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Visible Invisible Indexes (The Invisible Band) November 20, 2008Posted by Richard Foote in 11g, Invisible Indexes.
After spending the last few weeks traveling throughout Europe, it's about time I wrote a new post on the Blog !!
I've previously posted a simple demo on Invisible Indexes, a new 11g feature that allows you to quickly make an index "invisible" to the CBO.
Recently, a comment on the above post by Michael Sorensen mentions a nice post by Christian Antognini in which he demonstrates how so-called Invisible Indexes on Foreign Keys can still be used by Oracle to prevent locking and performance related issues when delete/update operations are performed on the parent records.
I previously posted how Index Monitoring on FK indexes doesn't pick up the fact so-called "Unused Indexes" can actually be "used" by Oracle for exactly this reason, quickly determining whether there's an existing FK record that needs to prevent the update or delete operation on the parent record from proceeding.
I also previously discussed how the 11g CBO can now use index statistics to determine the appropriate cardinality of a query and how Index Monitoring doesn't detect an index being "used" in this context as well.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Invisible Indexes might not be so invisible after all when it comes to the CBO potentially using the index statistics of an Invisible Index to determine the correct cardinality of a query.
This demo on Invisible Indexes and Index Statistics clearly shows that Oracle can still use the statistics of an index, even after they've been made invisible, to determine a more accurate cardinality for a query.
This means you need to be very careful how you use and apply Invisible Indexes and have a clear understanding on how Invisible Indexes are implemented by Oracle and the purpose for their use.
As I explain in my Indexing Seminar, Invisible Indexes are primarily intended to be applied when an application has suddenly and inexplicably started to use an index inappropriately and the database has significant performance issues as a result. The scenario is such that the performance of the database or application is so bad, it has caused the drain of resources to such an extent that normal business functions can't continue and drastic action is required to address the issue.
The drastic action is to make the problematic index invisible so that the CBO can no longer see and use the index within an execution plan. This is drastic because it means other queries that could currently be using the index appropriately will also be prevented from using the index but performance is so bad that such a consequence can't make matters any worse. By making the index invisible at least the resource drain can be prevented and hopefully most of the other business activities can now continue within the database.
By making the index invisible rather than simply dropping it, it means some sessions can investigate what the problem might be that's causing the inappropriate use of the index (by altering sessions to OPTIMIZER_USE_INVISIBLE_INDEXES = true). Once the issue has been solved and addressed, the index can quickly be made visible again, rather than having to recreate the index from scratch.
Invisible indexes could prove to be a handy option in such scenarios.
Invisible indexes are also often viewed as being a useful method of determining whether it's safe to drop an existing index that may not actually be used by an application. An unused index is a waste of both storage and resources in maintaining the thing but it's often difficult to determine what the ramifications might be if an index were to be dropped. By making an index invisible, it may be possible to "test the waters" so to speak and determine how an application may suddenly behave without the index.
However, making an index invisible may not necessarily provide an accurate determination of the ramifications of dropping such an index because as has already been demonstrated, there are a number of important and key areas in which invisible indexes are still being used by Oracle. Dropping such an index is not the same as simply making an index invisible and may result in the application suddenly behaving in an unexpected manner that could cause significant performance issues.
Invisible indexes are not entirely invisible if you see what I mean 😉
- 1. Robert Klemme - November 25, 2008
good to see you're safely back!
To me invisible indexes were sold by Oracle personnel as a helpful tuning means: "You create the index invisible, test it in your session where you enable access to invisible indexes without affecting regular business and then either make it visible or drop it if it isn't helpful."
I am not sure whether you mentioned this other obvious area where invisible indexes cannot really be invisible: for modifications of the base table it cannot be invisible since otherwise it would simply go from invisible to invalid. 🙂 And also in this case they can have an impact on regular operations, e.g. if the added IO cannot be done via buffer cache but makes physical IO necessary etc.
Kind regards
- 5. Book Review: Pro Oracle SQL « Charles Hooper's Oracle Notes - January 17, 2011
[…] Page 397: States, "There is another use case for the invisible indexes. These indexes are useful to reduce the risk while dropping unused indexes… From Oracle Database version 11g onwards, you can mark the index as invisible, wait for few weeks, and then drop the index if no process is affected with less risk." It is important that the book states "less risk" and not that there is no risk – it would have been helpful if the book discussed what risks remain (but again this might exceed the intended scope of the book). Just because an index is not used for a couple of weeks does not mean that the index will not be used during month-end closing, year-end processing, or some other infrequently occurring activity. Invisible indexes on foreign key columns may still be used to prevent table locking problems on the child table when the parent's primary key columns are updated. Additionally, the statistics from the invisible indexes may be used by the optimizer to more accurately determine cardinality estimates (reference reference2). […]
- 6. Book Review: Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes « Charles Hooper's Oracle Notes - September 11, 2011
[…] Recipe 2-11 claims to show a method of adding an index to a database such that adding that index will not affect third party vendor applications. The recipe provides a SQL statement that sets the OPTIMIZER_USE_INVISIBLE_INDEXES parameter to TRUE at the SYSTEM level (ALTER SYSTEM), and then states, "use a hint to tell the optimizer that the index exists". The hint is entirely unnecessary, changing the parameter at the SYSTEM scope is sufficient to allow all sessions to use the invisible index, thus potentially affecting the third part vendor application. Creating a UNIQUE invisible index will still affect the third party application on inserts, updates, and deletes regardless of the setting of the OPTIMIZER_USE_INVISIBLE_INDEXES parameter. Regardless of the setting of the parameter, the invisible indexes may still be used by the optimizer for cardinality calculations (thus adding the index could change execution plans, even if the session cannot use the index), and to prevent TM enqueues on foreign key columns. The recipe also states that one of the uses of invisible indexes is as a test to determine whether or not it is safe to later drop the index – however, for the reason just mentioned, this is not a complete/safe test to determine whether or not an index may be safely dropped. (pages 70-71 reference reference2) […]
- 7. Sokrates - May 13, 2013
email@example.com > create table phantom ( c int ); Table created. email@example.com > create unique index invisible_but_can_be_seen on phantom (c) invisible; Index created. email@example.com > insert into phantom values(0); 1 row created. email@example.com > insert into phantom values(0); insert into phantom values(0) * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00001: unique constraint (SOKRATES.INVISIBLE_BUT_CAN_BE_SEEN) violated email@example.com > drop table phantom purge; Table dropped. email@example.com > create table phantom ( c int, constraint cpk primary key (c) using index(create index invisible_but_can_be_used on phantom (c) invisible)); Table created. email@example.com > insert into phantom values(0); 1 row created. firstname.lastname@example.com > insert into phantom values(0); insert into phantom values(0) * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00001: unique constraint (SOKRATES.CPK) violated


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Jack was eager to settle his college plans early and so was I. His acceptance to RISD was a huge relief for both of us. The stress and uncertainty of the college process was over and now we can both relax until September.
