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Canada's second and final warmup match of the World T20 Qualiifiers ended in a shocking defeat as Bermuda chased down Canada's target of 182 with 3 wickets to spare on the last ball of the innings.
Batting first behind a swashbuckling 60 (50 balls) from HIral Patel and 28 (13 balls) from Ruvindu Gunaskera, Canada raced to 30-1 inside 3 overs. The pace didn't slow as Ashish Bagai (47) put on 134 with Patel for the second wicket taking the score to 167-3 before Canada ran out of balls at 182-5 from 20 overs.
Bermuda were in trouble at 46-3 but recovered behind some stellar middle order batting to get close. With 19 required off the last over, Kwame Tucker and Kamau Leverock took their side over the line with some clean hitting and a bit of good fortune to shock the Canadians.
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Getting Started
People come to Austin Zen Center from myriad backgrounds and circumstances to enter practice. In Buddhism there are said to be eighty-four thousand Dharma Gates.
First-time visitors to AZC have most typically been reading about Buddhism, some have been meditating, and some have practiced at other centers. The best way to begin at AZC, no matter what your background, is to come to the Saturday Morning Program, especially the Beginners' Instruction.
What We Offer at the Austin Zen Center
The Buddha defined three aspects of practice:
- The Ethical Life: A life that includes following the Ten Precepts (cultivating a reverence for all life, generosity, care and love in intimate relationships, honesty, proper care of body and mind, avoidance of fault-finding, humility, giving freely of self, good will, and respect for the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Along with the Precepts are the practices of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.
- Cultivating the Mind of Compassion: Cultivating sympathy, empathy, and a gentle affection towards our own suffering and that of other beings.
- Cultivating Insight or Wisdom: Through study of the self and the teachings discovering through our own intuitive wisdom, the true nature of reality and the personal resolve that emerges from that discovery.
Zazen (literally "seated meditation"), is particularly emphasized in Zen practice as a means of cultivating the mind. Zazen is actually more general than sitting on a cushion, since it includes being present in each moment throughout the day. Zazen is seen as the foundation for insight and compassionate conduct. Austin Zen Center offers coaching and many hours of zazen opportunities each week; and schedules many sesshins, intensive zazen retreats lasting from one to seven days, throughout the year. Ongoing training in zazen is offered by practice leaders.
The Schedule
In any spiritual discipline, regularity of practice is essential. When we have a schedule we take away having to be led around by preference, mood, or rationalizing. We just do it. And every time we just do it our practice deepens and our inner confidence grows. At AZC we offer a daily schedule and keep to it come rain or shine, hot or cold. We will help you develop your own schedule (or practice agreement) that harmonizes with how you live your life. And we will support you in it in any way we can.
As a school of Buddhism, Zen is fundamentally experiential, with less focus on philosophical or analytical understanding. Nevertheless it has always contained a scholarly component and is characterized by an extensive literary tradition. Austin Zen Center offers classes as well as a rich lecture series (see calendar) with many local and visiting speakers. AZC also supports an extensive library.
Ritual and Ceremony
In view of Zen's reputation for spontaneity and iconoclasm, many are surprised that form and ritual are so pervasive. Nevertheless it is an important ingredient of Zen mindfulness training, stepping out of self-centered drives and bringing zazen mind into bodily actions. We have services every weekday morning and evening after zazen (see daily schedule).
Training usually begins with establishing a regular schedule of zazen and attending lectures and classes. Training can be fine tuned through working with a teacher who can advise on meditation, practice in daily life, and Dharma. Teachers are important in discovering places in which practice gets mired in personal delusion. Those who maintain a practice commitment worked out with a teacher are said to be "in training," which ideally is lifelong.
Becoming or not becoming "Buddhist"
Buddhism does not set itself apart from other religions, nor attach importance to "converting." It is practice-oriented and not really about accepting fixed beliefs. Some who follow the teachings of Buddhism choose to identify themselves as Buddhist. Others who identify with another religion find the Buddhist emphasis on contemplative practice a powerful supplement. What may look like worship in Buddhism is actually a dramatic show of gratitude and respect for those who preceded us and for that which is most wholesome in ourselves.
Our Zen Practice
Our practice tradition in this country has evolved out of 2,500 years of monastic practice. This rich heritage is being continually adapted to meet the everyday life and work of women and men just like you.
Dana or Giving
The Buddha taught that Dana (generosity) is the first gate on the path to liberation. Giving is considered karmically wholesome and one of the attributes of a spiritually mature person. It entails giving more than is required, customary, or expected relative to one's resources and circumstances. The Zen practitioners who come to AZC give of their money, time and talents both as a spiritual practice and to support the work and life of the Zen Center. They discover that giver, receiver and gift are not separate but are living aspect of the one Dharma.
Spiritual Friendship
According to the Buddha, "Being a friend with admirable people... is the whole of the holy life." At Austin Zen Center you rub elbows with exceptional people, people who are generous, caring, and fun-loving who take their practice seriously and share it easily.

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Welcome to The Westgate Hotel, Oxford, a small friendly, family-run hotel where the aim is to make your stay as pleasant and comfortable as possible.
We are a 2 Star Visit Britain rated accommodation located in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Originally built as a coaching Inn and taking its name from its proximity to the West Gate of the City of Oxford The Westgate Hotel is owned and operated by a family of professional hoteliers with more than 40 years experience. It is a small friendly, family-run hotel where the aim is to make your stay as pleasant and comfortable as possible.
There are two buildings, the main hotel where all the en-suite accommodation and the main amenities and facilities are located and a house situated two minutes, across the road, where we have concentrated the majority of our basic rooms.
At The Westgate Hotel, we offer single, double, twin, triple and family rooms, featuring television and tea/coffee-making facilities. Facilities at the hotel include a comfortable 18 seat dining room and a bar. In good weather, breakfast can be served in the garden or in the conservatory.
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Charles H. Fine teaches operations strategy and supply chain management and directs the roadmapping activities in MIT's Communications Futures Program. His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular emphasis on fast clockspeed manufacturing industries. Fine's work has supported the design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products. His current research examines dynamic models for assessing the leverage among the various components in complex industrial value chains and the principles for value chain design, based on strategic and logistical assessments.
Fine consults and teaches widely. Among his clients are 3M, Accenture, Agile Software, Alcan, BellSouth, Bombardier, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Delphi Automotive, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Fluor, GE, GM, Goodyear, Honeywell, HP, Intel, Kodak, Lucent, Mercury Computer, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, NCR, Nokia, Nortel, Oracle, Polaroid, PTC, Research-in-Motion, Rolls-Royce, Sematech, Teradyne, Toyota, TRW, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Walsin Lihwa.
