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Around the Jewish World: Ancient Legend of the Golem Still Evokes Curiosity, Controversy
The stately Charles Bridge transports travelers into old Jewish Town here. It's a kind of a time portal, built in 1357 by King Charles IV and lined with 30 magnificent baroque statues.
The controversy over whether a creature once lived on the other side of this Gothic bridge makes the journey even more mysterious.
In the late 1500s, Prague's Rabbi Judah Loew (1520-1609), one of the most respected and beloved sages in Eastern Europe, is said to have built a man of clay, which he called the Golem.
The Jews of ancient Prague had a foothold in this city for 600 years by then, arriving as merchants in the 10th century. By the 1300s, though, the burgeoning community was confined to the walled Jewish Town.
Although Prague's Jews were treated better by the local aristocracy than were most Jews in Europe, attacks were still commonplace. In the infamous Easter massacre of 1389, 3,000 Jewish men, women and children were cornered in an alleyway and slaughtered.
Fearing for the safety of his community, Loew, also known as the Maharal, practiced Kabbalah — the Jewish mystical tradition — to breathe life into his clay creature. This protector would be summoned when needed, while otherwise laboring in the Alt Neu — Old New — Synagogue during off-hours.
Unfortunately, after performing some heroic feats of rescue, the Golem became infused with ego, disobeying its creator. Loew managed to trick the Golem and cause its life force to disperse.
The legend goes on to say that the Golem's body has been kept in the attic of the synagogue ever since.
But did the Golem actually exist?
"Many do come to Prague attracted by the legends, especially many Chasidic Jews," said Leo Pavlat, the director of Prague's Jewish Museum. "Twice I was woken in the middle of the night when some people called, asking that I take them to the roof of the Alt Neu shul to see the Golem. I managed to convince them that he didn't exist."
Pavlat scoffed when told that many consider the Golem to have been a living, breathing thing. He also said that Loew was not a kabbalist. "There is no actual link" between the "rabbi and kabbalah," he said.
These denials provoked a pointed response from a leading Canadian Chasidic leader, Rabbi Moishe New, director of the Montreal Torah Centre. The rabbi is a noted authority on Kabbalah, giving lectures and teaching classes on the subject to beginners and veterans alike.
"The Talmud recalls instances where sages fashioned Golems for the protection of Jewish lives, much as the Maharal did," New said.
"The body of the Golem was infused with a soul, becoming a type of angel enclosed in a manmade body. Angels are considered to be like creatures or animals in daily Jewish prayer. They have no free choice and are not capable of making moral decisions — they are spiritual robots, subservient to their makers."
The Maharal, New also stressed, certainly did practice Kabbalah.
"He was an outstanding kabbalist, philosopher and talmudist and wrote an entire series of books, 20 in all, based on Kabbalah. They were called `Gevurot Hashem' or the `Might of God.' Rabbi Loew's genius was that he expressed kabbalistic teachings in a rational manner, thus making it accessible to the masses.
"As a matter of fact, the Chasidic movement owes its inception, to a significant degree, to his teachings."
But what of the existence of the Golem of legend? The tale was certainly inspirational enough to cause German Czech journalist Franz Klutschak, in 1838, to write a story titled "The Golam and Rabbi Loew," for a popular periodical, Panorama des Universums.
In 1847, the Galerie der Sippurim, published by Prague bookseller Wolf Pascheles, mentions Loew's Golem amongst its many fairy tales about famous Jews. A 1915 bestseller by Vienna-born Gustav Meyrink featured the Golem as well.
Even Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer got into the act, publishing his English version of "The Golem" in 1982. He had written the Yiddish original for the Jewish Daily Forward in 1969, with his Prague protagonist a kabbalist named Rabbi Leib.
The motion picture world also got into the act with two German silent movies, a 1914 version co-directed by the film's star and co-producer, Paul Wegener, followed by another in 1920, also featuring Wegener.
Visiting Prague, it's easy to get caught up in the legend, with two sites of interest to Golemseekers.
The unforgettably bleak, yet thrilling landscape of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Jewish Town is a Kafkaesque arrangement of over 12,000 stones dating back to the 15th century. Bodies are buried vertically in rows of 12, as Jews were not allowed to inter their dead anyplace else. Many stones are tilted, pointing like jagged shards of glass.
While many of the city's renowned leaders are buried here, the prize is the grave of the Maharal himself. It is probably the most visited Jewish site in Prague, and like Jerusalem's Western Wall, is filled with notes of prayer and hope thrust into every nook and cranny.
Then there is the nearby Alt Neu Synagogue itself. Dating to 1280, it is the oldest Jewish house of worship in Europe and one of Prague's oldest Gothic buildings. Services have been held continuously for over 700 years, with the exception of the World War II years.
Worshipers can gaze at the vaulted ceiling, wondering whether the Golem is in the attic, as purported.
"Certainly, the Golem's existence was witnessed by the people of that time and forms part of the oral history of the Jewish people," said New.
As to where its body lies, the rabbi sticks to the legend.
"It is in the attic of the Alt Neu Synagogue, under piles of weathered old holy books. The body may be crumbled by now, but that is the tradition."
As to why community leaders like Pavlat continue to deny the Golem's existence, New can only offer an educated guess.
"The Maharal would not have wished it to be venerated, and it has therefore been kept a guarded secret over the centuries. That is probably the motive for not showing the body."


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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web.Http.OData.Formatter;
using System.Web.Http.OData.Formatter.Deserialization;
using System.Xml;
using Microsoft.Data.Edm;
using Microsoft.Data.Edm.Csdl;
using Microsoft.Data.Edm.Library;
using Microsoft.Data.Edm.Validation;

namespace System.Web.Http.OData
{
    internal static class EdmTestHelpers
    {
        private static IEdmModel _model;

        public static IEdmEntityType GetEDMProductType()
        {
            return GetModel().FindType("ODataDemo.Product") as IEdmEntityType;
        }

        public static IEdmType GetEdmType(string name)
        {
            return GetModel().FindType(name);
        }

        public static IEdmModel GetModel()
        {
            if (_model == null)
            {
                IEdmModel edmModel;
                IEnumerable<EdmError> edmErrors;
                if (EdmxReader.TryParse(XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(GetEdmx())), out edmModel, out edmErrors))
                {
                    _model = edmModel;
                    _model.SetAnnotationValue<ClrTypeAnnotation>(_model.FindDeclaredType("ODataDemo.Product"), new ClrTypeAnnotation(typeof(ODataEntityDeserializerTests.Product)));
                    _model.SetAnnotationValue<ClrTypeAnnotation>(_model.FindDeclaredType("ODataDemo.Supplier"), new ClrTypeAnnotation(typeof(ODataEntityDeserializerTests.Supplier)));
                    _model.SetAnnotationValue<ClrTypeAnnotation>(_model.FindDeclaredType("ODataDemo.Address"), new ClrTypeAnnotation(typeof(ODataEntityDeserializerTests.Address)));
                    _model.SetAnnotationValue<ClrTypeAnnotation>(_model.FindDeclaredType("ODataDemo.Category"), new ClrTypeAnnotation(typeof(ODataEntityDeserializerTests.Category)));
                    return _model;
                }
                else
                {
                    throw new NotSupportedException(string.Format("Parsing csdl failed with errors {0}", String.Join("\n", edmErrors.Select((edmError => edmError.ErrorMessage)))));
                }
            }
            else
            {
                return _model;
            }
        }

        public static string GetEdmx()
        {
            return Resources.ProductsCsdl;
        }

        public static EdmStructuralProperty StructuralProperty<TObject, TProperty>(IEdmStructuredType declaringType, Expression<Func<TObject, TProperty>> property, IEdmTypeReference propertyType = null)
        {
            PropertyInfo pInfo = ((property.Body as MemberExpression).Member as PropertyInfo);
            if (pInfo == null)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(String.Format("Test error: {0} is not a property access lambda", property));
            }

            return new EdmStructuralProperty(declaringType, pInfo.Name, propertyType ?? EdmLibHelpers.GetEdmPrimitiveTypeReferenceOrNull(pInfo.PropertyType));
        }

        public static IEdmEntityTypeReference AsReference(this IEdmEntityType entity)
        {
            return new EdmEntityTypeReference(entity, isNullable: false);
        }
    }
}

