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Act 1
"I'm sorry I can't stay to get to know you," Aroma said, "But it needs to look like I'm on bad terms with Thiera and Euryale."
She bowed to Lilith as the trio stood in the apartment, between the entrance and the living room. Aroma's goldsilverfish pressed up against the tank, gawking at them and smacking their fishy little lips, Legs crawling up the side. Beside the fish sat a beaten-up old cardboard box with a pile of Aroma's clothes thrown haphazardly inside, weighed down by her purse. All of the girls were still wearing their work clothes, sans absurd hats, which lay abandoned by the door. Thiera and Aroma twiddled their thumbs nervously while Lilith stood across from them, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed.
"I get it," Lilith answered, "And you don't need to be so formal. I look forward to talking to you when you get back."
"I just hope your assumptions about the Purist Leader's thinking are correct," Thiera said, "You are making a great deal of them."
Aroma turned to her with a frown. "Thiera, every day your control over the human body becomes even more precise, and I struggle to keep up. There's not a nonbender alive who doesn't think about what others can do that we can't. To someone like the Purist Leader, it's not a far leap from that to assuming that you and Euryale simply got rid of me because I was a burden."
"Oh, absolutely," Lilith commented.
"What?" Thiera asked, gaping at Lilith in disbelief, "I didn't know you felt that way. How could you feel that way? You beat me up until I was 12!"
"C'mon, Thi, who would always stop me? Mom. A waterbender. If you would have ever bothered to learn how to fight, I wouldn't have stood a chance."
"Um," Aroma began, "I'd hate to interrupt, but—"
"Oh, yes," Thiera said, taking the box of clothes and passing it off to her, "Please be careful going down the stairs."
"I will," Aroma answered, shifting the box to get a better grip.
Reflexively, Thiera grabbed it with both hands to steady it. "So..." she began as they both awkwardly scanned the room.
"Should we fight, or something? I feel weird pretending to not be friends."
Lilith abruptly slammed her fist against the door, causing it to rattle thunderously, the fish to disperse, and Legs to fall. When Aroma dropped the box, which fell over and released a cascade of clothes, Lilith pointed to it and bellowed, "Pick up your garbage and get out! Now!"
Aroma hurriedly stooped down and scrabbled along the floor to shove everything back inside. Lilith winked at Thiera, who was gawking at her.
"It's not that I don't realize what you're doing," Thiera slowly whispered, "It's just that it's really, really strange."
"Oh well!" Lilith shouted, not breaking character as she reached back and wrenched the door open. "That's too bad, just find somewhere else to go!"
With that, she grabbed Aroma's shoulder and made a big show of dragging her, stumbling, into the hallway. She then pushed into the small of Aroma's back, which the latter thought was overkill, stepped back inside, and slammed the door.
Scanning up and down the hall, Aroma could see that a few doors were cracked so their occupants could peer at the scene. Admittedly, the embarrassment probably helped her case, as she was now flushed and even tearing up. She smiled nervously, hoping none of the occupants would try to be good citizens as she began her walk of shame.
Of course, somebody did. A woman 3 doors down called out, "Excuse me, Miss, but are you okay? Do you need a place to stay?"
"Oh no, I couldn't," Aroma politely declined, doing her best to bow at the door with the heavy box weighing her down. When it started to wobble, she shot back up.
"It's no trouble," the woman assured. Aroma caught a glimpse of brown curls and a green eye.
"Honestly," Aroma said, searching for an excuse, "We've been fighting for a while now, so I already have a place in mind."
The woman's eye squinted at her. "Really?" she asked. "But haven't I seen you go out with those other girls a few times?"
"Yes," Aroma said, "But things have been going downhill recently. Just ask them about the fight we had at Keter's welcoming party."
"I'm so sorry to hear that. May I at least help you with your box?"
"I really appreciate it, but I think I just want to be alone for now." I want to look vulnerable. Like easy prey.
After a few seconds of silence, Aroma added a sniff, hoping that would convince the strange woman. But she hardly needed to act. As her neck grew hotter, she could feel wet tracks start rolling down the sides of her face.
Finally, the woman responded, "Okay. Best of luck to you, Sweetie."
"Thank you!" Aroma said with another quarter-bow. After the woman had reluctantly closed the door, she bolted to the stairs, eager to avoid more of the same. Peering out from around the shredded corner of the box, she tentatively began her descent.
Since they didn't want this to look too staged in case anyone was watching them, Aroma had to actually walk to the nearest bus stop, though it was a few miles away. She passed no one and eventually reached a bench sitting flanked by a quartet of poles. One still bore the tattered remnant of the tarp that long ago protected travelers from the rain.
She set the box beside her and looked around to see that the street was still completely deserted. She thought she heard a noise and twisted around to look in the alley behind her, but saw only an elephant rat digging in a trash can with its little hands and trunk. She squinted, thinking she could see shapes deeper in the shadows, and forced a gulp down her desiccated throat.
She jolted and whirled back around when she heard a horn blare behind her. Seeing the bus crawling tremulously up the street, she quickly rummaged in her purse for fare. Essentially a long ted box with an engine sticking out of the front, it had circular windows on its side, spaced about 2 feet apart. These were devoid of glass, relying on a gold-painted cage to keep anyone from climbing in or falling out, though some had off white shades pulled down over them and locked in place that flies kept twanging into. The inclined roof, carved to appear as if it were made of tiles, featured an upturned spike on each corner and a ridge running along the length of its apex. Both the roof and the engine were emerald in color.
