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A version of this article appears in the Summer 2019 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
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A Collaborative Approach to Serving Income-Qualified Customers
At Columbia Gas of Ohio, we work to identify and engage income-qualified customers, with the goal of providing them no-cost services to increase the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce their energy bills. We made a switch in 2017 from marketing primarily to customers who were participating in the utility energy assistance programs to marketing campaigns designed for lower-income customers who were not participating in the energy assistance programs. Although we succeeded in increasing program awareness, we discovered decades-old program policies that were limiting income-qualified customers from participating in the program. These were
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ELVIS: Software Engineering Research Group
Welcome to Elvis, the software engineering research group in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Our work ranges from more technical research concerning the structure of software and tool support for development, to human-computer interaction and software development processes. We have experience and interests in a wide range of topics and applications in the OO paradigm, including programming languages, visualisation, design patterns, software reuse, frameworks, and agile methods, as well as in interface design and evaluation. We meet within SubGroups:
The ultimate goal of all computer science is the program. Designers, programmers and engineers must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a program, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts.
Latest News
21 Jan 2014 - 07:43 in Achievement
Professor James Noble is one of two academics to be awarded a James Cook Fellowship for his research project entitled "Reliable Software Via Patterns and Ownership". His research aims to address software failures by identifying recurring design patterns in the specification of design of software systems. The Fellowship is worth $100,000 plus $10,000 in relevant exenses per annum for two years.
Marsden Success 2013
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Professor James Noble was successfully awarded a Marsden Grant for "CAPE: making capablity policies explicit", valued at $521,739 NZD.
Graduation December 2013
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Congratulations to Craig Anslow (PhD Software Engineering), Siva Dorairaj (PhD Software Engineering), Fahmi Abdulhamid (ME Software Engineering), Daniel Cope (ME Software Engineering), and Neil Ramsay (MSc Computer Science) who graduated in December 2013.
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On Friday 22 October 2013, CraigAnslow successfully defended his PhD Thesis and is now Dr Craig Anslow. Congratulations to Craig!
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Timothy Jones gave his PhD proposal seminar on Formalising a Structural, Gradual, Pluggable Type System.
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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest, and won a special prize in the Most Creative Costume nomination!
A word from Cassie, the 'Crying Mummy' costume creator:
The Crying Mummy - Part of the Haunting Family
Our 4 year old is very particular. He was not pleased with being wrapped in mummy wrapping. He went out haunting with his siblings and scored mucho candy and his expression changed to joy. He fit along with our children's Haunted theme wonderfully. We started this costume with a cream colored shirt and pants from the thrift store that we wrapped over and over with torn muslin material strips. Easy and fun costume! Highly recommended for the littler, picky ones.
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An iOS by any other name is not iOS 6 -- at least that's how Apple sold it last week at the new iPhone 5 announcement. And it's available right now.
The new features include, notably, a new maps system that removes the reliance on Google maps. Because map usage is so high on handhelds -- and since geolocation can lead to hyper-targeted ads and revenue -- a new map app was crucial, moving forward.
It's a 3D rendering, too, which may mean the new iOS is a heavy file. Users with the smaller versions of the iPhone may have storage issues if they simply must have six Dr. Who episodes on their iPhones (looking in your direction here, Woz). We'll see...
Some other features to highlight:
- Facebook: Given the user base of Facebook (read: everyone), having the interface baked deep into the iOS just makes sense. Elegant, streamlined sense for users.
- Aforementioned Maps: The biggies here are Siri integration, turn-by-turn navigation, vector-based graphics (quicker) and a business info card.
- Passbook: A scannable virtual bundle that will no doubt ease itself into our lives -- and directly compete with Google Wallet. Credit card accounts, airplane boarding passes, gift cards, etc, will all be right there on that new, bigger screen (if you upgrade iPhones).
- Pics and Camera: Holy wow, panoramas! This will take Instagram and Camera+ to whole new levels.
- Siri Improvements: Siri graduated from suck level to learn sports scores, restaurant ratings (via Yelp) and reservations. Other reviews still think one's articulation will be an issue, but less so than before.
- Facetime 3G: Video calls via cell signal. Finally! Thjs is a pocket full of awesome -- except if you're with AT&T (sorry).
Some other improves are mostly pretty interfaces:
- Sharing Menu: Icons instead of a list
- Modern iPod / iTunes / App stores: No more music app. It's just slicker looking with same functionality.
- New Emoticons: Yay, or :)
- Visual Voicemail Rejections: It's easier than ever to just NOT take that incoming call.
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Sullivan County manager David P. Fanslau declared a state of emergency in Sullivan County effective 12:01 am, Sunday, August 28, 2011 and to continue through 5:00 pm, Monday, August 29, 2011. A state …
Sullivan County manager David P. Fanslau declared a state of emergency in Sullivan County effective 12:01 am, Sunday, August 28, 2011 and to continue through 5:00 pm, Monday, August 29, 2011. A state of emergency is issued under Article 2B of New York State Executive Law. The County of Sullivan is communicating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service to discuss the potential track of the storm.
"I have declared the state of emergency in Sullivan County to ensure the safety of the county residents," said County Manager David P. Fanslau. "At this time travel is not restricted but I am advising all Sullivan County residents to take precautions if traveling is absolutely necessary." Sullivan County's Emergency Operation Center will be open at Noon on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Please check the Sullivan County website www.co.sullivan.ny.usfor updates and if power is lost please tune into the local radio stations for regular updates. There will also be updated information if at any time local shelters will be opened.
Residents can prepare for this or any other emergency in severe weather:
· Review their household disaster plan. Know how to contact all family members at all times. Identify an out-of-town friend or family member to be the "emergency family contact." Then make certain all family members have that number. Designate a family emergency meeting point; some familiar location where the family can meet in the event the home is accessible.
· Have on hand a three day supply of food and water. One gallon of water per person per day is rule plus water for personal hygiene. Food on hand should not require refrigeration or heating.
· Prepare an emergency phone list of people and organizations that may need to be called. Include children's schools, doctors, child/senior care providers, and insurance agents.
· Ensure that enough non-perishable food and water supplies are on hand. Make sure battery-operated radios and flashlights are available and have an ample supply of batteries. Have a first aid kit available and make sure there is an ample supply of medicines on hand for those who require them.
· Pay attention to the news. Know the local radio and television stations that will provide up-to-date official information during an emergency.
· Know the hurricane/storm risks in their areas, and
learn the storm surge history and area's elevation.
· Learn their community's warning signals and evacuation plans.
· Learn safe routes inland and local sheltering plans.
· Make arrangements on where to relocate pets during a storm because most shelters will not allow pets.
· Store important documents – insurance policies, medical records, bank account numbers, Social Security cards, etc. – in a waterproof container. Also, have cash (in small bills), checkbook, credit and ATM cards readily available.
One of the best ways that residents can receive emergency information is from NY-ALERT, New York State's All-hazards Alert and Notification Systems. To subscribe for this service, visit www.nyalert.gov. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may still sign up for NY-ALERT by calling 1-888-697-6972" said Fanslau.


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Though complicated and convoluted, Portal 2 takes one solid idea and runs with it until the very end. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Fernando Jorge wonders why more games can't follow in Portal 2's footsteps.
Portal 2 shows games could use more simplicity. Not all games, not all genres, but I'd say a lot of games could be way simpler.
In Portal 2 you can just jump and open portals and the game takes this basic mechanic as far as it can go. The end result is a game that is very tight; there are barely any loose ends.