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Since then, they have climbed within striking distance of .500. A win on Wednesday would give Brooklyn (20-22) its best 17-game stretch since also going 13-4 from March 9 to April 8, 2014, when a veteran team rebounded from an awful start and won 44 games.
"We want to go higher, higher, higher," Nets rookie forward Rodions Kurucs said.
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Texas female Terry McKirchy charged with murder in 1984 shaken child case after target not too long ago died
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Babysitter Terry McKirchy received a gentle sentence 36 years ago immediately after pleading no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-previous Benjamin Dowling so seriously that he endured lasting brain problems – weekends in jail for a few months and a few several years probation.
But now McKirchy is going through a achievable everyday living sentence right after a Florida health-related examiner claims Dowling succumbed to all those accidents when he died in 2019 at the age of 35 soon after a lifetime with extreme mental and physical disabilities.
A Broward County grand jury lately indicted McKirchy, 59, with to start with-diploma murder and she is now jailed in Fort Bend County, near her dwelling in Sugar Land, Texas, pending her return to Florida. McKirchy, who has previously denied injuring the boy, has waived extradition, the Broward Condition Attorney's Office said. The South Florida SunSentinel 1st noted the arrest.
"The passage of time between the injuries sustained and the demise of the sufferer have been viewed as by the forensic specialists who conducted the autopsy and dominated the death was immediately induced by the accidents from 1984," prosecutors explained in a assertion. "This scenario was presented to the grand jury, which identified that this was a homicide."
It is not identified irrespective of whether McKirchy has an legal professional and the Broward General public Defender's Business, which represented her in the 1980s, did not quickly respond Monday to a ask for for comment. McKirchy informed The Miami Herald in 1985 she was innocent, but recognized the plea deal to put the circumstance behind her. Underneath the deal, she would only provide weekends until eventually her 3rd youngster was born and then she would be cost-free.
"I know I failed to do it. My conscience is distinct. But I can not offer with it any longer," McKirchy explained to the paper then. "I am six months expecting. You wouldn't think what this has accomplished to my family."
Rae and Joe Dowling, Benjamin's mothers and fathers, claimed their initial son in no way progressed just after his accidents, based on his relatives and other individuals.
"Benjamin never ever crawled, thoroughly rolled over, walked, under no circumstances talked, by no means fed himself, he by no means savored a hamburger or an ice product cone, he could by no means explain to us when he had an itch or everything hurt," the few explained in a statement. "When he cried in pain, we as a family members and caregivers had to guess as to what was completely wrong and hope that we could fulfill his require."
They did not address McKirchy's arrest in their assertion and, by way of the condition attorney's business office, declined job interview requests.
The Dowlings experienced been married 4 years when Benjamin was born Jan. 13, 1984. Each Dowlings worked, so they hired McKirchy, then 22, to babysit him at her suburban Fort Lauderdale household.
Rae Dowling claims when she picked up Benjamin from McKirchy on July 3, 1984, she quickly understood anything was improper. His fists were clenched and his human body limp. She rushed him to the hospital, exactly where doctors claimed he experienced suffered a mind hemorrhage from significant shaking.
McKirchy was charged with attempted murder and aggravated boy or girl abuse. The Dowlings advised the Herald in 1985 they were stunned when prosecutor Barbara Mitchell instructed them of the plea offer McKirchy would acquire. She had been dealing with 12 to 17 many years.
Mitchell explained to the paper then the sentence was "therapeutic," but did not make clear. Mitchell is even now with the Broward prosecutor's business office, but was not produced accessible for comment. One more prosecutor is handling the present-day scenario. Ryal Gaudiosi, then McKirchy's community defender, called the sentence "reasonable underneath the circumstances." He died in 2009.
David Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and previous prosecutor who is not concerned in the case, reported it is hard to know what went into the 1985 offer. Potentially witnesses ended up not offered or the readily available clinical evidence was not solid. Prosecutors might have felt McKirchy's pregnancy would make it complicated to get a conviction.
These days, he claimed, prosecutors may perhaps believe a murder circumstance is stronger since perhaps the medical and scientific proof has progressed. He stated McKirchy's attorneys might argue that the time lapse will make it impossible for them to mount an suitable protection as witnesses might have died and reminiscences faded.
"There are a lot of unanswered queries," he said.
The Dowlings said Benjamin endured quite a few surgeries in his lifestyle, which include having steel rods positioned alongside his spine. He received nourishment as a result of a feeding tube and attended rehab and unique faculties. The Dowlings had two extra youngsters and would just take Benjamin to their online games and performances. The family members moved to Florida's Gulf Coastline in the late 1990s. He died at their house on Sept. 16, 2019.
"Benjamin would never know how a lot he was beloved and could by no means notify other individuals of his like for them," they stated. "Benjamin did smile when he was all over his spouse and children, whilst he could never ever verbalize anything, we believe he knew who we have been and that we ended up functioning challenging to assistance him."
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package org.apache.flink.types;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.PublicEvolving;

/** Lists all kinds of changes that a row can describe in a changelog. */
@PublicEvolving
public enum RowKind {

    // Note: Enums have no stable hash code across different JVMs, use toByteValue() for
    // this purpose.

    /** Insertion operation. */
    INSERT("+I", (byte) 0),

    /**
     * Update operation with the previous content of the updated row.
     *
     *
This kind SHOULD occur together with {@link #UPDATE_AFTER} for modelling an update that
     * needs to retract the previous row first. It is useful in cases of a non-idempotent update,
     * i.e., an update of a row that is not uniquely identifiable by a key.
     */
    UPDATE_BEFORE("-U", (byte) 1),

    /**
     * Update operation with new content of the updated row.
     *
     *
This kind CAN occur together with {@link #UPDATE_BEFORE} for modelling an update that
     * needs to retract the previous row first. OR it describes an idempotent update, i.e., an
     * update of a row that is uniquely identifiable by a key.
     */
    UPDATE_AFTER("+U", (byte) 2),

    /** Deletion operation. */
    DELETE("-D", (byte) 3);

    private final String shortString;

    private final byte value;

    /**
     * Creates a {@link RowKind} enum with the given short string and byte value representation of
     * the {@link RowKind}.
     */
    RowKind(String shortString, byte value) {
        this.shortString = shortString;
        this.value = value;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a short string representation of this {@link RowKind}.
     *
     *

