Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provides advantages such as high availability and failover by clustering multiple database instances. The Oracle RAC architecture helps clients support high-volume and critical applications.
It is strongly recommended by Blackboard that for purposes of system management Blackboard Learn be installed on a single instance of Oracle. If for reasons of Institutional Policy you must run Blackboard Learn in a RAC environment you may do so, but Blackboard will only support the installation at the Learn-Oracle JDBC layer - not at the Oracle RAC layer.
The Blackboard Learn 9.1 installer uses a thin Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver and performs software upgrades through a single Oracle instance. The configuration of the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) driver is easier to use in Blackboard Learn 9.1 than in previous releases. Clients running Blackboard Learn against Oracle RAC can run Blackboard Learn in a single database instance mode, against one of the Oracle RAC instances immediately after installation, by switching Blackboard Learn to Oracle RAC mode.
To upgrade, you must first switch Blackboard Learn to single instance mode, perform the upgrade, and then switch back to Oracle RAC mode.
Because the Oracle RAC architecture has been set up to support Blackboard Learn, this section explains how to switch Blackboard Learn from single database instance mode to Oracle RAC mode and vice versa. This section also explains how to install and upgrade Blackboard Learn against Oracle RAC.
Blackboard Learn 9.1 installs with a full set of libraries for 64-bit systems, which allows for a seamless configuration to connect to a thick driver.
The procedures in this section have been successfully tested against Oracle 10g, 11gR1, and 11gR2.
Blackboard Learn 9.1 has been set up, configured, and tested against a single database instance.
Blackboard Learn 9.1 has been installed, upgraded, and configured. It has also been tested and updated with any customizations or advanced configurations.
Oracle RAC has been properly installed and set up according to Oracle's documentation. Blackboard recommends that you use Oracle RAC 11.1.0.7+ for better performance and availability.
You are using a 64-bit OS, Oracle client, Oracle RAC, and JVM.
Failover has been tested at the database level with the Oracle RAC environment according to Oracle's documentation.
The alias for the bbconfig.database.type.oracle.tns parameter must match the one defined in the tnsnames.ora.bb file.
Check the Oracle environment variables for both root and bbuser. These properties are needed for testing the connection to SQL Plus and allowing Java to find the OCI library path.
Perform a backup of your database in case a recovery is required according to Oracle's documentation.
Make sure Blackboard Learn 9.1 is running in single instance mode against one of the Oracle RAC instances.
where $YYMMDD represents the backup date (for example, 120104 for January 4, 2012).
Blackboard Learn 9.1 has embedded the Oracle client. The Oracle Home directory is defined in the bbconfig.database.local.oracle.home property in the bb-config.properties file. The default Oracle Home directory is located in the /usr/local/Blackboard Home/apps/oracle-client directory.
The alias in the code example above should be the alias for the Virtual IP (VIP) rather than the public or private address.
Configure the xythos.properties file located in the /usr/local/Blackboard Home/apps/xythos directory so that it uses the TNS name, as shown in the following example.
This file must be updated with the correct OCI parameters every time you run PushConfigUpdates. To learn more, see PushConfigUpdates.
Test Oracle RAC with Oracle Plus by connecting to the Oracle RAC tns datasource. This connection should be successful. If not, do not proceed. Continue troubleshooting this issue until a connection to the database is successful.
In the example above, the services name bbrac is equal to the Oracle RAC TNS entry you made earlier in this procedure. Substitute the $cms_schema variable with the actual CMS schema name (for example, bbleam_cms).
Run PushConfigUpdates to activate all the changes. To learn more, see PushConfigUpdates.
Confirm that Blackboard Learn and the Oracle RAC are working as expected by testing load balancing and failover.
Ensure that Blackboard Learn is running well in Oracle RAC mode.
Confirm that Blackboard Learn is working properly.
Be sure you have completely installed and set up your Oracle RAC environment according to Oracle's documentation before installing Blackboard Learn.
Install Blackboard Learn, and connect to one of the Oracle RAC nodes.
Follow the steps provided in Changing From a Single Instance Mode to RAC Mode to switch Blackboard Learn to Oracle RAC mode.
Use redundant interconnect to optimize stability, reliability, and scalability of Oracle RAC. To learn more, see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/rac.102/b14197/monitor.htm.
Be sure the database server properties are set properly to point to one of the Oracle RAC nodes. To learn more, see Changing Blackboard Learn From Oracle RAC Mode to Single Instance Mode.
Upgrade Blackboard Learn, and connect to one of the Oracle RAC nodes.
/usr/local/blackboard/apps/oracle-client/lib64/libocijdbc11.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped"
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kkocxj : pjpCtx] while complex sqls.
This driver is included in Blackboard Learn 9.1 October 2014. After upgrading from the April 2014 release to the October 2014 release or higher, the XythosStorageThread is generating ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException errors. The issue is directly observable in the xythos logs (bbcms_log.txt) upon application server startup.
To work around the error, disable the Transparent Application Fallover client and server side, or use the Oracle Thin JDBC driver without using RAC.


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* At [http://archive.org/stream/9780262517638OpenAccess/9780262517638_Open_Access#page/n87/mode/2up p. 75], I say, "Don't leave users uncertain about they may and may not do....Don't make them err on the side of nonuse." Add this note.
** See Patricia Aufderheide, [https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=research The Chilling Effect of Copyright Permissions on Academic Research: The Case of Communication Researchers], Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Research Paper Series, May 1, 2020 ([https://perma.cc/8SFC-FKVQ perma.cc link]): " Survey research shows that researchers...are often unsure or confused, even unknowing, about fair use; and that this lack of knowledge and/or familiarity leads to both failure to execute and failure to initiate."
* At [http://archive.org/stream/9780262517638OpenAccess/9780262517638_Open_Access#page/n89/mode/2up p. 77], I say, "It's pointless to appeal to [scholarly authors] as a bloc, because they don't act as a bloc. It's not hard to persuade or even excite them once we catch their attention, but because they are so anarchical, overworked, and preoccupied, it's hard to catch their attention." Add this note:
** See Justin Fox, [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-30/covid-19-shows-scientific-journals-like-elsevier-need-to-open-up Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up], ''Bloomberg Opinion'', June 30, 2020 ([https://perma.cc/6HSE-X4R7 perma.cc link]): "The commercial scientific communication industry exists in part because professors aren't so great at collective action. It also exists because they have other things to focus on, such as their research."

