy' liquid in fuel had led to mass disruptions at Ben-Gurion last week, with takeoffs halted and incoming flights diverted.
Passengers are requested to check with their airlines for possible flight time changes; Israel Airports Authority officials continue waiting for results of fuel sent to a laboratory in Germany for analysis.
If you were one of the 1,500 passengers affected by the jet-fuel crisis, you might like to know what your legal rights are regarding compensation.
Cost to airlines of last week's canceled flights due to fuel contamination could reach tens of millions of dollars.
Head of Ben-Gurion International Airport says all grounded flights are set to take off using fuel from Israel's emergency supplies, following a mysterious contamination that brought Israel's air traffic to a grinding halt on Thursday.
Nationwide fuel contamination scare paralyzes all air traffic.
Israel Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz says committee will look into the contamination, advise how to proceed; for interim jet-fuel to be transferred to Ben-Gurion airport from emergency tanks so flights can resume.
Foreign airlines in need of refueling have been instructed to land in Cyprus as all outbound flights are halted; Arkia Airlines cancels all flights until further notice from the airport.
Inbound flights redirected to refuel in Cyprus after authorities stop all refueling activities due to substandard fuel supplies.


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Cissy Houston sat down with "omg Insider's" Kevin Frazier to talk about her daughter, Whitney Houston's untimely death. Cissy dishes about her new book called "Remembering Whitney," a memoir which offers an intimate view of her daughter and their troubled relationship. To see the full interview, tune in Tuesday night to "omg! Insider" on TV.
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The Miami Music Conference dates have been announced
Press Release - October 12, 2005 - For Immediate Release
March 18th - March 26th (Saturday ? Sunday) are the dates for the Miami Music Conference, the longest, largest, highest-profile celebration of music in the city's history:
With an extended 9 day schedule of music, celebrity DJs, industry events, and world-class musicians, the Miami Music Conference is the flagship music event of the year.
Why the longer schedule?
In the past, cramming the celebration into just one long weekend has caused several challenges:
1) Not all attendees can fly to Miami on the same weekend.
2) There are too many events to attend and not enough time to attend them;
3) Too many visitors flying into and out of Miami resulting in higher flight rates;
4) Insufficient amount of hotel rooms resulting in over priced accommodations and services;
5) Long lines and over priced door covers resulting from way too much consumer demand:
6) Overcrowded and uncomfortable clubs putting everyone (especially club doormen) in a bad mood;
7) No time to stop and enjoy Miami and the Beaches.
With a generous schedule of 9 days (5 weekdays and 2 weekends), the Miami Music Conference offers two different weekends for attendees to choose from. Miami locals now get a chance to see the action and Spring Breakers can finally take in the experience. DJs can play longer sets, attendees can catch more industry events, and, most importantly, more people can see more DJs. ?Clubs have already started booking DJs to play two shows instead of just one. This will be a tremendous help in relieving the over crowding at the clubs?, explained Louis Puig owner of Space, Spirits and Spin.
Finally, in response to the urging of club-goers, DJs, and the entire music industry, everyone will get the lengthened music celebration and relaxation we need and deserve. The South Beach Nightclub and Hotel Association stated; ?Miami nightclubs and hotels will finally get the opportunity to properly host our guests and show the world what an incredible place this can be when you have the time to relax and enjoy. Flights and hotel rooms are already being booked so plan ahead and save.?
The festivities will begin on Saturday March 18th with the two-day Global Gathering Music Festival. Global Gathering in England and Ireland are hugely successful celebrations that set attendance records in both countries. Angel Music Group, Track Entertainment and Space bring this phenomenal festival to South Florida as part of the Miami Music Conference. Global Gathering will take place on Saturday and Sunday and will feature a diverse lineup of the world?s top electronic, rock, urban and latin acts. These 2 massive events will attract over 40,000 people to Miami and the beaches.


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Balancing Act VII: U.S. can fix fiscal woes
Last of seven parts
The political paralysis in Washington might lead you to believe that our nation's fiscal troubles are hopeless.
