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Her side "You're doing great!" Keith says, with the gung ho enthusiasm of a football coach. I'm on the delivery table, and he's counting out loud to ten while I push through the contractions, which are coming as fast and furious as freight trains.
"No, I'm not!" I feel like screaming, but I'm too frightened. Not because I'm giving birth for the first time or because of the pain that's searing its way through the epidural. I'm scared because of something that my husband doesn't see -- the sudden look of distress on the doctor's face.
"The baby's heart rate is dropping," the doctor tells the nurse. "We're going to need to use the forceps. Melina, you've got one more chance to really push -- we've got to get this baby out now."
The doctor inserts the large silver forceps and with a shiny pair of scissors snips an episiotomy. She's working quickly and deliberately, but over Keith's shoulder I watch the creases of concern ripple across her forehead above her mask.
I'm sweating. As Keith counts down to push time, I pray to God to help me just this once.
"Okay, sweetheart, push," he says calmly.
Praying, praying, praying, I bear down with all of my might. Please God, please God, please.
"We've got a head!" announces the nurse.
I burst into tears. I've done it.
"One more big push, we need to get the shoulders out!" she continues. "Really big push this time."
What? I've just used up my prayer, and now they want a big push?
Keith looks ecstatic, but I'm overwhelmed. And distracted by the doctor, who, even more agitated, is barking orders at the nurse.
"The umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck," she mutters. "And, oh no, the hand is caught behind the baby's shoulder."
"Keith, there's something wrong," I sob, panic overtaking me.
"No, there's not," he says serenely. "You're almost there."
He counts me down, I push my luck and ask God for yet another favor, and we finally learn the answer to the question we've been asking for the past 40 weeks.
"It's a boy!" the doctor announces.
A boy? I could have sworn I was having a girl!
"That was scary, right?" I say as they whisk the baby away for the usual battery of tests.
"Looked to me like everything was under control," he says, shrugging, and then he beams. "We have a son!"
From the moment Chase came into the world, Keith and I have had different versions of reality. Whether it's because he's already the father of a 17-year-old son or because men are from Mars, I'll never know.
"Melina was a rock star -- only pushed for forty minutes!" I hear him boasting on the phone to the onslaught of well-wishers who call the hospital to hear the news. "She and the baby are both doing amazingly well."
Surely he can't be talking about me. The day after I deliver Chase, I wake up to a major case of Buyer's Remorse. The tears refuse to quit, as if there are faucets beneath my eyelids.
"Baby blues," says the nurse, patting my arm gently. "Honey, every lady on this floor is crying. It's the hormones."
I'm sure she's right, but I'm still terrified that in two days I will be discharged as primary caretaker of this infant. I'm wondering if they could possibly let me stay for a month or so until I get the hang of things.
Sitting across the room, Keith looks almost as miserable as I do. "What's wrong?" I ask, anxious to commiserate.
"I'm bored," he says, yawning. "Can't wait to get this baby home."
The depression subsides after a few days. But it's quickly replaced by the frustrating challenge of breastfeeding, which for me turns out to be more painful than labor.
"You're a natural," says Keith, watching as our little Chase voraciously latches on like a tiny mako shark.
"No, he's a natural," I say. "I'm starving our baby."
When my milk fails to come in after the fifth day, I consult my ob-gyn, Chase's pediatrician, and even a lactation consultant. I follow the advice of keeping to a rigorous daily schedule of ten feedings, followed by expressing with the breast pump.
Still no luck, so we head back to the lactation consultant. At our meeting she asks a battery of questions, examines me, and watches our son feed. The she shakes her head and says gently, "I'm sorry, but breastfeeding isn't going to work for you. My advice is enjoy your baby."
Melina Gerosa Bellows is the editor-in-chief of National Geographic Kids. Keith Bellows is the editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler.
Mom's Side: A Learning Process
I burst into tears right in front of her. How can I "enjoy my baby" when I can't even feed him? I'm a total failure of a mother, and it's only been a week!
Keith tries to pep-talk me, but I am in no mood. Ignoring him, I decide to try even harder. I nurse and pump around the clock and start taking an herbal supplement to stimulate milk production. By the tenth day, when Keith hears me groan as I haul out the pump, he says, "Stop."
"Anything is better than nothing. Maybe I could get an ounce today," I protest, pushing the pump's lever to max. It's a painful, humiliating process, one that only a mother would consider doing in front of another human being. But the Type A in me urges me on.
"Come here," he says, turning off the pump and giving me a big hug. "Let this go. You're still going to be the best mother in the world. Come look and see what you've done already."
Together we lie down on the bed and look at Chase, a perfect angel, swaddled in his blue blanket, sleeping soundly. I can't believe that this tiny person lived inside me for 40 weeks, and I stare at him in wonder. Other than having my husband's nose and feet, our son looks like a stranger to me. It's the best blind date of my life, a true love-at-first-sight experience.
My sense of humor returns and I stop taking the "Got Milk?" ads personally. As the weeks pass, my confidence increases. But Keith's been-there-done-that nonchalance and the continual comparisons to his first son, Adam, get tiring -- especially when I've been under house arrest all day with the baby. And if learning how to take care of Chase is not enough, the gadgets, like the strappy Baby Björn, are just beyond me.
So what if Keith's the one with the experience? As the mom, I'm the one with the instincts. It's just wrong to feed a baby in the horizontal position, a fact my husband refuses to accept until an entire bottle is projectile-vomited onto him. Despite my best intentions, an "I told you so" slips out. Mother Knows Best, I think smugly to myself.
Just as I'm getting the hang of things, I experience the big uh-oh moment every parent dreads. While we're away for the weekend and I am busy deliberating over which outfit to put on Chase, I hear a thud that makes my heart sink like an anchor down to the soles of my feet. I turn around to discover that he's wiggled himself right off the bed and dropped two feet to the floor, where he's landed smack on his head. Keith warned me this would happen eventually, but I never thought it would happen at 5 weeks and certainly not on my watch.
I stare down at my baby in disbelief. What should I do? Is it like a car accident, where you're not supposed to move the victim? My instincts take over, and I snatch Chase up and comfort him with soothing shushing sounds. Miraculously he stops crying after a few minutes. I call Keith and tell him to come home immediately. When he does, he demands, "How did this happen?"
"I don't know," I say, deciding that he wouldn't exactly appreciate the fashion-dilemma excuse.
As we rush Chase to a doctor we use in the area, Keith continues with the third degree. Luckily, the doctor assures us that he's fine and gives us signs to watch for, including vomiting and sleeping through his feedings.
Of course, Chase sleeps the entire afternoon as Keith, who is still angry and upset, and I, feeling like The Worst Mother in the World, sit quietly near him. I pump Keith for details about the time his son Adam rolled off the changing table at 11 months.
"A changing table is even higher than a bed, and he was okay, right?" I say, looking for reassurance.
"Babies are resilient," he says, softening. He slips his hand in mine.
We wait and wait, and finally it comes.
"Did you hear that?" I say to him.
"What?" he says, cocking an ear.
"Waa-waa-waa-waa-WAAAHHH!" interrupts Chase, in his trademark feed-me rooster cry.
Giddy with relief, we look at each other and simultaneously blurt, "I'm sorry."
I forgive Keith for overreacting, and he forgives me for making a mistake. I'm sure our roles will be reversed before the week is out.
"Parenting is humbling," he says to me as we rush to our son.
That, we both can agree on.
As I feed Chase, Keith wraps his arms around the two of us. I'm overcome with tears once again. But for the first time, the tears are not sad. I'm simply overwhelmed at the miracle of how intensely I love this little man who has so much to teach my husband and me about each other, and ourselves.
Dad's Turn
His side We're at the hospital the night before Melina, a week late, is to be induced. She thinks she's in labor, and she's terrified that our baby will decide to come on Doogie Howser's watch. "Doogie" is the name she has granted the fresh-face right out of medical school -- the young pup Melina is convinced couldn't deliver a newspaper without trauma. I think she's overreacting. Doogie must know her stuff, I reason, or she wouldn't be working at the pediatrics clinic.
Doogie breezes in from a room down the hall. "You're not in labor," she says curtly. I wince. Great bedside manner.
"How are your other patients doing?" Melina asks politely.
"The patient down the hall is in such pain," Doogie answers. "I just don't know what to do."
Melina freezes.
I stare in disbelief. Don't know what to do?
Our nurse shifts uneasily and immediately changes the subject. "So how was the meal?" she asks Melina. It's clear she wants to get Doogie out of the room. As quickly as possible.
Finally the doctor leaves, and Melina tells me to go home and get some sleep.
When I arrive back at the hospital at 6:30 the next morning, Melina is in pain. They've just induced her with Pitocin, and she looks stricken. "I was in labor last night," she says, sleeplessness giving an edge to her voice. "Doogie was wrong."
