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Q: Laravel php artisan migrate does nothing am quite new to php laravel. Been watching laracasts to try to get valey working but hitting a wall at "php artisan migrate".
I've tried running a few commands like below but nothing works. The problem is after typing "php artisan migrate" in the folder where laravel is installed, it just does literally nothing. No error messages whatsoever. I've tried letting it run for a few hours but it just stays the same, remains at command without running anything.
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Heavily armed gunman opens fire on passengers traveling from Amsterdam to Paris; no definite links to terrorism, police say.
A heavily armed man opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, injuring at least two people before being overpowered by passengers.
The motives behind the attack were not immediately known, although a spokesman for the interior minister said: "It is too early to speak of a terrorist link."
Despite this, as of 9:00 pm, counter-terror police have now taken over the investigation, according to the British Guardian.
A spokesman for the French state rail company SNCF said that the assailant was armed with guns and knives but gave no further details about the attack.
The spokesman had said earlier that three people were injured, two of them seriously, and that at least one suffered gunshot wounds.
An American and a Briton were reportedly among those injured - and at least one official stated to the Guardian that they seemed to have been specifically targeted.
The gunman was arrested after the train pulled into the station in the northern French town of Arras, the SNCF spokesman told AFP. He has allegedly said nothing since his arrest.
As of 9:20 pm local time, the gunman has now been identified as a 26 year-old Moroccan man, a police official stated on French station i-Tele.
"The passengers are safe, the situation has been brought under control," train operator Thalys said on Twitter.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was heading to Arras in the wake of the incident, which occurred shortly after 6:00 pm, his ministry said.
His spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet confirmed to AFP that a man had opened fire on the train but said that at this stage "we do not know his motives."
The French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who appeared in the 1986 cult film "Betty Blue" staring Beatrice Dalle, was lightly injured, a witness told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Thalys said on its website that several trains had been delayed after the "intervention of security forces at Arras station".
"The train is at the station and emergency services are at the scene," said Thalys, which is jointly owned by the national rail companies of Belgium, France and Germany.
Shortly after 9:00 pm local time, French President Francois Hollande made a statement of solidarity with the wounded.
"I express my solidarity with the wounded from the attack on the train from Amsterdam to Paris," he said. "Everything is being done to shed light on this tragedy."
France remains on edge after Islamic extremists attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January.
In June, a man beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a gas plant in southern France in what prosecutors say was an attack inspired by the Islamic State group.