But doing next to nothing turns out to be a lot less fun than he thought it would be. Fall is a long way away and Jack still has to get up at 7:00 each morning and sit in classes all day, listening to droning teachers, half-heartedly writing homework assignments in the period before they're due, doing the bare minimum to keep his grades above water so his acceptance isn't rescinded.
I say to him, well, you're still being taught useful and interesting things, even if your grades really don't mean as much. Can't you just learn … for the fun of it? What's the point, he groans. Who cares? I'll study when I get to college… Etc.
Senioritis isn't confined to teenagers. At every point in life, it's easy to be so focused on goals that one can't see the value in anything that doesn't pertain directly to them. All around are books and classes and conversations and experiences that would enrich us greatly but it's easier to just do the same-old and not expend the effort for something that doesn't same to have a direct benefit or relevance to one's occupation or obligations. What's the point in learning to draw or reading about ancient history or trying sushi or visiting China? We think we know it better, so despite the richness of the world around you, if your mindset is wrong you won't absorb or even register it. You screen it out.
When we're toddlers, we are constantly exploring and asking questions about everything we encounter. That impulse diminishes when we get older because our pre-frontal cortex develops and filters out the firehouse of information that is constantly streaming in. Most of the time, we certainly need that filter so we can be focused and goal oriented — it would be impossible to get anything done if we were always walking around in slack-jawed amazement. So we increasingly notice only those things that we have decided are related to our preconceived goals and orientations.
That means it takes an extreme form of novelty or trauma to snap us out of this narrow tunnel we have burrowed into. Something like 9/11, a death, an accident, can force us into a reassessment and new orientation. Our eyes are opened, we say, and suddenly we see things we'd never seen before.
We use this metaphoric language to describe this epiphany but what if we take this notion literally and force ourselves to actually see things anew. We can reorient our perception and put on a wider lens. Of course, we don't want to eliminate this screening function altogether or else we might wander off the road and spend all day picking wild flowers, but we can pick moments to relax our pre-frontal cortex, return to a more childlike state, rebuild our muscles of perception, and restock our cache of creative stimulation.
When you draw something you see it in a new way. A good drawing is a fresh perspective on an object you may have seen a thousand times before: a building, a body, a bowl of fruit, your breakfast dishes. But by paying deliberate and careful attention to every nook and cranny, you flood your mind and your page with new information about what you are seeing — the texture of a banana skin, the way light hits a brick, how the knee connects to the shin bone, the exact curve of a cup handle. You are suspending the critical function of your pre-frontal cortex, refusing to decide whether there's importance to each individual line and aspect; you just record them all. This information isn't actually that important to you beyond the act of drawing, you don't need to retain the visual data about that banana skin, it may have no further utility to you. But it is expanding your awareness of the world around you, strengthening for observation muscles — it has as much purpose as lifting the same weight over and over at the gym.
When your mind's eye is open and your screens and filters are down, you get more and more useful information, and that information and experience are the raw fodder for creativity. Forming associations between apparently disparate things to create a new idea is what creativity is all about. And the more open your mind is, the more you are open to experiencing things are interesting but may not have immediate and obvious relevance to your current endeavors. By exposing yourself to art, to novelty, to new ideas, facts and experiments, you stretch your mind so that it is pliable and elastic, so that it doesn't seize up when you have to move in a new direction. Your reservoirs of references are loaded and you have oodles of bits and bobs to build new ideas with.
Senioritis hits senior citizens too. It's easy, as you become middle aged and older, to think you know it all, that you have discovered what matters, that you know what you like to eat and like to vote for and where you like to visit and what you like to read and that experimentation and exploration are things of the past. But if you can loosen up your built-in filters, if you can slow down and draw every petal of a flower or the hairs on a dog's muzzle, you'll soon see that you don't know everything, far from it, and in fact you never will. And that realization, that the more we know the less we know, will set you free to devote the rest of your days to exploring the depth of your ignorance, to gathering sticks and shells and tastes and smells, and weaving them together in to combinations you and no one else have ever seen before.
Jack can afford to suspend learning until September. But I can't.
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Toddler crashes Jeep - then watches cartoons
Associated Press
MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. — Police say a toddler crashed a Jeep into an Oregon home, then ran back to his home to watch cartoons.
Authorities say the 3-year-old boy wearing only a diaper climbed into the Jeep Tuesday evening and knocked it out of gear. Witnesses say it rolled down the street, through an intersection and into the house, causing minor damage.
KPTV reports (http://bit.ly/1rhWlK6) an officer found the boy on a couch watching TV as if nothing had happened.