He also serves on the board of directors of Greenfuel Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology company that he co-founded, which focuses on renewable energy. He is the co-director of the executive education program, Driving Strategic Innovation, which is a joint venture between MIT Sloan and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Fine is the author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Perseus Books, 1998). His work on quality management, flexible manufacturing, supply chain management, and operations strategy has also appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, the Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, the Annals of Operations Research, Games and Economic Behavior, the Sloan Management Review, the Supply Chain Management Review, and Interfaces.
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Authorities say two people rescued from a New Year's Day house fire in southwest Ohio remain hospitalized in critical condition.
Cincinnati firefighters said the two people were the most seriously hurt of the seven occupants of a house that burned early Tuesday near the University of Cincinnati campus. Four people had to be rescued from the third floor of the house.
The fire is believed to have started on the second floor. The names of the injured people were not released.
Neighbors said UC students lived in the house.
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Sydney Airport has posted a 7 per cent rise in annual pre-tax earnings as it benefited from budget airlines boosting the number of international passengers passing through its terminals.
Australia's largest airport reported a 3.6 per cent rise in the total number of passengers during the year to almost 37 million. The entry of foreign budget airlines on routes to Sydney – such as Singapore's Scoot and Malaysia's AirAsia X – helped to boost its international passengers by 5.6 per cent.
Shares were up 0.8 per cent to $3.165.
The airport also pointed out that other international airlines had boosted capacity on flights to Australia, especially to and from countries in Asia including China and Malaysia.
The number of domestic passengers rose by almost 6 per cent in the second half of last year, due largely to a significant boost in flights by Jetstar, and Tiger Airways basing four planes at Sydney Airport.
In a sign of the aggressive competition between this country's airlines, Jetstar increased its capacity on the country's busiest route between Sydney and Melbourne by 57 per cent in the second half.
Using its preferred financial metric, Sydney Airport reported pre-tax earnings of $848 million for the year to December, up from $790 million previously. Revenue rose 7 per cent to $1.04 billion.
It reported a statutory net profit of $179 million for the year, compared with a loss of $240 million in 2011 when its bottom line was weighed down by an asset swap involving the transfer of stakes in Copenhagen and Brussels airports in return for a larger slice of Sydney Airport.
The airport's revenue from retail rose by 5.3 per cent for the year, helped by the growth in international travellers. International passengers are more than twice as valuable to airports as domestic passengers because they stay longer and spend more in duty-free shops.
It did not give specific earnings guidance for the new financial year but pointed out that international passenger growth had been strong in the first two months.
The airport will pay a final interim distribution of 11 cents per security, which takes the payout for the year to 21 cents.


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Jimmy Kimmel's Newest Challenge – 'I Silverstoned My Kid' [Video]
Jimmy Kimmel is at it again. Kimmel challenged parents to pretend they ate their kids Halloween candy, then he challenged them to give their kids terrible Christmas presents. Kimmel's newest challeng revolves around last week's story that actress Alicia Silverstone feeds her child by chewing up her child's food, then spitting it into his mouth like a mother bird.


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WOULD-be arsonists got onto the roof of a former mill and poured flammable liquid over the electrics in a bungled attempt to cause 'devastating damage'.
Police said the offenders climbed up a ladder onto the roof of Britannia Mill in Great Harwood, home to Prophysique Fitness Centre, before breaking in.
Det Insp Nikki Bithell, from Lancashire Police's eastern division CID, said that had the fire taken hold, there would have been 'devastating' damage.
The mill, in Britannia Street, was broken into between 10pm on Thursday and 7am yesterday ((FRI)).
It was open for business as usual yesterday morning.
The manager of the business said crime scene investigators had been scouring the building for clues and had taken CCTV from the nearby health centre.
Det Insp Bithell appealed for anybody with information to call police.
She said: "This incident could have been really serious.
"The offenders used a ladder to get up onto the roof and they entered by making a hole in it.
"They then poured accelerants over the electrics and attempted to set fire to it.
"It is lucky it did not take hold because, potentially, it could have been devastating for the building."
The detective said the gym was empty at the time of the attack.
Det Insp Bithell also called for anybody who noticed any suspicious activity around the time of the break-in to come forward.
She said: "We are still looking for clues, but I would appeal for anybody who has had their ladder stolen to call us."
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Kristan T. Harris | The Rundown Live
If reports are true, armed militia have arrived in support of Cliven Bundy in Bunkerville, Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have called in rangers from out-of-state and what is apparently being described as "Blackwater Special Ops" who are threatening escalation of the situation if local citizens do not back down. Local militia are calling for more citizens and militia to congregate in support of the Bundy family.
Cell towers in the area have been turned off to slow down communication and to prevent uploading of videos.
Earlier this week we reported that armed rangers and several federal agencies surrounded a 600,000-acre section of public land and stole over 300 cattle from rancher Cliven Bundy. Cliven Bundy was violated for allowing his cattle to graze illegally on his own property for the past 20 years. Regulations protecting endangered tortoises that inhabit his property prohibit his cattle from grazing in the area. The bizarre twist to this story is the BLM has so many of these tortoises that they are killing them. Local citizens who share Bundy's frustration with the BLM's intrusion have now rallied around him in hopes to maintain freedom and property rights.
So why does the BLM really want this land?
It has come out Senator Harry Reid is behind the muscle trying to steal Bundy's property. The BLM has no jurisdiction in the state of Nevada and are illegally taking Bundy's property. Evidence supports that the BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that engage in fracking operations.
Gov. Brian Sandoval released the following statement on Tuesday in regards to the controversial cattle roundup near Bunkerville, Nevada.
"Due to the roundup by the BLM, my office has received numerous complaints of BLM conduct, road closures and other disturbances. I have recently met with state legislators, county officials and concerned citizens to listen to their concerns.
I have expressed those concerns directly to the BLM. Most disturbing to me is the BLM's establishment of a 'First Amendment Area' that tramples upon Nevadans' fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution.
To that end, I have advised the BLM that such conduct is offensive to me and countless others and that the 'First Amendment Area' should be dismantled immediately.
No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans.
The BLM needs to reconsider its approach to this matter and act accordingly."


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I swore that I was not going to blog anymore for the day. I was just planning on checking out some blogs that I had been meaning to read. It seems that controversy finds me where ever I go. On blog after blog authored by black women, I see the same whine, over and over again. It seems that there is a man shortage, and black women are scared to end up alone in their senior years. There are many posts dedicated to why this happening. It has been suggested that the high incarceration rate of black men is a factor, black males dating inter-racially, as well as the typical "ball busting" characteristics of the black female… my answer… STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT.
