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Healthy eating starts with smart food
shopping. Here you will find pointers on how to make the most of your trip to
the grocery store. Whether you want to eat healthier or lose weight, these tips
will help you get started.
The key to grocery
shopping for healthy eating is to plan ahead. This may take some time at first,
but after a while it gets easier. You can also save your shopping lists to use
again, or you can keep a list of things you buy often, such as milk, bread, or
fruit. Planning ahead may even help you save time and money.
eating is also about setting realistic goals. Allow yourself to add something
special to your list, such as a favorite dessert or beverage. As long as you
have healthy portions and get regular exercise, it's okay to treat yourself now
and then.
Eat a meal or snack before you shop so you aren't hungry
at the store. This way you won't be as tempted to buy less healthy foods, such
as candy, chips, or fast food, to satisfy your hunger.
Good menu planning includes knowing how much time you
will have to prepare your meals.
If you have a limited amount of time to
prepare your meals, you will want to choose recipes that are quick and easy to
Continue to Why?
You may find that planning your meals and having a
variety of foods available will help you make healthier food choices more
often. It is easier to choose healthy foods when they are on hand and ready to
eat. This is why it helps to include healthy convenience foods on your shopping
list. Also, knowing that you have a quick and easy-to-make dinner at home may
help you overcome the urge to pick up fast food for dinner.
Including healthy convenience foods on your shopping
list is a good way to make sure that you have healthy, ready-to-eat meals and
snacks at home.
Including healthy convenience foods on your
shopping list is a good way to make sure that you have healthy, ready-to-eat
foods at home. It may also help you avoid the temptation to eat foods that are
not as good for you.
Continue to How?
Use the shopping list
you created from your menu plan. You may notice that most of the items on the
outer aisles of the store are fresh foods, such as meat, produce, and dairy.
These items tend to be less processed compared to some of the foods in the
center aisles, such as packaged cookies, chips, or soda. As you shop, pay
attention to how much you buy from the outer aisles compared to the inner
aisles where the processed foods are.
When you are selecting items from your list, try to
choose foods lower in fat, calories, and/or sodium if possible. For example,
when you buy sandwich meat, remember that plain roast turkey or roast beef has
much less fat and sodium than processed lunch meat. You can also buy fat-free
or low-fat dairy items, such as milk, yogurt, and cheese.
Try to
limit drinks with added sugar, such as soda and sweetened iced tea. Instead,
try to drink more water or buy sugar-free drinks or drinks with little or no
added sugar.
Include some healthy convenience foods on your
shopping list for both meals and snacks. These are great to have on hand if you
are busy or don't like to cook. You may want to try:
Try to
buy just what's on your shopping list as much as possible. Sale items may seem
like a good bargain. But if you weren't planning on buying them in the first
place, they may not be a good deal.
Portion size is also an
important part of healthy eating. Whether you are shopping for yourself or a
family, you can buy certain things in bulk. For example, if you buy a large
"family pack" of chicken, you can divide it into single-meal portions and
freeze them. This is a good way to control how much you eat at each meal and
have a quick option available when you don't have time to go to the store.
Keep in mind that if you are shopping for one, not everything is
good to buy in bulk quantities. Fresh produce and other perishables in large
amounts may not last long enough for one person to eat them all.
If you are busy or don't like to cook, your only
option is to eat out.
There are lots of healthy, convenient, and
ready-to-eat foods that you can keep on hand. These include snacks such as
trail mix, cut-up vegetables, yogurt, and string cheese as well as frozen
vegetables and healthy entrees you can use for meals.
Continue to Where?
Now that you have read this
information, you are ready to make smart food shopping a part of your
healthy-eating routine.
If you have questions about this information, it may help
to talk to a dietitian. You may want to print out this information and mark
areas or make notes in the margins where you have questions.
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WASHINGTON -- The Navy on Thursday ordered an in-depth investigation into the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the events that led up to it, including a detailed look at the shooter, his mental health background and whether any adverse information was ever reported to the service about him.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus outlined the order in a memo describing what will be a parallel investigation to the FBI's criminal probe. The investigations will address lingering questions about whether the contractor that employed Aaron Alexis warned the military of concerns about his mental stability. Alexis gunned down 12 people in building 197 at the Navy Yard on Sept. 16 before being killed in a shootout with police.
There have been questions about whether the company that employed Alexis, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based The Experts, had seen indications that he was having mental health problems. And Navy officials say they can find no record that the company alerted the Navy about such concerns.
Mabus asked Adm. John Richardson to conduct the investigation, including whether Navy policies were followed regarding security clearances, building protection and the emergency response to the crisis. The military often orders similar investigations after significant violent incidents.
The probe is in addition to several broader policy reviews ordered by Mabus and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Those evaluate department-wide programs, while this new probe will be more narrow, digging into the events that unfolded as Alexis packed a sawed-off shotgun into his bag, used his access cards to get on the Navy Yard base and into the building, then roamed the halls gunning down workers as they fled.
Mabus ordered the review to be finished by Nov. 6 and said it must include opinions on the adequacy of Navy policies and how well they were followed.
The memo was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

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Myles Shaver has been puzzling over the unusually large number of Fortune 500 companies in the Twin Cities almost since joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in 2001.
People throw out a wide range of theories, from the abundance of natural resources to winters so cold executives may as well spend extra time at the office.
But his research over the past couple of years points to a different conclusion, and a convincing one: Our region has enjoyed a "virtuous circle" of strong managers who build companies that grow. That, in turn, attracts more talented people, and then they help build more growing companies into big ones, and so on.
He is from Edmonton, Alberta — an even colder spot than the Twin Cities but with no similar set of big companies — and started his career at New York University. His colleagues at other universities can't easily grasp that a mid-sized metro area like the Twin Cities, one that is a long way from New York or Silicon Valley and has terrible winter weather, has so many corporate headquarters.
Shaver said even locals can be surprised by the data. In a presentation Shaver made last week at the university using 2011 data, he showed that Minnesota's 20 Fortune 500 companies made it No. 1 in such headquarters per capita, close enough to Connecticut that the top spot could flip-flop from one year to the next.
In looking at the data another way, by comparing the number of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters to the size of the state's overall economy, Minnesota topped the list by such a large margin that no year-to-year fluctuation in Fortune's ranking will knock Minnesota from the top.
Shaver looked back even further than the first Fortune 500 ranking in 1955, to documents like the 1929 Census of Manufactures. He found that in the ratio of headquarters officers to total manufacturing employees, once again Minnesota was near the top, right between New York and California.
"We really are a headquarters-intensive business community," he said. "And we have been for a really long time."
It's a dynamic situation as well. Since Fortune's 1955 ranking, 40 Minnesota companies at one time or another moved onto the list, and at some point 31 moved off.
Minnesota's big headquarters companies, the likes of Target, 3M, UnitedHealth Group and Ecolab, are homegrown, too. Headquarters companies don't uproot somewhere else and plant themselves in the Twin Cities, like the Boeing Co. did in Chicago. Here, companies grow their way onto lists like the Fortune 500.
Shaver does not attribute that to a small set of visionary chief executives or other C-suite officers. He's still digging into the question and hopes to better verify talent as the key determining factor, but he stressed that the managerial talent he is talking about is the big pool of supervisors, managers, directors and vice presidents that staff these big organizations. "It flows from company to company, and not just within industries but across industries."
That's where his idea of a virtuous circle comes into it. A thriving company attracts top managerial talent and then some of that talent moves around the market. People may jump to a start-up opportunity, feeling comfortable that if the start-up doesn't work out they can always go look for a good job at one of the big companies.
Having a regional job market with lots of well-run employers creates opportunities for people to sharpen their skills and move ahead in their careers, and it's great also for the companies here to be able to recruit managers with experience at other well-managed companies.