He said his parents weren't home and another relative was sleeping. Police cited 22-year-old Brennan Pennington for failing to supervise a child.


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Are humans instinctively cooperative or are we naturally selfish? This question has been a topic of inquiry for thousands of years, argued over by philosophers, psychologists, and theologians. Most recently, a group of researchers from Harvard University weighed in on the question in this week's issue of Nature.
The scientists conducted ten studies on cooperation to examine its cognitive basis in humans. The goal of this set of experiments was to determine whether we are predisposed to selfishness but become more generous once we are given time to think about it, or whether people are naturally cooperative, with selfishness only creeping in when we reflect more on our options. Taken together, the set of studies suggest that we are instinctively generous, but rational thought may make us greedier.
For several of their studies, the researchers recruited subjects from around the world using Amazon Mechanical Turk, or AMT. AMT is an online labor market that connects people to employers willing to pay small sums of money for a quick "job." In this set of studies, the jobs consisted of short games or tasks designed to measure the correlation between generosity and response time. Participants recruited in this way are much more diverse than the undergraduates that are often the subjects in these types of experiments.
In the first study, 212 participants were given 40 cents and asked to contribute whatever portion they liked to a communal pool; at the end, whatever had been donated was doubled by the experimenters and divvied up evenly among the participants. The researchers measured the time it took each participant to make a decision about how much to give, and compared it to the amount of money they contributed. The longer people took to decide, the less generous they were.
Then, the researchers conducted a variation of this study, but manipulated the amount of time people had in which to decide how much to donate. One group of subjects had to make their decisions within ten seconds; other subjects had to wait ten seconds before they were allowed to contribute anything, and third group of participants had no time constraints at all. The researchers found that subjects under time pressure gave significantly more money than either those that had to wait or those that were unconstrained. Participants in the 'time-delay' condition were the least generous, donating significantly less money than those in the other two groups. In other words, those that were forced to respond instinctively cooperated much more than those that had more time to consider their options.
It appears from these studies that humans are predisposed to cooperation and generosity, and only become selfish when they take time to think about the situation. The effect was robust, occurring both in subjects recruited from AMT and in college students. Furthermore, a meta-analysis of previously published work showed that this effect was observed not only in the donation scenario described above, but also in other social "games" (such as the prisoners' dilemma) that are either played just once or repeated multiple times.
The researchers were even able to manipulate participants into being either selfless or greedy, based on whether they were primed to think about intuition or careful reasoning. Some participants were primed to believe in their intuition by asking them to either write an essay about a time in their life when their intuition was right, or when careful reasoning was wrong. A second group, which had to write about when their intuition led them astray or when careful reasoning proved helpful, was primed to promote rationality. When asked to contribute money, donations were much higher in the first, intuitively-primed group than in the second group, which had been primed for rationality and reflection.
So where do these cooperative instincts come from? The researchers rightly warn that these results don't necessarily mean that generosity is hardwired into our DNA; nurture may play an important role here. Humans are reared in a generally cooperative society where we engage in repeated interactions with people we know, and where our reputations are important. Under these conditions, we likely learn that cooperation is the best way to proceed, and subsequently act this way instinctively.
Only when people are put into a situation where cooperation is not advantageous (such as these experiments) and given time to think about the situation do they become more self-serving. Indeed, the researchers found that the effect disappears after repeated trials; people become less cooperative as they gain greater familiarity with these laboratory tasks.
The particularly intriguing—and somewhat counterintuitive—implications of this body of research are that the traditional ways we try to foster cooperation and generosity may actually be doing the opposite. It is possible when we ask people to consider donating to a cause or to reflect on the benefits of working together, we may actually be promoting greater levels of self-interest.
Nature, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nature11467 (About DOIs).


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BEIRUT (AP) — President Bashar Assad's government on Tuesday accepted a Russian plan to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile as momentum mounted for a proposal that could avert American strikes against the regime. The U.S. and France turned to th
BEIRUT (AP) — President Bashar Assad's government on Tuesday accepted a Russian plan to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile as momentum mounted for a proposal that could avert American strikes against the regime. The U.S. and France turned to the United Nations for a resolution to ensure Damascus complies.
With domestic support for a strike uncertain in the United States and little international appetite to join forces against Assad, the developments had the potential to blunt a thorny diplomatic problem and allow the Obama administration to back away from military action.
But neither effort attempts to end or even address the civil war that has left more than 100,000 dead in Syria and the main opposition bloc dismissed the chemical weapons plan as a largely meaningless measure that would allow Assad free rein to fight on with conventional weapons. [syria-poll]
Syria's foreign minister said the government would accept a plan from Russia, its most powerful ally, to give up its chemical weapons in order "to thwart U.S. aggression," offering a diplomatic option for how to respond to the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that the Obama administration, France and others blame on Assad.
Damascus denies its forces were behind the attack. The U.S. has said more than 1,400 Syrians died; even conservative estimates from international organizations put the toll at several hundred.
France, a permanent member of the 15-nation Security Council, will start the process at the United Nations on Tuesday under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which is militarily enforceable, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said at a news conference organized shortly after meeting with the French president.
President Barack Obama threw his support behind the resolution even as he pushed the idea of U.S. airstrikes against Assad's regime if that effort fails. British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country would join France and the U.S. in putting forward the proposal.
Fabius said the French resolution would demand that Syria open its chemical weapons program to inspection, place it under international control, and ultimately dismantle it. A violation of that commitment, he said, would carry "very serious consequences." The resolution would condemn the attack and bring those responsible to justice, he said.
Fabius expressed caution that French authorities "don't want to fall into a trap" that could allow Assad's regime to skirt accountability or buy time.
"We do not want this to be used as a diversion," Fabius said. "It is by accepting these precise conditions that we will judge the credibility of the intentions expressed yesterday."
