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Get and Resume Elite EDition. A utility to download files from http and
ftp from the console with the ability to resume downloads.
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: greed
PKGNAME: greed
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 17
2008-02-23 ftp/greed: No longer maintained
- Mark forbidden
- Mark deprecated
Approved by: linimon (mentor)
- Adopt orphan ports in ftp category.
Approved by: linimon (mentor, implicit)
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with F
- Remove WWW on pkg-descr, this site is gone.
PR: ports/89765
Submitted by: Jean Milanez Melo <email@example.com>
- Add SHA256
Use PLIST_FILES.
Reviewed by: marcus
Respect CFLAGS, should fix build on alpha
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o This new distfile is different. The difference is that
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Submitted by: Serge Gagnon <email@example.com>
Approved by: edwin (mentor)
This has to be the most amusing mistake I've ever seen Steve "The Machine"
Price make. Apparently, there are two different "greed" ports, and this patch
was intended for the games/greed port. So in the end Steve broke both ports
(at least games/greed is just now fixed on Alpha, I think). :-)
Fix build on the Alpha.
Convert category ftp to new layout.
Remove maintainership of most of my ports. I don't really have time to
maintain these and I'm just not interested in these particular ones any more.
Update checksum
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Gardening causes me a lot of angst; the mathematician in me would really like a weed-free, neatly-trimmed garden but the naturalist understands the need for biodiversity.
I still have rockeries and neat rows of vegetables but there are wilder areas too and I try not to use chemicals.
The lawn is a particular area of compromise; I accept that ants can nest in the back lawn but only allow nests to turn into ant-hills in the less well-kept front garden.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, it is at the front that I usually find the tell-tale signs of the activities of green woodpeckers – holes created by dagger-like beaks appear in the ant-hills as these shy birds seek access to their prey. Only rarely do I see the birds themselves.
Adult green woodpeckers are slightly bigger than blackbirds, with subtle, green plumage, a red cap on the back of the head and a flash of yellow on the rump when seen flying away. A male has an extra splash of red running like a moustache from the base of the bill and under the eye.
Green woodpeckers are perfectly at home chiselling for insect food in the rotting wood of trees or probing for food on the ground. A long tongue, coiled like the spring of a clock, unwinds to probe deep into recesses in search of insects.
In the spring, a nest cavity is created in the soft wood of a tree and that's the main time to hear one of these birds hammering. It's much more of a bang, bang, bang than the rapid drumming of a great spotted woodpecker. The other thing to listen out for is the laughing call, which has earned the green woodpecker the local name of yaffle and was made famous in the 1970s children's cartoon Bagpuss.
Over the last 40 years, green woodpeckers have been taking advantage of milder winters to colonise new areas.
The 2007-11 Bird Atlas, which will be published by the BTO later this year, shows that the species has spread into new areas of eastern and northern Britain, as might have been predicted.
The disappearance of birds from large parts of Wales and the west is more unexpected – yet another thing for BTO volunteers and scientists to try to get to the bottom of.
There are more than twice as many green woodpeckers in East Anglia as there were 15 years ago but a cold winter, with a thick carpet of snow, can have a marked effect on numbers. In such conditions, you may well be able to help your local green woodpeckers by providing any apples that you have stored since the autumn. It's a good opportunity to take a great picture, too.
Next time: The collared dove.

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According to a report from Louisiana State Police Troop I, alcohol was a factor in the single car crash that claimed the life of Jerod P. Angelle, 25, early Monday morning.
Angelle was traveling east on La. 96 when his car ran off the road and into a ditch where it overturned and ejected him, the report stated. Angelle was not wearing his seat belt, the report said. (Daily Advertiser)
Jerod and I graduated from high school together. I last ran into him at Joe Thibodeaux's funeral in September 2004 (Thibodeaux, as most of you know, was another high-school classmate of mine who was killed in Iraq). I hadn't seen Jerod in years, but he was the first person I talked to when I arrived at the funeral home. He was nothing like the young kid who'd given me a hard time in P.E. class 10 years before. He was friendly, welcoming and compassionate. We talked for a good while over doughnuts and juice. Now I'm in disbelief once again. He's the second member of my high-school class to die in the past month or so (the other one having died of meningitis after a hard-knock life).
When Joe died, I took heat for using his death to spark a discussion on the futility of the war in Iraq. Well, guess what; I'm going to do it again! Because while we can argue forever about the merits of the war, there is no even REMOTELY plausible justification for drinking and driving, or for not wearing a seat belt. Ever. What makes Jerod's death so sad is that its root causes are 100 percent preventable.
Drinking and driving: a no-brainer (or, should I say, you need no brain to do it). Here in south Louisiana, where daiquiri shops have DRIVE-THRUS, it's nothing for someone who's had a few to get behind the wheel. Part of this is the deep roots that drinking has in the Cajun/Mardi Gras culture. The second is that, because so many Louisiana drivers are so horrifyingly incompetent to begin with, few people even notice the difference. It's at a point where I generally drive myself anywhere where drinking might happen, simply because I rarely drink and don't trust anyone else to drive me around. Short of that, I'll take someone else's keys. Usually isn't too difficult after a certain point.
Seat belt use (or lack thereof) is also a huge problem in Louisiana. For reasons I don't understand, most people here have to be seriously cajoled into using them. I'm talking frying pans. Personally, I feel naked when I'm sitting in a car unbuckled. But to some Louisianians, it's not nudity; it's the emperor's outfit! Can't you see it, you fool? This excerpt of a recent (and exceedingly long) letter to the Times of Acadiana says more than I possibly could about the prevalent mentality:
I've heard it said that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has put pressure upon the several states of these United States of America to pass seat belt laws, and if they did not enact the tyrannical law, their federal highway funds would be cut -- forcing every free American citizen to place a seat belt across their bodies, whether they like it or not.