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Investigators discover 'possible plot' by militia to breach Capitol on Thursday
By Michael Balsamo
Updated 10:01AM
Timeline of the riot at the US Capitol on Jan. 6
What started as a congressional and democratic exercise in the peaceful transfer of power, devolved into death, destruction and chaos.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Law enforcement was on high alert Thursday around the U.S. Capitol after intelligence uncovered a "possible plot" by a militia group to storm the iconic building again, two months after a mob of Donald Trump supporters smashed through windows and doors to try to stop Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's victory.
The threat appears to be connected to a far-right conspiracy theory, mainly promoted by supporters of QAnon, that former President Trump will rise again to power on March 4 and that thousands will come to Washington, D.C., to try to remove Democrats from office. March 4 was the original presidential inauguration day until 1933, when it was moved to Jan. 20.
Online chatter identified by authorities included discussions among members of the Three Percenters, an anti-government militia group, concerning possible plots against the Capitol on Thursday, according to two law enforcement officials who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Members of the Three Percenters were among the extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
RELATED: House cancels Thursday session amid threat of violence at Capitol by militia group
The threat came as the Capitol police and other law enforcement agencies were taking heat from Congress in contentious hearings this week on their poor handling of the Jan. 6 riot. Police were ill-prepared for the mass of Trump supporters in tactical gear, some armed, and it took hours for National Guard reinforcements to come. By then, rioters had broken and smashed their way into the building and roamed the halls for hours, stalling Congress' certification effort temporarily and sending lawmakers into hiding.
"The United States Capitol Police Department is aware of and prepared for any potential threats towards members of Congress or towards the Capitol complex," Capitol Police said in a statement.
Lawmakers, congressional staffers and law enforcement officials are still on edge after the attack on Jan. 6, even as the security posture around the Capitol remains at an unprecedented level.
The U.S. House wrapped up its work for the week Wednesday night, but the U.S. Senate still had a busy day scheduled for Thursday with votes going well into the evening. Police beefed up their presence in and around the Capitol. About 5,200 National Guard members remain in D.C., the remainder of the roughly 26,000 that were brought in for President Biden's inauguration that went off with no problems.
There's also a very large fence around the U.S. Capitol perimeter that walls off all avenues of entry including on the streets around the building, put in place after Jan. 6. And Trump is in Florida.
An eight-foot-tall steel fence topped with concertina razor wire circles the U.S. Capitol Jan. 29, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Initially it seemed as though the online chatter did not rise to the level of serious concern; an advisory sent earlier this week to members of Congress by Timothy Blodgett, the acting House sergeant-at-arms, said that the Capitol Police had "no indication that groups will travel to Washington D.C. to protest or commit acts of violence."
But that advisory was updated in a note to lawmakers Wednesday morning. Blodgett wrote that the Capitol Police had received "new and concerning information and intelligence indicating additional interest in the Capitol for the dates of March 4th – 6th by a militia group."
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said during House testimony Wednesday that her investigators had collected "some concerning intelligence," but declined to provide any details publicly, saying that it was "law enforcement sensitive" and that she would provide a private briefing for the subcommittee members.
Meanwhile, federal agents looked for any increases in the number of hotel rooms being rented in Washington, as well as monitoring flights to the area, car rental reservations and any buses being chartered to bring groups into the capital, but found nothing significant, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person could not publicly discuss details of the security planning and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security also sent a joint intelligence bulletin to local law enforcement officials Tuesday warning that a group of militia extremists had discussed trying to take control of the Capitol on March 4 and encouraging thousands of people to come to D.C. to try to remove Democrats from power.
RELATED: General testifies about 3-hour delay in getting National Guard to Capitol during riot
But there has been a noticeable decline in online activity on some social media platforms surrounding efforts on March 4, and there was already considerably less online chatter than during the lead-up to Jan. 6, a day that Trump repeatedly had promoted for a his rally and encouraged thousands to come to the nation's capital.
Several QAnon groups still operating on the social media messaging platform Telegram warned followers to stay away from any events on March 4, claiming it was a setup for Trump supporters.
"If there are groups out there planning and advertising events on or around March 4 anywhere in the country (DC included) we strongly urge everyone to avoid them entirely," one Telegram user wrote late last month in a QAnon group that has more than 65,000 followers.
Also, thousands of accounts that promoted the Jan. 6 event that led to a violent storming of the U.S. Capitol have since been suspended by major tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, making it far more difficult for QAnon and far-right groups to organize a repeat of the mass gathering on Thursday.
RELATED: More than 300 people have been charged after deadly US Capitol riot, Justice Dept. says
Twitter banned more than 70,000 accounts after the riots, while Facebook and Instagram removed posts mentioning "stop the steal," a pro-Trump rallying cry used to mobilize his supporters in January. And the conservative social media platform Parler, which many of Trump's supporters joined to promote false election fraud conspiracy theories and encourage friends to "storm" the Capitol on Jan. 6, was booted off the internet following the siege.
Capitol Police say that they have stepped up security around the Capitol complex since January's insurrection, adding physical security measures such as the fencing topped with razor wire around the Capitol and members of the National Guard who remain at the complex.
"I think they are definitely prepared for any threats that may come our way in the next couple days," said Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., who was one of several lawmakers briefed privately by the police. Wexton added that she still questioned the long-term security plan for the Capitol and said Pittman, the acting chief, "has not come up with proactive ways to fix the issues that they had."
So far, about 300 people have been charged with federal crimes for their roles in the riot. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died.
Since his defeat, Trump has been promoting lies that the election was stolen from him through mass voter fraud, even though such claims have been rejected by judges, Republican state officials and Trump's own administration. He was impeached by the House after the Jan. 6 riot on a c harge of incitement of insurrection but was acquitted by the Senate.
Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant in Houston; Colleen Long, Alan Fram, and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington; and Amanda Seitz in Chicago contributed to this report.