Then there are the folks recruited from out of state. Shaver suspects he may have had two dozen conversations with headhunters and recruiters who all made roughly the same point, that it can be very difficult to get a professional person to consider moving to the Twin Cities but nearly impossible to get them to later consider leaving.
Managers in the Twin Cities have a slew of good career options — plus have their kids in good schools, live in safe neighborhoods with manageable commutes to work and have lots of interesting choices of how to spend their free time.
So there's your circle, with big successful companies attracting talented people who tend to stay in the area, and those talented people then helping to build successful companies that grow to attract even more top talent.
There were a lot of heads nodding up and down as Shaver finished his remarks last week, amid encouragement to forge ahead with his research.
Bonnie Holub, a technology consultant who holds the Honeywell Endowed Chair in Global Technology Management at the University of St. Thomas, was one who sat in on Shaver's talk. She later called his work "a thoughtful, authoritative, quantifiable validation of a feeling many of us have had for a while" about the origins of our deep and vibrant corporate community.
But Shaver pointed out that no one should just assume that a great story that developed over many decades will endure decades longer. Virtuous circles like the one he described, he said, "are always at risk. The same thing that makes us a virtuous circle can make us a vicious circle. If this doesn't stay an attractive place for people to live, they will leave."
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What's just as entertaining, quirky and off-kilter as a Barry Sonnenfeld film? A conversation with Barry Sonnenfeld.
The director of such mega-hits as the "Addams Family" films, "Get Shorty" and the "Men In Black" franchise (the third of which is about to hit theaters) – not to mention the cinematographer behind classics including "Raising Arizona," "Big," "When Harry Met Sally," "Miller's Crossing" and "Misery," Sonnenfeld is also one of Hollywood's most engaging raconteurs, unafraid to skimp on behind-the-scenes details if it means sacrificing a laugh. But don't let his disarming charms make you think he doesn't take the work of being goofy seriously.
"Barry is silly as a goose, for starters," says Tommy Lee Jones, who's starred in all three of Sonnenfeld's "MiB" outings alongside Will Smith. "Also, he knows how cameras work. He knows a lot more about cameras than he'll let on. He has a great deal of control on a movie set, and that's something that he tries to hide or gloss over. He would like you to think that he's a great, big, silly baby, but he's not fooling me. I know that he can shoot."
During a conversation with PopcornBiz, Sonnenfeld suggests the Jones is entirely correct.
What was irresistible about making another "Men In Black" film, the things that made you want to do it again?
I would say that it's two reasons: One is that because I was so involved in creating the franchise it becomes your child. I remember when I was debating if I should do 'Addams Family Values.' I was working on a film with Michael J. Fox and I was thinking of not doing it, and Michael J. Fox said, 'You made the dinner. You should sit down and eat it.' What he meant was, don't spend all this time and all these years of your life and not see it through. So the first reason was that its sort of like my child, and if I can protect my child I want to. And the second reason is that at the end of the day I just love working with Will and Tommy. The three of us get along really well, and I wanted to be back with those guys. Then when I read the script and saw that there was a part for a young Agent K, I immediately thought of and suggested to the studio Josh Brolin and they immediately said, 'Great idea!'
How did Josh get on your radar to do that channeling-style take on Tommy that he does? Did you hear him do an impression as a party joke or something?
Brolin thinks that's what happened. For me, the first thing was seeing him in 'W.' I don't know if you saw the movie, but I thought that he was extraordinary. Never has an actor created more tension in a movie by eating. In every scene Brolin is eating a tuna fish sandwich, or when he meets his future wife he's eating French fries. There was so much tension in just him eating, and so I thought that he was fantastic in 'W.' because he wasn't doing an imitation, he was doing an interpretation. So there's that. Then he was on the award circuit for 'No Country For Old Men' and I was on the award circuit because I'd directed this TV show called 'Pushing Daisies,' and I know the Coens really well because I shot their first three movies [as cinematographer]. So I met Brolin a couple of times, and I think he may have done a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation at a party where I was at. But then the other thing is that both Tommy Lee Jones and Brolin have physically huge heads! If you look at any pictures of Tommy from the Harvard football team or something he looks like Brolin, or Brolin looks like Tommy. The first time that I saw Brolin I said, 'I cannot wait to see what your head looks like in 3D,' because it's HUGE! So, yeah, Brolin did do an impersonation of Tommy, but that's not why I hired him.
Tell me about that unique chemistry the films sparked between Will and Tommy – who off screen seem to be just about as diametrically opposed, personality-wise, as J and K – and how it's evolved from day one to now.
Let's start at the beginning: My wife – I call her Sweetie – Sweetie and I read scripts together. She gives me a 40-page head start, and then we read the script. We finished 'Men in Black I' probably in 1993. I turned to her and said, 'Tommy Lee Jones,' and she turned to me and said, 'Will Smith.' This was before 'Independence Day' or anything. The thing that was really helpful, I think, about 'Men in Black I' and Tommy and Will's relationship – not that anyone can be NOT instantly sucked into the joy of being with Will, because he's just a life force – is that Will was not available for the first few weeks of shooting because he was finishing 'Independence Day.' So the first several weeks on 'Men in Black I' was only with Tommy. It was the early stuff where we're in the desert and he arrests Mikey, the multi-armed and -flippered alien. So when Will came onto the set, it was Tommy's set. That was really helpful, because Will came on in effect as an equal and not as the star and they didn't start at the same time. Will and Tommy instantly loved each other. Tommy has several traits that people don't know about as it relates to the way we work together. This will surprise you, because it's not the Tommy that you [the press] know: Tommy is like a really big, goofy kid in that he constantly is breaking everything, every prop. The Neuralizer on the first 'Men in Black': by the time that we were done we were cobbling pieces. I remember the prop guy saying, 'Dear Lord,' whenever Tommy had the Neuralizer because we knew that he was going to break it. Also – and this was something that became very funny and joyful for Will and really allowed the three of us to bond – unlike real guns where you shoot blanks, our guns don't make any sound. Without fail Tommy Lee Jones, for hundreds and hundreds of takes over the course of three movies, ruined takes by making the sound of the gun while he shot it. So, Tommy would go [makes a laser sound] and I'd go, 'Cut.' Tommy would go, 'What?!' And Will would be in hysterics because Will was standing next to Tommy and knew that Tommy made the sound of the gun again. So Will and Tommy and I have a different experience than anyone sees. Tommy and Will and I laugh all the time together.
[Skeptical look from PopcornBiz]
I know you think that I'm making this up because you interviewed Tommy, but I'm telling you that they love each other! I love both of them. The first one was hard for me and Tommy, because Tommy was in a comedy and hadn't been in a comedy before. He thought that he had to be funny and I was constantly saying…the phrase that I used was 'Joe Friday – Government issue. Don't be funny. Don't be funny.' And Tommy didn't realize that George Burns is funnier to me than Gracie Allen and that neither of them are funny if they're both playing Gracie Allen or both playing George Burns. Tommy, until he saw the first movie, didn't realize how funny he was. Once he saw it, When people asked him 'How are you so funny?' Tommy's quote was 'It's simple: Stand next to Will Smith and do whatever Barry Sonnenfeld tells you to.' That's the way it's been all through 'Men in Black II' and 'Men in Black III.' Truly, no one makes Will laugh more than Tommy does.
Do you get why 'Men in Black' became such a phenomenon, and has remained so popular?
