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My uncle Frank Silano died from complications of AIDS in December 1989. My family rarely spoke of him. He was a mystery to me. The few things I did know were generalities: he was gay, lived in New York and died young. I always wanted to know more, but no one could tell me anything else. It took me a quarter-century to begin unraveling who he was.
It started with a Polaroid I received when my parents separated. It was the first photograph I had ever seen of my uncle; I had never seen his face before. In the picture he seemed so serious, wearing a coat and tie with the camera's flash reflected in a nearby mirror. It looked like one of those snapshots a family member might take when you're on your way out the door after a holiday dinner or gathering. I studied that Polaroid thinking it might be a clue to who my uncle was. I figured if I could know him, I might have a better sense of myself. Around this time I had a major falling out with my father over being gay. The experience made me feel closer to this outsider that the family forgot.
My attempts to find more photographs and stories of my uncle yielded no results. It was incredibly frustrating and in many ways I felt defeated. I had intended to make a project about him, but with virtually no source material or support I had to put my focus elsewhere. If I couldn't make a portrait of Frank Silano I decided I would make one about other gay men who died as a result of the AIDS epidemic.
I took that Polaroid of my uncle and I hung it up on my studio wall. It would serve as motivation and a constant reminder of Frank and of how lucky I am to be gay and alive today.
In 2010 I began to research the history of the LGBTQ community. I started reading about the Stone Wall Riots and the gay rights movement. Fascinated with the sexual liberation and visibility of gay men after 1969, I watched probably every documentary I could about the AIDS epidemic. I collected ephemera and vintage pornography. I found myself drawn to depictions of hyper-masculinity that seemed at odds with the conventional views of gay men.
I began re-contextualizing images from old magazines, found photographs and negatives, in part as a way of breathing life into the past. When I couldn't find an image that represented my own vision, I would stage a photograph. These ideas became the basis for my project, Where the Boys Are, a series highlighting the innocence and naivety of these men as well as foreshadowing what came later.
In the summer of 2012 I received an Aaron Siskind Fellowship for this body of work and used the funds to pursue similar ideas. I specifically focused on creating a photo installation titled Pages of a Blueboy Magazine. Consisting of one hundred cropped headshots of male centerfolds, I chose models from issues that ranged between the years 1974 and 1983 (the year Blueboy published their first article on AIDS). Each man's gaze is meant to draw the viewer in and contemplate the mortality of not only the model but also the men who originally consumed the imagery. The work had its debut at the Bronx Museum of the Art's 2nd AIM Biennial in June 2013.
My most recent project, Male Fantasy Icon, furthers the themes I've explored in the past. By creating imagery with Al Parker, one of the most famous gay porn stars of the 1970s, I've produced photographs that memorialize and draw attention to a lost generation of gay men. The process of making these new pictures and reworking images from the past has allowed me to catalog and emphasize a neglected history, one that is imbued with my own fantasies of a place and time I feel I know, but that I never lived through.
In creating all of these photographs, I have gained a better understanding of what life might have been like for my uncle. I'll never hear his stories first-hand, but something has nevertheless been passed on. Sometimes I like to think that he's guiding me through my own work. When I'm lost for an idea in the studio, I'll look up at that old Polaroid and I'll remember how my journey began.
Pacifico Silano is a photographer based in Brooklyn, N.Y.


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Organic Chicken, Chicken Meal, Organic Peas, Organic Extruded Soybean Seeds, Organic Barley, Organic Brown Rice, Chicken Fat preserved with mixed Tochopherols (form of Vitamin E), Dicalcium Phosphate, Natural Chicken Liver Flavor, Salmon Meal, Organic Flaxseed Meal, Dried Whole Egg, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Minerals [Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Proteinate, Calcium Iodate], Choline Chloride, Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Phosphate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin B12 Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamin Mononitrate, Vitamin D3 Supplement], Yeast Culture (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae), Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentatiion Extract, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract and Fermentation Solubles, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate.
