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Stricker, DeLaet sew up spots in Presidents Cup
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(AP) -- Steve Stricker and Zach Johnson delivered clutch performances in different ways Monday to earn their spots on the U.S. team for the Presidents Cup.
Jordan Spieth, the 20-year-old rookie from Texas, might have done the same.
Fred Couples will make his two captain's picks on Wednesday, and it was clear that Spieth got his attention with a 9-under 62. It was by four shots the best score of the final round on the TPC Boston.
"Jordan, knowing what he had to do, really played very solid," Couples said Monday night. "He's got a 50-50 chance. He showed a lot of character."
Stricker wasn't sure he deserved a captain's pick because of his limited playing schedule, so he came to the Deutsche Bank Championship wanting to make the team on his own. He nearly wound up winning, closing with a 67 to finish two shots behind Henrik Stenson. The runner-up finish moved him from No. 11 to No. 7 in the final standings.
That left Johnson and Webb Simpson battling for the 10th and final spot, and it took on even greater drama when they were in the same group. Johnson needed to earn about $29,000 more than Simpson to move ahead of him, and it didn't look promising when they were tied with four holes to play.
Simpson made bogey on No. 6. Johnson made birdie on No. 7. Simpson made bogey on No. 8.
That still wasn't enough. Johnson needed one more birdie to get the money he needed, and the former Masters champion poured in a 25-footer on the final hole to do it.
Even though he didn't know what was at stake.
"I guess you've got to go into it and just play," Johnson said. "And I stayed in the process."
The American team consists of Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker, Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar, Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley, Stricker, Bill Haas, Hunter Mahan and Johnson. Couples said his two picks would come from four players
-- Simpson, Spieth, Dustin Johnson or Jim Furyk, who has been on every U.S. team since 1997.
He did not include former Masters champion Bubba Watson.
The International team had no movement, although Marc Leishman of Australia made his case as a captain's pick for Nick Price.
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The 10 who qualified based on their world ranking were Adam Scott and Jason Day of Australia; Charl Schwartzel, Ernie Els, Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace and Richard Sterne of South Africa; Hideki Matsuyama of Japan; Graham DeLaet of Canada; and Angel Cabrera of Argentina.
The Presidents Cup is Oct. 3-6 at Muirfield Village in Ohio.
Price will have four players who have never competed in a Presidents Cup.
"What they lack in experience, I think they'll make up for in energy," Price said.
The International team has only won this event one time since it began in 1994
-- in 1998 at Royal Melbourne. The Americans lead the series, 7-1-1.
Spieth felt like the Deutsche Bank was one final chance to audition for Couples. He finished 22nd in the standings, but unlike the other players, he only had a chance to earn points in one year.
"In my mind, the only way to make a statement was play great golf the last few weeks," Spieth said. "And I feel really solid about today's round, going forward into the next event. And whatever happens on Wednesday happens on Wednesday. I'm very, very happy with today and that's kind of what's on my mind right now."
Couples sounded as though he were leaning toward Simpson as one of his picks.
Simpson played for him at Royal Melbourne two years ago, and he played in the Ryder Cup a year ago at Medinah. Couples said Simpson was in the top 10 in the Presidents Cup standings for all but the final putt of the final tournament.
"A guy birdies the last two holes to push him out. How do you not pick him?" Couples said. "It will be a tough decision."
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Adam Lambert's first post-"American Idol" album is due out on November 23, the same day as Rihanna, Shakira and Susan Boyle's new efforts, but the rocker isn't running scared.
"It's a big day, but what boys are on the block?" Adam laughed of being the lone superstar male on a day filled with superstar female releases. "I'm just excited to get the record out there. I'm excited for people to be able to hear what I've been working on the last couple of months and… for people to hear what I've always wanted to do."
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Adam's effort, "For Your Entertainment," is a big moment for the "Idol" runner-up.
"This is a big labor of love," he told Access Hollywood of the album. "This is what I've been working towards since I've been in LA for the past eight years. My dreams are coming true — and I know it sounds very cliche — but it really does feel that way."
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Access visited the singer on the set of his debut music video, which shares the same title as the album, and because it was his first video clip, Adam made sure it was attractive.
"It goes into like all forms of sexy," Adam explained of the video. "You know how people sometimes take sexy to extremes? That's how I'd probably put it… A little light bondage, little light fetish kind of undertones, but I think the most important thing is we're not trying to be gratuitous about it. We're definitely trying to create high fashion moments, pictures using fetishes and bondage as more of a fashion piece as opposed to any sort of gratuitous act."
Adam said the sexy clip is reflective of the song's material.
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"I think it depends on the song," he said. "If a song is provocative then therefore the imagery supporting it should be somewhat provocative. I think this song kind of has a double meaning. It is sensual and one of the things that I think is really interesting about using bondage and fetish undertones is it's more of a metaphor for restraint and holding back and keeping things inside and not [being] able to just be free."
But while fame comes with more exposure and less of a private life, Adam said his own life has gotten more free professionally.
"Opportunities now are available to me and that's why I wanted to audition for 'Idol,'" he said. "What's beautiful about that show is that you get put in front of all these people on TV and it's up to them to vote if they like it and they liked it so now I get to do what I've always wanted."
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PHILADELPHIA - The Toronto Raptors are under .500 and on top of the Atlantic Division.
More games like this one and they'll get that winning record.
DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points and Rudy Gay had 18 to help Toronto beat the Philadelphia 76ers 108-98 on Wednesday night.
In a down year so far in the Atlantic Division, the Raptors (5-7) wrested away first place from the Sixers (5-8).
"It's a great accomplishment to be in that position," guard Kyle Lowry said. "But we still have to keep it up. We have to take all the good from it, learn from it and grow."
DeRozan and Gay dominated the Sixers in the second half to turn this one into a rout. Gay hit a pair of 3-pointers and scored 15 points in the third quarter, and DeRozan scored 30 points through the first three quarters to build a 16-point lead.
The Raptors may not have a winning record, but they have themselves in first place.
"We're nowhere near where we need to be," coach Dwane Casey said. "We'll take it, but it's early. We've got to continue to work and stay hungry."
The Raptors can ask Philadelphia how easy it is to lose the top spot. The Sixers were the surprise first-place team in the division thanks to 3-0 start, featuring wins over Miami and Chicago. But reality has set in for a team that was expected to rank among the worst in the NBA.
Spencer Hawes hit his first nine shots and finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds for the 76ers.
Philadelphia's fourth straight loss came on the heels of an 0-3 road trip. The Sixers started Daniel Orton and James Anderson, and a bench made up of Hollis Thompson, Brandon Davies and Lavoy Allen is one of the weakest in the league.
"Teams go on losing streaks, it happens sometimes," Allen said. "Everyone needs to fill a role and get back to what we were doing earlier."
Led by DeRozan, the Raptors pulled away to a 55-48 halftime lead. He hit three 3s in the half and scored 22 points, putting him on pace to top his career high of 37. He didn't slow down in the second half as much as it was his teammates simply taking turns dominating the ball.
"That's how we've got to play, get everybody involved, everybody going," DeRozan said.
Against a woeful defence, the Raptors shot 12 of 21 on 3-pointers through three. Terrence Ross, who had 17 points, and Steve Novak ended the quarter with consecutive 3s to close a 15-5 run. The Raptors finished with a season-high 14 — already the eighth time the 76ers have allowed 13 or more.
Hawes was the only Sixers player who at least was able to make this one a game. He hit his first five free throws and his first three 3-pointers to keep it close. Hawes finally missed a free throw in the third, only to have Allen put it back for a bucket that cut it to 76-70. The Raptors wouldn't let the lead dip below six points the rest of the way.
DeRozan was fouled on a 3-point attempt late in the fourth and hit all three free throws to make it 107-92 in front of an almost empty arena.
The Raptors were just the latest team to put up big points against the Sixers, who have allowed 100-plus points in 11 of 13 games this season.
Michael Carter-Williams returned to Philadelphia's starting lineup after missing the previous four games with a bruised left arch. He scored 10 points. Evan Turner had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Starting forward Thaddeus Young missed the game for personal reasons.
"When you don't have Thaddeus, do you go big ball, do you go small ball?" coach Brett Brown said. "When you play that type of judgment game, it gets harder to manage those periods."
NOTES: Lowry, a Philadelphia native who played at Villanova, had most of the team over for a family dinner Tuesday night. He had 13 points and 10 assists. ... The 76ers waived F Kwame Brown and G Darrius Morris. They signed free-agent guards Elliot Williams and Lorenzo Brown. ... Brett Brown was whistled for a technical. ... The Raptors had a season-high nine blocked shots.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by former Wyeth Inc shareholders who said they were misled about risks associated with the antidepressant Pristiq.