I don't know why one of the movies I direct works so well, and then another movie I direct doesn't catch on with the public. I never really understood why 'Get Shorty' worked. My wife and I were so disappointed in that movie until we saw it with other people. We thought that no one would get it. On the first 'Men in Black,' that was the summer of 'Batman and Robin' and 'Jurassic Park 2.' We were just flying under the radar and I felt that the movie felt too small, didn't have enough explosions. So to me, I'm not exactly sure why it works. I just know why it works for me: it works because no one has a clue. Everyone thinks that they know what's going on, but really we don't have a clue. In fact, that was instrumental in one of my favorite speeches for Tommy Lee Jones in the first movie, where he says, 'A thousand years ago the Earth was the center of universe. Five hundred years ago everyone knew the earth was flat. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow,' when he recruits Will. And it's true. When I was growing up butter was good for you. Then margarine was good for you and butter wasn't. Then margarine wasn't. Whatever we believe to be true and reality now will be proven to be false in the future, and that's kind of cool. So what I'm saying is relax, because you don't have a clue.
"MIB3" Director Barry Sonnenfeld: Tommy Lee Jones Really a "Goofy Kid"
(And Jones calls Sonnenfled "silly as a goose")
What's just as entertaining, quirky and off-kilter as a Barry Sonnenfeld film? A conversation with Barry Sonnenfeld.


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Clinical Trials
Use of Incentives to Engage Drug Users in HIV Therapy (Incentives-1)
University of British Columbia
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
University of British Columbia
First received: February 1, 2012
Last updated: December 18, 2012
Last Verified: December 2012
History of Changes
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the current standard of care for treatment of
HIV infection, is highly effective when taken appropriately. Before starting this treatment,
a person must be aware of their HIV status and present to a clinic for medical care. They
then undergo screening procedures (medical assessment and laboratory tests) to determine
whether they are eligible to receive HAART, i.e. whether HIV treatment is necessary and safe
for them.
In many urban centres including Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, there is a high rate of HIV infection among users of illicit drugs. However, HIV-infected drug users often do not present to the medical system and complete the process necessary to start HAART. Given the known benefits of HAART, new strategies are required to increase rates of HAART initiation in this group. Contingency management (CM) is a strategy to affect behaviour by providing a reward (e.g. money) to reinforce the desired behaviour. CM has been used with success in other areas of medicine (e.g. smoking cessation, weight loss) and in the drug using population, but has not been established as a means to improve HAART uptake.
The proposed research primarily seeks to assess the effectiveness of monetary-based CM in engaging HIV-infected drug users in HAART programs. Drug users identified through outreach will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to one of two arms; participants in one arm will be offered a monetary-based reinforcer to participate (n=150) and participants in the second arm will be offered no reinforcer (n=150). Participation involves reporting to the study site for formal study of eligibility screening, consisting of clinical evaluation, medical history and laboratory testing required to determine eligibility to receive HAART. Participants randomized to the reinforcer arm will receive gift cards at the completion of screening procedures.
Our hypothesis is that drug users offered a monetary-based reinforcer will be significantly more likely to complete HAART eligibility screening than those not offered a reinforcer.
HIV Infection
Other : monetary reinforcer
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Screening
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating the Role of Contingent Reinforcement in the Engagement of and Retention of Drug Users in HAART Programs - Part 1
Further study details as provided by University of British Columbia:
Primary Outcome Measures
the proportion of drug users undertaking clinical and laboratory screening to determine eligibility for highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
[ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
HAART eligibility screening entails presenting to the study site within 2 weeks of pre-screening, undergoing laboratory testing and providing a medical history, and returning for results within the subsequent four weeks.
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
monetary reinforcer
monetary reinforcer
Participants randomized to the reinforcer arm will receive gift cards at the completion of screening procedures.
Other Name: contingency management
No Intervention:
no reinforcer
Detailed Description:
HAART eligibility screening entails presenting to the study site within 2 weeks of
pre-screening, undergoing laboratory testing and providing a medical history, and returning
for results within the subsequent four weeks. Any potential subjects who appear to be acutely
intoxicated will be asked to return the next day or at a later date or time of their
choosing. All participants will be asked to return for their results within four weeks after
screening. Subjects will have 70 mL of whole blood collected by venipuncture by a trained
study nurse. Laboratory tests will include HIV confirmatory testing (antibody and Western
blot), CD4 cell count and plasma HIV-1-RNA level (plasma viral load; pVL), Hepatitis A, B and
C serology, pregnancy test for women of child-bearing potential, complete blood count (CBC)
with differential and platelet count, chemistry profile (creatinine, urea and electrolytes),
and transaminase levels (ALT, AST). All participants will also have a medical history taken
and undergo a physical examination. Recorded data will include subject gender, age,
ethnicity, race, area of residence and living arrangement (categorized as homeless/on the
street, unstable [defined as living primarily in a single room occupancy hotel, boarding
room, or transition house] or stable). Additional features which will be recorded will
include nature and frequency of illicit substance use, and participation in other cohort
studies or methadone maintenance programs. All clinical past medical history and
co-morbidities and laboratory data will be recorded for assessment of subject HAART
All subjects who return for the results, whether HAART-eligible or not, will have their laboratory results explained to them and will be counseled as to a recommended course of clinical care by the study nurse. Those eligible for HAART will be offered enrollment into Part II of the study. Those not eligible for HAART will be invited to re-evaluate their eligibility for antiretroviral therapy at yearly intervals through the study site. Once 150 subjects have been randomized to each of the two study arms (total n=300), recruitment will be temporarily halted and statistical analysis will determine whether the reinforcer resulted in a significant and clinically relevant increase in the proportion of subjects who complete HAART eligibility screening.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|19 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 19 years or older
- Self-reports as having used illicit drugs within last 3 months
- Self-reports known or at-risk for HIV infection.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to provide informed consent due to severe mental or physical illness, or substance intoxication at the time of interview
- Has lived in the greater Vancouver area for three months or less (as a means to enhance participant retention)
- Pregnancy
- Receipt of antiretroviral therapy within the last 12 months
- Known history of gambling addiction.
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01526421
Locations Show More
|St. Paul's Hospital, VIDUS study office site, 342 East Hastings
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sponsors and CollaboratorsUniversity of British Columbia
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Mark Hull, MD
|University of British Columbia
|Principal Investigator:
|Julio SG Montaner, MD
|University of British Columbia
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|University of British Columbia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01526421 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 1, 2012
|Last Updated:
|December 18, 2012
Keywords provided by University of British Columbia:HIV
Antiretroviral therapy, highly active
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on June 01, 2020
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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|PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
Release 9.0.1
Part Number A89856-01
PL/SQL Language Elements, 15 of 52
DELETE statement removes entire rows of data from a specified table or view. For a full description of the
DELETE statement, see Oracle9i SQL Reference.
This is another (usually short) name for the referenced table or view and is typically used in the
WHERE clause.
This clause instructs the SQL engine to bulk-bind output collections before returning them to the PL/SQL engine. The SQL engine bulk-binds all collections referenced in the
INTO list. The corresponding columns must store scalar (not composite) values. For more information, see "Reducing Loop Overhead for Collections with Bulk Binds".
This clause lets you return values from the deleted rows, thereby eliminating the need to
SELECT the rows beforehand. You can retrieve the column values into variables and/or host variables, or into collections and/or host arrays. However, you cannot use the
RETURNING clause for remote or parallel deletes.
This is a
SELECT statement that provides a set of rows for processing. Its syntax is like that of
select_into_statement without the
INTO clause. See "SELECT INTO Statement".
This specifies a table or view, which must be accessible when you execute the
DELETE statement, and for which you must have
DELETE privileges.
The operand of
TABLE is a
SELECT statement that returns a single column value, which must be a nested table. Operator
TABLE informs Oracle that the value is a collection, not a scalar value.
This clause refers to the latest row processed by the
FETCH statement associated with the cursor identified by
cursor_name. The cursor must be
UPDATE and must be open and positioned on a row. If the cursor is not open, the
OF clause causes an error.