Yet these problems aren't hard to solve. Over the course of the past week, Newsday's editorial pages have laid out sensible ways of balancing the federal budget by making our tax system simpler and fairer, getting control of runaway health spending, and putting Social Security on a sound footing. Any reasonable person who's looked at our nation's budget troubles agrees we need less spending and more revenue, which is exactly what we offered. As a bonus, our proposals would help narrow the gaping trade deficit and reduce economic inequality.
The series struck a chord with readers, who showed their engagement with the issues by responding with an outpouring of their own worthy suggestions. One reader wanted Washington to budget from scratch each year and not assume spending should grow just because of inflation. Another proposed a tax on financial transactions. A third wondered how our proposed consumption tax could ever wring enough revenue out of billionaires. Clearly there's an appetite out there for serious discussion -- rather than the usual ideological sound bites -- about how to get out of this mess. Since the issues are so important, it's worth recapping what we came up with.
Lower rates, raise capital gains tax
Let's look at taxes first. The federal income tax system is insanely complex and riddled with loopholes and giveaways. In an ideal world, we'd replace it with a simple, progressive tax on what you spend rather than what you earn. That would promote saving and investment.
But while dreaming is fun, in the real world, we'll settle for improving the system we have by lowering tax rates, taxing capital gains as regular income instead of at a much lower rate, and dropping the corporate income tax, which brings in relatively little revenue and encourages tax-avoiding contortions.
We'd also purge the tax code of breaks for ethanol production, the oil industry, agriculture and other special interests. And we'd reduce or eliminate a lot of the tax deductions beloved in this region, including those for home-mortgage interest and health insurance. Each year Uncle Sam forgoes $1.1 trillion in tax collections as a result of various breaks and deductions. The biggest special-interest beneficiary is all of us; home ownership is subsidized to the tune of $148 billion a year this way, encouraging Americans to buy too much house and borrow too much to pay for it. Such policies have been disastrous.
Some combination of these important changes would leave almost everyone better off. It would simplify the tax code, stop encouraging harmful behavior and raise more revenue for a government now deeply in debt.
One reason for all this indebtedness is runaway medical spending, which buys no better health than is enjoyed by nations spending vastly less. Indeed, as a society we probably spend $1 trillion a year more than we need to on this. The only way we'll ever control costs is to adopt a basic single-payer system, either by extending Medicare to all or letting each state run its own plan. Individuals could buy additional coverage if they wanted to, but either way at least government could clamp a lid on prices, as is done in most other comparable countries. The Obama health care reforms may help -- they'll at least extend coverage to more Americans -- but they won't do enough to control costs, which are the biggest long-run financial problem our country faces.
Preserving Social Security
Finally, we'd make Social Security sustainable by slightly raising the payroll tax -- and making a lot more income subject to it. If you make between $110,000 and $220,000, your taxes would go up quite a bit.
There's something or other in our plans to make almost everyone unhappy. Owners of expensive Long Island homes might decry our proposed limits on the mortgage deduction, for example. On the other hand, the same taxpayer should enjoy a lower tax rate.
Better yet, that taxpayer would benefit from a more solvent nation -- one likelier to enjoy faster economic growth in the future. A basic health care program for all, for example, should free budding entrepreneurs who might not otherwise quit jobs that come with insurance. And a nation not drowning in debt will be better able to rebuild infrastructure, care for the elderly and maintain its global preeminence.


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National AP Story Notes Saturday's Dedication of Sigma Delta Chi Monument
April 10, 1967
April 10, 1967, Greencastle, Ind. — "A 14-foot bronze and stone monument on the DePauw University campus marks the birthplace of Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalistic society which was founded here by 10 students in 1909 and now has more than 40,000 members," begins an Associated Press story which is receiving national distribution. "Press notables from the around the nation gathered Saturday for the unveiling of the monument. One of the notables was Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News and the Phoenix Republic and Gazette in Arizona. Pulliam [a 1910 graduate of DePauw] is one of the surviving founders of the society," it notes.