The all-cash settlement was disclosed on Friday, one month after Pfizer agreed to pay $164 million to settle a separate lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors about clinical trial results for the arthritis drug Celebrex.
Wyeth shares lost more than $7.6 billion of market value on July 24, 2007, after the company said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would not approve Pristiq to treat "hot flashes" in post-menopausal women until it learned more about potential heart and liver problems associated with the drug.
Shareholders led by the Pipefitters Union Local 537 Pension Fund in Boston said Wyeth's failure to reveal adverse effects sooner caused its stock price to be inflated during the June 26, 2006, to July 24, 2007, class period.
Pfizer bought Wyeth in 2009. Several former Wyeth officials, including onetime Chief Executive Robert Essner, are also defendants in the case.
Christopher Loder, a Pfizer spokesman, said the defendants denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
Laurie Largent and David Rosenfeld, lawyers for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond to requests for a comment.
Pristiq generated $461 million of sales from January to September for Pfizer.
Analysts once hoped annual sales would top $2 billion for the drug, whose chemical name is desvenlafaxine.
The settlement followed nearly six months of mediation. It requires approval by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan, who certified the class action in September.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs plan to seek attorneys' fees of roughly $16.5 million, plus as much as $650,000 for expenses, court papers show.
Pfizer's shares closed Friday at $24.17 on the New York Stock Exchange.
The case, which has a Michigan retirement system as the named plaintiff, is City of Livonia Employees' Retirement System v. Wyeth et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 07-10329.
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The Law of Succession, which has been traditionally confined to domestic limits, is becoming a frequent topic of discussion in international forums, due to the increasing mobility of people and assets. Freedom of testation is in the centre of all initiatives tending to harmonize or at least approximate legislations in this field, even if, to date, efforts in this direction have focused on international private law. In April 2010, an international conference was held in Barcelona, where the scope of freedom of testation was checked against the limitations imposed by human rights, by domestic rules granting forced shares and other rights to the deceased's next of kin, and by provisions dealing with inheritance agreements. The conference stemmed from the new Catalan legislation and proceeded to cover other national systems. These reports, together with other contributions by experts from different countries commissioned specially for this publication, address, as well as Continental domestic regulations, the English common law system and Eastern European solutions. A general overview on the need and opportunity of convergence in the law of succession and on the proposed EU Regulation on Successions and Wills, as an initial move towards harmonization, are broached from the outset; the diversity of solutions that this volume presents confirms its convenience.
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Three Farms, One Town, One Storm
Written onDecember 01 , 2011
The Perley Farm stretches between Route 107 and the White River in South Royalton, on a piece of land exactly level with the river. A highway bridge for I-89 runs right above the pasture. It's a 40-year-old conventional dairy with a mixed herd of approximately two dozen cows, owned by Harlan "Duke" Perley and run by Larry and Penny Severance. A week before Tropical Storm Irene, Duke was in New Jersey, where he lives part time with his family, undergoing surgery to receive a pacemaker. When parts of the East Coast began to evacuate, he loaded up his two nieces, their two grandsons, and a daughter-in-law and headed up to the farm, where they thought they'd be safer.
Right across the river at Bigelow Farm, with a red dairy barn and five blue silos visible from the Perleys', brothers Jim and Dennis Bigelow milk 45 registered Guernsey cows while Jim's wife, Rachel, grows vegetables for farmers' markets around South Royalton. The Bigelows are third-generation dairymen on land their grandparents bought in 1921. The farm covers a two-tiered piece of land; the lower fields sit at bank level of the White River, while the road, buildings, and additional fields perch higher up on Royalton Hill. Expecting strong winds and a bit of rain during Irene, they had simply gotten out their generator, closed up the barn, and brought in anything that could be blown away.
Following an s-curve six miles or so downstream is Hurricane Flats, a 37-acre organic farm that produces vegetables and hay. Geo Honigford and his wife, Sharon O'Connor, have owned the farm for 17 years and named it after the persistent winds that have historically whipped through the White River Valley. When it started to rain on the morning of August 28, Geo planned for a restful Sunday.
"It was funny because I was taking the day off, thinking this is going to be great," Geo says with a sarcastic chuckle. "I'm going to nap, read the paper, drink lots of tea, take the day off. I decided I'm not going to do anything today."
Geo spent the day checking the river gauge on the Internet. The day before, readings had hovered around 1,500 cubic feet per second, slightly higher than usual due to earlier rains. At 11:00 a.m. on the day of the storm, the gauge read 3,800 and was going up, but not enough to be alarming. After a nap, he checked it again. "It said 18,000, and I thought, 'How could it have gone from 3,800 to 18,000 in an hour and a half?' I'm thinking this can't be right, the river can't go up that fast. So I looked out the window and realized the water was up into my back pasture, so I knew that it's higher than 18,000; it's got to be more like 27,000." The gauge had broken, smashed by debris that had raced down the river.
Up at the Perleys', Duke and his New Jersey family were having lunch in the kitchen, while Larry and his 17-year-old son, Buddy, hurried to milk the cows in the late morning before the weather got bad. Duke wasn't worried. "I said, 'Don't get excited, everything's OK. I've lived here 40 years; I know this river like the back of my hand. It'll come up a little bit, maybe, might go over the road a little bit.'" Using the concrete pillars from the I-89 bridge as a visual marker, they watched the river rise and then fall for a short time, then start rising at an alarming rate.
When Geo realized how quickly the water was coming up at Hurricane Flats—nearly five feet in an hour—he ran out to his barn to save what he could.
"I got my tractor and started pulling my equipment out—everything with a gearbox, everything the flood could damage," he explains. "There was really no point in trying to save vegetables. I'd have gotten out two or four baskets of tomatoes in an hour. My equipment was much more valuable than the crops. If I lose my hay mower, I'm out $5,000. The area I had the equipment in was high and dry, but by the time I went in for my last load 20 minutes later, there was two feet of water there. It was basically a flash flood. My neighbors down the street, some of them barely got out of their houses."
At Bigelow Farm, Jim drove down the hill from his house to the farm around 3:00 p.m. and realized he couldn't get there—the main road adjacent to the farm had flooded. So he returned to the house and hiked down to the barn. "When I got here, the people who live down below were already here because the water was going through their house. They had already abandoned ship. The water came up to here"—he is roughly 75 yards from the river's usual edge as he says this. "It was huge."
Across the river at the Perleys', the water reached the buildings. When the barn began to flood, Larry rushed out back to a mobile home on their property where a Vietnam vet named Bobby lived. "It's a good thing he did, because Bobby was sound asleep on the couch," says Penny, who had been frantically trying to call the farm from her house across the river. "He didn't even know. Larry almost had to break the door down to get him out and took him up the road, three minutes away. When he came back down to the farmhouse, Larry was pushing water with the front bumper of his truck." By then, water was knee high in the kitchen and Duke had herded everyone upstairs to dry ground.
"Colchester Rescue came and got us in the boat," he explains. "[Those] guys know their business. I heard them coming for 10 or 15 minutes. The guy that was operating the motor, he was feeling the river out to see where the best place was to get in here. The river was just like you were in the ocean. Going right up and down, no control or nothing."
As the boat brought them to higher ground on the railroad bed behind the farm, they watched helplessly as half their herd was swept away by the current.
"We lost all the cows on pasture," Penny explains solemnly. "There were 10. Someone had cut the railroad fence and the 10 got out, but they were so scared that a lot of them ran and ended up in the water. We had one cow that was within two weeks of having a calf that my son watched drown."
When the water went down the next day, the sun shone down on all three farms, all of which were covered in nearly two feet of sandy mud and debris from the river. The muck covered the lower flats at the Bigelows' and swept across the road, flattening swaths of feed corn that had just ripened. It infiltrated the greenhouses and fields at Hurricane Flats, burying fields full of sweet potatoes and carrots. At Perley Farm, the rushing water had pulled the road into the river and choked the house, barns, and fields with mud. The farmers began what would become months of work recovering.
"We went down and helped the neighbor dig mud out of his living room," Jim Bigelow says. "People who had houses were frantically trying to get stuff cleaned up. You couldn't even walk down on our flats, so we weren't worried about trying to clean up our fields. It was at least a week before we could do anything down there."