Let's look at a myspace commentary that typifies the lamentations that can be found on the net.
"Have we lost our ability to be soft and feminine and submit? We are in the lead and in charge when it comes to business, and with our kids, but when we get home, we have forgotten how to take off our mental pants. Ladies, we can be bossy and overbearing. And for the record, I'm talking about those good men who are really trying. Some men will give up their bachelorhood to be with one woman. I'm talking about those men."
Since black women were brought on this continent in chains we have never been given the luxury of being "soft". We have been the ultimate un-woman. We lead because that is how we have been able to survive in a world that has proven to be predatory. The whole idea that gender can be split into one dominant and one submissive belies the fact that these are social constructions, and are not "natural" characteristics of either gender. We experience gender in a state of flux therefore each sex takes on characteristics of dominance, and submission. To request that black women submit in order to empower the black male patriarchy eschews the vitality of female agency. Yeah lets all stand and clap our hands, and celebrate that men will agree to lower themselves to marry. Of course they don't benefit from marriage in anyway. They are only entering the institution (note: the fact that marriage is an institution should scare any sane person) out of a true desire to be magnanimous. They don't live longer when they are married right? They don't get a live in housekeeper, nanny, cook, and built in sexual release? How many damn buttons, and hems do we have to fix before we acknowledge that men benefit far more than women do from marriage?
Nowadays, we run the show because we think we've had to. And then we find that having a boyfriend or husband means we have to share our power. Most times we want what we want and don't budge, so we end up alone – when being alone is the very thing we dread. WE are our own worst enemies. Being alone does not mean being lonely, but if your are lonely . . . well.
If you are lonely buy a good vibrator. Trojan has a good one on the market now I hear. 2AA batteries and it can find a clitoris every single time without you having to say over to the left sweetie, or faking an orgasm just because it is enough already, and fragile egos need to be preserved. How about joining a book club, and widening your horizons. A man no matter how wonderful cannot, and should not be the total focus of any womans life. As for sharing my power, you can forget it. This world is no friend to 'woman' as it is. The minute you let your guard down you will be exploited, and or marginalized. To say that it is okay for the sake of love, is to deny that women deserve to respected. A man that is sure of himself would never demand anyone to reduce themselves so that he could feel validated.
Submissive means to temper our assertiveness with softness. I'm still learning this even though I've known this for years. It takes focused effort. We need to be ourselves, but also stop and check to see if what we're doing is working. If it's not, perhaps WE can change.
What dictionary did you find that definition of submissive in? Let's check a neutral source…just so that everyone sees that I can play fair. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines submit as :1 a: to yield oneself to the authority or will of another : surrender b: to permit oneself to be subjected to something <had to submit to surgery>2: to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion or authority of another. This is your advice to women? Turn yourself into a black stepford wife, and you too will get to live the white picket fence 1.2 children lifestyle. Yeah!!! Just don't ever have another original thought in your mind for as long as you can manage to keep your marriage away from the relationship counselors office. Don't worry if you cannot take it, you can always get your family doctor to load you up with Prozac to numb your natural inclinations to rebel. Whooa now bessy remember your place….don't want to be a spinster now do you? Never mind the fact that you can buy your own damn gold ring…you have to keep up with jonses and submit…pop a few more pills, and think of the joys of carpooling, and mandatory once a week sex night.
WE are modern women. Though if we keep saying we don't need a man, we won't have one.
That is just the point…WE DON'T NEED A MAN. We may want men in our lives but there is a difference between want and need. If you don't know that, I don't want to see your bank book. To enter into a relationship should be a free and autonomous decision. It should not be based on fulfilling social expectations. Changing who you are to wear some blood diamond engagement ring, followed by the gold symbol of slavery wedding band is ridiculous. No one can truly be happy under those terms.


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Jeremy Thomas, Last Emperor 3D
Andreas Wiseman talks to Jeremy Thomas about the 3D conversion of Bernardo Bertolucci's feature, which screens in Cannes Classics.
Jeremy Thomas travelled to Cannes this year in the same way he has for the previous 30 editions: by car.
"Smiley face for lunch, one Michelin star for dinner," the industry vet tells Screen about the menu for his annual highway pilgrimage to the festival.
"I'll probably put on a kilo. But I'll take it off on the Croisette. I usually rent a bicycle to avoid the crowds. After 40 years of doing this you tend to meet quite a few people you know."
However, while some Cannes traditions remain steadfast, Thomas also achieves an impressive first this year, bringing nine-time Oscar winning epic The Last Emperor to the festival in 3D.
The film screens today in the Cannes Classics section, with director Bernardo Bertolucci and Thomas both in Cannes to present the film.
"The Last Emperor was such a visually impressive film that I had to discuss the chance of a conversion with Vittorio [Storaro, DoP] and Bernardo", explains Thomas. "Bernardo had been interested in making a film in 3D for some time and I had already worked with Wim Wenders and Takashi Miike on 3D films. We all thought this would kickstart the film's life and bring it to a new generation."
"The 3D upgrade has taken a year and a half in total," Thomas says. "And the 3D has brought it back to life. Some scenes are so visually enriched that we saw things we had never seen in theoriginal film like buildings and cranes which we then had to take out."
The film was originally shot with super-wide anamorphic lenses and mostly in natural light as no lights were allowed in the Forbidden City, which meant that Prime Focus, who carried out the conversion after Storaro's 4K upgrade, needed to avoid heavy clean-plating to preserve the integrity of the photography.
A further challenge came from the size and scale of the scenes, which include armies of extras dressed in ornate costumes. Those scenes required particular attention to detail and heavy rotoscoping in order to create the necessary depth.
The final piece in the puzzle was the film's sound.
"Initially, when we watched the film back Vittorio said the sound wasn't good enough," adds Thomas. "Luckily, in my basement we found the six-track mag we had used for the 70mm prints. We took that to Pinewood, they brightened it up, and we got a soundtrack to match."
You never know what you might find in your basement.
Thomas is now hoping to work 3D magic over more of his classic catalogue titles, with Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky a prime candidate.
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Published: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 2:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 2:12 p.m.
MIAMI — Authorities say no one was injured when two commercial jets collided near the gates at Miami International Airport.
Airport spokesman Marc Henderson told The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/XhjCKK ) Thursday night that one plane had a damaged wingtip and the other sustained damage on the tail section.
The collision happened between Concourses J and H as an incoming Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus with 240 passengers aboard struck an Air France 777-300 plane preparing to leave for Paris with 350 passengers on board.
Henderson says rescue crews quickly surrounded both planes.
