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There Were No Black Artists With Number One Singles In 2013
If you look back on 2013, not a single black artist scored a No. 1 single. Not J. Cole, Jay Z, Beyonce, or even Kanye West. 2013 marked the first-ever year since Billboard began charting Top 40 songs in 1958 that zero black artists made their way to the top of the singles chart.
The top spot on the Hot 100 -- today's version of the singles chart -- was dominated by white acts throughout the past year. Perhaps even more intriguing is the fact that white artists even sat atop the R&B and Hip-Hop Songs chart for 44 out of 52 weeks of 2013. Compare this to ten years ago, when every No. 1 Hot 100 single was performed by an artist of color.
And in a final interesting twist, there are no living black artists being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 -- although Clarence Clemons will be inducted posthumously as part of the E Street Band. That's only happened once before in Rock Hall history.
To try and understand how and why 2013 was so unprecedented, Soundcheck host John Schaefer talks to pop chart analyst and writer Chris Molanphy, as well as author and commentator for The Daily Beast and The Root, Keli Goff.
Read Chris Molanphy's piece for Slate discussing black artists, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Hot 100 in 2013.
Interview Highlights
Chris Molanphy, on technical changes to the charts that partially account for crowding out of black artists:
What's happened is, whether it's radio, whether it's iTunes -- there's now a lot of data feeding into the Hot 100.... The charts of ten years ago when Outkast was No. 1 -- iTunes was not a factor in the charts yet because it was brand new. There was no YouTube -- it literally didn't exist -- and so this great feedback loop we used to have where we had crossover from the R&B charts to the pop charts has kind of gotten swamped.
Keli Goff, on marketing white acts and black acts:
It almost reminds me of the '50s and '60s when you had a lot of music that was being made by white artists and being popularized by them but it was coming from black artists. It's much easier to sell a Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, an Eminem, a Justin Timberlake, to mainstream audiences than it is to sell a Jay Z. It is still a preferred feeling in mainstream pop culture that if we can find an attractive white act to do it, why not?
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis held down the top spot on the Hot 100 for six weeks and on the Hip-Hop/R&B Songs chart for 14 weeks in 2013:
Goff, on representation in music:
You know what, if someone's talking about how downtrodden they are and that's what they're rapping about, I'd like to not know that the person is actually a white guy that went to a prep school.
Molanphy on Nile Rodgers of Chic being "the Susan Lucci of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations" with eight nominations and still no induction:
If ever there were a year! He put out a "For Your Consideration" ad: He played the best guitar riff on any pop song of the year on "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk and if not this year, then when?


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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Make Your Own Gear › seam allowances – new sewer
Mar 19, 2011 at 6:33 pm #1270791
Jeffrey McConnellBPL Member
@catalystLocale: SoCal
I've decided to tackle a down quilt as a project and I wanted to know what people typically use for seam allowances on the outside edges of a quilt (keep in mind I'm learning to sew still). Also, about how much allowance will I need to add a shock cord channel at the head?Mar 20, 2011 at 11:06 am #1711621
Paul McLaughlinBPL Member
I normally use 1/2" seam allowances. If you are making a drawstring/shockcord tunnel, i'd make that at least 1/2" wide, maybe more. Let's say 5/8" wide. so you need to double that,then add at least another 1/4" to fold back under so the raw edge is not exposed. So that is 5/8+5/8+1/4= 1 1/2" past the point where the line of stitching will be. I hope that makes sense!Mar 20, 2011 at 3:21 pm #1711713
Stephen BarberBPL Member
@grampaLocale: SoCal
We had to get a new sewer last year – boy, was that ever expensive! But at least now, th….
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Okay, seriously Jeff, Is this your first project sewing nylon material? A down quilt is quite a project, and if you're not familiar nylon, you might want to start off with a more limited project – how about a pack cover? Or a pair of gaiters?
Are you doing a sewn-thru or baffles? You might want to check some of the outdoor fabric places for patterns – these would make your job a lot easier!
I would recommend a 5/8" seam, then add whatever foldovers, etc, you're going to need. A shockcord tunnel could be anywhere between 5/8" to 1" (times two if it's folded over). Remember to include fold-over seams at the ends of the channel!Mar 20, 2011 at 7:50 pm #1711841
Mat TallmanMember
@wehtamLocale: Midwest
Everything you want to know about sewing a quilt and more…
Bear in mind these instructions are for a sewn-thru construction quilt, a baffled quilt will be a bit more cutting and sewing work. Thru-hiker.com has a brief instruction page for making a baffled quilt if that's your aim. Pairing the two write-ups together is a wealth of info.
Best of luck, a quilt was my first major MYOG project, but I've been sewing on and off for the better part of my 25 years, so it's certainly not my first time behind a machine.Mar 20, 2011 at 9:22 pm #1711881
John CanfieldMember
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I would recommend 1/4 inch seams. Having repaired dozens if not hundreds of packs, sleeping bags, tents, etc. As well as having built scores of backpacks in the industry, 1/4 is the norm. Sometimes a little more (3/8 often in zippers), and rarely a little less (for seams that are taped.)Mar 20, 2011 at 9:45 pm #1711891
Jeffrey McConnellBPL Member
@catalystLocale: SoCal
Thanks for the advice. I'll be making a baffled underquilt. Right now I'm just planning it and finding as much information as I can on construction. I'm going to start off with sewing stuff sacks and tarps and work my way up to the quilt.
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All is not lost in the wake of Bellator's injury-plagued PPV card
This is a big week for Bellator MMA. Big and getting smaller.
The second-fiddle fight promotion is poised to dive into the choppy waters of the pay-per-view wilderness, and that's a leap of faith under the best of circumstances. But what a few days ago might have been characterized as merely a daunting step forward is now looking like a pratfall in progress.
Or not.
When the marquee for Saturday night's Bellator 120 (10 p.m. ET, PPV) lost its bright-lights attraction, a meeting between Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler for the lightweight championship belt they've grudgingly passed back and forth in a pair of heart-pounding previous clashes, the air fizzled out of every balloon in Southaven, Miss. Surely, Bjorn Rebney & Co. were going to have to shelf their PPV ambitions again and put the crippled event on regular cable TV, as they did in November when their first pay wall came crashing down. Was there any other option?
Well, there's always the option of falling in line with a great theatre tradition: The show must go on. Indeed, after carrying on with Alvarez vs. Chandler III hype during every break in last Friday night's televised fight card, and even denying a Sherdog.com report that the trilogy capper was off, Rebney announced the next day that a concussion had indeed sidelined Alvarez but the card still would be a PPV. A light heavyweight tournament finale between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and "King Mo" Lawal, which had been slated for the co-main event, now had top billing.
So, do you buy it?
If you're a discerning fan of the sport, you can't help but recognize the new main event as a significant downgrade. Alvarez (25-3) and Chandler (12-1) are ranked in the Top 10 at 155 pounds in the SI.com MMA fighter rankings, which are dominated by UFC roster names. These Bellator interlopers have secured their spots among the elite with two memorable firefights.
The first, in November 2011, saw Chandler nearly finish the reigning champ in the first round, then get beaten up himself in the third before rallying to choke out Alvarez at 3:06 of the fourth. It was a popular choice for Fight of the Year in all of MMA.
That wasn't enough, curiously, to warrant putting the rematch under the brightest spotlight Bellator could generate. When the promotion announced its first foray into PPV, that one in November, Chandler vs. Alvarez II was on the card, all right, but only in a co-main event slot. Apparently, the Bellator brass thought the fight that fans were aching to plunk down some cash to see was Rampage vs. Tito Ortiz. We never found out whether anyone really was willing to pay to see that battle of faded UFC refugees, though, because Ortiz had to pull out with an injury. Chandler and Alvarez were bumped up to the top of the bill, where they belonged, but they were not entrusted to carry a PPV. So a big Spike TV audience got to see Alvarez get the better of the battering this time on the way to a belt-reclaiming unanimous-decision win.