"Benjamin McKelway, editorial chairman of the Washington Star and an honorary president of the society, delivered the dedication speech. The founding of Sigma Delta Chi, he said, 'was the first organized effort, dedicated to the highest ideals and principles of journalism, designed to raise standards of professional competence and to elevate, by various well-organized programs, the prestige of journalism as a profession.' McKelway said the 10 students who founded the society 'started something bigger, capable of developing a greater influence for the good of journalism, than any of them realized.''
The AP story also carries a quote from DePauw President William Kerstetter, who told those gathered, "This monument will not only be a permanent part of the life of this institution, but a living symbol of the indispensible ideals of higher education and professional journalism."
Read the full story, which is published in today's Warsaw Times-Union.
Learn more about the founding of SDX in this previous article.
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WITH just 30 cars passing through every hour, it hardly ranks as one of Hampshire's traffic plagued roads.
But now Back Lane in the New Forest village of Sway is to be controversially shut for six months to investigate whether or not it could be sealed off forever.
If council bosses go ahead with permanent closure, the lane would be returned to forest from the junction of Pitmore Road to just above the edge of the village.
Homes such as one owned by Hampshire County Council leader Ken Thornber would then enjoy the tranquillity of a cul-de-sac.
Just last week county council workers were dispatched to opposite Cllr Thornber's home to replace fencing aimed at keeping out wandering wild ponies with more solid wooden ranch style versions.
But residents are furious because they were never consulted about the closure plan.
And today county council opposition leader Councillor Keith House is calling for a full inquiry into the reasons behind the closure. He said: "Eyebrows will be rightly raised that this quiet little country lane has seen so much attention from hard-pressed county environment staff when residents worried about busy A and B roads have to fight hard to get safety issues raised.
"Is this really Hampshire's top priority in the New Forest?
He added: "It is good to see the Daily Echo joining local residents and questioning county bosses."
A petition against the trial closure launched last week has already attracted more than 100 names, with villagers angry at not being consulted about the closure and baffled why an important but hardly heaving through route faces closure.
A Daily Echo investigation found on average just one car passed through the lane every two minutes.
Petition organiser and former parish councillor Ann Dew, who lives in nearby Pitmore Lane, said: "It is unnecessary and a waste of public money. There is a lot of feeling about it in the village."
Some Back Lane residents support the trial because they believe it has become a rat run.
Hilary Orchard, from Tops Cottage, said: "The traffic volume has increased a lot. People come down at a rate of knots. I have had my car bashed when people have come right up against me."
But others are shocked at the decision. Pauline Nineham, from Back Lane, said: "We have not been asked whether it is a good idea."
Brenda Turner, 84, who has lived in Back Lane for 40 years, said there were no traffic problems and added: "I think it is disgusting.
It is a road and has been a road in all the years I have known it.
It is completely unnecessary and should not be shut off."
New Forest Council leader Councillor Barry Rickman, who has lived all his life in Sway, said: "I am very surprised by this. I don't think that Back Lane is broken so why fix it?"
Cllr Thornber, who last year revealed he was verbally abused by a group of cyclists outside his house, was unavailable for comment.
However, a council spokesman distanced Cllr Thornber from the decision, claiming he had no prior knowledge of the road closure trial, costing £3000, or the fencing, despite being outside his home.
She said: "As such, members would not be involved in these operational decisions.
"The proposal is based on environmental reasons, and would support the National Park agenda by focusing traffic on the main routes."
"Work will now take place to consult with the Verderers, New Forest Park Authority, Forestry Commission and Natural England."
Once they have agreed about the plans, residents would be "informed", she added.


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I'm on tutorial 37 of the Android Development series and just finished setting up my Email.java file. I'm trying to allow myself to send the email by going into Menu.java and changing "example2" to "Email" in the classes[] array so that Email.java is called from the menu.
However, when I click the Email menu option, the app crashes. It isn't a ClassNotFoundException because it doesn't catch it (and I've tried with the lower case option "email", which does allow me to pick something else in the menu).