The Herald reports the passengers arriving from Argentina were allowed to get off the plane at the gate. The passengers heading to France had to pick up their luggage and wait in long lines to reschedule their flights.
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This is a non-dairy apple cake that looks impressive (thanks to the alternating layers of apples and cake), but is easy to make.
The key to making this cake perfectly is greasing your pan well so it doesn't stick to the bottom. That way when you are ready to take it out, it will simply slide right out!
This dessert is going to be a huge hit at your next party! No one can resist a sweet, apple confection, so make this for your party guests and ensure that they will leave feeling completely satisfied. Just make sure you bake enough of this fabulous cake, because it will definitely go fast!
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4 cups sliced apples (Braeburns work well)
2 tablespoons cinnamon
4 1/2 tablespoons sugar
3 cups flour (can do 1 cup whole wheat, 2 cups white flour)
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3 teaspoonsbaking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup oil
4 eggs
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon vanilla
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Grease a bundt or round cake pan.
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Scientists in Granada, Spain, have patented a new biomaterial that facilitates generating bone tissue—artificial bones in other words—from umbilical cord stem cells . The material, consisting of an activated carbon cloth support for cells that differentiate giving rise to a product that can promote bone growth, has recently been presented at a press conference at the Biomedical Research Centre, Granada.
Although the method has not yet been applied with 'in vivo' models, laboratory results are highly promising. In the future, they could help manufacture medicines for the repair of bone or osteochondrial, tumour or traumatic lesions and to replace lost cartilage in limbs. After obtaining artificial bones in the laboratory, the researchers' next step is to implant this biomaterial in experimental animal models—like rats or rabbits—to see if it can regenerate bone in them.
The scientists, from the Biomedical Research Centre and the Faculties of Sciences of the Universities of Granada and Jaén, and the Spanish National Research Council Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine "López Neyra", have made this important scientific breakthrough after years of research in cell biology, radiobiology and materials studies.
Ground-breaking, worldwide scientific advance
As the authors of the patent explain, no alternative materials are currently available on the market, nor have any been described in the literature. Precedents exist in the development of materials that fulfil the basic function of stimulating cell differentiation but a biologically complex material similar to bone tissue has never before been produced "ex vivo".
What's more, the method of stem cell differentiation developed in Granada uses a three-dimensional support and facilitates obtaining cell types implicated in bone regeneration in cell culture conditions not requiring additional differentiation factors or factors that differ from those present in the cell culture serum. In other words, thanks to this invention, a biomaterial consisting of stem cells supported on activated carbon cloth and capable of generating a product in which osteochondrial and mineralized extracellular organic matrix lineage cells exist, can be obtained.
The patent developed in Granada could have numerous applications in stem cell use in regenerative medicine, as well as in treating bone tissue and cartilage lesion problems.
Following this important scientific finding, the researchers are confident of obtaining the finance needed to be able to continue this work and achieve the ultimate objective of their invention: to regenerate bones by implanting biomaterial in patients with pathologies affecting the osseous system.
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One-third of the nation is in drought, marking what could be another dry year for states desperate for precipitation.
In the latest Drought Monitor, the National Drought Mitigation Center shows that the worst of the drought remains in the West. The situation is especially dire in California, where state water officials are concerned about going into their third dry winter.
"It's scary, to put it bluntly," David Guy, president of the Northern California Water Association, told News 10 reporters. "It's the combination that the reservoirs are at all-time-low levels as well as the fact that we simply do not have inflow coming into the reservoirs."
Currently 94 percent of the state is in moderate or worse drought, marking the 36th consecutive week at least 94 percent of the state is reported in these conditions.
"There seems to be no relief in sight as the calendar flips over to 2014," Drought Monitor author Mark Svoboda, said in narrative. "[C]oncern for water supply, fire and other impacts grows each week the rains and snows don't come. In fact, many locations in California reported the calendar year 2013 as being the driest on record, smashing previous prior record dry years, including 1976. "
According to The Atlantic, the current snowpack is hovering below the 20 percent average for this time of year, and if the current trend holds, state water managers may only be able to deliver 5 percent of water needed for more than 25 million Californians and a million acres of farmland.
Read, "A Grim Map of California's Drought."
Catholic bishops have also stepped in to help, asking people of all faiths to join in prayer for rain. In a news release, the California Catholic Conference of Bishops offered sample prayers for those interested in praying for rain.


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Quote:We do this sort of exercise in sanchin; see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUVQelGbfQ.I've been able to resist standing pushing by even the strongest/heaviest guys in the gym (provided they don't lean in with a significantly larger body mass).Furthermore I've found it really doesn't matter what stance I'm in - I have the same results in shiko (horse stance). Sanchin is the best for training "grounding" however - hence its use and purpose in tma.How does it work? It has something to do with efficient posture and lowering your centre of gravity. It is not, of itself, a "combat technique", nor is it just a cheap "parlour trick". Rather it is evidence of good, basic "grounding" (ie. the ability to regulate your own balance). Good grounding is a prerequisite for applying "softer"/"internal-type" techniques (ie. those that focus on the efficient transfer of momentum rather than on power).I haven't examined it in terms of strict physics but I can see where I would start. Seems like a lot of work though.It is one of the "internal" things I do which I could, if I chose, pass off as some kind of "chi" because it has people scratching their heads. The biomechanics are not obvious. The fact that I have bent my knees to a particular point and no further, aligned my back and hips in a particular way, performed a subtle "shime" with my hips (see http://dandjurdjevic.blogspot.com/2008/09/whole-lotta-shakin-addendum.html) goes unnoticed to the untrained eye.As I say - this pushing concept is not to be applied literally. Good grounding is just a bare prerequisite to "internal" methodology.
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May 7th, 2012 |
Approximately 100 Vigo County high school students attended the KnowHow2Go College Success Seminar at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
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Making the right decisions about college can be complicated. That's why there is the Vigo County "KnowHow2Go" College Success Seminar, a roadmap for preparing for the college experience. Designed for high school juniors, the path to success starts at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College on May 10, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. By attending this free seminar, students will have an opportunity to attend a variety of sessions about higher education to jump-start the college search process.
Students will select from the seminar sessions below:
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- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty and staff members from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Indiana State University, Ivy Tech State College, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will lead the sessions. Lunch will be provided.
"The College Success Seminars provide a forum for students to be exposed to information that will be valuable in their academic careers. All the institutions represented want the students to think in terms of when I go to college, not if."
-Amanda Springstead, associate director of campus admission at SMWC
This campaign is part of the national KnowHow2GO effort led by the Ad Council, American Council on Education and the Lumina Foundation for Education. The Vigo County "KnowHow2Go" College Success Seminar is made possible by a grant from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
For more information, contact Amanda Springstead, associate director of campus admission at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, at (812) 535-5263.