If the cursor is open, but no rows have been fetched or the last fetch returned no rows, PL/SQL raises the predefined exception
This clause conditionally chooses rows to be deleted from the referenced table or view. Only rows that meet the search condition are deleted. If you omit the
WHERE clause, all rows in the table or view are deleted.
You can use the
OF statement after a fetch from an open cursor (this includes implicit fetches executed in a cursor
FOR loop), provided the associated query is
UPDATE. This statement deletes the current row; that is, the one just fetched.
The implicit cursor
SQL and the cursor attributes
%FOUND, and
%ROWCOUNT let you access useful information about the execution of a
DELETE statement.
The following statement deletes from the
bonus table all employees whose sales were below quota:
DELETE FROM bonus WHERE sales_amt < quota;
The following statement returns two column values from a deleted row into local variables:
DECLARE my_empno emp.empno%TYPE; my_ename emp.ename%TYPE; my_job emp.job%TYPE; BEGIN ... DELETE FROM emp WHERE empno = my_empno RETURNING ename, job INTO my_ename, my_job; END;
You can combine the
COLLECT clause with a
FORALL statement, in which case, the SQL engine bulk-binds column values incrementally. In the following example, if collection
depts has 3 elements, each of which causes 5 rows to be deleted, then collection
enums has 15 elements when the statement completes:
FORALL j IN depts.FIRST..depts.LAST DELETE FROM emp WHERE deptno = depts(j) RETURNING empno BULK COLLECT INTO enums;
The column values returned by each execution are added to the values returned previously.
FETCH Statement, SELECT Statement
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- See also list of cutie marks
Friendship is Magic is the first My Little Pony production that explicitly refers to these symbols as a main subject of interest. They were referred to as "symbols" in the first generation, and were changed to "cutie marks" in the third generation.
Depiction in the seriesEdit
Meaning and coming of ageEditThe episode Call of the Cutie deals with the meaning and appearance of cutie marks. Cheerilee, the school teacher, explains to her students that ponies are born without a cutie mark. The cutie marks are obtained when ponies discover a unique characteristic that sets themselves apart from others. Twilight Sparkle demonstrates to Apple Bloom in the same episode that magic can't make a cutie mark appear, and she explains that the mark will only appear in due course. The meanings of cutie marks are not always literal: Cheerilee's cutie mark is three smiling flowers, and she explains it represents her wish that her students "bloom" and be happy. The social implications of cutie marks, or lack thereof, are explored in the episode. Ponies who have yet to gain their mark, like Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle, are derisively called "blank flanks" by Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. On the other hand, Twilight and Applejack consider those without a cutie mark to be lucky, who still get to experience "the thrill of discovering who they are, and what they're meant to be". This argument is also expressed by Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo who say about fellow "blank flank" Apple Bloom that "she's full of potential" and "could be great at anything".
Magical Mystery Cure deals with a magic spell that switches cutie marks between ponies. Twilight unintentionally switches her friend's cutie marks using Star Swirl the Bearded's unfinished spell. With their switched cutie marks, the ponies assume that their cutie marks define what they do, singing the phrase "It's got to be my destiny, and it's what my cutie mark is telling me". Twilight Sparkle manages to remind them what their actual destinies are, and they regain their original cutie marks.
In Bats!, Fluttershy's cutie mark briefly changes from three pink butterflies to three pink bats during her time as a hybrid bat-pony. Like Magical Mystery Cure, this change is induced by Twilight's magic and later rectified.
Since many ponies were conceived as toys before they became characters on the show, they are often named after their cutie marks. This conflicts with some elements in Friendship is Magic, since in the show, foals are born without their cutie marks and therefore cannot be named after them.
A "cute-ceañera" is celebrated by those who have recently gotten their cutie marks. The name of the celebration is a play on quinceañera, a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America.
Diamond Tiara celebrates her cute-ceañera in Call of the Cutie. It was thrown by Pinkie Pie at Sugarcube Corner, and in Pinkie Pride, Diamond Tiara grudgingly admits that Pinkie did a good job planning the party.
In Filli Vanilli, an excitable Pegasus filly named Zipporwhill celebrates her cute-ceañera and gets the Ponytones to perform at the party.
Depiction in Equestria GirlsEdit
In Equestria Girls, humans at Canterlot High are depicted with images and patterns on their clothes that resemble the cutie marks of their pony counterparts in Equestria. The cutie marks on humans are present on clothing. Characters' pony counterparts who lack their cutie mark in Equestria also lack it in Equestria Girls.
Cutie marks come in a wide variety of shapes and colors in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. Cutie marks are often a set of two or three objects or animals, and usually feature between one and three colors. For example, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Applejack all have cutie marks with three objects, and all of their designs have only two colors. One of the few ponies with a cutie mark with more than three colors is Rainbow Dash, whose rainbow lightning bolt has four. The other ponies with four- or five-colored cutie marks feature a more detailed image, so many of the colors are only different to allow for shading.
Although cutie marks are supposed to be unique, background ponies' marks are often chosen at random from a set of 'stock' cutie marks. Lauren Faust, in a deviantART message, relayed that the cutie marks of background ponies are chosen at random. She jokingly referred to them as "butt symbols."[1] Earth ponies tend to have food-related or horseshoe marks, unicorns have astrological symbols, and Pegasus ponies have weather-related symbols. Music notes are another common mark, and are present on all three types of background ponies. Occasionally, adult ponies appear without cutie marks, some instances of which have been explained by Lauren Faust as an oversight.[2]
Other attributesEditIn The Cutie Pox, Twilight Sparkle reads that there used to be an epidemic in Equestria, referred to as "cutie pox", that caused ponies to sustain more than one random cutie mark, and it caused these ponies to involuntarily perform tasks as per given cutie marks, which appeared all over their bodies, not just their flanks. The phenomenon is not elaborated upon though, as the epidemic itself remains a historical mystery because it appeared and disappeared without a trace, according to the book Twilight Sparkle reads on the subject. A modern case of a cutie pox victim is Apple Bloom. In Ponyville Confidential, it is shown that cutie marks only appear as part of the pony's coat, as when both Snips and Snails have their flanks shaved due to a bubble-gum related incident, there is nothing but bare skin underneath where their own cutie marks were. In Magic Duel, Snails' cutie mark turns into an older looking snail with glasses and a beard after Trixie uses an age spell on him and Snips. In Bats!, Fluttershy's cutie mark changes from her normal butterflies to three bats after her transformation into a Vampire Bat.
In Pinkie Pride, Cheese Sandwich's cutie mark becomes animated when his "cheesie sense" activates.
Characters other than poniesEdit
Zecora, a zebra that creates potions has a symbol on her flank; this symbol is listed as her cutie mark on a trading card of her. Other ungulates such as buffalo, pigs, cattle, mules, and donkeys are mark-less. Changelings, including their Queen Chrysalis, have no cutie marks.
The cutie marks have long been characteristic of the My Little Pony toy line, albeit had not been officially coined as "cutie mark" prior to the third generation of the toy line. The cutie marks on the toys of the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic toy generation sometimes do not precisely match their design on the show. Additionally, while the show features cutie marks on both sides of the pony, the toys feature the marks on only one side. The side varies between toys, mostly dependent on each toy's packaging.
On November 19, 2013, Hasbro filed a trademark of "CUTIE MARK" for "Toy ponies; dolls".[3]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Πρότυπο:Citation Archived locally
- ↑ Lauren Faust (2011-03-19). Comment. Retrieved on 2012 Σεπτέμβριος 23.
- ↑ 86122913. USPTO TSDR Case Viewer (2013-11-19). Retrieved on 2013 Νοέμβριος 25.