When we the people are being forced to wear a seat belt across our own bodies, and if you don't, you are treated as a criminal, whereby no one was injured, America is no longer the Land of the Free.
If and unless someone can prove me wrong, God created man to be the master of the animals of this earth, he did not create man to be the master of men and those who believe that they should be masters of men, should be labeled as tyrants and anarchists and should be impeached for violating their oaths of office.
Has slavery really really been abolished in America? If it has, why in the hell am I being forced to put a safety device across my body against my will?
Russell John Myers
New Iberia
Wow. Does it get any more idiotically anti-government than that? "I'm against a government that insists I take care of myself for the purpose of the general welfare. Welfare is bad! I'm not going to wear my seat belt, just to spite you!!" Undying allegiance to indefensible principles; no wonder the South lost the Civil War. Perhaps if the belts were made of leather and had ornate buckles...
Don't get me wrong; a lot of government mandates can kiss my ass. But you know, traffic laws are fine with me, because they make sense. Red lights as guides? Sounds like a good idea...at 3 a.m.! When I'm in rush-hour traffic, I'd like to think that everyone navigating the streets adheres to the rules of the road so that we can have some semblance of order and safety. Unfortunately, we all know there's always going to be some prick who'll weave dangerously or run the red light two whole seconds after it's changed. And those are generally the same people who are uninsured and are not wearing their seat belts. In other words, the very people who compel the government to be so militant about the laws in the first place. Irony's a bitch, huh?
How effective are seat belts? When comedian Sam Kinison's car careened head-on with a runaway truck in 1992, both vehicles reportedly flew 12 feet in the air and spun, completely shearing off both front ends. Sam, who had seen the truck coming, had slowed down to 15 m.p.h. while the truck continued at highway speeds. Even so, only Sam died, and only because he was not wearing his seat belt. The drunken rednecks who ran into him, on the other hand, all escaped unhurt and even yelled at Sam for getting in "their" way.
And look at Dale Earnhardt. His son, Dale Jr., one of the few people to know the full details of his father's infamous 2001 race-car accident, has said that his father's injuries could have only been caused by a faulty seat belt. Stock cars are built to absorb 200 mph's worth of head-on damage without significant injury to the driver. That's how much seat belts matter.
And, contrary to popular belief, seat belts do not trap you. In fact, if you fall into water, they are more likely to keep you from smacking into something, thus rendering you unconscious.
So seat belts work, whereas not using them causes trauma not only to the victim, but to anyone who witnesses it or otherwise knows the victim. If I collide with someone who isn't wearing a seat belt and they die, that causes trauma to me as well. Why would anyone put themselves and others in that situation? WHY? So yes, it IS my problem when you don't buckle up.
I have a strict policy that anyone who rides in a vehicle that I'm driving must buckle up. I will not move until they do. They almost always complain. Some even try to make me feel like a nag for insisting upon it. But I'll take that chance, because I will not risk having someone's blood on my hands just because they're too cool to harness themselves.
Not using seat belts (especially after drinking) is the saddest way to die. Sadder than smoking, Russian Roulette and Iraq combined. While accidents often cannot be avoided, you owe it to yourself to do everything you can to reduce the damage. It's not a choice; it's a civic duty. Jerod, a good guy, made a bad decision; it's up to all of us to learn from it and all of the thousands of tragedies like it annually. At least then you'll be alive to complain about seat-belt laws.


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Column: Finding Lucy's foot
They found Lucy's other foot.
No, not Lucille Ball; Lucy, the oldest human skeleton yet discovered. She was found footless some years ago somewhere in Africa, where we may or may not have first diverged from the monkey family and started to become what we are now: Thinking monkeys.
No one was certain, because her feet weren't there, whether or not she was the first of the human line. We needed the foot to find out whether or not the opposing big toe would have allowed Lucy to cling better to tree branches, or in its absence, to walk.
She walked. Her foot looked remarkably like ours, I guess, judging from the bone structure.
Lucy is three million years old. That's 3 with this many zeroes: 000,000. Another way of putting that is by saying three thousand thousands. Yet another way would be to say one-hundred-fifty thousand time periods since the birth of Christ, the sum total of which we've--we modern humans--gone through only once.
Only one hundred forty nine-2,000's to go.
Since Lucy was a female, which I guess they can determine from the design of her pelvis, there could be several possible explanations for why her feet were missing all these years. I know I've lost some things over the years, and there are some things that I still haven't found, but were I to believe that my favorite tape measure wasn't going to show up for another two million nine hundred ninety nine years, I'd be kind of depressed.
I found it the last time in just under one month, or 29 days. It was hiding in plain sight, as is often the case. (If we multiply 3,000,000 x 352 days in a year, we get 10,560,000 days. Is that a long time to be missing something?)
I guess so.
Lucy's foot was probably stuck up some Neanderthal males backside, due to his committing some chauvinistic oversight, like, missing Valentine's Day, or Lucy's birthday. I missed my first wedding anniversary, and let me assure you: That woman will hold that grudge at least three million years. Even more notable is the fact that she might not have brought my forgetfulness up for two of those millions, and then in the middle of some disagreement about who did or didn't do something, would say: "If you hadn't forgotten our first anniversary, none of this would have happened."
She's now my ex, and metaphorically speaking, several of her feet are buried so deeply within my posterior anatomy that they won't be found in six million years.
In other words, I'm pretty impressed with this missing foot and the millions of years gone by, which have a margin of error of a couple of thousand years plus or minus.
