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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT's three leading scorers, Molly Duffy (New Providence, N.J.), Kameron Klauber (Carlsbad, Calif.), and Kimberly Barker (Camden, N.Y.) each found the scoring column during a 4-0 win over visiting Wheaton College in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) field hockey action on a sun soaked Saturday afternoon on Jack Barry Field. The Engineers improve to 12-2 overall and 4-1 in league play with their third straight shutout. Wheaton falls to 6-6 and 1-3 in the NEWMAC.
Tech had a number of good scoring opportunities early on but Lyons' goalkeeper Ellie Massengill (Amherst, Mass.) made a pair of tremendous kick saves on shots by Klauber and smothered a breakaway attempt by Duffy.
MIT earned a penalty corner though just after Duffy's breakaway and capitalized on the chance, with Barker gathering the loose ball in front of the net and pushing it home for her eighth goal of the season.
Klauber nearly extended the lead just before the half, as she broke past the Wheaton defense all alone, but Massengill again came out of the net to smother the ball and preserve the one-goal deficit.
Klauber finally broke through just over 10 minutes into the second half, as she would not be denied on her second breakaway. Duffy added an insurance marker eight minutes later and Katie Kauffman (Olney, Md.) rounded out the scoring for the Cardinal and Gray.
At 4-1, Tech now sits atop the conference standings, just ahead of 3-1 Mount Holyoke College, its next opponent. MIT and Mount Holyoke will play next Saturday, October 15 at Jack Barry at 1:00 p.m. The game is the final home date for the Engineers before finishing with three straight on the road. Wheaton will be back in action next Saturday as well, traveling to Springfield College for an 11:00 a.m. league matchup.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) selected Charles Morton for the inaugural Division III Men's Volleyball National Assistant Coach of the Year award. He will be formally presented his award at the 2010 Jostens Coaches Honors Luncheon in Kansas City, Mo., on Thursday, December 16.
Morton recently completed his 11th season as an assistant coach for both the men's and women's varsity programs. This year, he helped the men's squad reach the 30-win mark for the first time in team history as the Engineers made their second semifinal appearance in the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) Championship Tournament.
Morton's responsibilities include design and implementation of the strength, conditioning, and jump training programs, recruiting, practice planning, statistical analysis, and player development, and drawing on his familiarity with life as an MIT student to act as a second academic advisor for the team members. He joined the coaching staff after closing a four-year playing career that saw him rise from reserve middle blocker in 1995 to starter in 1996, and eventually captain and Most Valuable Player in 1998.
Morton graduated from MIT in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, and was one of the first students to earn the Biomedical Engineering minor. Following a two-year stint as an engineering analyst for the Arthur D. Little Corporation, Morton returned to MIT to pursue a Ph.D. program in the Department of Biological Engineering. His thesis work involved studies of the metabolic disposition and biophysical phenomena of developmental drug candidates against prostate cancer. After earning his doctorate in molecular pharmacology and toxicology in the spring of 2009, Morton began a postdoctoral fellowship researching carcinogenesis at the Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston.

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Section 1.2, "About Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite"
An enterprise deployment is an Oracle best practices blueprint based on proven Oracle high-availability and security technologies and recommendations for Oracle Fusion Middleware. The best practices described in these blueprints span all Oracle products across the entire technology stack: Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Fusion Middleware Control.
An Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment:
considers various business service level agreements (SLA) to make high-availability best practices as widely applicable as possible
leverages database grid servers and storage grid with low-cost storage to provide highly resilient, lower cost infrastructure
uses results from extensive performance impact studies for different configurations to ensure that the high-availability architecture is optimally configured to perform and scale to business needs
enables control over the length of time to recover from an outage and the amount of acceptable data loss from a natural disaster
uses Oracle best practices and recommended architecture, which are independent of hardware and operating systems.
For more information on high availability practices, go to
Note:This document focuses on enterprise deployments in Linux environments, but enterprise deployments can also be implemented in UNIX and Windows environments.
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite (Oracle ECM), an Oracle Fusion Middleware component, is an integrated suite of products designed for managing content. It is the industry's most unified enterprise content management platform that enables you to leverage industry-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records management functionality to build your business applications. Building a strategic enterprise content management infrastructure for content and applications helps you to reduce costs, easily share content across the enterprise, minimize risk, automate expensive, time-intensive and manual processes, and consolidate multiple Web sites onto a single platform.
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite offers the following benefits:
Superior usability: Built-in support for end-users, workgroups, content experts, process owners, administrators and webmaster
Optimized management: Unified architecture for securely managing documents, files, web content and digital assets
Hot-pluggable: Out-of-the-box support for Oracle and third-party repositories, security systems, and enterprise applications
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite comprises a number of different components including:
Oracle Universal Content Management
Oracle Universal Content Management (Oracle UCM) is the industry's most unified enterprise content management platform that enables you to leverage market-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications. Building a strategic enterprise content management infrastructure for content and applications helps you to reduce costs, easily share content across the enterprise, minimize risk, automate expensive, time-intensive and manual processes, and consolidate multiple Web sites onto a single platform for centralized management. Through user-friendly interfaces, roles-based authentication and security models, Oracle Universal Content Management empowers users throughout the enterprise to view, collaborate on or retire content, ensuring that all accessible distributed or published information is secure, accurate and up-to-date.
Oracle Information Rights Management
Oracle Information Rights Management (Oracle IRM) is an information security technology that secures and tracks sensitive digital information everywhere it is stored and used. Conventional information management products only manage documents, e-mails, and Web pages while they remain stored within server-side repositories. Oracle Information Rights Management uses encryption to extend the management of information beyond the repository to every copy of an organization's most sensitive information, everywhere it is stored and used: on end-user desktops, laptops and mobile wireless devices, in other repositories, inside and outside the firewall.
Oracle Imaging and Processing Management
Oracle Imaging and Process Management (Oracle I/PM) provides organizations with a scalable solution focused on process-oriented imaging applications and image-enabling enterprise applications. It enables image capture, annotation and markup of images, automates routing and approvals, and supports high-volume applications for billions of items. With Oracle Imaging and Process Management, organizations can quickly integrate their content and processes directly with Oracle and other third-party enterprise applications.
The Oracle Fusion Middleware configurations discussed in this guide are designed to ensure security of all invocations, maximize hardware resources, and provide a reliable, standards-compliant system for enterprise computing with a variety of applications.
The security and high-availability benefits of the Oracle Fusion Middleware configurations are realized through isolation in firewall zones and replication of software components.
The enterprise deployment architectures are secure because every functional group of software components is isolated in its own DMZ, and all traffic is restricted by protocol and port. The following characteristics ensure security at all needed levels, as well as a high level of standards compliance:
Configure external load balancers to redirect all external communication received on port 80 to port 443.
Note:The Oracle Technology Network (
http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html) provides a list of validated load balancers and their configuration at
Communication from external clients does not go beyond the Load Balancing Router (LBR) level.
No direct communication from the Load Balancing Router to the data tier is allowed.
Components are separated in different protection zones: the web tier, application tier, and the data tier.
Direct communication between two firewalls at any one time is prohibited.
If a communication begins in one firewall zone, it must end in the next firewall zone.
Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is isolated in the data tier.
Oracle Identity Management (IDM) components are in a separate subnet.
All communication between components across protection zones is restricted by port and protocol, according to firewall rules.
The following terminology is used in this enterprise deployment guide:
Oracle home: An Oracle home contains installed files necessary to host a specific product. For example, the SOA Oracle home contains a directory that contains binary and library files for Oracle SOA Suite. An Oracle home resides within the directory structure of the Middleware home. Each Oracle home can be associated with multiple Oracle instances or Oracle WebLogic Server domains.
WebLogic Server home: A WebLogic Server home contains installed files necessary to host a WebLogic Server. The WebLogic Server home directory is a peer of Oracle home directories and resides within the directory structure of the Middleware home.
Middleware home: A Middleware home consists of the Oracle WebLogic Server home, and, optionally, one or more Oracle homes. A Middleware home can reside on a local file system or on a remote shared disk that is accessible through NFS.