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Insufficient meat content, some low quality protein
The first ingredient is a named meat product. This is not a meat meal, but is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this is truely the first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list as a minor ingredient in the food. The second ingredient is a named meat meal, in meal form, which is the true first ingredient in the food.
Peas are the next ingredient, and make up much of the carbohydrate content of the food as well as boosting the protein content. Soybean seeds similarly boost the protein content, but both are low quality, less digestible protein than that obtained from meat. Barley and rice are decent quality grains, but this product is rather light in meat content. We appreciate organic ingredients, but not at the expense of species-appropriate nutrition. There is one further meat ingredient in the food, salmon meal, 10th on the ingredient list. This is far too far down to make any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. We appreciate the use of whole eggs in this product, and the range of probiotics.
We note that glucosamine and chondroitin are listed in the analysis. We also note that the amounts in this product are far below useful levels and, as is the case with all foods advertising the inclusion of these substances (which are contained in all products containing meat and bone), we consider this to be a gimmick. If these supplements are required, they would be more usefully added in much greater quantity as dietary supplements.
Overall, the product uses primarily good quality ingredients, though we would prefer not to see the use of soy ingredients. It has very limited meat content, however, and users might consider supplementing this diet with meat.
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Chris Palmer, a member of the international programs department, traveled on a mission awareness trip to Nicaragua. Here are some of his thoughts:
On the drive back to the hotel for the evening, I was reflecting over the weekís events. I am sure the rest of the participants were doing the same thing. Seeing poverty for a week isn't necessarily easy and trying to understand the reasons behind it can be not only confusing, but somewhat discouraging.
Yet, amid the seemingly negative situation there continues to be an underlying optimism and joy among the people we visited in Nicaragua that, when seen, can only bring a sense of wonderment. It is something that can't be communicated easily through words. It isn't until we walk with the people at their pace for awhile that we start to learn their journey Ö from where they came to where they hope to go.
CFCA is providing more than just $30 a month for necessities. CFCA has an intentional focus on the personal aspect. From staff members and social workers, to the local communities and families, CFCA understands that money can only do so much for someone, but sponsorship is personal. After seeing it for week I believe it is that personal aspect that provides the hope Ö it is a hope for themselves, their family, their country and our world.


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Sabina, Ohio (CNN) – Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan lent support to running mate Mitt Romney in Ohio on Saturday by going after President Barack Obama for "picking winners and losers" in the federal auto bailout.
The Republican presidential ticket has struggled to overcome the Democratic president's lead in the crucial battleground state, in part because of Romney's opposition in 2008 to a federal bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
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On Saturday evening, Ryan unveiled another line of attack after meeting with nonunion, salaried employees who faced significant cuts to their pensions when government intervened in early 2009.
When he appeared at his fifth and final rally of the day, Ryan talked about the 10 or so people he met with who worked at the local Delphi Automotive plant. The same company, which supplies parts to General Motors, also operated a plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, part of the congressional district Ryan has represented for 14 years.
"You see the president likes to go around Ohio talking about how he saved the auto industry, how the auto bailout was such a success. Tell you what: He hasn't talked to these Oak Creek salaried employees, he hasn't talked to these Ohio Delphi salaried employees, because this is one of those examples of the government picking winners and losers," Ryan said at a high school in Sabina, located between Columbus and Dayton.
Ryan's comments came just days after Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a top campaign surrogate, ">defended Romney's opposition to the bailout in the state's Rust Belt.
At the Delphi employee roundtable, Ryan was joined by Ohio Rep. Michael Turner and Tom Rose, chairman of the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association fund-raising committee, which is fighting to restore full pensions earned or entitled to salaried employees who did not receive the same benefits as union employees did in the federal bailout.
"Mitt Romney and I have a different idea of how government should operate. We don't think we should be sitting in Washington picking winners and losers. We don't think we should be deciding who gets what, where, when, and how and who doesn't," said Ryan. "There's nothing wrong with asking for honesty and decency and fairness and transparency and equal treatment for all."