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I could spend hours dreaming of owning various kei-cars, weirdo Japanese wagons, and vans like the Toyota Hiace. Yet, for every American fantasizing about tiny JDM cars, there's apparently a kid in Japan yearning for some giant Detroit metal. Here's what happens when they get their wish.
Her's another video, complete with van burnouts.


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2011 broke nearly every storm record there was to be broken, and it was the first time in recorded history we've had two years in a row with more than 18 storms in the hurricane season. But if you were to listen to the TV weather reports of Justin Berk of WMAR-TV in Baltimore, or Bob Breck of WVUE-TV New Orleans, or Dave Dahl of KSTP-TV Minneapolis you would think this was nothing to be alarmed about.
These and dozens of other weatherman across the nation do not believe in climate change. Yes that's right -- weathermen (and yes they are all men as noted by ThinkProgress) the guys who are supposed to know the most about what causes weather -- seem to be in denial about the overwhelming scientific concensus on climate change.
This is a very unfortunate thing. A recent report shows that TV meterologists are the primary source of information for the American public about climate change. And with quotes like this one from James Spann of WBMA-TV Birmingham -- "The Earth's climate has changed since the day God put it here. We've had these cyclical changes, and I believe most of this is purely natural." -- it's no wonder people have been confused.
Now a new campaign called Forecast the Facts created by 350.org, the League of Conservation Voters, and Citizen Engagement Lab, is calling out these science-impaired weathermen, and calling for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) to adopt a stronger statement on climate change that establishes the proven link between increased storm activity and the warming impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
If you yourself are confused about climate change, get the facts (and watch some entertaining videos) about climate change on the TckTckTck climate campaign website (a site I helped to develop). And if you catch your local TV weatherman lying about climate change, file a complaint. It's time to end their campaign of public misinformation.


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The thyroid is a gland located in the neck. It is a part of the endocrine (hormone) system, and plays a major role in regulating the body's metabolism. If a sample of cells is needed from the thyroid gland a fine needle biopsy can be performed. During this procedure, a skinny needle is inserted into the thyroid gland, and a sample of thyroid cells and fluid is drawn into the needle. The needle is then withdrawn and the cells are sent for examination. This test is usually performed to diagnose thyroid disease or thyroid cancer.
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Our annual SUOAF Holiday Party will be on Dec 18th at 4:00, Student Center Café. As was the case last year, SUOAF will match the amount generated by the members. The organization we will be donating to this year is WAIM
Here is information from WAIM's website (www.waimct.org). If you click on "programs" you can see the breadth of impact they have in the community. Their heating system broke and they are in need of funds to purchase a new heating system to keep the organization functioning. They are located at 866 Main Street in Willimantic. The director is an Eastern graduate, Victoria Nimirowski.
WAIM started in 1984 in the basement of a local church with the original intention of redistributing clothing to our neighbors in need. Since then, we've grown to an organization that, along with clothing, provides furniture, appliances, linens, career clothing and emergency financial assistance to over 8,000 people each year from Windham and twelve surrounding towns. We also manage a thriving community garden at Lauter Park in Willimantic, and provide seasonal programs to help clients make ends meet.
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HOOKSETT, NH — Christine D. Brodo, 66, died on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at her home, with her children by her side, after a long courageous battle.
HOOKSETT, NH — Christine D. Brodo, 66, died on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at her home, with her children by her side, after a long courageous battle.
Born in New Bedford, MA, she was the daughter of Manual and Delphine Correia.
Christine was devoted to her church where she made many friends and enjoyed Bible studies. She enjoyed cooking, family and social gatherings. She was a volunteer for Goodwill Industries where she mentored young women. She worked for Acadia Insurance as a Sr Rater for many years.
She was a giving and caring person who was strong, compassionate and truly an inspiration to all.
Survivors include her two children; her son, Wayne Brodo and his wife Melissa; her daughter, Kelsy King and her husband Jared. She also leaves five grandchildren, Candace Schaefer, Corey Cunha, Jarad Cunha, Alicia Barna and John Barna; one great-granddaughter, Lydia Schaefer; her brother, Richard Correia; and many nieces and nephews.
Christine was predeceased by her husband Robert W. Brodo in 2010.
Calling hours will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2014, from 10am-12pm at the Bennett Funeral Home, 3 Church Street Chapel (The Brick Building). A Celebration of her life will take place at 12pm at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery in Concord.
The Bennett Funeral Home of Concord is in charge of the arrangements.
Messages of condolences may be offered at http://www.bennettfuneral.com/


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Not only has Barack Obama escaped the kind of media criticism experienced by his predecessor — see, for example, "The four-year honeymoon" by Fred Barnes in the new issue of the Weekly Standard — so have the characters around him in the administration. It turns out, for example, that outgoing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has been using aliases on EPA email accounts that she used to conduct official business. Somehow I think this would be a big story in a Republican administration.
At NRO John Fund catches up with the story deriving from a failed Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the hardy souls of Chris Horner and others at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:
When the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market group, came up empty on its FOIA requests for Jackson's e-mails relating to her anti-coal efforts, it was told by an EPA whistleblower that she was using "Richard Windsor" and other aliases to coordinate with outside anti-coal groups and engage in other activity she wouldn't want to come to light.
After CEI filed suit, the Justice Department last month reluctantly agreed to produce 12,000 "Richard Windsor" e-mails. The first batch is set to be released on January 14. CEI employees told me they expect the e-mails will be heavily redacted to obscure their content, but that House committees headed by Representative Darrell Issa of California and Representative Fred Upton of Michigan will launch probes that will ultimately bring all of the e-mails to light.
Kyle Smith comments in today's New York Post. Horner's related book is The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information "Criminal."
This is a story that has been around for a few months, though I haven't tuned in to it and, because of the operative double standard, one that has been easy to overlook. Jackson's sudden resignation might be a tipoff that there is more to it than the Windsor knot. In a rightly ordered universe it might even be a scandal.


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Here come the Jamie's!
Britney Spears' younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears took to Twitter to reveal exciting news--she's engaged to boyfriend of three years Jamie Watson!
The 21-year-old shared on Saturday an Instagram pic of her and Watson, 30, hugging while flashing her ring finger with the caption: "Guesssss what??????"
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As for sister Britney, learn about her new boyfriend here!
The mother to 4-year-old Maddie then followed up with a closeup of her bling, with the hashtag "he did good."
This will be the first marriage for Jamie Lynn, who was previously engaged to Casey Aldridge, the father of daughter Maddie. (Jamie Lynn split with Aldridge in 2010.)
Congrats to Jamie Lynn and Jamie!
Copyright E! Online


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Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, maybe we can talk about something that is really important: oatmeal.
Let's be specific. What most Americans think of as "oatmeal" is really rolled oats. You know, the stuff that comes in the big cardboard tube with the smiling Quaker on the front. These are oat groats (the grain with the husk removed) that have been steamed to soften them and then rolled flat. This process lets you cook them more quickly at home. The difference between rolled oats that are labeled "old-fashioned" and "quick-cooking" is how thickly they're rolled.
Real oatmeal is made from raw oat groats that are chopped to a fairly uniform size. It takes longer to cook and has a firmer texture than rolled oats.
I use rolled oats for making cookies and things like that, but you can't match the real stuff for cereal. And because there is no kitchen project too minor for a kitchen geek to overthink, I have made something of a small science out of cooking my morning oatmeal. It's not hard, but I'm convinced that it makes a difference in flavor.
I use the McCann's Irish Oatmeal that comes in those cool tins. Use a dry saucepan, 1 quart is fine for two or three people. Cook the oatmeal over medium heat until it smells nice and toasty. That'll take about 3 or 4 minutes, depending on the heat. You'll hear it start to pop when it's ready.