I guess when your main mathematical target is three million, a few thousand either way kind of loses its significance. This is something my students would be in huge favor of. They really like to argue that they were within a few percentage points, so their answer should be acceptable. But it's not.
So it's possible that Lucy's bones are not three million years old. They may in fact be only two million and a lot of change, or three million plus a few thousand. I, like you, certainly hope they can nail this down a lot more accurately. Lucy might not care any more, but I'd like my missing foot found in a more timely fashion, that far down the road.
There are other believers out there who side with Creationism, which as I understand it stipulates that God created everything, as written about in Genesis, in a garden east of Eden, the date on this being somewhere around six to ten thousand years ago. As you know, this beginning ended badly, and Noah had to build an ark and pull our biblical fat out of the fire.
Noah had a lot of problems, one can assume, trying to bring two of every kind of living creature on board, herding them up the gangplank, sorting them on the run. That had to be pretty chaotic, I know, because I grew up on a farm, and anyone who has ever herded hogs, or goats, or cats, or skunks would know how difficult Noah's task was.
So it's possible that Noah lost Lucy's foot, which means Creationism also has a likely explanation for all this.
Noah had his sons on board, and a biblical directive for each of them to have many wives, which means two more feet each wife to keep track of. To avoid. Pity those sons. Wonder what they did to deserve such a fate. All those females. No shoe shopping on board. Grumpy girls.
Three million years.
I've got a birthday coming up. It doesn't seem so significant anymore, somehow.


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. The film was an unqualified success with both audiences and critics, earning Quinn yet another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Other projects and roles included Kublai Khan in "Marco the Magnificent" (1965), a French officer in "The Lost Command" (1966), a boozy Italian mayor in "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" (1969), and a Native-American fed up with life on the reservation in "Flap" (1970).
Quinn dabbled in episodic TV as the star of "The Man and the City" (ABC, 1971-72), playing the ruggedly independent mayor of a fictional city in the Southwest. He essayed multi-millionaire Theo Tomasis, a fictionalized version of Aristotle Onassis in "The Greek Tycoon" (1978), alongside Jacqueline Bisset as a stand-in for Jackie-O. Quinn revisited "Lawrence of Arabia" territory in "Lion of the Desert" (1981) and led a rag-tag group of revolutionaries-turned-bandits in the action-comedy "High Risk" (1981). Nearly 20 years after the premiere of the film, he reprised "Zorba!" â¿¿ this time in a 1983 revival of the Broadway musical which reunited him with the film's writer-director Michael Cacoyannis. He earned a Tony nomination for his efforts before touring the U.S. for three years, indelibly imprinting himself as Zorba in the eyes of the public. Later, Quinn portrayed the father of the real world tycoon in "The Richest Man in the World: The Aristotle Onassis Story" (ABC, 1988), for which he received an Emmy nomination. Continuing to work with Hollywoodâ¿¿s biggest stars, he appeared opposite Kevin Costner in the melodramatic thriller "Revenge" (1990), in addition to bringing "Ernest Hemingwayâ¿¿s The Old Man and the Sea" (NBC, 1990) to life in the title role.
Quinn worked alongside fellow screen legend Maureen Oâ¿¿Hara in director Chris Columbusâ¿¿ romantic comedy "Only the Lonely" (1991), starring funnyman John Candy. He had a brief turn in the big-budget action-adventure bomb "Last Action Hero" (1993), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in a parody of his own screen persona. On TV he was teamed with another icon of cinema, Katharine Hepburn, in the late-bloomer romance "This Canâ¿¿t Be Love" (CBS, 1994). The sheer weight of his legendary presence threatened to overshadow many of the roles being offered to Quinn in his later years. This might have explained his casting as the father of the Greek gods, Zeus, in the made-for-TV movie "Hercules and the Amazon Women" (syndicated, 1994), along with its four sequels over the course of a year. He played a proud and domineering patriarch in the post-WWII romantic drama "A Walk in the Clouds" (1995), in addition to real-life Mafioso Neil Dellacroce in the crime biopic "Gotti" (HBO, 1996) opposite Armand Assante as the "Teflon Don." Quinnâ¿¿s final role before his passing in 2001 was that of murdered mob chieftain Angelo Allieghieri in the Sylvester Stallone thriller "Avenging Angelo" (2002). as a Cheyenne Indian in "The Plainsman" (1937). As cast and crew looked on in disbelief, the 22-year-old Quinn responded to the most recent of a series of abusive outbursts from the director by telling him how he should shoot the problematic scene and what he could do with his $75 a day salary, if he did not like it. After staring back at the young actor for some time, DeMille announced, "The boy's right. We'll change the set-up," and later said admiringly, "It was one of the most auspicious beginnings for an actor I've ever seen." Quinn would act in two more movies for the directing legend â¿¿ the seafaring historical epic "The Buccaneer" (1938) and "Union Pacific" (1939), a railroad thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Not only did Quinn strike up a long-lasting professional relationship with DeMille, but in short order he soon met, courted and married DeMilleâ¿¿s daughter, Katherine, with whom he would go on to have five children. Tragically, a sixth child died at the age of two when he drowned in the pool of next door neighbor W.C. Fields.