At p. 15, I say that "OA benefits authors as well as readers." Add these notes.
See the supplements below (also for p. 15) on the OA citation advantage.
See Sarah Werning: "The second best part of science is knowing, just for a little while, something nobody else knows. The best part is sharing it with someone." Quoted by Mike Taylor in December 2012 (perma.cc link).
The OA citation advantage for books also applies when non-OA but more affordable reprints emerge, even when the reprints infringe copyright. See Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser, Effects of Copyrights on Science, SSRN, December 26, 2018 (perma.cc link): "The Book Republication Program (BRP) allowed US publishers to violate German-owned copyrights....[W]e find that this change led to a substantial increase in citations to affected books. Intensity regressions show that this increase was driven by reductions in the price of books. A geographic analysis of library holdings and citations suggests that lower prices for BRP books allowed a new group of researchers at less affluent institutions to use these books in their own research."
For evidence that the OA advantage also applies to articles whose preprints were OA, see Stylianos Serghiou and John Ioannidis, Altmetric Scores, Citations, and Publication of Studies Posted as Preprints, Journal of the American Medical Association, January 23, 2018 (perma.cc link): "The sample of 776 published articles with preprints was matched to 3647 published articles without preprints. Published articles with preprints had significantly higher Altmetric scores than published articles without preprints (median, 9.5 [IQR, 3.1 to 35.3] vs 3.5 [IQR, 0.8 to 12.2], respectively; between-group difference, 4 [IQR, 0 to 15]; P < .001) and received more citations (median, 4 [IQR, 1 to 10] vs 3 [IQR, 1 to 7]; between-group difference, 1 [IQR, −1 to 5]; P < .001)."
Also see Darwin Y. Fu and Jacob J. Hughey, Meta-Research: Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article, eLife, December 6, 2019 (perma.cc link): "[W]e found that articles with a preprint had, on average, a 49% higher Altmetric Attention Score and 36% more citations than articles without a preprint. These associations were independent of several other article- and author-level variables (such as scientific subfield and number of authors), and were unrelated to journal-level variables such as access model and Impact Factor."
Also see Nicholas Fraser et al., The relationship between bioRxiv preprints, citations and altmetrics, Quantitative Science Studies, June 25, 2020: "bioRxiv-deposited journal articles had sizably higher citation and altmetric counts compared to nondeposited articles."
For evidence that the OA advantage shows up in altmetrics, not just in citation counts, see Daniel Torres-Salinas et al., Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature, bioRxiv, April 26, 2020 (perma.cc link): "OA publications tend to receive the largest share of social media attention as measured by the Altmetric Attention Score." Also see the 2018 Serghiou and Ionnadis study cited above.
Also see Jessica G.Y. Luc et al., Does Tweeting Improve Citations? Annals of Thoracic Surgery, June 3, 2020 (perma.cc link): "One-year follow-up of this...prospective randomized trial importantly demonstrates that tweeting results in significantly more article citations over time, highlighting the durable scholarly impact of social media activity."
See Nuria Bautista-Puig et al., Do journals flipping to gold open access show an OA citation or publication advantage?, Scientometrics, June 13, 2020: "[We found] robust evidence...that flipping journals tend to have an OA Citation Advantage compared to non Gold-OA journals, and that this advantage is already visible a few years after the switch. It corroborates the conclusions from a series of previous studies on OA flipping....Whether this citation advantage also occurs in relation to non-OA journals in general, excluding hybrid OA serials, remains to be assessed in a follow-up study....[We found] no statistically significant evidence that journals switching to OA increase their publication output faster than non Gold-OA journals do. Therefore, there is no solid evidence for an OA Publication Advantage, nor for an OA Publication Disadvantage."
At p. 77, I say, "It's pointless to appeal to [scholarly authors] as a bloc, because they don't act as a bloc. It's not hard to persuade or even excite them once we catch their attention, but because they are so anarchical, overworked, and preoccupied, it's hard to catch their attention." Add this note:
See Justin Fox, Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up, Bloomberg Opinion, June 30, 2020 (perma.cc link): "The commercial scientific communication industry exists in part because professors aren't so great at collective action. It also exists because they have other things to focus on, such as their research."
See Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers, Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project, SSRN, April 20, 2020 (perma.cc link): When the Google Books project digitized books from Harvard Library, the results reduced "loans within Harvard but increased sales of physical editions by about 35%, especially for less popular works. Rather than harming copyright holders, mass digitization could significantly increase the diffusion of historical works."
At p. 117, I say, "One reason to think [that publishers act] in bad faith [when they claim that OA is primarily for lay readers] is that [this claim] overlooks the very conspicuous fact that the OA movement is driven by researchers who are emphatic about wanting the benefits of OA for themselves." Add these notes.
I stand by this elaboration in a blog post from May 20, 2006: "There are two mistakes to avoid here. One is to think that OA has no role to play in helping non-scientists understand science. We can call this the Royal Society mistake, after the RS's recent report on educating lay readers about science that doesn't even mention OA. The other mistake is to think that the overriding purpose of OA is to educate lay readers. No OA advocates believe this, but some publisher-opponents of OA either believe it or pretend to believe it in order set it up as a straw man and knock it down. ([A] recent example is the American Society of Human Genetics, as quoted in the NYTimes for May 8, perma.cc link.) To avoid both mistakes we have to accept that the problem and solution are both complicated. OA will play a role in public education about science --it's neither irrelevant nor sufficient-- and the size of that role is up to all of us."
For a more recent example of the Royal Society mistake, see the November 2017 guide from Science About Science and the National Institute for Health Research on communicating science to the general public. It too is silent on OA.
Another example is the March 2020 study in which Mike Thelwall and Amalia Mas-Bleda wanted to see how often research papers in different fields were framed by explicit questions. Because they needed to crunch the full-texts of the papers under study, and wanted to study millions of them, they focused on OA papers that permitted that kind of access and analysis.
Another example is SciFact, an AI-based system of scientific fact-checking, trained on Wikipedia and fine-tuned on a dataset of OA scientific claims and abstracts. Details here and here.
In my June 2011 article, Open Access and Copyright (perma.cc link) I spell out the argument a bit further. "Publishers have the right to refuse to publish any work for any reason. This is good and we should all celebrate it. Without this fundamental right [that is, if publishers were prohibited by law from refusing to publish certain work], publishing would be a propaganda arm of the state, and all publishing would lose credibility."
See Jessica Litman, The Economics of Open-Access Law Publishing, Lewis & Clark Law Review, July 3, 2006 (perma.cc link): "Critics have not quarreled with the goals of open access publishing; instead, they've attacked the viability of the open-access business model."
Also see the Otwarta Nauka interview with Johan Rooryck (undated but c. June 2020) (perma.cc link): "Note that publishers such as Sage and Emerald already allow authors to deposit their articles in a repository without embargo. They report no decrease in their subscriptions."
Also see Rachel Pells, Open access: 'no evidence' that zero embargo periods harm publishers, Times Higher Education, December 2019 (paywalled): "Tom Merriweather, executive publisher (open access) at SAGE Publications, said he had found 'no evidence to say zero embargo periods negatively affect subscriptions'. To remove them completely, he argued, was 'a friendlier policy'."