     *
     *

     *
"+I" represents {@link #INSERT}.
     *
"-U" represents {@link #UPDATE_BEFORE}.
     *
"+U" represents {@link #UPDATE_AFTER}.
     *
"-D" represents {@link #DELETE}.
     *

     */
    public String shortString() {
        return shortString;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the byte value representation of this {@link RowKind}. The byte value is used for
     * serialization and deserialization.
     *
     *

     *
     *

     *
"0" represents {@link #INSERT}.
     *
"1" represents {@link #UPDATE_BEFORE}.
     *
"2" represents {@link #UPDATE_AFTER}.
     *
"3" represents {@link #DELETE}.
     *

     */
    public byte toByteValue() {
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a {@link RowKind} from the given byte value. Each {@link RowKind} has a byte value
     * representation.
     *
     * @see #toByteValue() for mapping of byte value and {@link RowKind}.
     */
    public static RowKind fromByteValue(byte value) {
        switch (value) {
            case 0:
                return INSERT;
            case 1:
                return UPDATE_BEFORE;
            case 2:
                return UPDATE_AFTER;
            case 3:
                return DELETE;
            default:
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
                        "Unsupported byte value '" + value + "' for row kind.");
        }
    }
}


Queenstown is definitely for lovers. Maybe not so much in the summer, but during the late fall/early winter, all you want to do is cozy up to someone you love here and take a nice walk down Marine Parade, hand-in-hand.
They tell you to fly into Queenstown in New Zealand's South Island, and I'd forgotten until we were making our descent. I was extremely sleep-deprived and struggled to stay awake in spite of the amazing views -- lakes and snow-frosted mountain ranges abounded. Really beautiful and clear, though I wouldn't go out of my way to fly over Queenstown.
For me, Queenstown was more of a base to "work" out of. I didn't get too many photos of Queenstown or even get to spend that much time there, but this is a place I want to return to someday, with a loved one. Queenstown is pretty much known as the "adventure capital of the world" -- it's where bungee jumping officially became a commercial sport. In Queenstown, you can bungee jump, take a gliding swing ride, luge down a mountainside, or stick to a safer option -- the gondola or skycap. Not far away, you can also soak in a hot pool overlooking the mountains. Am I starting to sound like the Tourist Information Office yet? These are all things I may have given more consideration if I hadn't been traveling alone.
How big is this burger!? P.S. I don't have a small face.
I did visit Fergburger, which is a famous burger joint in town. The burgers, I forgot while ordering, are massive -- the size of my head, but they are worth it. There is just something distinctive, BETTER, about New Zealand beef. I ordered the Southern Swine, which is a basic burger with barbecue sauce, red onion, tomato, avocado, lettuce, aioli ($13 NZD ... just over $10 USD when I was there) on a chewy and crispy bun. And the fries, as a side order ($4 NZD ... approximately $3) with a free dipping sauce (I chose aioli) … so large a portion, and so, so good. I was only able to eat half the fries that night, and half the burger. I saved the other half of the burger for dinner the next night and it was still good.
I also got to try out Patagonia, a chocolate shop. I ordered a small lavender hot chocolate ($5 NZD or about $4), and it was rich and not too sweet. It wasn't sickeningly rich like some hot chocolates can be, and a touch bitter. I wanted to go back and try the Mexican hot chili chocolate or the churros dipped in chocolate sauce, but there wasn't enough stomach or time for that. Next time! I highly recommend this place, and there was free wi-fi, which is difficult to come by in all of New Zealand!
I definitely hope to be back someday.


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i hope i have fun.
Thank you very much you all! I was acting as that of a child for the beginning of my stay here, I enjoy seeing reactions from those who I deceive, but do not fear for I do engage in any activities that could be considered rude or harmful.
Anyways I appreciate your warm welcomes, and I do hope that I shall enjoy the duration of my time here.