Oracle instance: An Oracle instance contains one or more active middleware system components, for example Oracle Web Cache, Oracle HTTP Server, or Oracle Internet Directory. You determine which components are part of an instance, either at install time or by creating and configuring an instance at a later time. An Oracle instance contains files that can be updated, such as configuration files, log files, temporary files.
failover: When a member of a high availability system fails unexpectedly (unplanned downtime), in order to continue offering services to its consumers, the system undergoes a failover operation. If the system is an active-passive system, the passive member is activated during the failover operation and consumers are directed to it instead of the failed member. The failover process can be performed manually, or it can be automated by setting up hardware cluster services to detect failures and move cluster resources from the failed node to the standby node. If the system is an active-active system, the failover is performed by the load balancer entity serving requests to the active members. If an active member fails, the load balancer detects the failure and automatically redirects requests for the failed member to the surviving active members. See Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide for information on active-active and active-passive systems.
failback: After a system undergoes a successful failover operation, the original failed member can be repaired over time and be re-introduced into the system as a standby member. If desired, a failback process can be initiated to activate this member and deactivate the other. This process reverts the system back to its pre-failure configuration.
hardware cluster: A hardware cluster is a collection of computers that provides a single view of network services (for example: an IP address) or application services (for example: databases, Web servers) to clients of these services. Each node in a hardware cluster is a standalone server that runs its own processes. These processes can communicate with one another to form what looks like a single system that cooperatively provides applications, system resources, and data to users.
A hardware cluster achieves high availability and scalability through the use of specialized hardware (cluster interconnect, shared storage) and software (health monitors, resource monitors). (The cluster interconnect is a private link used by the hardware cluster for heartbeat information to detect node death.) Due to the need for specialized hardware and software, hardware clusters are commonly provided by hardware vendors such as Sun, HP, IBM, and Dell. While the number of nodes that can be configured in a hardware cluster is vendor dependent, for the purpose of Oracle Fusion Middleware high availability, only two nodes are required. Hence, this document assumes a two-node hardware cluster for high availability solutions employing a hardware cluster.
cluster agent: The software that runs on a node member of a hardware cluster that coordinates availability and performance operations with other nodes. Clusterware provides resource grouping, monitoring, and the ability to move services. A cluster agent can automate the service failover.
clusterware: Software that manages the operations of the members of a cluster as a system. It allows one to define a set of resources and services to monitor via a heartbeat mechanism between cluster members and to move these resources and services to a different member in the cluster as efficiently and transparently as possible.
shared storage: Shared storage is the storage subsystem that is accessible by all the machines in the EDG domain. Among other things, the following is located on the shared disk:
Middleware Home software
AdminServer Domain Home
Tlogs (where applicable)
Managed server homes can also be optionally located in the shared disk. The shared storage can be a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Storage Area Network (SAN) or any other storage system that multiple nodes can access simultaneously and can read/write.
primary node: The node that is actively running an Oracle Fusion Middleware instance at any given time and has been configured to have a backup/secondary node. If the primary node fails, Oracle Fusion Middleware instance is failed over to the secondary node. This failover can be manual or automated using the Clusterware for Administration Server. For a server migration based scenario, WebLogic Whole Server Migration is used for automated failover.
secondary node: The node that is the backup node for an Oracle Fusion Middleware instance. This is where the active instance fails over when the primary node is no longer available. See the definition for primary node in this section.
network host name: Network host name is a name assigned to an IP address either through the
/etc/hosts file or through DNS resolution. This name is visible in the network that the machine to which it refers to is connected. Often, the network host name and physical host name are identical. However, each machine has only one physical host name but may have multiple network host names. Thus, a machine's network host name may not always be its physical host name.
physical host name: This guide differentiates between the terms physical host name and network host name. This guide uses physical host name to refer to the "internal name" of the current machine. On UNIX, this is the name returned by the
hostname command.
Physical host name is used by Oracle Fusion Middleware to reference the local host. During installation, the installer automatically retrieves the physical host name from the current machine and stores it in the Oracle Fusion Middleware configuration metadata on disk.
physical IP: Physical IP refers to the IP address of a machine on the network. In most cases, it is normally associated with the physical host name of the machine (see the definition of the physical host name). In contrast to a virtual IP, it is always associated with the same machine when on a network.
switchover: During normal operation, active members of a system may require maintenance or upgrading. A switchover process can be initiated to allow a substitute member to take over the workload performed by the member that requires maintenance or upgrading, which undergoes planned downtime. The switchover operation ensures continued service to consumers of the system.
switchback: When a switchover operation is performed, a member of the system is deactivated for maintenance or upgrading. When the maintenance or upgrading is completed, the system can undergo a switchback operation to activate the upgraded member and bring the system back to the pre-switchover configuration.
virtual host name: Virtual host name is a network addressable host name that maps to one or more physical machines via a load balancer or a hardware cluster. For load balancers, the name "virtual server name" is used interchangeably with virtual host name in this book. A load balancer can hold a virtual host name on behalf of a set of servers, and clients communicate indirectly with the machines using the virtual host name. A virtual host name in a hardware cluster is a network host name assigned to a cluster virtual IP. Because the cluster virtual IP is not permanently attached to any particular node of a cluster, the virtual host name is not permanently attached to any particular node either.
Note:Whenever the term "virtual host name" is used in this document, it is assumed to be associated with a virtual IP address. In cases where just the IP address is needed or used, it will be explicitly stated.
virtual IP: Also, cluster virtual IP and load balancer virtual IP. Generally, a virtual IP can be assigned to a hardware cluster or load balancer. To present a single system view of a cluster to network clients, a virtual IP serves as an entry point IP address to the group of servers which are members of the cluster. A virtual IP can be assigned to a server load balancer or a hardware cluster.
A hardware cluster uses a cluster virtual IP to present to the outside world the entry point into the cluster (it can also be set up on a standalone machine). The hardware cluster's software manages the movement of this IP address between the two physical nodes of the cluster while clients connect to this IP address without the need to know which physical node this IP address is currently active on. In a typical two-node hardware cluster configuration, each machine has its own physical IP address and physical host name, while there could be several cluster IP addresses. These cluster IP addresses float or migrate between the two nodes. The node with current ownership of a cluster IP address is active for that address.
A load balancer also uses a virtual IP as the entry point to a set of servers. These servers tend to be active at the same time. This virtual IP address is not assigned to any individual server but to the load balancer which acts as a proxy between servers and their clients.
The following abbreviations are used in this enterprise deployment guide:
ASM = Automatic Storage Management
BPEL = Business Process Execution Language
CSF = Credential Store Framework
DB = Database
DN = Distinguished Name
DNS = Domain Name Service
ECM = Enterprise Content Management
EM = Enterprise Manager
FMW = Fusion Middleware
FTP = File Transfer Protocol
HA = High Availability
IDM = Identity Management
IP = Internet Protocol
I/PM = Imaging and Processing Management
IRM = Information Rights Management
JOC = Java Object Cache
JRF = Java Required Files
JMS = Java Message Service
LBR = Load Balancing Router
LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
NAS = Network Attached Storage
NAT = Network Address Translation
NFS = Network File System
OAM = Oracle Access Manager
OAP = Oracle Access Protocol
OCS = Oracle Content Server
OHS = Oracle HTTP Server
OID = Oracle Internet Directory
OIP = Oracle Internet Protocol
OPSS = Oracle Platform Security Services
OVD = Oracle Virtual Directory
RAC = Real Application Clusters
RCA = Repository Create Assistant
RCU = Repository Creation Utility
SAN = Storage Area Network
SLA = Service Level Agreement
SOA = Service-Oriented Architecture
UCM = Universal Content Management
UMS = Unified Messaging System
URM = Universal Records Management
VIP = Virtual Internet Protocol
WC = WebCenter
WLS = WebLogic Server
WLST = WebLogic Scripting Tool
WSM = Web Services Manager
Typical hardware requirements for the enterprise deployment on Linux operating systems are listed in Table 1-1. For detailed requirements or for requirements for other platforms, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware installation documentation for that platform.
Table 1-1 Typical Hardware Requirements
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4 or more X Pentium, 1.5 GHz or greater
n = number of disks, at least 4 (striped as one disk) m = size of the disk (minimum of 30 GB)
4 or more X Pentium, 1.5 GHz or greater
4 or more X Pentium, 1.5 GHz or greater
10 GBFoot 1
4 or more X Pentium, 1.5 GHz or greater
10 GBFoot 2
Footnote 1 For a shared storage MW_HOME configuration, two installations suffice by making a total of 20 GB independently of the number of slots.