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Here's Munster again yammering on about how the government shouldn't be investing in companies, like the $90 billion invested in green energy. He and Mittens both lie about how "half" of those companies (like their favorite, Solyndra) went bankrupt. Here are the FACTS (google it if you don't believe me):
Government investment:
63 companies, 5 went bankrupt
8% filed for bankruptcy (not half like Mittens claims)
Compare that to Romney's Bain Record:
77 businesses, 22% filed for bankruptcy or closed within 8 years
Bain lost all money invested in 8% of them
Here's Bain's "Solyndra," a company called Lifelike that made twin dolls using a photo of your child (I know ... creepy):
In 1996, Bain invested $2 million, including a personal loan by Mittens. Shortly before it went bankrupt, Bain sold its stake in the company for $15,000. That's a 99% loss on investment.
So I'll give Mittens this: when it comes to being better at something, he's better at picking losers than the government.
Obama/Biden 2012 = The only sane choice
Do you trust Ryan/Romney?????? Vote for them and you go back to the BUSH era.. One does not need to be rocket scientist to understand this! Romney is buying the W/H Just imagine how many favours he will have to pay back.... if he wins... Obama/Biden 2012
Bain Capital and other private equity firms wouldn't touch the auto bailout, because they considered it a bad bet (translation: They don't believe in American companies and workers). Banks wouldn't touch it, either, and most folks recall how tight credit was at that time.
So President Obama stood by his word of believing in our country and our auto industry and provided federal taxpayer dollars to rescue the American auto industry.
The result? The auto industry and the 1+ million supply chain jobs were saved, GM is on top and taxpayers have been repaid almost completely, with interest.
Spin it all you want, Munster; Obama/Biden 2012 remains the only sane choice.
Have any of you read the details of Obamacare? Nobody in their right mind could endorse this plan if they really read it. There are some good things, but overall it will be a drain on our economy, severely undermine our healthcare system, and discourage future physicians in this country all for the sake of 10M people that need insurance and actually want it. Don't get me wrong, I want everybody covered, but there are better ways than destroying the absolute best healthcare system in the world. Obama sounds compassionate and it works on uninformed voters, but it will be a miserable next 4 years if he is elected.
Romney toots how great of a Governor he was. He was so great that his own State is 15 points up for Obama. Romney cut education, laid off cops, firemen and teachers. Added fees to everything and left hundreds without an insurance coverage. The unemployment rate when he left was the same as Louisana after Katrina hit.
Another thing Romney toots his horn about is "rescueing the Olympics." When he took it over, it was $379 million in debt but what does not tell you is that he was granted from $400-600 million from the Federal Government. THAT'S how he brought the Olympics out of the red ink.
Seve – you have obviously never traveled anywhere else in the world if you say that this is "the absolute best healthcare system in the world"
That' akin to saying that the American system of education is the "absolute best educational system in the world".
Obama's intentions for bailing out the auto industry were focused on the people or employees who were gonig to loose their livelihood. It was more of a humanitarian duty than business oriented. A business man only sees profits and loses and makes a choice based on figures like a machine(pc), not human based decision which a leader should possess.
A Human leader is a better leader, not a robot.
Wow, Ryan sat down and talked to 10 current employees who did NOT know if they would even have a CHANCE to renegotiiate their pensions BEFORE the bailout. Now, after the bailout not only do they have a CHANCE to negotiate their pensions, but they STILL have their jobs. And I bet if they are non-union, they are management whom would have probably received a nice severence package if the auto industry would have folded while the average worker would have only gotten a pink slip. HOW REPUBLICAN to say the auto bailout was wrong and it wouldn't work AFTER if DID work. DELUSIONAL I tell ya.
Have you read any details of the "Ryan Budget Plan" which Romney or Ryan won't talk about until after the election. Nobody in their right mind could endorse them without any details, it would be like buying a new car without knowing the cost until it's parked in your driveway.