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PRINCETON — The Princeton Tigresses did their best to spoil the Chillicothe IVC's NCIC clinching championship party at Prouty Gymnasium Monday, but came up short
The Tigresses shook off a heart-breaking 27-25 defeat in the first set, bouncing back strong to even the match with a 25-23 decision in the second set. IVC opened up a 9-2 lead in the third set and cruised to a 25-17 victory.
With the win, the Lady Ghosts (24-2, 3-0) clinched the final NCIC championship. PHS fell to 19-8 and 1-2 in conference play.
In the end, the Tigresses couldn't overcome their own misdoings. They had 10 service errors on the night, including five in the first set and four in the second.
The Tigresses showed spirit, battling back from a 20-14 deficit in the first set to take a 24-23 lead. A Michelle Kelly push tied the game back at 25, but IVC sided out with a block and won 27-25.
Again, in the second set, the Tigresses had their backs against the wall, down 20-14. They pulled even at 23 with Alicia Poss scoring on a block and Emmalee Sears with a cross for game point.
IVC first-year coach Hillary Haen knew her team would be in for a fight.
"They really showed us they can come back and take a game," said Haen, a former University of Illinois setter. "That's what I kept telling my girls in the third game is we need to respect this team enough to know that they can catch up to us and score."
In the third game, the Tigresses couldn't recover after falling behind 9-2. Mollie Bates closed the gap to 11-8 and the Tigresses held close at 14-11 and 15-12 before IVC outscored them 5-0 and 8-1 to win going away.
"I was really proud at how we came back in that second set," Princeton coach Andy Puck said. "But once again, you give up four points (early) and you have to come back. You have to play sideout volleyball against a team like that, and we weren't able to do that.
"We've got to play better, and that's all there is to it. And I'll take full credit for that. They weren't ready to play and they weren't ready to play the first four, five points."
Senior Katherine Pranka had 11 kills in her final home match at Prouty Gym on Senior Night. Alicia Poss added seven kills and three blocks, Brooke Kamphuis had 18 digs and six points and Michelle Kelly had 24 assists, six points and 13 digs.
Both PHS and IVC have NCIC matches with St. Bede remaining.
Bureau Valley 2, Kewanee 0: The Storm cruised to a 25-7, 25-23 win in Three Rivers play on the road Tuesday. Sydney Lebahn led the Storm (7-14, 4-6) with 10 points, five aces and 22 assists. Danae Ross added eight points and eight digs, Heaven Bennett had 10 kills, Lindsey Hoffert seven kills and Brandi DeWaele five kills.
St. Bede 2, Roanoke-Benson 1: Coach Dawn Williams said the Lady Bruins finally found a lineup that worked in Tuesday's 25-13, 16-25, 25-17 win in nonconference play over the Rockets, but had to overcome 12 hitting errors in the second set. Samantha Whalen had the hot hand at the service line with 16 points and added 10 digs. Also for the Lady Bruins (8-16), Lydia Stariha had 11 kills, Abbey Nowakowski had nine points and two aces, Morgan King had 13 digs and eight points and Maggie Kaniewski had eight kills.
Morrison 2, St. Bede 0: The Filllies rode off with a 25-22, 25-19 win at the Academy Monday. Stariha had four kills, Nowakowski seven points and two aces and King had eight digs and three aces.
Little 10 Tournament: No. 6 Indian Creek upset tournament host and No. 3 seed LaMoille/Ohio 25-15, 25-18 in Monday's opening night of the LTC tournament. The Lady Lions will face No. 7 Hiawatha in Thursday's consolation bracket at 5 p.m.
Thursday's semifinals at LaMoille pit No. 1 Newark vs. No. 5 Serena at 6 p.m. followed by No. 2 Somonauk vs. No. 6 Indian Creek at 7 p.m.
Junior college: IVCC fell at Kishwaukee Tuesday 25-19, 33-31, 25-18. Johnna Schultz had seven points and 17 assists and Crystlynn Washkowiak 11 kills.


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Peguero's moonshot sets tone as Mariners top Angels
SEATTLE -- It was golf weather in Seattle on Thursday. Sunny, 66 degrees at first pitch, no breeze coming in off the Puget Sound.
And Mariners outfielder Carlos Peguero played the part. He wasn't wearing plaid pants and a collared shirt or looking for birdies, but he teed off in a Major League way.
His monstrous home run in his first at-bat of the season since coming up from Triple-A Tacoma, a great day at the plate from Kyle Seager, stellar mound work from Brandon Maurer and the bullpen and nifty defense were more than enough for the Mariners to beat the Angels, 6-0, before 13,000 at Safeco Field.
"A lot of good things happened," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said.
The game was an intriguing American League West matchup of young right-handers. The Angels had Garrett Richards going against Maurer, who had settled in with two good outings after a rough first two starts of his rookie season.
And it played out that way for a scoreless 2 1/2 innings; that is, until Peguero stepped to the plate to lead off the bottom of the third and delivered an at-bat and a result the Seattle faithful won't soon forget.
The 6-foot-5, 260-pound behemoth of a slugger, who had a .191 average, eight home runs and 82 strikeouts in 199 at-bats in parts of the last two seasons, fell behind Richards 0-2, fought back to a full count, broke a bat on the fifth pitch of the confrontation, with the splintered barrel flying far into the stands behind the Mariners dugout, and kept battling.
On pitch No. 8, Richards spun a slider that broke over the plate and sunk low, maybe six inches off the dirt.
Peguero swung his bat like a 7-iron and didn't miss, hitting a fly ball that left the stadium so quickly Angels center fielder Peter Bourjos merely turned around and watched it, along with the rest of the crowd.
The ball soared over the center-field wall, its forward momentum not coming to a stop until it caromed off the upper third of the batter's eye. The blast was estimated at 451 feet, the third-longest in Safeco history behind Barry Bonds (462 feet on June 16, 2006, off Felix Hernandez) and Raul Ibanez (460 feet on June 20, 2007, off Danny Kolb).
"The team was very happy," Peguero said. "They saw that I had a good AB and put a good swing on the ball and got one run for the team. They were just happy for me."
They were more than happy. They were somewhat amazed.
"That's pretty tough to top," Seager said. "I haven't even gotten one out to center field in BP, and he's hitting one off the batter's eye. That's impressive."
The moonshot was worth only one run, but the Mariners capitalized on the momentum right away. Jason Bay singled, Endy Chavez singled him to second with one out, and Seager singled home Bay to make it 2-0.