It slowed to a stop in front of the bench and, when the driver turned a hand crank, the door slid open in fits and shakes. Aroma could now see that she was a heavily pear-shaped woman sporting a brown bob. She was wearing a gray coat with 2 columns of bronze buttons, as well as buttons on the pronounced cuff links and collar. This was matched by a stout, flat topped hat with a long visor jutting out.
Aroma stood and gave a quick bow before snatching up her box and squeezing inside. She clenched her teeth as she heard the scraping: The box had a newfound opening gouged into it, but fortunately, it still held together. Aroma wished the driver a nice day as she passed, depositing a trio of yuans into a slot built into the dashboard.
"Yes, thank you," the driver muttered, making smacking noises indicating that she was chewing something.
There were few other passengers. A pair of teenage girls sat near the front, giggling about something. They wore dresses of a style similar to Aroma's and Euryales, but made of sequins matching their hair. They had presumably discovered Verridye, as their bobs were neon violet and deep sea blue, respectively. In the back an old man slept with his arms crossed, only wrinkled lips and white whiskers peeking out from beneath his thick brown trench coat and matching flatcap.
She sat a few seats up from him, her box occupying the window seat. She would ride to the nearest hotel, check out a room, and arrange a meeting with a realtor for the apartment she was "looking at" the first chance she got. Of course it would not be occupied. Unbeknownst to the Purists, the landlady was on contract, though for what purpose even she didn't know. She was told that she would be supplying temporary housing for Future Industries personnel.
Ignoring the dust stinging the inside of her nose and the acrid, moldy stench that always seemed to plague old busses, Aroma leaned against her box of worldly possessions. Folding her arms around her purse, on which she rested her chin, she stared out the window. Trying to avert her gaze from the darkened alleys, she looked instead at her now former neighborhood, wondering what her friends had been up to since she left just an hour or so ago.
Act 2
"Don't you think that was just a bit extreme?" Thiera asked, turning to track Lilith as she headed into the living room proper.
Now that the furniture was all unpacked, Euryale and Thiera had compromised on having a white and a red couch, facing each other with the rectangular ebony table from Thiera's old apartment between them. The table featured Euryale's radio to the left and a built-in, but slightly scratched, Pai Sho board in the center.
Lilith flopped down on the red couch, closest to the door, and answered, "Hey, nobody else was doing anything. I had to think fast. Now just sit down, we're going to be playing the waiting game for a while."
"I would honestly feel better if the Purists simply never took the bait," Thiera said, sitting on her own couch.
"You'll feel the best when you know they're off the streets for good," Lilith pointed out.
"When do you think Euryale will return from the Triple Threat headquarters?" Thiera asked, opting to change the subject, "And what if she can't convince Zolt to aid her?"
Lilith shrugged, spreading her arms over the back of the couch. "Then I guess we just do without them. But I don't think that'll be a problem, the Triple Threats have the most reason to hate the Purists. As long as we don't antagonize them or ask them to admit to anything incriminating, I'm sure they'll agree to a short alliance. So it was probably a smart move not to try to drag him down to the station."
"I still feel filthy asking for help from career criminals like them."
"I'm sure Euryale does too. It won't be a popular decision, but to ensure this all goes off without a hitch and Aroma stays safe, we have to have as many eyes on the streets as possible."
"I also feel guilty for not helping more."
"Hey, I'm sure the tips you gave her will come in very handy. But instead of worrying about things outside of your control, how 'bout we play a bit of Pai Sho until Euryale gets here?"
"This table was a hand-me-down and you lost all of the pieces, remember?"
Lilith raised her right index finger with a sly smile. She dug around in her pocket with her other hand, pulling out a black case. When she set it on the table, Thiera could see that an edge featured a row of 5 golden wheels with symbols carved onto them, set on their sides so that only a single symbol on each was poking through the case at a time. When she lined up the symbols for the Fire Nation, Air Nomads, Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, and United Republic, in that order, a latch inside clicked and Lilith could open it up like a book.
The inside wooden, and painted on both sides to form the designs of a standard Pai Sho board when opened, while leather straps stretched across the case kept the pieces from sliding around too much. Once it was laid flat, Lilith unclipped each strap and began taking pieces out, plopping them in a pile at the center of the table.
"It gets boring on the ship," she said, sorting the pieces according to their symbols, "So I bought this in Jang Hui."
"...Are you aware that the game pieces in sets like that are pre-sorted? If you would just return them to the case the way that you found them, then you wouldn't have to sort them now. You haven't changed one iota. You're still so disorganized."
"Commander Bumi clearly disagrees," she countered, "That's why I'm an officer now."
"I don't think that he's the best example, from what I have heard."
"Well, then, I'll convince you by showing you how much better I've gotten in Pai Sho. Do you still prefer Northern Water Style?"
"...Let's play Fire Frenzy. That's the rule set that you always liked."
"Uh, okay," Lilith responded, clearly surprised. "Thanks."