@ Seve
Wake up. The US does not have the best healthcare system in the world. It has the worst and we should be appalled at what we have. Even Cuba has a better system than what we have in this country. CUBA !! You do not want everyone covered or you would see how Obamacare is far better than what we have now. Unfortunately, it does not go far enough, but, it is a start.
Just an idiot this guy.
Ryan says "picking winners and losers". Sorta like Bush picking Haliburton and Blackwater.
It takes Bain eight years to turn a company around before harvasting. Obama has only had four years in office and our country is noticably better off. I'll stick with President Obama. A proving leader.
@Seve: "Have any of you read the details of Obamacare?"
Yes, and according to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing Obamacare (direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act) "would cause a net increase in federal budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2013–2022 period."
Not to mention if Obamacare is repealed, insurance companies will again be able to not insure people with pre-existing conditions or drop people's insurance if they get sick. Obamacare has also already started helping people by slowing the increase in premiums to 2%-4%, compared to insurance premiums rising at double the inflation rate in 2010.
I predict that when President Obama is reelected and Obamacare goes into full effect, the next 4 years will be a very positive time of economic growth and more and more people will be thankful President Obama finally got meaningful health care reformed passed.
Obama/Biden 2012 = The only sane choice
Imagine the earful Lyin' Ryan's priest has to put up with at confession!
Ryan, Romney and the GOP are distorting the fact or telling lies to discredit the President. Romney wants the job so bad he will say anything to the audience that he is addressing and noone knows what he stands for.
People in this country deserve better and the election should not be bought by his rich friends but God has a plan he looks out for all of us and not just the 40%. Everytime there is so much turmoil he steps in and wakes up this nation to bring them back to their senses. In the last leg of this election he steps in with a hurricane that disrupts and gets our attention, he is tired of the fighting , name calling and mistreating of each other.
America this is a wake-up call do we want to go back to the Bush years or move forward where everybody is treated the same and are rewarded the same benefits in this country. There are always going to be naysayers I guess this storm was caused by the President as everthing else.


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So is space, apparently, given the collapsible design, but we have a hard time believing the outback suddenly became a bustling overpopulated metropolis overnight. If there's anything the outback is not short on, it's vast expanses of dusty nothingness. Nevertheless, this sure beats a wooden outhouse or worse, a simple hole in the ground.
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The dean of a leading medical school, a top corporate executive, a businessman whose family connections to Brandeis go back to the university's earliest days and a community leader involved in Jewish and civic organizations were recently elected to the Board of Trustees.
Jeffrey Flier of Newton, a parent of two Brandeis alumnae; Ron Kaiserman of Philadelphia, a 1963 Brandeis graduate; Olaf Olafsson of New York, a 1985 Brandeis graduate; and Cynthia Shapira of Pittsburgh will join the university's governing board following Commencement exercises on May 19. They were elected to four-year terms.
Scheduled to join the board as ex officio members are incoming Board of Fellows Chair Joyce Krasnow of Edwards, Colo., a parent of a 1983 Brandeis graduate, and new Brandeis National Committee President Barbara Sander of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., the former president of the organization's chapters in Sarasota and St. Louis.
"I am thrilled to welcome this distinguished group to the Board of Trustees," President Fred Lawrence said. "They will each bring a valuable set of expertise and experiences to our board and enhance Brandeis' position as an elite liberal arts research university."
Before becoming dean of Harvard Medical School in 2007, Jeffrey Flier served in a variety of positions at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: chief of the diabetes unit, chief of the endocrinology division, vice chair for research in the department of medicine and chief academic officer. An endocrinologist, he is regarded as an authority on the molecular causes of obesity and diabetes. He has authored more than 200 scholarly papers and reviews.
Flier's daughters, Sarah and Lydia, graduated from Brandeis in 2000 and 2011, respectively. Sarah is a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel.
Ron Kaiserman is a partner of the Kaiserman Co., the real-estate acquisition, development and management firm his father founded in the 1920s. The company manages more than four million square feet of office, commercial and residential properties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Ron founded and serves as president of an affiliated real-estate firm, Shiramax. He supports a number of organizations in his hometown, including the Prince Music Theater, the Academy of Music of Philadelphia, the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia.
