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It was a happy ending for Pistorius on Saturday who finished the Paralympic Games with an individual gold after failing to successfully defend the 100 and 200 titles he won in Beijing four years ago. He also won a gold medal in the 4×100 relay.
Pistorius finished nearly four seconds ahead of his nearest rival, Blake Leeper who was followed home by David Prince of the United States, while Brazil's Alan Oliveira, who beat the South African in the 200 this week, finished fourth.
"This whole month, this whole season, I've had a lot of challenges and I have a lot to thank my coach for," Pistorius, who also competed in the London Olympics last month, told Channel Four television.
"I'm so proud, this summer has been a dream come true and I couldn't hope for anything better. It's my 11th time on this track and I wanted to give the crowd something special that they could take home with them."
Pistorius was the heavy favourite with a personal best more than five seconds quicker than the next fastest competitor and from the moment he built a commanding lead shortly after the halfway point the result was never in doubt.
The original "Blade Runner" said he had been unsure how Oliveira would approach the race after the Brazilian slowed down in the final 100m of his heat.
"I didn't know what sort of race Oliveira would run. He went out very fast in his heat and then jogged the last 100," said the 25-year-old of his rival, who tired towards the end. "It was a great race for me."
Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fibre prosthetic blades after he was born without a fibula in both legs, was the first double amputee to run in the Olympics and reached the 400m semifinals though he was disappointed not to make the final.
Things did not go smoothly in the Paralympics either with Pistorius suffering a first loss over 200m in nine years last Sunday before he questioned the legitimacy of winner Oliveira's prosthetic blades.
The comments sparked controversy though Pistorius was quick to express his regret, going on to describe 100m champion Jonnie Peacock of Britain as a "great Paralympic sprinter".
But Saturday belonged to Pistorius, who praised the London Games chairperson and twice Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe and organisers for a fantastic show.
"Lord Coe and LOCOG have produced the most amazing Olympic and Paralympic Games. It has been the biggest highlight of my life," said Pistorius, who has been the face of the Paralympics. – Reuters


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NBA: Carmelo Anthony scores 40 as Knicks down Magic
ORLANDO, Fla. -- New York coach Mike Woodson would like to see his team lean more on its defense to help it win games.
He'll live with a few more of Carmelo Anthony's offensive exhibitions in the meantime.
Anthony scored 16 of his 40 points in the fourth quarter, helping the New York Knicks hold off the Orlando Magic 114-106 on Saturday night.
"Just a matter of us trying to get it going," Anthony said. "To get it going and doing whatever it takes to win a basketball game. That's what we did. ... It seemed like when it was time to really buckle down and try to win the basketball game, we did those things."
J.R. Smith added 18 points off the bench and Tyson Chandler had 14 points and 12 rebounds.
The Knicks have won two straight overall and four in a row over the Magic, dating back to last season. They also improved to 2-1 since Amar'e Stoudemire returned to action following knee surgery.
"We were down coming into the fourth, and we held them to 17 points. That's the sign of a team that didn't want to lose," Woodson said. "(They) picked it up defensively and did what they had to do, and offensively they made plays."
Arron Afflalo and Jameer Nelson each had 29 points to lead the Magic, and Nik Vucevic contributed 11 points and 18 rebounds. Afflalo got treatment at halftime after taking a hard fall, and scored 20 in the second half.
"Clearly we have to learn how to win, if that makes sense," Afflalo said. "Coach is doing a great job in terms of the schemes of the game plan. We're definitely competing hard as players, but we need to learn how to win."
Orlando outrebounded New York 45-40, but had 14 turnovers as it extended its longest losing streak of the season to eight games.
All of the losses have come since the injury of starting forward Glen Davis, who continues to rehab his sprained left shoulder.
Orlando has played well against some of the East's top teams, with narrow losses over its past three outings to Miami, Chicago and now New York.
It's hardly a consolation prize, though, for a team that may not get Davis back in action for at least another week, if not longer.
"I told our guys that this is about different challenges throughout the course of the season and everyone wants to win -- it's what makes us competitors," Magic coach Jacque Vaughn said. "We did a lot of good things tonight."
The Magic flipped a four-point halftime deficit into an 89-81 lead entering the fourth.
The Knicks rallied using their size, going up 99-97 on a dunk by Chandler with 5:14 left.
Orlando's Josh McRoberts got tangled up underneath with Chandler a few trips later and was whistled for a technical. Steve Novak then knocked down the ensuing free throw to push the Knicks' lead to 102-98.
It was 106-102 when Jason Kidd swished a 3-pointer from the corner with less than two minutes to play.
Afflalo got a layup to drop a few possessions later, but Anthony quickly answered with a hanging 16-footer. The Magic were forced to foul and the Knicks then closed it out at the foul line.
Stoudemire played only 16 minutes, but finished with 11 points and four rebounds. His presence in the middle also forced the Magic to take more jumpers than they wanted to down the stretch.
Woodson said he is easing Stoudemire back into action.
"He's fine," Woodson said. "I'm playing him in spurts. I can't play him long minutes I thought he gave us some adequate minutes when he was in there and it's going to be a process...He'll back to his old self soon."
Nelson kept the Magic in the game for most of the second half, but was held scoreless in the final period.
Woodson started veteran Marcus Camby for the second straight game, citing the defensive presence he brought to the game early in their recent win over San Antonio.
Orlando had other plans to open the game Saturday.
Nelson scored eight of the Magic's first 11 points as Orlando built a 14-2 first quarter lead, forcing a quick New York timeout.
Orlando held its cushion for most of the half until a 9-0 spurt by the Knicks late in the second quarter gave them their largest lead at 55-48.
The Magic were just 7 of 19 from the field in the second quarter, with seven turnovers. New York took a 59-55 edge into halftime.
New York now heads home, where it will play three of its next four games.
"It's hard to win on the road, I don't care who you play," Woodson said. "The fact that we gutted it up when we had to in the fourth quarter tells me a lot. We've been down before and we always seem to come back. Tonight wasn't any different."
NOTES: Stoudemire honored his late brother, Hazell Stoudemire, by providing tickets for 30 children from their Lake Wales, Fla. hometown to watch Saturday's game. Hazell, known as "Big STAT", died in February of last year in a car accident. His birthday would have been Friday. "I think of my brother and the knowledge he gave me every day," Amar'e Stoudemire said. "I hope by giving these children this unique experience, I will pay forward some of the positive impact Hazell made on me and my family." ...Knicks F Rasheed Wallace sat out again as he continues to get treatment for a sore left foot. He remains day-to-day. Wallace hasn't played since Dec. 13. ...Vucevic leads with Magic with 15 double-doubles on the season.


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Georgia Douglas Johnson's Life and Career
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Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson made her way to Washington, D.C., where she lived for over fifty years at 1461 S Street NW, site of one of the greatest literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the most famous woman poet of that literary movement, publishing four volumes of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962).
Johnson's life illustrates the difficulties faced by African American women writers in the first half of the century. A graduate of Atlanta University (1896), where she met her husband, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson did not publish her first poem until 1916, when she was thirty-six, and she remained geographically removed from the major literary circles of her day, which were in Harlem, due to her marriage to a Washington lawyer and civil employee. Her husband, moreover, expected her to look after the home and assume primary responsibility for the upbringing of two sons. When he died in 1925, Georgia Douglas Johnson was forty-five years old with two teenagers to support. Holding a series of temporary jobs between 1924 and 1934 as a substitute public school teacher and a file clerk for the Civil Service, she ultimately found a position with the Commissioner of Immigration for the Department of Labor, where hours were long and pay low. Johnson had to create her own supportive environment by establishing the Saturday night open houses that she hosted weekly soon after her husband's death and that included Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Anne Spencer, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and others. Although it was hard for her to write, she was able to follow through on her successes with her first two volumes of poetry by completing a third volume in 1928 that is arguably her best. An Autumn Love Cycle confirmed Johnson as the first African American woman poet to garner national attention since Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Johnson traveled extensively in the late 1920s, giving lectures and readings, meeting Carl Sandburg in Chicago and Charles Waddell Chesnutt in Cleveland while receiving awards from various organizations, including her alma mater, Atlanta University. She was able to send her sons to Howard University, where they studied law and medicine, while maintaining a demanding work and travel schedule.