With the help of Paramountâ¿¿s highest-paid star at the time, Carole Lombard, who provided the novice with advice on how to handle the front office after he had impressed her with a bit part in her hit drama, "Swing High, Swing Low" (1937), Quinn was soon picking up steady work, albeit mostly as Indians or assorted ethnic heavies in productions like "Road to Singapore" (1940) amidst the shenanigans of Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. He impressed with a role in the Tyrone Power vehicle "Blood and Sand" (1941), introducing co-star Rita Hayworth to her future husband, Orson Welles, during the shoot. More strong notices for supporting roles followed in films such as "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941), "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943), and "Back to Bataan" (1945). However, it would take a return to the stage to raise Quinnâ¿¿s Hollywood stock. He made his Broadway debut in "The Gentleman from Athens" (1947) before director Elia Kazan tapped him as Stanley Kowalski for a lengthy U.S. tour of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1948-49). Kazan then cast him as Marlon Brando's brother in "Viva Zapata" (1952), for which he earned his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. After making the romantic adventure "City Beneath the Sea" (1953), one of three films shot that year with director Budd Boetticher, Quinn traveled to Spain to play Antinous in the epic adaptation of Homerâ¿¿s "Ulysses" (1955), with Kirk Douglas in the title role. He went on to portray an aging bullfighter opposite Maureen O'Hara in Boetticher's "The Magnificent Matador" (1955) before winning his second Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his embodiment of larger-than-life artist Paul Gauguin in "Lust for Life" (1956), once again starring with Douglas, who played the tortured impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh.
In the mid-1950s, Quinn moved his family to Italy where he played the brutish, conflicted strongman Zampanò in Frederico Fellini⿿s "La Strada" (1956), the first picture to win the Academy⿿s Best Foreign Language Film award. Finally, after 20 years in the business, he had become a full-fledged box-office star, and the next year would see him garner a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his turn opposite Anna Magnani in "Wild Is the Wind" (1957), as well as following in the prestigious footsteps of Lon Chaney and Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1957). Actually shot years earlier, U.S. audiences were finally able to see Quinn portray the continent-conquering Hun in the epic biopic "Attila" (1958). That same year saw the release of Quinn⿿s first, and only, directorial effort, a remake of "The Buccaneer" (1958). Executive produced by De Mille, it would be the studio titan⿿s last project before his death. With his career nearing its zenith, Quinn continued to rack up diverse and challenging roles. He was splendid as an Eskimo hunter in Nicholas Ray⿿s underappreciated docudrama "The Savage Innocents" (1961). In the blockbuster adaptation of Alistair MacLean⿿s action adventure "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), Quinn was suitably stoic as Greek patriot Colonel Andrea Stavros on a deadly mission with Gregory Peck and David Niven.
Quinn gave one of his finest performances in the heart-breaking "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1962), starring as Mountain Rivera, a retired boxer who enters the humiliating world of staged wrestling in order to save his debt-ridden manager (Jackie Gleason). He was also a standout as the opportunistic Bedouin Auda Abu Tayi in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) opposite Peter Oâ¿¿Toole in the title role. Quinn next brought humanity to his portrayal of the thief whose life was spared at Christâ¿¿s crucifixion in the biblical epic "Barabbas" (1962). Then came what would arguably be Quinnâ¿¿s most memorable portrayal, that of the lustful peasant, "Zorba the Greek" (1964). He also served as producer on the film, which told the story of an uptight Englishman (Alan Bates), newly arrived at a village on the island of Crete, who is befriended by Zorba, a gregarious, life-loving everyman
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Our trusty Bootmobile driver Eddie Flaherty has been up to some pretty interesting "shoenanigans" since the last time we spoke to him. Now he's back for a guest blog to tell us exactly how a size 747 L.L.Bean Boot fares in its natural habitat.
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When we're on the road, we get asked quite a few questions fairly consistently. They usually start off silly, such as "Is this the right or left boot?" or "Where's the old lady?" But the most common question is "How does that thing drive?" We would like to say it handles pretty similar to a car Mario Andretti might drive, however, there are certain factors that make driving the Bootmobile a bit more challenging. Just like our products, our Bootmobile braves many conditions: wind, rain and people.
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can housing finance co give papers to co sharer ?
I have bought a DDA flat in 1998 from DDA, i was main applicant and my mother was co-applicant as i was unmarried. then applied for a home loan from HDFC in my name and mortgaged the property. then after ward i made my mother co sharer in conveyance deed as i was unmarried. i was paying loan then got transferred out of delhi. my mother made some payment in same loan account during my transfer and now she has given letter to bank, not give papers without her consent.
my questions
1. Banker charged 14% fixed for entire period as per agreement done in 1998, when market rate of interest was hovering between 7 - 10 % in these 15 years and term fixed rate vanished from market. Can i challenge the HDFC Ltd for this fixed ROI as per fair practice code & competition act?
2. can banker return the mortgage documents to co-sharer ie my mother, when i am mortgagor? in a condition when i have updated my current address in indore, MP and my mother residing at property address in delhi.
3. can HDFC hold the documents as per request of co-sharer?
4. can Housing finance co can reversed the documents in both names with out my consent? when i wish in my name only & clear full dues myself of HDFC Ltd at indore.
5. what is the role of a banker in this family matter.
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one has to go through the documents to guide you whether the complaint lies to bank ombudsman or to the consumer forum. you may see a lawyer.
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1. In the 90's HDFC Limited took full advantage of its position of being the sole home loan Company, as other housing finance companies like Dewan Housing were dormant and LIC Housing Finance was just launching its home loan products. YES. You can challenge the HDFC policy of fixed ROI as per fair practice code & competition act.
2. The bank is supposed to retain all original property documents till the entire loan amount is cleared, settled and fully repaid by the borrower(s). The bank cannot legally release the original documents to your mother without your explicit consent and approval.
3. NO. The day the loan is cleared and fully repaid, the bank is legally bound to return all the original property papers back to the borrower(s).
4. NO. The bank of its own discretion cannot tamper or interchange the name of the borrowers, without their explicit consent and approval in writing to the bank.
5. The bank has no business to interfere in any family matter.
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May 03, 2012 05:15 AM|Priya R|LINK
Have created a mvc application in tat for the create new link i have created a controller and view..but m not able ti render the view in the controller.The savechanges is not coming in drop down..How to proceed.Any help
COntroller code
public ActionResult CreateNew(studentDetail student)
return View(student);
m not getting the .Add and .SaveChanges dropdown..