The details and timeframe of the French proposal remained vague, but Fabius said he expected a "nearly immediate" and tangible commitment from Syria. Within two hours, he had a response from his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moallem.
"We agreed to the Russian initiative as it should thwart the U.S. aggression against our country," he said.
Moallem's comments amounted to the first formal admissions by top Syrian officials that Damascus even possesses chemical weapons. In interviews aired as recently as Monday, Assad repeatedly refused to acknowledge whether his regime did.
Russia is now working with Damascus to prepare a detailed plan of action that will be presented soon, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Russia will then be ready to finalize the plan with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to give a nationally televised address on Syria on Tuesday night, reached back into history — and the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union — to make his case against Syria, even as he cautiously welcomed the early developments.
"The key is, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, that we don't just trust, but we also verify," Obama told CBS. "The importance is to make sure that the international community has confidence that these chemical weapons are under control, that they are not being used, that potentially they are removed from Syria and that they are destroyed."
Obama said the idea actually had been broached in his 20-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on the sidelines of an economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama said he directed Secretary of State John Kerry to have more conversations with the Russians and "run this to ground."
The Syrian National Coalition dismissed the Assad government's turnaround as a maneuver to escape punishment for a crime against humanity. The coalition had been hoping for military strikes from abroad to tip the balance in the war of attrition between rebels and Assad's forces.
In a statement Tuesday, the coalition said Moscow's proposal "aims to procrastinate and will lead to more death and destruction of the Syrian people."
"Crimes against humanity cannot be dropped by giving political concessions or by handing over the weapons used in these crimes," the group said.
Syria's acceptance on Tuesday did not detail how any disarmament could be carried out, and analysts cautioned that it was those details that would make the offer credible.
"I don't think this proposal was developed and thought through. I think it came a little bit out of the blue to solve a political crisis," said Ralf Trapp, a disarmament consultant who worked for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 1997 to 2006. "Now we're in a situation where if we have political preparedness to go through with it, we now need to think in practical terms and that's where, as always, the devil is in the details."
But it was clear that many in the Mideast, Europe and the U.S. were cautiously seizing on the initiative as a way to untangle the diplomatic impasse before Obama takes the issue before Congress.
Britain's Cameron called the plan a "serious offer," and said he spoke to Obama about it Tuesday.
On Monday, Kerry said Assad could resolve the crisis by surrendering control of his chemical arsenal to the international community. Russia's Lavrov responded by promising to push Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly, to avert U.S. strikes. Syria's acceptance came less than 24 hours later.
Fabius said Russia had information about Damascus' chemical weapons stockpile, and expressed hope that this time a tough resolution on Syria would not be thwarted, alluding to efforts led by Western powers at the U.N. body in recent months that were blocked by Russia and China.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said of the Russian proposal: "As long as it eases the tension and helps maintain Syrian and regional peace and stability, and helps politically settle the issue, the global community should consider it positively."
The chief of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, also expressed support for the proposal, telling reporters that it has been always in favor of a "political resolution." The league has blamed the government for the attack, but says it doesn't support military action without U.N. consent.
Fabius also warned that finding and destroying "more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons" would be very difficult and would require international verification amid Syria's civil war. He reiterated France's position that Assad must leave power: "We can't imagine that someone who was responsible for 110,000 dead, it is said, can stay in power forever."
Jean Pascal Zanders, an international disarmament expert, said any agreement depends on trust that the Syrian government is telling the truth about its weapons: "It requires full comprehensive declaration, and any failure on the Syrian government would immediately destroy confidence of the international community and probably split it again."
Hinnant reported from Paris. Jamey Keaten in Paris, David Rising in Berlin, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Zeina Karam in Beirut, and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.
-- An earlier version of this report was published at 8:03 a.m. and again at 8:47 a.m.


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NEW YORK -- Tim Duncan was selected to his 14th All-Star Game, Spurs teammate Tony Parker is joining him, and the Chicago Bulls also had two reserves chosen Thursday for next month's game in Houston.
Joakim Noah and Luol Deng were picked from the Bulls, who have stayed in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race despite the season-long absence of point guard Derrick Rose. Noah is one of five first-time All-Stars for the East, along with New York's Tyson Chandler, Indiana's Paul George, Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, and Philadelphia's Jrue Holiday.
Miami's Chris Bosh, picked for his eighth All-Star team, rounded out the East squad.
West forwards David Lee (Golden State), LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland) and Zach Randolph (Memphis) all were picked for the second time. Houston's James Harden was chosen for the first time and joins former Oklahoma City teammate Russell Westbrook, headed to his third straight All-Star game.
Duncan wasn't chosen last year for the first time in his career but has bounced back with a terrific season at age 36, averaging 17.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.7 blocked shots, his best statistics since 2009-10.
The co-MVP of the 2000 All-Star Game joined a group that includes Michael Jordan for fifth-most selections. Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett, both voted to start, and Shaquille O'Neal all were picked 15 times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the career leader as a 19-time All-Star.
The reserves were voted by the head coaches from each conference, who had to select two guards, three frontcourt players and two players regardless of position. They were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams.
With centers Chandler and Noah, East coaches passed on Brooklyn's Brook Lopez, the leading scorer for a resurgent team that is right behind the Knicks for the Atlantic Division lead. Perennial All-Stars Deron Williams and Joe Johnson of the Nets also missed out, as did Boston's Paul Pierce.
Lee gave the Warriors their first All-Star since Latrell Sprewell in 1997, but coach Mark Jackson and his team hoped for more. However, Stephen Curry wasn't selected despite averaging 20.9 points. He's the league's eighth-leading scorer and the highest one who won't be in Houston for the Feb. 17 showcase.