Along with his late brother Ken '60, Ron established the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Chair in the Humanities in honor of his parents, who were among the visionaries who helped found Brandeis. He also created a scholarship fund and served on the board of the Brandeis Alumni Association. His daughter, Shira, is a 2007 Brandeis graduate.
Olaf Olafsson serves as executive vice president of international and corporate strategy at Time Warner, where he is a strategic adviser on digital and international matters and oversees an investment fund for new ventures. He earlier served as chair of the company's digital media division and was president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. He has also authored four critically acclaimed novels and one collection of short stories.
At Brandeis, Olafsson, a physics major and math minor, finished first in his class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The native of Iceland attended the university through the Wien International Scholarship Program.
Cynthia Shapira serves as secretary on the board of trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America, which represents and supports more than 150 Jewish federations and 300 independent Jewish communities. She is also development chair for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and sits on the board of several organizations, including the Jewish Agency for Israel and the United Way of Allegheny County.
She is on the Alumni Leadership Council at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is a member of the Allegheny County Airport Authority and was appointed to the Pennsylvania Commission on Women by Gov. Tom Corbett.


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40 Days of Dating
When Adobe commissioned Jessica Walsh and her creative partner, Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh to reinterpret our Adobe MAX logo back in March, little did we know that Jessica was in the middle of a courageous, curious, and very INTENSE dating experiment: 40 Days of Dating. Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman, friends for years, each with different relationship histories (she: dive in; he: avoid), had decided to date each other for 40 days, documenting each step of the way, asking their friends to contribute creatively to the online project. Now, Jessica and Tim are sharing their experience with the world.
We're hooked and wanted to know more. So we interviewed Jessica and Tim, along with their friend, Eric Jacobson, who designed and developed their site. Make sure to explore the site from the beginning. NO CHEATING!
So in reading about your 40 Days of Dating, it seems clear that the concept was batted around for months before formalizing it. Still, inquiring minds want to know: who initiated the project?
Tim Goodman: It was an idea I had about a year ago, but I didn't really know the 'what' or the 'how.' Then one day on our way to Miami for Art Basel—when Jessie was heart broken about a guy, and I was dating too many girls at once—it became crystal clear. We ran with the idea, and it really became something entirely different after that.
Jessica Walsh: We were waiting in line for egg sandwiches at a deli in JFK en route to Art Basel when Tim mentioned an idea he had for a dating project. I instantly felt that doing a personal project around relationships was a great idea. We started throwing crazy, nutty ideas back and forth during the plane ride, and by the time we landed in Miami we had a pretty elaborate and crazy plan for "40 Days of Dating."
There's such an interesting design tension to this project: you both are putting yourselves out there in such an intimate, public way, sharing very personal, often spontaneous experiences. Yet at the same time, you're both talented designers, highly aware of presentation, form and of course, design. So can you elaborate on this tension?
TG & JS: It was important to us that 40DD have an identity, but it wasn't until the project was over that we designed the site, shot the videos, photographed our items, asked for lettering contributions, etc. We wanted to approach the project with as much honesty as possible, first.
We worked in tandem to finish everything. None of it was possible without the amazing help from our website developer, Eric Jacobsen (whiskyvangoghgo.com), as well as Santiago Carrasquilla (santiagocarrasquilla.com) and Joe Hollier (joehollier.com) who shot and edited all the videos. Furthermore, we are extremely honored to have so many talented friends and colleagues contribute to a typographic piece everyday.
For example, what design elements did you know you always wanted to include? What was discarded? Were there disagreements in the design stage between the two of you?
TG & JS: While we waited to make decisions on the design until afterwards, there were a few things we had to do before we started the experiment: 1. We decided it would live on a site with daily questions, so we wrote those questions out before hand. 2. We purposely kept things (tickets, gifts, etc.) along the way as documentation. 3. We wrote the synopsis and agreed on the dating rules before we started.