Thiera watched Lilith's hands as she set the pieces up in a grim imitation of the Hundred Year War, giving herself and her sister each a series of white dragon and red fire tiles in a trident formation, facing a much larger group of rock tiles and white flowers at the board's center. She also passed Thiera half of the boat tiles. As Thiera recalled, each player was to place these at various points on the north and south ends of the board, at his or her discretion. She chose to cluster hers in an L-shaped formation to block off Lilith's access to the "Earth Kingdom" that was the mass of rock and flower tiles.
Lilith chuckled, shaking her head. "Still favoring defense even in a fast-paced game of chance?"
"The objective of this particular variation is to capture as much territory as quickly as possible," Thiera countered, "Fast-paced to be sure, but chance has nothing to do with it. If one thinks quickly, she will always find that the defensive option is best."
"Bah, that's no fun," Lilith said with a wave of her hand. She then flicked her rose tile into a jasmine tile. Once the jasmine was knocked free, she placed it in the kit. Thiera just stared at the board with a faint glaze in her eyes, so Lilith eventually spoke up, "You know, I'm trying to be nice since you're my sister, but you're supposed to move within a breath."
"That's what I was thinking about."
Lilith cut her off, "You're not supposed to think, just act."
Thiera closed her eyes and breathed softly through her nose. "Lilith, please, just listen. I am trying to apologize for acting so cold towards you today. I realize that you were only trying to be nice."
"It's not a big deal," Lilith said with another casual wave of her hand, "I'm having fun."
Thiera opened her eyes, staring stone faced at her. "That's exactly it. You're always trying to help me, to not let me take responsibility."
"...You want me to not help you?" she asked, turning her head to peer sidelong at Thiera.
"I just...I feel as if you treat me like a child. As if I can't take care of myself." Thiera shook her head, sending waves shimmering through her blond hair. "I'm sorry, I didn't want to say anything because I knew it would upset you, but—"
Lilith shook her own head, eyes and mouth drooping. "No, I guess that makes sense. Look, I just know I wasn't the best sister growing up, and then when we finally started growing close, I just up and left for the United Forces. Mom told me how you cried when I left. A lot."
Thiera's eyes shot open further as color swelled up her neck. "I most certainly did not!"
"The point is, I just want to help you for a change. To be a good sister." She stared down at the board and added forlornly, "But I guess I missed my chance...."
"You're not—I knew I shouldn't have said anything," Thiera said bitterly, looking away. "Just forget it, I'm only being ridiculous."
"No, I think you're right. You're not a little girl anymore. You're not my responsibility to care for, you're my platoon mate. We're in this one together. Agreed?"
She held her hand over the board. Thiera looked at it, then up into Lilith's face. Slowly, the corners of her mouth crept upward and her lips curled away from her pearly whites. Lilith smiled back, and Thiera reached out to give her a single, firm hand shake.
"...And now that I've agreed not to coddle you anymore, the penalty for cheating the time limit is decimation!" Lilith pointed out, as well as literally pointing to the board. "Remove one of your own pieces."
"I've changed my mind, you should treat me as if I were a child again," Thiera said flatly.
"Hey, you made a joke! Good one, but neither of us is getting any younger, so stop stalling and take the penalty already," Lilith ordered, twitching her finger.
A few moves later, Euryale burst through the door, rounding on them with a smirk of smug self-satisfaction.
"I take it that your mission went well?" Thiera asked.
Euryale swung the door shut and answered, "Zolt asked what was in it for him, so I told him he didn't have to help if he thought his restaurant was more fireproof than the Council building or your old clinic. That shut him right up."
"I'm confused, does that mean that he's helping or not?"
"He eventually agreed," Euryale clarified, "When he realized he needed police protection and the only ways to get it would be to either help the operation or admit to criminal conspiracy charges."
"That's good," Lilith commented, "Because I don't know if you heard or not, but the Chief gave us the order to start the plan while you were away."
"Yeah, I heard. Using Aroma as bait, Triads, foreign metal police...I still don't like how many moving parts this plan has."
"I understand the sentiment," Thiera said, "But it really is our only option. Now that the Purists have the only maps of the tunnel system, they could expand all throughout the city and you'll never be able to find them."
"I guess you're right," Euryale sighed in resignation. "Hey," she added, straining to return to her upbeat tone, "Are you guys playing Fire Frenzy Pai Sho?"
"Oh yeah!" Lilith called out, "It's still my move."
"The penalty for going over the time limit is decimation," Thiera reminded her. "Please remove one of your pieces."
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The DJI Zenmuse gimbals were the first commercially available systems in the world to utilize brushless motor technology for professional filming and aerial photography. The Zenmuse gimbal line has long been a benchmark that others have been measured against. The Ronin is based off the same technology and also offers multiple control modes, a built-in IMU, and customized direct drive brushless motors.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The head of German healthcare group Fresenius se said market turbulence in emerging market has not dimmed his view of business opportunities there.
"The current turbulence in our opinion is mostly on the currency front, as you've seen with Brazil for example this past quarter. It's not hitting so much the underlying programmes when it comes to healthcare for the middle class or rolling out universal healthcare schemes in China or Indonesia or some other markets," Chief Executive Ulf Schneider told analysts in a conference call.
The company remained highly interested in "anything meaningful we can acquire" in these markets, he added.