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"Don't Call Us Racist! It's Offensive!"
Apparently, Nigel Farage is upset. He is offended and hurt. People have been saying things about him and his party that he feels are unfair and uncalled-for, and he has spoken out on Channel 4 to object to it. Apparently, it hurts him when he hears that the UK Independence Party, of which he is the leader, is routinely associated with racism.
Leaving aside the reality that the number of UKIP members who have uttered racially-charged, or at least xenophobic, public remarks is almost startlingly high, and that homophobia and 'pestilence'-fear-mongering are also unsettlingly commonplace, it should be conceded that calling the party as an organisation racist is perhaps hyperbolic. There is no doubt that its outlook is very insular and abrasive, and opens the way to ideas driven by stereotypes instead of nuance or real-world issues. It is also reactionary, inward-looking, and anti-minority enough to attract precisely the sorts of people who are prone to colour-feeling. But there is nothing in particular in UKIP's thinking or ideals that indulge in, say, white supremacy, or even in old-style Imperialism.
So technically, we could concede the point to Farage and accept that he is right that his party – again speaking strictly about it as an organisation – is not racist.
But the problem is, even if the party organisation is not racist, a great deal of its support-base quite emphatically is. Some of them, especially those who have historically supported the British National Party, are downright 'pro-Final-Solution'. This raises the question as to whether a party can ever really be anything other than the sum of its membership. Even if we are safe to assume that Farage is not a racist – and we would be assuming rather than certain – that does not make him UKIP. He does not control the thoughts of his party, and I doubt he would want to claim that he does, as it would cast a totalitarian shadow over his presence. So those sorts of people are in his party.
Add in all the rather unpleasant and ill-informed, reactionary views Farage has expressed, especially about HIV-sufferers and 'benefit-tourists', and even if he and his organisation can be said not to be actual racists, what they really are will not be any better. Their manifesto platform and wider rhetoric mark the party down as homophobes, xenophobes, Christian Imperialists, Big-Money-sycophants, benefits-bashers, Islamophobes, 40's-style jingoists, climate-change-denialists and misogynists (especially Roger Helmer). None of these mindsets are noticeably more creditable, either morally or intellectually, than racism.
Offended as he is at the racism accusation, I somehow suspect that Farage would be equally offended if he knew that I have called him and his party homophobic, xenophobic, Big-Money-bootlicking, benefits-bashing, Islamophobic, jingoistic, misogynistic, climate-change-denying, Christian Imperialists, even though every word of the accusation is true. So what he really dislikes, it appears, is receiving condemnation.
In some ways, I do not mind that. After all, who does like getting condemnation?
This is UKIP we are discussing.
This is the party that massively exaggerates the scale of immigration. The party that massively exaggerates the British resources that immigrants consume. The party that seriously understates how much immigrants contribute to society. The party that vilifies and scaremongers Islam and its adherents. The party that attacks women's rights, and implies that feminists want to conquer the world. The party that castigates the European Union as some evil foreign Empire that has colonised the United Kingdom and is in the rapacious process of stealing all its resources. The party that falsely asserts that more than half of HIV-positive diagnoses in the UK are non-British nationals. The party that accuses the Scots of lazily depending on English subsidy. The party that accuses climatologists of being part of an International Marxist Conspiracy to take over the world.
Any time anyone objects to UKIP making these untrue – or at least wildly exaggerated – and often hurtful remarks, the objector is accused of being too 'politically correct', of being 'weak', and of being too 'soft' to cope with hearing 'hard facts', even though the remarks are measurably not factual. Being abusive and spreading hyperbolic, offensive rumours are not irresponsible or shameful behaviours. Understood, everyone? It is 'politically correct' to describe them as such.
We get that stance from UKIP all the time. And with that being so, UKIP, I have decided to say that your party are all racists.
Yes, Farage, I know, you say that it is untrue. It is probably, as I said above, hyperbolic. But I shall say it anyway.
UKIP IS A RACIST PARTY.
Do you not like that, Farage? Is it not fair? Does it upset you? Do you think of it as a hyperbolic, offensive rumour?