This sequel was the MMA version of The Godfather: Part II, as brutally electrifying as the first Alvarez vs. Chandler fight. So much so that it apparently persuaded Bellator that its second shot at a first PPV should be built around these two lightweights. Until it no longer was.
Jackson vs. Lawal might be brutal, too, but electrifying? It's highly doubtful that these guys can sustain a fistic spectacle beyond a few sporadic thrills. Jackson is 35, and even with two first-round knockout wins over overmatched opponents during his six months with Bellator, hasn't truly brought any rampage to the cage in ages. And Lawal, 33, has been a disappointment ever since signing with the promotion early last year. Neither Quinton nor Mo is within shouting distance of the Top 10, but they've used their voices to make it clear that they don't like each other one bit. So the promotion has that going for it.
Here's where the waters get murky. Pay events draw a higher percentage of diehards than network or cable telecasts, but devoted fans do come in many flavors. While it seems obvious that Alvarez vs. Chandler, in the grand scheme, is a more significant fight than Jackson vs. Lawal I, some fans with long memories might feel more attachment to "Rampage," a former UFC champion whose 15-year, 45-fight career has included tussles with Chuck Liddell, Dan Henderson, Rashad Evans, Lyoto Machida, Wanderlei Silva, "Shogun" Rua and other bright lights.
"King Mo" doesn't have as glittery a resume, but he is a former Strikeforce champ. This matchup of name fighters, faded as those names may be, plays off of whatever thinking went in to Bellator's decision to make Tito vs. Rampage its original PPV main event.
So maybe Saturday's event will pull better numbers than the naysayers are predicting. And even if it doesn't -- even if it turns out to be an epic failure, with PPV buys able to be counted on the promoter's fingers and toes -- Bellator has a built-in excuse. Jackson vs. Lawal wasn't the fight the promotion had planned on as a headliner, so whatever happens happens. The ownership of deep-pocketed Viacom allows for second chances. This weekend might prove to be an expensive lesson in the pay TV business, but better to be rudely awakened than to be knocked out of the game.
If Alvarez vs. Chandler III had occurred on Saturday night as scheduled and had bombed as a draw, that would have been a dead-end disaster for Bellator's PPV dream. Where would the promotion have turned next? The trilogy title fight is the only ace in the promotion's hand, really, at least as an attraction worthy of opening the cash register. As it stands now, no matter what happens this weekend, there will be two 155-pound wildcards sitting in Bellator's back pocket, waiting to be played when the time is right.


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Sources say the games industry is now in direct competition with cinema ticket sales, particularly for action movies, because they are both directed at the same audience - young men - with low levels of disposable income to spend on entertainment.
Grand Theft Auto IV is expected to break sales records following the runaway success of the rest of the series. Millions of copies have been ordered in advance, with stocks likely to run out - and the game's success could adversely affect interest in action film Iron Man, also released this week.
The GTA series has courted almost as much controversy as it has popularity because of its adult content, with critics saying it glorifies violence and sex. It has sold 70m copies in a decade. The latest instalment is expected to sell 6m copies in the first week of release.
GTA IV, which sees players take on the role of an eastern European migrant pursuing the American dream, is expected to outstrip sales of last year's bestseller, Halo 3.
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NFL's tax-exempt status is again under fire in Congress
By Steve Ginsburg
WASHINGTON xx (Reuters) - Congressman Jason Chaffetz insists his bid to overturn the NFL's decades-old tax-exempt status has nothing to do with political posturing or electioneering.
And the Utah Republican says his campaign to get rid of the tax break is not motivated by the recent travails of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who has been excoriated for turning a blind eye to domestic abuse by some of his players.
"It's an issue of basic fairness," Chaffetz, his palms turned upward, said in an interview. "The National Football League should have to pay taxes like everybody else."
The teams that comprise the NFL, boasting some $10 billion in annual revenues, pay taxes on their profits, as well as on merchandise and player salaries. But because it's listed a non-profit trade or industry association, the league's head office gets a free pass.
Chaffetz, a 47-year-old firebrand who became chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee in January, wants that to change.
Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code lists "professional football leagues" as deserving of tax-exempt status, a vestige of legislative wrangling that helped the NFL and its upstart rival, the American Football League, merge in 1966.
The result is the NFL's status is comparable to that of the Chamber of Commerce when it comes to taxation.
"It doesn't pass the laugh test of being something that's a not-for-profit trade association," said Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a federal budget watchdog organization. "There's no evidence the NFL would collapse without this exemption." Continued...


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PC Keohane was a dog handler, handling two 'narcotics' dogs. Her status as a dual narcotics dog handler was important in that it enhanced her career prospects and gave her an opportunity to earn overtime. The Metropolitan Police operated a policy on the re-allocation or withdrawal of police dogs where handlers were likely to be non-operational for a while. For pregnancy or maternity leave, it specified that female officers would, in most cases, not be permitted to continue as operational dog handlers during their pregnancy, for health and safety reasons.
When PC Keohane told the Metropolitan Police that she was pregnant, a decision was taken to re-allocate Nunki Pippin, her 'passive' search dog, leaving her with a proactive search dog.
The Employment Tribunal found that the reason for the removal, and subsequently a failure to re-allocate the dog to her before the end of her maternity leave, was her pregnancy and maternity, and hence was directly discriminatory…
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Virtual Development Server: Provide Docker images in docker registry for Oracle XE Database and others
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Configuration, Development, Installation on September 6, 2016
For later creation of containers as needed in the deployment process we have first to build docker images whenever we do not find suitable one in docker hub.
For most of my development I need a oracle database. On the internet you can find a lot of Dockerfile's for this, but no ready image. This is because for running a database you have to accept a license and this happens when you download the installation software. For private testing this license often is free.
The basic cycle for all of this images is the same on my side:
- Find a Docker image
- If not found download required Software and build a Docker image
- Build the Docker image
- Push the images to private docker registry or the public registry DockerHub
Fortunately Oracle provides recently on GitHub a lot of working Dockerfile's for building different product images. The creator Gerald Venzl desribes in this blog how to create an Oracle EE image.
Following you find an example for building Oracle XE 188.8.131.52 Image.
First you have to clone the git repository to a directory of you choice, I choose C:\shared\scmlocal\docker-images.
Put the downloaded installation source oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip in the subdirectory C:\shared\scmlocal\docker-images\OracleDatabase\dockerfiles\126.96.36.199 as described in GitHub.
Next we have to map this directory to our virtualbox via following vagrant instructions. Additional we prepare port forwarding for accessing later the database from our host system.
... # Port Forwardings for: # - Oracle database port config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 1521, host: 1521 # Oracle Application Express (APEX) config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 8080 ... # map Oracle Docker Images installation path config.vm.synced_folder "C:\\shared\\scmlocal\\docker-images", "/docker-images", :mount_options => ["dmode=777","fmode=777"] ...
After that restart the virtualbox and connect to it via
vagrant halt vagrant up vagrant ssh
In the output you can see this mapping.
... default: 1521 (guest) => 1521 (host) (adapter 1) default: 5000 (guest) => 5000 (host) (adapter 1) default: 8080 (guest) => 8080 (host) (adapter 1) ... default: /docker-images => C:/shared/scmlocal/docker-images ...
Now you create build the image with the Oracle XE (-x) database version (-v) 220.127.116.11 via the provided scripts from oracle. -i skips the MD5 checksum check, as the checksums are not checked in as UNIX text format and so does not work in our vagrant on windows / oel virtualbox combination.
cd /docker-images/OracleDatabase/dockerfiles ./buildDockerImage.sh -v 22.214.171.124 -x -i
Now you have to wait some time. When the process is ready, you get at the time of this writing an image with the binaries installed.
docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE oracle/database 22.214.171.124-xe 624d78c89ccb About a minute ago 1.203 GB registry latest c6c14b3960bd 5 weeks ago 33.28 MB oraclelinux latest 1988eb5b3fc6 6 weeks ago 278.2 MB
Next we tag this image for pushing to the local docker repository, which we have created in the first blog of this series and is up with every vagrant up of our virtualbox. After that we push it to the registry.
docker tag oracle/database:184.108.40.206-xe localhost:5000/oracle/database:188.8.131.52-xe docker push localhost:5000/oracle/database:126.96.36.199-xe
In the output we see the succesful push.