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Amber - an 'almost alternative' band - at Schools Prom 2014
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Amber Scott started out writing and performing her material by herself - but soon wanted to develop her sound with a band.
"I began writing my material and playing it acoustically and then I decided I wanted to expand it with a band," says Amber Scott, "so this lovely band of musicians came along."
The band all met at the 'We Are Music' Rock School club in Harwich, run by Amber's father Chris.
The 'almost alternative' style of the band is down to eclectic influences from all the members, who are all either studying or working in music.
Amber's original compositions include Metaphorical Monster, the band's first song, and Horror Story, a powerful, heavy-hitting number.


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Kawamoto's earthwork: a sense of the ending
[Genshiro] Kawamoto, 81, was arrested Tuesday [March 5, 2013] in Tokyo for suspected tax evasion
In the late 1980s at the peak of Japan's economic bubble, Kawamoto invested in Hawaii's housing market, spending what he described as "pocket money" to buy nearly 200 homes around Oahu for at least $85 million.
[He] returned about a decade ago and began selling most of his homes that he had rented out with little upkeep over the preceding 15 years. Then he began buying up million-dollar estates on Kahala Avenue [a very wealthy neighborhood], spending close to $165 million for almost 30 homes over the last decade.
Kawamoto crudely broke down walls, leaving rubble lying about. He also filled in swimming pools, he said for liability reasons, and often let vegetation grow wild. Some of his homes fell into disrepair and racked up city fines. Several homes were demolished, some have been vandalized and some were sold.
On four properties he has arranged dozens of statues, including life-size lions, nudes and towering pagodas.
Caroline Bombar-Kaplan, a visitor from Washington state, couldn't help stopping on the side of the road to take a closer look Tuesday. "I personally think it's quite hideous," she said. "It looks like they went to Costco and bought several six-packs of statues and then threw them all over."
— Andrew Gomes, "Kawamoto is accused of tax evasion." Honolulu Star-Advertiser 6 March 2013: B5-B6. Print.
The story you have just read has a genre name: catalogue raisonné. It is history's overview of a work of performance art acted out across three decades. The artwork's white marbles of tits & ass & lions have been erected on the red soil and porous black rock of Hawaii only to call attention by contrast to the artist's invisible force of taste. Think of Charles Willson Peale converting a piece of wood into an imperishable extension into the mortal world of the undecaying idea of perspective.
The ground on which Peale shaped his idea was a canvas, but the ground on which the greater artist Genshiro Kawamoto shaped his idea was ground itself. Plowed by the force of the idea, a soil where rich people live brought forth a museum-quality work of arte povera. The cultivation which prepared the ground for that crop wasn't a mere matter of bulldozer work, either. Kawamoto's earthwork doesn't merely move a form into another milieu, in the way that Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" transported a wharf for Charon onto the shore of a desert lake. No; having been built, Kawamoto's earthwork established domain. In its domain, as domain, it can't be owned, because it is nothing but a work of ownership. Its creator compounded the aesthetic interest accruing to white rock, the solvent smell of ever-freshening graffiti, and the invisible electronic atmosphere of money into a new thing: an art whose purpose is not to be bought and sold but to be buying and selling, per se. It is all legacy now: an estate that can never again be anything but real.
And now, somewhere between its prepared ground in Hawaii and a courtroom in Japan, the transaction that brought it forth seems to have been completed. Long days of emptiness must follow; long years of poverty among the money. But every artist comes in time to know that. It is the last spear thrust with the brush that will enable Genshiro Kawamoto too to say at last, "It is finished."
Quickly, as if she were recalled by something over there, she turned to her canvas. There it was — her picture. Yes, with all its greens and blues, its lines running up and across, its attempt at something. It would be hung in the attics, she thought; it would be destroyed. But what did that matter? she asked herself, taking up her brush again. She looked at the steps; they were empty; she looked at her canvas; it was blurred. With a sudden intensity, as if she saw it clear for a second, she drew a line there, in the centre. It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
So goodbye, Mr. Kawamoto, and thanks. If I can get away with it, I'll send you some kamaboko with a file baked inside.
My earlier posts about Mr. Kawamoto are
http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/2013/03/art-and-its-capital-an-update/
http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/2012/12/art-is-to-money-as-t-are-to-a/
http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/2012/11/allegorical-monument-to-late-capitalism/
http://theartpart.jonathanmorse.net/2012/06/eccentric-billionaire/
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Cleveland Indians Opinion: Jason Kipnis To Center Field Makes Sense
By Jeff Mount
Here's an idea, the Tribe should move Kipnis to center field
Now what? Aside from Michael Brantley, does anyone have any idea who will be playing in the outfield for the Cleveland Indians next week, let alone next year? Michael Bourn? Nick Swisher? Tyler Holt? At this point, the best we can do is monitor Bradley Zimmer and Clint Frazier and hope they can accelerate the development process. It would take a miracle for either of them to be ready before 2017, and even if they were, this front office is hardly aggressive about advancing prospects.
Here's a thought: Jason Kipnis. If there is one place the Indians could conceivably be said to have a surplus of prospects, it's in the middle infield. How much harm could it do for the rest of this lost season to call Jose Ramirez (current .790 OPS at Columbus) up and stick him at second base for the remainder of the season and put Kipnis in center field. We all know that Kipnis played center field in college, is average at best defensively at second base, and that this team needs as many upgrades as it can get in that area. An infield with Ramirez, Francisco Lindor, and Giovanny Urshela would (assuming the issues they have experienced this year were simply rookie jitters) seemingly be an elite defensive unit. We don't know yet whether any of them will hit enough to hold their jobs, but if we had sixty more games of evidence on which to make that decision, wouldn't that make more sense than going into spring training just hoping?
Now I can hear Chris Antonetti saying that such position changes can't possibly be done in the middle of the season. Well, Kipnis is a natural athlete, and he has done this before. Besides, who was it who was talking last week about accountability? If this is what the team needs, Kipnis would be more than willing to give it a try. Besides, the Indians had an entire offseason to get Carlos Santana acclimated to third base, and when the next season began he looked like he had never been there before. Either Kipnis can do it or he can't. If he can't, it would be better to know by the end of the season so we can plan accordingly. If it looks by the end of the season that he might be able to handle it, and all the young infielders look like they can handle their jobs, that would be good to know as well. There's no doubt he would struggle at first, but would you rather that happen over the next sixty games
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Look, there aren't a lot of alternatives. There isn't enough in the budget to sign two free agent outfielders unless one of them is a Ryan Raburn type, which is a crap shoot as evidenced by Raburn's up and down performance during his time here. Nobody at Columbus looks like they are ready to play every day. I wouldn't count on Nick Swisher for anything but DH, and if you want to spend the offseason hoping that Michael Bourn is the answer then God bless you. That leaves trades, which would probably mean trading one of the top four starters. If there's a way to avoid that I would, because the only way this team contends is if the pitching is dominant.
All of this assumes that the rest of the starting lineup will return intact next year; otherwise the budgetary and trade constraints are even more severe. If, for example, the Indians decide to move on from Carlos Santana at first base, and decide that Jesus Aguilar is not a viable alternative, then payroll or trade resources would be required to fill that hole, leaving even fewer resources to fill the holes in the outfield.
Granted, this is outside the box, but inside the box isn't working out. Just a few months ago this front office was convinced that Jose Ramirez was part of the future of this franchise. Why not spend the next two months deciding if that is true while also finding out if Jason Kipnis can be the answer in center field.