May 03, 2012 06:03 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya RThe savechanges is not coming in drop down..
What dropdown?
Did your code compiles?
Priya Rdc.SaveChanges();
Who is dc ?
May 03, 2012 06:36 AM|Priya R|LINK
dc is the object name of the model class used to retrieve the database...
not exactly dropdown i meant to say m not getting the savechanges function and also add method( which s inbuilt). It says the function does not exist
code s compiled..but on click of the link i m not getting the page.
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May 03, 2012 07:02 AM|christiandev|LINK
is the createNew being called when debugging? you seem to be missing [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
May 03, 2012 07:10 AM|Priya R|LINK
no..code is not cmpiled and createnew is not called.. tried with [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]..still no luck.
the prob s with savechanges and add method does not exist..
How to get those functions?
Should i use any namespace to get the reference?
May 03, 2012 07:59 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya R
no..code is not cmpiled
Please tell compiler error.
May 03, 2012 08:07 AM|Priya R|LINK
Error message is
System.Data.Linq.Table<MvcApplication2.studentDetail>' does not contain a definition for 'Add' and no extension method 'Add' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Data.Linq.Table<MvcApplication2.studentDetail>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
and the same error for savechanges too
May 03, 2012 11:55 PM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya RSystem.Data.Linq.Table<MvcApplication2.studentDetail>' does not contain a definition for 'Add
Maybe it is true. How did you generate the dc ? I think that you are using L2S with EF methods.
May 04, 2012 03:05 AM|Priya R|LINK
yes i m using L2S
dc is created as
private MusicClassesDataContext dc = new MusicClassesDataContext();
where MusicClassesDataContext is the model.
If not wat s the correct method must be used
May 04, 2012 03:11 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya R
yes i m using L2S
dc is created as
private MusicClassesDataContext dc = new MusicClassesDataContext();
where MusicClassesDataContext is the model.
If not wat s the correct method must be used
The method is
as stated at
Priya R
You have to look to a L2S tutorial - such as links from
(see Topic / Location)
May 04, 2012 03:16 AM|Priya R|LINK
wat should be used for Add method then
May 04, 2012 04:22 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya Rwat should be used for Add method then
Did you look at second link and read what is below Topic/Location?
The reading of tutorials is greater that its sum of parts.
May 04, 2012 05:02 AM|Priya R|LINK
ya i checked...submitchanges s not working..for tat i have to use add method..but nothing abt add s given in tat link..it s something different
May 04, 2012 05:40 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
Priya R.submitchanges s not working
This because it does not compile , since you had the .add
Priya Rd..but nothing abt add s given in tat link.
Did you check all 3 links ?
Look here also : ( from the 3 links)
Most precisely, search for "inserting data"


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Hello every body.
I' m a guy from spain and this is my first message, and like you are going to check my english is not very good.
I have a problem with T-Sql in the SQL server 7.
I have to import data from files several times a day.
i'm trying to use de Bulk Insert command but i have problems with the variable witch contain the name of file:
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That error means there is a syntax probem.
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During times of drought, vegetation is visibly dry, stream and river flows decline, water levels in lakes and reservoirs fall, and the depth to water in wells increases. As drought persists, longer-term impacts can emerge, such as land subsidence, seawater intrusion, and damage to ecosystems. Unlike the immediate impacts of drought, however, long-term impacts can be harder to see, but more costly to manage in the future.
During drought, declines in surface water flows can be detrimental to water supplies for agriculture and cities, hydropower production, navigation, recreation, and habitat for aquatic and riparian species. Several California Water Science Center streamgages have recently recorded streamflows that are below all-time record lows for specific days of the year. Annual runoff, which is calculated from this streamflow data, supplies many of our needs for water, Recent runoff estimates for California show measurements on par with 1930's and late 1970's droughts.
Unlike the effects of a drought on streamflows, groundwater levels in wells may not reflect a shortage of rainfall for a year or more after a drought begins. Despite reduced availability, reliance upon groundwater often increases during drought throughincreased groundwater pumping to meet water demands. If water is pumped at a faster rate than an aquifer is recharged by precipitation or other sources, water levels can drop, resulting in decreased water availability and deterioration of groundwater quality.
Ultimately, the surface water and groundwater form one interconnected hydrologic system. Nearly all surface water features - streams, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, and estuaries - interact with groundwater. In addition to being a major source of water to lakes and wetlands, groundwater plays a crucial role in sustaining streamflow between precipitation events - especially during protracted dry periods. Although the contribution of groundwater to total streamflow varies widely among streams, hydrologists estimate the average contribution is somewhere between 40 and 50 percent.
Excessive groundwater pumping and aquifer depletion can cause the aquifer system to compact, which can cause land to sink, permanent loss of groundwater storage in the aquifer system, and infrastructure damage. Overpumping in California's San Joaquin Valley aquifer system has caused renewed land-surface elevation drop that has resulted in serious operational and structural issues for surface water delivery networks, such as the Delta-Mendota Canal (DMC).
In coastal communities, the reversal of natural groundwater flows to the ocean as a result of groundwater pumping can cause seawater to enter the aquifer system. Seawater intrusion compromises groundwater quality and can be a costly problem to manage. The City of Santa Barbara is working with the California Water Science Center to update information on its groundwater supplies and to identify optimal water-resource management strategies to balance groundwater use with other sources of water.
Water allocations for river, wetland, wildlife, and fish restoration projects can be reduced or stopped altogether during severe drought. The California Water Science Center is part of the team tasked to restore river flows for salmon survival along the San Joaquin River. The Bureau of Reclamation reduced 2016 flows earlier than planned because of critical water shortages.