"We had 5,000 pounds of onions drying in a greenhouse, so I tried to save them," Geo Honigford says. "I spent an hour or two, but then the neighbors had a problem with water in their basement, and I had a pump that only I could run. When I came back, an extension agent had contacted us and said you can't sell anything that had been flooded. So at that point, I just stopped working on my farm. I thought, 'What's the point of working on me?'"
Geo, who spends his winters fixing old houses as a part-time contractor, left his farm and started putting his skills to work helping others and organizing the clean up as volunteers descended on central and southern Vermont.
"People came from everywhere," Geo says. "Boston, local folks, Hanover, New York City. A lot of them were second homeowners. Some were up here anyway, and some came up when they found out what happened. Initially they checked their own houses, but then they just said it's more important that they stay and help. And they all did awful, tedious work. It was a big soggy mess. But people just did it. It was a really great experience. Truth be told, I learned a lot about myself and about people."
Roughly 120 volunteers worked with Geo's wife, Sharon, at Hurricane Flats to clean up the farm. Much of their produce is grown under black plastic, which was buried in the mud. In just a few days workers dug through and ripped up acres of plastic, a job that would have taken Geo and Sharon weeks to do. Up river, help also poured in at Perley Farm. They were shocked at the influx of donated fencing, feed, generators, shavings for animal bedding, meals, and days' worth of people's time.
"Half of them I don't even know," Penny says. "This little girl came up to me and hugged me and thanked me for letting her help us. I said, 'Oh, no, I need to thank you!' It's amazing." she says, wiping tears away with her shirtsleeve. "It's hard for us to even imagine what took place the first couple of weeks. Just because it's so much. It was really hard for us to have everybody come because we've always been the giving people, the helping people. And to have to receive the help—that's harder."
Back across the river, the Bigelows were cut off from any major roadway; both bridges leading to Royalton Hill were washed out. Not only could volunteers not get there but milk trucks also couldn't get through and Rachel couldn't bring produce to market. So they improvised.
"We used the Hillbilly Highway," Jim says with a grin. He then explains the reference. "The night of the flood, people came from the highway. The fire department people, rescue crews. The people who were working for Lucky across the river [at Lucky's Trailer Sales] were moving their stuff to higher ground and the floodwaters cut off both bridges. So they went up on the highway and came across to our place and cut a hole through the fence to our property to get home that way. The next morning, everybody came to my door and said, 'Can I use that hole in the fence?' So then we pulled the post, dug down a ditch so a two-wheel-drive car could get through. This was the only way out. Every two minutes a car would come through. UPS was even going through there."
These days, the Bigelows are figuring out how to re-claim their lower fields from the sand dunes that took over. Their neighbors down the street don't plan to move back into their ravaged houses. As of this writing, the farm was still without phone service. But their biggest hurdles today are only partially Irene related. They've been battling the invasive Japanese knotweed plants that now threaten to choke out their meadows and cornfields. The aggressive, bamboo-looking intruders had been growing along the riverbanks for years, but floodwaters washed them up into their fields to set their stubborn roots.
Their second biggest challenge? The fluctuating prices of the dairy business.
"Milk prices have been really up and down," Rachel says. "A few years ago they were really, really low, and that kind of put us behind."
"The price is up right now but it will probably go back down," Jim says. "Fuel prices are always high. Seed prices are high."
Hurricane Flats suffered nearly $145,000 worth of damage, mostly due to severe land erosion and equipment damage. The farm has received grants from NOFA Vermont and the Vermont Community Foundation's disaster relief funds, plus proceeds from a fundraiser held by a competing vegetable grower, Crossroads Farm. Meanwhile, Geo has been working off the farm to try and recoup nearly $50,000 of lost income.
"I only work there maybe one day a week," Geo says. "Other- wise, I'm a contractor now. I'm working for other people and other contractors. I pick up work wherever I can get it. So when I get a paying gig I don't sit on the farm. The income—I think I can get by if I drive nails all winter."
All told, Perley Farm lost 12 cows, 7 vehicles, hundreds of hay bales, 6,000 pounds of milk and the tank that held it, the contents of the cellar and first floor of the house, a mobile home, and lots of equipment. Since the flood, they've been working to re-build the interior of the house and to restore the cow barn where half the Perley herd had stood in water up to their necks. Surprisingly, only two of those cows died. One was a month-old calf that drowned, while his twin brother, tethered next to him, somehow survived. Buddy had planned to raise them as an oxen pair. Even through this magnitude of loss, though, the Severance family and Duke Perley have kept a surprisingly lighthearted sense of humor and a strong will to keep going.
"The New York Times called me in Jersey, and they said, 'What are you going to do, Mr. Perley, you're 81 years old?' I told him we're just getting started, we're going to farm. What the hell did he think we were gonna do?" Duke exclaims. "My dad was Cherokee Indian and he was raised up here at the next place down, and he taught us to never put your values on material things because they could be gone. And if you've got your whole life in that, you won't be able to start over. You'd be done. You just lost everything, and you're lost with it. You just start over, so that's what we're doing."
The new beginning at Perley Farm includes re-building their herd—and they're off to a good start. Shortly after the flood, one of the cows gave birth to a heifer calf. Her name is Baby Irene.
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SDG16 Learning Day
In December 2015, researchers from Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) met with representatives of the Department for International Development (DfID) in London to discuss the role of evidence in achieving Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Goal 16 is "dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, the provision of access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels." The goal is focused on good governance, and sets a number of targets, including: reducing corruption, developing accountable and transparent institutions at all levels, and strengthening the participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance.
In order to achieve Goal 16 by 2030, governance institutions must identify indicators to track progress towards each target. Collaboration between researchers and practicioners will be crucial in shaping research themes. December's meeting served as an early step in the ongoing conversation, which will proceed as DfID continues to develop its policy position on SDG16. Materials from each session of the meeting--designed to match key SDG16 targets--are presented below.
Opening Session
Democratic Institutions
Natural Resource Management
Data, Transparency, and Anti-corruption
- Thematic brief
- Discussion of data, transparency, anti-corruption, and SDG16
- 10 things that may control corruption
Measuring Governance Interventions


text: Monday, April 23, 2012 APTA Launches Online Communication Survey With the rise of social media and smartphones, opportunities for communication and collaboration are always just a few (thumb) clicks away. But while most people have some kind of social media account, how those platforms are used varies significantly from person to person. In an effort to understand how members communicate and stay informed in a rapidly changing online social/information landscape, APTA has launched an online communication survey. The survey, which takes 5-8 minutes to complete, is open to APTA members, and 1 lucky respondent will be rewarded with an iPad. Respondents also have the opportunity to express interest in participating in a related focus group at PT 2012. Surveys are due May 4.


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|Oracle® Call Interface Programmer's Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10779-01
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This chapter contains these topics:
The OCI includes a set of functions for performing operations on large objects (LOBs) in a database. Persistent LOBs (
NCLOBs) are stored in the database tablespaces in a way that optimizes space and provides efficient access. These LOBs have the full transactional support of the database server. BFILEs are large data objects stored in the server's operating system files outside the database tablespaces.
The OCI also provides support for temporary LOBs, which can be used like local variables for operating on LOB data.
BFILEs are read-only. Oracle supports only binary
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LOB instances can be either persistent (stored in the database) or temporary (existing only in the scope of your application). Do not confuse the concept of a persistent LOB with a persistent object.
There are two ways of creating and modifying persistent LOBs:
You can create a LOB by inserting character data into a
CLOB column or
RAW data into a BLOB column directly. You can also modify LOBs by using a SQL
UPDATE statement, binding character data into a
CLOB column or
RAW data into a
BLOB column.
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Binding LOB Data for usage and examples for both
You create a new internal LOB by initializing a new LOB locator using
OCIDescriptorAlloc(), calling
OCIAttrSet() to set it to empty (using the OCI_ATTR_LOBEMPTY attribute), and then binding the locator to a placeholder in an
INSERT statement. Doing so inserts the empty locator into a table with a LOB column or attribute. You can then
UPDATE this row to get the locator, and write to it using one of the OCI LOB functions.
For any LOB write command to be successful, a transaction must be open. If you commit a transaction before writing the data, you must lock the row again (by reissuing the
SELECT...FOR UPDATE, for example), because the commit closes the transaction.
BFILENAME() function can be used in an
INSERT statement to associate an external server-side (operating system) file with a
BFILE column/attribute in a table. Using
BFILENAME() in an
UPDATE statement associates the
BFILE column or attribute with a different operating system file.
OCILobFileSetName() can also be used to associate a
BFILE in a table with an operating system file.