Footnote 2 ECM can reuse MW_HOME binaries from the SOA installation in shared storage.
Note:You must perform the appropriate capacity planning to determine the number of nodes, CPU, and memory requirements for each node depending on the specific system's load as well as the throughput and response requirements. These will vary for each application or custom SOA system being used.
The instructions and diagrams in this guide describe a reference topology, to which variations may be applied.
This guide provides configuration instructions for a reference enterprise topology that uses service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite (Oracle ECM) with Oracle Access Manager (OAM), as shown in Figure 1-1.
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Integration with the Oracle Identity Management (IDM) system is an important aspect of the enterprise deployment architecture. This integration provides features such as single sign-on, integration with OPSS, centralized identity and credential store, authentication for the WebLogic domain, and so on. The Oracle IDM enterprise deployment is separate from the Oracle ECM enterprise deployment and exists in a separate domain by itself. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management for more information on identity management in an enterprise deployment context.
The primary interface to the Oracle IDM enterprise deployment is the LDAP traffic to the LDAP servers, the OAP (Oracle Access Protocol) to the OAM Access Servers, and the HTTP redirection of authentication requests.
Nodes in the web tier are located in the DMZ public zone. In this tier, two nodes WEBHOST1 and WEBHOST2 run Oracle HTTP Server configured with WebGate and mod_wl_ohs.
Through mod_wl_ohs, which allows requests to be proxied from Oracle HTTP Server to WebLogic Server, Oracle HTTP Server forwards the requests to WebLogic Server running in the application tier.
WebGate (which is an Oracle Access Manager component) in Oracle HTTP Server uses Oracle Access Protocol (OAP) to communicate with Oracle Access Manager running on OAMHOST2, in the Identity Management DMZ. WebGate and Oracle Access Manager are used to perform operations such as user authentication.
The web tier also includes a load balancer router to handle external requests. External requests are sent to the virtual host names configured on the load balancer. The load balancer then forwards the requests to Oracle HTTP Server.
The WebGate module in Oracle HTTP Server uses Oracle Access Protocol (OAP) to communicate with Oracle Access Manager to perform operations such as querying user groups.
On the firewall protecting the web tier, only the HTTP ports are open: 443 for HTTPS and 80 for HTTP.
This enterprise topology uses an external load balancer. This external load balancer should have the following features:
Ability to load-balance traffic to a pool of real servers through a virtual host name: Clients access services using the virtual host name (instead of using actual host names). The load balancer can then load-balance requests to the servers in the pool.
Port translation configuration should be possible so that incoming requests on the virtual host name and port are directed to a different port on the back-end servers.
Monitoring of ports on the servers in the pool to determine availability of a service.
Virtual servers and port configuration: Ability to configure virtual server names and ports on your external load balancer, and the virtual server names and ports must meet the following requirements:
The load balancer should allow configuration of multiple virtual servers. For each virtual server, the load balancer should allow configuration of traffic management on more than one port. For example, for Oracle HTTP Server in the web tier, the load balancer needs to be configured with a virtual server and ports for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
The virtual server names must be associated with IP addresses and be part of your DNS. Clients must be able to access the external load balancer through the virtual server names.
Ability to detect node failures and immediately stop routing traffic to the failed node.
Fault-tolerant mode: It is highly recommended that you configure the load balancer to be in fault-tolerant mode.
It is highly recommended that you configure the load balancer virtual server to return immediately to the calling client when the back-end services to which it forwards traffic are unavailable. This is preferred over the client disconnecting on its own after a timeout based on the TCP/IP settings on the client machine.
Sticky routing capability: Ability to maintain sticky connections to components. Examples of this include cookie-based persistence, IP-based persistence, and so on.
The load balancer should be able to terminate SSL requests at the load balancer and forward traffic to the back-end real servers using the equivalent non-SSL protocol (for example, HTTPS to HTTP). Typically, this feature is called SSL acceleration and it is required for this EDG.
Nodes in the application tier are located in the DMZ secure zone.
In this tier, two nodes (SOAHOST1 and SOAHOST2) run Oracle WebLogic Server configured with managed servers for running SOA components such as BPEL Process Manager. The managed servers are configured in an active-active manner.
ECMHOST1 and ECMHOST2 run the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) servers and Oracle Imaging and Processing Management (I/PM) servers.
SOAHOST1 and SOAHOST2 also run the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console and Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, but in an active-passive configuration. You can fail over the Administration Server manually (see Section 5.12, "Manually Failing Over the Administration Server to SOAHOST2"). Alternatively, you can configure the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console with CFC/CRS to fail over automatically on a separate hardware cluster (not shown in this architecture).
Oracle Web Services Manager (Oracle WSM) provides a policy framework to manage and secure Web services in the EDG topology. WSM Policy Manager also runs in active-active configuration in the same servers as Oracle FMW SOA Suite.
On the firewall protecting the application tier, the HTTP ports, OAP port, and proxy port are open. The OAP port is for the WebGate module running in Oracle HTTP Server in the web tier to communicate with Oracle Access Manager. Applications requiring external HTTP access use Oracle HTTP Server as the proxy. (The proxy on the Oracle HTTP Server must be enabled to allow this access.)
Nodes in the data tier are located in the most secured network zone (the intranet).
In this tier, an Oracle RAC database runs on the nodes CUSTDBHOST1 and CUSTDBHOST2. The database contains the schemas needed by the SOA and ECM components. The ECM and SOA components running in the application tier access this database.
On the firewall protecting the data tier, the database listener port (typically, 1521) is required to be open. The LDAP ports (typically, 389 and 636) are also required to be open for the traffic accessing the LDAP storage in the IDM EDG.
Oracle recommends that the nodes in the Oracle ECM enterprise deployment topology communicate using unicast. Unlike multicast communication, unicast does not require cross-network configuration and it reduces potential network errors that can occur from multicast address conflicts as well.
The following considerations apply when using unicast to handle cluster communications:
All members of a WebLogic cluster must use the same message type. Mixing between multicast and unicast messaging is not allowed.
Individual cluster members cannot override the cluster messaging type.
The entire cluster must be shut down and restarted to change the message modes (from unicast to multicast or from multicast to unicast).
JMS topics configured for multicasting can access WebLogic clusters configured for unicast because a JMS topic publishes messages on its own multicast address that is independent of the cluster address. However, the following considerations apply:
The router hardware configurations that allow unicast clusters may not allow JMS multicast subscribers to work.
JMS multicast subscribers need to be in a network hardware configuration that allows multicast accessibility. (That is, JMS subscribers must be in a multicast-enabled network to access multicast topics.)
Table 1-2 identifies the source for installation of each software component. For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite.
Table 1-2 Components and Installation Sources
|Distribution Medium
Oracle Database 10g or 11g
Oracle Database 10g CD (10.2.0.4 or later SE or EE version of the database) using the AL32UTF8 character set.
Oracle Database Server 11g CD (184.108.40.206 or later SE or EE version of the database), using the AL32UTF8 character set.
Repository Creation Utility (RCU)
Oracle Fusion Middleware Repository Creation Utility 11g (18.104.22.168) DVD
Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS)
Oracle WebLogic Server (10.3.3) DVD
Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
Oracle Fusion Middleware WebTier and Utilities 11g (188.8.131.52) DVD
Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle SOA Suite 11g (126.96.36.199) DVD
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite
Oracle ECM 11g (126.96.36.199) DVD
Oracle Access Manager (OAM) Webgate
Oracle Access Manager 10g Webgates (10.1.4.3) DVD ; OAM OHS 11g webgates per platform
Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD)
Oracle Identity Management 11g (184.108.40.206) DVD
Note:This document focuses on enterprise deployments in Linux environments, but enterprise deployments can also be implemented in UNIX and Windows environments.
The Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard enables you to extend the Oracle WebLogic Server domain by adding only the needed components. Rather than using the Configuration Wizard to create SOA components and the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite components along with the domain that includes the Administration Server, Enterprise Manager, and WSM-PM in a single pass, you can instead create the domain and its Administration Server in one pass of the Configuration Wizard and then extend the domain by adding Oracle Enterprise Manager, SOA, WSM-PM, Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM), and Oracle Imaging and Process Management (I/PM) components in subsequent passes. Using this incremental approach, you can verify the installation of the servers and perform specific validations after each pass of the Configuration Wizard. In general, Oracle recommends the following approach:
Run a first pass of the Configuration Wizard to install the Administration Server (described in Chapter 5, "Creating a Domain with Administration Server").