The push refers to a repository [localhost:5000/oracle/database] 345dfbce8859: Pushed dd4b46d40894: Pushed 11327e04fac0: Pushed 188.8.131.52-xe: digest: sha256:82058ca2c5c201ff46471a8db4d9569da9869d420727595884050f94dad0ec85 size: 955
Now we will check, if we can create a Docker container from our image in the registry and the database is working in it. Therefore at first we delete the oracle/database and oraclelinux images from our virtualbox. Then we create the container.
docker rmi 624d78c89ccb -f docker rmi 1988eb5b3fc6 sudo docker run --shm-size=1g -p 1521:1521 -p 8080:8080 --name="db18.104.22.168-xe" --restart unless-stopped localhost:5000/oracle/database:188.8.131.52-xe
In line 3 we pull the image from the local registry, start a container, open the ports 1521 and 8080 to the virtualbox and give the container a name.
Unable to find image 'localhost:5000/oracle/database:184.108.40.206-xe' locally 18.104.22.168-xe: Pulling from oracle/database 10ec637c060c: Pull complete 1902f66bc90b: Pull complete dd8942200fe1: Pull complete Digest: sha256:41ce1015c8f68ce063e855e7afa96000ededeef1e197e2181bc04c9577d73a1b Status: Downloaded newer image for localhost:5000/oracle/database:126.96.36.199-xe ORACLE AUTO GENERATED PASSWORD FOR SYS AND SYSTEM: 9f4e9a733e7983bc Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Configuration ------------------------------------------------- This will configure on-boot properties of Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. The following questions will determine whether the database should be starting upon system boot, the ports it will use, and the passwords that will be used for database accounts. Press <Enter> to accept the defaults. Ctrl-C will abort. Specify the HTTP port that will be used for Oracle Application Express [8080]: Specify a port that will be used for the database listener [1521]: Specify a password to be used for database accounts. Note that the same password will be used for SYS and SYSTEM. Oracle recommends the use of different passwords for each database account. This can be done after initial configuration: Confirm the password: Do you want Oracle Database 11g Express Edition to be started on boot (y/n) [y]: Starting Oracle Net Listener...Done Configuring database...Done Starting Oracle Database 11g Express Edition instance...Done Installation completed successfully. SQL*Plus: Release 184.108.40.206.0 Production on Tue Sep 6 09:41:22 2016 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 184.108.40.206.0 - 64bit Production SQL> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 184.108.40.206.0 - 64bit Production ######################### DATABASE IS READY TO USE! ######################### db_recovery_file_dest_size of 10240 MB is 0.98% used. This is a user-specified limit on the amount of space that will be used by this database for recovery-related files, and does not reflect the amount of space available in the underlying filesystem or ASM diskgroup. Starting background process CJQ0 Tue Sep 06 09:41:19 2016 CJQ0 started with pid=26, OS id=759 Tue Sep 06 09:41:24 2016 XDB installed. XDB initialized.
In line 9 you can see the autogenerated passwords.
When line 46 appears, you can connect to the database.
With following command you can change the passwords of SYS and SYSTEM:
sudo docker exec db188.8.131.52-xe /u01/app/oracle/setPassword.sh LetsDocker
You see following output:
SQL*Plus: Release 220.127.116.11.0 Production on Tue Sep 6 15:49:34 2016 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 188.8.131.52.0 - 64bit Production SQL> User altered. SQL> User altered.
As long as you not remove or manually stop the container, it restarts with the virtualbox now via:
vagrant halt vagrant up
At the moment you cannot make your database instance data persistent for this container, I have opened an issue for this, but Gerald Venzl has promised to to implement this later.
Here you find the source code for this blog.
Here you find more about the topic "Virtual Development Server".
That's it.
Oracle TranslationHub neither supported for 12c Database, 12c Forms/Reports or 64 bit!
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Development, Installation on March 16, 2016
If you need TranslationHub (Windows only) for your forms and reports development and plan to move to one of the following
- 12c Database for your TranslationHub repository
- 12c Forms/Reports (only available for 64 bit Windows)
- higher version of 64 bit 11g Forms/Reports
then please immediately stop! None of this combination works with TranslationHub!
For the last point I had created enhancement request 14155931 back in June 2012!
For the first point I had created a service request last week I and get following answer:
Unfortunately, OTH is no longer supported or being developed. Customers can continue to use OTH as-is.
About the errors, based on today's standards, OTH has several limitations:
- It is a 32bit product and expects to co-exist with a 32bit DB and optional Forms/Reports installation. 64bit installations will not work.
- Likely OTH will not work correctly on newer operating systems like Windows 8.1 or newer. It likely will also not be stable on Windows 7-x64 either, although it may generally seem to function.
- It may be possible to use a version 12 database as the target database for OTH projects, however this has never been certified and therefore shouldn't be supported if issues arise.
Although Oracle currently do not have replacement for OTH, the Forms team is working on a possible alternative that may be available in the future. If customers require the use of OTH immediately, they should consider installing and using it in an environment that was previously certified for its use.
The Oracle Technology Network Forums should be considered (for the customer) if there are questions about OTH.
Product Management is aware of the importance of this situation.
Any news regarding OTH will be published on Forms's OTN page, however, for the moment, unfortunately, there is not much we can help with, in Support.
As 11g Database and 11g Forms will run out of support soon in my opinion Oracle has immediately to provide a working 64bit TranslationHub for 12c Database and Forms as long you has no replacement for this tool.
What do you think?
Update: See the according discussion on the forms forum.
SLES shell script to check required os packages according to documentation before starting oracle forms & reports installation
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Installation on September 9, 2015
If you try to install oracle forms & reports 184.108.40.206 on SLES 11.3 than despite all installer checks are passed maybe you get a message like:
Error in invoking target 'install' of makefile '<FR_HOME>/sqlplus/lib/ins_sqlplus.mk'.
The reuirement check of the installer shows only missing openmotif classes which are not really required on SLES (see Doc ID 1567715.1), but no problems with a compiler or something similar.
Checking for binutils-2.19-11.28; found binutils-2.23.1-0.23.15-x86_64. Passed Checking for gcc-4.3-62.198; found gcc-4.3-62.200.2-x86_64. Passed Checking for gcc-c++-4.3-62.198; found gcc-c++-4.3-62.200.2-x86_64. Passed Checking for glibc-2.9-13.2; found glibc-2.11.3-17.87.3-x86_64. Passed Checking for glibc-32bit-2.9-13.2; found glibc-32bit-2.11.3-17.87.3-x86_64. Passed Checking for glibc-devel-2.9; found glibc-devel-2.11.3-17.87.3-x86_64. Passed Checking for glibc-devel-32bit-2.9-13.2; found glibc-devel-32bit-2.11.3-17.87.3-x86_64. Passed Checking for libaio-0.3.104-140.22; found libaio-0.3.109-0.1.46-x86_64. Passed Checking for libaio-devel-0.3.104-140.22; found libaio-devel-0.3.109-0.1.46-x86_64. Passed Checking for libgcc43-4.3.3_20081022; found libgcc43-4.6.9-0.13.22-x86_64. Passed Checking for libstdc++43-4.3.3_20081022-11.18; found libstdc++43-4.6.9-0.13.22-x86_64. Passed Checking for libstdc++43-devel-4.3.3_20081022-11.18; found libstdc++43-devel-4.3.4_20091019-0.37.30-x86_64. Passed Checking for make-3.81; found make-3.81-128.20-x86_64. Passed Checking for sysstat-8.1.5-7.8; found sysstat-8.1.5-7.47.1-x86_64. Passed Checking for openmotif22-2.2.3; Not found. Failed <<<< Checking for openmotif-2.2.3; found openmotif-2.3.1-3.15.1-x86_64. Passed Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
The problem here is, that sometime not all checks for os packages are really implemented in the installer. I have a SR to open a bug for this.