BFILENAME() is usually used in an
INSERT or
UPDATE without bind variables and
OCILobFileSetName() is used for bind variables.
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An OCI application can use
OCIObjectNew() to create a persistent or transient object with a LOB attribute.
It is possible to use the OCI to create a new persistent object with a LOB attribute and write to that LOB attribute. The application would follow these steps:
OCIObjectNew() to create a persistent object with a LOB attribute.
OCILobWrite() using the LOB locator in the object to write the data.
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Chapter 10, "OCI Object-Relational Programming" and the following chapters for more information about objects
An application can call
OCIObjectNew() and create a transient object with an internal LOB (
NCLOB) attribute. However, you cannot perform any operations, such as read or write, on the LOB attribute because transient objects with LOB attributes are not supported. Calling
OCIObjectNew() to create a transient internal LOB type will not fail, but the application cannot use any LOB operations with the transient LOB.
An application can, however, create a transient object with a
BFILE attribute and use the
BFILE attribute to read data from a file stored in the server's file system. The application can also call
OCIObjectNew() to create a transient
You can use the OCI array interface with LOBs, just as with any other datatype. There are two ways of using the array interface:.
You can bind or define arrays of character data for a
CLOB column or
RAW data for a
BLOB column.
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When using the LOB locator you must allocate the descriptors:
/* First create an array of OCILocator pointers: */ OCILobLocator *lobp[10]; for (i=0; i < 10; i++) { OCIDescriptorAlloc (...,&lobp[i],...); /* Then bind the descriptor as follows */ OCIBindByPos(... &lobp[i], ...); }
Starting with release 10.1 of OCI, new functions were introduced to support LOBs of size greater than 4 GB. These new functions can also be used in new applications for LOBs of less than 4 GB.
In this guide, 4 GB is defined as 4 gigabytes -1, or 4,294,967,295 bytes. The maximum size of a LOB (persistent or temporary) is 4,294,967,295 *
db_block_size. Because block size ranges from 2KB to 32KB, the maximum LOB size ranges from 8 terabytes to 128 terabytes. The maximum size of a
BFILE is the maximum file size allowed in the operating system.
Because the older LOB functions use
ub4 as the datatypes of some parameters and
ub4 datatype can only hold up to 4 GB. The newer functions use parameters of 8-byte length,
oraub8, which is a datatype defined in
oratypes.h. The datatypes
oraub8 and
orasb8 are mapped to appropriate 64-bit native datatypes depending on the compiler and operating system. Macros are used to not define
oraub8 and
orasb8 if compiling in 32-bit mode with strict ANSI option.
A new function,
OCILobGetStorageLimit(), is also provided. It returns the maximum size in bytes of internal LOBs in the current installation.
Eight functions with names that end in "2" and use the datatype
oraub8 in place of the datatype
ub4 were introduced in release 10.1. Other changes are made in the read and write functions (
OCILobWrite2(), and
OCILobWriteAppend2()) to solve several problems:
Problem: Before release 10.1, the parameter
amtp assumes either byte or char length for LOBs based on the locator type and character set. It is complicated and users did not have the flexibility to use byte length or char length according to their requirements.
Solution: Read/Write calls should take both
byte_amtp and
char_amtp as replacement for
amtp parameter.
char_amtp takes preference for
CLOB and
NCLOB and
byte_amtp is only considered as input if
char_amtp is zero. On output for
CLOB and
NCLOB, both
byte_amtp and
char_amtp are filled. For
BLOB and
char_amtp parameter is ignored for both input and output.
Problem: For
OCILobRead2(), there is no flag to indicate polling mode. There is no easy way for the users to say "I have a 100 byte buffer. Fill it as much as you can". Previously, they had to estimate how many characters to specify for the amount. If they guessed too much, they were forced into polling mode unintentionally. The user code thus can get trapped in the polling mode and subsequent OCI calls are all blocked.
Solution: This call should take
piece as an input parameter and if OCI_ONE_PIECE is passed, it should fill the buffer as much as possible and come out even if the amount indicated by
byte_amtp or
char_amtp is more than the buffer length. The value of
bufl is used to specify the maximum amount of bytes to read.
Problem: After calling for a LOB write in polling mode, users do not know how many chars or bytes are actually fetched till the end of the polling.
Solution: Both
byte_amtp and
char_amtp needs to be updated after each call in polling mode.
Problem: While reading or writing data in streaming mode with callback, users have to use the same buffer for each piece of data.
Solution: The callback function needs to have two new parameters to provide a new buffer and the buffer length. Callback function can set the new buffer parameter to
NULL to follow old behavior: to use the default buffer passed in the first call for all the pieces.
Existing OCI programs can be enhanced to process larger amounts of LOB data (greater than 4GB). Table 7-1 summarizes compatibility issues ("old" refers to releases before 10.1):
|LOB Function
|Old Client/New or Old Server
|New Client/Old Server
|New Client/New Server
OK until LOB size, piece size (amount) and offset are < 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK until piece size and offset are < 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK; OCI_ERROR if LOB size > 4GB.
OK until LOB size, piece size (amount) and offset are < 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK; limit is 4GB.
OK until LOB size, piece size (amount) and offset are < 4GB.
With new server: OCI_ERROR will be returned if you try to read any amount >= 4GB from any offset < 4GB. This is because when you read any amount >= 4GB, that will result in overflow of returned value in *amtp, and so will be flagged as an error.
1) If you read up to 4GB-1 from offset, that will not be flagged as an error.
2) When you use streaming mode with polling, no error will be returned if no attempt is made to use piece size > 4GB (you can read data > 4GB in this case).
OCI_ERROR will be returned if you try to read any amount >= 4GB from any offset < 4GB. This is because when you read any amount >= 4GB, that will result in overflow of returned value in *amtp, and so will be flagged as an error.
1) If you read up to 4GB-1 from offset, that will not be flagged an as error.
2) When the you use streaming mode with polling, no error will be returned if no attempt is made to use piece size > 4GB (you can case).
OK; limit 4GB.
OK; limit 4GB.
OK until LOB size, piece size (amount) and offset are < 4GB.
OCI_ERROR will be returned if you write any amount >= 4GB (from any offset <4GB) because that will result in overflow of returned value in *amtp.
Note: Updating a LOB of 10GB from any offset up to 4GB-1 by up to 4GB-1 amount of data will not be flagged as an error.
OCI_ERROR will be returned if you write any amount > =4GB (from any offset < 4GB) because that will result in overflow of returned value in *amtp.
Note: Updating a LOB of 10GB from any offset up to 4GB-1 by up to 4GB-1 amount of data will not be flagged as an error.
OK until LOB size and piece size are <4GB.
With new server: OCI_ERROR will be returned if you append any amount >= 4GB of data because that will result in overflow of returned value in
OCI_ERROR will be returned if you append any amount >= 4GB of data because that will result in overflow of returned value in
You are encouraged not to mix old and new functions because that might result in unexpected application behavior.
Use the new functions while using the new server and client. Mixing old and new functions can result in unexpected situations such as data written using
OCILobWrite2() being greater than 4GB if the application tries to read it with
OCILobRead() and gets only partial data (if a callback function is not used). In most cases the application will get an error message when the size crosses 4GB and older functions are used. However, there will be no issue if you use those older functions for LOBs of size smaller than 4GB.
In all LOB operations that involve offsets into the data, the offset begins at 1. For LOB operations, such as
OCILobLoadFromFile(), and
OCILobTrim(), the
amount parameter is in characters for
CLOBs and
NCLOBs, regardless of the client-side character set.
These LOB operations refer to the amount of LOB data on the server. When the client-side character set is of varying width, the following general rules apply to the
amount and
offset parameters in LOB calls:
amount - When the amount parameter refers to the server-side LOB, the amount is in characters. When the amount parameter refers to the client-side buffer, the amount is in bytes.
offset - Regardless of whether the client-side character set is varying-width, the offset parameter is always in characters for
CLOBs or
NCLOBs and in bytes for
BLOBs or
Exceptions to these general rules are noted in the description of the specific LOB call.
Here are some hints to improve performance.
You can bind or define character data for a
CLOB column or
RAW data for a
BLOB column. This requires only one round trip for inserting or selecting a LOB, as opposed to the traditional LOB interface which requires multiple round trips.
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You can take advantage of the
OCILobGetChunkSize() call to improve the performance of LOB read and write operations.