On the other hand, take Fallout, Mass Effect, Dead Rising, Grand Theft Auto, all of them enjoyable and very good games but a lot more complex than Portal. All of those games have numerous issues, things that just don't work right, that are frustrating, that are useless.
If a game focuses on as least elements as possible while trying to get the most out of them the result will be a flawless game. I don't mean to use the word flawless as meaning best game ever; I mean it as a quality for a game. To be polished.
Take Tetris or Super Mario Bros. as an example. Very simple and nearly flawless. But what often happens with games is like... if someone developed Chess and then decided to add 4 more pieces, make the pieces have HP, customizable abilities and create multiple different boards
About Speak Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say has nothing to do with the stories we run. That's why we have a forum on Kotaku called Speak Up. That's the place to post anecdotes, photos, game tips and hints, and anything you want to share with Kotaku at large. Every weekday we'll pull one of the best Speak Up posts we can find and highlight it here.


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16 October 2010 - Indonesia. The destruction of natural rainforest to make way for plantations to produce pulp paper, in Rimba Hutan Mas logging concession, Sumatra. The plantations for paper are owned by Asia Pulp and paper (APP), the paper arm of Sinar Mas.
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For those of you who saw Wade Boggs on "Baseball Tonight" this weekend — the one ESPN show we never, ever miss — you are probably wondering the same thing The Sports Hernia was wondering: When's "Road House 3" coming out?
Boggs is one of several Hall of Famers who will be guesting on "Baseball Tonight" throughout the season. As much as we look forward to Ozzie Smith's appearance, we do hope they invite Jim Rice, just to be mean.
The highlight of Boggs appearance was the pleasant reminder of just weird Boggs was. The guy knew exactly how many balls he'd lined foul into the right field stands. The level of obsession it requires to be a professional athlete is terrifying sometimes.
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HBO's airing a bout between Mike Perez and Carlos Takam on the undercard of a Bute-Pascal light heavyweight fight from Montreal tonight, and Perez suffered a nasty cut in the third round. Read on only if you want to see something pretty gross.
This is Perez's first fight since he put Magomed Abdusalamov into a coma, and here we have his trainer (and, apparently, cut man) Abel Sanchez patching him up:
Hope you've already eaten. It's even worse on video as you see Sanchez digging around inside Perez's face:
That's the reality of a brutal sport we only, anymore, can ironically call "the sweet science." [HBO]


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I've been registered here for some time now, and already received lots of help. However, as I will probably hang around here for some time I might as well present myself, too!
I'm a (high school I think is the proper translation) student from Sweden. I've been interested in programming for several years but I've finally been able to take my so far largest steps into the field, as to say. I'm currently studying object oriented programming for a mentor at my school, but I do not attend any classes. That is the biggest reason to why I'm here, as some tips and help for things are just too difficult to find elsewhere!
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Revision as of 18:01, 19 February 2011
See LAMP for a guide to setting up Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
To install phpMyAdmin, install the phpmyadmin and php-mcrypt packages with
pacman -S phpmyadmin php-mcrypt
Ensure you do not have an older copy of phpMyAdmin.
rm -r /srv/http/phpMyAdmin
Copy the example configuration file to your httpd configuration directory.
cp /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/apache.example.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf
Add the following lines to Template:Filename:
# phpMyAdmin configuration Include conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf
You can type this into the terminal to produce the same effect:
echo -e "\nInclude conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following lines to Template:Filename:
# Use for PHP 5.x: LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddHandler php5-script php
Add index.php after "DirectoryIndex index.html"
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory # is requested. # <IfModule dir_module> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </IfModule>
In Template:Filename, comment out deny from all. The line should look like this:
#deny from all
Otherwise you'll get an error similar to "Error 403 - Access forbidden!" when you attempt to access your phpMyAdmin installation.
Your Template:Filename should have the following information:
Alias /phpmyadmin "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin" <Directory "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin"> AllowOverride All Options FollowSymlinks Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Open your Template:Filename and go to the line containing open_basedir and add the path(s) to your phpMyAdmin installation so it has the following:
For example, mine contains the following:
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/srv/:/usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps/
You need the mcrypt and mysql modules, so uncomment in Template:Filename:
;extension=mcrypt.so ;extension=mysql.so
- to
extension=mcrypt.so extension=mysql.so
Add blowfish_secret passphrase
If you see the following error message at the bottom of the page when you first log in to /phpmyadmin (using a previously setup MySQL username and password) :
ERROR: The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)
You need to add a blowfish password to the phpMyAdmin's config file. Edit Template:Filename and insert a random blowfish "password" in the line
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
Go here to get a nicely generated blowfish_secret and paste it between the marks. It should now look something like this:
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'qtdRoGmbc9{8IZr323xYcSN]0s)r$9b_JUnb{~Xz'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
The error should go away if you refresh the phpmyadmin page.
Accessing your phpMyAdmin installation
Finally your phpmyadmin installation is complete. Before start using it you need to restart your apache server by following command:
# /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
You can access your phpmyadmin installation using the following url:
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ or http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php
Note: 'localhost' is the hostname in your /etc/rc.conf file.
If you want to access it using:
in '/etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf' change:
Alias /phpmyadmin/ "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/"
Alias /phpmyadmin "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin"
You should also read this thread.
If you get the error "#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)" then you might want to change "localhost" in /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php on this line:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
to your hostname specified in /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.conf under HOSTNAME.
If you would like to use phpmyadmin setup script by calling http://localhost/phpmyadmin/setup you will need to create a config directory that's writeable by the httpd in the /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin as follows:
cd /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin sudo mkdir config sudo chgrp http config sudo chmod g+w config
Lighttpd Configuration
The php setup for lighttpd is exactly the same as for apache. Make an alias for phpmyadmin in your lighttpd config.
alias.url = ( "/phpmyadmin/" => "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/")
Then enable mod_alias, mod_fastcgi and mod_cgi in your config ( server.modules section )
Update open_basedir in /etc/php/php.ini and add "/usr/share/webapps/".
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/
Make sure lighttpd is setup to serve php files, Lighttpd and FastCGI
Restart lighttpd and browse to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php
NGINX Configuration
Also similar to apache configuration (and Lighttpd, for that matter).
Create a symbolic link to the /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin directory from whichever directory your vhost is serving files from, e.g. /srv/http/<domain>/public_html/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin /srv/http/<domain>/public_html/phpmyadmin
You can also setup a sub domain with a server block like so (if using php-fpm):
server { server_name phpmyadmin.<domain.tld>; access_log /srv/http/<domain>/logs/phpmyadmin.access.log; error_log /srv/http/<domain.tld>/logs/phpmyadmin.error.log; location / { root /srv/http/<domain.tld>/public_html/phpmyadmin; index index.html index.htm index.php; } location ~ \.php$ { root /srv/http/<domain.tld>/public_html/phpmyadmin; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http/<domain.tld>/public_html/phpmyadmin/$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } }
You may run into some issues with phpmyadmin telling you "The Configuration File Now Needs A Secret Passphrase" and no matter what you enter, the error is still displayed. Try changing the ownership of the files to the NGINX specified user/group, e.g. nginx...
cd /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin sudo chown -R nginx:nginx *
While you can enter anything for the blowfish password, you may want to choose a randomly generated string of characters (most likely for security reasons). Here's a handy tool that will do that for you on the web[1].