Dry, hot and windy weather, combined with dry vegetation and a spark - either through human intent, accident or lightning - can start a wildfire. Drier-than-normal conditions can increase the intensity and severity of wildfires. In the aftermath of wildfires such as the 2013 Rim Fire, ash, woody debris and sediment can flow downstream from burn areas and contaminate water supplies. Flash flooding and mudslides in burn areas can also be damaging and deadly.
USGS science - conducted both in "real-time" and over the long-term - helps inform decision makers in communities across the country who have to deal complex issues and competing interests in times of drought. The California Water Science Center monitors the immediate impacts of drought on water availability and water quality through streamflow, surface water, and groundwater monitoring and data collection. Long-term data collection is needed to assess the effects of climate variability on water sources, to monitor the effects of regional aquifer development, and to obtain data sufficient for analysis of surface water and groundwater-level trends.
Moreland, J.A., 1993 Drought: U.S. Geological Survey Water Fact Sheet, Open-File Report 93-642, 2
Drought - The Stealth Disaster Part 1, Overview
Drought - The Stealth Disaster Part 2, Science for Drought Planning
USGS Water Science School: Questions and answers about droughts
This map shows current streamflow conditions as a percentile of historical averages (computed from the entire gage-station records compared to current day of the year records). Colored circles include stations containing at least 30 years of data. Gray circles are active stations, but are unranked because they contain less than 30 years of data, or parameters other than streamflow.
During the recent drought in California, below normal (less than the 25th percentile) streamflow conditions were recorded Statewide. For more information on streamflow, check out daily streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year in table or time series plot format.
A well with below normal groundwater levels is identified on these pages when the most recent water-level measurement is in the 24th percentile or lower in the month of measurement over the period of record for the well. To be included on this map in red or orange, the well must be in an active measurement program (the well appears on the Active Groundwater Level Network) and the well must have 10 or more years of record in the month of the most recent measurement. These web pages present all active wells, regardless of measurement frequency, aquifer monitored, or the monitoring objective.


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Saturday, March 27, 1999 Published at 22:01 GMT
Kosovo violence 'not Nato's fault'
Serbian repression began months ago, says Mr Blair
Tony Blair has insisted that air strikes are the only way to end the "brutality" in Kosovo, denying that Nato action has increased Serb violence against Kosovo Albanians.
In a television interview, the UK prime minister said Nato's three-day operation was not to blame for the reported fresh massacres of the Albanian population in the province.
Mr Blair won the backing of Conservative leader William Hague, but he said that continued support for the prime minister hung on the promise that Nato ground troops would not be committed.
"We owe them ... an honest reassurance that we do not intend to commit them to an open-ended ground war."
Earlier, UK Defence Secretary George Robertson announced that Yugoslavia had launched an all-out offensive against Kosovo Albanians.
"Violence is widespread," Mr Robertson said during a Ministry of Defence briefing.
But Serbian repression of the Kosovar Albanians had begun months before the Allied operation began, Mr Blair said.
"A quarter of a million people were homeless before this began," he said.
"Not because of the Nato action but because of Milosevic's continuing programme of harassment, repression, and ethnic cleansing that he's been carrying out for months and years."
He added: "Indeed, in the few before the Nato air strikes started there were thousands of people displaced from their homes and whole villages torched."
Operation to continue
Mr Blair said the Nato operation would continue until its objectives - which he described as curbing the ability of President Milosevic to carry out the repression of Kosovo Albanians - were achieved.
"We have to see it through," he said. "The Kosovars want this action to continue.
"For these poor defenceless people, we are the only chance they've got."
He also insisted that there is unity among Nato nations, despite protests in Greece.
"If anything, the reports of repression and brutality should strengthen our unity and resolve", he said.
He insisted that Nato action must continue until the Serb leader agrees to the peace deal in Kosovo already accepted by the province's ethnic Albanian majority.
"This man is a brutal dictator," he said. "It is our job in the name of humanity and stability in the region to carry on until we have stopped him."
He added a direct warning to Mr Milosevic.
War crimes trial
"If he seeks to take action in any shape or form against the Nato forces in the region, then the retaliation will be swift and very, very severe. He need have no doubt about that at all," he said.
The UK defence secretary also accused Mr Milosevic of being a "serial ethnic cleanser", and warned the Yugoslav military that anyone found to be involved in ethnic cleansing or war crimes would be brought before a war crimes trial.
"We are meticulously collecting evidence on what is going on in Kosovo, which Serbian units are involved and which individuals are taking part," Mr Robertson said.
"That information will be passed to the international war crimes tribunal and when the time comes, these people will face justice in The Hague."
After the third and heaviest night of air strikes, Mr Robertson said the Nato campaign was making good progress.
"Make no mistake, these attacks are extremely damaging to Milosevic's war machine," he said.
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Translink is preparing to cut back vegetation to maintain safety along the Bangor railway line.
This will run from now until March between Marino and Helens Bay and will concentrate on half a mile stretch on the Belfast side of Carnalea.
Translink NI Railways Route Manager, Gerard MacAtarsney says: ''The work is essential but they will work to ensure the programme is delivered in accordance with environmental services.''
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The Kardashians have quit backing a debit card targeted at teens and blasted by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who warned over its "outrageous" fees. Blumenthal complained to University National Bank, which issues the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, and said he's launching an investigation into the card, which features an image of Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and costs $99.95 for 12 months plus $7.95 a month thereafter. "I am deeply disturbed by this card's high fees combined with its appeal to financially unsophisticated young adults," Blumenthal wrote. "In reality, no family can 'keep up with the Kardashians' using this card." Last night the Kardashians issued a termination notice returning their fee and demanding their names and images no longer be used to market the card. Their lawyer, Dennis A. Roach, wrote that the sisters are "honest, ethical and fun-loving individuals who are kind and caring to others . . . the negative spotlight turned on the Kardashians" as a result of Blumethal's probe "threatens everything for which they have worked." A Kardashian rep had no comment, and bank reps couldn't be reached.