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Carlisle Can't Move Mark Cuban From Bench
By Tom Lewis@IndyCornrows Oct 19, 2008, 9:17pm EDT
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While the Dallas Mavericks were in town, former Indiana Pacers coach, Rick Carlisle spent a few minutes with Mark Boyle for one of Boyle's new podcasts on Pacers.com. Naturally, the conversation jumped to Mark Cuban at one point.
Carlisle likes to be in control of his team, so dealing with his owner basically sitting with the team during games has to be an adjustment. Apparently, Carlisle considered the situation during the hiring process, but quickly found out that Cuban had no plans to step out of the limelight.
Boyle: Let's talk, for a moment anyway, about Mark Cuban because he has the reputation of being more involved than most of the owners in the NBA. Is that a concern? Can it be a double-edged sword?
Carlisle: Well, I suppose it can, but you know, the first time I talked to him in person, it was the day after Donnie Nelson had flown into Indianapolis to talk to myself, Terry Stotts and Dwayne Casey about the possibility of coming there. When we got face-to-face with him my first question to Mark was, "What if you were to find out that your team actually performed better if you weren't sitting there at the end of the bench?" Because that's the one thing that everybody notices is that he's there and the camera is on him a lot and all that.
His answer was decisive and immediate. He said, "Hey listen. We go on the road. I'm sitting there at the end of the bench or behind the bench, the people heckle me so much that they don't even bother the players. It's great." (Carlisle laughs)
So right then, I knew the whole conversation about him kind of going elsewhere was a non-starter.
That's a pretty funny dynamic working right there. The owner thinks he's doing the coach and players a favor by taking the heckling pressure from opposing fans, while the coach is worried about the owner's presence (while he's being heckled) possibly applying pressure to his team and staff.
Slight disconnect? Doubt it. I'm sure Cuban is well aware of Carlisle's concerns, but he also doesn't mind putting that pressure on his players and coaches. I'm also sure that Carlisle fully understood what was left unsaid in their exchange. Plus, Cuban is on record saying that his attempt to be less involved last year was a mistake.
So whether you hate Cubes or love him, he is part of the show. And you may hate or love Cuban based solely on the fact that he's part of the show. But when the Mavs are on the road, let's face it, fans come to see Nowitzki and Cuban.
If he's NOT up at some point pleading his case to the refs, fans would be let down. When he is up and barking, the value of that night's entertainment rises along with his voice. He knows it. He sells it. We eat it up. Carlisle may not be too excited about Cube's proximity to the timeout huddle, but for the rest of us, his act is all part of the show we expect to enjoy.
Go check out the whole interview at Boyle's podcast on Pacers.com. He also has a great chat with Bulls' assistant coach, Bob Ociepka (aka Bobby Madura), about his new book, Minestrone for the Mobster's Soul.


Only explanation for the place.
Ouch, that hurts Well done here, don't you think? Oh, how well done!
So they know it hit Scotland (well, wasn't Scotland until after the Irish tribe of Scotti invaded it) but don't know where?
We know it happened and it hit this big place but we don't know where?
Has Wings Over Scotland blamed England yet?
As the bits were found on Skye, I'd say the answer is: Skye.
"vanadium-rich and niobium-rich osbornite….have never been found on Earth" – Have now.
Don't blame nature for what the Scots have done, Tom.
What does osbornite look like? Any similarities with a pig's head?
The architecture was better in Coventry a week after the Germans bombed the city in a major raid.
The lava flow containing bits of the meteor was found on the Isle of Skye, where the lava flow originated is not known. As man has existed for ~160,000 years, no records exist from 60 Million years ago.
What was the Thames like 60M years ago?
I've seen the architecture in Detroit.
Sixty million years ago. Scotland. Oh my sides. I appreciate modern scientific ideas take a while to penetrate the average journalist's skull but plate tectonics has been a pretty well-attested theory for about sixty years now.
@Martin… The city council did far more damage to Coventry than the Luftwaffe.


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Couple continues months-long wait for wedding video refund
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Sherieé and Nicholas Tolbert-Jordan tied the knot in June 2018. For the big day, the couple hired Fino's Photography.
Owner Delfino Hernandez was contracted to record their wedding for $500, a decision the newlyweds said they quickly came to regret.
Tolbert-Jordan said she had been told to expect the video on DVD about two weeks after the wedding, but that two weeks came and went. The newlyweds said they got nothing but excuses.
"We looked on his Facebook and seen he was doing other projects," she recalled. "He basically was kind of dodging us."
Sherieé explained, "He posted all on his Facebook, and it was well after our wedding."
"We hadn't even gotten our CD yet," she added.
Three different times in August 2018, Hernandez promised delivery of the disc, they tell us. It never came. Hernandez eventually sent a link to a 10-minute YouTube clip. However, they said it didn't have the key moments from the 8-hour shoot. Eventually, the videographer sent another 40 minutes of footage but some audio was missing.
The couple was fed up and asked for a refund. They say Hernandez agreed to repay them the $500 but that he's been dragging his feet since the fall on paying the full amount.
Nicholas asked, "When are we going to get this payment? When are we going to get reimbursed for the product that you didn't give us?"
"Those are our memories," he said. "He basically, in a way, made a mockery of us by not taking this project seriously."
"That really hurt us," Sherieé said, "and you just don't treat people like that, especially on our wedding day. That's the one day that we can never get back."
FOX 17 reached out and spoke to Hernandez by phone. He said he has four clients with similar complaints who he's been paying back over the past several months. He said he had a death in the family last summer and that he lost motivation to work at the time.
The Tolbert-Jordan's say he still owes them $300.