In the meantime I have implemented a bash shell script to check against the required os packages in the documentation. For my problem these are listed here. You can simple copy the required packages at the top of the script in the array sections.
The magic contains some bash substring modifications an using the version compare option of zipper.
#!/bin/bash array=( binutils-2.19-11.28 gcc-4.3-62.198 gcc-c++-4.3-62.198 gcc-32bit-4.3 glibc-2.9-13.2 glibc-32bit-2.9-13.2 glibc-devel-2.9 glibc-devel-32bit-2.9-13.2 ksh-93t libaio-0.3.104-140.22 libaio-devel-0.3.104-140.22 libaio-32bit-0.3.104 libaio-devel-32bit-0.3.104 libgcc43-4.3.3_20081022 libstdc++43-4.3.3_20081022-11.18 libstdc++43-devel-4.3.3_20081022-11.18 libstdc++33-3.3.3 libstdc++33-32bit-3.3.3 libstdc++43-32bit-4.3.3_20081022 libstdc++43-devel-32bit-4.3.3_20081022 libstdc++-devel-4.3 make-3.81 openmotif-2.3.1-3.13 openmotif-devel-32bit-2.3.1-3.13 openmotif22-libs-32bit-2.2.4-138.17 openmotif-libs-2.3.1-3.13 openmotif-devel-2.3.1-3.13 openmotif-libs-32bit-2.3.1-3.13 openmotif21-libs-32bit-2.1.30MLI4-143.2 openmotif22-libs-2.2.4-138.17 sysstat-8.1.5-7.8 ) len=${#array[*]} i=0 line='-------------------------------------------------------------------' while [[ $i -lt $len ]]; do package_name_temp_1="${array[$i]%%.*}" required_package_name="${package_name_temp_1%-*}" required_package_version="${array[$i]/$required_package_name-/}" installed_package_version="`rpm -q ${required_package_name} --queryformat %{version}-%{release}`" RETCODE=$? if [ $RETCODE -eq 0 ]; then compare="`zypper --terse versioncmp ${required_package_version} ${installed_package_version}`" if [ $compare -eq 1 ]; then result1=fail; echo [$result1] $required_package_name Reqired : $required_package_version Installed: $installed_package_version else result1=pass; echo [$result1] $required_package_name Reqired : $required_package_version Installed: $installed_package_version fi else echo [fail] $installed_package_version fi let i++; done
If you run this script you can see the failing packages on your platform:
[pass] binutils Reqired : 2.19-11.28 Installed: 2.23.1-0.23.15 [pass] gcc Reqired : 4.3-62.198 Installed: 4.3-62.200.2 [pass] gcc-c++ Reqired : 4.3-62.198 Installed: 4.3-62.200.2 [fail] package gcc-32bit is not installed [pass] glibc Reqired : 2.9-13.2 Installed: 2.11.3-17.84.1 [pass] glibc-32bit Reqired : 2.9-13.2 Installed: 2.11.3-17.84.1 [pass] glibc-devel Reqired : 2.9 Installed: 2.11.3-17.84.1 [pass] glibc-devel-32bit Reqired : 2.9-13.2 Installed: 2.11.3-17.87.3 [pass] ksh Reqired : 93t Installed: 93u-0.26.1 [pass] libaio Reqired : 0.3.104-140.22 Installed: 0.3.109-0.1.46 [pass] libaio-devel Reqired : 0.3.104-140.22 Installed: 0.3.109-0.1.46 [pass] libaio-32bit Reqired : 0.3.104 Installed: 0.3.109-0.1.46 [fail] package libaio-devel-32bit is not installed [pass] libgcc43 Reqired : 4.3.3_20081022 Installed: 4.6.9-0.13.22 [pass] libstdc++43 Reqired : 4.3.3_20081022-11.18 Installed: 4.6.9-0.13.22 [pass] libstdc++43-devel Reqired : 4.3.3_20081022-11.18 Installed: 4.3.4_20091019-0.37.30 [pass] libstdc++33 Reqired : 3.3.3 Installed: 3.3.3-11.9 [pass] libstdc++33-32bit Reqired : 3.3.3 Installed: 3.3.3-11.9 [pass] libstdc++43-32bit Reqired : 4.3.3_20081022 Installed: 4.6.9-0.13.22 [fail] package libstdc++43-devel-32bit is not installed [pass] libstdc++-devel Reqired : 4.3 Installed: 4.3-62.200.2 [pass] make Reqired : 3.81 Installed: 3.81-128.20 [pass] openmotif Reqired : 2.3.1-3.13 Installed: 2.3.1-3.15.1 [fail] package openmotif-devel-32bit is not installed [fail] package openmotif22-libs-32bit is not installed [pass] openmotif-libs Reqired : 2.3.1-3.13 Installed: 2.3.1-3.15.1 [pass] openmotif-devel Reqired : 2.3.1-3.13 Installed: 2.3.1-3.15.1 [fail] package openmotif-libs-32bit is not installed [fail] package openmotif21-libs-32bit is not installed [pass] openmotif22-libs Reqired : 2.2.4-138.17 Installed: 2.2.4-193.1 [pass] sysstat Reqired : 8.1.5-7.8 Installed: 8.1.5-7.47.1
The route cause for the error message in the installer are line 4 and 13, where 32bit Compiler are required for making sql plus despite this forms and reports installation is 64bit version.
Maybe you can use this script with little modification in other environments.
That's it.
Slides for my german presentation "Quality Assurance for ADF projects" available
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Quality Assurances on June 4, 2014
I have presented today on DOAG Development 2014 in Dusseldorf. For all non DOAG members – you can find the german presentation on slideshare too.
Quality Assurance for ADF projects
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Development, Quality Assurances, Uncategorized on May 22, 2014
If you speak german and you are interested in quality assurance for your ADF projects you should come and attend my presentation at DOAG Development on 06/04/2014 in Dusseldorf.
I will show you, how you can implement in the JDeveloper IDE and in Continous Integration server Jenkins:
- static code analysis with PMD, FindBugs and Checkstyle
- Task's
- Commit tests with JUnit, Mockito and Powermock for Mockito
- Code coverage for commit tests with JaCoCo
- Acceptance tests with JUnit and Selenium
See you!
Have released PMD Jdeveloper Extension 5.0.5
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Quality Assurances on August 30, 2013
I have finished now my work on integrating last PMD version 5.0.5 into JDeveloper.
This is available now for JDeveloper 220.127.116.11 upwards, 11.1.2.x. and 12.1.2. There is no new functionality, as the most work intensive part was the rewriting for PMD 5. There has changed a lot of api functionality.
Please give it a try, you can download it via the standard update center "Open Source and Partners Extensions" in JDveloper itself
or directly from the PMD SourceForge.net Project Page.
Write ADF static code analysis rules with PMD and running these in JDeveloper
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Development on July 2, 2013
Do you know, that PMD can analyse XML files since version 5? Many of ADF files are XML configuration files – wouldn't it be a good idea to create some static code analysis rules for ADF too?
Unfortunatly oracle configuration files in most times create references to dtd's, which are not exist anywhere in the path. Till PMD 5.0.1 such files results in errors, as PMD tries to validate this doctype. I have switched of this validation in PMD release 5.0.2.
Following article requires configuration of PMD as described in my blog PMD Integration with JDeveloper through Ant External Tools.
You can download all requried files from here.
Let's start from the beginning.
- At the moment PMD only provide XML check's against files with the extension *.xml, there is a feature request to change this behaviour. So at the moment, we have to change the code by ourself to reach the result. Load the the 5.0.4 source code.
- Look for the file src\main\java\net\sourceforge\pmd\lang\Language.java and replace the line
XML("XML", null, "xml", XmlRuleChainVisitor.class, "xml");
XML("XML", null, "xml", XmlRuleChainVisitor.class, "xml", "jws", "jpr", "cpx", "xcfg", "dcx", "jpx");
- Change to directory pmd-src-5.0.4
- set JAVA_HOME, e.g. to your 1.6 JDeveloper jdk
- run "mvn clean package", I have succesfully used maven 2.2.1 from <JDev-Home>\jdeveloper\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin
- If you don't need further extensions, you can instead running steps 2 till 5 the resulting pmd-5.0.4.jar from my side.