Other (Older) information
This page holds a sample 'config.inc.php' file that you can place in the main phpMyAdmin directory so that it immediately starts working
Things you should do first
Create a 'controluser', so that phpmyadmin can read from the main mysql database.
mysql -u root -pYOURROOTPASSWORD mysql> grant usage on mysql.* to controluser@localhost identified by 'CONTROLPASS';
Where is phpmyadmin
in phpmyadmin 3.2.2-3 the file is missing /srv/http/ create this symlik
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/ /srv/http/phpmyadmin
Things you should change
controluser is set to controluser
controlpass is set to password
verbose is set to name_of_server
Sample 'config.inc.php' file
<?php /* * Generated configuration file * Generated by: phpMyAdmin 188.8.131.52 setup script by Michal Čihař <email@example.com> * Version: $Id: setup.php 11423 2008-07-24 17:26:05Z lem9 $ * Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:34:02 GMT */ /* Servers configuration */ $i = 0; /* Server ravi-test-mysql (http) [1] */ $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'controluser'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'password'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'name_of_server'; /* End of servers configuration */ $cfg['LeftFrameLight'] = true; $cfg['LeftFrameDBTree'] = true; $cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator'] = '_'; $cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator'] = '__'; $cfg['LeftFrameTableLevel'] = 1; $cfg['LeftDisplayLogo'] = true; $cfg['LeftDisplayServers'] = false; $cfg['DisplayServersList'] = false; $cfg['DisplayDatabasesList'] = 'auto'; $cfg['LeftPointerEnable'] = true; $cfg['DefaultTabServer'] = 'main.php'; $cfg['DefaultTabDatabase'] = 'db_structure.php'; $cfg['DefaultTabTable'] = 'tbl_structure.php'; $cfg['LightTabs'] = false; $cfg['ErrorIconic'] = true; $cfg['MainPageIconic'] = true; $cfg['ReplaceHelpImg'] = true; $cfg['NavigationBarIconic'] = 'both'; $cfg['PropertiesIconic'] = 'both'; $cfg['BrowsePointerEnable'] = true; $cfg['BrowseMarkerEnable'] = true; $cfg['ModifyDeleteAtRight'] = false; $cfg['ModifyDeleteAtLeft'] = true; $cfg['RepeatCells'] = 100; $cfg['DefaultDisplay'] = 'horizontal'; $cfg['TextareaCols'] = 40; $cfg['TextareaRows'] = 7; $cfg['LongtextDoubleTextarea'] = true; $cfg['TextareaAutoSelect'] = false; $cfg['CharEditing'] = 'input'; $cfg['CharTextareaCols'] = 40; $cfg['CharTextareaRows'] = 2; $cfg['CtrlArrowsMoving'] = true; $cfg['DefaultPropDisplay'] = 'horizontal'; $cfg['InsertRows'] = 2; $cfg['EditInWindow'] = true; $cfg['QueryWindowHeight'] = 310; $cfg['QueryWindowWidth'] = 550; $cfg['QueryWindowDefTab'] = 'sql'; $cfg['ForceSSL'] = false; $cfg['ShowPhpInfo'] = false; $cfg['ShowChgPassword'] = false; $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] = false; $cfg['LoginCookieRecall'] = 'something'; $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 1800; ?>


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All cancers are genetic in origin. When genes are working properly, cell growth is tightly regulated, as if a stoplight told cells to divide only so many times and no more. A cancer occurs when something causes a mutation in the genes that limit cell growth or that repair DNA damage.
This is true even if the carcinogen is environmental, like tobacco smoke or radon, or if the cause is viral, like Helicobacter pylori or human papillomavirus.
Carcinogenic agents induce cancer by causing genetic mutations that allow cells to escape normal biological controls. Most cancers arise in this way, sporadically in an individual, and may involve several mutations that permit a tumor to grow.
But sometimes, a single potent cancer-causing mutation is inherited and can be passed from one generation to the next. An estimated 5 to 10 percent of cancers are strongly hereditary, and 20 to 30 percent are more weakly hereditary, said Dr. Kenneth Offit, chief of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Genetic Chances
In hereditary cancer, the mutated gene can be transmitted through the egg or sperm to children, with each child facing a 50 percent chance of inheriting the defective gene if one parent carries it and a 75 percent chance if both parents carry the same defect.
You might be familiar with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations that are strongly linked to breast and ovarian cancer in women and somewhat less strongly to breast and prostate cancer in men. A woman with a BRCA mutation faces a 56 to 87 percent chance of contracting breast cancer and a 10 to 40 percent chance of ovarian cancer.
For some hereditary cancer genes, the risks are even greater. A child who inherits a so-called RET mutation faces a 100 percent chance of developing an especially lethal form of thyroid cancer. Likewise, the risk of stomach cancer approaches 100 percent in those with a CDH mutation, Dr. Daniel G. Coit, a surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, said at a recent meeting there.
Megan Harlan, senior genetic counselor at Sloan-Kettering, said these were red flags that suggest a cancer might be hereditary:
¶Diagnosis of cancer at a significantly younger age than it ordinarily occurs.
¶Occurrence of the same cancer in more than one generation of a family.
¶Occurrence of two or more cancers in the same patient or blood relatives.
For example, a woman with a BRCA mutation is at high risk for both breast and ovarian cancer. A mismatch repair mutation, known as MMR, significantly raises the risk for colon cancer and somewhat for uterine and ovarian cancer. Thus, the occurrence of colon, uterine and ovarian cancers among blood relatives suggests that the family may carry the MMR mutation.
Preventive Actions
Knowing that you have a high-risk cancer gene mutation offers the chance to take preventive actions like scheduling frequent screenings starting at a young age or removing the organ at risk. While surgery is clearly a drastic form of cancer prevention, in the future drugs may be able to thwart cancers in people at high risk, Dr. Offit said.
A third possibility, when a cancer gene runs in a family, is in vitro fertilization and genetic analysis to identify affected embryos and implant those lacking the defective gene.
Ms. Harlan suggested that a woman with a BRCA mutation should start at an early age to conduct monthly breast self-exams and have a doctor examine the breasts two to four times a year. She also advised alternating mammograms and breast M.R.I.'s every 6 to 12 months, starting at age 25.
Likewise, someone who carries an inherited colon cancer gene should start yearly colonoscopies at 20 or 25. A woman with a uterine cancer gene mutation should be screened with sonography and endometrial biopsies yearly and, Dr. Offit added, consider having her uterus removed when she has finished having children.
A growing number of women with BRCA mutations are choosing prophylactic mastectomies and, in some cases, oophorectomies, or removal of the ovaries. That reduces their risk of breast or ovarian cancer 75 percent.
Dr. Coit described a family in which the father and his father both developed thyroid cancer linked to the RET mutation. The younger man's 6-year-old son was tested and found to carry the same damaged gene. Because the boy was certain to develop thyroid cancer, most likely at a young age, his thyroid was removed. Although the boy will need to take thyroid hormone for the rest of his life, the surgery reduced to zero his chance of developing this often fatal cancer.
Dr. Coit also told of a 33-year-old woman who carried the CDH mutation associated with highly lethal stomach cancer. Her stomach was removed and found to contain three microscopic cancer sites, making her preventive surgery also curative. She is one of 131 patients with the mutation who have had their stomachs removed and a stomachlike pouch created from the small intestine.
The doctor acknowledged that the surgery was a drastic measure, with an operative mortality of 1.5 percent and a complication rate of 53 percent. Most patients cannot eat as much as they used to after the surgery. They develop food intolerances and lose weight, but they do eventually adapt to their new digestive system, Dr. Coit said.
Practical Considerations
Before choosing surgery to reduce risk in an otherwise healthy person, Dr. Coit said these factors should be carefully considered:
¶Possible nonsurgical alternatives.
¶Actual cancer risk from the inherited gene and how much surgery can reduce it.
¶Timing of any operation.
¶Effects of surgery on quality of life.