In the process, Seager extended his career-high hitting streak to 14 games, tying Starlin Castro of the Cubs and Michael Young of the Phillies for the longest in the big leagues this year.
Meanwhile, Maurer was showing why the Mariners made him their surprise No. 4 starter this spring, despite his never having pitched above Double-A.
The 22-year-old gave up seven hits in 6 1/3 innings but minimized the damage and got help when he needed it. Maurer had six strikeouts and walked one batter. He stranded two runners on base by getting the speedy Bourjos to ground in an inning-ending double play in the fifth, and in the seventh, when he put runners on first and second and exited the game after 93 pitches, Carter Capps cleaned up for him by getting another inning-ending double play, this one off the bat of Chris Iannetta.
He also got help from catcher Kelly Shoppach, who pulled off a rare feat by throwing out Mike Trout, who was trying to steal a base after singling in the top of the sixth.
"I'm getting more comfortable," said Maurer, who lowered his season ERA by 1.84 points to 5.61. "Just taking deep breaths, trying to stay through with my legs and deliver a pitch."
It didn't go unnoticed.
"He's got great stuff," Trout said. "You can't take it away from him. He's 95 [mph] with a fastball, pretty hard with a slider, threw me a changeup and a slider. So he's got four plus pitches. He worked in and out, kept us off balance and shut us down."
The Mariners did more damage in the bottom of the seventh, loading the bases for Bay, who singled in two insurance runs. Capps pitched a perfect eighth and Seager struck again in the bottom of that inning, launching a two-run homer off Angels reliever Nick Maronde to cap a three-hit night.
That took away a save opportunity for Mariners closer Tom Wilhelmsen, who still pitched a perfect ninth to seal it.
For a team that just went 1-5 on a depressing road swing through Texas, the homestand opener was a welcome experience.
"We knew we had to play better, and we came out with a little more of an edge today, which was important," Seager said. "But we haven't lost confidence in ourselves. We know that we have a good offense and that we're going to score more runs. It's just a matter of coming together."
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tourists are being urged to take their front row seat in luxury for one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles when over 1.5m wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 500,000 gazelle make their annual journey to Kenya's Masai Mara.
Kicheche Camps in the Mara offer a perfect view of this natural phenomenon, including the famed river crossing where single zebras persuade herds to cross strong currents.
And as well as the nature on show Kicheche's Laikipia camp guests can kayak and mountain bike around the surrounding areas during their stay.
The new activities offer a chance to take in the fantastic scenery and get active in the great outdoors.
These are offered in addition to enjoying game drives and wildlife walks, canoeing on the dam in front of the camp and visiting the Northern White Rhino enclosure and Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
And for the next month Kicheche Camps are offering great discounts to customers.
Guests visiting any of Kicheche's camps until 20 December 2012 will receive four nights for the price of three. Rates start from £1,915 per person, including return flights from London Heathrow to Nairobi, all meals and drinks (excluding champagne), four nights' accommodation, unlimited game drives, escorted bush walks with our knowledgeable local guides and all park fees, check out www.safari-consultants.co.uk for more details.
Kicheche's newest addition, Kicheche Valley Camp, is in the newly created Mara Naboisho Conservancy and the camp borders the famed Masai Mara National Reserve.
Kicheche Valley comprises six luxury tents in a picturesque and unfenced valley. With strict regulations on vehicle numbers, the camp ensures a high quality experience and guests will enjoy a private experience exploring the savannah grass plains and Eneskaria River. From crocodiles to elephants, the conservancy is home to three lion prides and the largest population of giraffes in the Mara. The lounge tent gives guests the chance to relax and overlook the game-filled plains while enjoying the Kenyan sunset.
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Lady Flames to Participate in ITA Atlantic Regional
2013 ITA Atlantic Regional Championships Draws
The Liberty Lady Flames tennis squad makes the short trip to Charlottesville, Va. this weekend to compete in the ITA Atlantic Regional Championships. Matches at the Snyder Tennis Center commence tomorrow morning with the qualifying singles draw and will wrap up on Tuesday.
The Lady Flames will send four singles competitors and two doubles pairs to the tournament, which also features players from 24 other programs. The event also boasts seven nationally ranked singles players and three nationally ranked doubles tandems.
Freshman Mariely Hassey and sophomore Brittany Yang open play for Liberty tomorrow morning in the qualifying singles draw, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Hassey faces George Washington's Taylor Nederlander, while Yang is pitted against Amanda Wickman of Pittsburgh.
"I feel extremely blessed for the opportunity to play at regionals this weekend," commented Hassey. "I know we are all ready to compete and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for our team."
Doubles action gets under way at 3 p.m. with both Liberty tandems taking to the court. Maria Khval and Belen Rivera will challenge Marie Bedard and Carmen Sandor of Penn State and Valerie Thong and Yang take on William & Mary's Nabila Farah and Leeza Nemchinov.
The Lady Flames have two players playing in the main draw in Khval and Rivera. Both Khval and Rivera will compete at 1 p.m. on Saturday against seeded opponents. Khval goes up against 14th seed Dana Oppinger of Marshall, while Rivera will look to upset third-seeded Stephanie Nauta of Virginia.
Rebekah Jenkins is an alternate for both singles and doubles play.


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I've been having some trouble finding some information on how to set up a automatic email generating script.
Basically what I am trying to achieve, is when a website visitor submits their email (into a form) - they automatically get sent an email that contains a downloadable link (the link doesn't need to change).
The main purpose of this is to retain the email addresses of anyone who wants to download this file.
So in short, someone visits the website - puts their email address into a form and automatically receives an email with a link in it.
Does anyone have any sources on how to go about this? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
For starters, what language is your site running? PHP? ASP.NET?
Is your desire to log these email addresses in a database or just send you a message that gives you the address to store internally?
Yeah it runs PHP, and I have optional ASP.
As far as storing the addresses goes, I don't expect to get swarmed with them, so I would be happy to store them manually. I just need a way of knowing who is downloading the file for future reference.
Here is a link to a tutorial for send email with PHP:
PHP Mail
You can send one message to the visitor with the info and link and then send one message to yourself that gives you the info you want to collect.
Happy coding!
Thanks mate!! I'll let you know how I go with it.
Looking forward for the results of your coding buddy.
The code works perfectly! I had to play around with it for a while, but now when a user puts in their address - they get sent an email containing the link, and I receive an email with the user's address - perfect!!
Thank you so much for your help!!
Glad to hear it! It's a great feeling to learn something new and see it work correctly, isn't it?
Very nice indeed. Thanks again!!


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Okay, so I've been profiling my recent project a bit, as the Tests I wrote take a while to run (54 tests in 15-20 seconds). One of the tests takes 13-18 of those seconds.