A more seasoned doctor is now on duty. At 11:30 a.m. Melina is fully dilated. Showtime. She hunkers down. I grab her legs and coach her through the contractions. The doctor and nurse shout encouragement. The head breaches. Melina looks worried. I wonder why.
I think things are going swimmingly. But Melina is my rock, so I'm concerned to see her unmoored. I check out the medical team. Everyone seems fine. No Code Red. But Melina still seems panicked. I remind myself this is normal. But is there, I wonder, really something wrong?
The doctor says that the baby's heart rate is dropping. My heart skips. Oh, no. My worst nightmare. But everything is going so fast that I decide not to overreact. I'm certain nothing is wrong. And the last thing I want to do is further alarm Melina.
Then the doctor brandishes some scissors and snips. Ouch! Melina winces. Out come the forceps. The doctor tugs. At 11:34, Chase McPherson Bellows slides into the world with all 21 digits intact. It's been 34 minutes since Melina went into full-blown labor. The doctor pronounces the delivery routine. That was easy street, I think. My 17-year-old son Adam from a previous marriage took 24 hours from early labor flutters to delivery -- I remember spending the night on the linoleum floor.
For two days, the Bellows family endures living in a hospital that tries (but fails) to be a hotel. There are trays of compromised food. Trips to the vending machines. Bad TV. Endless phone calls to tell everybody that Chase has arrived. In the end, I have nothing to do but rearrange the flowers. I am sooooo bored.
At least Melina has the rhythms of breastfeeding to distract her, but whenever Chase latches on, Melina flinches.
She presses on, but her milk just won't come in. I'm upset -- this is one aspect of child rearing I took for granted. I know how much Melina wants to nurse Chase. And I was prepared for all its inconveniences, which would largely fall to her.
We are soon hosting a legion of nurses who gently try to guide Chase to mother's milk.
"Hold the nipple this way," says one nurse.
"Try the football hold," says another.
"Pull his chin forward," says still another.
In the middle of all this we check out, pay bills, and wheelchair down to the car. We are back in the real world, with a newborn, alone. I've been here before, but I'm plenty scared. How long, I think, until I screw up?
At home, the breastfeeding continues to be troublesome. Even with a lactation specialist, Melina barely ekes out a meal for young Chase. She pumps. And pumps. And pumps. She becomes ever more frustrated.
Chase just can't get enough.
Melina has had enough.
Dad's Side: Spousal Support
Give it a rest, I tell her. I know that she takes this as some kind of failure. But to me, Melina is a natural mother with or without a direct mammary pipeline to our son.
Throughout Melina's pregnancy, I have bitten my tongue down to a nub, so ready am I to advise her on the ABCs of child rearing. Not only have I been through this before, but I was founding editor of BabyCenter.com, an online resource for new and expectant parents. So I understand the nuts and bolts, the shoulds, must-dos, and watch-outs. But I'm back in it, and frankly, the brash security I had assumed was a right of experience is fast disappearing.
My unease forces me into know-it-all mode. But many things I think I know have faded with time, and I begin to second-guess myself. I realize, uncomfortably, that like a hockey player too long away from his skates, I'm just plain rusty at babying. Melina's instincts trump my experience; what feels right to her is right.
She ignores most of my advice, but about breastfeeding she relents. We buy a bottle sterilizer. I summon up more sage advice, reminding Melina what I had told her when we were dating -- that kids eventually roll off the bed and hit the floor. Nothing to fear, I assure her now. Just be prepared, and expect that somehow, sometime, it will happen.
Melina shakes her head. "Not on my watch," she says.
We enter the true slipstream of parenting, when even the crappy stuff seems exalted and wonderful, and all the problems and trials pale next to the pure babyness of little Chase.
Staggering around in the dark following a trail of nightlights. The spray of pee that greets me when I change his diapers at 3 a.m. Hovering over him at some ridiculous deep-dark hour and wishing, minutes after I finally get him to sleep, that he would actually wake up so we can play.
Finally we think our lives are almost back to normal. I should know better.
We are out of town and I leave to exercise. As I hoist weights, I feel good, on top of things, in the full swing of my paternity leave.
I'm driving back from the gym when my cell phone rings. "Keith, um, we have a problem. Chase rolled off the bed."
"What!" I bark, bringing my foot down on the accelerator. "Is he okay?"
"I think so. He cried a lot, but he seems fine. Except for the bump and the rug burn."
I groan. "How could this happen? He's so young." When Adam, my eldest, first hit the floor, he was 11 months old. Of course I want Chase to be precocious, but not like this. I get home and Chase looks as if he's been in a rumble. Melina is near tears. I am not the calm dad I imagined I would be. I conjure up fears of brain damage, that his skull won't knit properly, that he has cracked vertebrae.
We race to the pediatrician's office, then wait in uncomfortable silence. Chase wiggles away, unperturbed. But what if? My BabyCenter braggadocio seems a long way off. This is real. I'm spooked and upset. I want to be supportive, but I knew this would happen, and Melina had refused to accept this inevitability of parenting.
My anger subsides, and we see the doctor. I almost cry at his gentle, solicitous manner. He tells us to go on a 24-hour watch for signs of bleeding, erratic behavior, inconsolable crying.
We do.
Chase, it turns out, is fine.
In the scant months since he was born, I find myself remarking on how things seem so different with him than with Adam. Not better or worse -- just different. There is so much more information out there, and the world is more complicated, more dangerous. Sure, I raised a son, but I'm clueless about this one.
And I know that it's not just Chase that's different. I'm different. I'm older, certainly, and maybe a little wiser. Because I realize that I really don't know anything about raising babies. But I can be an equal with my wife in watching Chase change our lives forever.


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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — Close to 400 luxury apartment units with perks like in-unit washer and dryer sets will come online in Orange County this year and next.
TOWN OF NEWBURGH — Close to 400 luxury apartment units with perks like in-unit washer and dryer sets will come online in Orange County this year and next.
Builders at high-end Sterling Parc in Middletown still have another 120 one- and two-bedroom apartments to complete. Parke Lane at Newburgh, a 160-unit complex on Stewart Avenue, has received final approval from the Town of Newburgh Planning Board. And a couple of dozen additional high-end units will be available at Northwoods in the Town of Wallkill and Concord Park in Harriman next year.
Demand is high for posh apartments with high ceilings and ceramic tile, according to developers. But just as an avalanche of units is prepped to come online, the tide might be changing.
Low mortgage-interest rates are steering some renters toward buying again. Much of the turnover at Concord Park comes from tenants leaving to purchase homes, said Rob Price, whose family business is building the complex.
"We have turnover," Price said. "Some are a relocation, some move their job, some lose their job. Many are buying."
But Price is confident that he will have no problem finding tenants for Concord Park's fourth and final apartment building. Construction on the 18-unit structure will take about a year.
Real estate agent George Koudounas of the ReMax Benchmark Realty Group in New Windsor sees this year's brisk rental activity dropping off. As soon as people are able to buy again, they will, he said.
"With low interest rates, it costs less to own than to rent," he said.
A $100,000 mortgage at 3.25 percent breaks down to about $440 per month, not including taxes and other costs like insurance, Koudounas said.
That's far less than the $1,300 starting price for a one-bedroom rental at Sterling Parc.
Rick Nanni rents a one bedroom apartment with a loft for $1,775 per month at Concord Park, but is looking to buy a home in the Monroe area. The interest rates — in contrast to the pricey rent — have drawn him in.
He moved to Concord Park almost three years ago, after downsizing from a house in Rockland County.
His daughter rents another unit at the development, and their two rents combined are well above $3,000. The two generations together could easily afford a mother-daughter style home in the area, he said.
Chris Scibelli, owner of Keller Williams Realty in Highland Mills, has seen rental activity increase 50 percent each year over the past two years. It now makes up about 10 percent of his business.
But with low mortgage rates and home prices and minimal down payments, he doesn't expect the rental boomlet to last.
"It will peak by the end of next year," he said.
The Prices originally planned to sell Concord Park as condominium units for $240,000 in 2008 and 2009. They had no takers, said Art Price, the owner of Price Construction.
They dropped the price to $220,000 and sold one, but needed to sell a total of six to qualify for bank financing, Price said.
So they decided to try renting them out. Tenants were easy to find, even though rents for the apartments start at $1,650, more than a monthly mortgage payment would have been with 10 percent down, Price said.
But the housing market has improved since 2008.
Low mortgage rates, coupled with home prices beginning to increase nationally, might soften the rental market, according to a study by Victor Calanog, an economist with real estate data firm Reis.
In an October study, Calanog projects a slowdown in rental demand as construction of apartments spikes. He expects the national vacancy rate, which has steadily declined since 2010, to improve only marginally over the next few years.