When your cereal begins to sing, add four times the volume of oats in water (1/3 cup of oats, enough for two people, will take 1 1/3 cups water). Increase the heat to high until the water starts to boil, give the pot a good stir, then turn the flame to low to maintain a decent simmer.
Partially cover the pan with a lid, but be sure to prop it askew with a wooden spoon or a whisk. This is important: If the lid is on too tight, the oatmeal will boil over, and there is no cleanup project worse than scraping baked-on oatmeal off of stove-top burners.
Let the oatmeal simmer for a good 20 minutes or so. You don't need to pay much attention, but if you're going to walk the dog, put a flame-tamer underneath the pan to keep it from scorching. When the oatmeal is done, there will probably be some liquid on top, and there may be a thin layer of dried flour-skin. This will disappear when you stir it. The oatmeal itself will be tender but still have a bit of "pop."
Whisk in butter according to your conscience, toss in a small handful of dried fruit (I use a mix of raisins, sour cherries and cranberries), cover tightly and let stand off heat for five minutes for the fruit to soften.
You can doctor this base however you want. I like a mix of brown and white sugar (brown for molasses, white for sweetness) or maybe some maple syrup. Then some chopped toasted nuts -- almonds or walnuts. Finally, I add just enough milk to make the mixture creamy. If I have leftover steamed milk from the morning coffee, I might use that. And if I'm feeling splurge-y, nothing but half-and-half; that's just how I roll.
Those quicker-cooking rolled oats are great for granola. And when I'm not eating real oatmeal (foolish consistency, etc.), my breakfast is usually fruit, yogurt and granola from Christine Moore's excellent recipe in her new "Little Flower" cookbook. I say "based on" because, after following Moore's script exactly the first time, I've thrown in a few little changes, honoring the recipe in structure if not in detail.
In the last month I've made this recipe at least once a week (depending on how quickly we go through it). And I don't think I've ever made it exactly the same way twice. I change the mix of the nuts and dried fruit depending on what appeals to me at the moment (and depending on what I have left from other cooking -- this is a great way to clean out all those odds and ends of nuts you probably have in your freezer).
Start with a bunch of fruit (lately I've been using persimmons from our tree, spiked with a bit of lime juice), then add a handful of granola and top with a good dollop of yogurt sweetened with honey.
This granola mix would make a terrific gift too, packaged in Ikea storage jars. Be sure to include the recipe, because folks will definitely want to fix it again.
And, after all, there are more holidays just around the corner.


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If your claim is denied, in full or in part, and you believe that you should receive benefits (or further benefits), your dispute may be handled through a formal hearing or through an informal alternative dispute resolution process.
If you have not retained an attorney, your claim will initially follow the informal process. Your claim will be referred to a specialist in the Divisions Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Unit. The ADR staff will review your claim to determine the issues in dispute and assure that the medical information submitted supports your claim for benefits. If the ADR staff believes that the issues can be resolved without a formal hearing, you and the insurer will be contacted in an attempt to resolve your dispute.
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As a legally binding procedure, the ALJ is required to obtain information from all parties during the hearing. The ALJ reviews all pertinent information related to the hearing and issues a decision based on his/her findings. This decision by the ALJ becomes a formal "order" to which the parties of the hearing must adhere. The order specifies the conditions under which the dispute will be resolved.
You may appeal a decision by an ALJ if you believe the decision was incorrect. Your appeal would be made to the Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC). Your case would be reviewed by LIRC and they will provide you with a decision. If you disagree with the decision from LIRC, you may appeal to circuit court.


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(Seeing as a chat get-together has been unable to happen since... well... over a <s>year</s> TWO YEARS (it's changed since I was writing this up!) this is just gonna go on the forums. Also for those who do not know, this is a closed Philsys RP)
NOTE TO RPers: TONS OF READING AHEAD. You can skip ahead to near the bottom if you wanna avoid all this crap and get to posting
Long ago, in the kingdom of Lokar, a young illusionist by the name of Valzar had come upon a very special book within the marketplace. A collector of sorts, the strange language and symbols written inside intrigued him, as he spent most of his coin to obtain it. Having spent many years learning to translate it, Valzar had come to learn that this book was the lost tome describing of the Eternals, an ancient evil with which the legends of old had once defeated, or so history stated these days. But as he read on, he learned many things that history did NOT mention, about Eternals who fought for the side of good, and paid with thier life for it, about many relics lost to time, about the war one arrogant Eternal had begun and lost...
Valzar could not pull himself away from the book. Why had no one bothered to translate it before? The knowledge held inside was astounding! Who would discard such a thing to some petty merchant? It was then a line of text caught Valzar's eye.
It was a spell of great power, one that described a way to regain the power of the Eternals should it become lost. It mentioned the use of many artifacts, scattered throughout the worlds of existance, that would be required to do such a thing. When an Eternal dies, it's energy is dispersed, but never truely disappears. The incantation here looked as though something an Eternal named Infinel would use to bring back those who had fallen, but the book also stated that this Infinel was the first to be destroyed by the arrogant opressor. With the amount of energy gone into the casting of such a incantation, any mortal who attempted it would be destroyed.
Valzar mused about finding a way to do this, thoughts of ultimate power to use as he saw fit dancing about his head, but figured this was far from his grasp. After all, he was but an illusionist, and an aging one at that. He closed the book for the day, and went out for a walk. Two hours into his usual journey is when HE came to him, a white-cloaked man wearing a pale, life-like mask. The man stated his name as Reuben, and that he was a seer. He claimed he forsaw great things in Valzar's future should he seek to claim the power the book describes, and knew just how he could obtain it. Valzar was skeptical at first, but Reuben told of more and more things one man should not normally know, eventually leading the middle-aged illusionist to ask him for what reason he would tell him all these things. The seer replied that Valzar's future had greatly interested him, and wished to see it come to pass.
Obviously distrustful of a 'local seer' he had never seen nor met, Valzar brushed him off and continued his walk. The thoughts refused to cease, however. The power of beings eternal, what could he do with such a thing? Save lives? Rule over them? CREATE them? The concept continues to push him, and the fact this seer knew of a way to make it possible drove Valzar to self-doubt. On his wa back to his home, the seer was waiting just where he had been previously. Must've "forsaw" I would come back to him, he thought to himself. He invited the seer into his home, and talked over what must be done, much to the seer's delight. What he heard did not please him. There was not enough time in a mortal's life, as he already concluded, to do what was required. Valzar would need some way to increase his longevity or lifespan first, and what the seer suggested made him grow pale. "You must gain the forbidden power of the Undead," the seer spoke, "the power you seek will make you the enemy of many civilizations who will wish to stop you. The visions tell me that only through the might of undeath will you master thier forces and take what destiny holds as rightfully yours." Valzar did not like the concept of being undead. Who does? Only madmen, he was sure, but the seer stated that upon gaining this power, he would be able to undo the wrongs he had done to obtain it. He could resurrect entire civilizations if need be. And thus, against his better judgement, Valzar began research on various dark arts and necromancy. As he made many enemies, so did he make many allies. Knowledge of his "threat" to Lokar became apparent when he finished what another Dark Lord had started, ending in turning all of Zy'Tul and it's citizens and creatures into undead. Fanatics, seeing him as the new Dark Lord of the age flocked to his side, while heroes came to end him. Valzar had taken many lives, and while he regretted it at first, it was slowly becoming all the more easier. The seer was always by his side, giving him instruction, and as he did, failure could not reach Valzar Du'Lac. The Kingdom of Loracia began employing psionists and seers of thier own, however, to combat his strange battle tactics. Once Valzar had learned where these men and women were being trained, he sent out forces to destroy them...