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Hay Fever (1984)
1h 31min | Comedy | TV Movie 26 December 1984
Cedric Messina
Noël Coward (play) (as Noel Coward)
Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington, Patricia Hodge | See full cast & crew »
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Barbara Hicks obituary
07 November 2013 | The Guardian - Film News
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Rev to return to BBC – but not till 2014
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Title: Hay Fever (TV Movie 1984)
How the Berlin Worker Lives
Margery and Gladys (TV Movie 2003)
Haughty, recently widowed Margery Heywood and her cleaner Gladys Gladwell go on the run after mistakenly believing that they have killed a teen-age burglar and, having held up a post office... See full summary »
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Stars: Penelope Keith, June Brown, Alan David
Battle Circus (1953)
Drama | Romance | War
Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn
Star Quality (TV Movie 1985)
In 1940's England, a young playwright is getting his first play produced by an important director. But the director wants to get a temperamental actress for the lead. And when Lorraine ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Dossor
Stars: Susannah York, Ian Richardson, Peter Chelsom
The Sky Raiders (1931)
Certificate: Passed Adventure | Crime
Bob Rogers ('Lloyd Hughes'), a former World War One flying ace, loses his license after crashing an airplane while drunk. He works his way back into the commercial airline service by ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne
Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Marceline Day, Wheeler Oakman
The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan
Star Quality: Bon Voyage (TV Movie 1985)
The Videograss crew brings you their newest movie titled Bon Voyage. Things went really well this season, so expect some mind melting parts from Justin Bennee, Mikey Leblanc, Jed Anderson, ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Vardy
Stars: Michael Aldridge, Gay Baynes, Ed Devereaux
I Was It Three Times (1952)
A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the did to happen a third time. And yet it does.
Director: Sacha Guitry
Stars: Sacha Guitry, Bernard Blier, Lana Marconi
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WW2 hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Directors: Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin
Stars: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland
The Slow Business of Going (2000)
Adventure | Comedy
A mysterious woman travels the world with a rocking chair, interacting with the people she meets.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Stars: Lizzie Curry Martinez, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Gary Price
The Bride's Play (1922)
An Irish lass is torn between the poet who seduced her and noble man who truly loves.
Director: George Terwilliger
Stars: Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon
What Mad Pursuit? (TV Movie 1985)
Director: Tony Smith
Stars: Carroll Baker, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Helen Blizard
How the Berlin Worker Lives (1930)
Documentary | Short
This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "... See full summary »
Director: Slatan Dudow
Penelope Keith ... Judith Bliss
Paul Eddington ... David Bliss
Patricia Hodge ... Myra Arundel
Benjamin Whitrow ... Richard Greatham
Joan Sims ... Clara
Phoebe Nicholls ... Sorel Bliss
Susan Wooldridge ... Jackie Coryton
Michael Siberry ... Simon Bliss
Michael Cochrane ... Sandy Tyrell
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This movie was made after Penelope Keith had had a big hit in the West End production, though the supporting cast here is different. See more »
Simon Bliss: Darling, I adore you.
Myra Arundel: That's right.
Simon Bliss: But you're callous, that's what it is, callous. You don't care a damn. You don't love me a bit, do you?
Myra Arundel: "Love's" a very big word, Simon
Wit tinged with arsenic
27 November 2011 | by robert-temple-1 – See all my reviews
Although the three earlier versions appear to be lost, this was the fourth filming of Noel Coward's amusing play HAY FEVER (the others dating from 1920, 1938, and 1939). This is one of the countless TV triumphs of the brilliant Cedric Messina, producer and director of this filmed play, who had previously produced 82 episodes of PLAY OF THE MONTH for the BBC and had directed eight of them. Messina was a titan of the old school, by which I mean people of taste. The BBC is now run by nonentities lacking in any taste, ability, or culture, who are paid ludicrously inflated salaries for poisoning the national culture and pursuing their own private and political agendas at public expense. Messina and his friends at the BBC of the 1970s and 1980s kept culture permanently on the boil, and delivered regular doses of uplifting and stimulating drama to a mass public, keeping the tone of British society at a higher pitch, whereas today everything has plummeted below even the lowest common denominator (that ultimate nirvana of all TV managers of the present age, who compete with each other to be the lowest and unworthiest abject grovelers wishing to appeal to yobs and oafs, who are after all their very kith and kin). This production sparkles with poisonous and devastating wit and satire, showing Coward at his most vicious. The production is dominated by the bravura lead performance of Penelope Keith, certainly one of the finest of her career. Despite the need for the character to be over the top, Keith keeps it believable and just stops it from spilling over the edge and becoming ludicrous. What a professional! Despite being only 44 years old at the time, she successfully manages to look older, so that she can moan, as the vain and egocentric character must, at 'getting old, old, old'. Paul Eddington does a marvellous job as her husband. He is primarily known for YES MINISTER and YES PRIME MINISTER, but perhaps his finest work was in the unforgettable and wonderful mini-series THE CHAMOMILE LAWN (1992), made not long before he died. Another sparkler in this film is Phoebe Nicholls as the young daughter, Sorel Bliss. She more or less recreates her most famous character of Cordelia Flyte in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (1981). She shows remarkable insouciance and timing, and it is a pity that her voice was too high-register at the beginning of the film for her words to be properly audible. The sound recordist had a struggle, at which he did not much succeed, to deal with the sound in those complicated shots where someone stands in the foreground while someone else tries to speak in the background, far beyond the reach of any boom mike, and at a time when being 'miked-up' was not always successful. The technical problem with this play is that it is a play taking place in a static interior which the director wishes to make less claustrophobic and stagey by enlarging it beyond the capacity of sound to travel or be recorded properly in 1984. Some voices carry and others do not, primarily the high voice of Nicholls. However, this technical fault is soon forgotten as the lively action and dialogue proceed. The story of the play concerns an affluent 'Bohemian' (meaning eccentric) family of four, the mother (Penelope Keith), the father (Paul Eddington), the daughter (Phoebe Nicholls), and the son (Michael Siberry). The action is entirely set in their home, and in a supporting role Joan Sims plays their maid. Each has separately invited a member of the opposite sex for the weekend without telling the others, so four people unexpectedly turn up, with insufficient food in the house, and much banter about who will be given 'the Japanese bedroom'. The son has invited a significantly older and notorious man-eater, Myra Arundel, sinuously portrayed by Patricia Hodge as a cool vamp. The father has invited a pathetically shy young thing played by Susan Wooldridge, who cries and bleats. Wooldridge has recently appeared as Penny Upminster in TAMARA DREWE (2010, see my review, though I do not mention Wooldridge in it). The daughter invites a constipated and poe-faced diplomat from the Foreign Office (excellently played by Benjamin Whitrow), who quickly falls for the mother, who has invited a young and ardent beau played energetically by Michael Cochrane, now a veteran of 107 titles. He wears a white jacket, a wing collar, and a pink tie, and the costume designer had a lot of fun making him look 1920s-trendy. The daughter wears a flapper dress and looks as cute as can be. But this seemingly harmless and happy family play dangerous games. We eventually realize that they must routinely invite people to be house-party 'victims' of mockery with whom they play teasing games of pretended relationships. When Penelope Keith teases Benjamin Whitrow into kissing her cheek, she immediately says she will tell her husband that their marriage is over, and that she and Whitrow feel undying love for each other. The others behave similarly. It is difficult to know just what Noel Coward's motives were in portraying a family as wickedly and cunningly exploitative in their eccentricity as the Bliss family in this play. Methinks the tongue of the viper licks along the edges of this comic story, and its wit is laced with strong arsenic. Was Coward attacking real people? Or were his visions of family life as dark as this? The women come across the worst. The Bliss family happily lapse into a somnolent complacency and self-sufficiency in between the tricks played on their hapless visitors. The film is amusing, witty, disturbing, and unsettling, all at once, as it was doubtless meant to be by its author. Although the play is thus an enigma, I suggest that its author was as well. I have known several women who knew and so 'adored dear Noel', but how deeply did they look beneath the surface?