Home prices in Orange County have been flat over the past year, but the number of closed sales is up 10 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors. There were 25 percent more homes under contract at the end of October than there were a year before, suggesting the improvement will continue.
"This year was better than last year in sales," said Marion Bruhns, a real estate agent with Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty.
Hefty down payments might have deterred some buyers, but Bruhns has seen government programs and some banks require deposits as low as 3.5 percent. Renters might be close to a down payment for a home after paying a broker's fee, first month's rent and security deposit for an apartment, she said.

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A petition from the campaign to
We ask you to divert 180 million plastic drinking straws by developing a policy that distributes straws only when requested by customers. We want Applebee's to be an industry leader on the topic of sustainability. Given your huge reach, we've put together this petition in efforts of reducing Applebee's waste by more than 180 million unnecessary, single-use, plastic drinking straws. This will require no investment, infrastructure, or major change on your part, just give out straws only to those who ask for them!
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Plastic straws can be great for the people who want them, but why hand one out to everybody? By simply giving out straws only when requested, Applebee's, the largest sit down restaurant chain in...
Plastic straws can be great for the people who want them, but why hand one out to everybody? By simply giving out straws only when requested, Applebee's, the largest sit down restaurant chain in the US, could divert over 180 MILLION non-recyclable plastic straws from our landfills, communities, and waterways.
Applebee's has an opportunity to be a leader in the industry. On their website, they says, "A number of our environmental programs focus on reducing waste generated by our operations. We continue to look for ways to eliminate, reuse or recycle potential waste." We're asking the company to follow its own advice!
It's a simple ask which requires no infrastructure, no expense, and no negative impact to the corporation but would make a huge impact in our communities. If Applebee's could divert the amount of straws they hand out by 50%, it would eliminate 183,729,000 plastic straws per year from our neighborhoods, landfills, and oceans.
The simple, but important goal of this petition is to convince Applebee's to put a written policy in place that they will only give straws to those who want one!
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government says an army bomb disposal expert has died in an explosion in Afghanistan.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said 35-year-old Sgt. David Fernandez died Friday while defusing an improvised explosive device.
The Defense Ministry said the device had been found on a road between the northwestern towns of Qala-i-Naw and Darra-i-Bun during a routine mission.
Spain has about 1,500 troops in Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province. It has lost some 100 soldiers since deploying in 2002.


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Many of you will undoubtedly have heard of VMware, but for those who have not, here is a little introduction:
But you can erase that bit about it being for "software developers/testers" and "enterprise IT professionals", because I'm going to show you just how simple running another x86 Operating System on your PC is.VMware is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC.
VMware Workstation has always been (and still is) a commercial product, and you have to pay a fairly large sum to get your hands on it, but VMware have now released a free application dubbed "VMware Player", which can run virtual machines produced by VMware and a few other companies. Yet, with some simple hacks, we can use VMware Player to run any x86 Operating System we like - and the best part is that this is in compliance with the EULA!
- VMware Player, which can be downloaded from VMware.com.
- OS.zip, which we will use to install the Operating System.
- Either the .iso of the install CD for the Operating System you would like to run, or its CD.
With these, you can be running a second OS in no time (hint: no dual-booting required :P)
Getting the OS up and running
First of all, install VMware Player onto your computer - it is available for both Windows and Linux.
Then, once you have done that, expand the OS.zip file you downloaded. A directory called "OS" should be created, and inside it there will be two files: OS.vmdk and OS.vmx. Switch to that directory and open up OS.vmx in your favourite text editor.
The third line in that file is: memsize = "512". Here you can set how many MBs of your RAM you would like VMware Player to take up when running your Operating System. I have set it to 512MB, which is at my disposal, yet you really only need about 128-256MB for the average Linux distribution. As my Operating System, I have decided to install Mandriva Linux 2006 (which I have the DVD .iso of).
So, having put the .iso for it (Mandriva-Linux-Free-DVD.i586.iso) in my C:\ directory, I reopen the OS.vmx file. Here, in the line that reads:
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\image.iso" I would change it to:
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\Mandriva-Linux-Free-DVD.i586.iso"
If you have, for example, the Ubuntu install CD .iso (let's call it Ubuntu-5.10.iso), place it in your C:\ directory. Then, alter the line in OS.vmx from
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\image.iso" to
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\Ubuntu-5.10.iso".
Ok, now that you've configured how much of your RAM you would like to dedicate to this process and pointed it to the correct .iso/CD drive, it's time for some action.Note: If you would like to install an Operating System via your CD-ROM drive, then edit the OS.vmx file, replacing the following lines:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\image.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
with these:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
Open up the OS.vmx file in VMware Player, and you should see something like this to begin with:
Vm-startup screenshot
Make sure the CD-ROM button along the top bar is pressed, and as soon as the above screen (Vm-startup) appears press Esc. That will take to you a list of bootable devices, and on this list go down to "CD-ROM" and hit Enter.
Now, VMware Player will go to the "CD-ROM drive" (which you have pointed to either a .iso or the drive itself), and so the installation of the Operating System will begin. A hint: do not be afraid to let the OS format the "hard drive" and automatically partition it within the virtual machine, because all it will be affecting is the OS.vmdk file - which will expand as you go storing more information on it (and is a maximum of 107GB).
Here's a screenshot of mine in progress:
Vm-install screenshot
And, the finished result:
Vm-mandriva screenshot
Excellent - now you can make your own virtual machines! There are also a few prebuilt ones available for download on VMware's Virtual Machine Centre.
So, a simple way to use Linux at work when your boss isn't looking!
Extra Note:
Some Operating Systems require more than one CD to be installed (example: FreeBSD). This is not a problem when you have the actual CDs, but when you plan to install the OS from a group of ISOs, the situation becomes slightly more problematic. Here is what you can do (FreeBSD is being used as an example):
Change the .vmx file to read:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "c:\FreeBSD.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
Then do the following:
Move the first FreeBSD ISO to your C:\ directory (or /home/user/ for Linux users), and rename it from "6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso" to "FreeBSD.iso". Good, now boot up VMware Player and install it as you would any other OS; but, when the installer asks you to insert the second CD, remove FreeBSD.iso from the C:\ directory and copy the second ISO there. Then, rename the second ISO ("6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso") to FreeBSD.iso, and press Enter to continue the installation. Voilà!
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Hard to fathom. I mean, Linux is "free" for all intents and purposes. But, this article from Forbes highlights Microsoft's recent success at proving to corporations who are looking to drop Windows in favor of Linux that it will actually cost them MORE to use Linux than to stick with Windows.
Full article: Thanks, LinuxConsider the deal that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) snagged with the London borough of Newham, announced in early August. Looking to overhaul their computer systems, the Brits originally planned to dump Microsoft's Windows and switch to open-source programs, including Linux. But when they commissioned a study to evaluate costs, they found it would be cheaper to stick with Windows. So they signed on for a 10-year deal.


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To most of our readers around the globe, this might not mean much. But the idea of having a 7-Eleven outlet on Grand Street, on the very hallowed ground where Jewish immigrants—workers and scholars, poor and relatively less poor—have set foot for the first time in America… Well, frankly, I'm not sure what it means, but it certainly signals change. The Lower East Side is Moishe's Bakery, not Denny's. It's small, individualized, personal—not a chain of identical stores selling identical products to millions.
Speaking of change, according to my friends at The Lo-Down, the website serving the old neighborhood with hyper-local news and tidbits, the first customer to purchase anything at all at the new 7-Eleven was my good friend and former client, Jacob Goldman, of Loho Realty, a man who's been embracing change on the Lower East Side since change became in again.
My daughter was absolutely overjoyed with the news—she's been a documented Slurpee addict since Slurpee was recognized as an addiction by the APA. My daughter declared she was starting to save for a ticket back, to have her frozen flavored drink.
And so the battle is being waged – Zionism and national renewal versus Slurpee. And I'm not betting on that one.


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Keene Swamp Bats outslug Danbury
July 26. 2014 9:40PM
Zach Lauricella blasted two homers to lead the Keene Swamp Bats to an 8-7 victory over the Danbury (Conn.) Westerners before 985 fans on Saturday night at Keene's Alumni Field.
Lauricella, from St. John's University, smoked a three-run homer and a two-run shot to lead Keene (16-18).
The Swamp Bats once led 7-3, but Danbury tied it with three runs in the fifth and one in the sixth. Keene regained the lead for good in the bottom of the sixth, on a wild pitch.
Keene's late relief pitching excelled. Michael Dunnigan hurled a scoreless seventh and eighth, and Southern New Hampshire University's Ben Criscuolo pitched a perfect ninth, striking out two.
Taylor Perez (St. Leo) added a solo homer for Keene, which visits Mystic (Conn.) tonight at 6:05 p.m.