Run a second pass of the Configuration Wizard to install the Oracle Enterprise Manager, SOA, and WSM-PM components (described in Section 6, "Extending the Domain with SOA Components").
Run a third pass of the Configuration Wizard to install the Oracle UCM components (described in Chapter 7, "Extending the Domain with Oracle UCM").
Run a fourth pass of the Configuration Wizard to install the Oracle I/PM components (described in Chapter 8, "Extending the Domain with Oracle I/PM").
Oracle recommends this modular approach in order to facilitate the verification of individual components one by one. This building block approach simplifies the troubleshooting during the setup process and facilitates the configuration in smaller steps.
Some variation from the topology in Section 1.7, "Enterprise Deployment Reference Topology" is possible. For example, if a deployment chooses to install Oracle UCM alone, then only sections applicable to Oracle UCM need to be followed. Also, in this case, it is expected that the Administration Server will exist on ECMHOST1 instead and the instructions on creating the domain should be modified appropriately.


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Like the Yankees, the Orioles postgame train ride to New York following Monday's win was aborted 30 minutes into the trip. The Orioles took buses to New York and arrived after sunrise Tuesday morning.
The Yankees' train back to New York reportedly lost power in Aberdeen, forcing them to continue the trip home by bus.
"We got into the hotel at about 9 a.m. this morning," Showalter said. "We got about a half hour out of Baltimore the way I understand it, the train ahead of us, I don't know if it was the Yankees, lost power to the line. Finally, we just got on the buses and we had about a 2 1/2 –hour bus ride from there to the hotel in New York."
Showalter, who said the bus ride reminded him of his minor league days, said the Orioles took it in stride.
"We're in a nice hotel," Showalter said. "Everybody's going to get their sleep and it's not an excuse. The guys have fun with it. It's a club that doesn't take itself too seriously. They understand the meaning of life and they understand things like that happen. We got off the bus and Jim Thome had a big smile on his face. I'm sure it's not the first time Jim's been through something like that."
Showalter mum on remaining rotation
Showalter wouldn't reveal his starting pitchers for Game 4 and a possible decisive Game 5 in New York, saying only that right-hander Chris Tillman and left-hander Joe Saunders are available for either game.
"You know the options we have," Showalter said. "A lot will depend on what happens [Wednesday] night. We're going to take each game as it comes and try to win that game and stay in that game in those nine innings or however many innings it is and when the smoke clears, we'll look at what our option is and how it presents itself."
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Showalter sounded positive speaking about right fielder Nick Markakis' recovery from a broken left thumb. Markakis had the pins taken out of the thumb on Monday. "It's healing correctly," Showalter said. "It's as normal as it can possibly be are getting those bones shattered. The swelling has gone down. For the first time in a long time, it looked like he had a normal thumb." Markakis will likely only be available if the Orioles go to the World Series … Infielder Wilson Betemit (right wrist sprain) continued taking batting practice in Sarasota, Fla. and remains a roster possibility if the Orioles advance to the ALCS. … Left-hander Zach Britton, who had pitched just one inning since Sept. 15, threw three innings — nearly 40 pitches — in an instructional league game on Tuesday. Britton could be a starting option if the Orioles advance. … Joe Angel and Jim Hunter, two Oriole announcers who were in the running for the 2013 Ford C.Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting, did not make the cut of 10 finalists. Among those still being considered are former Toronto Blue Jays' play-by-play man, the late Tom Cheek, and former St. Louis Cardinals player and current announcer Mike Shannon. The winner will be announced in December at baseball's annual winter meetings.


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Which makes Burning Man a sustainable event. That said, who pays for Burning Man? We do! We don't have sponsors, and I get the impression the BLM is taking advantage uf us, but We pay for everything! And, as Manna pointed out, its still cheaper than a concert!phoon wrote:I think festivals across the board are jacking up their prices. It seems like the trendy thing to do, I guess. It's going to make a lot of people change their minds and not go anymore. It's just too expensive, you know?
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|System: X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: A2M
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Bethesda Softworks
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Sep. 15, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
While all this over-the-top, circus-like carnage is quite visceral and initially satisfying, it eventually becomes a bit stale and routine. Moreover, I often wished Rubi's actions were more easily linked together. Although the game will boost your Style Point totals for combining one acrobatic move to the next, its implementation is a bit clunky.
The Acrobatic Flow mechanic simply isn't as tight as it needed to be. I found it difficult for quite some time to incorporate all of her abilities into one fluid, choreographed dance of death. For instance, turning a leap into a slide is easily done with the press of a button, but then transitioning a slide into a third move, such as a wall run, is typically foiled by overly precise timing. This game should have been more user-friendly, but instead the action is bogged down by needless exactness, making it far less free flowing than it should have been.
Wet is only a single-player experience, but multiple difficulty levels may draw out the gameplay. These four difficulties are distinct enough to accommodate any skill level. A fifth, called Golden Bullets, is not necessarily the most difficult, as it features one-shot kills, but it does require greater skill from the player to keep Rubi alive. The difficulty levels will conceivably extend play value for some, but the story is quite short and doing it all over again with nothing more than more challenging foes won't be ideal for most. Collecting all the Monkey Toys and Style Point bonuses scattered throughout the chapters will keep completionists busy, but they break up the flow for anyone just trying to play through the story.
This game oozes personality. I absolutely loved Rubi's and the boss characters' designs, and the quirky filters and grindhouse theme were fitting and cool. The music and voice were also superb. The tons of featured tracks are not only fitting to the overall subject matter, they nicely capture the specific scene. They're also looped very well. The voice acting features a star-studded cast that lends a lot of quality to the story. Lines like "I hope you f@#$ better than you shoot," are priceless. On the downside, not enough detail went into environments and insignificant characters are made more so due to a lack of attention. The game needed more technical polish to back up all of the wonderful creativity that went into the visuals.
Wet is a very good game that any fan of shooters will enjoy. Disappointingly, the game doesn't seem to quite live up to its full potential though, as gameplay elements get tiresome and controls aren't quite tight enough. Regardless, the cinematic presentation and the outrageous gunplay is an experience most players will not want to miss.
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20 Fun and Unusual Stocking Stuffers for Cooks!
It's usually pretty easy to find things for a cook's holiday stocking. The culinary world is full of little bits of kitchen gadgetry and smartly packaged foodstuffs. But if you're searching for something beyond a clutch of vegetable peelers and Trader Joe's Gift Cards*, then take a look at this roundup of fun and unusual little gifts for the cook.
*not that I wouldn't want these, too!
First Row
• Egg Cozies, $18 for set of two
• Recipe Cards, $10 for 16
• Winter Citrus Soap, $8.00
• Linen Origami Food Sacks $22 for two
• Long Handled Spoon, $32.49
Second Row
• Red Mini-Cleaver, $13.95
• Mulling Spices, $6.00 makes 3 gallons
• Antler Tea Towel, $36.00 AUS
• Baker's Twine, $2.25 for 30 yards
• Handmade Pot Holders, $16 for two
Third Row
• Kewpie Mayonaise, $4.95
• Horse Head Bottle Opener, $14.95
• Cake Flags, $25 for bundle of 10
• Rancho Gordo Bumpersticker, $1.00 and
• Christmas Lima Beans, $4.95
Fourth Row
• Unusual spices such as malab, pink peppercorns and grains of paradise
• Double-Layer Red Stripe Dish Cloths, $5.95
• Vegetable Garden Seeds, $1.50 - $3.50 per pack
• All-In-One Spatula, $5.95
• Handmade Anchor Pocket Knife, $39.70
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I'm still poring over the findings of a U.S. Forest Service study released last month that gave Albuquerque a high ranking in two key areas—and neither has stellar tidings for our local climate and quality of life.
Researchers documented a high loss of our urban forest area and an increase of impervious ground cover. This means that trees disappeared across the city at the same time that rooftops and pavement spread. The study found us up there in terms of tree loss with New Orleans and fast-growing, drought-stricken Houston.