- Replace the file pmd-5.0.4.jar in pmd-bin-5.0.4\lib (see my previous blog) with the downloaded file or the file from pmd-src-5.0.4\target
- Now is the time to create the first adf static code analysis rule. In the adf architecture course I attend, there was a rule, that the taskflow behaviour "No controller transaction"
should not be mixed with the other option of this selection list
In the sourcecode this property is described through the absence of the node adfc-config/task-flow-definition/transaction, the other options create this node and additional child nodes, here e.g. for the option "Always create new transaction"
- In PMD you can create two kind of rules: Java and XPath. For our xml Files XPath should be the efficient option. We have to put our configuraration e.g. in file my_pmd_rules.xml in the same directory as pmd.xml in the last blog. For the above rule the XPath query in line 14 find nodes, which does not contain the transaction node
<?xml version="1.0"?> <ruleset name="Oracle ADF rules" xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd"> <description>This ruleset checks Oracle ADF code for bad stuff</description> <!-- ADF Rules ############################################################################################### --> <rule name="OracleAdfTaskflowShouldNotHaveNoControllerTransaktion" since="5.0" language="xml" message='ADF tasklows should normally not contain transaktion behavior "No Controller Transaction"' > <priority>1</priority> <properties> <property name="xpath"> <value><![CDATA[ adfc-config/task-flow-definition[not(transaction)] ]]></value> </property> </properties> </rule> </ruleset>
- Now we have to change the configuration file pmd.xml from the last blog in the marked lines to call our new configuration and run this on files with defined Extensions
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?> <project xmlns="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant" name="Project1" default="all" basedir="."> <path id="classpathForPMD"> <fileset dir="pmd-bin-5.0.4\lib"> <include name="**/**.jar"/> </fileset> </path> <taskdef name="pmd" classpathref="classpathForPMD" classname="net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.PMDTask"/> <target name="pmdAll"> <echo message="PMD is running on directory ${dir}" level="info"/> <pmd rulesetfiles="my_pmd_rules.xml" failOnRuleViolation="true" minimumPriority="1"> <fileset dir="${dir}"> <include name="**/*.java"/> <include name="**/*.xml"/> <include name="**/*.jws"/> <include name="**/*.jpr"/> <include name="**/*.cpx"/> <include name="**/*.xcfg"/> <include name="**/*.dcx"/> <include name="**/*.jpx"/> </fileset> </pmd> </target> </project>
- Now call again pmd from the Fusion Order Demo Application StoreFrontModule
- You can see the results for xml in the message pane. Unfortunatly the direct jump to violated files does not work at the moment as pmd delivers for every xml violation -1 as line, but I have created an bug for this
That's it.
Maybe somebody has an idea, where we can build an extension exchange for ADF rules, e.g. for creating rules for ADF Code Guidelines v1.00 or ADF Naming and Project Layout Guidelines v2.00?
Remember: you are not restricted to ADF files, e.g. we do checks to for JDeveloper application (*.jws) and project files (*.jpr) as well, as this are xml files too. The configuration you see already in step 2.
PMD Integration with JDeveloper through Ant External Tools
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Development on June 26, 2013
In the past I read following blogs from Shay Shmeltzer:
- CheckStyle Integration with JDeveloper through Ant External Tools
- FindBugs integration with JDeveloper
Now (after little code change in pmd) this integration is possible. I use here JDeveloper 188.8.131.52, with other versions this should be very similar. Now let's start:
1. Create a new folder
2. Download PMD 5.0.4
3. Extract the zip file into the created folder
4. Create a file pmd.xml into the created folder
5. Enter following code into the file pmd.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?> <project xmlns="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant" name="Project1" default="all" basedir="."> <path id="classpathForPMD"> <fileset dir="pmd-bin-5.0.4\lib"> <include name="**/**.jar"/> </fileset> </path> <taskdef name="pmd" classpathref="classpathForPMD" classname="net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.PMDTask"/> <target name="pmdAll"> <echo message="PMD is running on directory ${dir}" level="info"/> <pmd rulesetfiles="rulesets/internal/dogfood.xml" failOnRuleViolation="true" minimumPriority="1"> <fileset dir="${dir}"> <include name="**/src/**/*.java"/> </fileset> </pmd> </target> <target name="pmd"> <echo message="PMD is running on file ${dir}\${file}" level="info"/> <pmd rulesetfiles="rulesets/internal/dogfood.xml" failOnRuleViolation="true"> <fileset dir="${dir}"> <include name="${file}"/> </fileset> </pmd> </target> </project>
6. Select Tools – Exernal Tools from the JDeveloper menu
7. Press Button New
8. Select Tool Type: Apache Ant
9. Select your created pmd.xml file in Ant Buildfile:
10. Shuttle target pmdAll to SelectedTargets
11. Add Property dir with value ${file.dir}
12. Skip the Options and Process Step to leave the defaults
13. Add the lib directory of pmd as additional classpath entry
14. Enter Caption and Icon as you want
15. Add the tool to the Navigator Context Menu and Main Toolbar and do not forget to set Log Output to Messages Log
16. Press Next and Finish.
Now you can call pmd e.g. from the fusion order demo application
You see the results of the ant process in the message pane and you can click on the link to open the file and jump to the rule violation:
In upcoming blogs I will show you how you can define your own rulesets (replacing the ones in pmd.xml) and how to use it with any kind of xml files, eg. jws, jpr, xcfg etc..
Fasten your Oracle Forms and Reports 11g Server start on Unix derivates
Posted by Torsten Kleiber in Configuration on December 21, 2012
Do you see a slow start of your weblogic managed server for forms & reports on unix derivate? We have this problem on Suse SLES 11 and forms and reports 11.1.2.
In November I attended the annual DOAG (German Oracle User Group) conference in Nuremberg. There I've heare an interesting presentation from Jan-Peter Timmermann about "Performance with Forms 11gR2 Weblogic 10.3.x".
One snippet of the presentation was an bug in the jdk which slows down the start of managed weblogic servers. It has to do with the random number generator during loading the OPSS Policy Provider for security. This issue is discussed in detail in this blog: http://www.itonguard.com/20090313/weblogic-starts-slow/.
These are the relevant log files before as an example for forms:
####<21.12.2012 07:38 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <localhost> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <> <1356071911941> <BEA-000000> <WebLogic Server "WLS_FORMS" version: WebLogic Server 10.3.5.0 Fri Apr 1 20:20:06 PDT 2011 1398638 Copyright (c) 1995, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.> ####<21.12.2012 07:38 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <IIOP> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356071912371> <BEA-002014> <IIOP subsystem enabled.> ####<21.12.2012 07:40 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <Security> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356072024665> <BEA-090894> <Successfully loaded the OPSS Policy Provider using oracle.security.jps.internal.policystore.JavaPolicyProvider.> ####<21.12.2012 07:41 Uhr MEZ> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <main> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356072069175> <BEA-000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>
You see, that initializing the OPSS Policy Provider, which seems to use the random number generator, needs 2 minutes.
Now we will make a simple change in the Oracle Middleware JDK Runtime file (we have here SUN JDK 1.6.0_26 64bit)
<JDK Home>/jre/lib/security/java.security
Comment the original line as followed, an add a the marked new line:
#securerandom.source=file:/dev/urandom securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom
Now see the results for forms:
####<21.12.2012 07:57 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <sdu10037> <> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <> <1356073038615> <BEA-000000> <WebLogic Server "WLS_FORMS" version: WebLogic Server 10.3.5.0 Fri Apr 1 20:20:06 PDT 2011 1398638 Copyright (c) 1995, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.> ####<21.12.2012 07:57 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <IIOP> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356073039121> <BEA-002014> <IIOP subsystem enabled.> ####<21.12.2012 07:57 Uhr MEZ> <Info> <Security> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356073042034> <BEA-090894> <Successfully loaded the OPSS Policy Provider using oracle.security.jps.internal.policystore.JavaPolicyProvider.> ####<21.12.2012 07:58 Uhr MEZ> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <localhost> <WLS_FORMS> <main> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1356073086151> <BEA-000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>
You see the loading of OPSS Policy Provider takes now no relevant time and the startup time in our case decrease from 3 to 1 minute. We see same improvement for the reports managed server.