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Well its been a bit since i last blogged, in that time i have been up to lots starting with work, the wall is still going well and expanding all the time.Then this summer me suz and smith went and had a bit of a route trip which i must say was a bit of a shock to the system, having on tied on for well over 2 year however by the end of the trip i was back in the 8 band just. Then i started training for the bbc and got back into comp shape just about then on the day on the second problem i hurt my finger. Which put and end to the comp and the rest of the summer.
For are summer trip ms and suz went on a road trip around europe looking at several area with winter in mind. Which was great fun stopping at some new area and visiting old projects and putting them to rest.
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A chopped salad brimming with freshness. Ham, chickpeas, feta and olives add their own distinctive flavors and textures to this salad that is dressed with an herbed vinaigrette.
1 cup chopped romaine lettuce
1 cup chopped iceberg lettuce
1 cup diced roasted red bell peppers or pimientos
1 cup cooked or canned, drained chickpeas
1 cup diced cooked ham
1⁄2 cup diced feta cheese
1⁄2 cup diced black pitted olives
Herbed vinaigrette dressing
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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address today offers an opportunity not simply to memorialize an extraordinary speech; it provides a model and a mirror for writing and speechmaking today.
The celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address today offers an opportunity not simply to memorialize an extraordinary speech; it provides a model and a mirror for writing and speechmaking today.
Within days of the battle of Gettysburg, plans were put in place to establish and dedicate the first national military cemetery. Gettysburg, civic leader David Wills invited Edward Everett, former president of Harvard University and the nation's leading orator, to offer the main address. Later, Wills invited Lincoln to offer "a few appropriate remarks." Definitely second fiddle.
In February 1861, as Lincoln delivered speeches during his inaugural train trip from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, Everett - reading newspaper reports - confided to his diary, "These speeches thus far have been of the most ordinary kind, destitute of everything, not merely of felicity and grace, but of common pertinence."
To their mutual surprise, Lincoln and Everett had an unexpected appointment with history at Gettysburg.
On Nov. 19, 1863, Everett stepped forward and began to speak. He went on and on - for two hours and eight minutes. The crowd grew restless.
Lincoln rose, adjusted his spectacles, and began: "Fourscore and seven years ago." The first two words rhyme, setting in motion a symphony of sounds. The biblical ring of his opening was rooted in lines from Psalm 90. Lincoln never mentioned the Bible, but the whole of his speech was suffused with both biblical content and cadence.
He first placed the dedication of the battlefield in the larger context of American history. In appealing to "our fathers," Lincoln invoked a common heritage. The trajectory of that sentence underscored the American ideal that "all men are created equal." Lincoln at Gettysburg asserted that the meaning of the Civil War was about both liberty and union.
After the long introductory line, with quick strokes Lincoln recapitulated that meaning of the war without providing details of the battle. His purpose was rather to transfigure the Pennsylvania cemetery dedication, to address its larger meaning. He mentioned the battlefield briefly, but he used the word "nation" five times. The Civil War became for Lincoln a "testing" of whether the American experiment could "endure."
When Lincoln declared, "But, in a larger sense," he signaled he was expanding the parameters of his address. But before he lifted his audience's eyes from the battlefield, Lincoln told them what they could not do: "We cannot dedicate; we cannot consecrate; we cannot hallow."
Lincoln's use of the negative was a pivot point, emphasizing by contrast what each person in the audience could do.
In his final three sentences Lincoln pointed away from words to deeds. He contrasted "what we say here" with "what they did here."
In this closing paragraph, he continued his use of repetition: "To be dedicated; to be here dedicated." And: "We take increased devotion"; "the last full measure of devotion."
Lincoln, who always chose his words carefully, selected words that conjured up the call to religious commitment he heard regularly in the preaching at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.
At this point in his delivery, Lincoln made the only addition to the text he had written. He interjected "under God." Unlike words added extemporaneously in earlier speeches, which he often edited out before he allowed a speech to be published, Lincoln included "under God" in subsequent copies of the address.
Those words pointed toward the next phrase, "a new birth of freedom," with its layered political and religious meanings. Politically speaking, at Gettysburg he was no longer defending an old Union but proclaiming a new one.
Lincoln, who had spoken for less than three minutes, concluded: "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
Everett delivered this review the next day: "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
Of Lincoln's 272 words, 204 were sturdy one-syllable words, the kind he so appreciated in the Bible and in Shakespeare.
As you read the Gettysburg Address today, take time to appreciate the power of words. Words fiercely mattered to Abraham Lincoln. They ought to matter to us.
Ronald C. White Jr., a fellow at the Huntington Library and a visiting professor of history at UCLA, is the author of "A. Lincoln: A Biography." He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.


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These quests are all tied into the College of Winterhold and the mages within, all found close to the town of Winterhold. In order to begin the quests, one should be well versed in magic but any warrior wishing to improve him/herself is still welcome within.To enter the College of Winterhold you will be asked to cast a random spell at the gate so it is advisable that you know lots of spells or own enough gold to purchase the spells.
There are several mages inside that give you small quests, many of which are to find things like books, but can range to other simple tasks like cleaning the magical focal points around the college.
Dragons can still attack when entering the courtyard of the college from inside, so watch out. There is an overarching mage storyline quest, which is one of the main purposes for visiting the college, aside from improving your magic skills through trainers, quests and shops for spells.
- First Lessons
- Under Saarthal
- Hitting The Books
- Good Intentions
- Revealing The Unseen
- Containment
- The Staff of Magnus
- The Eye of Magnus


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The following is a sampling of calls received by the Town of Niagara Police between March 4 and 11. During that time period, patrols answered 203 calls.
Monday, March 4
•500 block of D Street, juvenile problem. Patrol responded to a report of three male juveniles with a knife and two hatchets possibly causing damage to an abandoned trailer. Gone on arrival.
•1800 block of Military Road and 3200 block of Lockport Road, false alarm. Patrol responded to false alarms at two businesses.
Tuesday, March 5
•Expressway Road, harassment. Resident complained that while he was out having a cigarette, he was threatened by a neighbor. Ongoing problem. No arrest made on this incident due to already pending court case.
•1900 block of Military Road, aid assist. Patrol assisted State Department of Labor with compliance checks of two construction companies doing work inside the mall. DOL shut down a dry wall company for not providing proof of compensation insurance for workers.
•5900 block of South Hewitt Drive, aid assist. Patrol requested to assist Lewiston Police Department with an unwanted party.
•6500 block of Ralph Court, aid assist. Patrol responded for a 95-year-old female who fell and had a nosebleed. She was transported to Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center by Rural Metro Ambulance to check on a possible broken nose.
•2900 block of Nevada Avenue, open burn. Numerous subjects on location were having a fire in a large 55-gallon drum. Patrol observed large amounts of smoke coming from the drum, creating nuisance smoke in the neighborhood. The homeowner had received a prior warning about the open burn. Patrol forwarded report to Niagara County Health Department.
Wednesday, March 6
•7100 block of Lockport Road, assist citizen. Patrol installed two child car seats.
•4700 block of Saunders Settlement Road, property check. Patrol checked area and also made clerk on duty at a business aware of recent robberies in the area and provided him with a description of the suspect.
•2400 block of Military Road, larceny. Complainant stated that, while playing basketball, he left his $700 red cell phone in an orange case sitting on a speaker, and when he went to retrieve it, the phone was gone. Patrol to review security tapes.
Thursday, March 7
•Tuscarora Road, suspicious person. Patrol interviewed a Sudanese refugee, who had no identification, at the Tuscarora Bridge. Border Patrol advised that the male was OK. The man said he hadn't eaten in days, so the officer took him to a fast food restaurant for a meal.
•700 block of A Street, unwanted person. Complainant reported two males were pounding on his door and demanding money owed. Subjects gone on patrol's arrival.
•2000 block of Tuscarora Road, domestic. Wife said she called 911 because she and her husband were having a verbal argument and she wanted him out of the house until she left for work.
Friday, March 8
•8500 block of Porter Road, check situation. Mother reported her ex-husband was not allowing the children to speak with her on the phone. Patrol interviewed husband who said he is in the process of going through custody proceedings and his ex-wife has become very difficult. Children OK.
•1900 block of Military Road, check situation. Complainant said he was pulling out of a business when someone threw loose change at the side of his vehicle and that he had followed that vehicle to the mall.
•Military Road, Packard Road, Porter Road, Witmer Road, Hyde Park Boulevard, Lockport Road, I-190 and Duluth Street, traffic stops. Patrols stopped 18 vehicles and issued tickets for various offenses, including going through a red light, suspended license, failure to pay child support, speeding, no valid insurance, failure to answer a summons and child without proper restraint.