Through the pioneering work of Gloria Hull, we now know that Johnson wrote a substantial number of plays during the 1920s, including Plumes, which won first prize in a contest run by Opportunity in 1927, and Blue Blood, performed by the Krigwa Players in New York City during the fall of 1926 and published the following year. Twenty-eight dramas are listed in the "Catalogue of Writings" that Johnson compiled in 1962-1963, but only a handful have been recovered. She also listed a book-length manuscript about her literary salon, a collection of short stories, and a novel, which were lost as well. Of thirty-one short stories listed in her catalog, only three have been located, under the pseudonym of Paul Tremaine (two of these were published in Dorothy West's journal Challenge in 1936 and 1937). Probably much of this material was thrown away by workers clearing out Johnson's house when she died in 1966.
Georgia Douglas Johnson's prolific writing career also included a weekly newspaper column, "Homely Philosophy," that was syndicated by twenty publications from 1926 to 1932; a collaboration with composer Lillian Evanti in the late 1940s that made use of Johnson's earlier music training at Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland College of Music; and an international correspondence club that she organized and ran from 1930 to 1965. Her writing was seriously curtailed by the loss of her Department of Labor job in 1934. She then sought any work she could get, including temporary jobs in a clerical pool, while vainly applying for axis fellowships. As late as the 1960s, Johnson was still applying for fellowships that never materialized. Able to survive by living with her lawyer son, Henry Lincoln, Jr., and his wife, Johnson never lost her enthusiasm for the arts nor her generosity to needy artists who came her way. She called her home "Half-Way House" to represent her willingness to provide shelter to those in need, including, at one point, Zora Neale Hurston. The rose-covered walk at 1461 S Street, created by Johnson fifty years ago, still stands in testimony to the many African American artists she welcomed and to the love poetry for which she is best known. Struggling without the material support that would have helped bring more of her work to light and battling racist stereotypes that fed lynch mobs and race riots in the formative years of her life, Georgia Douglas Johnson left a legacy of indomitable pride and creative courage that has only begun to be understood.
See also: Erlene Stetson, ed., Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980, 1981. Gloria T. Hull, Color Sex, and Poetry. Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, 1987. Ann Allen Shockley, ed., Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933, 1988. Maureen Honey, ed., Shadowed Dreams: Womens Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, 1989. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, ed., Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, 1990. Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. eds., Harlem, Renaissance, and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945, 1990.
From The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press.
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As a member of the strange secret society E.Y.E, you wake up after a fight in which your fellow teammates were killed. E.Y.E, an armed branch of the Secreta Secretorum is attempting a coup against the all-powerful Federation, a coalition of several worlds and planets that rule with an iron fist.
To complicate matters, E.Y.E itself is plagued with its own internal conflicts between the Jian faction and the Culter faction, to which you belong. Your loyalties are torn between Commander Rimanah, your superior and the chief of the Secreta who is a separatist with an unstoppable ambition, and the "Mentor" your friend and instructor. The "Mentor" tries at all costs to unite the two rival factions. In doing so, you are thrust into the middle of a fratricidal war frought with political conspiracies and quests for power in which different groups and megacorporations are implicated.
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ON SHOW: An exhibition in Milan celebrates iconic photographers who have worked for Condé Nast over the years. The show, called "Fashion," staged by FEP: Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, in collaboration with Forma Milan, kicked off on Thursday and will run until April 7 at Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia.
Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, a historian specializing in the history of photography, the exhibit consists of a collection of extraordinary images from the Condé Nast archives in Paris, New York, London and Milan. Diane Arbus, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Satoshi Saïkusa and Bruce Weber are a few of the prestigious names gracing the exhibition.
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Astros take full advantage of expanded roster in 7-6 win
You can't just bludgeon an opponent with roster size in baseball the way you could in other sports - say tug of war. But the Astros are certainly trying.
What the Astros couldn't do as a 25-man team all season, they are suddenly doing with flair as they number 35 with September roster expansion. They're winning series. They're beating contenders. They're playing a brand of baseball that, although hard to watch at times for the constant pitching changes and scorecard nightmares, is producing no shortage of exciting moments in between.
Sunday was full of them as the Astros dealt a severe blow to the Phillies' playoff hopes with an exciting 7-6 win that clinched the series 3-1 against a team that ends the weekend four back in the wild card race having blown a great chance to move up.
Not that they were necessarily taking the Astros lightly, but the losses against a now 48-99 team sure got them down.
"That hurts," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "I mean, losing 3 out of 4 here really hurts."
But how has the 35-man roster helped the Astros have this success with series wins over the first-place Reds and now the Phillies? Clearly, the best nine the Astros have doesn't match the best nine the Phillies have, and at no time during the game are the Astros at a huge advantage, if any, with the personnel on the field.
It comes in the fact that if the Astros players aren't largely interchangeable, they are at least highly flexible. The number of candidates to play every position combined with the depth of the 10-man bullpen has allowed the Astros basically to use every advantage they have.
They constantly, after about the fifth inning or so, match up lefty/righty. And if the opposing team changes pitchers, just burn the announced hitter. There are plenty more. Meanwhile, there are versatile defensive players like Justin Maxwell, who rarely goes through a game playing the same outfield position for all nine innings as switches occur around him.
"It's a great asset for us right now and an advantage," manager Tony DeFrancesco said. "We've got a lot of young kids who are trying to get at-bats, and we're trying to mix them in the lineup.
"The starters are in the game and before you know it, we're pinch-hitting, double-switching, using our complete bullpen, and that's what we're trying to establish. Guys that participate in a winning ballgame."
The Astros did all of that Sunday, using 19 players including five different relievers after Jordan Lyles went five innings.
Down 4-3 entering the seventh with their runs on a two-run shot by Scott Moore and a solo shot by Carlos Corporan, the Astros put it on a troubled Phillies bullpen.
Maxwell, whose defensive record read CF-LF-CF, blooped a double down the right-field line to give the Astros a 5-4 lead and Matt Dominguez made it 7-4 with a base-hit of his own.
But eventually, the chess game had to end and the baseball had to begin. There were no lefties remaining when Wilton Lopez had to face dangerous lefthanded hitters Chase Utley and Ryan Howard to protect a one-run lead in the ninth.
He got Utley to fly out and DeFrancesco found one more move to avoid checkmate, walking Howard to get to Carlos Ruiz, from whom Lopez induced an easy grounder.
It was comfortably the Astros' 10th consecutive game longer than three hours, but you're not going to get DeFrancesco to care about that when he's making these mid-inning pitching changes and trying to squeeze out every advantage.
He keeps bringing up one of his favorite teams of his youth in motivational speeches - invoking the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
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Actor John Stamos has opened up about losing his virginity as he prepares to host a controversial new online show about stars' first sexual encounters.
The former "Full House" hunk will interview celebrities about their early romps in "Losing Your Virginity With John Stamos," but he admits his first experience with a friend's sister was so unremarkable, he didn't recognize the woman when he bumped into her 13 years ago.
He tells EOnline.com, "She's about 10 years older than me and I was in my late 30s then (when we met again), and I said, 'Nice to meet you.' She said, 'Meet you? Don't you remember? I took your virginity.' I was shocked. She didn't look quite the same. She was a bit older and bit rounder. I said to her, 'I remember now. We were driving and I dropped my keys between my legs and you grabbed me.' She was like, 'No, it was more romantic than that. I held your hand and we walked through a park together.' The stories were vastly different."
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RMAN command to start RMAN from the operating system command line.
RMAN connections to a database are specified and authenticated in the same way as SQL*Plus connections to a database. The only difference is that RMAN connections to a target or auxiliary database require the
SYSDBA privilege. The
AS SYSDBA keywords are implied and cannot be explicitly specified. See Oracle Database Administrator's Guide to learn about database connection options when using SQL*Plus.
Caution:Good security practice requires that passwords should not be entered in plain text on the command line. You should enter passwords in RMAN only when requested by an RMAN prompt. See Oracle Database Security Guide to learn about password protection.
See Also:Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide to learn how to start RMAN from the command line
You must issue the
RMAN command and any options at the operating system command line rather than at the RMAN prompt.
The command name that you enter at the operating system prompt is operating system-dependent. For example, enter
rman in lowercase on Linux and UNIX systems.