Well, tough. Stop being soft, Farage! Stop being weak! Deal with hard facts when you hear them!
Oh well. I guess I am just not as politically correct as you, Farage.
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HomeLocalEconet rides on World Cup fever with Kwese iflix service
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Econet rides on World Cup fever with Kwese iflix service
The Fifa 2018 World Cup tournament has been a boon for the uptake of Kwesé iflix, Econet Media's recently launched video-on-demand service, which offers top sports and entertainment content on mobile phones, tablets and other multimedia platforms on the go.
The service, which was launched in Zimbabwe a little over three weeks ago, has taken the market by storm, with Econet Wireless Zimbabwe riding on the popularity of the World Cup to drive its adoption and push its data service usage.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe CEO Douglas Mboweni said the World Cup had given the service a fillip, coming soon after Kwesé iflix was launched.
"We are seeing spectacular uptake both in terms of customer adoption and data usage because of the on-going the World Cup" he said.
"Also, the customer feedback we have been getting is most encouraging; the market loves the product, and users of the service very happy with the platform and its content."
Early this year, Econet announced that it had achieved 100% 3G coverage throughout the country, and had completed the deployment of its high-speed LTE (4G) network in all the major cities and resort centres in the country.
The company has also deployed close to 600 Wifi hotspots around the country, including mobile Wifi in public transport.
The Kwesé iflix service – a joint venture between Econet Media and iflix – offers users a unique multimedia viewing experience, which includes live coverage of sporting competitions, with the current pick of the cherry being the FIFA World Cup currently under way in Russia.
It also offers international and regional content programming – including the popular NBA games.
Mboweni said to enjoy the Kwesé iflix's video-on-demand and as well as "linear" (or live) broadcast services, all that customers needed to do was to download the Kwesé iflix App on the Google Play Store or on the Apple App Store, and register."
Thereafter, he said, they would use their data to subscribe to a wide range of programmes of their choice.
"Once a customer has the Kwesé iflix App on their device, they are good to go; they can stream content of their choice wherever and whenever they want to, as long as they are within the Econet mobile data or Wifi networks.
It is believed Kwesé -flix will help drive data usage on the Econet broadband networks, something that will further propel the company's growing data revenues to surpass its voice revenues, something already happening in the developed markets, such as the USA.
Mboweni confirmed this, saying the Kwesé iflix service was very much a part of the 'TMT' (telecom, media and technology) model that Econet has been pursuing in recent years, and that the strategy had started to pay dividends.
"When the Econet group talks about the TMT model, Kwesé iflix and Kwese Play are the 'media' component of that business model" he said.
"The two services depend, to a large extent, on content from global providers like Netflix, which is available on Kwesé Play."
Industry experts say Econet, which has invested in an extensive network of mobile and fixed broadband infrastructure that includes 4G, fixed and mobile Wi-Fi, as well as Fibre – is well positioned to grow its data revenues much quicker now that it has developed a strong multi-media content platform.
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Author Q&A: Monica Holloway, "Cowboy & Wills"
October 2, 2009 January 18, 2010
Monica Holloway is the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs Driving With Dead People and Cowboy & Wills, which will be released on October 6. Holloway contributed to the anthology Mommy Wars, from which her essay "Red Boots and Cole Haans" was described by Newsday as "brilliant, grimly hilarious." Holloway speaks with Write On! about her journey, her process, and writing the memoir.
On Sunday, October 4, at 2 pm, Holloway will be a special guest as Laurel Ollstein and Amy Friedman present UCLA Extension's "From Page to Stage," an afternoon of spoken word based on personal essays at Barnes Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, in Santa Monica.
How did you make the leap from actor to writer?
I've always been very expressive—perhaps too expressive—and I have this wonderful friend, Beth Schachter, who was constantly telling me to put my stories down on paper. I was an actress, not a writer, so I refused to do it. "Who would be interested in my stories?"
One Sunday, when we were both out of work, Beth suggested that I write down a few stories and that the two of us could develop them into a one-woman show—she could direct and I could perform.