OCILobGetChunkSize() returns the usable chunk size in bytes for
BLOBs and in characters for
CLOBs and
NCLOBs. When a read or write is done on data whose size is a multiple of the usable chunk size and starts on a chunk boundary, performance improves. You can specify the chunk size for a LOB column when creating a table.
OCILobGetChunkSize() returns the usable chunk size of the LOB, and an application can batch a series of write operations for the entire chunk, rather than issuing multiple LOB write calls for the same chunk.
To read through the end of a LOB, call
OCILobRead2() with an amount of 4 gigabytes. This avoids the round trip involved with first calling
For LOBs which store varying width characters,
OCI provides a shortcut for more efficient writing of data to the end of a LOB. The
OCILobWriteAppend2() call appends data to the end of a LOB without first requiring a call to
OCILobGetLength() to determine the starting point for an
OCILobWrite() operation.
OCILobWriteAppend2() does both steps.
The Oracle OCI provides several calls for controlling LOB buffering for small reads and writes of internal LOB values:
These functions provide performance improvements by allowing applications using internal LOBs (
NCLOB) to buffer small reads and writes in client-side buffers. This reduces the number of network round trips and LOB versions, thereby improving LOB performance significantly.
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The OCI provides functions to explicitly open a LOB,
OCILobOpen(), to close a LOB,
OCILobClose(), and to test whether a LOB is open,
OCILobIsOpen(). These functions mark the beginning and end of a series of LOB operations so that specific processing such as updating indexes can be performed when a LOB is closed.
For internal LOBs, the concept of openness is associated with a LOB and not its locator. The locator does not store any information about the state of the LOB. It is possible for more than one locator to point to the same open LOB. However, for
BFILEs, being open is associated with a specific locator. Hence, more than one open can be performed on the same
BFILE using different locators.
If an application does not wrap LOB operations between a set of
OCILobOpen() and
OCILobClose() calls, then each modification to the LOB implicitly opens and closes the LOB, thereby firing any triggers associated with changes to the LOB.
If LOB operations are not wrapped inside open and close calls, any extensible indexes on the LOB are updated as LOB modifications are made, and thus are always valid and may be used at any time. If the LOB is modified between a set of
OCILobOpen() and
OCILobClose() calls, triggers are not fired for individual LOB modifications. Triggers are only fired after the
OCILobClose() call, so indexes are not updated until after the close call and thus are not valid in between the open and close calls.
OCILobIsOpen() can be used with internal LOBs and
An error is returned when you commit the transaction before closing all opened LOBs that were opened by the transaction. When the error is returned, the LOB is no longer marked as open, but the transaction is successfully committed. Hence, all the changes made to the LOB and non-LOB data in the transaction are committed, but the domain and functional indexing are not updated. If this happens, please rebuild your functional and domain indexes on the LOB column.
A LOB opened when there is no transaction must be closed before the end of the session. If there are LOBs open at the end of session, the LOB is no longer marked as open and the domain and functional indexing will not be updated. If this happens, rebuild your functional and domain indexes on the LOB column.
The LOB opening and closing mechanism has the following restrictions:
The definition of a transaction within which an open LOB value must be closed is one of the following:
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OCI supports read and write callback functions. The following sections describe the use of callbacks in more detail.
User-defined read and write callback functions for inserting or retrieving data provide an alternative to the polling methods for streaming LOB. These functions are implemented by you and registered with OCI through the
OCILobWriteAppend2(), and
OCILobWrite2() calls. These callback functions are called by OCI whenever required.
The user-defined read callback function is registered through the
OCILobRead2() function. The callback function should have the following prototype:
CallbackFunctionName ( dvoid *ctxp, CONST dvoid *bufp, oraub8 len, ub1 piece, dvoid **changed_bufpp, oraub8 *changed_lenp);
The first parameter,
ctxp, is the context of the callback that is passed to OCI in the
OCILobRead() function call. When the callback function is called, the information provided by you in
ctxp is passed back to you (the OCI does not use this information on the way IN). The
bufp parameter is the pointer to the storage where the LOB data is returned and
bufl is the length of this buffer. It tells you how much data has been read into the buffer provided.
If the buffer length provided in the original
OCILobRead2() call is insufficient to store all the data returned by the server, then the user-defined callback is called. In this case, the
piece parameter indicates whether the information returned in the buffer is the first, next or last piece.
The parameters
changed_bufpp and
changed_lenp can be used inside the callback function to change the buffer dynamically.
changed_bufpp should point to the address of the changed buffer and
changed_lenp should point to the length of the changed buffer.
changed_bufpp and
changed_lenp need not be used inside the callback function if the application does not change the buffer dynamically.
The following code fragment implements read callback functions using
OCILobRead2(). Assume that
lobl is a valid locator that has been previously selected,
svchp is a valid service handle and
errhp is a valid error handle In the example. The user-defined function
cbk_read_lob() is repeatedly called until all the LOB data has been read.
... oraub8 offset = 1; oraub8 loblen = 0; oraub8 byte_amt = 0; oraub8 char_amt = 0 ub1 bufp[MAXBUFLEN]; sword retval; byte_amtp = 4294967297; /* 4 gigabytes plus 1 */ if (retval = OCILobRead2(svchp, errhp, lobl, &byte_amt, &char_amt, offset, (dvoid *) bufp, (oraub8) MAXBUFLEN, (dvoid *) 0, OCI_FIRST_PIECE, cbk_read_lob, (ub2) 0, (ub1) SQLCS_IMPLICIT)) { (void) printf("ERROR: OCILobRead2() LOB.\n"); report_error(); } ... sb4 cbk_read_lob(ctxp, bufxp, len, piece, changed_bufpp, changed_lenp) dvoid *ctxp; CONST dvoid *bufxp; oraub8 len; ub1 piece; dvoid **changed_bufpp; oraub8 *changed_lenp; { static ub4 piece_count = 0; piece_count++; switch (piece) { case OCI_LAST_PIECE: /*--- buffer processing code goes here ---*/ (void) printf("callback read the %d th piece\n\n", piece_count); piece_count = 0; break; case OCI_FIRST_PIECE: /*--- buffer processing code goes here ---*/ (void) printf("callback read the %d th piece\n", piece_count); /* --Optional code to set changed_bufpp and changed_lenp if the buffer needs to be changed dynamically --*/ break; case OCI_NEXT_PIECE: /*--- buffer processing code goes here ---*/ (void) printf("callback read the %d th piece\n", piece_count); /* --Optional code to set changed_bufpp and changed_lenp if the buffer needs to be changed dynamically --*/ break; default: (void) printf("callback read error: unkown piece = %d.\n", piece); return OCI_ERROR; } return OCI_CONTINUE; }
Similar to read callbacks, the user-defined write callback function is registered through the
OCILobWrite2() function. The callback function should have the following prototype:
CallbackFunctionName ( dvoid *ctxp, dvoid *bufp, oraub8 *lenp, ub1 *piecep, dvoid **changed_bufpp, oraub8 *changed_lenp)
The first parameter,
ctxp, is the context of the callback that is passed to OCI in the
OCILobWrite2() function call. The information provided by you in
ctxp, is passed back to you when the callback function is called by the OCI (the OCI does not use this information on the way IN). The
bufp parameter is the pointer to a storage area; you provide this pointer in the call to
After inserting the data provided in the call to
OCILobWrite2() any data remaining is inserted by the user-defined callback. In the callback provide the data to insert in the storage indicated by
bufp and also specify the length in
buflp. You also indicate whether it is the next (OCI_NEXT_PIECE) or the last (OCI_LAST_PIECE) piece using the
piecep parameter. You are completely responsible for the storage pointer the application provides and should make sure that it does not write more than the allocated size of the storage.
The parameters
changed_bufpp and
changed_lenp can be used inside the callback function to change the buffer dynamically.
changed_bufpp should point to the address of the changed buffer and
changed_lenp should point to the length of the changed buffer.
changed_bufpp and
changed_lenp need not be used inside the callback function if the application does not change the buffer dynamically.
The following code fragment implements write callback functions using
OCILobWrite2(). Assume that
lobl is a valid locator that has been locked for updating,
svchp is a valid service handle, and
errhp is a valid error handle. The user-defined function
cbk_write_lob() is repeatedly called until the
piecep parameter indicates that the application is providing the last piece.