Lee called his selection "bittersweet" because Curry -- the first person to send him a congratulatory text -- wasn't picked.
"In our practice facility, there's that All-Star chart and it stops at '97 and there hasn't been any since. So the whole team was really excited with the improved record this year and to get one or both of our guys on there," Lee said. "I'm really excited to be the one that goes and represents our team. I wish Steph could be a part of it and maybe he'll still be able to. I'm just very, very excited. It's been a long time for the Bay Area fans. Not only to have an All-Star, but to be winning games."
Voted as East starters by fan voting along with Garnett were Miami's LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, New York's Carmelo Anthony and Boston's Rajon Rondo.
The West starting five is Bryant and Dwight Howard of the Lakers, Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, and Clippers teammates Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
The Clippers were hoping for a third All-Star, but sixth-man Jamal Crawford wasn't picked.
Commissioner David Stern would choose the replacement if any players are injured.
Randolph leads the NBA with 27 double-doubles and becomes the first Grizzlies player with multiple selections.
"It is truly an honor to be named by the NBA's coaches to the 2013 Western Conference All-Star team," he said in a statement. "I am grateful for this opportunity and look forward to playing with the best players in the world."
The leaders of the teams with the best winning percentage in their conference through games of Feb. 3 will be the coaches. Miami's Erik Spoelstra has the inside track on the East spot, while San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and the Clippers' Vinny Del Negro are battling for the West honor since Scott Brooks, whose Thunder have the league's best record, is ineligible after coaching last year.
Irving, the reigning Rookie of the Year, and Holiday were rewarded for outstanding individual seasons even though their teams are well below .500. Irving is the Cavaliers' first All-Star since James, the only other East player averaging at least 20 points and five assists.
"It's one of the best days of my life," Irving said Thursday night, shortly after also being honored as Cleveland's professional athlete of the year award at the Greater Cleveland Sports Awards. "It's a big deal for me and it's a big deal for the city of Cleveland to be picked as an All-Star for the first time. I'm turning 21 on March 23 and to be with those guys, to see those names on TV, that was truly a blessing."
The 22-year-old Holiday, the youngest All-Star in franchise history, is averaging 19.0 points and 9.0 assists but feared the 76ers' 17-25 mark would work against him.
"I thought so. I definitely thought so. I think anybody else probably would, too," he said while watching a Philadelphia Flyers game. "We're not getting on a winning streak or anything like that. I just tried to stay positive and not talk about it."


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The Cloud and Interactive Computing (CIC) group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center develops, deploys and administers production-grade cloud resources, applications, services and tools for the national research science community. CIC has four major areas of focus: programmable cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, managed cloud-native platforms and applications, consulting, and research and development efforts into new cloud and interactive computing technologies.
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CIC operates multiple national-scale production clouds funded by grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation that provide self-service academic cloud computing capabilities.
Chameleon is a highly configurable cloud computing resource for large-scale cloud and computer science research. Chameleon includes both bare-metal and KVM provisioning with diverse and heterogeneous hardware types to enable experimentation with alternative technologies.
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On top of the lower level infrastructure-as-a-service, CIC develops, deploys and administers higher level cloud and interactive computing platforms, applications and tools.
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Science-as-a-service API platform is a platform of RESTful API services for the open science community, TAPIS provides APIs for many of the common distributed computing tasks including, data and metadata marshalling and movement, code execution and job lifecycle management, identity and authorization.
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Abaco (Actor Based Containers) is a functions-as-a-service platform based on Linux container technology and the actor model for concurrent computation. Abaco provides a web service layer over a container execution engine to enable reproducible, event-driven computing patterns.
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The X Factor: Who Did Simon Threaten to Put in the "Naughty Chair"?
Viewers got a double dose on The X Factor Wednesday night, with each of the remaining six acts performing two songs - the first an unplugged number, and the second a song chosen by viewers - as they attempt to move into next week's semifinals. For the audience-chosen performances (a.k.a. the "Pepsi Challenge" - yay sponsorship!), viewers weighed in not only on the song choice, but also on everything from the act's wardrobe to the stage lighting. Suffice it to say, we hope the show goes back to having the judges make these decisions next week.
So, which two contestants should be sent home on Thursday's show? Here's a breakdown of their performances:
It's fitting that CeCe is such a fan of leopard makeup, because it truly seems like she's had nine lives in this competition. For her unplugged number, the only remaining contestant from Demi Lovato's Young Adults group performed a piano ballad version of Lady Gaga's "Edge of Glory" that both L.A. Reid and Britney Spears agreed was good but not great. Though Reid said he was "starting to become a fan," Simon Cowell told Frey flat-out, "I don't think you're worth a $5 million recording contract." Unfortunately, Frey's audience song - Katy Perry's "Part of Me" - only proved Cowell right. Her flat vocals would have been more appropriate at a karaoke-themed bachelorette party than on a reality singing competition.
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As promised, Emblem 3 did more than sing this week, with the spiky-haired, often shirtless one playing guitar to a shaky-at-best performance of Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are." (And by playing, we mean he was shown holding a guitar and strumming chords that didn't exactly sync up with the music that was coming out of the speakers. Just saying.) Spears called it the group's best performance thus far in the competition, but Lovato (who Cowell dubbed "Cruella" and threatened to put in "the naughty corner" twice) had much harsher feedback. "It's a downgraded version of the Jonas Brothers five years ago," she told them. Their second performance, of Alphaville's "Forever Young," was more the group's speed. The judges told them as much, with Reid saying they "nailed it" and Spears hailing the "superstar performance." Even Demi could only say that they needed to "work the stage" more.