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Spiceworks at one time scanned my Procurve switches. I know because there was extensive information about the Vlan's which was all correct at one time. But now, with the exact same credentials, the switches are NOT scanning. I know this because the Vlan information is way out of date, and there is an alert that says I have to check the credentials. Well the creds are fine because I am logged into one as we speak! So there is nothign wrong with the creds, there is somethign wrong with the scan.
I even deleted the old record with all the information, and rescanned. The new device is classified as "unknown" and I have lost all my information. (Does this sound like you've heard all this before??) If anyone has any FIRM information about what credentials are needed to successfully scan a Procurve switch, I would very much appreciate it. Please no, "try this" or "try that". I just need to know what kind of credentials Spiceworks needs, http, telnet, web, whatever. I have control over all of them.
Sep 8, 2011 at 11:59 UTC
Disconnect the uplinks
Kidding. You should be able to do port statistics once you are in the CLI. That might give you a better clue what port is screaming.
show interfaces port-utilization
show interfaces display
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Sep 7, 2011 at 7:29 UTC
SpiceWorks will use SNMP to gather the information from the switch.
If this was in a previous scan range with other devices, with multiple credentials tied to it then I would suggest setting up a separate scan entry with the scan credentials the switch is looking for. If it fails I would look to the switch logs to see if it is even getting that far, you should see failed logon from the SW server IP and then be able to narrow it down from there.
Sep 8, 2011 at 11:49 UTC
Thanks. Upon further investigation it seems I CAN scan other Procurves, just not this one. In the process of tracking down why, I have discovered this switch is being overwhelmed, but not by a packet storm exactly. Perhaps by an ARP storm of some sort. If I ping the switch I get massive dropped packets, not because the connection is bad, but because the switch processor is being overwhelmed. If I connect directly to the switch and disconnect all uplinks, the problem clears up.
I guess the subject has now become, how do I troubleshoot an ARP storm using some method OTHER than disconnecting uplinks and making everyone so mad they want me fired? :-)
Sep 8, 2011 at 11:59 UTC
Disconnect the uplinks
Kidding. You should be able to do port statistics once you are in the CLI. That might give you a better clue what port is screaming.
show interfaces port-utilization
show interfaces display
Sep 8, 2011 at 12:38 UTC
I will give that a try. I hate going down to the switch and using the console port, but I guess I have to. Normally I use telnet but that is obviously going to be affected by the problem itself.
Part of what makes this difficult is that I have high bandwidth devices like Cobranet audio over Ethernet running across the backbone which give the same indication of a packet storm on the uplinks, but are actually normal traffic. In fact the Procurves think it's excessive broadcasting, but that is exactly what Cobranet does. It's UDP Broadcast against a timing signal that all the devices sync to.
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The Leap Day of 2012 turned out to be quite fruitful in the history of bilateral trade between India and Pakistan, with the latter's transition from a positive list regime to a smaller negative list for trade with India even as the Pakistani cabinet unanimously approved phasing out of this negative list existing between Pakistan and India by December 2012. So far Pakistan had been maintaining a positive list that contained around 1,950 items which were permitted to be imported from India, rest all were under negative list, meaning those items were not allowed to be imported from Pakistan.
But with today's move by the Pakistan cabinet that met under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, it has phased out the positive list completely and shifted to a negative list containing only 1,200 items which cannot be imported from India, while the remaining items can be traded freely that comes to around 6,800 items. This negative list would also be gradually phased out by December this year, which technically implies towards MFN trading status kicking in.
"This will mark a dramatic shift in the lines that can be traded as now almost 90 per cent items can be traded with Pakistan as opposed to 17 per cent earlier. Flourishing trade is the biggest confidence building measure among any two nations. During my visit to Pakistan, I saw considerable enthusiasm in industry leaders and the trading community of both countries for deepening this engagement. We now need to continue the momentum of regular exchanges which we have started since mid-2011," said commerce and industry and textiles minister Anand Sharma.
Earlier this month Sharma had visited Pakistan with a high-powered business delegation from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This was the first ever visit by an Indian trade minister to Pakistan in last several years. There he met his counterpart Makhdoom Amin Fahim who assured him of moving towards MFN soon.
"This is a significant step towards trade normalization between India and Pakistan. We were hoping to hear this for a long time but better late than never. This would give a major boost to our trade now," Rajiv Kumar, secretary general, FICCI.
In 2010-11, India-Pakistan trade stood at $2.6 billion. Both sides have set a target of $6 billion worth of bilateral trade by 2014. India had granted MFN trade status to India in 1996. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, trading partners offer MFN status to each other so as to not discriminate between their trading partners. Granting of MFN status implies lowering of tariffs and customs duties for the products trade between them.
India had been demanding proper implementation and ratification of the provisions under the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) to ensure greater access for Indian products in the Pakistani markets with reduced tariffs. As of now the understanding between both the countries is that when the transition to MFN is effected, all items other than those in the SAFTA (South Asia Free Trade Agreement) sensitive list would get preferential access at peak tariff levels of 5 per cent by the end of 2012.
Surprisingly though, even though India had granted MFN status to Pakistan in 1996, imports from Pakistan has remained significantly low compared to India's export to Pakistan. According to the data by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in the last five years imports from Pakistan had remained within the range of $250-$300 million. On the contrary, exports to Pakistan from India have more than doubled.