The students return after the holidays, but who is Jerome avoiding and why? Amber is regretting agreeing to be Alfie's girlfriend. Sibuna has a midnight feast in the attic and are soon joined par the rest of the residents in Anubis house. Amber finds a dollhouse that is an exact replica of Anubis house. They get caught par Victor and everyone files down the stairs and back into their bedrooms, but Nina is determined to look for a new hiding place for the Cup of Ankh. Victor finds her as soon as she puts it into the secret door. He startles Nina, causing her to knock a box off the table. As Nina goes downstairs, she hears Victor pick up the old doll that she knocked over. It recites a riddle about a book of old, water of life, and tears of gold. She tells Fabian all about it and they agree to check out an abandoned bibliothèque for the book of old that the riddle mentioned. When they do so later that day, they find Mr. Sweet and Victor already in there. They hide behind a bookshelf and hear them talking about the Book of Isis and where it might be hidden. Fabian knocks something off the shelf and the episode ends with Victor pulling the sheet off it, leaving him to find them.
Nina's grandmother comes to visit the house. A seventh grader blackmails Jerome. Alfie tries get Amber to be his girlfriend par giving her framboise cupcakes, but Amber is allergic to framboise and develops a blotchy face. Meanwhile, Nina has a dream inspired par Victor's riddle, which she has overheard. A malignant spirit emerges from the cup. Sibuna finds out who is blackmailing Jerome, and Victor is convinced that he will find the Book of Isis in a traveling Egyptian artifacts exhibition. Nina hears some noises and goes up to the attic to examine. She takes the cup out of the hiding place, and Senkhara comes out. The spirit tells Nina to find the Mask of Anubis before anyone else ou forfeit her life. Trudy cleans out the attic to prepare a guest room and throws out the dollhouse. Alfie saves it to give to Amber and passes Step 1 in Amber's dating book.
Mara is upset that Mick's family is moving. Alfie tries to impress Amber with one of his photos in a magazine cover and passes Step 2 in Amber's dating book. Fabian writes a poem for Nina, but Nina has something else on her mind. It is discovered that someone else might have found the path to the Mask of Anubis. There is a replica of the Mask of Anubis in the exhibition, so Nina and Fabian go check it out. Jerome's sister, Poppy, reads her father's letter to Jerome. Meanwhile, Fabian's attempt to read Nina his poem fails, and Nina has another terrifying dream.
Senkhara leaves her mark on Nina, and Fabian's godfather, Jasper, advises her about the mark and the Mask, which he believes to be a myth. Jerome finds Fabian's poem to Nina. The dollhouse begins to communicate with Nina, and Nina thinks that the Mask is in the house. Nina starts to become jealous of Fabian and Joy spending time with each other. Alfie passes Step 3 in Amber's dating book, and Amber tells him that they need to have a trial rendez-vous amoureux, date before they are officially "together". Mara decides that she needs to make Mick break up with her so that he can go to a sports school in Australia. Mara takes Patricia's implicit conseil and acts nerdy around him. The plan fails, making Mick like Mara even plus than before. Later on, the dollhouse opens a hidden compartment to reveal a map. coquelicot researches her father and discovers some interesting information. That night, Senkhara marks Fabian as well.
Fabian decides to keep the mark secret from Nina. The map leads Nina to think that the mask is hidden in the house. As Fabian and Alfie set up a picnic for their double-date with Nina and Amber, respectively, Alfie keeps saying that he wants to give Amber the best so that she does not "put him on the bench". When Nina and Fabian are in the cellar, Nina tries to discuss with Fabian how Amber keeps saying they were best Friends before and still are, instead of being boyfriend and girlfriend. Fabian thinks Nina is trying to say that they should break up. The two mutually decide to break up. Amber saves Nina and Fabian from Victor when they are caught in the cellar. Mara finds tickets to Australia in Mick's locker and believes that Mick will break up with her and leave. She finds out later that Mick's dad had sent him the tickets as part of the bribe. To make his decision easy for him, Mara breaks up with him. Joy reads Fabian's poem since Jerome put it on her clipboard after finding it, and she believes that it is for her. As Joy hugs Fabian after what she thought was help in the opening speech, Nina sees the jackal mark on Fabian's arm. Because Fabian a dit that he did not have any mark to Nina earlier, she becomes mad at him. Amber agrees to be Alfie's girlfriend without posing any plus tests. Meanwhile, coquelicot sets out to look for her father when Jerome does not want to be involved in the investigation.
Sibuna finds an antechamber and several amulets. Mara is still upset about Mick while Jerome creates trouble between Mara and Mick. Mick prepares to leave for good. Everyone throws Mick a surprise party, but Mara decides not to go. Jerome decides to hire a private investigator to find his father. Mara finally decides to say goodbye to Mick. Nina, Fabian, and Amber go back to the antechamber to investigate further. Amber pulls a book and finds a tunnel behind the antechamber bookshelf par doing so.
Amber is temporarily blinded par a strange beacon that is apparently a trap. Nina and Fabian discover the only thing that can protect them from the beacon: the amulets. Nina and Fabian explore the first task, set par Sarah's father, Robert Frobisher-Smythe, in the tunnels. The answer lies in some old tomes, but one is missing. Jerome reads a letter to his mum from his father and makes a shocking discovery. Anubis House is assigned a new housemother, named Vera, and she appears to be plus suspicious than anyone.
A new boy, Eddie, arrives and instantly makes an enemy in Patricia. Amber surprises Nina par finding something that Nina has been looking for. While Jerome plans to scam some money out of his classmates, Vera, the new house mother, and Jasper have a secret meeting. Eddie causes trouble at Jerome's fundraiser, and things become worse when Mara figures out that the entire fundraiser is a scam. That night, Senkhara invades Amber's dreams and attempts to mark her as well.
Nina and Fabian puzzle over the mysterious cube that they have found in the tunnels, but it falls into the wrong hands. Soon, Jasper steals it for the Collector, his apparent patron. Nina figures out how to make the mysterious cube into a key to unlock the first door in the tunnels and soon, Sibuna faces their suivant task: a deadly endeavor that involves potentially fatal traps.
Sibuna's suivant task is a deadly Egyptian version of hopscotch. If the sequence is not correct on the first try, the ceiling descends to crush everything in its path and keep the mask hidden from the world until the end of time. Meanwhile, Jerome is desperate to clear his debt after his charity scam fails. He starts selling masks and dresses for the dance. Unfortunately, he sets himself up to be ostracized par selling Nina, Joy, and Mrs. Andrews the same dress. Sibuna figures out the correct sequence to safely traverser, croix the deadly hopscotch. In a dream at the end, during the dance, Fabian and Nina share a kiss. Nina hears Senkhara calling and follows, but is she walking into a trap?
The jour of the dance has arrived. Amber, Nina, and Fabian had the same dream involving Senkhara pushing Nina into the chasm the night before. Vera and Trudy have a bake-off during the dance. Mrs. Andrews finds a receipt near Vera's cake and suspects she may have bought it. Meanwhile, down in the tunnels, Amber, Nina and Fabian attempt the deadly hopscotch challenge on the night of the ball. The three complete the hopscotch challenge, but there is a bigger test to come. Eddie gets Patricia into trouble over the musique and then saves the day. Nina and Fabian are alarmed to see that their dream from the night before is coming true.
The Collector intimidates Jasper into giving him the key to the exhibit, but Trudy finds out and becomes suspicious. The Collector creeps into the bibliothèque to examine the Exhibition, leading to a close shave for both Nina and Victor. Jerome and Alfie bet Eddie that he cannot convince Patricia to dance, and Eddie wins. Nina figures out how to traverser, croix the chasm, but when she runs to tell Fabian, she sees Joy s'embrasser him. Upset, she flees to the tunnels while Jerome reads the letter that his father has sent to him and his sister from prison. Nina is angry with Fabian, but she shows him and Amber the crocodile beam, which they need to use to bridge the chasm. However, the quest becomes even plus dangerous because Victor is now closer than ever to discovering the tunnels.
Victor and Vera hide in the cellar and see Nina exiting. Thus, the antechamber code is revealed. While Sibuna practices dodging pendulums, Patricia's revenge on Eddie backfires. As Sibuna enters the antechamber, they are shocked to find Victor standing there. Victor has been blinded par the beacon flash, though, and Sibuna only just manages to avoid him. coquelicot finds out that her father wants to arrange a prison visit and that Jerome did not tell her. Sibuna crosses the chasm but then finds a dead end. Senkhara becomes angry at Nina and gives the mark to Amber, Patricia, and Alfie as well in vengeance. Vera is portrayed as being the Collector because the Collector sent the same message Vera sent to Jasper.
Victor's sight returns in time for him to find an important passage on the Mask of Anubis. Jerome goes to visit his father, but he finds that coquelicot has beaten him to it. Sibuna finds a crawl tunnel, and it is implied that it could that be the only way through to the suivant task. When Alfie enters it, it collapses, trapping him. Amber tries to rescue Alfie from the crawl tunnel; however, she fails, and Fabian has to save both of them. Later, Amber and Alfie break up. Victor spots the amulet around Amber's neck and confiscates all pupils' jewellery par invoking an obscure school rule. Now, the tunnels are his to explore.
Victor hits a dead end in the tunnels. When Victor returns from the tunnels, Vera gives the Book of Isis, which she had found in the bureau located within Robert Frobisher-Smithe's study, to Victor. However, she steals the most important chapter from the book first. Sibuna tries to exhaust Victor par keeping him awake all night. He falls into a deep sleep so they can steal the amulets from him. Jerome looks for his dad's gem but fails to find it. While Nina and Fabian try to take the amulets off Victor, he nearly awakes from the sound of Nina cutting the amulets off him.
Jerome informs Mara of his father's mission and tells her that his dad wants him to find a special gem in a suit of armor. When Nina enters the tunnel, she finds a lever and pulls it to open the suivant door in the tunnels. Back par the entrance, the mur folds in on itself and leads deeper into the tunnels. The kids arrive at their suivant challenge: a giant araign? e, araignée web. While searching the kids' rooms, Vera gets a hold of the extra amulet hidden in the dollhouse. While Nina, Fabian, Alfie, and Amber are down in the tunnels, Eddie and Patricia perform chores for Victor. Mara tells Jerome that the armor is hidden in Mr. Sweet's office. Jerome inadvertently convinces Alfie to create a distraction to lure Mr. Sweet out of his office par letting a oie through the hallway. While searching for the gem, Jerome accidentally causes the armor to fall and hears Mr. Sweet coming back to his office.