For her unplugged number, the reigning frontrunner offered a subdued rendition of Justin Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me" that Lovato said was better than the original. All the judges agreed it was one of their favorite performances to date in the competition. It's a safe bet that Sonenclar will retain her No. 1 spot after tonight's voting, because she followed up her unplugged performance by slaying Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy." "I think you're the definition of The X Factor," her mentor, Spears, told her. Well said, Britney!
"It's 'Pick on Fifth Harmony' week again," Cowell said after Reid once again told them they didn't harmonize together on Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain." ("I think you have the wrong name," Reid jabbed.) Lovato added that "the group thing" wasn't working and she'd prefer to see a couple of the stronger singers break off as solo artists. But, for the group's second number, viewers ("annoyingly," according to Cowell) selected Lovato's own "Give Your Heart a Break," which Reid called their "very, very best performance" yet. And he said he finally heard harmony! Lovato humbly said they "sang it better than the original" and told them "this song should have been your song." Cowell repeatedly noted that there's currently a gap in the market as far as girl groups are concerned. Will that be enough to propel Fifth Harmony to the top?
White, the second of Spears' Teens still in the competition, found herself in the bottom two last week, but probably lifted herself up from the depths with a fiery, if "a bit screechy," according to Simon, take on James Brown's "It's a Man's World," which she had performed in earlier rounds of the show. For her viewer's choice song, White (fittingly) performed Rihanna's "Diamonds," which Reid said he "didn't love" but all the other judges lauded. "Overall, you've had a pretty good night," Cowell told her. But is "pretty good" enough to cut it at this stage in the competition?
The self-proclaimed "last of the old guys" chose Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" for his unplugged song (a selection Simon likened to "taking a goldfish for a walk. ... You can't.") Stevens clearly has the country vote cornered -- it's kept him in one of the top two spots for every week of the competition -- and his perfectly adequate take on the song will likely do little to change that. But "Tate Nation" brought Stevens back to his roots with Garth Brooks' "If Tomorrow Never Comes." "Now, that felt like a Tate Stevens performance. That was brilliant," Spears said. Lovato predicted that Stevens will have a "huge future" in music regardless of what happens on the show.
So, which two contestants do you think will be sent home tomorrow night? And which ones definitely deserve to make it to the semifinals? Sound off below!
The X Factor returns Thursday at 8/7c on Fox, with another double elimination plus performances by Ke$ha and last season's winner, Melanie Amaro.
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December 14th, 2012
Massacre of children leaves many asking, 'Where's God?'
By Dan Gilgoff and Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editors
(CNN) – As he waited with parents who feared that their kids were among the 20 children killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, Rabbi Shaul Praver said the main thing he could do for parents was to merely be present.
"It's a terrible thing, families waiting to find out if their children made it out alive," said Praver, who leads a synagogue in Newtown, Connecticut, and was among nine clergy gathered with parents at a firehouse near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where the shooting occurred.
"They're going to need a lot of help," Praver said of those who are close to the dead.
From the first moments after Friday's massacre, which also left six adults and the shooter dead, religious leaders were among the first people to whom worried and grieving families turned for help.
Over the weekend, countless more Americans will look to clergy as they struggle to process a tragedy in which so many of the victims were children.
"Every single person who is watching the news today is asking 'Where is God when this happens?'" says Max Lucado, a prominent Christian pastor and author based in San Antonio.
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Lucado says that pastors everywhere will be scrapping their scheduled Sunday sermons to address the massacre.
"You have to address it - you have to turn everything you had planned upside down on Friday because that's where people's hearts are," Lucado says.
"The challenge here is to avoid the extremes – those who say there are easy answers and those who say there are no answers."
Indeed, many religious leaders on Friday stressed that the important thing is for clergy to support those who are suffering, not to rush into theological questions. A University of Connecticut professor on Friday hung up the phone when asked to discuss religious responses to suffering, saying, "This is an immense tragedy, and you want an academic speculating on the problem of evil?"
"There is no good answer at that time that anyone can hear and comprehend and take in," said Ian T. Douglas, the bishop for the Episcopal diocese of Connecticut, referring to counseling family and friends of the dead. "They're crying out from a place of deep pain."
Praver, the rabbi, will join a memorial service Friday night at Newtown's St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church.
"We're going to have a moment of prayer for the victims," Praver said of the service. "We cannot let it crush our spirit and we march on."
Some national religious groups are also sending staff to Newtown, with 10 chaplains dispatched from the North Carolina-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association on Friday.
Public officials including President Obama, meanwhile, turned to the Bible in responding to the shooting. "In the words of Scripture, 'heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds,' " Obama said from the White House, citing the book of Psalms.
On Twitter, #PrayForNewton became a trending topic.
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Some religious leaders argue that modern American life insulates much of the nation from the kind of senseless death and suffering that plagues much of the world every day.
"Most of the world, for most of the world's history, has known tragedy and trauma in abundance," wrote Rob Brendle, a Colorado pastor, in a commentary for CNN's Belief Blog after this summer's deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado, which left 12 dead.
"You don't get nearly the same consternation in Burundi or Burma, because suffering is normal to there," wrote Brendle, who pastored congregants after a deadly shooting at his church five years ago. "For us, though, God has become anesthetist-in-chief. To believe in him is to be excused from bad things."
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Lucado said there was an eerie irony for the Connecticut tragedy coming just before Christmas, noting the Bible says that Jesus Christ's birth was followed by an order from King Herod to slay boys under 2 in the Roman city of Bethlehem.
"The Christmas story is that Jesus was born into a dark and impoverished world," Lucado says. "His survival was surrounded by violence. The real Christmas story was pretty rough."
Many religious leaders framed Friday's shooting as evidence for evil in the world and for human free will in the face of a sovereign God.
"The Bible tells us the human heart is 'wicked' and 'who can know it?'" the Rev. Franklin Graham said in a statement about the massacre. "My heart aches for the victims, their families and the entire community."