Kardashians quit backing teen debit card blasted for 'outrageous' fees
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Hasmukh Amathalal
No Holiday - Poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
I would want no holiday
Not for a second or whole day
Twenty four hours in a day are less
Lots of unfinished work is to be finished
People may not appreciate
May not take pain to relate
About work done in life span
As to forget is human
I love to work in old fashion
To work with dedication
What is left then to have good relation?
Self discipline with least affiliation
It works comfortably well in new situation
As no one wants to have free continuation
It is with this intention
That those moral values are on declination
Well it appeals me less
If demand is put forward on face
Honorary service is always rendered willingly
It must come from within and readily
Many people mushroom
Under the disguise and create space in room
You will never find statues erected in their honor
Or words inscribed on plate with praise to remember
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Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy
Michael Devitt, a student of the famous American empiricist Willard Van Orman Quine at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D., has argued his realist position steadily over the years. His Realism and Truth is now in its third printing. He was also chosen as the spokesperson for naturalism (opposition to the a priori, or knowledge not derived from experience) in the forthcoming volume, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, part of a series published by Blackwell that pits prominent philosophers with opposing views against one another. Fighting for scientific realism is just one of Devitt's preoccupations as a philosopher; he is also an incredibly prolific scholar in the areas of cognitive science and the philosophy of language. In Ignorance of Language (forthcoming) he criticizes Chomskian views of the place of language in the mind. He has been embroiled for thirty years in a revolution in the "theory of reference," a revolution that was instigated by the world-famous philosopher and logician, Saul Kripke, who also recently joined the philosophy faculty of The Graduate Center.
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Spanish club Villarreal interested in Indonesian teenager Andri Syahputra
Spanish La Liga outfit Villarreal are reportedly keen to land Indonesian teenager Andri Syahputra to their academy structural this summer.
The 16-year-old talented midfielder is a part of the Qatar's Aspire Academy program and currently plies his trade with Al Gharafa in the Qatar Stars League U-17 competition.
"With the Aspire aquad my son was called up to their European tour in many occasions, including Spain. This year he also joined the team when visiting Stuttgart, Villarreal and Barcelona," said Andri's father, Agus Sudarmanto in a statement to SportSatu.
"The latest news I heard from his mother, she said Andri revealed that Villarreal have contacted him (about the possibility to join their academy)."
Andri's arrival in Qatar started at the age of five following his father's working placement in the Middle East nation. Two years on, he began to play football before joining the Aspire program in 2009
His status as a Qatari home-grown player means he is eligible to don the Al Annabi jersey. However, during the interview with Spain-based media El Confidencial, Andri insisted that he has not made any decision regarding his future at international levels.
"I'm very comfortable here. World Cup? It would be a dream for every footballers. But I haven't thought that far ahead," he said.
Barcelona midfield star Andres Iniesta is his role model to play, and Andri admitted that he has a huge ambition to have a professional career in the same league as his idol.
"English Premier League and Spanish La Liga are my favourites. Would I play in Spain? I wish that could happen one day, then it would be my ultimate achievement," he added.
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If you like the idea of working in the legal sector but aren't sure what role you want then here are some suggestions of law jobs to get you started…
You'll be a confidential adviser that has direct contact with clients, combining expertise and people skills to provide legal guidance and assistance. Once qualified, you can work in private practice, in-house for a commercial or industrial organisation, in local or central government or in the court service.
If you have a qualifying law degree, you need to do the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and then a training contract. If your undergraduate degree isn't in law you'll need to do the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) first.
Discover the skills you'll need and what you can earn as a solicitor.
Solicitor, Scotland
Solicitors and advocates in Scotland have very similar duties to solicitors and barristers in England and Wales. However, Scotland has its own legal system, procedures and terminology. The Scottish legal profession also has its own entry and training arrangements.
The main way to become a solicitor in Scotland is to take the university route, which involves three stages: the LLB degree in Scots Law; the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice; and a two-year traineeship, that is work-based training under the supervision of a practising solicitor.
Find out more about being a solicitor in Scotland.
Passion, dedication and hard work are just three of the qualities needed for a career at the Bar.
From providing specialist legal advice to representing clients in court, your tasks will vary depending on your area of expertise. Generally, you: advise clients on the law and the strength of their case; hold conferences with clients to discuss their situation and provide legal advice; represent clients in court by presenting the case, examining witnesses and giving reasons why the court should support the case; and negotiate settlements with the other side.
Discover whether life as a barrister is for you.
Barristers' clerk
Also known as practice assistants or assistant practice managers, barristers' clerks are responsible for running the administration and business activities of a barrister's chambers. You need to be familiar with court procedures and etiquette and will over time develop an expertise in the type of law undertaken by your chambers.
A successful clerk has a combination of commercial acumen, legal knowledge and strong interpersonal skills. You shouldn't think of this as a route to becoming a barrister, as chambers may not offer a pupillage to someone who has been working for them as a clerk due to a conflict of interest.
Read about the responsibilities of a barristers' clerk.
Chartered legal executive
As a qualified lawyer you'll have your own client files and, as a fee-earner in private practice, your work is charged directly to the client. This is an important difference between chartered legal executives and other legal support staff.
Only those who have completed the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) training programme can use the title of chartered legal executive.