If you start RMAN without specifying either
CATALOG or
NOCATALOG on the operating system command line, then the RMAN session is effectively in
NOCATALOG mode unless you execute a
CATALOG command (see Example 2-126). If you maintain a recovery catalog, then the best practice is to connect RMAN to the recovery catalog before performing RMAN operations.
|Syntax Element
|Causes new output to be appended to the end of the message log file. If you do not specify this parameter, and if a file with the same name as the message log file already exists, then RMAN overwrites it.
|Causes RMAN to start in a mode in which commands entered are checked for syntax errors, but no other processing is performed (see Example 2-129). If used with a
CMDFILE or
@ argument, then the RMAN client starts, checks all commands in the file, then exits. If used without specifying a command file, then RMAN prompts the user for input and parses each command until the user exits the RMAN client.
RMAN reports an
|Specifies a connect string to an auxiliary database, for example,
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|Specifies a connect string to the database containing the recovery catalog, for example,
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|Parses and compiles all RMAN commands in a file and then sequentially executes each command in the file. RMAN exits if it encounters a syntax error during the parse phase or if it encounters a run-time error during the execution phase. If no errors are found, then RMAN exits after the job completes.
If the first character of the filename is alphabetic, then you can omit the quotes around the filename. The contents of the command file should be identical to commands entered at the RMAN prompt.
Note: If you run a command file at the RMAN prompt rather than as an option on the operating system command line, then RMAN does not run the file as a single job. RMAN reads each line sequentially and executes it, only exiting when it reaches the last line of the script.
|Equivalent to
|Equivalent to options specified after
USING syntax.
|Specifies the file where RMAN records its output, that is, the commands that were processed and their results. RMAN displays command input at the prompt but does not display command output, which is written to the log file. By default RMAN writes its message log file to standard output.
RMAN output is also stored in the
Note: The easiest way to send RMAN output both to a log file and to standard output is to use the Linux
% rman | tee rman.log
|Causes RMAN to print message numbers, that is,
xxxx, for the output of all commands. By default, RMAN does not print the
xxxx prefix.
|Indicates that you are using RMAN without a recovery catalog.
|Sends a vendor-specific command string to all allocated channels.
See Also: Your media management documentation to determine whether this feature is supported, and
|Invokes the RMAN pipe interface. RMAN uses two public pipes: one for receiving commands and the other for sending output. The names of the pipes are derived from the value of the
PIPE parameter. For example, you can invoke the RMAN pipe interface with the following options:
PIPE rpi TARGET /.
RMAN opens the following pipes in the target database:
All messages on both the input and output pipes are of type
See Also: Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide to learn how to pass commands to RMAN through a pipe
|Specifies the name of a stored script.
After connecting to a target database and recovery catalog (which must be specified with the
The single quotes around the stored script name are required when the script name either begins with a number or is an RMAN reserved word (see "RMAN Reserved Words"). You should avoid creating script names that begin with a number or that match RMAN reserved words.
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|Specifies a connect string to the target database, for example,
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|Causes RMAN to exit automatically if it does not receive input from an input pipe within
integer seconds. The
PIPE parameter must be specified when using
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|Specifies one or more values for use in substitution variables in a command file. As in SQL*Plus,
&1 indicates where to place the first value,
&2 indicate where to place the second value, and so on. Example 2-128 illustrates how to pass values specified in a
USING clause to an RMAN command file.
The substitution variable syntax is
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Example 2-126 Connecting RMAN to a Target Database in Default NOCATALOG Mode
In this example, you start the RMAN client without specifying database connection options at the operating system prompt. At the RMAN prompt, you run the
CONNECT command to connect to a target database. Because
CATALOG was not run at the RMAN prompt, RMAN connects in default
NOCATALOG mode when the first command requiring a repository connection is run, which in this case is the
BACKUP DATABASE command.
% rman RMAN> CONNECT TARGET / RMAN> BACKUP DATABASE;
Example 2-127 Connecting RMAN to an Auxiliary Database Instance
This example connects to target database
prod and recovery catalog database
catdb with net service names, and connects to an auxiliary database instance with operating system authentication.
% rman TARGET SYS@prod Recovery Manager: Release 126.96.36.199.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. target database Password: password connected to target database: PROD (DBID=39525561) RMAN> CONNECT CATALOG rman@catdb recovery catalog database Password: password connected to recovery catalog database RMAN> CONNECT AUXILIARY /
Example 2-128 Specifying Substitution Variables
Suppose that you want to create a Linux shell script that backs up the database. You want to use shell variables so that you can pass arguments to the RMAN backup script at run time. Substitution variables solve this problem. First, you create a command file named
whole_db.cmd with the following contents:
cat > /tmp/whole_db.cmd <<EOF # name: whole_db.cmd CONNECT TARGET / BACKUP TAG &1 COPIES &2 DATABASE FORMAT '/disk2/db_%U'; EXIT; EOF
Next, you write the following Linux shell script, which sets
csh shell variables
tagname and
copies. The shell script starts RMAN, connects to target database
prod1, and runs
whole_db.cmd. The
USING clause passes the values in the variables
tagname and
copies to the RMAN command file at execution time.
#!/bin/csh # name: runbackup.sh # usage: use the tag name and number of copies as arguments set tagname = $argv[1] set copies = $argv[2] rman @'/tmp/whole_db.cmd' USING $tagname $copies LOG /tmp/runbackup.out # note that the preceding line is equivalent to: # rman @'/tmp/whole_db.cmd' $tagname $copies LOG /tmp/runbackup.out
Finally, you execute the shell script
runbackup.sh from a Linux shell as follows to create two backups of the database with the tag
% runbackup.sh Q106 2
Example 2-129 Checking the Syntax of a Command File
Suppose that you create command file
backup_db.cmd as follows:
cat > /tmp/backup_db.cmd <<EOF CONNECT TARGET / BACKUP DATABASE; EXIT; EOF
The following example checks the syntax of the contents of command file
backup_db.cmd (sample output included):
% rman CHECKSYNTAX @'/tmp/backup_db.cmd' Recovery Manager: Release 18.104.22.168.0 - Production on Wed Jul 11 17:51:30 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. RMAN> CONNECT TARGET * 2> BACKUP DATABASE; 3> EXIT; The cmdfile has no syntax errors Recovery Manager complete.
Example 2-130 Running a Stored Script and Appending Output to a Message Log
This example connects to a target database using operating system authentication and then runs stored script
wdbb. RMAN writes output to message log
% rman TARGET / SCRIPT wdbb LOG /tmp/wdbb.log


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Little details like how you flipped over your white lucite trays to add height and a more modern touch makes all the difference. Using your glass table without a cloth is also another great look. Red, black and white are a classic big hit color combo. Your bridal shower truly wins an Academy Award!
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These are some pictures of my movie themed bridal shower.To start, we gave out mini popcorn buckets for our invitation.We had a candy table to mimic the consession stands at the movie theater. There were raisenets, Milk Duds, Dots, Mike 'n Ike, Twizzlers, Crunch a Bunch ; all the candys you buy at the theaters.
The desserts were made by Mari Gindi.
My center peice cake, was made by my sister in laws. All desserts were made around the theme and the colors black white and red. My mother and I really worked hard to put it all together!!"
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The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ
BY Rev. Andrew Murray
Chapter 8 Children Of God
"As many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become children of God, even to them that believe on His name" kjv@John:1:12.
What is given must be received, otherwise it does not profit. If the first great deed of God's love is the gift of His Son, then the first work of man must be to receive this Son. And if all the blessings of God's love come to us only in the ever-new, ever-living Son of the Father, then all these blessings enter into us daily through the always new, always continuing reception of the Son.
You, beloved young Christians, know what is necessary for this reception because you have already received the Lord Jesus. But all that this reception involves must become clearer and stronger--the unceasing, living action of your faith ( kjv@2Corinthians:10:15 kjv@1Thessalonians:1:8 kjv@1Thessalonians:3:10 kjv@2Thessalonians:1:3).
Within this action lies the increase of faith. Your first receiving of Jesus rested on the certainty provided by the Word--that He was for you. Through the Word your soul must be further filled with the assurance that all that is in Him is literally and truly for you, given to you by the Father; He is to be your life.
The impulse to your first receiving was based on your want and necessity. Now, through the Spirit, you become still poorer in spirit, and you see how much you have need of Jesus for everything, every moment. This leads to a ceaseless, ever-active taking of Him as your a11 ( kjv@Matthew:5:3 kjv@1Corinthians:3:10 kjv@1Corinthians:3:13 kjv@1Corinthians:3:16 kjv@Ephesians:4:14-15 kjv@Colossians:2:6).