Many religious leaders also said that such tragedies are a good time for lay people to express doubts about God – or anger.
"This is a time to go deep and pray," says Lucado. "If you have a problem with God, shake a fist or two at him. If he's God, he's going to answer. And if he's in control, he'll find a way to let you know.
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The one thing every lottery player craves is the elusive formula to picking the winning numbers. Countless articles and videos claim to have that winning strategy but do you honestly believe anyone would share the silver bullet rather than use it themselves?
That being said there are some techniques you can use that will give you an edge and maximize your payout.
- Join a lottery pool: Lottery pools are a great tool to help boost your chances of winning. By teaming up with friends and colleagues you can combine your numbers and share the jackpot. It's also a great way to connect with people around you and make the lottery a communal activity.
- Pick rare numbers: The majority of players will use common numbers. This means that they are more likely to be forced to split their jackpot. Instead you should use less popular numbers so that if you do win, you don't have to share your spoils.
- Pick the right game: Not all lotteries are the same. They have wildly different odds that can influence your chances of winning as well as your potential jackpot. For example fixed-odds lotteries increase the chance that you'll win something but you'll often be forced to split your prize. Scratch cards can be a great way to rack up lots of small wins with better odds than a normal lottery.
- Take the second chance: Many games also allow players to take a second chance on one ticket. Simply fill out the form and pop it in the post. If you win the lottery provider will get in touch with you.
- Make a lottery pool: Lottery Pools allow multiple players to pool their resources and increase their chances of winning. Members agree to split the jackpot if one of them wins, increasing the chances of a big win at the cost of a huge jackpot. Whether this tradeoff is worth it entirely depends upon you.
- Play the odds: Different games have different odds. By carefully reading the rules and regulations you can make sure you don't play a losing card. Keep in mind that government backed lotteries often have fixed odds, which could reduce your final pay-out if you have to split the jackpot. Scratch cards also offer a great way for players to take advantage of smaller payouts with significantly better odds.
Did you know that?
- Talk about odds: in 2010, the Israel lottery drew the same six numbers it did three weeks earlier.
The likelihood of this happening are roughly one in four trillion.
- "I wish I'd torn that ticket up." This quote is attributed to Andrew "Jack" Whittaker who won $315 million at the Powerball jackpot in 2012. First, Mr. Whittaker was robbed and sued, then both his daughter and granddaughter died.
- 70%: the percentage of lottery winners who either lose all of their winnings or spend them all within seven years.
- 44, 38, and 40 represent the most commonly drawn numbers in the lottery.
- $584,402,676: the amount you would need to spend on buying lottery tickets if you wanted to play every possible combination of a $2 ticket and be guaranteed to win.
- 1-in-292,201,338: the probability of winning if you purchased thousands of tickets as the probability does not increase with further draws.
- 44 states: the number of US states that participate in the lottery. Six states have opted out: Utah, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, Hawaii, and Nevada. Nevada does not participate because the state already benefits from gambling profits.
- $1.5 billion (January 2016): the largest jackpot in U.S. history The winning tickets were sold in California, Texas, and Florida.
A-list actors, comedians and other celebrities routinely poke fun at the lottery or make remarks that stress its importance in our culture. A couple of examples:
"A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket." (Chris Pratt)
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" (Jay Leno)


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Herbal teas (tisanes) are infusions usually made from dried flowers, herbs and/or dried fruits with boiling water. Written records going back to the earliest days of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China already described the enjoyment and uses of herbal teas. Available as pure or blended samples, herbal teas are popular because of their fragrance, antioxidant properties and therapeutic applications.
A Spanish pharmaceutical company Pharmadus has come out with OU kosher certified medicinal herbal teas. They have a nice selection of teas under the HELPS brand and we recently tested their HELPS Wellness line.
Between CS and I we've tried seven of these teas:
- Organic Easy Digestion – An aid in promoting a healthy digestive system, reduces flatulence in addition to its calming and relaxing effects. Organic Anise (Fruit), Organic Chamomile (Flower) and Organic Mint (Leaf), combine for a delicious, refreshing flavor.
- For Low Sugar Diets – With Bilberry (Leaf), Elder (Flower), Juniper (Connaberry), Orange (Peel) and Sweetleaf (Leaf). It is a free natural herbal supplemental as part of a low sugar diet. According to the manufacturer's specs it may help healthy individuals regulate blood sugar levels. It tasted nice, both when I tried it hot and afterwards as ice tea.
- Organic R & R – When you feel tense, this is the perfect release. It consists of a combination of Organic Lemon Balm (Leaf) and Organic Passion Flower (Aereal part). CS tells me it's helped him relax and sleep, I will try it as well.
- Breathe – From Eucalyptus (Leaf), Organic Thyme (herb), Organic Mint (Leaf) and Organic Linden (Flower). It promotes sinus and respiratory health, both CS and I have used and we both like it.
- Just For Her – A combination of Organic Sage (Leaf), Organic Lemon Balm (Leaf), and Alfalfa (Aereal part). I tried it and, just as promised, I felt refreshed, relaxed, and mellow.
- Make it Easy – Combining Senna (Fruit/Leaf), Anise (Fruit), Lemon Balm (Leaf) and Licorice Root it promotes regular body functions relieving occasional constipation.
- Organic Green Tea Leaves – Made by combining Organic Green Tea (Leaf) and Organic Spearmint (Leaf). This combination, with its antioxidant properties fights and neutralizes free radicals. Some say that it helps keep the skin looking young. The Chinese have, for thousands of years, used it to combat toxins and promote healthy and youthful vigor. Nice and flavorful!
Aside from their medicinal properties, I found all of these teas to be delicious and enjoyable.