Another question is how and whether to disclose hereditary cancer risk. Though many people fear limits on their job and ability to obtain affordable health insurance, a federal law was passed this month to prevent such genetic discrimination.
What if someone with a hereditary cancer gene refuses to warn family members of the possible risk and need for tests? These types of questions have begun to arise, in a handful of lawsuits against doctors. In a 1995 case in Florida, for example, the state Supreme Court ruled that a doctor has to inform patients of the risk to family members, but left it to patients to tell them about tests and the potential for prevention.
The deciphering of the human genome has prompted a number of entrepreneurs to cash in on people's genetic concerns. They offer DNA testing to look for aberrant genes associated with the risk of developing various diseases, especially cancer.
Such testing, when done reliably, might encourage some people to take charge of their health and make better plans for the future. But some professional genetics counselors say this approach to determining cancer risk is fraught with hazards, not the least of which is a false warning of a serious risk that does not exist.
"This kind of testing is premature," said Dr. Kenneth Offit, chief of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Some companies are selling research tests for mutations that carry a low risk of causing cancer, leading people to worry needlessly or be falsely reassured."
Another problem, he said, is the prescription offered after the tests.
"Other companies are telling people what kind of foods to eat and what to put on their skin based on their genes," Dr. Offit said. "Testing for known cancer genes is legitimate, but often the prescription given for a 'gene makeover' is not. Regulation of these labs is sorely needed. And people facing real hereditary cancer risks require intensive professional counseling.


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This chapter describes issues you might encounter when you install and configure supported Oracle Fusion Middleware products on IBM WebSphere. It includes the following topics:
Note:This chapter contains issues you might encounter while installing, configuring, or managing any of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products on IBM WebSphere.
Be sure to review the product-specific release note chapters elsewhere in this document for any additional issues specific to the products you are using.
This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Section 10.1.1, "Log File Error Message when Starting the SOA Server"
Section 10.1.2, "Save Settings Button Under Accessibility User Preferences Has Incorrect Label"
Section 10.1.4, "Cannot Create an XA Connection Factory in the IBM WebSphere Administration Console"
Section 10.1.5, "Accessibility Mode for User Messaging Preferences is Ignored on an IBM WebSphere Application Server"
Section 10.1.6, "Adding Shared Libraries to Deploy a Task Form from Oracle JDeveloper"
Section 10.1.7, "Setting Cookie Paths for Oracle SOA Suite Applications"
Section 10.1.8, "Deploying a SOA Composite Application to a SOA Cluster"
Section 10.1.9, "Cannot Deploy a SOA Bundle File from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control"
Section 10.1.10, "One-and-Only-One Event Subscriptions Are Not Supported"
Section 10.1.11, "Deployed Task Form Startup Failure in IBM WebSphere Administration Console"
Section 10.1.12, "Oracle BPM Worklist Displays as Undefined in Administration Console"
Section 10.1.13, "Dashboard Tab May Display Completed SOA Composite Instance States as Running"
Section 10.1.14, "Two-Way SSL Configuration with Oracle SOA Suite Is Not Supported"
Section 10.1.15, "Multiple Fault Recovery Failure with the Recover With Options Dialog"
Section 10.1.16, "IBM WebSphere Application Server - ND Installation Requires a Server Restart"
Section 10.1.17, "Test Emulations of Asynchronous BPEL Processes Fail"
Section 10.1.18, "SETMANAGEDCONNECTION() Fails with ILLEGALSTATEEXCEPTION for the AQ Adapter"
Section 10.1.19, "Invalid PolicySet Error When Accessing a Deployed Oracle Fusion Middleware Application on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.1.20, "Cannot Stop or Start Oracle Internal Applications From Fusion Middleware Control on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.1.21, "For the JMS Adapter, Instances Become Recoverable Even Without Failover"
Section 10.1.22, "Kerberos and SPNEGO are not supported with Oracle WSM"
Section 10.1.23, "REST Security Policies and Templates Not Certified"
When you start the SOA server (for this example, named soa_server1) in an IBM WebSphere Application Server environment, you can receive the following error message in the
profiles/CustomXX/logs/soa_server1/soa_server1-diagnostic.log file.
This message can be safely ignored.
[2013-02-21T10:46:10.786-08:00] [soa_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.soa.mediator.dfw] [tid: Non-deferrable Alarm : 0] [ecid: disabled,0] [APP: soa-infra] failed to deregister mbean[[ javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: oracle.mediator:type=MediatorDiagnostic,name=MediatorDiagnostic at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getMBean (DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1106) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor. exclusiveUnregisterMBean (DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:427) at . . . . . .
In Business Process Workspace, the Save Settings button under Preferences > Accessibility contains an incorrect label. The label for this button should be OK instead of LABEL_OK.
When Oracle Business Process Management (Oracle BPM) is installed on IBM WebSphere Application Server, a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError occurs when running automation tests. This is because the default memory configuration for WebSphere Application Server is set too low for this. This does not occur when Oracle BPM is installed on IBM WebSphere Network Deployment.
As a workaround, make the following changes to the JVM properties:
Initial heap size increased to 1024MB
Maximum heap size increased to 2148MB
MaxPermSize increased to 512 MB
Verbose garbage collection is selected
You cannot create an XA connection factory as a messaging provider in the IBM WebSphere Administration Console. The connection factories created by default are non-XA types. For example:
Go to IBM WebSphere Administration Console:
Go to Resources > Queue connection Factories.
Attempt to create an XA-based connection factory.
There is no provision to select an XA mode. You can only create non-XA connection factories.
On an IBM WebSphere Application Server instance, the accessibility options will not be set even if you have selected the option on the User Messaging Preferences login screen.
As a workaround, set the accessibility option on the User Messaging Preferences Settings page as follows:
Go to Oracle UMS User Messaging Preferences UI:
Enter a valid user name and password.
In the User Messaging Preference Login page, select Standard from the Accessibility Mode drop-down list and click Login.
After logging in, click the Settings link at the top right corner of the User Messaging Preferences page.
In the Settings page, you can set your Accessibility options in the following manner:
Select Screen Reader from the Accessibility Mode options, if desired.
Select the High Contrast checkbox if you want the text to be displayed in high contrast.
Select the Large Fonts check box if you want the text to be displayed in large fonts.
Click the Home link to go to the User Messaging Preferences page. The Accessibility options, that you chose to set in the Settings page, will be enabled.
Note:The Settings options in UMS User Messaging Preferences is session based. If you log out or close the browser, you will lose the accessibility options settings. You will need to reset the settings after each login.
When you deploy a SOA composite application with a task flow from Oracle JDeveloper to the SOA server on IBM WebSphere, the application cannot be started correctly due to a
ClassNotFound error. The shared library of the application is empty.
As a workaround, perform the following steps:
Go to IBM WebSphere Administration Console.
Select Applications > Application Types > WebSphere Enterprise Applications > task_form_name > Shared library references.
Manually add
adf.oracle.domain_1.0_188.8.131.52.0 and
Restart the application.
By default, applications deployed on IBM WebSphere have their cookie path set to "/". This default setting means that all applications on the same IBM WebSphere cell share the same session identifier. Therefore, as you move between applications, the session identifier value for the previous application is overwritten.
For example, if you access Oracle SOA Composer (
/soa/composer), then access Oracle Enterprise Manager (
/em), and then return to Oracle SOA Composer (
/soa/composer), you are prompted to log in again because the previous session identifier value is overwritten at the point at which you log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Section "Setting Cookie Paths for WebCenter Portal Application Modules Post Deployment" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide describes how to specify unique cookie paths for each application. This action enables you to avoid session invalidation as you move between applications.