More impervious surfaces mean more challenges for our thirsty city. Water that falls on an open field has a drastically different outcome compared to water falling on blacktop. The more paved-over, compacted area there is, the less water is absorbed into the ground. It's also more likely that the water that does soak in (or run off to the river) is polluted and prone to flooding.
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ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school basketball action earlier this week, Otter Valley and Middlebury picked up road wins, while Vergennes lost at home.
The Commodores also hosted Missisquoi on Tuesday; see story.
The 9-9 Tigers were also set to visit Mount Abraham on Wednesday after the deadline for this issue of the Independent. The 4-14 Eagles will conclude their season with a visit to St. Albans on Friday night; they will open the Division II postseason on the road.


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Let's be real. Serena looked HAWT at this pre-Oscar party. And it looks like she didnt have to bedazzle a boot to match.
Oh, what's that? Did you just silently ask me what my thoughts were on the Oscars? You didn't? Oh, well I don't believe you so I'm going to rant now: Kirk Douglas should have never been on that stage (HAWKWARD), you NEVER play Sorkin off the stage, Melissa Leo's speech was retahded, loved Ben the Baby Daddy helping Natalie up on stage, Colin's speech was so meta, Fincher was ROBBED, and holy shit, Trent Reznor is an Oscar winner.
And let's be real, Toy Story 3 was the best movie of the year. But seeing as that couldn't win, I'm still bummed about Social Network.
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Brick-and-mortar issues are on Bill Underriner's mind as much as shiny new cars and trucks -- even when walking the floor of the Detroit auto show.
Underriner, the outgoing chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, was at the show Monday. When I asked him what's a hot topic for dealers this year, he talked dealership design. For example, he is building a new store that will put his service department, rather than the showroom, front and center.
Underriner says NADA will release part two of its facility upgrade study at the NADA convention in Orlando next month. That study will specifically address two issues that the first one did not:
1. What should the dealership of the future look like?
2. How do dealers get a return on investment after making those upgrades?
"Do we need these great big bricks and mortar to sell cars?" Underriner asks rhetorically. "Are we going to have the manufacturers deliver the cars on a more timely basis? Right now, the wait time is six to eight weeks. Is that going to be shrunk with new automation where the dealer can get the car quicker? In that case, do we need as big a parking lot [for new cars] as we have?"
Last February, NADA released a long-awaited study of automakers' facility-renovation mandates. It concluded they cost too much, produce uncertain results and matter little to shoppers.
Part two examines if a dealer will actually get a return on the money they spend if they build a new building, Underriner says.
"How many more cars are you going to sell and how much more service will you get from a $3 million upgrade?" as Dave Westcott, NADA's incoming 2013 chairman for 2013, puts it.
NADA will release the answers to those questions at a press conference on Saturday, Feb. 9.


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This week's challenge is to "Dip your toe in the social networking pool" and blog about how the various sites are useful to our genealogical research.
No dipping was done here, I dove in head first! I knew about social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. I had read a few blogs and subscribed to news feeds, but my participation was one-sided as a receiver and very limited. I spent time searching for interesting and valuable genealogy news though Google, going site by site by site. I enjoyed the information and the stories but getting to them was tedious and I figured I was missing a lot.
In July of 2009 curiosity prompted me to check out Twitter. I set up my account and immediately put genealogy in the search box and was AMAZED at the number of Tweeters that said genealogy was a hobby for them. Once I started following a few people, the social networking pool went from being a backyard swimming pool to the ocean. I follow and regularly tweet with others across the United States as well as in England, and Australia.
Twitter was the medium that allowed me to broaden my level of friends on Facebook and increase the number of blogs I was reading. Each time a tweet came across with notification of a new blog post I clicked and followed. The same happened with Facebook, I would see the join me on Facebook tweets and I would join. The exposure to new and not so new technologies through Twitter has been impressive. I had no idea what a blog reader was, I was getting blogs through RSS feeds to my email. I didn't know about Tweetdeck or Hootsuite until I saw mentions of others using those applications also.
The beneficial part of these social network sites is the networking opportunities. There are comments floating out there (from the Snooty-Patooties) that Twitter and Facebook are silly and have no benefit to genealogy research. Wrong! The information posted from commercial sites is very valuable. I now know who has a conference coming up in my area, who is publishing or making available new research material immediately. And the information comes to ME, I don't have to go searching for it. How can receiving information in a timely manner be silly? On Facebook my friends post comments and photos about research trips as well as family photos. How can getting to know others that share your passion be silly?
There is NO END to the amount of information that can be gleaned through all of my "social" contacts now. If I have a research problem, question or road block all it takes is a 140 character tweet and the offers for help come rolling in. I see nothing but value to social networking in genealogy.


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The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy
Companies need to achieve the right mix of rules and freedom
For companies that make products for infants, the U.S. legal system can be a hostile place. When a jury or the public at large is presented with Family Tragedy v. Corporate America, the corporation just can't win. So you can imagine that product design for Newell Rubbermaid 's Graco brand, which makes car seats, strollers and other kids' products, involves strict oversight.
According to the brand's head of car-seat development, John Bachner, any new product goes through five design iterations and hundreds of tests to minimize the risk of a flawed design. This can put a chill on innovation, and it extends the development time by up to two years, but Graco's design team isn't taking any chances.
Most of us don't work in an environment where the failure of our well-meaning innovations can result in dead children and billion-dollar class-action suits. But we all confront bureaucratic constraints that, it often seems, are designed mostly to sap our initiative and prevent us from actually getting stuff done.
The unfortunate reality is that this is exactly the way it should be. The existence of rules and regulations, and the bureaucrats who enforce them, means that less good stuff gets done—but it also puts a check on the kinds of initiatives that can lead to catastrophe.
Though it's easy to accept this premise in theory, most people would say that the bureaucracy in their organization feels like a crushing burden. They would point to the rules that slowed down one or another good idea. What's far tricker is uncovering the bad ideas that were quashed as a result of those same rules.
How can we know which checks and balances are utterly necessary and which are dispensable? One way to find out is to remove them. This, in effect, is what many companies end up doing, though it is often framed as increasing efficiency and cutting costs.
The poster child for this approach is BP. In the late 1990s, BP was held up as a paragon of management gone good, having evolved from a rule-bound, quasigovernmental entity to a slimmer, more efficient company that empowered managers to earn profits for shareholders. BP's staid culture of blindly following rules became one of pushing boundaries.
The awful end of the tale is well known: the March 23, 2005, explosion at BP's Texas City refinery, killing 15 and injuring more than 170 others; the Prudhoe Bay leak in 2006, caused by corroded pipes that needed replacing; and the Deepwater Horizon Well explosion in 2010, which leaked nearly five million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
BP's mistakes are obvious in retrospect, but when then-CEO John Brown was being celebrated for the turnaround, it was far from obvious which checks and balances he should have kept in place at the expense of growth.
One company that has done a better job of balancing oversight and innovation is McDonald's. For reasons of quality control and price, the company strictly limits the latitude of local franchisees. But it innovates nonetheless.
In a kitchen lab at its headquarters in Illinois, McDonald's develops its latest dishes, with an eye to taste, time, cost of preparation, and scope for scaling over its fast empire. It has also done a remarkable job of maintaining a branded experience even as it localizes its products for different markets, like vegetarian fare for India.
McDonald's used to take ideas from franchisees—menu mainstays like the Filet-O-Fish and the Big Mac were both franchise owners' inventions—but it has been years since a major product has come from the franchisee suggestion box. It's easy to see why. As McDonald's has grown to 30,000 stores world-wide, it has become a much greater challenge to ensure that local initiatives fit with the overarching goals of the company.
To appreciate the costs of inadequate coordination, consider the case of Airbus, where, for historical reasons, different parts of the organization long did things their own way. Formed in 1970, Airbus combined 16 different European companies into a single European aircraft manufacturer.
Even decades later, the lack of centralization allowed, for example, Airbus engineers in Toulouse and Hamburg to use different industrial-design software. In 1996, the incompatibility was blamed for miscommunications in the design and ordering of miles of electrical cables for the A380 superjumbo. Production was set back a disastrous three years. Airbus has since taken the gospel of centralization to heart, consolidating decision-making and design for its newest aircraft, the A350.