The academic course is split into two sections: CILEx Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice, which takes two years and is equivalent to an A-level; and the two-year CILEx Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice, which is at honours degree level and the final stage of academic training.
Take a look at what a chartered legal executive does.
You can offer legal services but aren't qualified as a solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive. Traditionally, there was no need for formal qualifications to refer to yourself as a paralegal, but employers are now demanding some form of training or qualification.
Paralegals don't just work for solicitors anymore, but if they do then the larger firms will expect solid work experience, especially if you haven't completed a law degree or the LPC. You'll also need an understanding of the client and sector, good people and networking skills, to be a methodical problem solver and the ability to analyse information and look at possible implications.
Tax adviser
You'll use your knowledge of tax legislation to provide advisory and consultancy services to clients, ensuring that they pay their taxes in the most efficient way and benefit from any tax advantages and exemptions.
You'll need to keep up to date with changing tax laws and be able to explain complicated legislation and its implications to your clients in simple terms. Although open to graduates from any discipline a degree in accountancy and finance, business, economics, law, management, mathematics or statistics may increase your chances.
Discover more about the responsibilities of a tax adviser.
Licensed conveyancer
These are property law specialists who work on behalf of clients buying or selling property in England and Wales. You will deal with all legal matters, administration, finance and queries involved in a property transaction.
This area of work is open to graduates with any degree but to become a licensed conveyancer in England and Wales, you must pass the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) qualification, which is usually taken while working.
Read about the qualifications that a licensed conveyancer needs.
Legal secretary
It's your job to ensure the office runs smoothly by providing administrative support to solicitors and legal executives. You could be producing wills and contracts, accompanying solicitors to court or police stations or dealing with clients.
The ability to type accurately and quickly, a good eye for detail and discretion are all skills you'll need to do well.
Patent attorney
Specially trained in drafting patents and with knowledge of intellectual property law, you will lead inventors or companies through the process of obtaining a patent and then act to enforce inventors' rights if patents are infringed.
You can only use the title 'patent attorney' once you're qualified and on the Register of Patent Attorneys. An understanding of scientific and technological principles and processes and the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and concisely are what you'll need to do well in this role.
Take a look at the skills you need to become a patent attorney.
Trade mark attorney
A thorough knowledge of trade mark law and practice as well as excellent communication skills and commercial awareness, are attributes you'll need to qualify as a registered trade mark attorney.
As a specialist legal professional, you will advise clients about protecting and enforcing their trade mark rights. By providing legal support on the registration, use and exploitation of new and existing trade marks, you will ensure that companies successfully protect the identity and integrity of their brands.
Discover what else a trade mark attorney does.
Company secretary
You'll be responsible for ensuring that an organisation complies with standard financial and legal practice and maintains high standards of corporate governance. You can expect a starting salary of around £30,000 and will usually report to the chairman.
The capability to work with numerical information, good analytical and problem-solving skills, a diplomatic approach and the confidence to provide support to high-profile staff and board members are all necessary skills for a successful company secretary.
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It's up to you to control trials and hearings in your courtroom. You need to look at the evidence, interpret the law and make an impartial decision in favour of one of the parties. In criminal cases you'll also decide what sentence to give a defendant if they're convicted.
You can't become a judge straight after graduation as you need significant experience as a solicitor or barrister first. This is followed by some part-time work supervised by an experienced judge.
In charge of preparing the courtroom, ushers also check that everyone is present and call defendants and witnesses into court. There are also 'sworn ushers' who accompany the jury to and from the courtroom and pass messages between the jury and the judge.
As the first point of contact, you'll need to have effective communication and people skills. You will also need to be discreet as a lot of the information you will hear is confidential. The ability to follow instructions and an assertive and tactful manner are also important.
Alternative law careers
If you decide that a job in law isn't for you, you could also work in:
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- investment banking
- legal publishing
- management consultancy
- the police service.
Find out more
- Search for graduate jobs in law.
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How Not to Look Fat for the Holidays
I know you guys have been working hard at jumpstarting a healthy lifestlye. So since the holidays are here and I'm feeling cheery, Danica Lo (the author of the fabulous book How Not to Look Fat) is giving you, my loyal readers, a gift of a few exclusive tips on how not to look fat during the holidays.
- Holiday time is prime time for family photos. To make sure you look your best in the photographs, excuse yourself to 'powder your nose' right beforehand and put on some contouring powder, which will make your face look slimmer (check out the Make-up chapter of the book for tips on how to pick the right color and application techniques). Then, try to get in the center of the picture because, in most camera lenses, standing on the side will make you look distorted and wider. Finally, if all else fails, if someone snaps you at the last minute, just turn slightly so you give the camera a three-quarter-profile -- think Paris Hilton -- a super-slimming photographic pose.
- Wear pants or a skirt with a stretchy waistband! You're bound to eat a lot during the holidays, so you want to make sure you don't get bulges above and below a tight waistband.
- This time of year is a prime time for wearing bling -- and if you bling up your wrists and fingers, it will draw attention to the slimmest extremities of your body, making your arms look longer and slimmer. Bonus bling tip: If you're not wearing a V-neck (the most slimming neckline), you can simulate a V-neck shape with a necklace with a great pendant.
- Layering is the best way to dress for the holidays -- if you've eaten too much, you can even use a looser top layer to cover up a distended tummy! The key to layering, though, is to layer the darker color underneath the lighter color -- it makes you look like you're sinking away from the viewer. If you wear a bright color layer under a darker layer, you'll look like you're bursting out of the top layer!
- This is also the perfect time of year to break out those festive special occasion shoes -- just make sure you adhere to the time-tested rule: the thicker the leg, the thicker the heel should be; you don't want your legs to look like corn dogs on sticks!
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