Does anyone know what this could be? My Menu.java code is below.
package com.example.tyler.thenewboston;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Intent;
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We don't usually speak of James Turrell and Josiah Wedgwood in the same breath, but Turrell's new line of ceramics, "Lapsed Quaker Ware," prompts the association. Turrell was initially inspired in 1993 by the sight of Wedgewood's black basalt ware (or Quaker ware or funeral ware, as it is sometimes called) in the vaults of a country-house museum at Temple Newsome in Leeds, England, while he was working at the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust in Yorkshire. The pieces reminded him of the stern ceramics he used while growing up in a Quaker community in California; Wedgwood has also been a Quaker. In 1998 Turrell and the Irish ptter Nicholas Mosse, who like the artist, considers himself a lapsed Quaker, finally came up with their own edition of black basalt ware in crisp, austere Neo-Classical shapes, many of them appropriated from Wedgewood, others more earnestly Arts and Crafts in feeling. (The duo's white ware is currently in its experimental phase.)
Seen first as part of the "artranspennine 98" exhibition during the summer of '98 in Northern England, the ceramics were installed in the dining room at Ackworth, a Quaker school in Yorkshire. Later they were seen in New York at A/D, a gallery that specializes in high-quality decorative arts editions from fine artists. There the collection of more than 70 black ceramic dishes was neatly ranged in a sideboard and a hanging cabinet with faintly Egyptoid cornices and on a capacious table, all three pieces of furniture also designed by Turrell and realized by cabinetmaker William Burke. This captivating Wunderkammer could be seen concurrently with an exhibition of "classic" Turrell light installations, both old and nes, at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. Altogether, the myriad pieces of 18th-century-style china confounded all expectations of either the dematerialized light-and-space pieces or the gargantuan earthwork for which Turrell is known.
Yet on longer consideration, the light-eating, pitch-black ceramics and their spare yet elegant cherry-wood furniture housings seem like a crucial footnote to the artist's whole enterprise and serve to tie up several strands of Neo-Classical allusions, not to mention disparate "lapsed Quaker" threads, in the Turrellian oeuvre.
Looking back over Turrell's career we can find many 18th-century resonances, from titles such as Boullée Boola affixed to a 1988 project for a spherical structure with a ramp, to the artist's fascination with volcano imagery, which we can also locate in the mid-18th-century painting of Joseph Wright of Derby and Pierre-Jaques Voltaire. The next slide in any up-to-date art-historical survey is inevitably Turrell's Roden Crater project near Flagstaff, Ariz. Turrell has long been understood as an artist of the Sublime, but the "Lapsed Quaker Ware" takes that notion to a new, impacted extreme. Each cup and bowl makes an intense impression when regarded singly, and the effect is almost overwhelming when they are contemplated as a group: all that labor, all that fetishized restraint! The plates are like black suns, the tea bowls like time-traveling asteroids.
How to put an earthwork in your dining room? It's a question that has obsessed ceramicists and table designers since antiquity, but in Turrell's hands, it takes on a special piquancy. The man who has labored to complete the Roden Crater project for 20-odd years has long harbored the idea of producing ceramics on an 18th-century lathe. This he undertook with the help of Mosse, a master ceramicist who lives and works in Kilkenny, Ireland, where the "Lapsed Quaker Ware" was very gradually made by hand, one piece at a time. One small cup, I'm told, might often take a day to get right. Mosse, whose more commercial, spare, cream-colored and sponged pitchers I have frequently admired (and almost bought) at upscale emporia in London and New York, lives on and 18th-century estate with a waterfall and a cottage orné. The setting must have been just right for a full Romantic Classical revival at Kilkenny, and this mood would have been further abetted at Ackworth, which is housed in a Palladian-style 1760s stone building. (It is said to be the earliest coeducational school in England.)
In a sense, the relatively small scale of the tableware corresponds ot a shift toward more intimist and even domestic projects on Turrell's part. The Gladstone show, for instance, included two new "Magnetron" pieces, TV-screen-sized holes in the wall, lit from inside by invisible monitors, and similar to the pieces installed in the dimly lit hallways of the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. (At Gladstone, these flickering light pieces could be watched in the relative comfort of two reproduction Le Corbusier "Grand Confort" armchairs.)