An appreciation for consistency, quality control and coordination should give us a bit more respect for the world's bureaucrats and an understanding of why there are varying levels of oversight at different organizations. The absence of bureaucracy at startup companies is not necessarily a sign that they are better-managed than established firms; it just means that they have less to lose if they screw up.
By the same token, many government functions may be laden with bureaucracy, but the private sector might not do any better with the same tasks. Like the makers of baby products, governments deal with uniquely sensitive problems, from ensuring that terrorists never get past airport security to keeping deadly germs out of the food supply.
This isn't meant to eulogize bureaucracy or to imply that every company has achieved the right mix of rules and freedom. But it's a balancing act. We need enough freedom to let employees dream up next year's blockbuster product while also ensuring that, in the process, their ambitions don't harm the public and bankrupt the company.
—Messrs. Fisman and Sullivan are the authors of "The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office."
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Fund: Kepha Partners
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We have to kiss a lot of froggs to find the prince.
Not so. Getting funded is about taking a complete and unique product to the right buyer. It's our job not theirs.
Jo had read all my stuff when I showed up, knew it cold, send me to one sharp guy, and made his commitment in a week. I was one guy with an idea and too early stage for everyone else. Jo had the expertice to see the value and the guts to act.
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Hours: Monday - Friday 8a - 4:30p
The goal of the Account Resolution Specialist l is to successfully collect on aging medical insurance
claims, either in the office or at the client site.
FOUNDATION KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND/OR ABILITIES REQUIRED: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
* File claims using all appropriate forms and attachments.
* Research account denials and file written appeals, when necessary.
* Evaluate the information received from the client to determine which insurance to bill and attain necessary attachments or supporting documentation to send with each claim.
* Research account information to determine the necessary attachments or supporting documentation to send with each claim.
* Ensure the integrity of each claim that is billed.
* Document in detail all efforts in CUBS system and any other computer system necessary.
* Verify patient information and benefits.
* Appeal accounts in writing.
* Draft letters to clients.
* Meet specified goals and objectives as assigned by management on a regular basis.
* Maintain confidentiality of account information at all times.
* Maintain awareness of and actively participate in the Corporate Compliance Program.
* Assist with other projects as assigned by management
* Maintain good working relationships with state and Federal agencies.
* Resolve accounts in a timely manner.
Maintain a neat and orderly work station
* High school diploma or equivalent is required.
* Formal training in the specialty of Insurance Billing preferred.
* Knowledge of all insurance payers preferred.
* Proficient PC knowledge and the ability to type 30-40 wpm.
* Professional written and verbal communication skills.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords Summary
Latest news
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords gets another official patch
To the shock of everyone who owned the PC version of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, an official, not fan-made, patch was released in July 2015 for the game, which was released on the platform in February 2005, a few months after the Xbox launch. Now, a second patch has been issued on Steam.
Steam version of Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords gets big new update, adding 5K support and Workshop functionality
Obsidian's flawed masterpiece Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords is coming to Mac, Linux and Steam OS, with a bunch of new features including 5K resolution support, Steam Achievements,Steam Cloud and controller support.
All this will be coming to the currently existing PC version as well, and there's some more cool news; Steam Workshop Support means that you'll get easy access to a bunch of user-generated content, including the Restored Content Mod, for free.
Plenty of classics on offer in the Star Wars Humble Bundle
You can grab hold of a bumper package of great Star Wars games in the latest deal over on the Humble Bundle site, including classic hits from BioWare and Lucasarts.
Available right now are peerless RPG Knights of the Old Republic, the excellent Jedi Academy, classic shooter Dark Forces and more.
GameWatcher's Star Wars Marathon live streaming this Friday at 8.00pm GMT
At the end of the week we'll be geeking out with our very own Star Wars Marathon for your viewing pleasure. Chris Capel will be feeling the Force... of your votes! Every good Imperial citizen and even Rebel scum are welcome at the polls.
Thanks to the recent GOG.com launch of many Star Wars classics, a marathon is finally within our grasp. Will the Empire rule in Empire at War? Will Carth ever shut up in Knights of the Old Republic?
Obsidian really want to work on Knights of the Old Republic 3
Obsidian have currently got their hands full with Pillars of Eternity, but they'd love to return to the Star Wars universe for Knight of the Old Republic 3.
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Lifetime Unveils 17 New Designers for Project Runway, Season Eight
More Designers Than Ever in Series History to Compete in Expanded 90-Minute Version of Television's Top Fashion Design Series Beginning Thursday, July 29, at 9pm
Actress Selma Blair Serves as Guest Judge for Premiere
LOS ANGELES, July 14 -- Let the sewing, stitching and snickering begin! The Emmy(R) Award nominated series, Project Runway, kicks off its eighth season with 17 talented designers - the most in series history - beginning Thursday, July 29, at 9pm ET/PT on Lifetime Television. In the show's expanded 90-minute format, the new crop of designers will encounter host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia and top-name guest designer and celebrity judges, including actress Selma Blair for the premiere episode, as they face inventive challenges, unexpected eliminations and other surprises along the way. Filmed on location in New York, each episode of the eighth season will feature more couture creations and fashion flubs as the designers attempt to make the cut to show at New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center. Project Runway is in High-Definition where available.
As part of the winner's prize package, this season's victorious designer will receive $100,000 from L'Oreal Paris to start his/her own line, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel to create his/her own vision and run his/her business and the opportunity to design and sell an exclusive collection on Piperlime.com. The model paired with the winner of Project Runway will also appear in the designer's editorial feature in Marie Claire and receive $25,000 from L'Oreal Studio Secrets Professional.
The Project Runway, Season Eight designers are:
* A.J. Thouvenot, 26 - Hometown: St. Louis, MO; Resides in St. Charles, MO
* Andy South, 23 - Hometown: Waipahu, HI; Resides in Honolulu, HI
* April Johnston, 21 - Hometown: Mooresville, NC; Resides in Savannah, GA
* Casanova, 33 - Hometown: Fajardo, Puerto Rico; Resides in Astoria, NY
* Christopher Collins, 30 - Hometown: Encinitas, CA; Resides in San Francisco, CA
* Gretchen Jones, 28 - Hometown: Fairplay, CO; Resides in Portland, OR
* Ivy Higa, 30 - Hometown: Seoul, South Korea/Kaihula-Kona, HI; Resides in New York, NY
* Jason Troisi, 33 - Hometown: Greenwich, CT; Resides in Greenwich, CT
* Kristin Haskins-Simms, 38 - Hometown: Philadelphia, PA; Resides in Philadelphia, PA
* McKell Maddox, 29 - Hometown: Brigham City, UT; Resides in Layton, UT
* Michael Costello, 27 - Hometown: Los Angeles, CA; Resides in Palm Desert, CA
* Michael Drummond, 31 - Hometown: St. Louis, MO; Resides in St. Louis, MO
* Mondo Guerra, 32 - Hometown: Denver, CO; Resides in Denver, CO
* Nicolas D'Aurizio, 31 - Hometown: Hackensack, NJ; Resides in New York, NY
* Peach Carr, 50 - Hometown: Winfield, IL; Resides in Lake Forest, IL
* Sarah Trost, 27 - Hometown: Frazier Park, CA; Resides in Toluca Lake, CA
* Valerie Mayen, 28 - Hometown: Corpus Christi, TX; Resides in Cleveland, OH
Last Thursday, Project Runway received two Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program for Heidi Klum.
Lifetime's digital offerings will represent a robust collection of video content, including extended runway judging, designer and judge video blogs and more. They will also feature full streaming episodes of the show, available only on myLifetime.com. Also returning for Season 8 are Rate the Runway photo galleries of the show's fashions, as well as blogs by mentor Tim Gunn and fan-favorite designers from past seasons.
Other return offerings include the 2010 Webby Award-nominated Tim Gunn's Workroom videos and Designer Portfolios. Tim Gunn's Workroom will continue to showcase his critiques of the contestants' garments-in-progress, and the interactive Designer Portfolios will display the designers' previous work along with sketches made before the show and throughout the season. Roiworld.com's popular weekly Project Runway dress-up games (which accounted for more than 4.8MM game plays in Season 7) will also return, featuring illustrated versions of the winning designs in an interactive wardrobe.
Project Runway enthusiasts can also interact with fellow fans, show insiders and designers by following @projectrunway on Twitter or visiting www.facebook.com/projectrunway for the latest Project Runway news and updates.