When you first received, it was by faith in that which you could not yet see or feel. That same faith must be continually exercised in saying, "All that I see in Jesus is for me. I take it as mine, although I do not yet experience it." The love of God is a communicating--a ceaseless outstreaming of His light of life over the soul. It is a very powerful and genuine giving of Jesus. Our life is nothing but a continuous blessed understanding and reception of Him ( kjv@John:1:16 kjv@Colossians:2:9-10 kjv@Colossians:3:3).
And this is the way to live as children of God. To as many as receive Him, to them He gives the power to become children of God. This holds true, not only of conversion and regeneration, but also every day of my life. If to walk in all things as a child of God and to exhibit the image of my Father is indispensable, then I must take Jesus, the only begotten Son. It is He who makes me a child of God. The way to live as a child of God is to have the heart and life full of Jesus. I go to the Word to learn all the characteristics of a child of God ( kjv@Matthew:5:9 kjv@Matthew:5:16 kjv@Matthew:5:44-45 kjv@Romans:8:14 kjv@Ephesians:1:4-5 kjv@Ephesians:5:1-2 kjv@Philippians::2:15 kjv@Hebrews:2:10 kjv@1Peter:1:14 kjv@1Peter:1:17 kjv@1John:3:1 kjv@1John:3:10 kjv@1John:5:1-3). After each one of them I write--"Jesus will work in me; I have Him to help me to be a child of God."
Beloved young Christian, I implore you to learn to understand the simplicity and the glory of being a true Christian. It is to receive Jesus in all His fullness and in all the glorious relations in which the Father gives Him to you. Take Him as your Prophet, as your wisdom, your light, your guide. Take Him as your Priest, who renews you, purifies you, sanctifies you, brings you near to God, takes you, and forms you wholly for His service. Take Him as your King, who governs you, protects you, and blesses you. Take Him as your Head, your example, your Brother, your life, your all. The giving of God is a divine and an ever-progressive, effectual communication to your soul. Let your taking be the childlike, cheerful, continuous opening of mouth and heart for what God gives--the full Jesus and all His grace. To every prayer the answer of God is Jesus. All is in Him, and all in Him is for you. Let your response always be, "Jesus, in Him I have all." You are and you live, in all things, as children of God through faith in Jesus.
Father, open the eyes of my heart to understand what it is to be a child of God and to live always as a child, through always believing in Jesus, Your only Son. Let every breath of my soul be faith in Jesus, a confidence in Him, a resting in Him, a surrender to Him, so that He may work all in me. Amen.
1. By the grace of God, you now know that you have received Jesus and are God's child; you must now take pains to make His salvation known. There is many a one who longs to know and cannot find out how he can become a child of God.
2. Endeavour to make two things plain to him. First, that the new birth is something so high and holy that he can do nothing in it. He must receive eternal life from God through the Spirit. He must be born from above. This Jesus teaches ( kjv@John:3:1-8).Then, make it clear to him how low God has descended to us with this new life, and how near He brings it to us. In Jesus there is life for everyone who believes in Him. This Jesus teaches ( kjv@John:3:14-18). And Jesus and the life are in the Word.
3. Tell the sinner that when he takes the Word, he then has Jesus and life in the Word ( kjv@Romans:10:8). Take pains to tell the glad tidings that we become children of God only through faith in Jesus.
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Brian Gray spent months working on his senior capstone project, helping design a rocket whose technology would, in the event of a disaster, produce a temporary Internet network.
He then traveled to Toney, Alabama, in April for a "proof of concept" launch as part of the NASA Student Launch Project. And it worked: the rocket rose up almost a mile and the data transmission went as planned. Pretty cool stuff for a mechanical engineering major.
But equally cool is this: in March, at the same time Gray was using all that left brain thinking, he was rehearsing with UNH's ballet dance troupe for a performance of "Echoes From the Highland," practicing so many hours a day that it made taking over a key role easy after a lead dancer was injured opening night.
"I like using the other side of my brain instead of just punching numbers all the time," Gray says. "It's fun to do something so completely different."
Engineering (he already has a job with a company that designs medical devices) allows him to do hands-on work –to figure things out as he goes along. He likes that.
Dancing, however, is a whole other kind of challenge.
"There's quite a learning curve. It's not just throwing on pointe shoes and tutus," says Gray, a senior who first started dancing as a freshman when a friend invited him to a "bring a boy day" ballet class.
That's where he met Larry Robertson, UNH professor of dance and the ballet company instructor who has guided Gray through his performances with the dance company during the last two years.
Gray has been back to the "bring a boy day" classes many times since. He has also taken tango lessons. In "Echoes From the Highland" he got to dance while wielding a sword. There were fight scenes. He even had a duel with Robertson.
"There was a lot of work involved; rehearsals and the shows. But it was a nice outlet. A nice change from sitting in classes talking about systems and fluid dynamics," Gray says. "With dance, there is emotion. That's different than just a solution."
Gray says he has always liked the artistic side of things, and that he would love to find other dancing opportunities. Already he is planning on dancing with the UNH troupe after he graduates.
"It's been an awesome opportunity to be part of the dance company," Gray says. "How many times in your life are you going to be able to jump on stage and do something like that? It was unique."
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REWE digital: Delivering groceries at scale, direct to the apartment door
About REWE digital
Founded in 2014, REWE digital works to digitalize REWE Group, one of the leading retail cooperatives in Germany with revenues of over €57 billion.
Running online grocery delivery on a national scale is complex, which is why REWE digital created a Google Cloud Platform architecture making development teams autonomous, ready to meet the challenge.
Google Cloud Results
- Accelerates service development by separating source code for distinct domains
- Enables flexibility between cloud and on-premises locations thanks to low latencies
- Scales from two development teams to more than 48 teams with managed services
Synchronizing 48 independent teams on over 270 services
The word "Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung", or food information regulation, is more than just a mouthful for German food retailers. Abbreviated as LMIV, the EU regulation requires that labeling for food precisely matches what people find on their plates, so that everyone knows where food is from and what it contains. That's great for improving transparency and protecting consumers, but it's one of many regulations that make supply chains truly complicated, as Ansgar Brauner, Software Architect at REWE digital, explains:
"It really makes a difference if a tomato comes from the Netherlands or from Spain. That's something both customers and retailers need to know exactly. Even the same kind of milk from the same brand will have different article numbers if it is produced at separate farms. LMIV greatly increased the variety of products that a retailer has to track, handle, and document in detail."
In terms of challenges, LMIV is the tip of the iceberg for REWE Lieferservice, Germany's first and biggest large-scale grocery delivery service. Serving 75 German cities from eight specialized food fulfillment centers, REWE Lieferservice reaches most of the residents of Europe's most populous country. At that scale, grocery delivery is exceptionally complex. Everything from stock picking to vehicle availability must be synchronized, optimized, tracked, and planned. And because groceries perish, they must be kept at one of up to six temperature zones to ensure high-quality standards and to meet legal requirements, all the way from the warehouse shelf to a customer's apartment door.
"Each of our three main platforms for REWE Lieferservice – fulfillment, ecommerce, and big data – contains many different products, such as search or recommendations. We decided that for rapid and stable development, every product should be as independent as possible, with minimal dependence on other services."—Ansgar Brauner, Software Architect, REWE digital
These complex logistics are made possible by the specialized fulfillment platform created by REWE digital, REWE Group's digital innovation team. "We needed an intermediate platform to coordinate our food fulfillment centers and the more than 150 REWE supermarkets where we offer click and collect services," says Ansgar. "Consolidating data from all of those locations is what enables planning routes for vehicles and the management of stock."
Looking to create the best delivery service possible for its customers, REWE digital designed a solution that could develop at speed using a microservices architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
"Each of our three main platforms for REWE Lieferservice – fulfillment, ecommerce, and big data – contains many different products, such as search or recommendations," says Ansgar. "We decided that for rapid and stable development, every product should be as independent as possible, with minimal dependence on other services."
Faster development with domain-driven design
In order to compete, major businesses need solutions that not only scale, but also evolve fast and continually with minimal disruption. For the team at REWE digital, it was clear that their fulfillment platform needed to address a wide range of related but distinct technical challenges.
"We had a close look at all the necessary logistics processes," says Ansgar. "We found all sorts of information coming into our food fulfillment center, including article data, orders, and advanced shipment notices from suppliers, as well as fresh food that must arrive with consumers well before its expiry date. Coming out, there was detailed stock information, value calculations, records of breakages, or products that have spoiled, and a process to substitute articles that are no longer available."