Saturday, March 9
•8000 block of Third Avenue, check situation. Patrol checked residence at request of doctor, could hear dogs barking and a woman moaning. Patrol found a neighbor who was able to contact the woman's son in Florida and learn where a spare key was located. Woman was transported to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
•1700 block of Military Road, disorderly conduct. Business reported that a woman who had been fired returned to the store twice, threw clothing around and made threats to beat up one of the managers.
•1900 block of Military Road, shoplifting. Two female juveniles were arrested for taking a pair of glasses and several Hello Kitty items from a business.
Monday, March 10
•8000 block of Quarry Road, ATV problem. Patrol checked area with negative results.
•Military Road, traffic ticket. Patrol ticketed a driver for driving in the center lane of Military Road from the intersection of Third Avenue to the intersection of First Avenue.
•3400 block of Tuscarora Road, assist fire department. Patrol checked on fire alarm. Minor smoke from an apartment where occupant was cooking.
•Tuscarora Road and Niagara Falls Boulevard, aid assist. Patrol assisted Niagara Falls Police Department in attempting to locate a red Stratus in the area whose occupant was involved in a menacing with a knife incident at a gas station. Negative results.
Tuesday, March 11
•3000 block of Lincoln Street, EMS call. Patrol assisted Rural Metro Ambulance with a male who had suffered a heart attack a week ago and was now having chest pains. He was transported by to Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center.
•100 block of Expressway Village, suspicious person. Patrol checked a report of a male holding a long gun. Patrol found the gun to be a rusty BB gun.
•6000 block of Porter Road, larceny. Woman reported she accidently left her purse on a chair in the dining room of a fast food restaurant and, when she returned, it was gone. Security footage showed a woman in her 20s wearing a blue dress pick up the purse and walked out.
•1700 block of Military Road, larceny. Mall business reported security tapes showed a male in his early 40s wearing a red long sleeve shirt, tan vest and gray ball cap took two leather purses valued at $2,490 on March 9. An inventory later showed four wallets valued at $595 each were also missing.
•1500 block of Military Road, larceny. A 36-year-old Ferry Avenue woman was arrested for shoplifting at a grocery store. According to the security officer, the woman took a bag, placed items in it and attempted to leave. The guard allowed the woman to go in the bathroom because she said she was going to be sick. When she came out she refused to comply with the guard, and attempted to elude capture by turning her jacket inside out and walking south on Military Road.


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To see Robin Gale and her two kids play in the garden together today, you'd never think the word "depression" could have had any place in their lives.
And yet, for Gale and the thousands of women like her who are affected by postpartum depression (PPD) each year, the months after giving birth can trigger tragic symptoms. Affected women may feel anxious, restless or inadequate, while also struggling to make decisions or maintain a healthy diet.
Women who have a history of depression are predisposed to experience PPD. Gale had experienced depression before and worked with a therapist to avoid any unwanted mood swings after her first child, Otis, was born in 2007.
Despite taking similar precautions leading up to the birth of her second child Moira in 2009, Gale fell into an emotional funk about four months after her daughter was born.
"I think the scariest thing about postpartum depression is the things that come up as symptoms: resentment, sometimes toward your children, intense anger -"
Overwhelmed, Gale was keen to treat her illness while avoiding the anti-depressant medications that had had negative side-effects in the past. She found respite in the services offered through the Pacific Post Partum Support Society , which include counselling, a help phone and access to outside resources for mothers affected by pre-and post-natal depression.
For Gale, the eight-woman support group offered a welcome sense of community that was critical in her battle with depression. Among other services, attendees had access to child care in an adjacent room - a practical and symbolic reinforcement of one of the group's core messages: self-care.
"[The support group] inspired us to take control of our healing as well as doing other things [like] making sure that we got exercise, making sure that I was feeding myself properly," Gale said.
Linda King, the programming director of the society, notes the early stages of parenthood can be surprisingly lonely. Parents have limited one-on-one time together, and "only see each other over the diaper pile."
Gale's support group helped her and her fellow attendees connect with resources and caregivers that made the difference in combating some of these challenges. In Gale's particular case the group helped her focus on healthy eating as a primary factor in her overcoming PPD.
"I know that my mood tanks if I start eating junk food, which is the first thing you go for when you start feeling miserable," said Gale, who has moved to a diet primarily composed of whole foods. Her story is just one example of a condition that affects thousands of mothers in Canada. According to the Pacific Postpartum Support Society, about one in six mothers is affected to some degree by PPD.
For Gale, one of the most important skills she learned in working with her depression was the courage to seek help.
"Saying I am feeling resentment toward my children is a really hard thing to come out and say," she said.
But with the information, counselling and support Gale received, she has recovered from her illness. "You won't be able to take care of anyone unless you take care of yourself."
Empowered Health airs Thursdays on CJDC at 11 a.m.; CHEK-TV Vancouver and Victoria, CFJC and CKPG at 7 p.m. and CHAT at 7: 30 p.m. The show is broadcast Tuesdays on CFTK at 11: 30 a.m. You can also view episodes online at vancouversun.com/empoweredhealth.


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Double Trouble: Kittens Try to Escape Lock Down
When people get new kittens, they barricade them off so they can't get into your things, right? Well, clearly these felines are way to smart for that. Two kittens, the adorably named Pumpkin and Squash, showed that the gate that separated them was no match. The cats climb over it with ease and luckily (for us) the owner caught the whole thing on video! Talk about double trouble. However, they get surprised by another cat at the end — does it foil their whole plot? Watch the video to see what happens!


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This chapter describes the post-installation steps that you must perform after installing Oracle Enterprise Repository.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 3.3, "Configure Oracle Enterprise Repository Web Start on Linux"
Section 3.4, "Start Your Application Server and Log Into the Oracle Enterprise Repository Web-based Console"
Section 3.5, "Use the Oracle Enterprise Repository Diagnostics Testing Tool"
Section 3.6, "Import Oracle Enterprise Repository Solution Packs"
Section 3.7, "Test the Oracle Enterprise Repository Installation"
Your application server may require additional configuration before you can start using the product.
The following sections provide post-installation information when using WebLogic Server as your application server.
Section 184.108.40.206, "Run WebLogic Server Domain Configuration Wizard"
Section 22.214.171.124, "Set WebLogic Server Environment Parameters"
The Oracle Enterprise Repository is distributed as part of a WLS Domain template.This domain template allows Oracle Enterprise Repository to extend an existing domain or be a separate domain entirely (Default).
The Oracle Enterprise Repository domain template is designed to allow a quick installation of the Oracle Enterprise Repository application by supplying minimum configuration details. When the domain template is created using the defaults within the template, an administration server and a single managed server (oer_server1) are created. The managed server contains the Oracle Enterprise Repository web application deployment within and is created in the directories supplied to the configuration panel, which had prompted for the domain name.
The default port used by the administration server is the WLS default of 7001. The Oracle Enterprise Repository Managed Server has a default port value that had been supplied to the Oracle Enterprise Repository installer (7101 by default). The Oracle Enterprise Repository Managed Server also listens to the network interface that is associated with the fully qualified host name also supplied to the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation program.
Creating WebLogic Domains Using the Configuration Wizard
This section provides information and examples for some common domain configuration tasks using the Configuration Wizard:
Start the Configuration Wizard in graphical mode.
On Windows: Click Start, Programs, Oracle Products, Tools, Configuration Wizard or enter <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/common/bin/config.cmd
On UNIX: Enter <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/common/bin/config.sh
The Welcome page is displayed.
Click the Create a New WebLogic domain option, as shown in Figure 3-1, and then click Next. The Select Domain Source page is displayed.
Click Generate a domain configured automatically to support the following products and the Oracle Enterprise Repository option is selected, as shown in Figure 3-2. Click Next. The Specify Domain Name and Location page is displayed.
Enter the name and location for the domain, as shown in Figure 3-3, and then click Next. The Configure Administrator Username and Password page is displayed.
Enter a valid username and password, as shown in Figure 3-4, and click Next. This user name is also used to start each managed server within the domain. The Configure Server Start Mode and JDK page is displayed.
Specify whether to start the server in development mode or production mode, as shown in Figure 3-5, and also select which JDK to use. Click Next. The Select Optional Configuration page is displayed.
Specify whether you want to change the System or Managed Servers (optional), then click Next. The Configuration Summary page is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-6.
Review the values supplied to the configuration and click Create to create the domain.
Start the Configuration Wizard in graphical mode.
On Windows: Click Start, Programs, Oracle Products, Tools, Configuration Wizard or enter <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/common/bin/config.cmd
On UNIX: Enter <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/common/bin/config.sh
The Welcome page is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-1.
Click the Extend an existing WebLogic domain option, and then click Next. The Select a WebLogic Domain Directory page is displayed.
Navigate to the domain directory that you want to extend. Click Next. The Extension Source page is displayed.
You can choose to extend your domain by selecting an Oracle Enterprise Repository, and then click Next. The Specify Domain Name and Location page is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-3.