Remember, your mileage may vary if
- Your are not on a affected unix derivate.
- You use not an jdk with this bug. Unfortunatly in the blog is not described the bug number.


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Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors is a program, developed by and for Latino parents who have children 0-5 years of age. It aims to improve the outcomes of the nation's Latino children by building the capacity and confidence of parents to be strong and powerful advocates in the lives of their children. Abriendo Puertas Curriculum Available in English and Spanish Comprehensive curriculum addresses best practices in the following areas: language development, bilingualism, early literacy, health, socio-emotional wellness, parent leadership and planning for family success The AP curriculum consists of 10, 2-hour sessions Centered on the cultural values, strengths, and experiences of Latino families Engages parents at a very personal level and results in transformative learning The program is based on the premise that enhancing parenting skills early in a child's life leads to economic and societal benefits. 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"A la determinación de triunfar, el fracaso no la puede alcanzar" - "Success knows no bounds" Evidence-based Curriculum Abriendo Puertas is an evidence-based program, evaluated by leading researchers from UC Berkeley Abriendo Puertas was carefully developed and field-tested over a five-year period Evaluated through pre and post surveys and focus groups with more than 1,000 parents Abriendo Puertas program was highlighted by the Harvard Family Research Project as one of the nation's leading innovations in family engagement Abriendo Puertas has grown rapidly throughout the United States Abriendo Puertas Evaluation Results Significant increases in participants': Daily home activities that promote children's school readiness Confidence about parenting skills Knowledge and access to available health services Social support and connections in the community Community involvement Los Angeles Unified School District parent comments: "I feel that coming to the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors has helped me a great deal. I am a better mother to my child." Parent, San Jose Elementary School "More than anything I have improved my own self-esteem. I can help my children in the way I speak to them and in being more patient and understanding. -Parent, Cahuenga Elementary School Having an informed and engaged parent is one of life's greatest advantages Parents – as leaders of their family – are powerful agents of change The Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors Training Institute The three-day training Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors fully prepares school personnel and community leaders to become facilitators in delivering the program to parents in their school and neighborhood and to train others in the use of the curriculum. Contact Abriendo Puertas For more information about how you can incorporate the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors Program in your city, please contact: Sandra Gutierrez, National Program Director Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors 1545 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90017 (213) 201 3908 firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.familiesinschools.org/site/content/view/228/71/ Los Angeles Unified School District Early Childhood Education 17 Contact Information: Ruth Yoon - Administrator firstname.lastname@example.com 213.241.4713


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Racemi Partners to Transition IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Workloads to SoftLayer
Back in July, IBM grabbed the attention of everyone in the cloud computing world by purchasing SoftLayer, the world's only seamlessly unified global cloud computing infrastructure provider. Since the acquisition, many have speculated on how IBM would proceed as the owner of two tier one cloud environments?
Well we have our answer. On October 30th, IBM sent an e-mail to its SmartCloud Enterprise customers announcing SCE end of life for January 31, 2014.
Racemi is very pleased to have been chosen by IBM to be it's exclusive partner for migrating SCE customers to SoftLayer. As the announcement indicated, IBM will be offering Racemi's Cloud Path SaaS solution at no charge to assist customers with quickly and easily moving their workloads to SoftLayer.
To help customers with their migration IBM and Racemi have produced a number of useful information resources to make the migration experience as painless as possible.
To watch an overview of Racemi Cloud Path click here.
To watch a product demo that shows how we migrate SCE workloads to SoftLayer click here.
To review the announcement and access links to the various educational resources including Getting Started notes and FAQ's click here.
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Take the Bloodstained Envelope to the Keeper of the Rolls at Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands.
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You found this letter on one of the many Scourge minions you've slain. From its appearance and smell, it has been with the undead for some time. Perhaps someone at Light's Hope Chapel would be interested in examining it further...
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The Essence Of The Colour, The Colour Is Beige
The color is beige, plain old beige,
The color of paper in Tweedy Bird's cage,
The color of walls in tenement halls,
The color of office cubicle stalls .
Beige can be bland, the color of sand,
Darker than white and lighter than tan,
A color that's known for being in-between,
This color and that, but easy to clean.
Beige isn't bold, like silver or gold,
It's more of the color of paper grown old.
Seldom do you hear of beige being bold,
For beige is the color of passion gone cold.
Beige is what's left when you cannot choose,
Whether to paint your walls, pink, or to paint them, chartreuse.
Beige is the color that is boring but cool,
Maybe this is why its the color of school.
But give beige its due, it's value is true,
Its humble and pleasant and cooperative too,
It doesn't compete, it tries not to clash,
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The financial world showed a glimpse of the good old days yesterday with the announcement of two mega-deals and forecast-busting results from one of the world's biggest banks.
The engineering group Invensys said it was "likely" to recommend a £3.3bn takeover offer from French suitor Schneider Electric, while Phoenix, the company founded by entrepreneur Hugh Osmond to buy insurance companies, said it was in talks about a possible merger with part of Swiss Re, in a deal that could be worth up to £3bn.
It came as JP Morgan, whose investment banking business would receive a shot in the arm from a revival in deal activity, unveiled a barnstorming 31 per cent surge in earnings for the second quarter of 2013.
The bank turned in net earnings of $6.5bn, well ahead of Wall Street's consensus forecast of $5.47bn. The bank endured a torrid time of it last year after it emerged that a trader nicknamed the "London whale" had lost billions of dollars.
Wells Fargo, America's biggest mortgage lender, also turned heads by posting a 19 per cent rise in second-quarter profit, overcoming a drop-off in the mortgage market.
There was even a rare piece of good news on sovereign debt, as Standard & Poor's cemented Ireland's position as the poster boy for bailed-out eurozone economies by upgrading its outlook on the fallen Celtic Tiger's credit to positive from stable.
However, it was the news of renewed deal activity that will excite the City because it is this that drives revenues for a small army of bankers, PR advisers, lawyers and accountants, many of whom have endured slim pickings over the last few years.
The announcements come just weeks after figures showing that merger and acquisition (M&A) activity had sunk to its lowest level since the financial crisis. And that has fed through to a slowdown in City hiring. Yesterday headhunter Morgan McKinley's London Employment Monitor showed that between 13 May and 13 June there were 7,749 vacancies for finance workers.
That is an improvement on the 6,436 between 13 April and 13 May 13, but compared to last year the figure is over a fifth lower. Between 13 May and 13 June in 2012 there were 9,954 openings. Hakan Enver, operations director at Morgan McKinley Financial Services, described the figures as a "positive sign" but added: "Overall [in the first half of 2013], there have been 9 per cent fewer jobs coming on to the market, indicating that there is still scope for further market recovery over the remainder of the year."
One M&A banker said: "I'd like to say that this is the start of an M&A boom, but in reality Invensys has been a target for some time now. There's a general sense among bankers that the next six months are going to be better than the first."
With Invensys shares at a ten-year high, dealers speculated that the announcement could be the spark to ignite a bid battle. US group Emerson Electric was in talks to buy it a year ago, while a report in May 2012 said Germany's Siemens, Switzerland's ABB and US giant General Electric have also made informal contact.
Brokers at Investec also speculated that other British engineers, such as Smiths Group and Weir Group, could be future targets for foreign suitors.
Meanwhile the Dow, up just over 15 per cent this year, hit another record high although it swiftly fell back. The FTSE 100, which is up 8.6 per cent over the year, closed just ahead, up 1.53 at 6,544.94. The Dow started strongly after Thursday's record close, but soon eased back.
Shareholders may yet dampen down the City's deal ardour, amid wariness about banking executives' expensive empire-building plans.