I was procrastinating writing the stories, so Beth bought a cheap tape recorder at Radio Shack and sat me down in our tiny five-floor walk-up that we shared in New York, and I told her some stories, which she recorded. I transcribed the tapes and Beth edited them and added the transitions. Eventually, we came up with a one-woman show entitled "Spontaneous Vertigo" that we did in New York. That was the first thing I "wrote" and, after that, expressing myself on paper became more natural for me.
What was your first writing break?
I got an essay published in the anthology Mommy Wars, edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner. It was such a thrill. In fact, there is a scene from that essay in Cowboy & Wills.
What was your favorite part of writing Cowboy & Wills?
Going back to a time when Wills was small enough to balance on my hip. To literally freeze his early childhood, exactly as I remembered it.
The greatest challenge?
The greatest challenge was to balance the sweetness and fun of Wills's early childhood with overcoming the many roadblocks that being autistic had thrown in his way. He had to be brave at a very early age.
When writing such personal material, how do you decide what to include? And what to eliminate?
That's a great question. My editor would laugh really hard if she read that question because my first instinct is to include everything. And Trish, who is an amazing editor at Simon & Schuster, thoughtfully and with such care, helped me pare the story down so that I was focusing on the story of Wills and Cowboy.
How was Cowboy & Wills different from your first memoir experience?
– In writing it?
Just like Driving with Dead People, I sold the book before I wrote it. And yet, these two writing experiences could not have been more different.
Driving with Dead People seemed to come out in a steady flow, as if I'd been waiting my entire life to get it onto the page. As harrowing as the story was, it came very naturally to me.
Cowboy & Wills, which is a much simpler story, spanning fewer years, felt more difficult to write. I was very surprised. Here I was writing about my most favorite person in the world—Wills—and I was less sure about how I wanted the story to unfold.
I made a conscious decision to keep the language more sparse in Cowboy & Wills and I had to constantly remind myself to bring the story back to Wills. Driving with Dead People was about my childhood, which lent itself to more self-reflection.
– In getting it published?
I was fortunate to have the same publisher, Jen Bergstrom, on both books. When she bought Driving with Dead People, I was in absolute shock. I'd only completed three chapters and had never written a full-length book. Her trust in me was (and is) something I've never fully taken in. I was lucky to find Jen. Very lucky.
What were the similarities?
The only similarities are that I often write in my Jeep, and I always complete the final manuscript at the Beverly Hilton, where I splurge on a three-day locked-away writing spree. I usually email the final draft sometime around 3 AM the day it's due. It has to be finished at the Hilton, so I wrack up the Hilton points all year.
When I was finishing Cowboy & Wills, a generator blew out and the hotel lost all power. I was in a panic. I had to turn in the final draft by the next morning. A nice man at the front desk put me in a storage room—the only room with power—so that I could plug in my computer and continue to write. I finished Cowboy & Wills with the gift bags from the Golden Globes stacked in piles all around me.
What are three things writers must know if they choose to write a memoir?
There are so many more than three things.
One thing I know for sure, whatever reaction you're hoping to get, throw it out the window. Once that book hits the store, people are going to bring their own experiences to it and it is no longer yours. That doesn't have to be a bad thing because the reason I write is to share stories, to figure things out, to hear what other people have been through. But the reactions to both my books were not what I expected. And it sounds cliché, but that was a good thing.
Write the truth.
Stand your ground.
Additional advice for writers?
Write every day, even if it's a few lines on the back of a bank statement. Don't think about writing—write. Read everything you can get your hands on and get yourself into a group of writers, whether it's a class at a local university or a writing group. This really helps structure your writing time and gives you deadlines for your own work. It also offers insight as you read other people's work and watch how they are developing as writers.
What do you know now that you wish you knew when you first started writing?
That people can disagree with you, and it does not affect your truth.
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HKCU/Aaspp/A1_0
HKCU/Aaspp/A2_0
HKCU/Aaspp/A3_0
HKCU/Aaspp/A4_0
HKCU/Aaspp/*some long number*/*files with random numbers in name and their content*