Cynics might view much of Turrell's recent art - the various "sky-spaces" for private estates in Malibu and elsewhere, not to mention the spinoff drawings, photographs and book editions, and now the ceramics - as a means of raising money for the massively expensive Roden Crater project, which is due to be partially opened in the fall of 2000 and completed in 2002. But Turrell enthusiasts (and I count myself one since at least the time of his 1980 show at the Whitney) can understand that his fascination with the making of something as arcane as basalt ware corresponds to a quirky, quasi-scientific, almost gentleman-inventor streak in his work, which has as an analogy his obsession with aviation and early biplanes.
Those in touch with this side of Turrell (not to mention the more ancient régime aspects of the Dia Art Foundation and its early patronage of the artist) will readily admit that Turrell is, in the most profound sense of the term, making follies - landscape viewing stations for the millennium, and also possibly for a new Age of Enlightenment. (Turrell has made at least two skyspaces in Ireland, one for Mosse at Kilkenny, another at the "Irish Sky Garden" south of Cork, which was partially built and which Turrell later disavowed.) In Britain he recently designed a temporary corrugated metal structure, "The Elliptic Ecliptic," near Penzance, Cornwall, from which to view the total solar eclipse on Aug. 11, 1999. In the Millennium Dome opening this month in London, Turrell's large cone-shaped "contemplation area," Night Rain, complete with horizontal scrims and purplish neon rings on timed dimmers, will be the centerpiece of the "Faith Zone" exhibition, a son et lumière experience which traces the growth of all the major world religions in Britain.
The "Lapsed Quaker Ware" series teaches us that looking at ceramics can be as hallucinatory an experience as floating in one of Turrell's "Ganzfeld" rooms, those perceptual fields in which there is nothing for the eye to latch onto, where color and brightness are homogeneous. Each of the plates, tankards and bowls has a whirring kind of stillness: the plates seem to roil quietly in their empty centers and then take off in the striated "rays" and combed "waves" of their borders. As see at A/D, the concentric borders of the black slipware rhymed with the concentric topographical rings in an aerial photograph of the Roden Crater; the visual connections between micro and macro were implicit. More tangentially, the countless little vessels tucked snugly into their shelves and drawers reaffirmed the nostalgic vision of a marvelous old black cylindrical stove that is a fixture in the gallery. Altogether I was reminded of a parable of art for the industrial age. Turrell's encyclopedic range of 18th-century shapes, including a tea bowl and chocolate shaker, also suggests a quixotic parallel to the whole museum-as-muse idea, most notably as embodied in Barbara Bloom's The Reign of Narcissism (1988-89).
Then, too, there are metaphysical overtones to this down-to-earth domestic service. Each ceramic vessel generates an especially strong sensation of shape and silhouette; each is a wrought form, forged out of earth and heat. Each is, in a sense, volcanic. This very crispness of shape can also be found in different form in Turrell's '60s projection pieces (one of which, Raethro, 1967, was on view at Gladstone), but those projections generate fictions of shape hovering in a darkened space. The "Lapsed Quaker Ware" are emphatically three-dimensional, graspable forms.
Yet when seen on a shelf, they also tend to void out, into pure silhouettes (a popular genre ca. 1800). In this respect they are distant relatives of Turrell's early "Mendota Stoppages" installations of 1969-1974, which involved various adjustments of window shades in the artist's Ocean Park, Calif., studio. The black ceramics, like the "Mendota Stoppages," are supreme instances of blocked light.
On many levels, then, the ceramics resonate fully with the artist's ethos and biography, most notably with the fact that Turrell was raised a Quaker. While much has been made of the austerely spiritual aspect of Turrell's light installations, some of the plainness and simplicity, and much of the Inner Light, of the Quaker orientation can be felt in these fanatically pared-down ceramics as well. One can imagine these sober, ceramic-filled cabinets in the Live Oak Friends Meeting House that Turrell has designed in collaboration with the architect Leslie K. Elkins, which broke ground in December '99 in Houston.
The potential uses of the "Lapsed Quaker Ware" remain opem-ended and various. Contrary to their plain and simple overtones, I could imagine the dishes being used in elaborate Lucullan feasts (think beats and pot de crème). How about candlelit dinners for prospective patrons of the Roden Crater during overnight stays at the site's South Lodge [see Sidebar], which will have furniture designed by Turrell?