Alfie's oie is led into Mr. Sweet's office, and it swallows the gem. Victor decides to forge a fake amulet so that when the kids look to find the extra amulet, they will not realize that Victor a volé, étole it. Trudy tells Mrs. Andrews her concerns about Vera. Eddie and Patricia run off to play American football, and Patrica loses her amulet. Joy asks Fabian to go on a date, but he does not give a definitive answer. Victor calls everyone inside to check the house after a suspicious pet nourriture package arrives in the mail. Victor puts the fake amulet inside the dollhouse. Patricia realizes her amulet is missing and goes to look for it. While she has no luck, someone finds the amulet and takes it.
Mrs. Andrews asks Mara to investigate Vera for a "profile" on the website. Jerome is delighted when the oie passes the gem, until Mara drops it down the sink. Patricia wears the fake amulet to the tunnels, and she is blinded. The others go ahead into the tunnels without her. Patricia hears someone coming into the tunnels and blindly searches for Sibuna. As Sibuna explores the araign? e, araignée web task, Patricia arrives to warn them that someone is coming. As they hide, Victor reaches the web and is stung par the web. Mr. Sweet tells Mara that Jasper was the one who secured Vera's job.
Jerome may have Lost the gem, but he now has Patricia's amulet, thanks to Poppy. Nina and Fabian steal the gem from Vera's room and trade with Jerome to secure the amulet. Later, Nina sees a riddle in the dollhouse telling her to follow the "silver thread of fate." Jerome has the gem, but he faces another complication: the shield is missing. Meanwhile, Eddie overhears Patricia telling Joy that she likes him. Mara investigates Vera's room for information, but Vera comes inside and she threatens Mara who now fears Vera. Mara also stumbles upon the missing chapter of the Book of Isis, which then finds its way into Victor's hands. And Sibuna discovers a sinister clue to the araign? e, araignée web task, including a new riddle and a giant lifelike spider.
Victor is translating the Book of Isis, but it is not as easy as he had hoped. Eddie tries to get Patricia to admit that she likes him. Fabian and Joy go to a movie. Nina is hurt par Fabian's action and decides that they should go to the tunnels to solve the araign? e, araignée web task without Fabian, but it is a decision that she will regret after Alfie's life is put in danger. Eddie and Patricia misbehave in class, but it is Patricia who Mr. Sweet punishes. Alfie and Jerome realize that if Jerome wants the shield in which the gem belongs, he will have to win it back from a rival school. Meanwhile, Mara figures out that Vera's resume is all lies, and Nina learns Senkhara's name. Sibuna finally passes the araign? e, araignée web task, opening a door, which then starts to close. As it closes, Nina walks inside, knowing that this is the only chance she has to get closer to finding the mask.
As Mara gathers evidence against Vera, Sibuna completes the web task after Fabian puts the larger araign? e, araignée in its place. They déplacer on to the suivant task where they must follow the clues on the mur and pick the right liquids and pour them into six different tubes on a lion's head, which will free the glue stuck to the door into the suivant tunnel. Meanwhile, Victor realizes that the latest task is one that he can solve himself and takes the lead in the race for the mask. Jerome needs help to win back the Frobisher Shield, but he never expected for it to come from Amber, who has been a ping-pong champion in the past. Nina and Fabian see Victor with some chemicals and become suspicious. Patricia calls Eddie Mr Sweet's pet and best friend. After Patricia leaves, Eddie convinces Mara to mettre en ligne her rapporter exposing Vera on the school website.
Alfie is delighted when Jerome makes him ping pong coach. Vera is upset about Mara's article. Patricia's mocking causes Eddie to plan an epic prank on Mr. Sweet. In the tunnels, Victor completes the task and moves on to the suivant task. Senkhara becomes furious and causes Nina's mark to burn. Mara and Vera go head to head in a hearing to establish the truth of Mara's claims. But Mara does not realise that her key witness is also Vera's. Fabian thinks that they have solved the potions task, but Nina is suspicious that Victor may have beaten them to it. Eddie's prank on Mr. Sweet backfires on Mara, and she is expelled.
A shocked Mara is expelled, while Jerome fires "Coach" Alfie. Vera has secretly bribed her witness - and Trudy is still suspicious. Mara doesn't get expelled but can't work for the website anymore and Mrs. Andrews takes the punishment and leaves the school. Patricia learns a huge secret about Eddie and Nina gets some bad news about Gran... Jerome's tournament goes badly - will he fail his dad? As Victor is getting ahead, Senkhara is getting angrier. She yells at Nina for visiting Gran instead of working through the tunnels. Nina gets upset and says that Senkhara doesn't exist and walks through her. Senkhara then tells Nina her punishment "will be to punish." The suivant day, Nina's innocent words to her Friends are twisted par Senkhara into hexes. Nina gets a vision about herself turning into Senkhara and the Sibuna gang is running away from her.
The Dollhouse tells the Sibunas the tune for the task: an ancient Egyptian song called the Song of Hathor. But no one still alive has heard it... Meanwhile, Amber agrees to be the face of the school in a new commercial - despite aging in fast vers l'avant, vers l'avant - and Mara hears that Mick has a new girlfriend and decides to make him jealous par pretending to rendez-vous amoureux, date Jerome. The Sibunas are shocked as Alfie's rejuvenation curse accelerates and turns him into a 7 an old. Meanwhile, Patricia gets stuck in the bathroom and accidentally stands Eddie up. Nina finds out that Victor has some information about the Song of Hathor. Jerome's pretend relationship with Mara comes to an end and Victor and Vera hatch a plan to steal an exhibit from the Library, which Fabian overhears them discussing.
Fabian is now unable to remember his own name - he even forgets who Nina is. Vera plants the ox cloche, bell in his room, but hears Nina and Fabian coming so she hides in the closet. They find the ox cloche, bell and take it to the tunnels, completing the task, curing them all. But their celebrations are short lived as Victor and Vera hatch their plan, leaving Nina and her Friends to walk into a trap. Victor and Vera's plan backfires, leaving the Sibunas to return the Ox cloche, bell to the Library. Alfie, Fabian and Nina explore the suivant task tunnel and realize that if they finish this task, they'll find the mask! Senkhara tells Nina that she has done well but she must not disobey her. Patricia has to admit to her Friends that she has been keeping a big secret, her twin sister Piper. Upstairs, Trudy gets closer to the truth about Vera. But has she gone too far?
A riddle in the suivant task hints that it is the final chamber before they reach the Mask. The Sibunas need to find six mysterious reflectors. The dollhouse shows the poupées at Victor's office, so the Sibuna go and try to find a reflector... which they couldn't find. Eddie decides to Kiss Patricia again, but actually kisses Piper instead! Victor overhears Nina and Fabian talking about the final task; he does have a reflector... his father's watch. And Trudy has been kidnapped! But she leaves a strange note for Jasper. Piper (as Patricia) acts kind to Alfie, since she has a crush on him, making Alfie fall in l'amour with Patricia not knowing that it's really Piper. Victor has the first of the reflectors and Nina and Amber work out that the suivant one is in Sarah's musique box. Jerome is worried when Jasper starts to obsess over the Gem. When Piper (as Patricia) is kind to Eddie, he starts to question his relationship with Patricia. Mr Sweet asks Eddie and Patricia to dinner. Strangely, Patricia accepts. She tells Piper to go as her and tells her that Mr. Sweet is Eddie's dad... which Joy overhears. Jasper takes the Gem and hides behind the stage when he hears Jerome coming. Jerome realizes that the Gem is missing and tells Mr. Sweet. Meanwhile, Jasper places a fake Gem back and hides. When Jerome comes back with Mr. Sweet, the Gem is back and Jerome is determined to find out who had tried to steal it.
Patricia feels that Piper is cramping her style. Eddie feels bad that he had kissed Piper accidentally, but Piper tells him it's best not to tell Patricia. Jerome learns from Jasper that Trudy has been kidnapped par the Collector and he will need to find a Frobisher Smythe artifact to buy her back. Victor decides to invite Gustave for dîner and Alfie decides to volunteer for the entertainment par doing magic. The Sibunas discover a secret door in the task chamber - but will only open to a certain amulet... which happens to be Victor's. Alfie and Piper get closer, but an argument with Patricia makes Piper reconsider her future. Jerome's chercher for Frobisher heirlooms leads him to Nina and Amber's room, where he finds Sarah's dollhouse. Gustave comes for dinner, and Alfie does his trick par taking Victor's amulet and making it "disappear". After Alfie breaks the amulet into pieces, Victor decides that the real amulet is up his sleeves... which leads to Alfie dropping the other piece of cloth from his sleeve... will Sibuna get their amulet back?
The Sibunas are delighted when Alfie reveals Victor's amulet in one piece - all part of the trick. Then Nina realizes that someone had moved the dollhouse and decides to hide it. Piper says goodbye and gives Patricia her necklace. Eddie comes and sees Piper's collier on Patricia and believes that she's Piper and tells "Piper" that he feels bad that he still didn't tell Patricia about their kiss. Patricia's devastated when Eddie lets slip that he kissed Piper. Jerome believes Vera has stolen the dollhouse and Nina and Fabian realize that Vera is after the mask. Joy pairs Eddie up with Mara to do a story on the revamped school website. Victor and Vera realize Alfie has tricked them and that he has the real amulet. The Sibuna gang opens up the secret door using Victor's amulet, leading them to the library. Fabian overhears Jerome and Jasper plotting something in the bibliothèque and starts to think that Jasper might be an enemy. Patricia talks to Eddie in Mr. Sweet's office and accidentally turns on the loud speaker; she mentions that Eddie is Mr. Sweet's son and the entire school hears her.
Eddie thinks that Patricia on purposely pressed turned the speaker on to get revenge on Eddie. The race is on between Victor and the Sibunas to find the missing faucon reflectors. Victor doesn't finds anything in Alfie's room. Jasper brushes Fabian off when he's confronted about his secret talks with Jerome and Fabian believes it. Nina finds another reflector in the kitchen: a goblet. Eddie's shocked when his article research reveals a video image of Senkhara. He shows Mara and they start a ghost hunt, setting up cameras in the house. It does little to ease Patricia's jealousy. Nina realizes that Sarah's doll is a faucon reflector, just as Jerome steals it for Jasper. Jasper accidentally tells Jerome where he's meeting the collector and Jerome decides to follow. Hiding, Jerome sees Vera and another man with her. The Collector doesn't want the doll and throws it on the ground but then, Jerome moves making a sound and Vera comes over and tries to see if Jasper had brought anyone with him... will she find Jerome?