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A man was arrested on suspicion of murder after a 22-year-old was killed in the early hours. The dead man was named locally as Aaron and described as "a humble person who loved life". He was found with gunshot wounds in Clerkenwell, central London, and pronounced dead just after 5am. The suspect, who is in his 20s, was being held in custody at a north London police station, Scotland Yard said. Officers and ambulance staff were called to reports of the shooting at about 4.10am in Portpool Lane. Next of kin have been informed of the death and a postmortem examination will be held tomorrow.
Clerkenwell murder suspect is in his 20s, police say


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This pewter half-pint pitcher was probably made when the U.S. was young. It has a number of marks underneath the rim which I have shown. There is a crown over 324 and several other touch marks which are very worn and hard to decipher. The sides have a couple of gashes, and even though is battered, it has not lost its charm. The piece has a series of numbers in black marker on the base, presumably where the collector had cataloged his acquisition. The pitcher is approx. 4" high, is footed, and definitely shows extreme use and signs of age and wear.
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This text examines the development and evolution of biotechnology in industrialized and developing countries. It first explores efforts made by policy makers and the leaders in the field to reduce technology gaps and analyzes the development of financial mechanisms and regulatory frameworks to hasten the adoption and diffusion of biotechnology. The second section of the book looks at the relationship between biotechnology and its resource base, biological diversity. The author emphasizes the interdependency between biodiversity and biological research and development in an attempt to simplify the debate on the conservation of biological diversity. The last section of the book focuses on the potential positice and negative implications of biotechnology and its contribution towards sustaining biodiversity.
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Is there a way to change the text that reads "Welcome to the IT Help Desk" that is below the company name on the portal?
Thanks in advance!
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Nope. Only the company name.
Spiceworks does have a pay service which allows you to do some additional things, but changing the "Welcome to the IT Help Desk" line isn't one of them.


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POS precisava de um novo design de logo e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 78 designs enviados por 17 designers freelancers.
Our main target market is the Motorsport and Automobile sector.
Flocking in Motorsport is used on car dashes to reduce the glare from the windscreen when sunlight is directly on it. However it is desirable in road cars because of its attractiveness and smooth velvet effect and getting rid of the plastic look of a cars
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Mylann Awakes
Mylann watched with interest as her sibling Ixilixi created "Destiny." It amazed her and brought on an idea of her own. If such a law could be introduced, then could it not have an enforcer? Someone who spun the threads of fate into a beautiful tapestry that held the future and life of all races.
Ixilixi planned to keep Destiny to hisself and give only to his favoured creatures - the spiders. On the other hand, Mylann believed in equality and that all the creatures should have a Destiny - including animals. She was aware of the catastrophic effect of giving an animal the same kind of Destiny as a human, so she would, to some extent, have to tone it down a bit. Perhaps an animal's Destiny could be to feed the people in a famine or to win animal tornaments?
Summing all this up, Mylann considered letting some people choose their own Destiny. At the end she decided it would best to create a galliant enforcer who would choose those worthy of choosing their own Destiny. This would include a test that only the most pure-hearted, compassion and bravest races could pass.
Breaking off a tiny piece of her soul, she attempted to create a being more beautiful, pure and intelligant than the previous races.
Act One: Create enforcer named Verity.
Act Two: Give her the powers to mould and give all races their Destinies.


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The women are making an application to appeal against the ruling, which insists the girls, now aged five and 10, have the combined measles, mumps and rubella injection.
If an appeal is granted, it will take place straight away, said a spokeswoman for Jabs, the anti-vaccine campaign group.
"The decision as to whether an appeal will be allowed will be made," she said. "If it is actually accepted, then the appeal will take place then and there."
In separate cases, the mothers were taken to court by the fathers of the children after refusing to give the youngsters the jabs.
Some parents fear the MMR vaccine could be linked to autism, even though doctors and most experts say there is no evidence of a link.
Last month, High Court judge Mr Justice Sumner decided both children should receive the jab because the benefits outweighed the risks.
Neither the mothers, nor the girls, identified only through their initials, C and F, can be named for legal reasons.
At the time of the court ruling, the mother of five-year-old child C, described the judgment as "outrageous" and an erosion of freedom.
The Jabs spokeswoman said a small gathering of protesters would be outside court today to demonstrate against forcing children to have the MMR jab.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by numnuts23, Apr 20, 2009.
He was talking about Heyward Bey.
After Crabtree and possibly Maclin. I don't see much seperation from the projected bottom 1st and 2nd rounders from Mike Thomas or Sammie Stroughter. Only guy that intrigues me is Barden. I do think that Robiske will be a solid WR in the NFL. He's not amazing, but he could be a solid move the chains type.
This might be a shot in the dark, did you go to UNC by any chance???
I really, really want Nicks on this team. So much Irvin in his game.
No, but my father did. He knows more about UNC players than anyone I know, especially UNC Basketball players. And my daughter will be going there.
I went to "Southwest Texas State", at least that's what it was called back then, It's just "Texas State" now.
My brother, and sister both went to VA Tech.


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Ground floor apartment in el vergel. built in 2007 and in very good condition. consisting of: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (one en-suite), living — dining room, equiped open plan kitchen, 2 covered and an open terrace overlooking the communal garden, pool and paddle. extras include: fitted wardrobes, central a/ c, pvc windows, double glazing, tv installation and plastic blinds. there is also parking for one car in the underground garage and a storage room of 5 m². the price of 150,000, — € is included furniture and unfurnished the price will be 135,000, — €. the community fees are 105, — €/month.
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Forum Moderators: DixonJones & mademetop
So, my site's not public yet..but lately I've been getting a bunch of hits and they all appear to be coming from someone/something using a browser called "Website Stripper". Can anyone fill me in as to who/what uses this browser? Should I be worried?
As always don't just copy things like this unless you understand them. What might be good for somebody might hurt you. Like WebmasterWorld's robots.txt will take your site out of the wayback machine forever. That could upset some people and make other very happy.
What is a scraper site?
There are a lot of crap websites that present themselves as directories, or search engines, to get Adsense money. From what I've seen, they use the ODP to kick-start things a lot of the time, but however they do it, they consist of no original content, just scraped data and sh*tloads of links out to many sites.
That's my definition, but others here might have a better one, (almost worth a new thread).
I think a scraper site picked me up then, that may explain the website stripper listings. (And when I think about it, it does make sense - I've had some strange URLS in my referring links page.)
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Toss and Turn
It is nearly midnight but Katherine is still awake. She doubts that she will get to sleep before the date changes. It is New Year's Eve and all she can hear are the fireworks. Her house is silent because all her family has gone out to a party. Katherine was invited too but she didn't want to go.
A small beep alerts her that it is now the year '96. She really should turn off that hourly chime - it gets irritating after a while. But the clock is new; Katherine cannot remember how to operate it. Her phone vibrates and she grabs it blearily, expecting just another 'New Year' message from one of her friends. She is wrong.
Unhappy New Year, reads the text. Kat stares: what kind of a thing is that to say to someone? SHe looks again at the number. 07394712937. It is no one she knows.
Her bed speaks to her quietly. Normally this annoys her but today she is too distracted.
"Are you have trouble sleeping?" it says. Kat does not reply; she turns the voice off.
Time passes. The clock does not tick, because Katherine finds ticking irritating. After smashing her old one in frustration, she has bought a digital alarm clock from the pound store. At regular intervals her phone bleeps, and though she doesn't want to get up, Katherine is driven by morbid curiosity to read the messages.
Now it is gone two in the morning and still our friend Katherine has not falled under the spell of sleep. She gives up and looks at the texts she has recieved.
Unhappy New Year, reads the first. You are all dying, the second one informs her. Say goodbye to Miter, advises the third. Miter: the planet that has been her home for all of her twelve years. And the fourth, more disturbing than the others put together: Don't worry, you won't be here to see them buried. Who buried? Why won't she be here? The girl demands answers, but nobody hears her frustrated questions. Briefly she looks at her room. It is cluttered with books, magazines and clothes.