Import from Pakistan stood at a paltry $332.51 million, $275.94 million and $370.17 million in 2010-2011, 2010-09 and 2008-09 respectively. On the contrary, exports stood at $2.33 billion, $1.57 billion and $1.43 billion in 2010-2011, 2010-09 and 2008-09 respectively. (With inputs from PTI)


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Machine Troubleshooting: Understanding How OpenPCR Works
Initial Design
Manipulating the Connections
Unplugging part 3 from part 6 removes both the power source and the input to the screen, so it shut off.
Unplugging the white wire cuts the connection between our "thermometer" and the board. If we maintain the
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Thermal Cycler Program
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Denature at 95°C for 30 seconds
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50 microliters of PCR reaction mix in each of the eight tubes.
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PCR Reaction Mix
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DNA Sample/Primer Mix
The DNA samples were of different patients that had both a forward and reverse primer.
Research and Development
Specific Cancer Marker Detection - Understanding the Process
PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, is a synthetic process that catalyzes the replication of a specific strand of DNA.
Function of each component:
Template DNA:
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TAQ Polymerase:
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Deoxynucleotide triphosphate solutions are utilized in PCR to supply nucleotides(Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Tyrosine) for the synthesis of
new DNA strands. Once these materials run out, the synthesis cannot proceed.
DNA Pairing:
Nucleotide, deoxyribose and phosphates form the complex of DNA shown below. It can be observed that guanine and cytosine have three hydrogen bonds between them whereas the adenine/thymine pair have two. The hydrogen bonding sites are where the denaturing occurs in DNA replication during the first step of PCR.


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Pro-Vis Contour Plot
When running pro-vis to examine plots, I can obtain colored vectors as well as colored streamlines. However, if I attempt to create a contour plot (section, or entire mesh) then pro-vis simply replots the mesh in black and white with no contours. However, it does show the color scale with range. Any clues as to how to resolve this?
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This really sounds like it is a unix permissions issue, but it could be a Security issue with java as well. I don't know as much about the java Security model, but I can tell you things to check for with unix permissions: So if 'developer' is the owner of the tomcat directory, and your webapps and all files that are trying to be written are under that directory, it sounds like it works fine for you when 'developer' starts tomcat- so tomcat is run as the developer user, and since developer has rights to create files under that directory, it works fine. On the other hand your tomcat user doesn't sound like it has rights. I would suggest that you always run tomcat as the tomcat user, and make developer and root start it as the tomcat user. That can be easily done with a startup script instead of calling $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh directly or whatever it is. I would make sure that the directories all have the tomcat user as the owner and group, and then add root and developer to that group. What Unix is this? Linux? Solaris? Here is the format to make tomcat run as the tomcat user with a /etc/rc.d/tomcat I also have catalina.out automatically rotated every time I start tomcat. #!/bin/sh ################################################################## # Comments to support chkconfig on RedHat Linux # chkconfig: 2345 84 84 # description: A very fast and reliable J2EE Servlet Container. timestamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S` echo "timestamp= $timestamp" LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL echo "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java export JAVA_HOME echo "JAVA_HOME= $JAVA_HOME" CLASSPATH=/usr/local/java/jre/lib/core.jar:/usr/local/java/jre/lib/server.jar export CLASSPATH echo "CLASSPATH= $CLASSPATH" TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat export TOMCAT_HOME echo "TOMCAT_HOME= $TOMCAT_HOME" #CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms196m -Xmx896m -Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true" #export CATALINA_OPTS #echo "CATALINA_OPTS= $CATALINA_OPTS" case $1 in 'start') su tomcat4 -c "mv $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/catalina.out $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/catalina.$timestamp" su tomcat4 -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh" sleep 10 /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful ;; 'stop') su tomcat4 -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh" ;; 'status') ps auxw | fgrep tomcat | fgrep -v status | fgrep -v grep | fgrep -v tail ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|status}" ;; esac # END OF /etc/rc.d/tomcat Daniel email@example.com wrote: >Hello, >I have a situation where if a developer owns Tomcat 3 and stops/starts >server the apps on that server all j2ee web-apps run fine. If I as root or >'tomcat_user' or su to developer id stop/start Tomcat 3 then all j2ee >web-apps run except modules that produce .jpegs dynamically. In the latter >case Tomcat was setup so that the user who stop/started Tomcat owned all >file/directories. > >My first response was to make all files/directories world >read,write,execute. It must be a UNIX permission thing right. Also I umask'd >and source'd the UNIX personal env of each user to be world >read,write,execute on any directories/files created but still no difference, >the graphs are not displayed. The graph libs are using JFreechart, btw. > >This is a long running issue and I would appreciate any help as I am not >sure if this is a UNIX or Tomcat or JFreechart issue. Any suggestions? Why >would I not be able to remotely log into box, su - to developer id and >stop/start Tomcat with all apps functioning? Also, developer's personal UNIX >acct is basic stock settings with no extra frills. > >Regards, >Earle > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com >For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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World less dangerous, but not safe yet
Broadcast: 21/04/2013
ALAN KOHLER, PRESENTER: Joining me this week are Marcus Padley from Patersons Securities; the CIO - that's chief investment officer - at JBWere, Giselle Roux, and Mike Mangan, a portfolio manager at 2MG Asset Management.
Welcome, everyone.