The renting changed a little bit due the new vip system.
Please talk to the house rental guy which unlocks a new house for 2 weeks.
You can do this gor free as long as you have are active account plus member.
This may be changed though.
You still can't enter your designated house even after you gave your 2 house passwords.
Will have to take a look at it then.


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The Warren Street School, a landmark eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, was located at 197-207 Warren Street in Newark, New Jersey. Designed by Newark-based architect Jeremiah O'Rourke, it was the third oldest public school in the country's third oldest city. Developer RISE Real Estate demolished the landmark in 2021 at the direction of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Construction
Construction began in 1892 and was completed by 1908 on land that had been the site of a public school since 1848. The brick construction with terracotta details and slate roof with copper-frame dormer windows and turrets was representative of the Richardson Romanesque and Queen Anne style popular in the 1880s. The three-story building consisted of two parts, an original 1892 castle-like structure on Warren Street and a 1908 addition on Wickliff Street. Both structures consisted of masonry wall construction with wooden beam supporting floors made of pine and oak. Both structures were interconnected and formed an L-shaped structure around the school's auditorium.

Operation
The school was in continuous operation from 1848 to 2006 and served generations of German, Italian, Irish, and African-American Newark schoolchildren. In later years, with the guidance of Newark historian Clement Alexander Price, the school refocused its curriculum around teaching American history and employed Ras Baraka as school teacher before he became mayor of Newark. As Newark lost half its population from white flight and urban abandonment from the 1950s to present day, the number of school-age students dropped, as did the need for as many public schools buildings. At time of closure, the school employed 28 teachers and served 216 students in kindergarten through 8th Grade.

Demolition
After closure in 2006, the school was used to store archives from the Newark Public Schools system, was appraised at 3.3 million, and sold for 2.2 million around 2018 to Claremont Properties, Inc., acting on behalf of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The building was purchased with intention to demolish. Within days of NJIT's acquisition, a fire was started on May 1, 2019, in the school's basement, causing damage to one room and the wood floor of the classroom above in the 1908 building. Aside from this part, the rest of the building was intact, but the fire was used as pretext for demolition.

Despite protests from Newark residents, historians, and some NJIT students, as well as concerns from faculty at NJIT's College of Architecture and Design that adaptive reuse was feasible, NJIT leadership insisted on demolition and site remediation at a cost of 1.8 million dollars. The city approved demolition on April Fool's Day 2021 and demolition work began with crews removing windows and handmade century-old terracotta details with jackhammers, while the rest of the ornamental brickwork was crushed into rubble for landfill. Due to a bureaucratic technicality, the school had been considered for landmark status, but the application was not formalized by the time demolition began. As a result of demolition and community protests, the nearby James Street Commons Historic District was named by Preservation NJ as one of the ten most endangered historic places in the state. Other landmarks like the old Essex County Jail, which is just one block from the former Warren Street School and is on the National Register of Places, are also at risk of demolition as part of the same redevelopment plans.

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Related landmarks by the same architect
 Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
 Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.)
 Saint Michael's Medical Center
 45 Burnet Street in Newark, home of architect

References

Public elementary schools in New Jersey
Public K–8 schools in New Jersey
Demolished buildings and structures in New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Newark, New Jersey

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Stars and Oil: Milky Way Shines Over Texas Oilfield (Photo)
By Nina Sen 12 October 2015
Astrophotographer Matt Smith captured this image of the Milky Way near Batesville in South Texas on May 25, 2015.
(Image: © Matt Smith)
The Milky Way illuminates a pump jack working at night in Texas. While oil fields through the state are well lit, this landscape shot captures the spectacular night sky.
Astrophotographer Matt Smith captured this image near Batesville in South Texas on May 25. "With the wild weather and abundant clouds, night photography has been hard. But last night, the weather cooperated and I was able to catch a break at work," Smith wrote in an email to Space.com.
Our host galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral galaxy seen as a band of light in the night sky. It stretches between 100, 000 and 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is estimated that the galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars. At the center of our galaxy lies a gigantic black hole billions of times the size of the sun. [See More Stunning Photos of the Milky Way]
The location was another advantage for Smith.
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"If you can get away from the light pollution of cities and oil field locations, South Texas has some spectacular skies," he added.
To see more amazing night sky photos submitted by Space.com readers, visit our astrophotography archive.
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import Auth0Lock from 'react-native-lock';
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          title: 'Search for products',
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So, I have nothing cute or smart to say. After four months (August-December) worth of Louisiana Tax Credit Rehabilitation projects, here are the before and after pictures of what we accomplished.
Landscaping and other minor fix ups and remodeling were not eligible for credits, so we move on to work on those things this Spring/Summer.
I know I've mentioned this a few times, but what we did accomplish through the Louisiana tax credit program was: update HVAC units, plumbing, electrical, roof, exterior carpentry, porch, bathroom addition, some exterior paint, foundation repair and some termite remediation.
It has been too rainy to take the "ta-da!" After pics….so here are a few older pics I neglected to post earlier. We finished most of the work before Christmas and did the finishing right before New Year's Day! Whoo! Talk about busy!
Anyway, I am waiting for the rain to clear, then I will clean the trash out of the yard and post some good pictures! I am going to put them in before/after collages.
I had a friend loan me this neat little book. It is basically an early scrapbook from the years 1894 – 1931, it's a history of the Presbyterian Church here in Alexandria Louisiana. It was written by Mrs. B. L. Price, the pastor's wife in the early years of the church's history.
What makes this little work so neat, is Mrs. B. L. Price gathered photographs of all the major contributors to the First Presbyterian Church here in Alexandria. She took pictures of the Sunday school teachers, church members, deacons, etc. in front of their homes. She also gave a little snippet about their personality, interests and church involvement.
There are only two of these small leather bound, scrapbooks and existence. One, my friend has, and the other one is owned by the family of a long time past member of the church. Here are a few examples of the pages. Enjoy!
Last night was very sad for Preservationists in Cenla. The Thompson-Hargis home was irreparably destroyed by fire. At this time we know that it started in the back of the house and according to KALB, the cause was arson perpetuated by a 13 year old girl. An arrest has been made.
A security guard has been posted at the house remains to deter vandalism until a future disposition of the house can be determined by the family. Built in 1907 (some documents I have say 1902) without the benefit of a house plan by B.F. Thompson, a Canadian, the Thompson-Hargis mansion survived a total of 105 years until its historic reign was brought to an untimely end on September 9, 2012. Rivaling the beautiful and well preserved mansions on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, this mansion was the last one of its kind in Alexandria.
Mansion Row, as it is locally named, will not be the same. RIP grand lady.
The above pictures were taken via iPhone as it was unfolding. For pictures taken this morning, click here to be redirected to the WeSawThat blog.
I am off for the summer, but I came in to work while Vivian is at Grandma's house, to help out my employer. I was flipping through the Cenla Focus and saw my picture…hahaha. This totally cracked me up. I knew the photographer was buzzing around but I didn't know who he was or the picture was going to go. This cracks me up on several different levels. Firstly, because people are probably wondering "Who is this chick?"….secondly, because I lend a whole new definition to the term "white"; and thirdly because right under me is my beloved friend, R. R. Sr. The man who called me up, cussed me out and slammed the phone down in my ear. Shame, shame. Let's just say I was new to town, I had no idea who this family was and I was not trying to make their life miserable, I was just concerned about my neighborhood.
Anyway…it was my laugh for the day.
Oh my….this is usually the time of year that I dust my blog off and then tackle about 10 projects at the same time. 🙂 This year is no exception. I have accepted the nomination of Vice President of the Historical Association of Central Louisiana. Thank you for your faith in me. Among some of my duties, I will be writing a couple National Register nominations this year and working with property owners regarding tax incentives and rehabilitation of their properties. I also have my property to work on and submission of a NR nomination is forthcoming in that area. I finally have everything straight with the SHPO (State Historic Preservation Office) regarding what they need from me and what I need to do.
My laundry room and kitchen are being "finished" by a carpenter as we speak. Steven and I just ran out of steam labor wise and have been too involved in other things to get it finished. So, we hired a good friend and excellent carpenter to come and finish what we started.
In adoption news, our home study was finalized yesterday. All of the paperwork that our social worker needed from Mississippi came in and we can finally move forward with completing our dossier and sending our documents to China. Within the next thirty days I hope! National Register nominations pale in comparison with submitting a dossier to the Chinese Government! Wow!
Many good things are in the works!!! It is spring! My favorite time of year. I am ready to rock Cenla!