Select a directory where the application EAR is deployed for this domain. By default, it is <WEBLOGIC_HOME>/user_projects/applications.
Click Next. The Select Optional Configuration page is displayed.
Select the options to configure servers, clusters, and computers, as shown in Figure 3-7, then click Next. The Configure Managed Servers page is displayed.
In Figure 3-8, review the oer_server1 definition, and then click Next. The Configure Clusters page is displayed.
Ensure that the oer_server1 server has a fully qualified host name entered for the listen address. Do NOT use an IP address, nor the option for 'All Local Addresses' and the listen port does not interfere with any of the existing Managed Servers within the domain.
Click Next. The Configure Machines page is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-9.
Review the current machine definitions.
If the domain being extended already contains a machine, Oracle Enterprise Repository must be configured to use the existing machine and the
oer_machine1 entry should be removed. Otherwise, the oer_machine1 should remain as defined. This example assumes that an existing machine named soa_machine1 already exists in this domain.
Click Next. The Assign Servers to Machines page is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-10.
Select oer_server1 in the Server list and click the right-arrow button. The oer_server1 should be related to either the existing machine within the domain, or to the oer_machine1, if no machine had existed within this domain before extending it with the Oracle Enterprise Repository application template.
Click Next. The Target Deployments to Clusters or Servers page is displayed.
After configuring these environments you can extend the existing domain.
When starting the servers of the domain containing Oracle Enterprise Repository, an additional domain configuration file is used to define environment variables and WebLogic Server operational behavior. This file is found within the $OER_DOMAIN/bin/setOERDomainEnv.sh or *.cmd files.
Review the default JVM parameters being supplied within this file to ensure that these are in-line with your corporate policies and supported character set of your locale.
To avoid DTMConfiguration exception, ensure that you add the following
JAVA_OPTIONS to the
.sh file that is located in DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setOERDomainEnv.cmd/.sh, along with and similarly as the other
JAVA_OPTIONS are added:
DTMMANAGER_ENABLE="-Dorg.apache.xml.dtm.DTMManager=org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMManagerDefault" JAVA_OPTIONS="$DTMMANAGER_ENABLE $JAVA_OPTIONS" export JAVA_OPTIONS
If this Oracle Enterprise Repository installation runs within an SSL enabled environment, then the addition of the following parameter to the
cookie-secure=true parameter to the session-descriptor element within the
weblogic.xml file.
The following sections provide information for post-installation procedures required to complete your installation of Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Section 18.104.22.168, "Deploying the Oracle Enterprise Repository Application"
Section 188.8.131.52, "Change the Server Classloader Order for XLST"
After the installer has completed, you have a WebSphere directory, such as
ORACLE_HOME/repositoryXXX/websphere. This directory contains all of the properties files that configure the Oracle Enterprise Repository instance appropriately after it is deployed, as well as the oer.ear file and a copy of the JDBC Drivers that had been used to generate the database during the install process.
Use the following steps to deploy Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g on WebSphere:
Create a
ORACLE_HOME, such as /opt/Oracle, on the target application server. The Oracle Enterprise Repository installation program prompts you to use an existing
ORACLE_HOME if one exists, otherwise it enables you to create a directory.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository installation application deposits the WebSphere deployable application and the appropriate properties files into the ORACLE_HOME/repositoryXXX/websphere directory. This recommendation ensures that the Oracle Enterprise Repository application has a consistent driver that should not be effected by outside changes to the WebSphere or other library environment.
As a recommended best practice, copy the JDBC Driver JAR file(s) and all properties files from the ORACLE_HOME/repositoryXXX/websphere directory. This recommendation ensures that the Oracle Enterprise Repository application has a consistent driver that should not be effected by outside changes to the WebSphere or other library environment.
Deploy the
oer.ear file in the manner most appropriate for your deployment server.
Do not start the application as there are additional configuration steps that must be performed before the application is considered fully deployed.
Modify the generic JVM parameters.
These installation instructions assume the use of the WebSphere Administration Console. All instructions are relative to the links leading to the appropriate pages within this management tool.
Open the Servers, Application Servers, myserver, Java and Process Management, Process Definition, Java Virtual Machine page.
Add the following parameters to the Generic JVM Parameters property:
*) Unicode compatibility – be sure to set the default client encoding appropriately. Depending on your locale, this may be reasonable: -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8
*) Turn off strict code verification: -Xverify:none
*) To prevent XLST transformations in the diagnostic page and the metadata viewer from failing in your web browser, add a default implementation for DTMConfiguration: -
Modify the Oracle Enterprise Repository application module class load order:
Enter the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console.
Click Applications, Enterprise Applications.
Click the deployed Oracle Enterprise Repository application.
Click the Manage Modules link.
Click the oer-app.war module.
Change the Class load order to Classes loaded from application class loader first (labeled as "Parent last" in version 6.0 and earlier).
Click Apply.
Click the oer-web.war module.
Change the Class load order to Classes loaded from application class loader first (labeled as "Parent last" in version 6.0 and earlier).
Click Apply.
Click Save directly to the master configuration link to commit your changes to the master configuration.
Create a shared library from within the Oracle Enterprise Repository application and associate it with the application:
On the Applications, Enterprise Applications, OER, Shared Library References page, select the oer-app.war module and then click Reference Shared Library.
Click New.
Select a scope for the shared library that is appropriate for your WebSphere application environment.
Assign a meaningful Name to the shared library. Description is optional.
In the classpath field, enter the Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g directory, such as
ORACLE_HOME/repositoryXXX/websphere. This directory contains all of the properties files for the Oracle Enterprise Repository instance.
On a separate line within the classpath field, enter the absolute path of each JDBC driver JAR files within the
ORACLE_HOME directory. If you have more than one file, add only one file per line.
Select the new library in the Available list and use the right-facing arrow (>>) button to select that library for use with the oer-app.war application.
Click OK to continue.
Click Save directly to the master configuration link to commit your changes to the master configuration.
Restart WebSphere.
Start the Oracle Enterprise Repository application.
After starting up Oracle Enterprise Repository, enable and set the following Systems Setting property to true for SSL support and also to avoid an SSLContext error on the Run Active Diagnostic page.
cmee.ssl.force-sun-provider = true
To prevent issues with XSLT Transformation, use the following steps to change the classloader order in your WebSphere installation:
Log in to the WebSphere Administrative Console.
Click the Server, Application Server, server link.
Select the Configuration tab.
Select the option for Parallel start.
Change the Access to internal server classes to Allow.
Change Server Specific Application Settings, Classloader Policy to Single.
Change the Server Specific Application Settings, Class loading mode to Parent First.
Click Save directly to the master configuration link to commit your changes to the master configuration.
Java Web Start is a browser plug-in that runs files with JNLP extensions. Java Web Start must be available on the client to use Oracle Enterprise Repository's Asset Editor, Type Manager, Navigator Applet, Browse Tree applet and the Import/Export utility.
To download and install Java Web Start:
Download Java Web Start from the following link:
When the download is complete, install Java Web Start.
When installation is complete, open the Windows Control Panel.
Open the Java plug-in.
Click the browser tab and check the appropriate browser(s) with which to use the Java Web Start application. This is required for proper Asset Editor functionality.
Click the Advanced tab.
Select the appropriate SUN Java JRE version for use with the installed version of Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Close and re-open all instances of the Internet Explorer or FireFox browsers.
Navigate to the Oracle Enterprise Repository instance.
Click Edit/Manage Assets on the Oracle Enterprise Repository Assets screen.
A security warning opens. This occurs only during the first launch of the Asset Editor.
Click Start.
Java Web Start installs and the Asset Editor opens.
For UNIX/Linux workstations, use the following instructions to associate Java Web Start with the JNLP file type (assuming the use of Firefox/Mozilla based browsers):
Download Java Web Start (as a part of the Java Runtime Environment) from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html.
Install Java Runtime Environment as appropriate for your platform.
When installation is completed, open Mozilla Firefox.
Click the Edit menu, and then select Preferences. The Preferences dialog is displayed.
Search for an existing entry for JNLP files. If it does not already exist in the list, then add this file type.
Choose the JRE's WebStart application binary to associate with the JNLP file type: <JRE_HOME>/bin/javaw.
Save changes to browser options.
Navigate to the Oracle Enterprise Repository instance.
Click Edit/Manage Assets in the Oracle Enterprise Repository Assets screen. A security warning is displayed, which occurs only during the first launch of the Asset Editor.
Click Start. The Java Web Start is installed and the Asset Editor opens.
Oracle Enterprise Repository employs a browser MIME-type support checking process that is executed when the Edit/Manage Assets (Assets screen) and Edit (asset detail display) links are generated. This process inspects the client browser to determine if there is a registered handler for a JNLP file (which should launch Java Web Start). If this process fails or returns no results, the link HREF target points to the oer-web/web start/launch.htm page.