Now, Marcus it's four years out of four for sell in May, go away, but in previous years it's all been about Europe, and this year we sailed through Cyprus, which was the European conniption du jour of 2013 and it's been brought undone by China this time. So, how do you reflect on what we're seeing?
MARCUS PADLEY, STOCKBROKER, PATERSONS SECURITIES: Well, there's no doubt short term we're worrying about growth again, but the more interesting representation of that is if you remember at the beginning of this year, we were talking about the big theme for the whole of this year was going to be the switch out of bonds and into equities because if you remember in last November, the US started hedging their bets on when they were going to raise their interest rates. They'd said not till 2015, then suddenly they started pulling it in a bit closer, and everybody assumed they were anticipating recovery, and on that basis bond yields would have to go up and suddenly the bond market looked like a manipulated price ...
ALAN KOHLER: Bubble. In fact people were talking about the bond bubble.
MARCUS PADLEY: Yeah, that you had to get out before interest rates actually rose and recovery happened. So, the bond-to-equity switch was on and this was gonna drive us all year. And now, equity yields in the US are coming down again; in other words, bonds are going up.
ALAN KOHLER: Bond yields. Oh, yeah.
MARCUS PADLEY: So this - what has happened in the last month is the bond-to-equity switch has at least stalled, if not turned into an equity bond switch. The interesting thing about that is that where ASAR (phonetic spelling) equities appear to be in a bit of a downtrend in the last month or so, US equities still holding their own and there is a big divergence.
ALAN KOHLER: Now you mentioned growth is falling short, so let's just go to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF. They cut their global economic growth again this week from 3.5 per cent down to 3.3. Here's Christine Lagarde.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE, MD, IMF: We believe that we've avoided the worst and the economic world no longer looks quite as dangerous as it did. At the same time, the pickup in financial conditions, financial markets is clearly not translating into a sustained pickup in growth and jobs, in what really ultimately matters most for people.
ALAN KOHLER: Now that's the problem: growth is falling short, leading to rational adjustments of asset prices as well as some panic. For example, gold, down more than 10 per cent in the past week, copper also fell about eight per cent and the Bitcoin bubble has popped. It's down 70 per cent. Then there's the carbon price in Europe, which I mentioned in the interview with Nev Power, down more than 40 per cent after the EU's attempt to put a floor price under the price has failed. And on the other side of the equation, bond prices are rising again, as Marcus mentioned, yields are falling. After reaching the heady heights of more than two per cent in March, the US 10-year yield is now back to 1.7. So, that great rotation is rotating back again.
Giselle, how are you feeling at the moment? Are you getting a bit bearish?
GISELLE ROUX, CIO, JBWERE: Well as you've both mentioned, the global growth conditions look once again a little bit more tricky. It's not only just China that has possibly been a bit disappointing in terms of people's perception of growth, but also some of the US industrial production numbers were also relatively weak. And that probably surprised people who'd anticipated that, I think again a comment that you made with US having a bit of an energy burst and the housing market they're looking at, that the expectation was that American growth could continue to make ground and that seems a little more difficult at this time. And it does come also, as Marcus mentioned, at a time where we've had a great movement in equity markets. It hasn't as much come out of bonds. Most of the money's coming out of cash, both globally and here, but nonetheless, the point is perfectly valid, that there's been - now you've gotta justify how we got here.
ALAN KOHLER: And Marcus, how important was the Chinese number this week? It was actually the beginning of the week.
MARCUS PADLEY: Crucial. You know, and I hear Nev Power saying that 7.7 per cent is still a good number. Well, it is, but it's all a question of trend, isn't it? And also hear a lot of economist's criticising the number, as they did the last trade numbers from China, saying that, you know, it's all fudged. But the truth is, that's all the market's got to go on and we were expecting a number which was up on the month before and it was down. So, the trend is set, and it perfectly coincides with this peaking out in the bond market and has caused a - almost catastrophic, if you happen to be a BHP or Rio shareholder, drop in the resources sector. So, you can talk about a lot of things, but that really cut the legs away today. It's not every day you see BHP down 4.5 per cent.
ALAN KOHLER: How are you seeing it at the moment, Mike?
MIKE MANGAN, 2MG ASSET MANAGEMENT: Well, I think the Chinese number, I think it's kind of an excuse. People had a couple of good months and then we've got May coming up, which we've talked about, and I think people are just jumping at shadows and I think this Chinese number is a little bit disappointing, so people have sort of run for the exits. There's a fair amount of fear out there. I mean, the last five years has been very traumatic for a lot of investors.
MARCUS PADLEY: There's a theme underlying gold, Bitcoins and resources, which is all of them are based on something which is extremely hard to value. What is the commodity price that underlines the resources sector? How you value an ounce of gold it - it doesn't earn anything.
ALAN KOHLER: So, Mike, you sent me a long-term graph of the gold price during the week, which I found very interesting. What was that - what were you trying to - well how do you see the gold price?
MIKE MANGAN: Well gold has done pretty well over a long period of time, probably the last 40 years, but within that period of time, it's half and it's doubled and tripled and halved again. So it's been quite a ride. But certainly in the last 13 years, since about 2001, 9/11, or whatever it was, it's done very well. So, to me, this is a correction. I still think there is a lot of fear out there, there's a lot of disbelief in what central banks are doing around the world. And in fact you called argue that the weakness that we've seen in the economic numbers in the last week or two suggest that they're gonna have to do more quantitative easing around the world.