I've tested the malware in Virustotal's sandbox and it showed that the virus actually creates a directory in HKCU/SOFTWARE. But also there's an info from the Chinese forum which contradicts to idea that its malicious.


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Q: What is SYS_OP_UNDESCEND and SYS_OP_DESCEND in Oracle Explain Plan? I have an Oracle explain plan that looks like this:
Plan hash value: 2484140766

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| Id  | Operation                      | Name                  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT               |                       |   180K|    84M|     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  1 |  COUNT STOPKEY                 |                       |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW                         |                       |   180K|    84M|     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  3 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | OSTRICH               |  6500K|   793M|     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  4 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN DESCENDING| OSTRICH_ENDDATE_IDX_2 |     1 |       |     4   (0)| 00:00:01 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   1 - filter(ROWNUM<=180000)
   3 - filter("OSTRICH_STATUS_ID"=2)
   4 - access(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE")>=SYS_OP_DESCEND(SYSDATE@!))
       filter(SYS_OP_UNDESCEND(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE"))<=SYSDATE@!)

I have been trying to understand what is happening with these 2 lines at the bottom:
4 - access(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE")>=SYS_OP_DESCEND(SYSDATE@!))
       filter(SYS_OP_UNDESCEND(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE"))<=SYSDATE@!)

What do SYS_OP_UNDESCEND and SYS_OP_DESCEND mean?
The index that the explain plan references is (I think) called a descending index. (I do not know a lot about Oracle indexing.) The DDL for that index is:
CREATE INDEX
    OSTRICH_ENDDATE_IDX_2
ON
    OSTRICH
    (
        "END_DATE" DESC
    );

The actual query looks like this:
SELECT
 l.id,
 l.end_date,
 l.status
FROM
    (
        SELECT
            *
        from OSTRICH l2
        where END_DATE <= SYSDATE
            and OSTRICH_STATUS_ID = 2
        order by l2.END_DATE
    ) l
WHERE ROWNUM <= 180000;

What do SYS_OP_UNDESCEND and SYS_OP_DESCEND mean? This query is taking much longer than I would expect, and I am trying to understand what impact the  descending and undescending has on the query?

A: Oracle implements the descending index "as if" it were a function-based index.  Function-based indexes are invoked when a query uses the function call; thus an FBI on upper(col1) would be used when the WHERE clause filters on upper(col1) = 'WHATEVER'.
In this case I think the SYS_OP_DESCEND is the "function" Oracle uses when creating a descending index I think it is then invoking SYS_OP_UNDESCEND because your WHERE clause is unsuited to a descending index. It's not surprising the performance sucks.
There are very few use cases where a descending index is a good idea. Why are you using one on this column on this table?
Assuming there is a good reason for using the index and you can't just drop it, your best bet for improved performance would be to not use the index for this query. Doing something like this should prevent the optimiser not using the index:
SELECT
 l.id,
 l.end_date,
 l.status
FROM
    (
        SELECT /*+ NO_INDEX(l2 OSTRICH_ENDDATE_IDX_2) */
            *
        from OSTRICH l2
        where END_DATE <= SYSDATE
            and OSTRICH_STATUS_ID = 2
        order by l2.END_DATE
    ) l
WHERE ROWNUM <= 180000;

A: SYS_OP_UNDESCENDand SYS_OP_DESCEND are internal functions used by the CBO that appear in the EXPLAIN PLAN when a function based index is used or a sort operation inside an index clause has been specified.
In your case, you are using an INDEX with a SORT clause
CREATE INDEX
    OSTRICH_ENDDATE_IDX_2
ON
    OSTRICH
    (
        "END_DATE" DESC
    );

Your plan shows these two operations:

*

*access(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE")>=SYS_OP_DESCEND(SYSDATE@!))

*filter(SYS_OP_UNDESCEND(SYS_OP_DESCEND("END_DATE"))<=SYSDATE@!)
The first operation is the access, based on the desc index clause of the index itself, and the second the filter. Both appear because the query is done against the nature of the index.
I would never use this clause in any index unless the access is done in that way always, which is quite rare because sorting in different ways is what normally SQL is used for.
There is also this bug: ( fixed in 20.1 )
Bug 27589260  wrong sort order due to virtual column replacement in function based index
That degrades the performance of the query when a virtual column is present in the table and a function based index has been used.


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Väddö es una isla en el mar Báltico en el distrito de Roslagen, Suecia. Está situado en el municipio de Norrtälje. Junto con la vecina Björkö está considerada la séptima isla por tamaño de Suecia.

Véase también
 Islas del mar Báltico

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Islas del archipiélago de Estocolmo

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Hieronymus Payer (* 13. Februar 1787 in Meidling; † 17. August 1845 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Komponist und Pianist.

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Hieronymus Payer war Sohn eines Lehrers. Schon als 10-Jähriger verdiente er sich seinen Lebensunterhalt als Aushilfsmusiker und war dann auch als Hilfslehrer bei seinem Vater angestellt. 1806 wurde er Kapellmeister im Meidlinger Sommertheater, für das er sogar kleine Singspiele schrieb. Später übersiedelte er in die Innere Stadt und musizierte auch im Redoutensaal und dem Theater an der Wien erfolgreich. Auch als Pädagoge, etwa als Lehrer von Leopoldine Blahetka, war er tätig.

1821 stellte Payer in Wien erstmals die Physharmonika in einem öffentlichen Konzert vor. Drei Jahre später ging er als Kapellmeister nach Amsterdam an die dortige Hoogduitse Schouwburg und 1825 dann nach Paris. 1832 kehrte er nach Wien zurück und wurde als Vorgänger von Conradin Kreutzer für kurze Zeit Kapellmeister im Theater in der Josefstadt.