Hosted by supermodel and fashion maven Heidi Klum, the hit series Project Runway provides budding designers with an opportunity to launch their careers in fashion, under the watchful eye of mentor and Liz Claiborne Chief Creative Officer Tim Gunn. Project Runway is 2010's number one rated and most watched competitive reality program on ad-supported cable among Women 18-49, Women 25-54, Women 18+, Adults 18-49, Adults 18+ and Households.
Project Runway is produced by The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films, Bunim-Murray Productions and Full Picture. Executive producers include Bob and Harvey Weinstein (Co-Chairmen of The Weinstein Company), Jon Murray and Sara Rea of Bunim-Murray Productions, Heidi Klum, and Jane Cha and Desiree Gruber of Full Picture. Barbara Schneeweiss oversees the production on behalf of The Weinstein Company.
The Weinstein Company (TWC) was created by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films Corporation in 1979. TWC is a multi-media company that officially launched on October 1, 2005.
About Lifetime Networks
Lifetime Networks is a diverse, multi-media company, committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming that celebrates, entertains and supports women. Through its award-winning public affairs initiatives, the Company also advocates a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. Lifetime Television(R), Lifetime Movie Network(R), Lifetime Real Women(R) and Lifetime Digital� (which includes myLifetime.com, LMN.tv, Lifetime Games, Roiworld.com, DressUpChallenge.com, MothersClick.com and LifetimeMoms.com) are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A&E Television Networks, LLC. A&E Television Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal.
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A soft, comfortable blend of acrylic and peruvian cotton. It is a machine washable, worsted weight delight!
Plymouth Yarn Worsted Merino Superwash Yarn and Berroco Modern Cotton Yarn are both similar yarns: machine wash, worsted (19-20 sts/4 in), 100 gram, and on size 7 US needles.
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You may enjoy taking a look at the Berroco Weekend Striped Tank, Berroco Weekend Quonset (worsted weight version), Berroco Weekend Ari, and Berroco Weekend Rabbet kits all using Berroco Weekend Yarn.
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EPA Directs Company to Supply Information in PA Gas Well Incident
Release Date: 04/25/2011
Contact Information: David Sternberg (215) 814-5548
PHILADELPHIA (April 25, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has directed Chesapeake Energy Corp. to supply information in connection with the discharge of drilling fluids from a natural gas well last week in Leroy Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. While the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the lead in responding to this incident, EPA staff is requesting by tomorrow, April 26, information on the hydraulic fracturing fluids used in the drilling process at the well; the water, land and air affected by the release; and any private well, surface water and soil sampling data collected in the area before and after the April 19 incident.
The "information request," authorized under three federal statutes, was sent to Chesapeake Energy officials on Friday, April 22.
"We want a complete accounting of operations at the site to determine our next steps in this incident and to help prevent future releases of this kind," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin.
By May 9, the company is directed to provide extensive information regarding:
- · Details of the incident, including timelines, sources of discharge and the extent of environmental impact
· Substances placed into or returned to the surface from the wells at the site
· Whether radiological compounds are or were present in the fluids or sediment generated as part of the well development
· Results of any subsequent sampling data
· Effects on any drinking water supplies
· All permits or water quality standards that may have been violated
· Any other leaks, spills or releases that have occurred at wells on the drilling site
· The history of drilling operations at the well site
· Each chemical brought to the site, including type and quantities and storage, management and handling practices
· Any temporary wastewater storage impoundments on the site
· Processing of wastewater from wells at the site
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CATS programs are designed to provide professional development and leadership training to community members.
Key programs currently include the annual CATS Conference and Birds of a Feather discussion groups that meet monthly.
CATS is a professional development organization that promotes personal and professional excellence, and helps to reduce duplication on CSU campuses.


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Lars Dining Table
Eco-friendly German engineered MDF is coated with a premium matte finish for unique style contrast and long-lasting beauty.
The Lars Dining Table epitomizes modern Nordic functional design. A clean cut solid ash wood base provides a sturdy foundation which is then topped with white lacquer for a clean finish. This generous surface provides ample room for a feast.
This premium Kure Collection furniture piece features:
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Limited edition of an accurate reproduction of the Les Paul that was Marc Bolan's primary axe and signature to his sound.
Marc Bolan is famous for his work as the founder, writer, and guitarist of T. Rex, and the inspiration for the Glam Rock movement of the 70's. Gibson Custom has worked with his son, widow, and archive photos of the guitar to recreate Marc's mainstay instrument, a '50s Les Paul Model. Originally an unknown finish, Marc removed the original paint and had it stained resulting in the "Bolan Chablis" finish of this limited edition guitar. The replacement Les Paul Custom neck is also recreated, reflecting the breaking of its original neck as well as Gibson's policy at the time of only providing replacement necks with a black finish. This is a limited edition of 350 Marc Bolan VOS Les Paul guitars.
Like all VOS (Vintage Original Spec) Series instruments, the 1960 Les Paul Special Single Cutaway VOS is handcrafted for comfort and playability in the Gibson Custom Shop. The construction, neck profile, hardware, and electronics are period accurate, and a special nitrocellulose finish treatment gives it the patina of a gently aged vintage guitar. Each instrument comes with a hard shell Custom case, vintage replica woven strap and a certificate of authenticity inset with a photo of Marc Bolan with reproduction signature.
Although the Les Paul Custom neck with which it was most often seen has lead to some confusion over the origins of Marc Bolan's guitar, the instrument was actually a late-'50s Les Paul that was stripped and refinished by Bolan himself in a faded translucent orange dubbed "Bolan Chablis", then "re-necked" after an accident in the early '70s. As such, the body of the Gibson Custom Marc Bolan Les Paul is produced with period-correct woods and techniques, and includes a solid (non-chambered) one-piece mahogany body and carved plain maple top, as revealed through Gibson Custom's recreation of Bolan's own "DIY" refinishing work, while its sides and back retain the original back finish.
Its mahogany neck is set with a long-tenon neck joint like all the great original Les Pauls, for added resonance and sustain, although its look and the rest of its construction mark a major departure for the instrument. Like the early-'70s Les Paul Custom neck that Bolan had added to his guitar in the course of its repair, this neck carries the ebony fingerboard that distinguishes that "upgraded" model, along with the large mother-of-pearl block inlays, period-correct 14º headstock pitch, and mother-of-pearl split-diamond headstock inlay in a holly headstock veneer.
To translate all of this thick, juicy vintage Les Paul tone to your amp of choice, the guitar carries a pair of Custom Buckers, an accurate PAF-reproduction humbucker designed specifically for the Marc Bolan Les Paul. Along with its mismatched nickel-plated ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge and gold-plated aluminum stopbar tailpiece, the Custom-spec gold-plated Grover tuners and a PLEK-cut Corian nut further enhance the resonance and singing sustain of this unique instrument.
With only 450 produced in total"100 hand aged, and a further 350 (this model) given the VOS (Vintage Original Spec) process"they are bound to go fast, so get your hands on your own Marc Bolan Les Paul today. Weight 4.435kg


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|Officials: 9-Year-Old Mom Is 12 or 13
|ABC News
|Feb 14, 2013, 11:32 AM
By Anne Laurent:
The young Mexican girl who gave birth to a daughter two weeks ago is 12 or 13 years old, not 9, as her parents initially claimed, authorities say.
The girl, identified as Dafne, was impregnated by her 44-year-old stepfather, according to Lino Gonzalez Corona, a spokesman for the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office. The stepfather is under arrest after admitting to having his first sexual encounter with Dafne in April 2012 and a second in June.
Dafne's mother was unaware of the sexual relationship, according to Corona. She thought the baby's father was a 17-year-old boy whom her daughter had met at a local market. She learned of the pregnancy in November 2012, two months before Dafne delivered a healthy baby girl by C-section Jan. 27, 2013.
"Due to her young age and to the fact that her body was not ready to give birth," said Dr. Enrique Rabago, director of Zoquipan Hospital, "the medical team decided a C-Section was the best option" for both mother and child.
Roughly 25 percent of the pregnancies seen at Zoquipan Hospital last year were among teens, Rabago said.