There were plenty of design disagreements along the way, but for the most part we worked extremely well together. We split up tasks, and assisted each other along the way.
In terms of the "public" presentation, you're employing a variety of forms – video, type contributions from friends, and your own drawings, to name a few. Even with the vibrant variety, I'm curious about the gap between design and experience. To put it another way, having lived through the 40 days and dates, do you feel like anything is missing in what you experienced and how the public is receiving it?
TG & JS: Great designers make the audience see something wonderful through their own lens. This was our own experience, so there's always a degree of sensitivity about this. Are we getting our story across efficiently? Are we being misunderstood? What if mom is judging me?
Obviously, we didn't videotape our experience, so the audience is forced to experience the story through writing, photos and illustrations. Ultimately, it's been difficult, but also very liberating to release it to the public. Our individual stories, issues and approaches aren't very different from a lot of folks. We knew that if we were going to do it, we had to go the full distance. We're happy that people are connecting so much to it
Eric, when you were first told about the project, what did you think?
Eric Jacobsen: I thought it sounded a little bizarre, but very intriguing. I believe that "dating" in America is effectively broken, or at least in a painful stage of some sort of radical transformation, and am interested in anything that tries to creatively break down and analyze it.
How much of the final vision of the site was articulated and how did it evolve? For example, was the two-column grid included from the beginning?
EJ: The site was executed very closely to the submitted designs. I had a bit of input in the nuances of the transitions and animations, but really it was all quite straightforward.
Can you talk about the any web design and development challenges that you faced when building the site?
EJ: The challenges were perhaps a little mundane; the site is graphic-heavy, so a lazy-load script was necessary. I wanted the graphics to be retina-display-ready; Daan Jobsis came up with a solution wherein retina graphics could be generated both with greater detail and smaller file size than standard images.


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We recently upgraded one of our biggest databases to 188.8.131.52 from 184.108.40.206 due to the library cache mutex related bugs on 184.108.40.206. Since I wasn't the one who did the upgrade I have nothing to say about the process but I was the on call DBA on the next day after the upgrade.
Users started to report the ORA-00600 for the statement below
delete from TABLE_1 where id=49; ERROR at line 1: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kkpo_rcinfo_defstg:objnotfound], [1002300], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
Checked for the error and found 3 bugs (9774817 10322768 10373381) related with the issue and not just none of them seems to have a workaround but all of them also says restore is the option which was the last choice for us (database server financial markets and we were close to the opening of markets ). It looks like we had some issues with deferred segments.
The table we try to delete from has got segments so it should not be the problem however it has got on delete trigger doing a merge on other tables and looks like one of those tables were causing the issue.
We first raised the Severity 1 ticket. while the engineer was reviewing the SR we decided to trace all the delete operation and see what is actually failing and once again 10046 trace revealed everything
When the error raised last operation was below
select /*+ all_rows */ count(1) from TABLE_2 where id=49
We run the statement manually, issue repeated again and when I check if the table has got any segment in dba_segments table it did not return anything.
Updated the SR with the new information. Support engineer asked us to try to regenerate the objects but he wasn't hopeful. He suggested probably we needed to restore the db to before upgrade state.
I wasn't as hopeful as ORacle support so to see which tables are affected I ran the output of the query below
select 'select count(*) from '||owner||'.'||table_name||' ;' from dba_tables where segment_created = 'NO';
All of the segmentless tables were raising the ORA-00600 so we decided to re-create them.
After recreation of all of the tables and their indexes I ran the same output again and none of the tables raised the error. Our workaround worked fine and we got away from restoring the DB and 2 more standbys which would be a nightmare just for tables which never used before. Interesting part is that we did not see the error on our QA db which I am not so sure what was the difference in terms of upgrade.
Hope you won't hit this problem but better you check your deferred segments before and after 126.96.36.199 upgrade.