Als Pianist wurde Payer von den Zeitgenossen mit Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles und Ferdinand Ries verglichen.

Werke (Auswahl)
6 Messen und andere geistliche Werke
10 Opern und Singspiele, darunter
 Der wilde Jäger, Meidling 1806 oder 26. Juli 1807
 L'arbre creux, Meidling 1808
 Der hohle Baum, Meidling 1810
 Die musikalische Akademie, 1825
 Die Trauer, 1825
 Hochlands Fürsten, 1825 (Libretto: Joseph Schütz), aufgetreten ist darin u. a. auch Johann Nestroy
 La croix de feu, 1830
Instrumentalmusik
 Ouvertüren, Konzerte, Märsche, Walzer, Klaviermusik, Kammermusik

Literatur
 August Schmidt: Denksteine. Biographien. Mechitharisten-Congregation, Wien 1848, S. 95–110.

 Jürgen Hein: Nestroy in Amsterdam. In: Nestroyana. Bd. 8, Nr. 3/4, 1988, , S. 52–70.
 Henk J. Koning: Nestroy in Amsterdam. Zur Rezeption seiner Stücke auf der holländischen Bühne des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Nestroyana. Bd. 14, Nr. 3/4, 1994, S. 91–100.
 Gerrit Waidelich: Dokumente zu Nestroys Amsterdamer Engagement in Korrespondenzberichten über das dortige Deutsche Theater. In: Nestroyana. Bd. 17, Nr. 1/2, 1997, S. 24–38.

Weblinks

 Porträt im Bezirksmuseum Wien-Meidling
 Payer in Amsterdam 1825 – 1
 Payer in Amsterdam 1825 – 2

Komponist (Österreich)
Pianist
Komponist (Oper)
Musiker (Wien)
Geboren 1787
Gestorben 1845
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Mayor Ed Lee Opposes Effort To Hire Ex-Felons
$10,000 Tax Break For Companies Hiring Ex-Felons Opposed
By Chris Roberts	• Published at 1:44 pm on December 2, 2011
Alumni of the criminal justice system don't have it easy in today's world -- convicts and ex-felons have a 50 percent unemployment rate. And that's just A-OK with Mayor Ed Lee.
The San Francisco mayor is opposing legislation that would offer a tax break of $10,000 to companies who hire ex-felons, according to the San Francisco Examiner. The tax break was $10,000 per ex-felon hired.
The mayor is "skeptical" of the legislation, which is "not comprehensive enough," according to Christine Falvey, the mayor's press secretary.
The Board of Supervisors will vote on the legislation next Tuesday. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, the sheriff-elect, is the legislation's sponsor.
Lee looks likely to veto the felon hiring legislation. Eight votes at the Board are needed to override a veto. Supervisor Carmen Chu, a mayoral ally, said she is uncomfortable with the legislation because it "prioritizes" one population over another.
Mirkarimi levelled a volley at the critics. "What are we going to do with this large and increasingly growing population of ex-offenders who can't get access to employment?" he asked. "I'm not hearing any other solutions and doing nothing isn't acceptable either."


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Thickness of the melanoma is the most necessary issue related to survival in patients with melanoma. It is most typically reported as a measurement of depth given in millimeters (mm) and computed by suggests that of pathological examination after a biopsy of the suspected lesion. In order to avoid the utilization of an invasive methodology within the estimation of the thickness of melanoma before surgery, we tend to propose a computational image analysis system from dermoscopic images. The proposed feature extraction is based on the clinical findings that correlate certain characteristics present in dermoscopic images and tumor depth. 2 supervised classification schemes are proposed: a binary classification in which melanomas are classified into thin or thick, and a 3-category theme (skinny, intermediate, and thick). The performance of several nominal classification methods, including a recent interpretable method combining logistic regression with artificial neural networks (Logistic regression using Initial variables and Product Units, LIPU), is compared. For the 3-class downside, a collection of ordinal classification strategies (considering ordering relation between the 3 classes) is included. For the binary case, LIPU outperforms all the opposite ways with an accuracy of 77.six%, whereas, for the second theme, though LIPU reports the highest overall accuracy, the ordinal classification methods achieve a better balance between the performances of all categories.