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In advance of today's Apple v. Samsung hearing, Samsung filed a key document it fought hard to acquire—Apple's recent patent settlement with HTC.
The 143-page settlement [PDF] is heavily redacted, and no financial terms are revealed. Still, certain parts of the document are revelatory. The document outlines an arbitration process that Apple can initiate if it believes HTC has created a "Cloned Product" that apes Apple's too closely. It gives specific examples of similarities that would be acceptable and others that would be verboten. "Pinch to zoom" is OK; "slide to unlock" is OK, but only if it looks different. As the agreement lays out (p. 33):
A specific graphical slider animation used in an APPLE Mobile Communication Device at the bottom of a display screen to implement a 'slide to unlock' feature could qualify as a Distinctive Apple User Experience; however a different animation (for example a bubble slider) or an animation at another location (for example along the side of a screen) would not be considered substantially similar and would not constitute a Cloned Feature. Functionality and related methods (for example, "pinch to zoom" functionality) will not be considered a Distinctive Apple User Experience.
Bear in mind, that doesn't mean Apple is saying it can't sue over features like "pinch to zoom." These are the terms for a company that has agreed to pay Apple for its patents, not an unlicensed competitor.
Other interesting particulars in the agreement:
- There's a specific "no helping the patent trolls" provision (pages 13-14 of the settlement). Increasingly, corporations are taking the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude toward patent trolls, giving them patents or other types of assistance and then letting them loose on competitors. This deal specifically bars either party from taking any action to "materially assist in the assertion of Patents in a specific suit, action, or proceeding against the other Party's Covered Products... by a patent holding company, other patent enforcement entity, or a Third Party in which the first Party has an ownership interest." However, "mere membership" in a patent defense group like Allied Security Trust or RPX, or "mere participation" in "patent investment funds such as Intellectual Ventures" won't count.
- Certain patents aren't included in this deal. Apple doesn't license any of its design patents, and HTC reserves the rights to nine patents it acquired from Google (they're listed on page 4).
- A full list of settled lawsuits is listed in exhibit F-1 (page 39). They include 12 US legal disputes—seven federal court cases, five International Trade Commission cases, and two ITC cases on appeal; 23 German lawsuits; four lawsuits in the UK; five US cases between Apple and HTC-owned S3 Graphics; and six German S3 Graphics cases. That's 50 cases in all.
- The parties agreed to total confidentiality about all aspects of the agreement. The text of the press release disclosing the settlement, along with authorized quotes from the two companies' CEOs, is actually included within the settlement.
Samsung clearly intends to use this settlement as evidence. The most important court proceeding since the trial is coming up this afternoon. Presumably, Samsung will use the HTC-Apple deal to argue that Apple should not receive an injunction. If Apple was fine licensing these patents to HTC for monetary compensation, the reasoning goes, it should be satisfied with money from Samsung. Apple, meanwhile, will argue for enhanced damages above and beyond the $1.05 billion verdict it won following the August trial. The company will seek injunctions barring Samsung products from market.
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Ueli Steck Summits Annapurna's South Face … Solo!
The "Swiss Machine" Ueli Steck has summited the notoriously difficult Annapurna I via the South Face.
The "Swiss Machine" Ueli Steck has summited the notoriously difficult Annapurna I (8,091 meters) via the South Face in the Himalaya. Details of Steck's ascent are still unknown, however, the news emanated from a text message sent by Steck from base camp to his sponsors stating: "Summit, alone, South Face." Scarpa also announced the ascent on their Facebook page this morning, posting: "SUMMIT SUMMIT SUMMIT alone for Ueli!!! the REAL 'machine.'
This was Steck's third attempt at climbing Annapurna I, which is the least summited 8,000-meter peak in the world. ""The South Face of Annapurna I is an old project," said Steck in a recent interview with Swissinfo.ch. "I have attempted it twice already and I guess you need patience if you want to climb hard routes on an 8,000m-peak." Steck had attempted the formidable mountain in 2007 and 2008, and both expeditions ended badly. In 2007, Steck was hit and nearly killed by rock-fall, which ended the expedition. In 2008, his attempt was abandoned when he learned that his friend, Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, was injured and stranded on the mountain. Steck attempted to rescue Olza, but despite his efforts, Olza died.
"After Iñaki [died], I had to get off the face immediately and needed some time to get over it. If I had gone back the following season, I would not have been prepared for it," Steck told Swissinfo.ch.
This year, Steck was ready for a rematch and returned with Canadian climber Don Bowie. Bowie had also attempted Annapurna I twice before. The two climbers had also previously partnered together for a successful ascent of Tibet's Cho Oyu in 2011.
This year's Annapurna I expedition seemed to be going well according to Steck's website. The team had established base camp at 5,000 meters in late September and had started planning their route. Steck's last dispatch stated: "At the moment we have rainy weather at BC but from October 6 the forecast should be better and we will go back to the mountain. Everything runs as planned!"
UKClimbing.com has also confirmed Steck's ascent. After contacting Jonathan Griffith, a British mountaineer and frequent partner of Steck, Griffith responded: "I haven't been able to speak to Ueli yet, but I did speak to his wife, and she has confirmed that Ueli has done the route."
More info on Steck's ascent will be posted as details become available. Stay tuned …


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As I read this article, I cannot help but ponder the central challenge with being a situationist when occupying a powerful political post – that of context and distance.
Politicians often remark that life inside the Beltway is suffocating, intense, ridiculously over-privileged and creates a bubble effect where outside realities rarely register. (http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/03/econoclast.html) This bubble effect seems to affect all Washington insiders to a certain extent and robs the D.C. elite (at least over time) of the objectivity and distance necessary to realistically view situation and the true forces that drive institutions and individuals.
Thus, an interesting dilemma to ponder is whether the situation that is the Beltway hinders situationism in politics.
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