The browser-supported mime type determines which client installed application would be presented as the target of the Edit/Manage Assets and Edit links. Java Web Start must be properly installed to work correctly with the operating system as the handler for JNLP files passed to the client browser.
The process of registering this mime type with the browser is normally handled during installation of the Java Web Start plug-in application. Certain corporate security measures or anti-spyware applications may block this kind of change to the Windows Registry, as the improper installation and/or removal of the Java Web Start application, Java Run Time Environment or Java SDK if improperly registered within the Java plug-in applet within the Windows Control Panel.
The following instructions may help rectify the incorrect MIME type support, assuming that Java Web Start and an appropriate version of the SUN Java JRE are properly installed within the client computer system.
To manually set the file/MIME association within the Windows operating system using the Windows Explorer:
Open the Tools Menu.
Select Folder Options.
Select the File Types tab.
Scroll down to JNLP or create a JNLP file type.
Associate the Java Web Start Application (located in the correct path if more than one JWS is installed) with the JNLP file extension.
In the Windows Control Panel, add support (check the option) for Internet Explorer within the Java plug-in console applet. This process should assign the JNLP file type to Java Web Start within the Windows operating system.
Install the JRE or SDK and ensure you have the following entries in your $HOME/.mailcap and $HOME/.mime.types or in the system-wide /etc/mime.types and /etc/mailcap files:
Ensure you use the recent version, starting with Java 1.4.2.
in .mime.types or /etc/mime.types: type=application/x-java-jnlp-file desc="Java Web Start" exts="jnlp" in .mailcap or /etc/mailcap: application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16/jre/javaws/javaws %s // Adjust the path above according to your local installation
Conversely, when Mozilla Firefox encounters a file with an unknown extension, it often prompts you to Open or Save. Choose the Open option and browse to the
$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/javaws file, and select the appropriate option, to perform this action for the JNLP file type. If a new JRE is required, then follow the instructions in the Section 3.2, "Install Java Web Start", to change the executable associated with the JNLP file type.
After you have successfully installed Oracle Enterprise Repository, you must configure your browser to install Oracle Enterprise Repository WebStart.
To configure Oracle Enterprise Repository WebStart:
For Linux, you only have a few options in browsers, and the default browser for the Linux installs is Mozilla Firefox.
Install the Java plug-in and stop Mozilla Firefox.
Locate the mozilla directory on your computer, for example,
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 or
Open a command prompt and go to the mozilla directory on your computer, using the following command, for example:
cd home/oracle/.mozilla
Create the plugins directory, if it does not exist, using the following command:
mkdir plugins
Go to the plugins sub-directory under the Mozilla installation directory, as follows:
cd plugins
In the current directory, create a symbolic link to the Java ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so file type:
ln -s /oracle/soa/mwhome_gov/jdk160_11/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Open Mozilla Firefox and test the following link:
In Mozilla Firefox, click the Edit menu, and then select Preferences. The Preferences dialog is displayed.
Click Applications. The Application page is displayed.
In the Search field, enter
JNLP. The JNLP is displayed.
Select the displayed JNLP. The Action list gets activated.
Click the Action list to point to the correct JWS installed (such as the one installed with WLS JDK's).
However, on 64 bit Linux, WLS comes with JRockit only. You have to manually download the 64 bit JDK to access the plug-in.
After configuring your application server, follow these steps to start your application server and log in to the Oracle Enterprise Repository web-based console.
Start your application server:
WebLogic Server: navigate to the
ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\DOMAIN_NAME directory and, depending on your platform, double-click either the startWeblogic.cmd (Windows) or startWeblogic.sh (UNIX) file.
On Windows, you have an Oracle WebLogic Server NodeManager service. This service should be set to 'Automatic' start mode. This service is required to allow the domain Administration Server (startWeblogic.sh or *.cmd) to start the Oracle Enterprise Repository managed server.
For instructions on starting standalone Tomcat and WebSphere application servers, see the documentation for those products.
Log in to the Domain's Administration Server Console application (http://myserver.domainname.com:7001/console), and then select Environment -> Servers -> Control tab.
Check the oer_server1 managed server, and then click the Start button to start the Oracle Enterprise Repository managed server.
Point your browser to the Oracle Enterprise Repository application.
For example: http://myserver.domainname.com:7101/oer/
On the login screen, enter admin for the Username and Password. This is the default administrative account installed with Oracle Enterprise Repository. You are forced to change the default Administrator password on the first successful login to the Oracle Enterprise Repository web application.You can change the default password through the Administration tab in Oracle Enterprise Repository at a later time.
If your organization requires a user name and password each time you log in to Oracle Enterprise Repository, clear the Enable Automatic Login option.
Click Login.
The Login Stats dialog displays a welcome message that includes the date and time of your login.
Click Close.
For more information about using the Oracle Enterprise Repository console, see the "Getting Started" section of the Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
The Diagnostics tool allows testing and troubleshooting of certain aspects of Oracle Enterprise Repository, including testing for:
Checking Product Version Information
Servlet Functionality
Required Libraries
Database Connectivity
List System Paths
Run Pre-Compile Servlet
The Oracle Enterprise Repository diagnostic tools are available only when using an application server JVM parameter for security reasons. To enable the Oracle Enterprise Repository diagnostics features, use the following parameter:
This parameter can be added to the application server's environment in various ways. For WebLogic Server, edit the ORACLE_HOME/user_projects/DOMAIN_NAME/bin/setOERDomainEnv.sh or *.cmd file and uncomment the
OER_DIAG_OPTION parameter in this file. Then, restart the Oracle Enterprise Repository managed server.
To launch the Diagnostics tool, navigate to the http://host_name/application_name/diag/index.jsp page of the Oracle Enterprise Repository console. For more information, see "Password Encryption" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Prior to importing the Oracle Enterprise Repository Policy Management solution pack, you need to enable the system settings for policy management to ensure that the policies are applied correctly.
For more information about the system settings that need to be enabled before importing the policy management solution pack, see "Enable the Policy Management System Settings" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Oracle bundles base sample data for users to help you get started using the Enterprise Repository. Additionally, depending upon the edition of Oracle Enterprise Repository that you purchased, you can also import supplemental Solution Packs. These supplemental Solution Packs are located with your installation under the
ORACLE_HOME\repositoryXXX\core\tools\solutions folder. Table 3-1 describes the available Solution Packs for Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g:
Table 3-1 Oracle Enterprise Repository Solution Packs
|Solution Pack
|File Name
Install this Solution Pack to use policy management features with Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Install this Solution Pack to use Business Process Management Workflows, the Harvester, or the Oracle Registry Repository Exchange Utility, which exchanges data between Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle Service Registry.
For information about installing Oracle Enterprise Repository Solution Packs, see "Install Oracle Enterprise Repository Solution Packs" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Testing the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation involves a number of tasks that ensure the proper operation of initial Oracle Enterprise Repository features and functions. These instructions apply to all application servers currently supported by Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Section 3.7.5, "Enable System Setting for Asset Editor to Work"
Asset submission is performed on the Oracle Enterprise Repository Assets page.
In the Assets panel, click Submit an Asset.
In the Asset Submission dialog, complete the following fields:
Asset Name
URL: enter the file location (for example, http:/www.example.com/repository/)
Click Submit to submit the asset to the registrar.
Attempts to save as asset without first completing all required data fields results in a warning message. A confirmation message indicates the asset was successfully submitted to the Oracle Enterprise Repository registrar.
Click Close.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
The asset acceptance process is performed by the Oracle Enterprise Repository registrar using the Asset Editor. The registrar makes decisions about an asset based on company requirements. To accept and assign an asset means that the registrar accepts the asset and assigns it to another person to shepherd it through the remainder of the registration process.
On the Assets page, click the Edit/Manage Assets option to launch the Asset Editor.
Expand the Submitted folder in the Assets tree.
Expand the Pending folder and open the asset submitted in Submit an Asset.
For the purposes of this exercise, click Accept.
The asset moves to the Under Review folder in the tree, and also appears in each of the workflow folders under the asset. The workflow folders correspond to tabs in the Asset Editor.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
The asset acceptance process is performed by the Oracle Enterprise Repository registrar using the Asset Editor.
On the Overview, Support, Technical, and Tests tabs, complete the remaining information, including the notification email, licensing information, and support contacts as appropriate.
The notification email automatically sends notification to the email address when the asset is downloaded/selected for use. The asset can be moved from its original location to the storage repository on this tab.
Click Approve on a tab. The tab label changes color and the Approve button changes to Unapprove.
Click the Taxonomy tab.
Assign the asset to the appropriate categories and/or domains.
Categories and domains are configurable. For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Enter any keywords and classify the asset into one of five categories:
Raw: No assurance of quality or completeness.