Katherine knows that she is not exactly ordinary (her hobbies include reading, writing and painting her bedroom walls in multicoloured stripes whenever she is bored), but she is just a schoolgirl. So why does it have to be her, Katherine Ainsbury, an ordinary schoolgirl, who is recieving these messages? Why can't it be one of the freaks? Why does it have to be anybody?
Whoever is sending them is quite obviously a freak. Perhaps they escaped from a mental home. And yet ... the tone is familiar. She cannot ignore the warnings, although it seems absurd.
Restlessly, she paces her room and wonders why her family are not home yet. The party was supposed to end at one, but it was only around the corner. It should have only taken five minutes to walk back, even if they were drunk. Why do they always do this? Her parents should know by know that Katherine does not being alone in the dark.
It is then that she realises they aren't going to return. They aren't going to come back. Something has happened. Could it be related to the texts? Could the psycho have killed her parents, strange though it might be? She opens her mouth to scream, half in horror and half in terror, and ...
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Netflix shares are down about 3.6% this morning as investors digest its better-than-expected Q2 earnings, and slightly disappointing subscriber growth numbers. But CEO Reed Hastings remains sanguine, telling CNBC that with a sub fee of $7.99 a month "our model works great as is." All of its original shows including Arrested Development are hits, although he won't offer statistics to say what that means. "We just want to get more and more content," he says. What's more: "We should have some failures, or we're not being adventurous enough."
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Netflix is the new HBO. HBO died when it gave the dumb and dumber Entourage a multi-season pass.
Netflix isn't even the new Showtime. Get serious.
Reed – there's no margin for error in this business. Everything is supposed to be hit.
"We should have some failures, or we're not being adventurous enough."
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There are a total of 6 floors in this hotel that features 51 rooms of which 45 are doubles, 6 are singles. There is a foyer with a 24-hour reception desk, lifts and a conference room. There are also a laundry service and a car park on offer.
This hotel is located on the promenade, close to Palau de la M�sica and approximately 2 km from the beach. Mestalla football stadium is located close by as is the Cuidad de las Artes y de las Ciencias. Restaurants, bars and nightclubs are to be found within 2 km and the hotel also has direct access to El Saler motorway and to the A-7 in the direction of Barcelona. There is a public bus stop to be found in the vicinity offering excellent links to locations throughout the surrounding area.
The hotel has indoor and outdoor rooms. All are air conditioned and have private bathrooms with hairdryer and a complete set of bath products by the Agua de la Tierra brand. They also have direct dial telephone, TV with over 20 channels, radio, safe and Internet connection. All rooms have a copy of the book Lives Enjoy Valencia, where guests will find all necessary information about the city. There are special rooms for women with everything they may need during their stay, such as a nail file, lip balm or exfoliating glove.
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A fire in a two-family home in the 600 block of North 66th Street caused about $115,000 in damage Monday night.
One of the occupants of the home also suffered from minor smoke inhalation but there were no other injuries.
"On arrival, we encountered heavy smoke conditions in the surrounding neighborhood," Wauwatosa Assistant Fire Chief Mike Anton said. "One occupant was outside home and reporting a fire in the basement."
Firefighters had to ventilate smoke from the building, place hoses to extinguish the fire and conduct a thorough search of the two-story building because it was not known if anyone was still inside.
Everyone had gotten out of the building and the fire was contained to the basement and first-floor kitchen. However, the fire caused heavy smoke damage throughout the house.
The state fire marshal is investigating the cause of the blaze.
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In "Say no to a bus pass if you have any conscience" (Comment, 13 January, page 36), we misread figures when we said: "Since the war, welfare expenditure as a proportion of GDP has risen from 35% to 47%." That rise actually applies to total government expenditure, not welfare. In 1951, welfare amounted to 4.7% of Britain's GDP. In 2010, it had reached 7.2%. Apologies.
"Leveson's regulator faces taste test" (Media, last week, page 50) was incorrect to state: "Ireland doesn't allow third-party or group complaints." The Press Council of Ireland's code of practice states that "newspapers and magazines shall not publish material intended or likely to cause grave offence or stir up hatred against an individual or group on the basis of their race, religion, nationality" etc. And the press ombudsman of Ireland allows third-party complaints under certain conditions.
Food pictures in "Ten chefs take the OFM challenge" (Food Monthly, pages 18-29) were credited to Karen Thomas but they were actually by Jean Cazals. Apologies. And a picture of Grace Kelly last week should have carried this credit: Photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld, New York, 1955. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld ("Galleries playing it safe", News, page 5).
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis" [CD]
- Artist: Various Artists
- Release Date: 01/13/2015
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Rot GutMature
Brief story of my "rot gut" feelin'. ..
I know why I have this feeling.
It's a feeling that I am far too familiar with.
The feeling you get when you find out your girl got drunk at a party last night and you weren't there to protect her.
It's the feeling you get after screaming at your love, for a feeling she didn't mean to cause, and the sound she makes when you break her heart.
It's a pain that can't be hidden; or at least not easily.
I've been diagnosed with an inguinal hernia the day before taking my first semester, college finals.
If I don't make a passing grade on every one of these tests I will have to drop out, so if my intestines fall into my scrotum and I am rushed to the ER, it was for a successful future.
But that pain, that feeling in my gut, isn't from that hernia, or the fear of it gettin' worse.
It's not from being the type of man I grew up fearing, and saying I'd never be.
No, it's regret.
I stuck with that girl that got drunk at a party
The party I wasn't invited to.
The party that I quit going to after I started dating her.
I stuck with her because she said I was her one and only.
A week ago, we hit the two year mark, and I also found out she won't live another week.
I got this feeling, the same way I gave her a sickness, a sickness I got at that damned party.
The sickness I got from some girl that I just don't recall.
For girls, this sickness seeps through there blood and gives them a black tumor inside of them.
I put that black tumor in there,
Some might get ashamed, or get this same feeling if they got their girl pregnant.
But when it's gotten this far, you can't abort cancer
It's been two years, and that's all it'll be.


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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Battle of the super powers.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Rating & Content Info
Why is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice rated PG-13? Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for intense sequences of violence and action throughout, and some sensuality.
Violence: Many scenes depict confrontations between characters using superhuman strength and technological advantages that cause injury, death and destruction. Some blood effects are included. Stabbings or impalings are portrayed. Many characters are gunned down; a few are shot at close range, although the bullet impact is not seen. Buildings are demolished by alien beings and we see people being crushed and injured. Some characters have a brand burned onto them and at one point we see a character about to brand another. Women are held captive and threatened by men. Blood drips from a self inflicted cut on a character's hand.
Sexual Content: A completely dressed man joins a woman in a bathtub and they begin kissing and embracing: the woman is obviously naked but we don't see explicit nudity.
Language: A single scatological curse is heard along with five religious terms (two are names of Christian deity used as expletives).
Alcohol / Drug Use: Characters are seen drinking in social situations.
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|Violence, Frightening Scenes, Not Recommended for Young Children.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg.
Home Video
The most recent home video release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie is July 19, 2016. Here are some details…
Home Video Notes: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Release Date: 19 July 2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice releases to home video in the following packages:
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Amazon Exclusive)
This package offers the movie bundled with either a Batman Figurine or a Superman Figurine.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition)
This package includes two cuts of the movie:
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG-13 Theatrical (151 Minutes)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice R-rated Ultimate (182 Minutes)
Other bonus materials include:
- Uniting the World's Finest
- Gods and Men: A Meeting of Giants
- The Warrior, The Myth, The Wonder
- Accelerating Design: The New Batmobile
- Superman: Complexity & Truth
- Batman: Austerity & Rage
- Wonder Woman: Grace & Power
- Batcave: Legacy of the Lair
- The Might and the Power of a Punch
- The Empire of Luthor
- Save the Bats
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Henry Cavill also plays Superman in Man of Steel. This character has been brought to life before by Christopher Reeves in Superman: The Movie and by Brandon Routh in Superman Returns. Christian Bale depicts Batman in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.


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