... ub1 bufp[MAXBUFLEN]; oraub8 byte_amt = MAXBUFLEN * 20; oraub8 char_amt = 0; oraub8 offset = 1; oraub8 nbytes = MAXBUFLEN; /*-- code to fill bufp with data goes here. nbytes should reflect the size and should be less than or equal to MAXBUFLEN --*/ if (retval = OCILobWrite2(svchp, errhp, lobl, &byte_amt, &char_amt, offset, (dvoid*)bufp, (ub4)nbytes, OCI_FIRST_PIECE, (dvoid *)0, cbk_write_lob, (ub2) 0, (ub1) SQLCS_IMPLICIT)) { (void) printf("ERROR: OCILobWrite2().\n"); report_error(); return; } ... sb4 cbk_write_lob(ctxp, bufxp, lenp, piecep, changed_bufpp, changed_lenp) dvoid *ctxp; dvoid *bufxp; oraub8 *lenp; ub1 *piecep; dvoid **changed_bufpp; oraub8 *changed_lenp; { /*-- code to fill bufxp with data goes here. *lenp should reflect the size and should be less than or equal to MAXBUFLEN -- */ /* --Optional code to set changed_bufpp and changed_lenp if the buffer needs to be changed dynamically --*/ if (this is the last data buffer) *piecep = OCI_LAST_PIECE; else *piecep = OCI_NEXT_PIECE; return OCI_CONTINUE; }
The OCI provides functions for creating and freeing temporary LOBs,
OCILobCreateTemporary() and
OCILobFreeTemporary(), and a function for determining whether a LOB is temporary,
Temporary LOBs are not permanently stored in the database, but act like local variables for operating on LOB data. OCI functions which operate on standard (persistent) LOBs can also be used on temporary LOBs.
As with persistent LOBs, all functions operate on the locator for the temporary LOB, and the actual LOB data is accessed through the locator.
Temporary LOB locators can be used as arguments to the following types of SQL statements:
UPDATE - The temporary LOB locator can be used as a value in a
WHERE clause when testing for nullness or as a parameter to a function. The locator can also be used in a
SET clause.
DELETE - The temporary LOB locator can be used in a
WHERE clause when testing for nullness or as a parameter to a function.
SELECT - The temporary LOB locator can be used in a
WHERE clause when testing for nullness or as a parameter to a function. The temporary LOB can also be used as a return variable in a
SELECT...INTO statement when selecting the return value of a function.
If you select a permanent locator into a temporary locator, the temporary locator is overwritten with the permanent locator. In this case the temporary LOB is not implicitly freed. You must explicitly free the temporary LOB before the
You create a temporary LOB with the
OCILobCreateTemporary() function. The parameters passed to this function include a value for the duration of the LOB. The default duration is for the length of the current session. All temporary LOBs are deleted at the end of the duration. Users can reclaim temporary LOB space by explicitly freeing the temporary LOB with the
OCILobFreeTemporary() function. A temporary LOB is empty when it is created.
When creating a temporary LOB, you can also specify whether or not the temporary LOB is read into the server's buffer cache.
To make a temporary LOB permanent, use
OCILobCopy() to copy the data from the temporary LOB into a permanent one. You can also use the temporary LOB in the
VALUES clause of an
INSERT statement, as the source of the assignment in an
UPDATE statement, or assign it to a persistent LOB attribute and then flush the object. Temporary LOBs can be modified using the same functions which are used for standard LOBs.
The OCI supports several predefined durations for temporary LOBs, and a set of functions that the application can use to define application-specific durations. The predefined durations are:
The session duration expires when the containing session/connection ends. The call duration expires at the end of the current OCI call.
When running in object mode, a you can also define application-specific durations. An application-specific duration, also referred to as a user duration, is defined by specifying the start of a duration using
OCIDurationBegin() and the end of the duration using
User-defined durations are only available if an application has been initialized in object mode.
Each application-specific duration has a duration identifier that is returned by
OCIDurationBegin() and is guaranteed to be unique until
OCIDurationEnd() is called. An application-specific duration can be as long as a session duration.
At the end of a duration, all temporary LOBs associated with that duration are freed. The descriptor associated with the temporary LOB must be freed explicitly with the
OCIDescriptorFree() call.
User-defined durations can be nested; one duration can be defined as a child duration of another user duration. It is possible for a parent duration to have child durations that have their own child durations.
When a duration is started with
Special care needs to be taken when assigning
OCILobLocator pointers. Pointer assignments create a shallow copy of the LOB. After the pointer assignment, source and target LOBs point to the same copy of data. This behavior is different from using LOB APIs, such as
OCILobAssign() or
OCILobLocatorAssign() to perform assignments.
When the APIs are used, the locators logically point to independent copies of data after assignment.
For temporary LOBs, before pointer assignments, it is your responsibility to make sure any temporary LOB in the target LOB locator is freed by
OCIFreeTemporary(). When
OCILobLocatorAssign() is used, the original temporary LOB in the target LOB locator variable, if any, is freed before the assignment happens.
Before an out-bind variable is reused in executing a SQL statement, it is your responsibility to free any temporary LOB in the existing out-bind LOB locator buffer via
OCIFreeTemporary() call.
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The following code example shows how temporary LOBs can be used:
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <oci.h> /* Function Prototype */ static void checkerr (/*_ OCIError *errhp, sword status _*/); sb4 select_and_createtemp (OCILobLocator *lob_loc, OCIError *errhp, OCISvcCtx *svchp, OCIStmt *stmthp, OCIEnv *envhp); /* This function reads in a single video Frame from the print_media table. Then it creates a temporary lob. The temporary LOB which is created is read through the CACHE, and is automatically cleaned up at the end of the user's session, if it is not explicitly freed sooner. This function returns OCI_SUCCESS if it completes successfully or OCI_ERROR if it fails. */ sb4 select_and_createtemp (OCILobLocator *lob_loc, OCIError *errhp, OCISvcCtx *svchp, OCIStmt *stmthp, OCIEnv *envhp) { OCIDefine *defnp1; OCIBind *bndhp; text *sqlstmt; int rowind =1; ub4 loblen = 0; OCILobLocator *tblob; printf ("in select_and_createtemp \n"); if(OCIDescriptorAlloc((dvoid*)envhp, (dvoid **)&tblob, (ub4)OCI_DTYPE_LOB, (size_t)0, (dvoid**)0)) { printf("failed in OCIDescriptor Alloc in select_and_createtemp \n"); return OCI_ERROR; } /* arbitrarily select where Clip_ID =1 */ sqlstmt = (text *)"SELECT Frame FROM print_media WHERE product_ID = 1 FOR \ UPDATE"; if (OCIStmtPrepare(stmthp, errhp, sqlstmt, (ub4) strlen((char *)sqlstmt), (ub4) OCI_NTV_SYNTAX, (ub4) OCI_DEFAULT)) { (void) printf("FAILED: OCIStmtPrepare() sqlstmt\n"); return OCI_ERROR; } /* Define for BLOB */ if (OCIDefineByPos(stmthp, &defnp1, errhp, (ub4) 1, (dvoid *) &lob_loc, (sb4)0, (ub2) SQLT_BLOB, (dvoid *) 0, (ub2 *) 0, (ub2 *) 0, (ub4) OCI_DEFAULT)) { (void) printf("FAILED: Select locator: OCIDefineByPos()\n"); return OCI_ERROR; } /* Execute the select and fetch one row */ if (OCIStmtExecute(svchp, stmthp, errhp, (ub4) 1, (ub4) 0, (CONST OCISnapshot*) 0, (OCISnapshot*) 0, (ub4) OCI_DEFAULT)) { (void) printf("FAILED: OCIStmtExecute() sqlstmt\n"); return OCI_ERROR; } if(OCILobCreateTemporary(svchp, errhp, tblob, (ub2)0, SQLCS_IMPLICIT, OCI_TEMP_BLOB, OCI_ATTR_NOCACHE, OCI_DURATION_SESSION)) { (void) printf("FAILED: CreateTemporary() \n"); return OCI_ERROR; } if (OCILobGetLength(svchp, errhp, lob_loc, &loblen) != OCI_SUCCESS) { printf("OCILobGetLength FAILED\n"); return OCI_ERROR; } if (OCILobCopy(svchp, errhp, tblob,lob_loc,(ub4)loblen, (ub4) 1, (ub4) 1)) { printf( "OCILobCopy FAILED \n"); } if(OCILobFreeTemporary(svchp,errhp,tblob)) { printf ("FAILED: OCILobFreeTemporary call \n"); return OCI_ERROR; } return OCI_SUCCESS; } int main(char *argv, int argc) { /* OCI Handles */ OCIEnv *envhp; OCIServer *srvhp; OCISvcCtx *svchp; OCIError *errhp; OCISession *authp; OCIStmt *stmthp; OCILobLocator *clob, *blob; OCILobLocator *lob_loc; int type =1; /* Initialize and Logon */ OCIEnvCreate(&envhp, OCI_DEFAULT, (dvoid *)0, 0, 0, 0, (size_t)0, (dvoid *)0); (void) OCIHandleAlloc( (dvoid *) envhp, (dvoid **) &errhp, OCI_HTYPE_ERROR, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0); /* server contexts */ (void) OCIHandleAlloc( (dvoid *) envhp, (dvoid **) &srvhp, OCI_HTYPE_SERVER, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0); /* service context */ (void) OCIHandleAlloc( (dvoid *) envhp, (dvoid **) &svchp, OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0); /* attach to