The team looked to divide the giant problem of large-scale grocery delivery into manageable pieces and adopted a domain-driven design approach. "Domain-driven design techniques established how these things connect to each other and where they can be separated," says Ansgar. "Through that, we found the points where we could establish clear boundaries between domains, ready to assign autonomous teams to individual problems, such as stock picking, quality control, and vehicle allocation."
"The low latency produced by Google Cloud Platform was really competitive and effective. We didn't see any disadvantages. Our microservices are located in different places, and we see no difference in latency if it runs in only one location or is split between on-premises and GCP. That's a real advantage."—Markus Rebbert, IT Architect, REWE digital
REWE Group already had a proven logistics platform, but its classic, monolithic design was more suited to traditional logistics. For the fast-moving, data-driven world of ecommerce, a different approach was required. "For our fast-growing business, we have to be quick and innovate constantly. Small, independent teams building small, independent services are much faster than when everyone works on a monolithic platform," says Markus Rebbert, IT Architect at REWE digital. "Separating the source code means developers have less code to handle and less need to coordinate with other teams when they bring changes live. Our main strategic goal was to empower that dispersed organizational structure within a single, scalable, resilient platform. We started with 2 development teams, but we wanted to be ready to scale to more than 48 development teams, each as independent as possible, creating new products and services."
In 2016, the team began benchmarking hybrid and cloud solutions, looking at compliance and security, as well as the latencies of the solutions with three on-premises data centers used by REWE Group.
"The low latency produced by Google Cloud Platform was really competitive and effective," says Markus. "We didn't see any disadvantages. Our microservices are located in different places, and we see no difference in latency if it runs in only one location or is split between on-premises and GCP. That's a real advantage."
Making teams more autonomous
To empower small teams of developers, REWE digital uses GCP managed services wherever possible, such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Dataproc. "Even services that are not yet offered as managed services can be run in GKE," says Markus. "And from there we can offer it to all the development teams."
REWE digital has more than 14 development teams dealing with specialized fulfillment topics, assisted by only four people tasked with operational issues such as building VPNs to on-premises locations, establishing software-defined networks, or build up and maintenance of Google Projects, GKE Clusters, and basic infrastructure like Apache Kafka.
"Where others would waste a lot of time coordinating things horizontally," says Markus. "We aim to verticalize responsibilities inside one team, so that, within boundaries, they can decide themselves which technologies to use and how to implement them."
"With GCP, software development teams can really act autonomously," says Ansgar. "They build services in their domain without relying on an operations department or other teams around them. They don't need to do things like request a new server, then wait six weeks for it. That autonomy fits well to the existing REWE digital philosophy and this combination is what makes the whole architecture so effective."
"With Google Cloud Platform, we can give development teams a playground to experiment in. We want to push decisions about implementation and features inside single development teams and GCP supports us well in enabling this autonomy, providing services that teams can use out of the box to build their product."—Markus Rebbert, IT Architect, REWE digital
Europe's most advanced food delivery warehouse
In two years, the REWE Lieferservice project has expanded from 2 teams to 48 teams running more than 270 services. "Since implementing GCP, we've seen the number of deployments by every team increase," says Markus. "Things are accelerating, and we are working on KPIs to assess that progress."
The latest developments show rapid progress on multiple fronts. In September 2018, REWE Lieferservice opened a new, partly automated warehouse, now the most advanced fulfillment center in Europe for food delivery. Pick-up services, where customers order online then collect their items in-store, are being rolled out fast to cover most of the 3,500 REWE supermarkets in Germany. To keep products at the correct temperatures from warehouse to customer and optimize the use of refrigeration, REWE digital is investigating several innovative technologies partly using Cloud IoT core. Meanwhile, a migration of the ecommerce platform from on-premises to GCP is well underway.
"We don't detect significant differences in performance between running the platform on-premises or on GCP," says Ansgar. "That's great, as it means we can run services on both locations while the transition happens. The high-performing latencies connecting to Google Cloud help us a lot. Because we don't notice a difference in network speed, we neither have to move everything to the cloud at once, nor build it cloud-native. We can build it cloud-native at the pace the teams decide, with minimal disruption."
"With Google Cloud Platform, we can give development teams a playground to experiment in," says Markus. "We want to push decisions about implementation and features inside single development teams and GCP supports us well in enabling this autonomy, providing services that teams can use out of the box to build their product."
About REWE digital
Founded in 2014, REWE digital works to digitalize REWE Group, one of the leading retail cooperatives in Germany with revenues of over €57 billion.


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WHISTLER – His dad was the Edmonton Eskimos' self-proclaimed Dr. Death, a menacing defensive lineman and five-time Grey Cup champion, and his older brother is a highly regarded defensive tackle at Michigan State.
But 17-year-old John Fennell would rather hurtle down an ice-covered sliders' autobahn on what is essentially an over-sized serving tray on runners than pound people on a gridiron.
Fennell is one of a group of young Canadian luge athletes preparing to build on the breakthroughs the national team has made in the last couple of years.
This week, he gets to compete alongside the sport's best at the FIL world championships at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
"It's pretty cool to come out here and train with the big guys," an excited Fennell said after a practice session ahead of Friday's race.
"It's kind of a shock. You hear about all these people and see their standings in the World Cup. And it's kind of impressive to see them close up. And it's even scarier to think that I'm going to be racing these guys."
Fennell's father, Dave, played with the Eskimos from 1974-83, winning the CFL most outstanding defensive player award in 1978. He now is a top Canadian mining executive. David Fennell Jr., John's 19-year-old brother, moved to Portland, Ore., from Calgary for his final high school season and earned a scholarship to Michigan State, where he redshirted in 2012.
John played some football as a youngster, but says the sport couldn't match the adrenalin rush of luge, which he began at age 11 with a Learn to Luge session at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
"It's tobogganing, but just the extreme version and that's the most exciting part.
"It's the speed and the challenge of finding the right line down the track and crossing the finish line and knowing that you made the right moves to be successful."
So did his brother ever try the sport?
"Nooo," he says with a laugh. "If you've ever seen my brother, he's built like a refrigerator. He's not the kind of athlete who would be doing this. He's 6-3, 280, so he's perfect for D-line."
Fennell says his father has been hugely supportive of his athletic pursuit and will be in the crowd Friday.
John, long and lanky at 6-3 and 100 pounds lighter than his brother, is the perfect build for luge.
"Usually, if you look at the guys at the top of the podium, fastest starters, they're all around 90-95 kilos, long arms, usually pretty thin," said Fennell, who's been on the podium on the junior World Cup circuit. "It's a lot about fast-twitch, explosive muscles at the start."
Fennell, who wants to eventually study business at the University of Calgary, was 13th at last weekend's junior worlds at Park City, Utah, although his time was just under a second back of the Italian winner in an extremely close race.
Sam Edney, Canada's top male slider, says Fennell and another 17-year-old Calgarian, Mitchell Malyk, who was 11th in Park City, have "amazing potential."
Both will also get to compete at a World Cup in Sochi next month and have a shot at getting their first Olympic experience a year later.
"I know when I leave the sport," said Edney, "I'm going to leave the program with some great athletes and some potential medallists."


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Mini USB/Serial Adapter
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This board converts a USB connection into 5 volt TX and RX that you can connect straight to the Arduino Mini or other microcontrollers, allowing them to talk to the computer. It is based on the FT232RL chip from FTDI (drivers are included with the Arduino software).
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With power numbers sagging, Napoli out of lineup
BOSTON -- As the Red Sox opened a four-game series against the Blue Jays Thursday, Mike Napoli was given a day off in favor of Mike Carp at first base.
Manager John Farrell said the move was just due to matchups, but there's no denying Napoli has seen a steep drop in his power numbers in June.
It's been 26 days and 64 at-bats since Napoli has hit a home run. Of his 31 extra-base hits this season, only two have come this month. Since June 1, Napoli has actually raised his average to .264 from .252, but Farrell said he has noticed a slight change in the first baseman's swing.
"I think at times you know the swing will get a little bit long at times, but that's no different than anybody else that's playing every single day," Farrell said. "If we can balance a day of rest in between to keep him fresh, that's in addition to a matchup that's kind of what we're looking to do."
Overall, Napoli is batting .264 with nine home runs and 53 RBIs.


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I'd like to thank Ashley @ Ashley in Wonderland and Kathy @ Pages Below the Vaulted Sky for tagging me in the Book Blogger Insider Tag. I enjoy connecting with them at their blogs. If they are new to you, please go and say Hi as they both write some interesting reviews.