Note: I also check the LOB segments but we did not have any so no action taken for them.
select count(*) from dba_lobs where segment_created = 'NO';


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2010 July The July Check is in the Mail
|The July Check is in the Mail
|By Alex Dunne
|July 2, 2010
John Menke has added one more Golden Knights Championship to his resume.
John's record in Golden Knights play is one for the record books. Second place in 1997. A repeat second in 1998. First in 1999. Second in 2000. First in 2001. Then to show postcards aren't his only weapon, John won the first Electronic Knights championship, the 2004 event. And now he is back to claim first place in the 2003 Golden Knights.
Yes, John did announce his retirement from the Knights in 2008, but the 2003 Golden Knights started long before his retirement did.
Ivar Bern summed it up succinctly - In what other sport do you have to wait two years to break out the champagne? John finished his last game of the 2003 Championship on May 6, 2008. The wait was worth it - no one could surpass his weighted totals and so once again, John Menke is at the top of the mountain.
John's opponent in this game is the very strong Gary Adams. Gary normally chooses his openings very carefully, but in this game he enters a forcing line of the French Defense, and soon finds himself on a very slippery slope to defeat. French players need to take heed!
1.e4 e6 2.Nc3
An offer to switch into a Sicilian after 2...c5 which Adams declines.
2...d5 3.d4 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 0-0 Black has four good choices here, all of which lead to about the same chance of success (about 44%, average for Black) -- 4...Qc7, the safest, 7...cxd4, 7...Kf8 and the most challenging 7...00
8.Bd3 Nbc6
This natural developing play may be suspect. For now 8...f5, the most common reply, may also be the best, holding White to a 55% edge.
This is the most successful of White's tries. There is nothing subtle about White's strategy -- the Black King is the target. White scores about 63% from this position. That would generally constitute a dark cloud over Black's choice of 7...00 but there may be an escape clause a bit later.
9...Ng6 10.Nf3 Qc7
This or the next move may be the last chance for an improvement. The little played 10...Nce7 has scored a few wins for Black, though White still has a decided edge. Kamsky played against it in Kamsky-Umezinwa, Chicago 1989, though White looks better after 11. 00. Shulman held it back one move 10...Qc7 11. Be3 Nce7 12. h4 Nf5 to draw in Kamsky-Shulman, World Open 2005.
11.Be3 c4 12.Bxg6
The players now enter a forcing variation where Black has little chance of survival. White's attack is just too strong.
12...fxg6 13.Qg4 Bd7
The two main choices are 13...Qf7 scoring 38 % and 13...Bd7 scoring 33%. After 13...Qf7 14. Ng5 White stands well in Stewart-Tremblay, 2006 Express Tournament published in this column for May 2008.
14.h4 Rf5 15.h5
White scores 71% with this Pawn thrust.
15...gxh5 16.Rxh5 Raf8
Two choices here -- 16...Rxh5 scoring a paltry 33% and the text scoring an even worse 11%
There are seven games in my postal database with 17. Rh3 -- White winning every one of them.
A new try -- 17...Be8 just fails
18.Kd2 Be8 19.Rh6
White has other ways to win -- 19. Ng5 works, too.
Failing is 19...Bg6 20. Rxg6! hxg6 21. Qxg6 R8f7 22. Qxe6 Nd8 23. Qd6.
20.Rxe6 Bh5 21.Qh3 Nc8 22.g4 Bxg4 23.Qxg4 Rxf3 24.Rh1
White's threats of Rf6 and Rh6 are too strong. 1-0
John Menke 42.85
Laurence Bonsack 40.10
Thomas Connelly 39.60
James Rhodes 39.50
Chuck Cullum 39.00
Abe Wilson 39.00
Danny Horwitz 38.95
Donald Schultheis 36.75
Bleys Rose 36.25
Humberto Cruz 36.15
Richard Barber 36.15
Thomas Kusnierz 35.60
Donald Schultheis 35.60
Barry Endsley 35.05
Arthur Steinman 32.20
Corky Schakel 31.30
John Bang 30.10
Derek Grimmell 30.10
Donald Schultheis 29.55
Jiri Kovats 29.35
Harold Boege 28.35
Bruce Reynolds 26.65
Gary Adams 26.15
Michael Calogridis 26.05
William Jempty 25.65
Roy Tate 24.85
Robert Hampton 23.90
Chuck Ventimiglia 21.65
Robert Boles 20.55
A. J. Zeppa 20.00
Stephen Jacobs 16.65
James Fisher 16.00
Clark Hayward 16.00
Art Marthinsen 14.40
William Jempty 13.80
16th Olympiad Final Starts
The final round of the 16 Olympiad has started. This will be the last Olympiad played by post. Email and server play have replaced postal as the international method of communication for correspondence chess.