I personally do not like tests taking longer than a second to run (most cases that is a do able), but this one I just can't seem to get around it, and the biggest problem, is it will only get worse.
The test in question is given a URL, it downloads the contents of that URL and stores it locally (right now it uses file_get_contents). At this moment, I'm not certain if the bottleneck is the network request or the actual processing (but I plan to run a few tests later to help narrow that down).
Here are the requirements:
Here is what I'm using for the required steps
Other notes of Interest
So, I'd love to hear your feedback and experience with curl in a process similar to this, or if you think ditching curl and running wget prior to the cronjob run is the best candidate (that is my feeling too). Or if there is another approach I should be looking at, I'm open to that too.
I'll take a stab and lets see if I have completely grasped your problem.
I got round this in the past by completely separating the download and cache of the data from the processing of that same data.
I don't know if you are able to predict when the processing needs to be done or if the fetched data must be accurate to the last second, last minute or if it could be 5 minutes old.
As an example:
a) Cron grabs n rss feeds ready for processing and cache the files locally, hourly IIRC.
b) Cron then tells the processor to grab the files and do the post processing, hourly + 3 minutes.
If something failed for any of the last rss feed fetches, it processes the previously cached version (or it may ignore it because it is > x minutes old)
This almost completely removes the line latency and availability problems that the network can throw up from the processing time.
But as I say, YMMV if you are say, processing exchange rates or stock prices where you want up to the second accuracy and these requests must be made on demand, and not every x minutes - then this approach not be any help to you at all.
I almost always use cURL for this fetching now, though I have used wget in the past.
I've moved from sockets and curl to ftp whenever possible. Much fast and MUCH more reliable I had an issue I posted about that never got resolved. A curl call would "succeed" with no errors, but the remote and local file sizes did not match.
ftp_get() has given me no grief thus far. Can you possibly grab the xml feed through a text based curl request, rather than a "download"?
Thanks for both responses.
The feed will likely only change daily, so the "must be up to date" isn't really a factor. In short, the client I am writing this for uses a third party service to keep his inventory. They are giving us a feed with the inventory data in it, that I'm going to use to run their website operations. If they update the inventory mid-day they could always kick off the processing cronjob manually.
@Cups ; yes, that is exactly what I was considering when I mentioned using wget. I'd actually just create a shell script that would execute wget, place the feed locally, then call the php script to process it (so it would do it synchronously automatically). I think taking from your experience, that separating the download of the feed from the actual processing, is indeed the best option. The only downside, is there isn't a real sure-fire way to test that the feed was successfully downloaded in my tests (integration/unit test wise) until its time for processing it (check for file existence, etc).
@K_Wolfe ; not sure ftp_get would work for me, but that's a good suggestion. I don't think the third party is willing to give an ftp option. I already asked them to give me an XML feed, as originally they provided a CSV output, but due to some of the data, it made it hard to process consistently.
So interesting result: wget downloads the entire feed in .4 seconds (less than a second!). So that tells me file_get_contents to an external site must be doing a LOT under the hood.I plan to test curl tomorrow (or tonight if I can't sleep).
The only downside, is there isn't a real sure-fire way to test that the feed was successfully downloaded in my tests (integration/unit test wise) until its time for processing it (check for file existence, etc).
But in your tests you could spoof the fetching of the file by just creating a new one.
Like I said, it'd also be the place where you test the absence of a file, and also the existence of a file which is > x minutes old, which therefore may be wasteful to process - depending on your needs.
Presuming you are talking about unit testing ....
// create a file locally
// test it is read and then analysed
// try and test and analyse a file which does not exist
// create a file
// touch it and reset the time to x minutes ago
// try and test and analyse it
Testing the fetching of the source files from 3rd parties would be pretty pointless and only provide a snapshot of the state of networks at that particular time, though sending off a daily timed fetch using cURL and only analysing the return code 200 etc, would be much quicker and could provide early head-ups on url changes for your target fetches and so on - this kind of failure might be worth logging, auto notifications to admins and so on.
Yeah, that works and I have tests that do that, but I typically like to see an external request follow through too. curl is just as slow as file_get_contents so I think I'll just have to live with being unable to do that.
We're also doing quite a lot of fetches of data to be processed at work, and we've found that it helps if you put the hostname and IP of the target server in your hosts file because then 1) your script can resolve the hostname faster (no DNS round trip) and 2) you never get the problem that you can't get the feed because your DNS has problems.
Of course you need to keep in mind you did this and that you need to update the hosts file when the host IP changes.
YMMV, but for us this works really well. Just something to think about.
That is good to know, unfortunately, I think the host this will eventually be running on may be a shared server so access to the hosts file is unlikely. I'll inquire against that though.
Ah, I just figured out why wget was running so much faster. It wasn't using all of the parameters of the URL (once I put the URL in quotes, it runs much slower). Which ultimately points to downloading the feed outside of the processing is looking like a better choice more and more.
Good thread, useful tips here.
I just came back from FOSDEM where in the Perl devroom Liz Cholet did a talk on "Automating Firefox with MozREPL, AnyEvent and Coro" (talk abstract is not very useful but I dunno if FOSDEM will later have videos or what). I don't think it matters she happened to do this with Perl, except I dunno what PHP's version of AnyEvent or Python's Twisted would be.
What she had to do at her job was have Firefox directed by some script go to a URL, grab the page and do analysis of the objects found on that page. Also Firefox itself needed to be modified/queried (you could get data from the plugins in Firefox itself!) sometimes and using MozREPL you get access to Firefox' own objects too. Firefox was being run by WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, which again I know there's also a Python version of Mechanize but in this case you want PHP to not actually call a browser but just someone like wget... But anyway,
like Cups suggested, her analysis parts were done separately from the page-loading parts. She used Perl's Any::Event for asynchronously sending the page requests, and Coro is for threading so basically the parts of her code that did the analysis would just be listening for the response so they could then start the analysis (then Firefox would get directed to call the next URL... I assume she had an array of URLs). K Wolfe mentioned ftp; Liz was using telnet port 4242 (for the demo she was using localhost, but at her work she also still used telnet).
I wonder if you could have an asynchronous calling of page URLs with your data-processing parts just listening for success and neither of these processes getting in the way of the rest of your stuff. I'm not sure if it would speed up your total but if currently one process is blocking the next then that might be something to look at.
The other option is, if possible, don't download all the data at once and avoid batch processing all together. You mentioned query strings with parameters on the data source, so you may be better to do some JIT processing when the data is actually used. Cache this response so it's not fetched every time someone views the page. You will have an overhead of extra requests but you will also download less data (If certain data is accessed very infrequently you'll only update it as it's needed!)