Alittle over 100 years after Valzar's reign began in Lokar, a boy named Reako arrived in Gaera. Apparently he had escaped from another location, far far away, that was under the attack of a powerful lich. He lived in fear for the first few months of his time in Gaera, before he considered himself safe. Over time Reako made friends with many people, even Hakaril, who had a general dislike for "mind speakers". Aside from the strangely consistant number of problems Gaera had, things were going well and he lived happily.
But it would not last.
Valzar found he could no longer access the world of Loracia, a current target of his, via arcane means. A Planar Seal of sorts was likely placed. His closest assistant, Reuben the Seer, mentioned to him of a technique that would allow dimensional travel with the proper mental fortitude, but only one man was known to have this ability, and he was considered dead by Valzar's hands. Regretable, as access to Loracia was crucial. The final two most important artifacts were known to be held there. The Seer mentioned that the man had a student, and that this student escaped the attack by use of the technique to reach otherworldly lands. Thus Valzar and his highest officers began personally searching for this world. In time, it was found, and the hunt for this student began.
Using his illusionary prowess from his previous life, Valzar was able to hide amongst the populace of every land except Doma, which held some strange resistance to his entry. Seeking out the source, Doma apparently had some kind of ancient defensive device against undead with hostile intentions hidden away in a northern mountain cavern. As unguarded as it was, Valzar figured it had been forgotten, and sent Faust, a spirit-possessed ice construct to claim and destroy the item. But Faust never returned. A month afterward, a group of travellers came upon Valzar's current abode. Seeing this as a good chance to use adventurers' interest for his own gain, he gave them lodging and food, and told them a story about a mysterious artifact in a cavern just to the west. Kilra, one of the travellers who was present at the time, showed interest in checking out this location, and Stephan, Enlil, Ayra, and Dan soon followed.
It did not take long for the adventurers to come upon Faust, apparently driven temporarily mad by the artifact's powers when he attempted to remove it. Enlil tried to talk with him, while everyone else defended themselves, but it was as if the orb had made Faust into a guardian of it's own, and his attacks did not cease until he self destructed. Enlil grabbed the orb, which gave no resistance to her, and as she did, the enchantments it powered began to fade. The party paid little mind to this, however, as they exited the cavern, only to be confronted by the "hermit" whom they had met not long ago. The hermit revealed himself to be a man named Valzar, and goaded Enlil into a frenzy, who lost control and unintentionally attacked her allies. In the confusion, Valzar claimed the orb, and vanished.
Only days afterward mysterious creatures had been seen roaming near Doma Castle, and rumors spread of a lich in the land. The guard was on alert, and the need for more magicly inclined guards was on the rise. Valzar had heard that Doma Castle's libraries were some of the best in the land, and sought to infiltrate the castle, appearing as a young mage named "Salith" who wished to apply for a job. Only the Captain of the Guard held suspicions towards the new recruit, and watched him closely, usually finding him in the library when not on guard duty. However, "Salith" appeared to have a true love for his job, and Captain Pervy's suspicions were slowly decreasing.
A month into Valzar's stay at the castle, he found the information and maps he needed. Reako had also frequented the library, and one day he dropped a slip of paper, musing about how one of the new guards at the castle was named Salith, his old mentor in Lokar. Valzar asked around about the boy, and soon learned where it was he lived. His mission complete, he decided he would have alittle "fun" before leaving the castle. The Captain prided himself on how well he defended the castle and trained his men. It would wound his pride to learn that the Lich everyone had heard about was under thier noses for days. Using an illusion spell he had saved up for this moment, he created a lifelike, cackling shadow demon which began running around the castle and throwing it in an uproar. Meanwhile, he entered the currently empty throne room, to prepare the finale for his little trick. The shadow lead the guards directly to it, where Valzar sat, clapping. Pervy was furious, and ordered his men to attack, but Valzar called forth two beholders who turned the lot of them to stone. He mocked the Captain one last time, before teleporting out of the location, leaving Crimson Death, his new Fire Spirit Construct, to test his battle capabilities on those who remain in the throne room. The battle was shortlived, however, as Queen Aya, Captain Pervy, and General Hakaril proved far too much for Crimson Death, powerful though he was. His pride hurt, Pervy wished for another shot at the lich, but knew not where to look.
Valzar began his journey to the shrine in which Reako lived immediately, Reuben following closely at his heels. When he arrived, he found much more resistance than expected, as a few other demihumans and a talented warlock also resided there. They had gained warning ahead of time of Valzar's coming, and attempted to hide the boy away so that he could escape. The Warlock stood against Valzar with bravery, but it was a losing battle. It was then that the real Salith arrived, who had been watching Reako closely for the past month, and the lich and the master psionist clashed forces. In the end, the defense still ended in failure, as Reuben had reached Reako, and extracted the memories of the technique he required from him. He and Valzar fled the scene immediately, running off to the barren northlands.
Salith took Reako and made haste to the Castle so that Reako could tell Captain Aliestar Pervus the full situation. While Valzar had mentioned he would bother the world of Gaera no longer after having gained what he wanted, "Pervy's" firebrand nature would not allow it. He would kick that lich's ass, mark his words, and he gathered acquiantences and adventurers to go with him on his airship into the northern lands. Thusly were the heroes of the Loracian War and Zy'Tul Seige gathered, Kyle the Fencer, Griff the Swordsman, Idran the Time Mage, and Kelne, a man of mystery. Due to the rarity of airship technology, it never occured to him that Valzar would also have one of his own, and he figured he would overtake the lich and attack him from the air.
As they neared the location Salith specified, a fierce, unnatural storm began to blow. The psionist protected the crew from the dangers of the weather, but it soon became apparent they weren't alone. Zombie dragons rushed out of the violent skies and attacked the ship, much to the surprise of it's inhabitants. Through quick action, they were slain, but the battle was hardly over. Flying out from behind a nearby mountain peak was the 'Death Dealer', an airship wrought from flesh, bone, and wood. Pervy called everyone to thier battle stations, and the epic battle over the skies of Gaera began. Try as he might, the Captain could not keep his ship in the air, as the DeathDealer revealed long clawlike appendages which then grabbed his beloved ship and tore into it. In a last ditch effort, the cannons were loaded with all they could carry, and blasted the abomination at point-blank range. Both ships went down, the snowy surface of the valley below them cushioning thier fall. The party was not allowed a moment's peace, however, as Darkfeather, the Death Dealer's controller and captain, attacked them. She nearly shredded the party, were it not for Idran's idea to try and slow her down with gravity magic. Victory was thiers, and the portal to Loracia stood before them. Not knowing what would await them there, the party rushed after Valzar. Soon they would have the journey of thier lives.
Not long after thier entry, they were assaulted by a group of demihumans closely resembling Reako's race. At first, they were accused of being collaborators of the lich, but the nation's seer, Sharila, examined them closely, and deemed this not to be true. Having learned they were in fact TAILING the lich, seeking to destroy him, the captain of the guard Kahn led them to Castle Lorance, on a ride fit for kings (although not according to Captain Pervy, who hated Chocobos). After a luxurious dinner, and becoming acquainted with the royalty, strategies were discussed. Pervy and Kahn's views clashed fiercely, but upon meeting thier chosen guide, Marse, Pervy calmed down and was reassured. Given the proper funds to supply thier coming journey, the party milled about town, checking out the sights and shops. Idran marveled at the strong attunement to magic this race and world had, while Kyle was enamored with various other trinkets that were thier specialty. Griff, Pervy, and Kelne went straight to business seeking out blacksmiths and potionmasters for thier own supplies.
Meanwhile, Valzar was busying himself with attempted negotiations with the Mindflayers of the Underwood Lake for a specific relic of thiers. Needless to say, they proved fruitless, and combat broke out. However, most of the Mindflayers' psychic abilities were unable to harm the undead, and Valzar's contingent of necromancers and followers showed ot have the upper hand in the magical field as well. With each of thier bretheran that fell, it rose once more, serving the lich and bent on destruction. If he could not obtain the relic peacefully, he would take it by force...