The US team consists of two Grandmasters - Alik Zilberberg and Edward Duliba - and two Senior International Masters -- Keith Holzmueller and Jerry Weisskohl.
The average rating of the US team is 2542. They will be competing against teams (listed by ratings) from Czech Republic (2619); Germany (2572); Brazil (2565);France (2554); Israel (2548); Poland (2514); Sweden (2495); Italy (2482); Ukraine (2477); Finland (2457); Slovakia (2448); and England (2382).
Good skill, guys !
Chess.com Invitational Tournament
Chess.com has started a titled players correspondence tournament with a field of mainly OTB players testing their skills at CC play. Six GM's (including Julio Becerra and Alex Lenderman) nine IM's one WIM (Ruth Haring) 18 FM's 12 NM's and 2 Experts.
The first round has four players playing a round robin with the winner of the section advancing to the second round. Computer engines are forbidden. Readers can find out more about chess.com and watch the games by going to http://www.chess.com/about.html
Walter Muir
09W32 William Ebaugh 4 ½-1 ½
09W29 Inoel Cardenas 3 ½-2 ½
09W29 Joseph Hawkins 3 ½-2 ½
10W15 Gregory Thompson 6-0
John Collins
08C08 John Davis 5-1
09C06 Michael Kessler 5-1
09C07 Doug Ray 5 ½-½
09C18 Alex Ramirez 6-0
Express Tournament
09ET05 Harold Brown 5-1
09ET05 Wes Holland 5-1
09ET05 Oswaldo Olivo 5-1
LEARN CHESS BY MAIL ! Lessons given by mail, telephone, ICC - many different ways. I specialize in players rated 800-2100 who would like to improve their game. Contact me for information. Alex Dunne, 324 West Lockhart St., Sayre, PA 18840 or [email protected]
Quote: I like to look at correspondence games. They are an oft-neglected bonanza of new or rare continuations in the opening and fine tactical shots too!-- IM Nikolay Minev
The 26th World Championship Final began this June, being played on the ICCF webserver. There are no Americans in the final, but Grandmaster Cesar Blanco will be one of the title aspirants. Cesar was living in Texas but moved back to Guatemala when he won the 2006 Electronic Knights Championship. Cesar's rating of 2531 puts him in the middle of this category 13 event.
Want to have some fun and learn about endgame play at the same time? Play over this game of Cesar's from the 2006 Electronic Knights Finals!
Knights need center squares. Deprive a Knight of center squares and you starve him. Deprive two Knights of center squares and you lose endgames like this.
This is why correspondence players are allowed to consult books.
This is the famous Tarrasch Trap starting with 8. Bxc6 in the Ruy Lopez that was first played in Tarrasch-Marco, German Congress 1892. But it didn't stop there. In my databases I have found 14 examples up to and including 17. Be7 in OTB play with many Experts and Masters on the losing side - Green (2265) - Gibbons (2200), Auckland 2000; Popovic (2363) - Jesenski (2361) Yugoslavia 2002 among others, but only one other example in correspondence chess.
All right, Arthur - knowledge is power!
From the 2003 Golden Knights: Third place Thomas Connelly meets second place Laurence Bonsack for a first class struggle.
Check out an archive of Alex Dunne's postal chess columns here and also read his article from the July 2010 Chess Life Magazine on the 2008 USCF Absolute Championship.


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