Interesting, but not quite what I'm attempting (I think), in short, this is purely 1 feed, but written in a way to allow multiple feeds if the business ever needed it (this is the third time they switched over to a new system in 2 years -- makes good money for me, as I get to rewrite their system, but I'm tired of developing it from scratch each time, so I wrote a generalized system this time). Anyway, more to the point, their inventory is stored on this third party system (closed system), they don't have a public API, the only thing they will provide is a feed of your inventory.
The client wants me to grab the feed, process it into a local database so they can use that data on their website without having to maintain two systems. So at whatever interval they decide, they will run this process to get the feed, and update their website with its data, therefore they only have to update the data on the third party site.
Kind of stated above in response to Stomme poes, but the retrieval of the feed is the biggest hit and it is an XML document, so having the full feed is nice (although probably not 100% necessary), however, I only need the full feed when they want to update their local inventory used to run their website. The feed is downloaded once per run (this is planned to be used in a cronjob or from the command-line), its broken apart into pieces and then processed. The processing literally takes less than 2 seconds. The downloading of the feed on the other hand takes 13-15 seconds. (just wanted to point out that the feed isn't downloaded on every request to the data source, it is purely a once when needed to update the local inventory setup)
The remark about the parameters was more so a gotcha with wget. I forgot that & unescaped causes wget to behave differently -- actually causes the command to be executed differently -- oops. Once I place it in quotes the correct feed was downloaded (wasn't caught before because it was finding a cache on the external site).
Once the data is processed and stored within MySQL, an API is used to retrieve the details needed on each page, the API handles all caching on its own. So the retrieval of data is super fast, allowing each page load to have very good load times.
Hmmm ... an XML file into a db eh?
I might be veering OT here, but this sounds exactly like a challenge I faced a year or two ago.
This might be an aside, but in my case I found very wasteful the fact that they processed the entire XML file when in fact all they wanted was the diffs.
I did not get chance to work out how best to achieve a comparison of 2 XML files before events took over and I left the project.
This has little bearing on your immediate problem as you say you have the processing time down, just quite fascinating you face the same challenge and it makes me wonder even more how best to tackle this particular problem.
Just to be clear, I am reading the XML file, each node has 105 sub-nodes, each of those nodes correlate to a column in the MySQL table. I developed a "mapper" class that 1) figures out what columns are needed for the table, and 2) its data types
That class gets passed to the data provider which is in charge of building its data source (be it a database or flat file system or whatever), processing the feed items into the data source, and then doing any cleanup.
In the end, a table of 105 columns gets generated and the data appropriately inserted.
Just to give you an idea, I actually have two mappers for this project, one for 99% of the nodes in the XML file, the other for a single node (images) that is repeatable per record.
Since storing images doesn't make sense, I also have a second data provider whose sole job is building a flat file system and keeping it updated when the process is executed. So the two mappers and the two data providers handle updating the system as a whole. The data providers are based on an interface so they can be called without knowing what type it is and what it is going to do. Same with the mappers, they are able to figure out the process without really being told much other than the schema of the XML file and a definition file that dictates what to look for.
Overall, I'm extremely happy with the end result as what could look like a spaghetti code mess is 20 lines of setup the mappers, load them, load the feed, process it, send mappers and feed to each data provider, process them, do cleanup and exit. I could make a few pieces smarter, but in the end decided, that may be overreaching as it is best to specifically tell the system what to do in the places I wanted to "make it smarter" (was approaching over thinking it with no real measurable benefit).
Actually, since the number of records I'm dealing with isn't large, I've at this point just gone with INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. I may regret that in the future, but for something that runs once a day and currently takes less than a minute to run, I'm not too worried.
There are a variety of ways I could find differences fairly quickly with my setup, just loading two feed sources into the system and likely performing array_diff would get me there. I could likely also run diff (from the command line) to get an indication of how much has changed too to determine if it makes sense to compare the two files or just flat out replace the whole table.
I spent some time looking for PHP XML comparison projects I could either use or learn from, but there was not much IIRC and mostly involved potentially use of large amounts of memory. There are Java projects dealing with extracting the diffs between XML files, but I ended up just doing what I was told and re-inserting the entire data into the db nightly.
I did voice my concerns and it probably included the word "brittle", but then just moved on - not very far actually, when I found out their policy was to pay contractors only after they had been paid and that "....this could be up to 90 days".
$LearningCurve++ ;
Ouch! That definitely is a ++ to LearningCruve, no doubt. Anymore I follow the policy half up front and the rest when I show a demo of the completion. Once payment is received, I'll install it or provide the project with installation documentation to the client. My theory is, if I'm going to commit to do my best for you, you need to show me your committed to my presence on this project (then again, I can make outlandish demands purely from this isn't my primary source of income; so I do and that weeds out all of the ones I likely would have regretted working for ).
I do find it interesting that diff between XML files might not have a lot of PHP involvement, I may research that a bit and see if a framework couldn't be developed (and add it to my ever growing to do list -- that could be a fun project with a lot of interesting results/paths).
that could be a fun project with a lot of interesting results/paths
Yes, that was my lasting memory too. It was something I would have done on my own time actually.
I found the whole idea very intellectually challenging and stimulating, which is why I like this job.
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Sound engineering for the birds reported in New Scientist, 12 January 2002, p12. Scientists from the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Etholgy in Vienna recorded the songs of different species of Venezuelan Ant-birds and played them back at different heights above ground. They measured how fast the song faded and how well it could be heard above background noises. The songs of each different species transmitted best at the natural perching height of that species. Ground dwelling birds had lower pitched, slower songs that avoided the garbling effect from sound bouncing off trees whilst birds that normally live high in forest canopy had high pitched rapid songs.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. – Opening their 2012 slate on a high note, the Saint Leo men's lacrosse team hustled their way to a 15-4 victory over Deep South Conference newcomer Florida Tech, on Tuesday night at Hustler Stadium in Melbourne, Fla. With the win, the Lions kick off the season with a mark of 1-0, and 1-0 in DSC action, while the first-year Panthers open their campaign at 0-1, and 0-1 in the DSC.
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Between the pipes, Patrick Berry earned 10 saves on the night while allowing two goals in 51 minutes of action in cage. Joe May finished out the contest, earning two saves while allowing two shots in net. Their counterpart for the Panthers, Mason Cook, set aside 14 shots while yielding 15.
The Panthers saw scoring from Patrick Manning, Christian Isola, Andrew Conely, and Danny Channell who each placed the ball between the pipes once. Mike Marshner and Billy McClellan dished out assists for FIT in the program's historic first game.
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