Later the next day, the party set forth into the Underwood (being told many unnerving stories by the townfolk and Marse along the way). The forest was an accursed, illusion-filled location, turning would-be invaders around and into traps. Marse managed to navigate the forest, however, and they came upon a scene that was not comforting in the least. A group of eight to ten mindflayers, thier bodies destroyed in various manners. It was clear Valzar had no intent of allying with the Mindflayers, or so it appeared. After a few more tricks and turns, the group arrived at Underwood Lake, which was completely frozen, an tunnel borred through the ice towards a cavern. It was then that Faust and Crimson appeared behind them, Faust quickly sealing the way out via altering the Mindflayer's protective magic, Crimson raising two fallen Mindflayers from the dead to attack the party. Faust walled them in with ice, and summoned forth a lesser ice golem to provide a distraction. The party dispatched this encounter with ease... perhaps alittle too MUCH ease. Kelne and Griff saw fit to mock the mage constructs, with which Crimson's reply was to animate ALL the Mindflayer corpses within the vicinity. Faced with 50 to 5, the party had no choice but to flee into the cavern, Pervy firing off a spell to seal the entrance and perhaps catch up to Valzar without the duo's interferance.
It had become Do or Die time. There was no visable way out, and undoubtably many horrors lied in wait in the darkness. Still, the party pressed onwards. At the second junction, a group of undead and still living Mindflayers were fighting amongst eachother. Perhaps it was not too late? Whatever it was Valzar sought, the Mindflayers were still resisting his advance. Idran attempted to speak with the flayers after thier victory of the undead, but they would not listen and attacked. Everyone within the labyrinth were enemies... it was quite unsettling. Having no map, they explored based on instinct, and found the flayer's prison. A prisoner was still alive in a cell, a female soldier of the Loracian Army. While Marse worked to free the poor lass, Crimson Death caught up. Upset at the party's previous escape, he animated the many animal bones (mostly rabbits) strewn about the prison hall, and sent them to alarm others of the party's presance. That complete, the mass of bones combined together to form a nasty, tentacled ball-like abomination. Once the prisoner was freed, Marse and the soldier joined the fray, dispatching the creature.
The soldier revealed herself to be a spy and informant, who was captured on the job. The Mindflayers kept her rather than killing her to later extract her memories as to the purpose of her invasion. With her knowledge of most of the labyrinth's layout, the party found the main chamber... but many once-open doors were now sealed with many runes. Pervy and Idran worked together to dispell the runes, but it still hindered thier progress by an hour. The fact no attacks occured during this was more disturbing than it was comforting. The Mindflayers were losing... At last, finally reaching the ritual chamber of the labyrinth, the party found the last of the Mindflayer resistance standing against Valzar himself, Faust, Darkfeather, and Crimson Death at his side. They did not go unnoticed. Valzar motioned to Darkfeather and Crimson to dispatch the party. They fought valiantly, but Pervy was unable to prevent the Pyrowizard from casting a very lengthy, powerful spell. The entire hall errupted with fire, strong enough to turn the rock molten, and thier weapons not packed away, flimsy and ruined. Crimson laughed at thier failure, and left them for dead. Before Darkfeather could "make sure", she was called away by Valzar for urgent business. Something unexpected had gotten in thier way...
Barely holding onto conciousness, Kyle managed to stand on his feet. The party dying, he acted quickly and used the powerful potion 'Elixirs' they were given to rouse those he could. Pervy mended what wounds the potions could not, Griff cursed at the ruination of one of his blades, and Kelne swore to remember fire protection enchantments in the future. Disheartened, but refusing to give up, the party gave chase, replacing what weapons and supplies they could from the Mindflayer treasure holds. In the final chamber was a stunning sight. The whole cavern shined with many vibrant colors, light reflecting off an underground lake at it's center. Standing atop a hovering platform was the leader of the Mindflayers, using some kind of artifact to power his spells beyond most's imagination. After trading a few blows with Valzar's servants, the patriarch summoned forth what he claimed to be thier god. A gigantic squid-monster named Kraken. It was so large that the party was forced to join in the fray WITH Valzar, riding atop Kelne's flying carpet and firing spells from a distance to defend themselves. The strain of the battle used up so much of Darkfeather and Crimson's mana energies that thier constructed bodies faded into apparations. Faust was doing his best to freeze the monster in place, while the party rained death from above.
Victory was had, the patriarch and monster slain... the party saw this as the perfect time to strike at thier quarry. After all, the lich was forced into dealing with the brunt of the attack. Instead of being met with malice, they instead recieved congradulation. Valzar was impressed by thier tenacity, but questioned thier reasoning for following him. After all, his business was no longer with thier world. Before they could give a proper answer, Valzar touched the adamantium dias on which the mindflayer stood, chanted a spell, and they found themselves outside of the woods.
There's still alot more to the story, but I can post that later. Typing this up is taking too long, and probably is a sucky read full of "and" "however" "clearly" etc but whatever. I'll add the rest of the current story when I have time for it. FOR NOW. I hope you guys remember where we currently are somehow. After like 2 years. Of complete inactivity. Well, if not, just IM me and I'll fill you in. LET THE FINALE FINALLY BEGIN, FINALLY.


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Press Release: Berkeley Police Arrest Attempted Murder Suspect After Crash
Berkeley police officers arrested a suspect in an apparent attempt murder case early this morning, following a pursuit in which the suspect struck a police car, and later crashed into a tree in north Berkeley, destroying his vehicle.
At approximately 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday, October 23rd, the Berkeley Police Department Communications Center received numerous calls reporting a man being violently beaten at the northeast corner of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. Witnesses reported the suspect was using a weapon to beat the victim, who was down on the ground.
The suspect also broke out a passing motorist's window, then returned to beat the victim. As officers approached, the suspect fled west on Center Street, driving a sport utility vehicle. Witnesses directed Officers towards the suspect's vehicle, which was westbound on Center Street.
The suspect turned from Center Street north into the southbound traffic lane of Martin Luther King Jr. Way, where he struck a responding police car. The suspect then fled at a high rate of speed, speeding north on Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Officers pursued the vehicle, but lost sight of the vehicle due to its high rate of speed. As officers arrived in the area of the Alameda and Hopkins Street, they found the suspect vehicle had been involved in a solo vehicle collision, and the suspect attempting to flee on foot. The suspect was taken into custody. Officers determined the vehicle had collided with a tree on the Alameda north of Hopkins Street. The vehicle's right side was sheared open by the impact with the tree.
The Alameda near Hopkins Street was closed for several hours, and is now open to all traffic.
The victim, a 41 year old male, of Oakland, suffered major injuries, and is in critical condition in a local hospital.
The suspect, Duane Nailor, 54 years old, of Texas, is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries suffered during the collision in a local hospital. Nailor has been arrested for attempted murder, and related charges to be determined. The investigation into this incident is ongoing; no information regarding the circumstances leading up to the attack is available at this time. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to please call the Homicide Detail at (510) 981-5741, or our non-emergency number at (510) 981-5900. If a person wishes to remain anonymous, he/she can call the Bay Area Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).


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It's very easy. Just go to the advanced tab of the RVMIntegrator and:
1. Open the DPs_Base.exe file in the driverpacks and choose all of your settings. Then choose to "Export Settings".
It will create a "mysettings.ini" file for you. You will need this file later.
2. Select: [x] Enable Advanced Options
3. Select: [x] Run a program after integration
Browse to the DPs_Base.exe file that is used for integrating the driverpacks.
In the "Enter parameters for the above program" box put:
- Code: Select all
Now after you integrate your UpdatePacks/Addons the integrator will trigger the DPs_Base unattendedly for you.