Oracle */ (void) OCIServerAttach( srvhp, errhp, (text *)"", strlen(""), 0); /* set attribute server context in the service context */ (void) OCIAttrSet ((dvoid *) svchp, OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, (dvoid *)srvhp, (ub4) 0, OCI_ATTR_SERVER, (OCIError *) errhp); (void) OCIHandleAlloc((dvoid *) envhp, (dvoid **)&authp, (ub4) OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0); (void) OCIAttrSet((dvoid *) authp, (ub4) OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, (dvoid *) "scott", (ub4)5, (ub4) OCI_ATTR_USERNAME, errhp); (void) OCIAttrSet((dvoid *) authp, (ub4) OCI_HTYPE_SESSION, (dvoid *) "tiger", (ub4) 5, (ub4) OCI_ATTR_PASSWORD, errhp); /* Begin a User Session */ checkerr(errhp, OCISessionBegin ( svchp, errhp, authp, OCI_CRED_RDBMS, (ub4) OCI_DEFAULT)); (void) OCIAttrSet((dvoid *) svchp, (ub4) OCI_HTYPE_SVCCTX, (dvoid *) authp, (ub4) 0, (ub4) OCI_ATTR_SESSION, errhp); /* ------- Done loggin in ----------------------------------*/ /* allocate a statement handle */ checkerr(errhp, OCIHandleAlloc( (dvoid *) envhp, (dvoid **) &stmthp, OCI_HTYPE_STMT, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0)); checkerr(errhp, OCIDescriptorAlloc((dvoid *)envhp, (dvoid **)&lob_loc, (ub4) OCI_DTYPE_LOB, (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0)); /* Subroutine calls begin here */ printf("calling select_and_createtemp\n"); select_and_createtemp (lob_loc, errhp, svchp,stmthp,envhp); return 0; } void checkerr(errhp, status) OCIError *errhp; sword status; { text errbuf[512]; sb4 errcode = 0; switch (status) { case OCI_SUCCESS: break; case OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO: (void) printf("Error - OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO\n"); break; case OCI_NEED_DATA: (void) printf("Error - OCI_NEED_DATA\n"); break; case OCI_NO_DATA: (void) printf("Error - OCI_NODATA\n"); break; case OCI_ERROR: (void) OCIErrorGet((dvoid *)errhp, (ub4) 1, (text *) NULL, &errcode, errbuf, (ub4) sizeof(errbuf), OCI_HTYPE_ERROR); (void) printf("Error - %.*s\n", 512, errbuf); break; case OCI_INVALID_HANDLE: (void) printf("Error - OCI_INVALID_HANDLE\n"); break; case OCI_STILL_EXECUTING: (void) printf("Error - OCI_STILL_EXECUTE\n"); break; case OCI_CONTINUE: (void) printf("Error - OCI_CONTINUE\n"); break; default: break; } }


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(CNN) – Republican Rep. Allen West's push to have votes recounted in his Florida congressional race against Democrat Patrick Murphy was granted late Friday when the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections ordered a retabulation of all eight days of early voting to begin Saturday morning.
In Florida's 18th district, Murphy continues to have a slight lead over West. He declared a victory in the race last week, but West, who has been lobbying for a recount citing issues in the way the ballots were counted and a slim margin of votes between the two, has yet to concede.
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According to the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections' website, the retabulation was to start at 9 a.m. Saturday.
West's campaign filed a complaint Tuesday in St. Lucie County, calling for the court to order a recount of all early votes in the county in his race for re-election. Allen's request was initially denied Friday afternoon, but later that evening a canvassing board ordered the retabulation, citing sufficient concern to grant the re-examination of the votes, according to CNN affiliate WPBF in West Palm Beach.
Murphy's campaign communications director Erin Moffet released a statement regarding an injunction filed on behalf of the campaign Saturday to prevent recount.
"The votes were counted on Election Day, recounted last Sunday, and this would be the third time many of these votes have been counted. You can't keep counting until you get the answer you like. The law is clear in what margin requires a recount and Patrick Murphy's lead is outside of that margin," said Moffet.
A statement released Saturday by West's campaign manager Tim Edison said their opponent's effort to stop the retabulation "demonstrates a complete lack of respect and utter disregard for the voters of St. Lucie County."
West, a first-term Republican congressman and retired Army lieutenant colonel, and his Democratic challenger Murphy were locked in one of the country's most expensive races for a U.S. House seat, according to a ranking prepared by the Center for Responsive Politics. West raised $17 million through mid-October and Murphy brought in $3.7 million, according for Federal Election Commission records.
As of Saturday, Murphy leads West by just over 1,900 votes.
The votes are considered unofficial until November 20, when state election officials have said the results will be certified. But West's campaign has argued the certification date should be postponed until all the early ballots are counted.
CNN's Dana Davidsen, Kevin Bohn, Gregory Wallace, Kevin Liptak and Robert Yoon contributed to this report.
Republicans need to go to Mitt Romney's planet of kolob. West is a uncle Tom. The party of the Christian Right is breaking apart.. To the dustbin of history.
Seems West has the lack of respect for voters and a great many other things. The guy has serious mental issues as well. Where was all this concern about the voters when Republican Gov. Rick Scott suppressed the vote by cutting back on early voting in the state of FL, thereby disenfranchising many of those very same voters?? Now West is crying foul, because the vote didn't turn out the way he wanted it too??
Funny how Rethugs want to count EVERY VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES when their guy is behind...
Why doesn't this clown just go away? He must be worried about the government check he will no longer get. He could collect unemployment or pension. But, wouldn't make one of part of society that he utterly despises? My bet is this hypocritical idiot would not turn it down.
Is ther any integrity in Florida's voting results? Murphy won. West should be confident. Gore won Florida, too.
Congress would be better off without the toxic Mr West, BUT the things I heard about this race are outright scary. Like Soviet Union type scary. Just because you don't like a politician does not give someone the right to manipulate an election. They would eventually vote this guy out anyway, but stealing it is just wrong.
What a waste of taxpayers' money:-(
You know if Scott let Florida have their 14 days of voting instead of cutting it back to 8 this wouldn't be a contest and West would be going home!!Now Scott is calling on an investigation into the supression scam he created,that's like a fox asking the farmer to find out who really ate his chickens ,that assinine ..But that's republicans in all republican led states because they almost all got beaten and it'll be worst come this midterm if these same republicans don't get going and do something for the people,the ones who voted them there!!
FL seems again poised to steal an election from a Dem candidate. Is the state covered by the Voting Rights Act?
This story really should be updated with some of the problems. They double counted votes? The forgot to count hundreds of votes? Amazingly, the County Elections Supervisor had to check into a hospital for "some tests." Is this a 3rd world country or something? Just county the votes. Then West will have nothing to complain about if he loses. If an election that had a candidate losing by over 2,000 votes is changed because there was that much fraud, the County Supervisor needs to go to jail.
It will be good for the nation if this radical obstructionist is defeated. We need people in congress who are problem solvers, not loud mouthed publicity seekers.
MAybe those "communists" in the House stole and hid some votes from West. What a crybaby. And he claims he has a "hihger security clearence" than the president. Wow..just wow!
Oh please-West is a POOR loser. I think his name calling of his colleagues in Congress is a sign that he shouldn't be representing anyone. He is a lose cannon.
I doubt he can win on recount. Murphy's lead was originally over 1,000 votes. 1000 votes is alot in a district race
You lost West. The majority do not want your divisive bs anymore. Go home and never show your face in politics again


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Ray's Take While most companies have abandoned pension plans for 401(k) programs, there are still countless employees counting on their pension plan to fund their retirement years. The question is: Will that pension plan still be around when the time comes?
It's a legitimate concern. The same Great Recession that took a massive bite out of individual investments did the same thing to pension funds. Plans sponsored by 1,500 of the biggest companies in the country went from a $60-billion surplus to a $409-billion deficit in just one year. While the picture has improved since then, it's still cause for concern.