Doctor Raymundo Serrano, chief of gynecology at Zoquipan Hospital, and his team decided to insert a contraceptive implant to avoid another pregnancy. He described the implant as a small, flexible rod placed just under the skin in the upper arm that releases progestogen and works for up to three years.
The birth comes less than a year after a 10-year-old Colombian girl delivered a baby girl, becoming one of the youngest mothers of all time. The young mom was a member of the Wayuu people, an indigenous tribe in northern Colombia.
"We've already seen several cases [of pregnancy] in girls of the Wayuu ethnicity," Efraín Pacheco Casadiego, director of the hospital where the girl gave birth, told RCN La Radio noticias at the time. "When in fact [the girls] should be playing with dolls, they are having to care for a baby. This is shocking."
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Aaron Neville has been a radio mainstay for more than five decades. Coming from a musical family in New Orleans, he got his start singing with The Neville Brothers and had his first No. 1 R&B hit in 1966 with "Tell It Like It Is."
Neville moves easily through musical genres — including pop, country, soul, R&B and doo-wop — and has earned three Grammy Awards for his duets with Linda Ronstadt and Trisha Yearwood. His album I Know I've Been Changed served as a message of hope to the world after Hurricane Katrina struck his hometown.
Neville's latest album, My True Story, recaptures the iconic sounds of the doo-wop era. On this episode of Song Travels, he blends his silky-smooth voice with the piano and vocals of host Michael Feinstein, as they perform renditions of "This Magic Moment" and "Smile."
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A BlankTV Premiere Presentation:
World War IX - "King Of The King Of Beers"
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Trash Punk. Get Drunk. Do you suffer from TMF, Too Much Fun? Rest assured Brooklyn's World War IX understands your plight, and feels your pain! Their songs are hook riddled cautionary tales that get your fists pounding and your heart pumping. "Why did I drink so many beers?" "What possessed me to pop that pill?" Quality questions for sure, but really the only thing you're going to want to know is what's their next tune going to be, and when are they going on?! !
And keep an eye out for World War IX next week when they hit the road for their Spring 2016 Tour!
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Blues need win to lock up home ice in first roundby John Kreiser
BLACKHAWKS (36-6-5) at BLUES (28-17-2)
Last 10: Chicago 8-1-1; St. Louis 7-3-0
Season series: It's the last of five meetings, and the Chicago Blackhawks haven't gone home empty-handed from any of the first four. The Blackhawks won three times and lost 4-3 in a shootout. They shut out the St. Louis Blues in both of their visits to Scottrade Center.
Big story: The Blackhawks have already won everything there is to win in the regular season and are just tuning up for their playoff opener. The Blues, on the other hand, can assure themselves of fourth place in the Western Conference and the home-ice advantage in the first round with a victory.
Team Scope:
Blackhawks: Chicago's home finale on Friday night didn't mean anything in the standings, but the Blackhawks put on a good show for the home folks, beating the Calgary Flames 3-1 for their 36th victory in 47 games.
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews each scored his 23rd goal of the season in the first period. The two share the team lead in goals, and things may stay that way -- it wouldn't be surprising to see coach Joel Quenneville give both of them the night off.
"It would've been nice to get one more than him," Kane said with a smile. "Both of us were kind of lobbying for it and trying pretty hard in the third period, but it was a fun little run there at the end of the season. It seemed like it was one goal that separated us here or there for a lot of the past 20 games. It keeps it fun. If I see him do something, then I'm going to want to do something the next shift. That gets me pumped up, too, and I'm sure he's the same way. It's good for the team if both of us are going."
Blues: St. Louis has been flying under the radar, but a victory in their season finale will give the Blues 11 wins in 13 games this month and send them into the playoffs on a high note.
"It's an important game," coach Ken Hitchcock told the team's website. "You move on one way or the other, but it's an important game. It's two good teams.
"Chicago's arguably the best team in a long time in the League the way they've played. We're going to have to be at our best to win the hockey game. ... It's obviously more important for us than it is for them."
Who's hot: Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford is 6-0-1 with a 1.44 goals-against average in his past seven starts against the Blues, including a pair of shutouts in St. Louis this season. … Blues goaltender Brian Elliott is 10-2-0 this month and has allowed just 15 goals. Chris Stewart, the Blues' leading scorer, has four points in the past two games.
Injury report: Crawford, who won Friday's game, might play again Saturday because Ray Emery is battling a lower-body injury. Center Dave Bolland (groin) might sit again to make sure he's ready for the playoffs. … The Blues are without forward T.J. Oshie (ankle surgery). Defenseman Barret Jackman missed Thursday's game with an ankle injury. Center Scott Nichol (lower body) hopes to be ready for the playoffs.


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While Black Rock City is special, it is still a real city, and has its' share of knobs. I find there to be far fewer than in the default world, because a lot of idiots are weeded out by the harsh conditions, and all the prep it takes to get out there. So the jerks stick out, if only because most people are pretty neat there. But one should not expect a utopia. Dosings are rare, but you hear of them happening. An unexpected pat on the ass is a peril of the Meet 'n Greet. One should expect nothing but dust and extremes of temperature, and prepare for everything.Milayna wrote:I'm planning on going solo in 2012, and while I assume this sorta stuff can happen on the playa, just like any other city, it would be nice to try to avoid it as much as possible. You say there was an area where most of this seemed to happen? Could you specify?
Also, I will say that I'm quick to scream if I feel threatened, so if any guy tries to grope me I won't hesitate to sound off like a siren. It sounds like there are many nice burner gents willing to help a girl out
The busy areas at night (the Esplanade, large sound camps, 2 and 10 o'clock on the map) can have a high population density at night due to raves, and lots of the attendees are chemically altered at that time in particular. The 9 o'clock side of the city is referred to as "the Red Light District" . . . although I honestly had to be told the difference several years in. (I didn't see a difference between the two sides, but part of that is that I'm comfortable with saucy camps and gay clubs, etc.) I love the 9 o'clock side. It's warm, and feels like home. Those who love the 3 o'clock side are equally passionate.
I admit that I've never seen the rare Burner children treated anything less than wonderfully . . . and have yet to accidentally wander into an orgy in seven years (but I suppose there's always hope).


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Palais Royale
Located in Worli, Mumbai, Palais Royale is a first-of-its-kind residential project by Shree Ram Urban Infrastructure Ltd : it is India's first and largest green residential building. With state-of-the-art facilities on par with international standards, the luxury building is expected to be India's tallest, at a height of 300 m, and feature in the top 10 tallest residential buildings of the world.
C - Ward
The C Ward of the Island City of Mumbai consists of some of the oldest localities of the city. These areas have been urbanized since the past 100 years and accommodate a large population. The area consists of mixed land use with commercial, residential and manufacturing activities operating within close proximity.
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Talent Of The Week: The Mad Violinist & Pianist "Chris Morgan" Freestyle Remixes Drake's 'Over'!
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Current Law Students / Re: Im Dropping Out!!!!« on: November 30, 2005, 11:42:11 AM »
I have decided to drop out at the end of the semester. I feel so relieved. I am applying to graduate programs in areas that interest me. Sure, I dont have the earning potential of a lawyer, but at least I won't be unhappy everyday and reading cases that are so d**mn boring and interacting with the kinds of people I just really dislike.
I went to lawschool for the wrong reasons. Before I even started the semester, I had a near breakdown about law school and being a lawyer. This profession is not for me. I gave it a shot, and it cost me a substanial amount. But thats life and things that are worth doing are expensive. At least it didn't cost me $80,000.
Ahh yes, the sciences are for me. Quantitative work, here I come, and hopefully I'll get paid to go to school!!!
Good luck everyone. And to those who hate what they are studying, don't want to be a lawyer, and are still in school. My advice is get out before you are stuck in a job that you hate for the next 30 years. Sacrificing a few years in your mid-20's is nothing in the long run.
These are definitely all exactly the right reasons to leave.
I learned this lesson in grad school, myself, after I ran myself into the ground refusing to quit a degree I really didn't want. Grades paid for it, too, and since I'm not a 1L yet, I'm afraid it's going to haunt me with admissions, since the F I have (from an incomplete) was in con law... I did eventually drop out, because I realized I hated it that much.
If you absolutely hate the work, you're wasting your time being there. Graduate/professional school is too much work to not enjoy what you're training for, and it's not worth the stress and heartache unless you do.
Good luck!