Indeed, Turrell's whole pyramids-to-platters design lexicon may well prove, in the 21st century, to be as globally persuasive as Wedgewood's. Certainly the "Lapsed Quaker Ware" adds up to an Anglo-Irish conceit of the most refined and eccentric sort. Like Robert Irwin, who recently designed a garden for that consummate folly, the Getty Center, Turrell has undertaken a dangerous liaison with the domestic and even with the faintluy twee, in order to make his cosmic synergies that much more visceral and real.


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Our location guide for Bosanska Krupa provides some basic essentials for the more adventurous visitor. A simple location map is provided but also a detailed topography map that shows the location of the nearest places where you can surf, ski or mountain climb (if they are close by). Of course some of these will be at long distances from Bosanska Krupa and those far flung spots are provided on the 'nearest' tables. If you are traveling to other cities or towns near Bosanska Krupa you will also find weather forecasts for those locations below.
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|Senj (Croatia)
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Ski Resorts close to Bosanska Krupa:
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|Kozara (Bosnia Herzegovina)
|61 km ENE
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|Vucici (Croatia)
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|Mrkonjic Grad (Bosnia Herzegovina)
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|Zrinska gora (Croatia)
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|Petrova Gora (Croatia)
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|Velika Kapela (Croatia)
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|Lisina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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|Vaganski vrh (Croatia)
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The above topographic map of Bosanska Krupa and the surrounding area has been derived from satellite mapping. The topographic data has been illuminated by a light source corresponding to the position of the sun at mid afternoon in summer. Major roads, railways rivers and other water features are derived from global GIS data.


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Percussion Ensemble celebrates milestones with concerts
April 26, 2012
The Augustana Percussion Ensemble will perform two concerts on Sunday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. in Centennial Hall (3703 7th Ave.). Admission is free.
The concerts are titled Early 1930's and 1940's: Varese, Cage, and Contemporaries and Blues to Rock and All Sorts of Other Good Stuff In Between, respectively.
The 8:45 p.m. concert will feature the Augustana World Hand Drumming Group, and compositions by junior percussion major Jakub Luba, from Palatine, Ill., and Dr. Tony Oliver, director of the Augustana Percussion Ensemble and adjunct assistant professor of music.
Luba said, "I'm excited for the concert because contemporary literature does not have a home in today's culture, and we get to present a great variety of it in one concert." The earliest composition featured in either of the concerts is Edgard Varese's Ionisation, composed in 1931, which is considered to be the first percussion ensemble piece ever written.
When asked why the ensemble will present two concerts, Dr. Oliver responded, "2012 is the centenary of John Cage's birth. I thought it would be interesting to set the musical scene by performing other percussion works from the period, most notably Varese's Ionisation, which will feature Daniel Culver as guest conductor." Dr. Daniel Culver is director of orchestral activities, professor of music and co-chair of Augustana's department of music. Dr. Oliver added, "The repertoire of the second concert features more contemporary works varying in styles."
Dr. Oliver continued, "There should be something for everyone. It will be a great night of percussion at Augustana."
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Pru Life bullish on PH insurance sector
BALESIN ISLAND, Quezon—Pru Life UK Philippines said it expects insurance sales to increase by more than 20 percent this year, as it continues to widen policy holders' distribution.
Pru Life UK president and chief executive Antonio de Rosas told reporters the insurance company posted an average growth of 22 percent over the last five years.
"Year-on-year from 2010 to 2014 our compounded growth rate is 22 percent... we target to maintain and even surpass that," de Rosas said at the sidelines of the Life Insurance Seminar 101 for the Philippine media here on Wednesday.
He said Pru Life UK also aimed to increase the current 12-percent share in the domestic insurance market as more Filipinos were expected to be insured. Insurance penetration rate in the Philippines stood at 1.5 percent in 2014.
De Rosas said the projected growth would be driven by recruitment forces and the quality of products focusing on the protection of distributors and value of policy holders.
He said 82 percent of the total income of Pru Life UK were from agent sales while the remaining 18 percent came from broker bank partners.
"We will continue the sale of regular and single premiums," de Rosas said.