After Jasper rips off the Collector's hood, Jerome learns that Rufus is back! The Sibunas learn that Eddie had backup files on a USB drive, even though they tried to infect the picture files on his computer, so Nina dispatches her Friends on different missions; Fabian has to try and convince Joy not to run the story, Patricia must apologize to Eddie, and Amber and Alfie must steal Eddie's camera. Jerome and Jasper follow Rufus and Jerome tells Jasper who he is, and they fall back. Vera finds another reflector; a piece of stained-glass from the window in her room; Joy agrees not to run the story, on the condition that Fabian kisses her, Nina overhears it and is dismayed until Fabian tells Joy he can't do it and reveals his true feelings for Nina, but Joy decides not to run the story anyway; Eddie reconciles with Patricia. Alfie and Amber steal Eddie's camera and learn that Jerome a volé, étole the dollhouse and the two confront him. He then reveals Rufus is alive and that he his blackmailing Jasper with the threat of harming Fabian and Vera is working for him and they find out she is a double-agent; the Sibunas and Jerome try to tell Victor this but he doesn't believe them. Amber and Patricia then overhear that Victor has three reflectors and Vera overhears that the Sibunas have the remaining three. Rufus then visits Trudy and interrogates her about the dollhouse, but when she doesn't give enough information, he tells her he no longer needs her, much to Trudy's dismay.
When a poisonous article about Nina appears on the school website, speculation is rife about the identity of the school's phantom blogger. In order to save Vera, Victor hatches a plan and leaves his reflectors in his office, knowing that Sibuna will snoop around and find them when he goes out. The gang succeeds in finding the objects, and Fabian also finds Victor's completed zodiac, along with a liste of where he believes the remaining reflectors are. Alfie and Amber go into the attic to retrieve the reflector from the stained glass window but, unaware that Vera is still catatonic nearby (concealed beneath a blanket par Victor), they accidentally reveal the existence of the passage between the tunnels and the library. Meanwhile, Mara knows that Jack Jackal did not write the hateful blog on NIna, as she herself is Jack Jackal. After prodding Joy for information, Joy hesitantly admits that she wrote the blog. Vera now bears the mark of Anubis and the Sibunas have all the reflectors, but they run out of time and the reflector stands disappear. What will they do now? Fabian finds out that Joy wrote the article and gets mad. Gran's condition deteriorates and Fabian makes a horrific discovery at the hospital: Gran is the time piece and she has the mark of anubis.
Joy tries to apologize to Nina, who is upset over Gran being cursed, but the gang isn't having it and they freeze Joy out. Sibuna realizes that in order to complete the task, they will have to borrow a "Sibuna temp" to hold the sixth reflector, so Patricia hatches a plan to bring a blindfolded Eddie into the tunnels under the pretense of a "date." Sibuna and the oblivious Eddie manage to complete the task and enter the final chamber. However, the Mask is nowhere to be found and Fabian determines that in order to pass on, they must play the ancient game of Senet. Jerome is suspicious of Jack Jackal's latest article about a father-son relationship, and confronts Joy about it. Joy allows Jerome to think that she wrote the article, and that she knows Jerome's personal information regarding his father because Mara told her. However, after a hurt Jerome confronts Mara about it, the truth is revealed. Mr. Sweet permits Mara to write for the blog once plus and Jerome and Eddie reveal to all their classmates that Joy wrote the hateful article about Nina. Rufus discovers he has a phony mask and threatens Vera to get him the real one.
The Sibunas realize they must play the ancient Egyptian game of Senet - and the stakes are high. Joy is still getting a hard time because of Mara, so when Mr Sweet tells her to enter Mara in the blog competition, Joy makes other plans. Trudy is having strange dreams - could her memory be returning? Victor and Vera secretly practice Senet in his office, while the Sibunas meet Jasper who tells them Rufus knows he's been tricked, and he does it soon after the Sibunas find the rules on a mismatched tile on the bibliothèque floor. Jerome finally makes his déplacer on Mara, only to discover she's still not over Mick. Down in the tunnels, disaster strikes when Nina moves to the wrong square and the floor gives way beneath her.
The Sibunas are reeling at Nina's disappearance and must cover for her both at school and to a suspicious Victor and Vera at home, as well as keeping a furious Senkhara at bay. Joy enters her article into the contest, but Mara thinks that her article was entered. Eddie knows that Joy had lied to Mara and tells Jerome. Nina wakes to find herself in an underground cell, and she is not alone... A distressed Fabian goes to tell Mr Sweet everything, but then while Mr Sweet isn't in the office, he hears Nina calling from underneath realising that Nina is still alive. Patricia tries to be plus couply with boyfriend Eddie, which only serves to alarm him. Nina sees Victor Rodenmark Sr.'s ghost. Under pressure, Fabian makes a wrong déplacer at Senet and things look even worse for the Sibunas.
Eddie and Fabian have the same weird dream. Victor Sr. tells Nina to beware Senkhara and leaves for good. Mara wins blogger of the year, but is becoming too concerned about Jerome's disappearance to celebrate. Eddie is frustrated about Patricia's secret Sibuna life and disaster strikes the gang when Fabian and Joy disagree over how to finish the Task... Can Fabian learn to trust Joy? He will need to if they are to finish the Task. Meanwhile, Eddie remembers the name of Jerome's "uncle" - but he doesn't understand why Patricia is so alarmed. Victor is beginning to wonder if the kids were right about Vera and he makes a shocking discovery in her room. Senkhara is getting upset that Joy and Fabian had chosen to save Nina and her Friends instead of the key to the mask. Will she hurt Gran, Sibuna, ou even Nina?
Eddie helps Mara to see how much Jerome means to her. But there's an even bigger surprise in store for her. Mick has come to visit to talk things out, making Mara very anxious because of her new found and complicated relationship with Jerome. Meanwhile, Victor confronts Vera and Patricia tells the Sibunas that Rufus has taken Jerome. Fabian, Patricia and Alfie go to rescue him, while Amber, Nina, and Joy try to find a spare key to the Mask in the Frobisher library. As Victor grapples with the final clue in the Book of Isis, Eddie gets himself into big trouble after following the Sibuna's to the barn. Nina, Joy, and Amber find the key to the Mask in the secret drawer that was supposed to hold the Book of Isis. Fabian, Patricia and Alfie find out what Rufus really wants the Mask for; to go into the afterlife as a God. coquelicot needs Jerome like never before for their Dad's hearing, but back at the barn, Rufus has driven off with him. When the Sibuna's go to try and save him, he has been replaced par Eddie! Nina finally unlocks the Mask and learns the terrible truth of Senkhara's plan; if Nina wears the mask, Senkhara will take her body and become a Goddess, leaving both of them to live and rule in the afterlife forever. Frobisher Smythe's final trick is revealed; the Mask in the tunnels is not the real one. Senkhara tells Nina to get the true Mask ou pay the price. Victor has now figured out the last clue in the Book of Isis. He realizes that the Mask in the tunnels doesn't have its third eye. But Rufus is circling closer to the Mask in the tunnels, as is Victor! It's a race against time for find the true Mask. Meanwhile, at Jerome's dad's hearing, Mara and coquelicot wish Jerome hadn't disappeared. Unlike Mick, who still believes that he's the careless joker he knew before he left. Over at the house, Eddie begins to act strangely. He begins to hear voices whispering "Chosen One" and "Osirian". When he picks up Jerome's gem that he had donné him, it glows hot in is hand. He then hears plus voices that say "Chosen One - find Nina". He runs off to the Frobisher library, now desperate to find her. Senkhara is close to getting what she has longed for as the Sibuna's find the true Mask in the exhibition. Eddie runs in to the bibliothèque with the Gem and Nina realizes that he is the Osirian. She takes the Gem from him and puts it in the Mask. She puts it on as it cries Tears of Gold. Senkhara then possesses Nina's body and she starts to walk towards the portal to the afterlife. She tries to throw a lighting bolt at Fabian, but Joy pushes him out of the way, leaving her to get hit and pass out on the ground. Eddie takes action and gets Senkhara's diadem that was displayed in the exhibition. He points it at Nina and knows exactly what to say, banishing Senkhara from Nina's body. Rufus will not give up as he takes the Mask from Nina. As he puts it on and Senkhara goes into him and a fiery portal opens up to the Egyptian underworld. He falls in along with Senkhara. The Mask is left on the ground. Rufus an Senkhara are gone, but Joy is still unconscious on the ground, her face gray. Fabian and the others are scared as they cannot find a pulse. Nina spots the Mask on the ground with one last Tear of or on it. She gives it to Victor who puts it up to Joy's mouth. The color returns to her face and as she coughs. Everyone around her is sighing in relief. The Sibuna's then realize that their marks are gone. Alfie takes the Gem out of the Mask and is ready to give it back to Jerome, who has unknowingly already gone back to the house. Amber and Alfie talk about their relationship, but Alfie states that he may have certain conditions for him to be able to rendez-vous amoureux, date her (matching monster masks). After almost everyone has left, Victor explains to Nina that only the pure of cœur, coeur can enter the afterlife and become a God. Nina gives him the ring that his father's ghost had donné her. Back at the house, the end of exhibition party is taking place. Mara seems upset with Jerome for missing his dad's hearing, when Alfie comes in to give him the Gem. She then forgives him for missing it as Alfie made it seem like Jerome was looking for the Gem all along. His dad and coquelicot then montrer up and announce that they won their case at the hearing. Jerome then asks Mara out and she says yes. The two of them share a Kiss as Mick watches, disappointed. Meanwhile, Eddie talks to his dad about the Osirian. Mr. Sweet says that he will tell him all about it, but not there. Patricia comes and takes Eddie over to the 'dance floor'. Fabian sees Nina's gran, so he goes to talk to her. She points to Nina at the haut, retour au début of the staircase. Once Amber gets them alone the two dance and share a Kiss making them get back together. Back in Victor's office Victor finds the last Tear of or in his father's ring, ending the season two finale.