ALAN KOHLER: And what's been disappointing to everyone about gold is that they expected gold to keep rising because of the money printing, the quantitative easing that was going on because gold usually goes up as inflation expectations rise, but, Giselle, it hasn't.
GISELLE ROUX: But inflation expectations have not - have actually come back and in fact there's been no signs anywhere of emerging inflation and inflation ...
MARCUS PADLEY: That's what the bond market's saying as well, yeah.
GISELLE ROUX: Really, the bond market's saying the same thing. So without any inflation, there isn't really the strong rationale. I mean, as Marcus says, there's no fundamental behind the gold price beyond its marginal cost of production, which is somewhere probably at the total true costed margins, somewhere of $1,000. It's not gonna fall below that number or you start to get mine closures.
MARCUS PADLEY: Well, you will get mine closures. The long-term inflation adjusted price is $250 to $500.
GISELLE ROUX: But you can't - if you take the cost of extracting gold is very different to CPI that you would be calculating just off a (inaudible) CPI or another CPI.
ALAN KOHLER: A couple of American boffins put out a paper last year that valued gold according to inflation at $800 an ounce.
GISELLE ROUX: But that comes - again, it comes back to how you measure inflation as opposed to the cost of extracting an ounce of gold, which is very different to the CPI.
MARCUS PADLEY: But, you know, how do you - it's very different to every other commodity because what you've got is a commodity - whereas Nev Power's iron ore is gonna get used up next year and he has to replace it, the gold is cube 20.4 metres by 20.4 metres by 20.4 metres that is an inert lump of metal. And the only thing that's changing is a bunch of headless hot potato passers running around it deciding what price they're gonna pay. And the inert lump of metal, with all its brains knows that nothing's really changing.
MIKE MANGAN: And that's why central banks have how many thousands of tonnes in their vault?
MARCUS PADLEY: 'Cause it's stable!
ALAN KOHLER: In fact the reason - part of the reason the gold price fell was because Mario Draghi, the head of the ECB, has suggested that the way that the European countries need to get out of debt is by selling their gold, which has scared the pants off everyone.
MARCUS PADLEY: But the interesting thing is that there is no - all those apparently genius insiders with their reasons for buying it whilst the price is going up, have no reason why it shouldn't fall and they're silent at this point. Plus - let me just finish, Alan - this is exactly at the opposite end of the spectrum of what everyone's trying to buy at the moment, which is income. Zero yield.


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|Official Flower:
|They've got lots of flowers - that are always open - if you know what I mean
|Official Language:
|American, like everywhere else in the world
|Official Bird:
|The Asian Bird, you know...that one.
|Who needs a motto!
|Common Name:
|Rod Blagojevich
|Official Anthem:
|"What Can Thailand Do For America Today" by Waht "Ass Kisser" Suckamynutslut
|66 million (I told you they're always open)
|Principal imports:
|American Culture
|Principal exports:
|Rice and Maids who sucky sucky five dolla!
|Principal industries:
|Neck Tie (Thai) Industry
|Fun Fact # 1:
|Thais are Pagans, but they put up Christmas trees in December..eh, close enough.
|Fun Fact # 2:
|There are a large amount of street cats, so you could literally drown in a sea of pussy.
Thais believe Christmas to be a celebration of the crucifixtion of Santa Claus by his Dwarves. They are all going to Hell.
It is also the only tourist destination apart from the evil Castro's Cuba to have a huge gender disparity in the number of visitors, with significantly more liberal men visiting annually. Sources referred to Bangkok Chickboys and a trick involving ping-pong balls, but being a good conservative, this Wikiality.com reporter wouldn't know about such things.
Keith Olbermann's mother is 23.2% Thai - that makes Keith and Rachel Maddow's love child 11.234% Thai. Basically, we can conclude that Olbermann's spawn will never be eligible to become President of the United States. Liberal Socialist 0: Real Americans 1! Hell Yeah!
Thailand was founded by the Asian dude in "the nine kings of mankind" from middle earth (watch Lord of the Rings for more info).


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Sharingan is a kekkei-genkai used by the Uchiha clan. The greater/more powerful version of sharingan is Mangekyo Sharingan.
The Sharingan allows you to copy jutsu (as long as they're not kekkie genkai), cast genjutsu, hypnotise people, and when a sharingan is fully developed, it can even predict an oppenets movement.


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Sina Weidenweber and Ulrich Ermler from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt liaised with Robert Marmulla and Jens Harder from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen to search for another attractive alternative. The research scientists examined the microbial processing of plant fragrances and essential oils, which – chemically speaking – are terpenes / monoterpenes and monoterpene alcohols. What are involved here are natural hydrocarbon compounds with ten carbon atoms, and the basic structure with five carbon atoms can be used as the preliminary stage for plastics production [1].
Let us take a look at the chemical details first: sorry about this, but a few basic scientific facts are essential here. Terpenes / monoterpenes are the main component of such essential oils as eucalyptus oil or peppermint oil. Monoterpenes are produced naturally in plants; the secondary plant substances are made by metabolism and carry out different functions. Released as volatile fragrances, plants use them to attract pollinators or to fend off enemies.