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Q: Catching Exceptions From Multiple Methods Withing the Class In Java, I have a class with a few methods that throw the same custom exception (the custom exception extends the 'Exception' class):
private void setAColor(float r, float g, float b, float a) throws AnException {}
private void setBColor(float r, float g, float b, float a) throws AnException {}
private void setCColor(float r, float g, float b, float a) throws AnException {}

Instead of having the user handle these exceptions, I would like to be able to catch them and handle them within the class.  Each method exception will be caught in the exact same way.  I do not want to have to put the exact same try/catch method block in every single method.  Is there a way I can catch these exceptions outside of the body of the methods, but inside of the class?
Thank you for your time, even if you cannot help me.
APPENDING MORE INFORMATION:
These methods may be called up until a certain point:  After a method is called that sets the variable "isImmutable" to true, these methods should no longer be able to change anything about the object.  Hence, if one of these methods are called after "isImmutable" is set to true, then they should throw an exception called "ImmutableException".  For /this particular implementation/, I want to be able to handle these myself instead of going to every single point in the code that these methods are called and handling them then exact same way.

A: I do not want to have to put the exact same try/catch method block in every single method.
Then don't throw the exception.
Is there a way I can catch these exceptions outside of the body of the methods, but inside of the class?
No.
For /this particular implementation/, I want to be able to handle these myself instead of going to every single point in the code that these methods are called and handling them then exact same way.
That makes no sense.  If an error is detected, how do you intend to report it?
After a method is called that sets the variable "isImmutable" to true, these methods should no longer be able to change anything about the object. Hence, if one of these methods are called after "isImmutable" is set to true, then they should throw an exception called "ImmutableException".
Have you considered making your exception a subclass of RuntimeException?  Then callers do not need to declare exception handlers -- if no handler the program will be terminated due to "unhandled exception".

A: You could turn the above methods into stub methods which call
setColorDelagator(char abc, ...)

which delegates to
setColorAWithErrorHandling
setColorBWithErrorHandling
setColorCWithErrorHandling

within a try/catch.
I agree this isn't optimal, but I'm unsure of a better way.

A: To approach it from another angle, have you considered switching to a factory pattern? Rather than have something call to set isImmutable to true, have it call to get an instance where isImmutable is true... and the method in question returns a different version of the class that doesn't have the setters available.

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Nowy Dworzec – osada kociewska w Polsce położona w województwie pomorskim na pograniczu kociewsko-kaszubskim, w powiecie kościerskim, w gminie Stara Kiszewa.

Osada wchodzi w skład sołectwa Góra.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa gdańskiego.

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In response to the threat of foreign interference in U.S. elections, 18 states have asked the Department of Homeland Security for advice on how to protect voting technology from cyber tampering, according to Secretary Jeh Johnson.
In testimony at a Sept. 27 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Johnson acknowledged efforts to penetrate voter data systems. Asked if hackers could change ballot counts, Johnson said the goal was to steal personally identifiable information.
"We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral [system] -- it is diverse, subject to local control, and has many checks and balance built in," Johnson said in his written statement. "However, in this environment, we must be vigilant."
DHS is providing assistance to states by conducting cyber hygiene scans on internet-facing systems and around-the-clock access to cyber incident reporting centers.
Johnson testified alongside FBI Director James Comey and Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Lawmakers homed in on efforts to counter the online and social media influence of the Islamic State group, and Comey noted that although progress is being made in blocking some of its accounts with the cooperation of companies such as Twitter, militants are moving to encrypted platforms, such as Telegram, to share information and recruit followers.
"Our mission is to try to get into those spaces to see what those thugs, those savages are doing in that space," Comey told lawmakers.
Johnson also updated senators on efforts to secure federal networks using the Einstein intrusion-detection system. He said Einstein 3-Accelerated protects 65 percent of federal civilian agencies and is available at all agencies.
Additionally, the second phase of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, which gives civilian agencies access to commercial tools to detect and respond to network threats, will be available to all civilian agencies in 2017.