In Step 4 of that section, where you click Manage Modules in IBM WebSphere Administration Console to select the modules to manage, and Step 5, where you specify the cookie path, note the following Oracle SOA Suite details to specify.
|Target Server
|Application Name
|Cookie Path
(Oracle SOA Composer)
(Oracle BPM Worklist)
(Oracle BAM)
(Oracle User Messaging Server)
(Oracle Enterprise Manager)
After performing these tasks, you must restart the target servers (soa_server1, bam_server1, and OracleAdminServer).
When you deploy a SOA composite application from Oracle JDeveloper, you cannot select the application server to which to deploy. Instead, the application is deployed to the Deployment Manager by default.
As a workaround, log in to the IBM WebSphere Administration Console, uninstall the application from the Deployment Manager, and reinstall the application to the SOA cluster by using the generated
.ear file.
You cannot deploy a SOA bundle file from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. As a workaround, use the
wsadmin command line shell.
For example, assume
vacationapproval.zip is a SOA bundle file that includes three SOA composite applications.
wsadmin> soa.sca_deployComposite("http://myhost.us.example.com:7001", "/tmp/vacationapproval.zip")
For more information about
wsadmin commands, see Section "Oracle SOA Suite wsadmin and WLST Command Differences" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide.
Business events are published to the Event Delivery Network (EDN). EDN provides support for delivering events to one-and-only-one subscribers, in which the event is sent to the subscriber in its own global (that is, JTA) transaction. However, one-and-only-one subscriptions are not supported when using EDN with IBM WebSphere Server.
As a workaround, change the one and only one consistency level of the event subscription to guaranteed in the Create Mediator dialog.
Note:This change downgrades the consistency level. Therefore, a system failure may cause an event to be delivered more than once because there is no global transaction. If the subscriber fails to process the event, the event is not resent.
When you attempt to start a deployed task form application in the IBM WebSphere Administration Console, it fails. You receive an error message similar to the following:
Was2Form failed to start. Check the logs for server dmgr on node DefaultCellManager01 for details. ErrorAn error occurred while starting Was2Form. Check the logs for server dmgr on node DefaultCellManager01 for more information.
As a workaround, perform the following steps:
Deploy the task flow in Oracle JDeveloper at the application level, instead of the project level. This generates the EAR file.
Undeploy the task flow from the IBM WebSphere Administration Console. Save directly to the master configuration to synchronize changes to all nodes.
Deploy the EAR file generated in step 1 through the IBM WebSphere Administration Console.
Go to Websphere Enterprise Applications > Install > Pick EAR from Locale file system.
Click Next (use the default options).
On step 2 of the deploy page "Map modules to servers," select all modules, highlight only the SOA server (for example, soa_server1), and click Apply.
On step 3, "Map virtual hosts for Web modules," select the WAR file.
At the end, save directly to the master configuration again.
Select the EAR file to start it.
If you configure an Oracle SOA Suite cluster or single server environment on IBM WebSphere, you may receive an error when accessing Oracle BPM Worklist indicating that it is undefined. If you log in to IBM WebSphere Administration Console, and select Applications > WebSphere enterprise applications > worklistapp > Shared library references, and see that only one row (worklistapp) is displayed when two rows should display (worklistapp and worklist-was.war), you must perform the following steps.
Uninistall Oracle BPM Worklist (known as worklistapp in the IBM WebSphere Administration Console).
Re-install Oracle BPM Worklist.
To uninistall Oracle BPM Worklist:
Log in to the IBM WebSphere Administration Console.
From the panel on the left hand side, select Applications > Application Type > WebSphere enterprise applications.
Select the check box for worklistapp from the Enterprise Applications list.
Click the Stop button to stop worklistapp.
Select worklistapp again.
Click the Uninstall button, and click OK.
Select Review from the Save and Review options.
Select Synchronize changes with nodes, and click Save.
Wait until configuration synchronization is complete, then click OK.
Confirm that worklistapp is now removed (uninstalled) from Enterprise Applications.
To re-install Oracle BPM Worklist:
If not already there, navigate to Applications > Application Type > WebSphere enterprise applications.
Click Install.
Select the Remote file system option:
Click Browse > DefaultCellDepMgrNode.
Click the root directory (/), and go to your ORACLE_HOME.
Navigate to soa/applications.
Select worklist-was.ear, and click OK.
Select the default Fast Path, and click Next.
Select the installation options:
Change the name Oracle BPM Worklist to worklistapp, and click Next.
Map the modules to the servers:
Select the check boxes for the two modules (jar and war).
From the Clusters and servers list, select server=soa_server1 or the server or cluster on which Oracle SOA Suite is installed.
Click Apply.
Confirm that the two modules now have the correct server value (for example, soa_server1) in the server column.
Click Next.
Map the virtual hosts for the web modules:
Select the one web module.
Click Next.
On the Summary screen, review the information, and click Finish.
Output displays on the screen, and you are prompted to save or review your local changes.
Select Review.
Save your workspace changes:
Click Synchronize changes with Nodes.
Verify that Total changed documents is 29 (if not, there may be an error).
Click Save.
Wait until configuration synchronization is complete, then click OK.
The worklistapp is now installed and ready to be started.
Verify that the worklistapp is present in the Enterprise Applications list.
Select worklistapp, and click Start.
Confirm that the Application Status is up.
Test that Oracle BPM Worklist in accessible by visiting the following URL:
The Dashboard tab of a SOA composite application in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control may show the state of an instance as running even though the instance has actually completed. In this scenario, verify the actual instance state on the Flow Trace page.
Two-way SSL configuration on IBM WebSphere is not supported. Therefore, there is no support for Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM) two-way security policies that are SSL-configured. Note that one-way SSL is supported (for example, in which you create an SSL-configured SOA service that invokes another SOA service).
If you click Recover With Options on the Fault and Rejected Messages tab of a SOA composite application, and attempt to recover all faults by selecting Recover All in the Recover With Options dialog, the faults are not recovered and display as pending. The problem only occurs with the Recover With Options dialog. Individual instance recovery and selecting multiple instances for recovery works correctly.
If you install IBM WebSphere Application Server - Network Deployment (ND) for use with Oracle SOA Suite, you must restart the server for JCA adapter binding components to be active. Otherwise, JNDIs are not active, and you receive the following error message:
Non Recoverable System Fault : BINDING.JCA-12563 Exception occured when binding was invoked. Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'Write' failed due to: JCA Binding Component connection issue. JCA Binding Component is unable to create an outbound JCA (CCI) connection. File_MEDComposite:WriteMed [ Write_ptt::Write(body) ] : The JCA Binding Component was unable to establish an outbound JCA CCI connection due to the following issue: BINDING.JCA-12510 JCA Resource Adapter location error. . . . . . .
You cannot create test emulations involving asynchronous BPEL processes in a SOA composite application on IBM WebSphere. During test execution, this results in an
CannotInstantiateObjectException exception error.
When running Oracle AQ Technology Adapter cases on the WebSphere Platform, you might encounter the following error:
javax.resource.spi.ResourceAllocationException: setManagedConnection: illegal state exception. State = STATE_ACTIVE_FREE MCW = 28392839
To follow-up on this exception, IBM PMR # 69026,756 has been created
When you deploy an application using Oracle Fusion Middleware on IBM WebSphere, you might receive the following runtime error:
oracle.fabric.common.PolicyEnforcementException: PolicySet Invalid: WSM-06102 PolicyReference The policy reference URI oracle/wss_username_token_service_policy is not valid
To workaround this issue, perform the following steps:
Open the policy-accessor-config.xml file, which can found at the following location:
Locate the policy-accessor properties and uncomment the following properties and set the value of each property as shown:
<property name="active.protocol"> remote </property> <property name="java.naming.provider.url"> corbaloc:iiop:hostname:rmi.port </property>
In this example, replace hostname and rmi.port to identify the host and RMI port where the policy manager is running.