Educational: To be used for educational purposes only. The asset may not be complete in terms of documentation, test results, or other information.
Approved: Approved for use by the registrar
Recommended: Successfully used on at least one project.
Mandated: Must be used whenever the functionality it provides is needed (This is especially relevant for web services that access customer data, process payments, and so on).
Click Approve.
The tab label changes color, and the Approve button changes to Unapprove.
Click the Documentation tab.
When all of the documentation requirements are met, click Approve.
Continue the approval process for each of the remaining tabs.
On the Administration tab, click Register to complete the registration process, or click Assign to assign the asset to someone else.
Click Save to save changes in the File menu.
The asset is moved to the Registered folder and each action (approval of tabs, field value updates.) are also recorded in the Audit log found on the asset's Administration Tab.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Complete the process by searching for the newly registered asset you created.
On the Assets page, use the Search option to locate the asset.
The asset should appear in the list in the upper frame of the main Assets page, indicating that the XML data stored as a BLOB is correctly loaded in the database.
Click the asset to open the asset detail in the lower frame of main page.
The system setting,
cmee.jws.pass-all-cookies, must be enabled to ensure the proper functioning of the Asset Editor. To enable this system setting, perform the following tasks:
On the Admin page, click System Settings.
cmee.jws.pass-all-cookies in the Enable New System Setting field, and then click Enable.
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More than 24 years after suffering bullet and shrapnel wounds during the shootings at Cleveland Elementary School, Rob Young is taking a stand on gun control.
More than 24 years after suffering bullet and shrapnel wounds during the shootings at Cleveland Elementary School, Rob Young is taking a stand on gun control.
But as Young freely acknowledges, it's not the stand you might expect.
Young says if they are properly trained, school principals and teachers should be allowed to carry loaded firearms on their campuses. He says it would make schools safer in an emergency.
"Why not have someone there with a gun who can act before the police get there?" Young said Monday. "If it saves one child, it's worth it."
Young, 30, was a 6-year-old first-grader on Jan. 17, 1989, when drifter Patrick Purdy walked onto the Cleveland Elementary playground and started firing. Five children were killed that day, and 31 people were wounded. Young was shot in the right foot and was hit in the chest by shrapnel.
His opinion about gun regulation is long-held. But after the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six adults, Young decided to become an activist.
Young joined the Gun Owners of America, an organization backing legislation introduced in January by Texas Republican Congressman Steve Stockman that would repeal "gun-free zones" on school campuses.
During a trip funded by the Gun Owners of America, Young spent Monday in Washington, D.C., speaking about the issue with members of the United States House of Representatives, as well as with congressional staffers. He is scheduled to attend more meetings today before returning to Stockton.
"He felt he needed to do something on our side of the issue," said Tim Macy, vice chairman of the gun rights group. "Taking guns away from honest citizens is feel-good legislation that's not going to do anything to solve the problem."
Young's visit coincides with Monday's announcement by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that the Senate Judiciary Committee soon will begin voting on an assault weapons ban and other proposed gun-control legislation. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has introduced a bill banning assault weapons and ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
Young was reached by phone Monday after meeting with a half-dozen congressmen and speaking at an event hosted by Stockman, who recently received national notice for inviting rocker Ted Nugent to Obama's State of the Union address.
He said his opinions are based not only on what he witnessed on the Cleveland playground but on nine years as a police officer.
"I deal with gang members all the time," Young said. "I've arrested people in the past who have been arrested more than once for unlawfully carrying firearms. A lot are convicted felons, they're carrying guns that were stolen or that have the serial numbers scraped off. These are criminals. They're not supposed to be carrying guns, anyway."
Young's first law enforcement job was as an officer on the Stockton Unified police force. He works today for a force in the Bay Area.
"Passing more laws for gun control is only going to hurt good people," said Young, who spent close to 10 hours Monday on Capitol Hill. "(Criminals) are going to choose whatever weapons they want. More gun laws hurt law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves adequately.
"You're asking Americans to play on an uneven playing field. No police officer can be everywhere at once. People need the ability to be able to protect themselves adequately."
Young said he was deeply affected by the similarity between the Sandy Hook shootings and the Cleveland tragedy. Unlike the many school shootings carried out by students against their own classmates and teachers, the Sandy Hook and Cleveland shootings were committed by strangers to the schools.
Being a parent also has colored his views, Young said. He and his wife have two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl.
"A whole new set of emotions goes through your head being a father," Young said. "Being a dad, I couldn't imagine sending my kids to school and having that happen."
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HAVANA - March 28, 2012 --Pope Benedict XVI is demanding greater freedom for the Catholic Church in Cuba during a Mass in the shrine of the island's communist revolution. He also denounces fanaticism that tries to impose its truth on others.
Benedict's homily was an unusually politicized papal message during Mass.
Benedict said people find freedom when they seek the truth that Christianity offers. He added, "On the other hand there are those who wrongly interpret this search for the truth, leading them to irrationality and fanaticism; they close themselves up in 'their truth' and try to impose it on others."
He didn't cite the government by name in Wednesday's message, but later urged Cuba to let the church more freely preach its message.


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MSI 990FXA GD-80 Review
Over the past few years MSI has been a company that has catered to the enthusiast and developed products with the feature sets that we like to see and use. Things like its OC Genie and now OC Genie II one touch hardware-based overclocking system make it easy for the novice to get a boost in performance with little or no overclocking knowledge needed, all by pushing a button and powering on the system. Things like their Military Class(II) build philosophy, DrMOS, Active Phase switching, and more add value, stability and reliability to the motherboards design. New with the 990FXA-GD80 is the addition of a uEFI BIOS that is leaps and bounds above what was offered earlier in the year. This addition brings with it support for 3TB hard drives. Although this board has been out since June, it received support for AMD's FX-8150 8 core processor and is the top of the line AMD based board in MSI's lineup. As such, the expectation is that it will be a high performing board. Let's see how it performs against the competition. If the levels of performance of its Intel-based boards are any indication, than the 990FXA-GD80 should do well.
Closer Look:
Packaging-wise the 990FXA-GD80 looks much the same as the latest Intel motherboards that I have recently looked at from MSI. The feature set is pushed up-close and personal with MSI's Military Class II technology graphic taking center stage on the packaging. The warranty period of three years is prominently highlighted on the front panel reinforcing the commitment to quality and reliability. Across the top are the supported technologies including both CrossfireX and SLI multi GPU graphics solutions, support for AMD's FX series of processors and Windows 7 support. USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps are supported on the 990FXA GD-80. The front of the packaging flips up to reveal information about the supported technologies including the implementation of MSI's Click BIOS II uEFI BIOS, Super Charger functionality and the THX TruStudioPro sound solution. A rendering of the 990FXA-GD-80 surrounded by pictures of the highlighted features is shown as well giving the consumer an idea what the board looks like.
Flip open the lid and the size of the accessory bundle is apparent. MSI usually sends a pretty substantial accessory bundle with its higher-end offerings and this board is no exception to that rule. There are two parts to the bundle — the documentation and the hardware. Documentation for the 990FXA-GD80 includes the manual, driver disk, quick start and user guides, MSI product brief, and a software user guide. On the hardware side there are 4 SATA 6Gbp/s cables, a pair of molex to SATA power adapters, a rear slot bracket with additional USB 3.0 ports, the I/O shield, NVIDIA SLI Bridge connectors, and last but not least the M-connectors that make installing all of the front panel wiring a breeze for those of us with big hands.
Knowing what MSI brings to the table and how performance has taken a front seat over the past couple years, I am interested to see how the 990FXA-GD80 performs in relation to what I normally see on their Intel based boards regarding performance and overclocking.


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One Direction's Japanese Press Conference, January 2013 (VIDEO)
While One Direction's in Japan to play two huge shows and shoot the 1D 3D movie, the boys were scheduled to attend a press conference to further promote their super-successful Take Me Home album. And, similarly to Kristen Stewart's segment on a Japanese talk show, there was some difficulties with the translations.
Nevertheless, even when the boys didn't understand what the heck was going on, it was still amusing to watch their facial expressions (like at 11:16 where Harry's nose begins to twitch). One of the best moments is when Niall begins explaining the band's highlight of the trip around the 10:40 mark: "We're all fans of robots and Zayn got a robot." The downside: Zayn left before the conference really started; looks like he wasn't feeling so hot. Poor guy.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association has announced that funerals have been scheduled for seven of the Connecticut school shooting victims.
Services for 6-year-olds Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto are being planned for Monday.
The funeral for 6-year-old Jessica Rekos is Tuesday.
On Wednesday, there will be funerals for 7-year-old Daniel Barden and 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto.
Services will be held on Thursday for 6-year-old Catherine Hubbard.
A private service has been planned for 6-year-old Dylan Hockley. No date was announced.