There is a government safety net to take over failing pensions. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insures participating pension plans. The bad news is that it had to take over 134 underfunded pension plans in 2011 alone that covered some 57,000 individuals. And, that's just in one year.
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It's not just market fluctuations affecting pension plans, however. Longevity risk is hurting them, too. Average life expectancies continue to rise. That means pension payout levels are becoming higher than the fund originally expected and planned for. Even a small increase in longevity can create solvency issues for a pension plan.
Social Security pensions are facing all these same problems, too. Some changes will eventually be made to this program as well. It's just a question of how much, to whom, and when.
Add all this together and you can clearly see that when it comes to financial security for your future the tide is shifting to more personal responsibility.
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Look at it this way, if you retire at age 65, you could quite possibly live 30 more years. Now think for a moment what a loaf of bread cost 30 years ago, or a gallon of gas, or a movie ticket. I'm no financial planner but my guess is that most those prices have gone up – a lot.
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After talking about it for months, county commissioners finally acted to address chronic problems with the Americus Ditch in St. Joe Beach.
After talking about it for months, county commissioners finally acted to address chronic problems with the Americus Ditch in St. Joe Beach.
Commissioners, by a 3-1 vote, approved a memorandum of understanding with Preble Rish Engineers to undertake repairs in selected areas to create a methodology for fixing the entire length so the project.
Commissioner Warren Yeager, an employee of Preble Rish abstained, and Commissioner Joanna Bryan, saying she would like to see public input on the MOU and raising questions about fixing only select sections, voted no.
The Americus Ditch has been a headache for the county almost since installation of the $1 million project more than five years ago.
County employees � and, Bryan noted, county taxpayers � have completed more than 120 fixes of the pipe since installation and there are at least 25 remaining areas that require attention, Bryan said.
Preble Rish is agreeing to address five of those areas almost as a pilot project to understand what will be needed to fix the entire project.
A section of a letter from Rish which was codified as the MOU, which would have released the engineering firm of record from future responsibility was removed, Rish noted.
�We have no problem with that,� Rish said. �We are going to look at the five locations to provide a methodology for fixing the other areas. We need to get a cross section of what is going on.
�I know there are problems there, big problems.�
Preble Rish has agreed to provide dollars for materials needed to fix all areas of the pipe and to come back to the county with a final report on the best method for addressing the problems.
Left unresolved is who picks up the tab for fixing the remainder of the project.
That led to some tense exchanges.
Rish said he believed the issue was less about Preble Rish and more about him.
�This is a Ralph Rish issue for four or five people in this county,� he told the board, adding that Bryan was �carrying the water� for those individuals.
He said his company had a limited inspection responsibility for the project, reflected in the reduced costs for engineering and inspection serviced offered on the project.
Rish also noted that while Preble Rish had been subject to the ongoing BOCC discussions pertaining to Americus Ditch, there had been little talk about the contractor on the job.
Bryan disagreed with several points, particularly about the responsibility of the county�s engineer for the project.
�Preble Rish was responsible for the engineering and inspection of the project,� Bryan said, adding that no language in the contract indicates the responsibility for inspections was �limited.� �They represented the county. Every taxpayer in the county is footing the bill for this project.�
Bryan attempted to continue the discussion but was ruled out of order by Commission chair Ward McDaniel.
Before relinquishing the floor, she noted that she had still not received answers to a series of questions about the project which had been placed in the public information packet months back only to be pulled by vote of the full board.
Commissioners Tan Smiley and Carmen McLemore said they were ready to move ahead with the MOU, McLemore adding that it would not be a surprise of Preble Rish pulled its offer.
�He is under no obligation,� McDaniel said of Rish. �He�s offered to assist the county. He doesn�t have to do anything.�
Resident Tom Graney said the fixes of the pipe were only part of the �fiasco� that Americus Ditch has come to represent for many.
While expressing appreciation to Preble Rish, while asserting its responsibility to assist, and praising the MOU as an excellent plan moving forward, Graney said commissioners had yet to address systemic problems with the county process for bidding and awarding contracts.
Saying the contractor was unqualified from the outset � the contractor allegedly lacked required documents and bonding and has since gone out of business � he said commissioners could not deflect responsibility because it was a previous board that made the decisions.
�Taxpayers are paying for this,� Graney said. �Your bid policy violated Florida law. No one is talking about who is responsible for this. I want somebody held responsible for the bid process, for this fiasco. As a taxpayer, you are obligated to do that.
�This was poor work by the county commission and by county staff. That comes back to you. The commission has to hold somebody accountable for this project that was screwed up from the beginning.�
McLemore, the lone commissioner on the board at the time the project was awarded, noted he opposed the project, thought it was a �bad project� and �would never work.�
Economic development
On two fronts, commissioners received positive news on economic development.
Tourism Development Council executive director Jennifer Jenkins said during a recent trip to New York she spoke with officials of a boutique cruise line about dockage in Port St. Joe.
The company, Travel Dynamics, had been interested in stopping in Port St. Joe for cultural/arts themed cruises, but found the conditions along Jetty Park and the so-called �low docks� � which fall in the city of Port St. Joe but are also part of the Port of Port St. Joe master plan � lacking as well as an absence of activities for cruise goers.
Jenkins said she pitched the concept of an eco-excursion and the company agreed to target April 2015 to arrive in Port St. Joe on a trip out of New Orleans and stopping at other north Gulf locations.
�I told them we are committed to this,� Jenkins said, adding there was work to do � determining dockage rates, improvements to the low docks, etc. � but that she hoped to be in line to begin marketing the cruises this April.
She said the company was also looking at other cruise stops in the future.
The BOCC also heard from Alex Mouton of M3 Services, which is looking to establish a base of operations in Gulf County, creating as many as 100 jobs over the first three years.
Mouton is close to lining up financing, the last hurdle for M3, which has been in talks with the Gulf County Economic Development Alliance and Port of Port St. Joe for over a year.
The company would work in government defense industries, specifically aerospace, Mouton said.


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A bustling harbour, an historic village, a bountiful lake, a grand homestead and an old silo form the basis of this Queensland drive around the Gladstone region. Stretching from Gladstone, it will take you through Calliope and on to Lake Callide, before ending in the beautiful agricultural town of Biloela.
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Possessing a thriving harbour and a gateway to the surrounding hinterland, ocean and islands of the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Gladstone is considered a unique destination. From the water's edge through to the rugged country fringes, Gladstone offers galleries, gardens, heritage sites and well-stocked lakes and parks. Learn about Gladstone's industrial backbone on the Giants of Industry Tour. Make your way up Auckland Hill and take in the panoramic views over the city and Port Curtis or climb Mount Larcom. Take advantage of Gladstone's thriving seafood industry with the marina fishing boats brimming with succulent king prawns, sweet reef fish, tender scallops, beautiful bugs, oysters and the Gladstone mud crab. Gladstone is also the perfect launch pad from which to access the stunning Heron Island.
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Lake Callide is located 12-kilometres from Biloela via sealed road and approximately 90-kilometres south-west of Gladstone via the Dawson Highway. While compact, the lake provides visitors with rewarding fishing - especially for golden perch and has in recent times been well stocked with barramundi. Red-claw is abundant and it's well worth placing (tagged) traps for a catch of the tasty crayfish. A variety of other freshwater species are available to you and anglers report good success from bank fishing though the boat ramps make this an ideal spot for to launch a boat and follow the fish with a sounder. The lake also attracts a wide variety of birdlife and the local region includes spectacular scenery at nearby Kroombit Tops National Park
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Well, it's official. I am a Data Head. It doesn't change too much my level of geekiness. But I may have to rethink one of the answers given during that interview.
The Data Head profiles are being done by a training company called Data Education. The company is another of Adam Machanics creations and is based out of Boston.
The people at Data Education contacted me a month or so ago and asked me a few questions. I thought it was a cool idea and answered the questions and provided them with a profile picture.
There are two other Data Head profiles to this point.
Both of these people are MVPs. The only Microsoft title I could associate to my name is via my certifications (MCITP and MCDBA for instance). That brings up one small update to that profile – the fact that I have the MCITP too and not just MCDBA (which as you know is expired).
I put more thought into the question on geekiest thing ever done. If I could do it, I would totally do this. Well, at least come up with a way (maybe a remote built into the gloves) to make it appear like I had something beyond the TSQL Force.
Swing by Data Education and check things out – at the very least check out the Data Heads.