No restart is required. By default, the new version of the
policy-accessor-config.xml is loaded every 10 mins. However, if you want to pick up the changes immediately, then you can restart the server.
When running Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control on IBM WebSphere, you might experience errors if you attempt to stop or start the internal Oracle applications that are displayed under the Internal Applications folder in the target navigation pane.
The applications listed here are internal Oracle applications. You should not start or stop these applications from Fusion Middleware Control. If you must stop or start these applications, then start or stop the managed servers that host the internal applications.
When the SOA JMS adapter is installed on WebSphere and is communicating with the IBM WebSphere Default JMS Messaging provider, you must set the property
Persistent message reliability to
Assured persistent rather than
Reliable persistent; otherwise, an incorrect setting can result in loss of messages.
Also, occasionally when the failover scenario does not occur, you can see situations that include an error (transaction timing out, or the closing of JMS session) from the IBM WebSphere JMS, making instances become recoverable. If this happens, you need to manually recover the instances from the Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Kerberos and Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) are not supported with Oracle Web Services Manager.
Note the following limitations:
The Kerberos policies and assertion templates included with Oracle WSM are not supported.
SPNEGO functionality is not supported.
The current release of REST security policies and templates are not certified on IBM WebSphere.
This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Section 10.2.1, "Error Configuring a Cell When IBM WebSphere Installed on Windows 2003 and 2008"
Section 10.2.2, "Configuring Coherence for a SOA Cluster on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.2.3, "Limitations When Configuring Oracle Business Activity Monitoring for High Availability on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.2.4, "Requests Received by IBM HTTP Server (IHS) Are Routed to the Fusion Middleware Welcome Page"
Section 10.2.5, "Unable to Register WSRP/JPDK Producers Through Pagelet Producer Console on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.2.6, "Unable to Configure Password Settings Through Pagelet Producer Console on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.2.7, "Restart of Deployment Manager Required When Configuring Oracle SOA Suite for High Availability on IBM WebSphere"
Section 10.2.8, "Additional Configurations For SSO Logout on WebSphere"
Section 10.2.9, "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException Error Message seen in the Log File When Deploying SimpleApprovalTaskFlow on IBM WebSphere"
When IBM WebSphere is installed on Windows 2003 or Windows 2008, the following error sometimes displays when you attempt to create a cell:
WebSphere Profile Update Failed! No Changes Were Saved To The WebSphere Profile Profile Location: x:\mydir\APPSER~1\profiles\Dmgr02 Reason Exception saving changes to WebSphere configuration
The issue is due to the Jython libraries shipped with IBM WebSphere. As a workaround:
Locate and edit the file:
Locate the function:
Edit the
_osTypeMap variable to return "
nt" as the default.
_osTypeMap = (
( "nt", r"(nt)|(Windows NT)|(Windows NT 4.0)|(WindowsNT)|"
r"(Windows 2000)|(Windows XP)|(Windows CE)" ),
( "dos", r"(dos)|(Windows 95)|(Windows 98)|(Windows ME)" ),
( "mac", r"(mac)|(MacOS.*)|(Darwin)" ),
( "None", r"(None)" ),
( "nt", r"(.*)" ), # default - posix seems to vary mast widely
Save the changes.
When you configure a SOA cluster on IBM WebSphere, you must configure Oracle Coherence with the host names and other required cluster properties.
For Oracle WebLogic Server environments, refer to the Oracle Coherence configuration information "Configuring Oracle Coherence for Deploying Composites" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.
When configuring a SOA Cluster on IBM WebSphere, you perform a similar set of tasks, using the following instructions that are specific to IBM WebSphere:
Login to the IBM WebSphere Administrative Console.
Navigate to the Java Virtual Machine Custom Properties page:
Servers > soa_server_name > Java and Process Management > Process Definition > Java Virtual Machine > Custom Properties
Add the following properties:
For a multicast cluster:
tangosol.coherence.clusteraddress tangosol.coherence.clusterport
For a unicast cluster:
tangosol.coherence.wka1 (= host1) tangosol.coherence.wka2 (= host2) tangosol.coherence.localhost = (host?) tangosol.coherence.wka1.port tangosol.coherence.wka2.port tangosol.coherence.localport
When you install and configure Oracle BAM on IBM WebSphere, you cannot configure the Oracle BAM servers in the high availability, two-node configuration as described "Configuring High Availability for Oracle BAM" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.
Instead, when configuring Oracle BAM on IBM WebSphere, you must use a cold failover configuration. For more information, see "Active-Passive Topologies for Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.
When using Fusion Middleware products on IBM WebSphere ND with an IBM @ HTTPServer (IHS) front end, requests coming in to the Content Server may instead be routed to the Fusion Middleware Welcome page that is running on the cell's Administration Server (OracleAdminServer).
For requests to be properly routed to the Content Server, perform the following steps after fully configuring the cell.
Refer to IBM's Network Deployment documentation for detailed information about editing, propagating, and regenerating the
plugin-cfg.xml file:
Disable automatic propagation of the plugin-cfg.xml file.
For example:
Manually regenerate
Manually edit
plugin-cfg.xml to remove any entries that may cause requests to be routed to OracleAdminServer.
Manually propagate
plugin-cfg.xml to the IHS Web server plugin.
If you update the cell after performing these steps, you might see this issue again. If so, then repeat these configuration steps.
Users are not able to register WSRP/JPDK Producers in Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer Console in an IBM WebSphere Application Server instance. To resolve this issue, follow the steps below to add the necessary role (
AppConnectionManager) to the Pagelet Producer application.
Open WebSphere Admin Console.
Under WebSphere Applications Deployment, right-click pagelet-producer and select Security and Application Roles.
Click Application stripe and select pagelet-producer.
In the Starts with field, enter
AppConnectionManager and click Search. Select the
AppConnectionManager role and click Edit.
Under Members, click Add to open a dialog that allows you to search for principals and assign the necessary users or groups to the role. Select the required user(s) and click OK to close the dialog.
Click OK to save the application settings.
Restart the
WC_Portlet managed server (the updated security settings do not take effect until the server is restarted).
While trying to set passwords (such as the Proxy Password), through WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer Console in an IBM WebSphere Application Server instance, the following error displays:
ADF_FACES-60097: For more information, please see the server's error log foran entry beginning with: ADF_FACES-60096:Server Exception during PPR, #9
To workaround this issue you must grant some additional permissions to the pagelet producer application:
Using wsadmin, connect to the Dmgr server for the cell configured with the pagelet producer application:
WC_HOME/common/bin/wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -user admin username -password password -host Dmgr_host -port admin_SOAP_port
See also "Running WebCenter Portal wsadmin Commands " in Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide.
Run the following
Opss.grantPermission command to grant permissions to the pagelet producer application to update proxy passwords:
wsadmin> Opss.grantPermission(appStripe=None,principalClass=None,principalName=None, codeBaseURL='file:${user.install.root}/installedApps/DefaultCell/pageletproduc er.ear/', permClass='oracle.security.jps.service.credstore.CredentialAccessPermission', permTarget='context=SYSTEM,mapName=ensemble,keyName=*',permActions='read,write ,update,delete')
Restart the WC_Portlet managed server (the updated security settings do not take effect until the server is restarted).