- Answer the questions below
- Credit the creator: Jamie @ ALittleSliceofJamie
- Tag at least 5 people
- Have fun!
1. Where do you typically write your blog posts?
Usually in my home office on our PC. We painted the tiny wall behind the computer midnight blue and I love staring at it whilst formulating my thoughts. I really want to add a floating shelf and some fairy lights to it so my staring into nothingness gets some 'texture'. 😉
2. How long does it take you to write a book review?
It depends. I usually write a draft first, which takes anything around 30 – 60 minutes. Then I like to sleep on it and edit it on my iPad. I usually don't post straight away, but rather a few days after my initial draft.
3. When did you start your book blog?
In February 2018.
4. What's the worst thing about having a book blog in your opinion?
All those passionate and wonderful reviews my fellow book bloggers write. I somehow want to read all of those books immediately. Don't take me wrong, I love being inspired.. but.. I sometimes feel I need to read everything straight away. And I am the only one to blame for that … #bookishproblems 🙈
5. What is the best thing about having a book blog in your opinion?
I would say it's the blogging community, discovering alike minded bloggers and sometimes expanding my reading horizons because of that has been tremendous fun and I am so grateful for all those interesting and kind people I got to meet so far. 🙂
6. What blog post have you had the most fun writing so far?
Top 5 Wednesday Ideal Mash-Ups. Mostly because it turned out to be a creative thing I discussed with my boyfriend and his family and was a lot of fun in general.
7. What is your favourite type of blog post to write?
I enjoy deconstructing books – I am fascinated by human behaviour and love analysing characters wondering why they did what they did and how it got captured in a book. So I would say book reviews are probably my favourite posts to write.
8. When do you typically write?
Before I start working in the mornings, usually after I walk my dog and have some good coffee. Side note: I am seriously turning into a coffee snob these days buying freshly roasted coffee beans that I grind and all that jazz… 😉
9. How do you write your book reviews? With a cup of coffee or tea? With Netflix? Cuddledup with your fur baby?
I don't have a routine. I may have some coffee, my dog likes to hang around with me in the study unless some cats and squirrels pay him a visit in our garden which triggers his guardian alert and requires his attention downstairs… I sometimes burn an intense stick (much to my dog's annoyance) and really enjoy watching trees outside or stare into that dark wall mentioned in point 1). 🙂
10. When do you write your book reviews? Right after finishing the book? Two weeks after finishing the book?
I usually wait at least a few days, sometimes a week or two. I mostly formulate my thoughts whilst walking my dog and let them brew a bit. I tend to copy quotes whilst reading a book but don't take notes. I probably would benefit from that though…
11. How often do you post?
I don't have a fixed schedule, I tend to do regular #T5W posts and ideally would like to post at least one book review a week. But if that doesn't happen, I won't stress about it. I have also started a Chitter-Chatter series but again, no fixed routine there yet. It may be a Friday thing but don't hold me to it.
I think most of the bloggers I interact with has done this tag by now.
If you haven't done it yet, consider yourself tagged and if that is something you would enjoy doing, please let me know as I would love to read your answers. 🙂
Before I go, I have one question I'm desperate to know though:
What is your favourite type of blog post to write?
Fancy sharing that with me? 🙂 Thanks. 🙂


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The recipe for these cookies, along with the original chinese new year themed cookies
can be found here.
You can hopefully tell my piping skills have greatly improved.
I tried to keep all the cookies gold and red. Since thats all I see on red envelopes. I did use a little black and white though.
Year 2013 is the year of the snake. Chinese new year will be on February 10.
I'm very excited for it.


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Long a vocal critic of B.C.'s conventional fish-farming industry, environmentalist David Suzuki has helped create a new product being tested as feed for farmed salmon.
Suzuki and Brad Marchant, CEO of the Vancouver-based start-up company Enterra, coined the idea of using maggots fed on food waste to create a sustainable source of protein while fly fishing in Yukon.
"For years we've been fighting salmon aquaculture, not because we are against aquaculture, but we felt that [conventional] aquaculture was the wrong way to do it," Suzuki told The Vancouver Sun. "First of all, the salmon are grown in open nets, so you are using the ocean as a sewer. Closed containment is the way it has to go."
Suzuki said he would oppose using the feed in open-net salmon aquaculture.
"I would not like that at all," said Suzuki. "I think it should be used, with vision, in hard containers, but I think that [technology] is coming."
"I wouldn't be happy, but I guess it's better than fish meal," he said.
Recent advances in closed containment fish farming have begun to address some of the effects of salmon farms on wild salmon, predators and the marine environment, but feed remains problematic.
Critics, including Suzuki, complain that the feed used to grow farmed salmon simply converts one kind of fish — often anchovy from Peru — into another at a huge cost to the health of wild fisheries.
"I asked David what else we could feed fish and he said, 'They eat insects,'" Marchant said. Suzuki's fly-fisherman's insight tickled Marchant's inner venture capitalist.
"So we went looking for an insect system that could convert food waste into food that we could give to fish and chickens," Marchant said.
As co-founder, Suzuki acts as science adviser to Enterra, but donated his shares in the company to the David Suzuki Foundation.
While B.C.'s aquaculture industry has made progress in reducing the amount of fish meal and fish oil in feed, an insect-based system that diverts waste food from landfill would be a great leap forward, said Jay Ritchlin of the David Suzuki Foundation.
"This is brilliant," said marine biologist Alexandra Morton, a staunch opponent of conventional open-net fish farming. "It is such a relief when I see something like this that makes sense."
"What makes no sense is to harvest large amounts of fish from the ocean and drag them the length of the planet to end up with less fish," said Morton.
Enterra takes fruit and vegetable waste from grocers and food processors — including Overwaitea Food Group and Sun Processing — combines it with a small amount of fish trim and waste bread and feeds it to the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly, a common insect indigenous to North America.
"It only takes three hours for them to eat the food, so it never sits around or rots," Marchant said. The larvae are fed every few hours and grow to the size of a small fingertip.
After two weeks the larvae are cleaned, cooked, dried and ground into meal. The end products include meal that is about 60 per cent protein and oils, both suitable for fish or poultry feed. The larvae castings are being tested as fertilizer at Davonda Nurseries in Langley and organic vegetable producer Amara Farm in Courtenay.
"We take traceable, pre-consumer food waste and turn it into a substitute for fish meal, poultry meal or soy meal — all resource intensive products," said Marchant. About 30 per cent of the world's food is sent to landfill, taking its nutrients with it, he said.
Every 100 tonnes of food waste yields five tonnes of meal and oil and seven tonnes of fertilizer. About 80 tonnes of water is removed through evaporation, a process fuelled in part by heat generated by the larvae themselves.
Feed products are entering the second phase of testing on salmon by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in West Vancouver, while the company waits for approvals from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
The company is about to begin construction on a commercial-scale plant in Langley scheduled to open next year.


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Mobile/Keyboard Switch Testing
SMAC's devices combine the features of an LVDT, Load Cell and zero-backlash positioning system into a single unit. These actuators perform the tests and report not only a Pass / Fail result but also measure stroke and force required to make or break contact. The Soft-Land feature allows testing to be done without the risk of damaging delicate mechanisms, and testing can be done in-line during the manufacturing process. This makes it ideal for reporting force vs. position and high speed durability testing. Easily integrates into any SPC data collection software. Accurately determines electrical contact point.
Force vs Position data feedback
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- Force feedback allows the user to measure break/toggle point on out and return stroke, thus displaying switch differential
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- Life testing of components as well as measurement and QA reporting functions in one unit.
- Assembly and test functions in one unit.
- Data capture to plot force vs. position
- Linear/rotary actuator in a single ready-to-mount package


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What is magnification?
Magnification is the process of enlarging or magnifying the apparent size of an object or specimen, but not the physical size. This means an object appears bigger when being looked at through the lens of a magnifying instrument, for example a magnifying glass or microscope.
The enlargement is calculated using numbers and measured in multiples. For instance, it can be measured in 2x, 4x or 10x – this indicates the object is enlarged to twice as big, four times as big or 10 times as big.
Not only does magnifying equipment make objects appear bigger, it also increases the amount of detail that can be seen, which is known as the resolution. Thanks to their ability to increase the amount of detail that can be seen through the human eye, magnifiers are one of the most widely used tools in the science industry.