In my company we are migrating from weblogic 10.3.3 to jboss 7.1.1.
After I deployed one of the EARs in jboss, some methods are working great, even when they are connecting to an Oracle database, but others, cause the below error.
The datasource its working ok with others applications/ears in jboss, but for this particular class oracle.sql.ArrayDescriptor the error below always remains.
The oracle driver that we are using its ojdbc6.jar, and its working great in weblogic and in some ears on this jboss instance.
Your datasource will be working fine if you will deploy the driver (orjbc6.jar) as a deployable inside the "standalone/deployments" or if you will create a Oracle Driver Module. However the Classes present inside the Oracle Driver will not be accessible to your Application (it will be available for the JBoss not to your application). Until you use "jboss-deployment-structure.xml" or "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" file or "useing a Global Module" to include the dependency to your ojdbc6.jar module.
So if you want to use "" class inside your class "pt.controlinveste.pce.provisioningdao.daos.oracle.OracleProvisioningMasterDAOHelper" then you should either package the "ojdbc6.jar" inside your application or you will need to create a module containing the "ojdbc6.jar" and then your code can access any class present inside this jar.
first, thank you for the help. But now the error is another, and as far as I have seem on the internet its somehow popular, can you help?
If you truly need the Oracle-specific stuff, you might want to cast to the WrappedConnection and call getUnderlyingConnection() from there.