To configure Oracle SOA Suite for high availability on WebSphere, follow the instructions in "Federating a Remote Machine to an Existing Cell" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
However, when following these instructions, you must be sure to stop and restart the Deployment Manager before configuration of the second node. For more information, see "Configuring the Deployment Manager to Detect the Remote Node Agent" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide.
You must configure the Sync Filter to get SSO logout on WebSphere to work well. In the deployment descriptor (for example,
web.xml) of the application, the filter can be configured for certain URL patterns as in the following example.
<filter> <display-name>SSOSessionSynchronizationFilter</display-name> <filter-name>SSOSessionSynchronizationFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>oracle.security.was.filter.SSOSessionSynchronizationFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>SSOSessionSynchronizationFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
You also need to add the following JAR to the WebSphere classpath:
You can receive an
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error in the log file after accessing the Log Configuration page in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.
The Log Configuration page is displayed correctly. The error has no impact on product functionality and can be ignored.
This section describes documentation errata. It includes the following topic:
Section 10.3.1, "Updates to Steps for Patching WebCenter Portal 22.214.171.124.0 Installations to 188.8.131.52.0"
Section 10.3.2, "Updates to Steps for Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence for Scaling Out on IBM WebSphere"
Steps that describe how to patch a WebCenter Portal 18.104.22.168.0 installation to 184.108.40.206.0 are documented in "Patching WebCenter Portal on IBM WebSphere from 220.127.116.11 to 184.108.40.206"in Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide.
Changes to the information provided are listed below:
Before you start - Determine your existing Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) security policy URIs
Oracle recommends that you record your existing OWSM policy URI settings before you patch to WebCenter Portal 126.96.36.199.0. This step is missing from the documentation.
To determine your existing settings prior to patching WebCenter Portal 188.8.131.52.0, follow the steps described in "Determining OWSM Policy URIs for Spaces, Discussions, and Portlet Web Service End Points" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide.
Step 10 - Use the Patch Set Assistant to update all the required schemas
This step must be done before Step 5 "Start the upgraded IBM WebSphere node agent and deployment manager".
Section 10.2.11.1 of Oracle Fusion Middleware Third-Party Application Server Guide describes the steps for configuring for scaling out JEE components for Oracle Business Intelligence on IBM WebSphere. These steps must be updated because they differ slightly depending on whether you install with the Installer for 32-bit or 64-bit systems.
The steps when using the 32-bit Installer are as follows:
Use the Administration Console for IBM WebSphere to verify that the following conditions are met:
Oracle Business Intelligence is installed with IBM WebSphere on the first host computer.
The installation of Oracle Business Intelligence on the first host computer includes two servers, which are named OracleAdminServer and bi_server1. The installation also includes a Node Agent and a single Deployment Manager.
The servers are managed as a cluster for IBM WebSphere that is called bi_cluster.
Install IBM WebSphere on the second host computer. Ensure that you select None as the installation type and click Finish on the Installation Results page.
The Profile Management tool is displayed at the end of the IBM WebSphere installation. Provide the settings for the Profile Management tool as described in the existing Step 4 in Section 10.2.11.1.
Stop the NodeAgent using the stopNode.sh script.
Apply any patches as appropriate for IBM WebSphere on the second host computer, so that the second computer runs the same version as the first computer.
Start the NodeAgent using the startNode.sh script.
Install Oracle Business Intelligence on the second host computer and select the following options:
For installation type, select Software-Only.
Install Oracle Business Intelligence in the same directory structure on the second host computer as it is installed on the first host computer, such as /mydir/myname/mw_home
Follow the existing Step 6 in Section 10.2.11.1 to create an IBM Managed Server (similar to bi_server1 on the first node) to handle the JEE applications for Oracle Business Intelligence on the new node.
The steps when using the 64-bit Installer are as follows:
Use the Administration Console for IBM WebSphere to verify that the following conditions are met:
Oracle Business Intelligence is installed with IBM WebSphere on the first host computer.
The installation of Oracle Business Intelligence on the first host computer includes two servers, which are named OracleAdminServer and bi_server1. The installation also includes a Node Agent and a single Deployment Manager.
The servers are managed as a cluster for IBM WebSphere that is called bi_cluster.
Install IBM WebSphere on the second host computer. Ensure that you select None as the installation type and click Finish on the Installation Results page.
Apply any patches as appropriate for IBM WebSphere on the second host computer, so that the second computer runs the same version as the first computer.
Unlike for the 32-bit Installer, the NodeAgent does not exist until the profile is created for the 64-bit Installer.
Run the Profile Management tool as described in the existing Step 4 in Section 10.2.11.1.
Stop the NodeAgent using the stopNode.sh script.
Install Oracle Business Intelligence on the second host computer and select the following options:
For installation type, select Software-Only.
Install Oracle Business Intelligence in the same directory structure on the second host computer as it is installed on the first host computer, such as /mydir/myname/mw_home
Start the NodeAgent using the startNode.sh script.
Follow the existing Step 6 in Section 10.2.11.1 to create an IBM Managed Server (similar to bi_server1 on the first node) to handle the JEE applications for Oracle Business Intelligence on the new node.
Section 10.4 describes how to upgrade Oracle Business Intelligence to run on IBM WebSphere. The section begins with a bulleted list that needs to be reworded as follows:
If you have a 10g Release of Oracle Business Intelligence that is running on IBM WebSphere.
If you have a previous 11g Release of Oracle Business Intelligence that is running on Oracle WebLogic Server.


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This lesson supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to increase student interest in and understanding of content area material and to develop critical writing skills. The more familiar format of narrative fiction introduces the topic and generates confidence in exploring the less familiar genre of nonfiction. Students then demonstrate what they have learned about the topic and about genre by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.
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Camp, D. (2000). It takes two: Teaching with Twin Texts of fact and fiction. The Reading Teacher, 53(5), 400408.
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Tonight NBC Nightly News aired a clip from Matt Lauer's interview with President Obama, in which he asked the President why he has not chosen a church to attend. He was told that so doing would create too much of a distraction for fellow parishioners, and that the President, instead, receives a daily "devotional" email from a group of pastors nationwide.
Presidents Clinton and Carter managed to choose and attend church while serving in the White House. Given that this Sunday is Easter, one of the most important, if not the most important, days of Christians' liturgical calendar, this choice, or lack of one, strikes me as odd and evasive.
I began attending a local Episcopal church in 1998 after a personal crisis, being victimized by a criminal, made me deeply question my values, my decisions and my lack of a larger community. I don't attend every week, but when I do it's with immense gratitude for a place I'm thoughtfully reminded of deeper and wider values than my own petty personal concerns. I also appreciate being part of a larger community that has warmly welcomed me and my partner, a Buddhist, and helped nurture our spiritual growth. Many of our ministers and assistants, much to my surprise — not having been a "cradle Christian", attending church faithfully since birth — have become beloved friends.
If Obama truly wants to participate in Christian life, being visible in this specific, chosen, sacred place is part of that commitment, as he knows. He and his wife and two daughters may arrive by limousine surrounded and protected by the Secret Service, but the unyielding hardness of a wooden pew, the Bible and the sermons based on it he would hear there each week, usefully remind us all that's not how he — or any of us, regardless of our temporal wealth and power — will be leaving.
A good church (or mosque, temple, synagogue or any public place of worship) — and there are many that are not nourishing — is a plot of deep, rich, fertile soil, a place to put down some roots and see what blossoms. When you publicly and collectively meditate and pray for others, it reminds us of our larger humanity and our connection to those, as our service says every week, who are ill, dying, sick or in need.