Pru Life UK also asked the insurance industry regulators to adopt international standards in measuring sales of insurance companies.
De Rosas said the industry should adopt the annual premium equivalent in measuring sales of the industry, which was now being used by neighboring Southeast Asian countries.
"Insurance Commission considers 100 percent of single premium business. However, this somehow distorts the premium income for a year since single premium covers the entire period of the policy," according to a report by National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines.
Under the measures being used by the IC, Pru Life UK's premium income stood at P15.634 billion in 2014, the fourth among the industry. Under the APE system, where only 10 percent of the single premium is considered, Pru Life UK's income stood at P8.13 billion, which ranked it third among the industry players.
"There is one universal measure and why we should adopt it and the IC should adopt it," said De Rosas.


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Henley's advance on Europe continues with office buy
Private equity real estate investor Henley has bought a 380,000 sq ft site in Essen, north-west Germany, from Ferrostaal for a price believed to be around €50m (£37.5m), Property Week can reveal.
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She's not playing this kind of ersatz Tennessee Williams character this time," "AHS" writer Tim Minear told MTV News about Lange in season two. "She's playing something that's a little more East Coast, a little more patrician."
While she was a bit of a darkly motivated, self-involved floozy in season one, her new backstory seems to paint a different picture for the character. "She's playing a nun," he said. "She's playing an administrator of a facility. It's different. In this instance, she's a bride of Christ."
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Issue: More employers are offering voluntary supplemental medical insurance, and insurers are offering more products.
Benefit/risk: Such plans can fill gaps left by medical coverage cutbacks, but the strategy can backfire if you pick the wrong vendor.
Action: Choose the right supplemental insurance vendor by knowing the right questions to ask your broker and insurer.
Supplemental health insurance plans, such as those offered by industry giant AFLAC, can build good will among employees, make your benefits package more competitive and enhance HR's image.
But what if you choose the wrong vendor? You may discover that the vendor pushes certain policies harder and earns fees for selling them. Confused employees may complain about what the policy doesn't offer. In the end, employee dissatisfaction with the supplemental coverage can hurt your reputation as a strategic problem-solver.
Supplemental policies increasing. If you don't offer supplemental medical coverage, chances are you will. Sales of supplemental policies grew 3 percent, to $4.2 billion in 2004, compared to 1.8 percent growth in 2003, according to Eastbridge Consulting Group.
Policies range from emergency, vision and dental coverage to cancer and accident insurance. Most employers choose their supplemental benefits vendor on recommendation from their current insurance broker.
To make sure that you secure the best coverage at the best prices, ask brokers about the following topics:
1. Education. Do the insurers take time to educate employees about what is covered? Education is crucial because buyers of supplemental insurance are disproportionately part-time and low-wage workers without college degrees. Plus, many insurers combine supplemental plans with other insurance products, making the products terribly complicated.
Look for insurers that seek information about your current coverage and its gaps. Some insurers use surveys to determine what's needed.
2. Fees. What fees and special incentives does the broker earn for selling supplemental insurance? Compare the fees to those of competitors. Commissions for supplemental policies tend to be higher than other insurance products. Some brokers favor policies that generate the highest commissions, just like investment advisers who push mutual funds with the highest fees and commission.
3. Service. What is the carrier's track record for service? Seek out an insurer that offers efficient billing and administration. Reason: Employees will select different policies with different premiums. Insurers need to reconcile a range of payroll deductions.
4. Dispute resolution. What is the policy for handling employee complaints? Will the insurer provide periodic reports on the outcomes of disputes?


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Bike to a Business is occurring throughout the month of April. This earth-friendly program organized by Downtown on the Go is designed to help get people moving around town without their cars. In exchange, local businesses offer discounts when visitors ride their bike to their business. Visit Downtown on the Go's Bike to a Business web page for more information.
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2004, 2007 and 2014 were good years to be a Red Sox fan and you can continue to bask in that glory by posing for a photo with the team's trophies.
They will be on display at New Britain Stadium tonight as the Rock Cats take on the Altoona Curve.
The price is the cost of a ticket to the game.
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