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The County College of Morris has instituted a new award, the New Jersey Master Artist Award, which will biannually recognize notable New Jersey artists who have an extensive record of exhibited mastery and service in the field of art and design.
CCM is recognizing W. Carl Burger as the first recipient of the award. Burger is currently holding his first solo art exhibition at CCM's renovated Art and Design Gallery with 29 of his works on display.
The award will be presented to Burger by CCM President Anthony J. Iacono at the opening reception of his exhibition at the CCM Art and Design Gallery on Wednesday (Nov. 9), from 6 – 8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Burger is one of New Jersey's most notable artists. He is a Stockton artist, professor emeritus of art from Kean University and former CCM adjunct professor.
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Abstract: Transgenic technology makes it possible for humans to change the trait phenotype of organisms according to their subjective wishes. The type and quality of vectors are directly related to the efficiency of subsequent transgenes. Therefore, the construction of expression vectors has become one of the key links in transgenic research. Lentivirus, also known as retrovirus, belongs to the family of retroviruses and is an RNA virus. Since this virus contains reverse transcriptase, it is called retrovirus. Lentivirus in the host cell, using RNA as a template, synthesizing cDNA under the action of self-reverse transcriptase, and then synthesizing double-stranded DNA using cDNA as a template, and cyclizing and integrating the chromosome of the host cell by viral integrase Expressed on the long term. The lentiviral vector (LV) is constructed by the lentivirus to remove part of the gene based on its genome and is constructed with the desired gene and marker of interest. Compared with other vectors, the lentiviral vector has a large capacity to carry the gene fragment. The dyeing efficiency is high, it can infect dividing cells and non-dividing cells, and the target gene can be stably expressed in the host cell for a long time and has good safety. It has become an ideal carrier for transferring the target gene. This article will focus on thelentiviral vectorconstruction and their applications in genetics.
Keywords: lentiviral vector, construction, application
u The development of lentiviral vectors
In the early days of the development of lentiviral vectors in the early 1990s, HIV-1-based lentiviral vector research was mainly used for the study of the biological characteristics of HIV and the treatment of AIDS. The expression vector is mainly constructed for target cells expressing CD4, and most of the packaging systems retain all HIV genes as a control, and a series of viral genomes such as mutation or deletions of a certain sequence are modified. The purpose was to observe the effects on viral packaging, replication, infection, etc., and to study the genome composition of lentivirus HIV-1. This laid a solid foundation for the subsequent research of lentiviral expression vectors.
In the mid-1990s, the three-plasmid system of Didier Trono of the University of Geneva and Luigi Naldini and Inder Verma of the Sack Biological Research Institute of California marked the birth of the first generation of the lentiviral vector multi-plasmid system. The system consists of a vector plasmid, a packaging plasmid, and an envelope plasmid. The vector plasmid is responsible for loading the foreign gene, deleting genes such as gag, pol, env, but retaining 5' and 3', LTR, Psi sites, and Rev Response elements, thus improving the carrier loading while ensuring its efficiency. On the basis of this, Zufferey et al designed the second generation lentiviral vector, and deleted three auxiliary genes of vif, vpr and nef on the packaging plasmid, and obtained the infection of non-dividing cells, mononuclear macrophages and nerves. Cell-capable lentiviral vector and did not affect viral yield. Since these helper genes can express virulence viral proteins, their deletion not only increases the safety of lentiviral vectors but also increases the stability of the packaging cell line. The third generation of lentiviral vectors subsequently has higher biosafety. The vector plasmid contains only the cis-acting site and does not express any HIV protein. The packaging plasmid contains only three HIV functional genes, gag, pol and rev, and all other helper genes are deleted.
u Construction of lentiviral vector
Ø The capacity and characteristics of lentiviral vectors
Due to the restriction of the size of the inserted gene in the packaging capacity of the viral capsid, the possible loading capacity of the target gene in the vector should be considered first when constructing the vector. The length of the HIV proviral genome is about 9.8 kb, and the length of the plasmid vector can be subtracted. The maximum length of the fragment of interest is loaded, which is the biggest disadvantage of lentiviral vectors compared to micromanipulation. At the same time, the packaging systems for the 2nd and 3rd generation lentiviral vectors are not universal because the second generation vector plasmid is Tat-dependent and the third generation packaging system does not contain the Tat gene.
Ø Optimization of lentiviral vectors
The expression efficiency can be increased by inserting a regulatory sequence. For example, by inserting the woodchuck hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element into the three untranslated region of the target gene, the expression level of the target gene can be increased by 5 to 8 times.
Ø Double gene transfer vector design
In the transgenic research, the strategy of double gene co-transfer is often used. The most common method for constructing lentiviral double gene transfer vector is to design bicistronics using internal ribosome entry site (IRES). The disadvantage of this strategy is downstream. The gene expression is low, and even the expression of downstream genes is not detected at all, and the use of two transcription units in tandem on the lentiviral vector effectively overcomes this shortcoming, enabling the downstream gene to be efficiently expressed.
u Application of lentiviral vector
Treating HIV infection
With the surge in AIDS patients worldwide, the way to treat AIDS as soon as possible has become the most important issue. Lentiviral vectors have many advantages in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. First, some lentiviral vectors from HIV-1 and HIV-2 compete with viral RNA for packaging and competition for viral proteins for viral replication, inhibiting their replication, thereby controlling HIV infection. Second, lentiviral vectors can stably transfect dividing cells and non-dividing cells, especially those associated with HIV-1 replication and immune recovery, such as dendritic cells, T cells, and the like. Third, lentiviral vectors can be designed to express genes with therapeutic anti-HIV-1, specifically controlling the various stages of viral replication.
Treatment of tumor
For a long time, the treatment of tumors has been based on surgery, radiotherapy and drugs. Tumor gene therapy is a new treatment method after these traditional treatment methods. The lentiviral vector can safely and effectively implant the tumor gene into the human body for long-term effective expression. The use of lentiviral vectors increases the sensitivity of tumor cells to traditional chemotherapeutic drugs. RNAi technology is also used in tumor gene therapy. The occurrence of cancer is mainly due to the mutation and abnormal activation of proto-oncogenes. Lentivirus can specifically reduce the expression of RNAi against proto-oncogenes in various cells, thereby inhibiting canceration. Cell proliferation; shRNA capable of efficiently transmitting tumor-associated genes, silencing after transcription, inhibiting the expression of the target gene, reducing its promotion in tumor development and tumor invasion, thereby playing a therapeutic role.
Treatment of transplant rejection
In recent years, organ transplantation has been widely used to treat severe organ failure, but how to reduce transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after organ transplantation has become the most urgent problem to be solved. Activation, differentiation and proliferation of T lymphocytes play a key role in the immune response to transplantation. Genetic modification of T lymphocytes to reduce rejection and GVHD is one of the important directions in the field of transplantation. Li Zhenyu et al. observed the expression of the lentiviral vector in mouse lymphocytes by constructing a lentiviral three-plasmid system containing the green fluorescent protein gene, and found that the lentiviral vector has high infection efficiency on mouse T lymphocytes and can be rapidly stabilized. Transfer foreign genes to T cells.
[1] SUN Ke-ning, ZHU Hua-bin, LIN Feng, Wang Dong, HAO Hai-sheng, DU Wei-hua, ZHAO Xue-ming. Development on Lentiviral Vector Construction and Transgentic Animals by Lentiviral Vector.
[2] Buchschacher G L J, Panganiban A T. Human immunodeficiency virus vectors for inducible expression of foreign genes [J]. J Virol, 1992, 66(5):2731-2740
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