What is known so far is that monoterpenes are produced within the plant and in bacteria in the course of sufficiently understood metabolic processes. The transformation of a terpene called geraniol that smells like roses, for example, into coriandrol ((S)-linalool) that smells like coriander and then into myrcene, that gives hops their unmistakable smell, does not happen by itself, however; it requires the use of a catalyst instead.
What a catalyst does is to attach itself to a compound, thus modulating its chemical properties in such a way that Mother Nature needs to invest less energy and effort into changing / metabolising said compound. The catalyst remains completely unchanged during this process and can carry out its assignment over and over again elsewhere.
Enzymes take over the assignment of biocatalysts in bacteria, plants and animals. What is involved in the above-mentioned example of the transformation of geraniol into myrcene is called linalool dehydratase isomerase. The scientists write [1], however, that this enzyme is also able to produce such basic substances as isoprene or butadiene from different products of fermentation processes. Dier Biotechnologie, for example, produces active substances, that are normally produced by the human, animal or plant organism, in large fermentation plants with the help of modified bacteria, fungi or yeasts. Basic materials for manufacturing plastics will be joining the list of biotechnological products too in future.
Sina Weidenweber and her colleagues have at least taken a major step in this direction by succeeding in clarifying the structure of the enzyme linalool dehydratase isomerase and the way in which it bonds to molecules. The scientists conclude that the catalytic capabilities of linalool dehydratase isomerase at any rate make it eminently suitable for this assignment. It is reported that numerous patent applications have been filed and patents obtained in the meantime for use of this enzyme in the production of butadiene and isoprene on the basis of the discovery of the enzyme by research scientists from Bremen in 2010.
Guido Deussing
[1] Sina Weidenweber, Robert Marmulla, Ulrich Ermler and Jens Harder, X-ray structure of linalool dehydratase/isomerase from Castellaniella defragrans reveals enzymatic alkene synthesis, FEBS Letters 2016, doi 10.1002/1873-3468.12165


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Chateau Leoville Poyferre 1996
Bordeaux Red Blends from St. Julien, Bordeaux, France
Winemaker's Notes
A wonderful vineyard site and high proportion of old vines give this Chateau much potential. Increasingly richer and more complex, Leoville Poyferre is one of the rising stars in Saint Julien.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "This fabulous 1996 was tasted three times from bottle, and it is unquestionably the finest wine produced by this estate since their blockbuster 1990. Medium to full-bodied, with a saturated black/purple color, the nose offers notes of cedar, jammy black fruits, smoke, truffles, and subtle new oak. In the mouth, there is impressive fruit extraction, a tannic, full-bodied structure, and a classic display of power and finesse. The longer it sat in the glass, the more impressive the wine became. Backward, and massive in terms of its extract and richness, this should prove to be a sensational Leoville-Poyferre for drinking over the next three decades. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2028."
Vinous / Antonio Galloni - "Deep ruby-red. Expressive aromas of plum, currant, game, woodsmoke and tobacco. Denser and sweeter than the '97 or '98; structured but pliant. Finishes quite long, with dusty, very fine tannins nicely buffered by fruit."
Wine Spectator - "Blackberry, mineral and citrus fruit aromas. Full-bodied, with slightly angular tannins, but fruity, with a pleasant tobacco undertone on the finish."
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Chateau Leoville Poyferre Winery
Due to a division of the large Léoville estate, Château Léoville Poyferré was created in 1840 and included as a Second Growth in the famous 1855 Classification. In 1920, the Cuvelier family purchased the estate and Didier Cuvelier has been in charge since 1979.
Major investments were made to bring out the best in the vineyards, and the cellars were also renovated. In 1994, noted consulting oenologist Michel Rolland began to offer his precious winemaking advice. The final blend is made after many careful tastings. Château Léoville Poyferré is aged in oak barrels, 75% of which are new every year. It is an extremely well-balanced wine with a great deal of finesse and excellent aging potential. View all Chateau Leoville Poyferre Wines
About St-JulienView a map of St-Julien wineries (saint juhl-e-EHN)
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The smallest of the top four Haut-Médoc communes, St-Julien is directly south of Pauillac. With no first growths to its name, the commune often goes overlooked. But it has 11 excellent second, third and fourth growths, and the highest proportion of classified growths of the top four. It doesn't have the concentration and powerful punch of a Pauillac or the soft elegance of a Margaux, but the wine of St-Julien combines the best of its northern & southern neighbors.
Notable FactsA good descriptor of St-Julien wines is balance. Cabernet Sauvignon-based like all left bankers, St-Julien also adds a bit of Merlot for softness. The best known chateaux are the Léovilles – Léoville-Barton, Léoville-Las Cases, Léoville Poyferre - although Barton and Las Cases are more common and more recognizable to consumers. All three are second growths and top notch for their class. The other well known chateaux are Chateau Gruaud-Larosse & Lagrange, a second growth and fourth growth, known for reliable quality.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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I'm thinking we could implement plain HTML links as a fallback solution that would allow:
- People with JS disabled or adblocker to still use the functionality;
- A solution compatible with the "Do-Not-Track" header;
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- All in all, a standard, accessible solution.
The solution is detailed here : Social link the right way.
@TheCrow, do you see any negative side-effects against this implementation?
It seems to be it could be a great addition for the 3.x version of the module, what do you think?