Magnification equipment is classified within the category of test and measurement equipment, and is used across various industries and applications to measure and analyse components. These include:
- Electronics
- Research labs
- Material and particle analysis
- Manufacturing
The importance of magnification equipment
Any form of testing, measuring and monitoring is vital, and this includes magnifying. Precise measurement is essential because any errors can prove costly, and so trusted measurement means manufacturers save time and money, as well as improve the quality of their products.
Types of magnifiers
We have a wide variety of magnification equipment available, all of which is designed for different uses and environments. Some of these are listed below:
- Headband magnifiers – allow users to see through a magnifying glass while keeping both hands free.
- Microscopes – these portable tools enable users to see objects which are too small to view with the human eye, by magnifying them to hundreds or thousands of times their original size.
- Surface contact magnifiers/loupes – these are designed for reading text, with the instrument used in direct contact with the surface being read.
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For the Monkey Boy virgins amongst you, here's a quick low-down on the trio: two bassists, no guitars, one vocalist drummer. They combine blues, punk, jazz and something else entirely, have a tendency shout a lot, and sound a bit like an army of chainsaws on heat.
As well as having every song introduced by a computer generated voice, opening track Fish for a Quid features Keith Arthur's guide to economical fishing. I don't know why. I don't think Monkey Boy know why. But it just works damnit. In Deadmanjones the band somehow manage to balance ten second long gaps, groovy laid back jazz beats and demonic screaming in with their already baboonish (it's a real word!) sound, creating what basically amounts to the coolest music this side of Planet of the Apes: The Musical.
Throw in Journey to the God of Monk Rock, a nine minute long instrumental with five bass lines (thanks to Rothko lending a hand), then consider the fact that the potentially suicidal epic track actually sounds good, and you begin to realise Monkey Boy's underlying talent. If this single is anything to go by (and it is, I'm told), expect their debut album to be released this summer amidst a flurry of frenzied press hype, sold out shows and high pitched chimpanzee-impersonating fans.
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Think Brazil, think soccer, then think the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Could the stars possibly be more perfectly aligned?
For a nation whose lifeblood is soccer, that was nascido para jogar (born to play) and is one of the fastest growing economies today, probably not. Add to that the 2016 Olympic Games, to which Brazil is playing host and which will, like the World Cup, greatly increase Brazil's standing in the international community, and there's little doubt that Brazil is on course to a far sweeter spot than the one it's in now. Pulling off both events with aplomb will lock in the country's many fans, international investors included, for the long haul.
Already, foreign investors have been greatly attracted by the country, which has made spectacular progress in its journey from emerging market to BRIC nation: a country where a strong fiscal picture bolstered by the right kind of political leadership—one that is apparently resolute in its commitment to lasting reform—has resulted in a solid foundation for Brazil.
Today, says Alex Ashby, a research analyst at Global X Funds in New York, Brazil can be proud of its impressive achievements, which include successfully lifting millions of people out of poverty, sustaining an extremely low unemployment rate, maintaining public debt at low levels and ensuring an open and encouraging environment for foreign investment.
Natural resource-rich Brazil has benefited immensely from the global demand for its commodities, particularly from China, but the Brazilian administration hasn't taken things for granted. Apparently focusing on longer-term strength, the government has stuck to its reform agenda, looking to encourage privatization in different sectors of the economy, tackling important issues like corruption head on and seeking to overhaul both the public and private pension systems. Brazil's central bank has also proved to be a real pillar for the economy and adept at keeping the exchange rate stable.
"Obviously, the growth that Brazil has experienced in recent years has changed things more or less permanently," Ashby says.
But, he cautions, the situation can also go the other way very quickly if Brazil is not careful, which means that the country cannot digress from its chosen agenda.
Brazil has shown no sign of going down the route Argentina recently took with respect to increasing public sector involvement in the economy (in March, the Argentine government announced its decision to take a large stake in YPF, the country's largest oil company), and it probably won't. The country has nevertheless made significant gains that it cannot afford to lose; not just with respect to the importance of the events in 2014 and 2016, but to ensure its future as a key player in the global economy.
"Now more than ever, Brazil cannot regress, as investors want to see the kinds of reforms that would move the country forward rather than back," Ashby says.
These include easing the cumbersome tax burdens on certain industries and promoting pro-growth policies to help Brazilian industry compete globally, he says. The government has successfully raised interest rates to combat the threat of inflation, but this has made it tougher for Brazilian companies to borrow at low rates, which is why growth has slowed.
Ensuring that foreign investors remain interested in Brazil is key. Overall, Brazil is a much easier market to invest in than its fellow BRICs, says Ryan Issakainen, an ETF strategist at First Trust Advisors in Syracuse, N.Y., who follows Brazil closely. Still, the tax rates for foreign investment are relatively high.
"Brazil sees the value of bringing foreign investment into the country, and definitely there are less regulatory burdens in Brazil than there are in, say, India, but some of the policies in place are less friendly toward foreign investment, and it would be good to see some of that revised," Issakainen (left) says.
But for investors like Issakainen, Brazil's greatest problem, and one that it needs to tackle properly without further delay, is its infrastructure. That should be the highest priority on Brazil's "to do" list. Policy reform is necessary in the short term to encourage the speedy build-up of lasting infrastructure, but it's also the platform from which Brazil can go to the next level and ensure continued growth in the long term.
Infrastructure Is a Challenge
Consider that the United States is ranked fifth in terms of global competitiveness, while Brazil is ranked 53rd. Brazil is younger and it's growing faster, and yet, says Aaron Visse, a portfolio manager at Forward Management, it ranks far behind the United States when it comes to infrastructure.
"Brazil has been in a declining trend of investing in infrastructure compared to other BRICs, but a lack of infrastructure and the bottlenecks [it] creates are pretty big impediments to long-term growth," Visse says.
It's been said time and time again that all emerging market countries, the BRICs in particular, have serious infrastructure needs. In the case of Brazil, though, the need is even more pressing, Visse says; not only because the country badly needs roads, highways, train lines and ports to accommodate the onslaught that the 2014 World Cup will bring, but because for whatever reason, the government has never committed in a meaningful manner to developing infrastructure.
"China's transformation has been largely a function of its unwavering commitment to building world-class infrastructure. Even though China also faces bottlenecks, they are more than willing to invest in that area," Visse (right) says. "Brazil has not focused as much on infrastructure as it should have, but not addressing infrastructure will eventually hold back its potential for long-term growth."
Brazil's alleged lack of focus on proper infrastructure development has been a thorny issue in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. Many—most importantly the head of FIFA, the international soccer governing body—have contended that nothing is being done to alleviate existing infrastructure bottlenecks and to ensure that all the requisite new facilities are in place before the big event. The Brazilian authorities have, of course, countered the allegations, but it goes without saying that the events of 2014 and 2016 serve up the perfect excuse to address Brazil's infrastructure needs for the long haul, Visse says. By encouraging and enabling proper infrastructure development through policy and planning, Brazilian politicians can help provide a platform for long-term economic growth.
"Brazil has to make infrastructure a larger percentage of its GDP because if a country underinvests in infrastructure, it's capping its long-term growth potential," Visse says.
Brazil has recently proposed a $17 billion commitment to building up mass transit in some of the major cities that will be hosting the World Cup matches. Sticking with the plan and seeing it to its fruition will only be to the country's benefit in the long term, Ashby says, not only because they will greatly enhance day-to-day life in Brazil long after the World Cup is over, but also because these are the sorts of moves that will make foreign investors keen to invest in Brazil.
"Obviously, some of the infrastructure challenges that Brazil faces are going to be difficult to implement fully to get to the point where they're functioning at highest capacity in 2014 or even in 2016," Ashby says. "But these two events are a catalyst for Brazil to invest in infrastructure, and getting more private sector involvement in infrastructure financing should be a major goal for the government."
Infrastructure Is an Opportunity
As much as Brazil's infrastructure lacuna has been frustrating, it also spells a vast potential to come.
In fact, Forward's Visse, who runs a global infrastructure fund (KGIYX), has a significant overweight toward Brazil, and is particularly enthusiastic about the prospects for transport infrastructure. Several international players have given their vote of confidence to the sector, namely Spain's Abertis, which in late April took up a 60% stake in Brazil's Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL), a publicly owned and traded highway concessionaire.