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Mexican inventor discovers how to convert plastic garbage into combustible fuel
The special catalytic converter was created by former language teacher Gerardo Nungaray Benítez and has attracted international awards. The Zacatecas native is now trying to get his invention installed across Mexico, approaching local governments in the hope that they will adopt the new technology.
The converter, which allows trash to be reused as combustible fuel, has potential ecological and economic benefits.
The 45-year-old Nungaray says his interest in chemistry and inventions began when he was a child. When he started fabricating pumps he earned the nickname El Güero Bombas, güero for his fair skin and bombas for pumps. He was just 11 years old when he made his own beer and designed an electric toilet.
He admits that he never got to study chemistry formally because he was "a problem child," testing positive for Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism characterized by hyperactive behavior and concentrating to the point of obsession on a single object or theme. This condition led to his being frequently expelled from school.
Despite these setbacks, El Güero's passion for chemistry continued unabated until his father forced him to leave home at 15 as a punishment for unruly behavior. Nungaray moved to the U.S., where he took a job as a chicken farmer.
However, during this time he also worked as a fibreglass and polymer manufacturer, completing his self-taught studies and learning English and several other languages.
His newfound linguistic ability gave him access to many scientific studies in the field of chemistry, and after returning to Mexico El Güero spent the next several years working as a language teacher.
But he never lost his interest in scientific invention and research, and six years ago he gave up his job as a teacher to devote his energy to developing the converter.
The initial idea behind the invention came to Nungaray when he was taking rubbish from his house to a local dump, where he saw a homeless boy scavenging. When he witnessed the boy opening a bag full of infected materials from a clinic, he decided to develop an incinerator to get rid of dangerous and contaminating waste.
It was while working on the incinerator that El Güero had his introduction to pyrolysis, a process of chemical decomposition that turns garbage into a liquid. He then realized that he could use this technique to reduce plastic garbage back to its original state — petroleum.
According to Nungaray, his catalytic converter can transform a tonne of trash into 900 liters of combustible fuel at a cost of 4.5 pesos per liter. For this simple reason, his converter is both profitable and sustainable, allowing garbage to be reused as fuel.
If his invention were installed throughout the country, he believes, 12 million liters of diesel and gasoline could be produced daily. El Güero hopes that energy reforms in the coming years will allow such machines to be commercialized.
But getting governments to introduce such reforms will be a significant challenge. "I don't believe the authorities have shown any interest," he says. "Public servants lack vision, unless they can benefit themselves. This is what is currently stopping major projects being developed in Zacatecas and throughout Mexico."
He adds that so far the only place to have shown any major interest in adopting the technology is the Zacatecas city of Fresnillo.
Yet El Güero's invention has received attention elsewhere. Last year it earned third place and a US $20,000 prize in a History Channel Latin America competition that attracted 5,000 entries for "an idea to change history."
Article source:http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2015/09/mexican-inventor-discovers-how-to-convert-plastic-garbage-into-combustible-fuel/
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In May 2017 some Perth businesses were held to ransom by international cyber attacks. FSA Technology IT security solutions help businesses prevent and fix ransomware problems in Perth Western Australia for their business clients' computer / ITC systems.
What is ransomware? Malicious software that locks a device, such as a computer, tablet or smartphone and then demands a ransom to unlock it.
Where did ransomware originate? The first case of ransomware appeared in 2005 in America but quickly spread around the world.
How are computers infected with ransomware? The software is normally contained within an attachment to a phishing email. Once opened, it encrypts the hard drive, making it impossible to access or retrieve data and software stored on the drive – such as photographs, documents, financial data or music.
How to protect yourself from ransomware? Anti-virus software and anti-malware software can protect your computers, although cybercriminals are constantly working on new ways to override IT security protection.
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I've tried Arts and the same thing happens (different message) - Amarok will stop playing. What sound engine under Linux plays more than one source?
I think the SBlive has even under the old OSS system two sound devices.
You could try to set one sound device for one sound application and one for the other.
For example setting /dev/dsp1 as the device for arts and leaving /dev/dsp0 for other applications.
Or you check if you can let both applications use ALSA directly instead of the OSS emulation ALSA provides.
Another option would be to use the arts backend in Amarok, but I think that one isn't as good as the others.
I must say, I have the same problem. However, AmaroK doesn't stop playing, the other sounds just refuse to be played, Kaffeine won't even play movies, my Thunderbird only works with the system beep, not my choosen sound.
Why can't KDE just by default, as windows or Gnome play multiple sounds? I'm a newbee to Linux and certainly to KDE (I tried it before switched back to Gnome and now want to take a look at it again). This sound is bugging me, I like multiple programs being able to play sound!
With the latest kernel versions (2.6.14+) and the latest alsa drivers (1.0.10+), you shall be able to run multiple sound sources. Configure all your apps that use sound to play it directly with alsa - ignore arts and such.
I use it that way on my gentoo system with the alsa drivers included in the kernel, works like a charm.
Hey great, I'm gonna try it right now! I have the newest Ubuntu, so I guess It will be ok........ gonna check the kernel and ALSA config now and set all to work!


Happy to be a guest writer again for my good friend Jennifer! When I read the passages for today, I knew right away I did not want to write about Ahab's family being killed. I was not sure what to pluck out of Hosea 2 either. Something more uplifting was needed after a long week! As we are approaching November, the "Thanksgiving" headline in 2 Timothy caught my attention as we always have lots to be thankful for each day. November gives us the opportunity to reflect on all we have been given in our daily lives, not in terms of the usual Thanksgiving Day prayer of family, friends, health, happiness, freedom….more in terms of what God has given to us to help us live our daily lives. In the readings related to Thanksgiving, three separate verses jumped out at me.
7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
When I read these verses together, they make me think of being modest and content. I think this because of what the Spirit God gave us, makes us. In the first verse it talks about the Spirit God making us powerful and able to love, but it also mentions self-discipline. Power and love are two very important things/traits that if used wrongly, can do major harm. By adding self-discipline into our making, the Lord provides us with not just having these two strong powers, but he provides us with a third trait that is a very important: self-discipline. Self-discipline provides us with being able to stay content in times of despair and it provides us with being modest in times of great achievement. Self-discipline helps us not go over the edge when given the traits of power and love.
To me, this means that God gave us the ability to have power, love, and self-discipline. He has also saved us and called us to an eternal and holy life in heaven, and there is nothing we can do to make God hate us, for he is loving. It also says to me that there is a little bit of the Holy Spirit inside of us all, and that should mean the world to us.
These verses all talk about the amazing spirit God has given us. We should take this blessing and spread/show it to others in the world. God has given us this gift, and we are meant to use it to follow him and to love him. We are meant to hold onto this gift as well because it defines us and keeps us close to God.
Interesting to read how teenagers translate God's word in their lives. To me, I hear God giving us Power, Love, and Self-Discipline. He gives us these traits to use wisely. I hear him reminding us that we need to focus on listening to the Holy Spirit within ourselves to help us lead a Christian life. Even when we don't, we can be saved through his Grace. What a wonderful gift!
Do we think about using the power of the Holy Spirit each day? Are we thankful that God leads us through in thought, word and deed? As we enter the month of thankfulness, let us recognize God's power, love and self-discipline he has given us along with his Eternal Grace.


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Whether you are challenging or strengthening a patent, you need an attorney who has the right combination of patent prosecution and litigation experience.
The America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011 was the greatest overhaul of the patent system since 1952. At its core, the AIA shifted U.S. rights to a patent from the previous "first-to-invent" system to a "first inventor-to-file" system for patent applications. Practically, the most significant changes were to the post-grant proceedings offered by the USPTO, which allows for either a challenge to a competitor's patent, or strengthen a patent already granted. Specifically, patent holders now have two potential options for strengthening an existing patent: supplemental examination and patent reissue. Under AIA, prospective patent challengers now have essentially five options: post-grant review; inter partes review, ex parte reexamination, covered business methods and derivation proceedings.
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