Other companies such as EcoRodovias (the third largest holder of highway concessions in Brazil) and Companhia de Concessões Rodoviárias (CCR), one of the largest private infrastructure groups in the world, will be evaluating new opportunities for projects as they come up, Visse says, which is why "we think both of these companies will be the beneficiaries of long-term growth in Brazil."
Although Visse doesn't have the same enthusiasm for utilities on a global basis, he is certainly enthusiastic about them in Brazil, and again, he is overweight the sector compared to the index.
"One thing you benefit from right away when you invest in Brazilian utilities is the fact that Brazil has the world's largest source of renewable water, so most of their generation is hydro," he says. "You get away from any sort of climate legislation that may be forthcoming, you don't have a lot of nuclear, and what you're exposed to is a lot of very clean and renewable energy generation. The Brazilian utilities are also operating under a pretty clear regulatory environment. They are good inflation hedges in a market where there's greater inflation, and they have a lot of growth potential."
Not to mention that Brazilian utilities are trading at much lower multiples than their U.S. counterparts.
An Economy Big Enough to Slice
Brazil's infrastructure potential is just one piece of the opportunity pie that will allow investors to get to the meat and potatoes of economic growth. Investing at the micro level in sectors like infrastructure and in companies is the best way to capture the opportunity that long-term growth presents at the local level.
For Nick Cowley, portfolio manager at Henderson Global Investors in London, Brazil is an important play. It makes up 15% of Henderson's Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund (HEMIX). Cowley—who manages the Latin American sleeve of that fund—focuses on interesting stock opportunities in Brazil that offer a secular growth opportunity no matter what's happening in the global economy by improving the penetration of a product or service in the local Brazilian economy that can really capture the upside of local economic growth.
One of the biggest holdings he has is BR Malls, a shopping mall operator.
"In Brazil, only 20% of total retail space is in a mall environment, compared to 50% in the [United States] or Mexico," Cowley (left) says. "Clearly, [there are] a great deal of opportunities for new shopping malls in Brazil, and for investors, a good way to benefit from the rising middle-class story."
That's a story that, Issakainen says, is still not that easy to get access to for foreign investors.
"Most of the indices that track Brazil are still relatively top heavy, which means they mainly feature the large Brazilian companies, those that are multinational and whose revenues are tied more into the global economy," he says. "But the indices are not necessarily representative of the Brazilian market, because in Brazil, there are a lot of non-traded and non-liquid names. The big companies don't give an investor the exposure to the local Brazilian economy, which is where the opportunities lie."
First Trust's Brazil ETF (FBZ) does not exclude the larger, more high-profile Brazilian companies like Petrobras and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, but it also includes a healthy segment of mid-cap Brazilian names, selected for their industry merit and not for their market cap.
"In the long-term, if you're an investor looking to get exposure to Brazil for diversification purposes, you should really be looking to get exposure to the local economy rather than through the multinationals, which at the end, all tend to correlate anyway," Issakainen says.
The real action in Brazil is all happening at the local level, Ashby agrees, and that's why a targeted, niche approach to investing is the best way to capture the upside. Global X, for instance, has an ETF dedicated solely to the consumer sector in Brazil (BRAQ), designed to get the best out of Brazil's burgeoning consumer industry and is designed to take advantage of the rising wages and increased purchasing power of the Brazilian consumer.
"The Brazilian economy is large enough so that you can really start isolating different sectors and creating focused plays," Ashby says. "Anyone whose investment approach is still broad-based is not getting the real domestic Brazil exposure."
After all, it's at the local level that the build-up to FIFA 2014 and the 2016 Olympics is going to happen. Getting in there and being a part of that action can be a win-win situation for investors, even if they're only watching the events on television.


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Today we had a Dengue inspection to make sure our yards were not full of water collectors where mosquitoes lay eggs. This was not the usual young kids with bags of mosquito poison to dump in every receptacle including the well ... but just an inspection. I don't gather junk around the house like some in the neighborhood so I WON a certificate that we are Dengue free. Now I just hope the mosquitoes can read.
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Second Class Boy Scouts work on building their outdoor survival and camping skills. Compass work, nature observation, camp tools, and swimming are areas where new skills are mastered and demonstrated. A second class scout, having completed all the requirements, should be able to lead a hike, care for his own equipment, set up a campsite, and perform basic first aid.
Check out this video to learn how to prepare a personal first aid kit as a Boy Scout. Second Class Requirement No. 6b is specifically, "Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike."
Individual requirement items for Tenderfoot, 2nd Class, and 1st Class ranks may be worked on simultaneously depending on your program offerings but the ranks must be earned in the proper sequence.
Boy Scouting is a year-round program for young men to achieve core objectives of strengthening character, personal fitness and good citizenship. The BSA (Boys Scouts of America) endeavors to develop American citizens who are physically, mentally and emotionally fit; have a high degree of self-reliance as evidenced in such qualities as initiative, courage, and resourcefulness; have personal values based on religious concepts; have the desire and skills to help others; understand the principles of the American social, economic, and governmental systems; are knowledgeable about and take pride in their American heritage and understand our nation's role in the world; have a keen respect for the basic rights of all people; and are prepared to participate in and give leadership to American society.
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The return of Once Upon a Time is less than two weeks away! Soon some of our more burning questions will be answered, like how Regina (Lana Parrilla) will deal with a town full of people who now hate her with a passion — that won't be fun! — or how Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) reunion with her parents will go — that will be fun!
Once Upon a Time Photos: Regina's magic woes, the Charming family reunion!
Still, there are some questions we're sure the Sept. 30 premiere may not answer, including some of the more spoilery ones — like who is Henry's father?! We grabbed your fan questions off Twitter and hit up executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis for a lightning round of scoop, in which the producers had the option to answer, "Yes," "No" or "Can't Answer." Some of their answers, and possible non-answers, are pretty telling, so check them out below:
Will we learn Charming's (Josh Dallas) real name in Season 2?
Adam Horowitz: Yes.
Will we learn the identity of Jefferson's (Sebastian Stan) wife/Grace's mother this season?
Edward Kitsis: Probably no.
Will we see more of Belle's (Emilie de Ravin) relationship with her father Maurice (Eric Keenleyside)?
Horowtiz: Yes!
Will Once Upon a Time travel to the Land of Oz?
Will Emma's favor that she owes Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) come into play in Season 2?
Kitsis and Horowtiz: Hell yes!
Since Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) is coming, is there a chance we'll see Peter Pan or Wendy?
Kitsis: There is a chance we'll see Peter Pan, Wendy and/or... [dramatic pause] Tinker Bell. I would say that a story like Tinker Bell's deserves its own origin story.
Will there be consequences for Gepetto (Tony Amendola) and the Blue Fairy (Keegan Connor Tracy) for lying to the Charming family about the wardrobe?
Horowitz: Well, to be honest, I think a lot of those consequences have played out, which is to say Gepetto has been separated from his son yet again and the curse happened and all of the suffering that occurred, so I think they're still paying for that lie and that deception.
Will we meet Ariel from Little Mermaid?
Kitsis: Can't answer.
Will Emma get to be a badass with the sword again this season?
Kitsis and Horowitz: Yes.
Regina's shocking origin story, Storybrooke's future and more Once Upon a Time scoop
Is Henry's father someone we've already met?
Horowitz: Can't answer.
Will we see more of the different lands we saw on the way to Wonderland?
Horowitz and Kitsis: Yes.
Will we see more Wonderland?
Horowitz and Kitsis: Yes!
Who do you think Henry's father is? Hit the comments with your thoughts and be sure to check back for more Once scoop soon!
Once Upon a Time returns Sunday, Sept. 30 at 8/7c on ABC.


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Diversity 101
Today the OME had the opportunity to go to one of the Business Management classes to talk about diversity within business, most importantly diversity within life.
We mentioned that the ability to read other people's emotions (emotional intelligence) is important to find diversity in a place, as well as appreciative inquiry (where you appreciate others opinions/values/etc).
We want to know what students think and want in order to do a better job at promoting diversity within the university, and not only diversity, but unity in that diversity. Like George Pendergrass mentioned today, once you see and learn from the differences of other people it will only give you limitless possibilities to the things you do in life.
Another idea to keep in mind: We are all made in the image of God, therefore God is in all of us. So why do we just stay in our natural comfort zones and "appreciate" those who are similar instead of embracing God's creativity by learning from other people? I think if we truly did this we would grow so much and become better people and in turn it would affect our school, workplace, etc.
What are your thoughts?


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