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As you know, attending Sunday morning worship enables you to worship God, which for Christians is both a responsibility and privilege. These services help supply you with moral inspiration and spiritual strength, which are vital to your work as president. Attending habitually will also enable your wife and children to receive biblical instruction and Christian nurture. You have repeatedly claimed that your faith is important to you and helps guide your political priorities, policies, and work. You have frequently used religious rhetoric and scriptural principles and passages to support legislation you are promoting. You have also sought to enlist clergy, committed lay Christians, and religious organizations to work to achieve causes in which you believe strongly. Moreover, attending church faithfully would testify to your professed values and help you gain greater credibility with religious Americans.
Equally important, your regular attendance would set a good example for our nation.
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Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.
The Obamas have attended Sunday services in Washington three times this year — once at the predominantly African-American 19th Street Baptist Church, and twice at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. Asked at Tuesday's White House briefing whether the First Family is still searching for a local church to join, press secretary Robert Gibbs responded: "The President has attended fairly regularly up at Camp David a church that he's comfortable in and has enjoyed attending."
What do you think? Does it matter to you if he chooses a church and becomes a part of that larger community?
Or is he avoiding controversy and further political divisiveness by keeping his prayer life confined to the White House?


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Man convicted in Orange Park nightclub shooting
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – A Clay County jury convicted a 24-year-old Jacksonville man Thursday afternoon on a charge of first-degree attempted murder for his involvement in a 2011 shooting at Club Christopher's.
In August 2011, Antonio Morales was at the Orange Park nightclub when he got into an argument inside the club and was asked to leave.
While in the parking lot, Morales got into another fight with a different person, Kevelin Holmes. During the argument, Morales pulled out a gun, shot Holmes and then fled from the area in a car.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office spotted Morales' vehicle minutes after the shooting. Investigators recovered the weapon from under Morales' car seat and located a shell casing on the windshield wiper of the car.
"Thanks to the quick response by the Clay County Sheriff's Office, this defendant was captured and now will be off the streets of the First Coast for a very long time," Assistant State Attorney James Colaw said in a news release.
Morales faces 25 years to life in prison. He will be sentenced Feb. 27.
Holmes has recovered from his injuries.
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November 6, 2013
Very Dear Friends,
The first monarchs are here at last!
They just jumped up today after noon time. The weather was rather sunny and fresh and, by noontime, a kind of sixth sense told me monarchs might appear today.
José Alberto, Rosa Isela, Erika, Javier and I jumped into the car and left towards El Cerrito longing to see a Monarch somewhere on the way.
The first Monarchs were majestically flying over the northwest side of our town not looking in the least affected by the very bad weather we have had in the last days.
Later in the afternoon, we went back to El Cerrito just by sunset, since we wanted to confirm their staying overnight there but, by that time, there was not one single butterfly neither flying nor on the trees.
It seemed they would spend the night somewhere else. It all points to the likelihood that within the next 2-3 days the colonies should start to forme in El Rosario and Chincua Sanctuaries, which will be officially opened next on November 22nd.
This coming weekend, we will be confirming Monarchs' official arrival from the way up to "El Rosario" and from "El Rosario Sanctuary" itself, so that we can officially announce their arrival
Meanwhile, we can indeed say that today, Wednesday, November 6th the first monarchs have arrived this year to their overwintering region in Central México!
José Alberto, Rosa Isela, Erika, Javier and Estela.


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bai founder Ben Weiss has spent the past two decades in search for the best-quality, green coffee available when he came across what would lead to the creation of bai. The coffee farmers from these regions have always used the whole fruit of the coffee bush to make high energy foods and beverages and this is when Ben knew that he had stumbled upon coffee's untold secret.
The coffee bean has always been harvested but the fruit were left to perish because they were simply too delicate to process. This fruit is filled with phenolic compounds that are found widespread throughout the plant and concentrated in the coffee fruit, it is truly an extraordinary antioxidant-packed superfruit that has been forgotten for much too long. At this point Ben decided to go through research and development to harness the wonders of the coffee fruit and after turning his family's kitchen into a makeshift laboratory for more than a year in which he was mixing coffee fruit and exotic fruit juices to create a delicious, healthful beverage, bai was created.
bai and bai5 are antioxidant infused beverage made from the most super of superfruits, the cofeefruit. bai has no preservatives, nothing artificial, OU Kosher, Vegan, Gluten and Soy Free. Every bottle of bai contains 250% of the average daily antioxidant intake and has natural caffeine (as much as a cup of green tea). bai5 has only 5 calories per serving and is sweetened with organic stevia.
While bai and bai5 are both loaded with health benefits when it comes to choosing a drink if it doesn't taste great you are going to move onto the next beverage. As much as I love the antioxidants, that bai5 has only five calories per serving and that you can get your caffeine jolt from drinking it, my favorite thing about bai is the flavor. The regular bai comes in some tasty flavors such as Jamaica Blueberry, Tanzania Strawberry and several other great choices and you know after one sip exactly what you are getting, there are no shortcuts when it comes to flavor and taste with bai. The bai5 has flavors such as Costa Rica Clementine and Ipanema Pomegranate and others and the if you put a bai and a bai5 next to each other you would have to really think long and hard to figure out which one is the five calorie flavor. The regular bai is sweetened with organic cane juice and the bai5 is sweetened with organic stevia, each one combined with the coffee fruit along with exotic fruit juices and you have one memorable drink for any time of the day and any occasion.
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Tony Pearson Joins the Quarter Century Club
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This Thursday, June 16, 2011, marks IBM's Centennial 100 year anniversary. It happens to also be my 25th anniversary with IBM Storage. To avoid conflicts in celebrations, we decided to celebrate my induction into the "Quarter Century Club" (QCC) last Friday instead.
My colleague Harley Puckett was master of ceremonies. Here he is presenting me with a memorial plaque and keychain. Harley mentioned a few facts about 1986, the year I started working for IBM. Ronald Reagan was the US President, gasoline cost only 93 cents per gallon, and the US National Debt was only 2 trillion US dollars!
Here are my colleagues from DFSMShsm. From left to right: Ninh Le, Henry Valenzuela, Shannon Gallaher, and Stan Kissinger. I started in 1986 as aa software developer on DFHSM, and slowly worked my way up to be a lead architect of DFSMS.
Here are my colleagues from Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). From left to right: Matt Anglin, Ken Hannigan and Mark Haye. I first met them when they worked in DFDSS, having moved from San Jose, CA down to Tucson. While I never worked on the TSM code itself, I did co-author some of the patents used in the product and other products like the 3494 Virtual Tape Server that makes use of TSM internally. I also traveled extensively to promote TSM, often with a TSM developer tagging along so they can learn the ropes about how to travel and make presentaitons.
Here are my colleagues from the disk team. From left to right: Joe Bacco, Carlos Pratt, Gary Albert, and Siebo Friesenborg. I worked on the SMI-S interface for the ESS 800 and DS8000 disk systems needed for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Joe leads the "Disk Magic" tools team. Carlos and I worked on qualifying the various disk products to run with Linux on System z host attachment. Gary Albert is the Business Line Executive (BLE) of Enterprise Disk. Siebo Friesenborg was a disk expert on performance and disaster recovery, but is now enjoying his retirement.
Here are my colleagues from the support team. From left to right: Max Smith, Dave Reed, and Greg McBride. I used to work in Level 2 Support for DFSMS with Max and Dave, carrying a pager and managing the queue on RETAIN. We had enough people so that each Level 2 only had to carry the pager two weeks per year. On Monday afternoons, the person with the pager would give it to the next person on the rotation. On Monday, September 10, 2001, I got the pager, and the following morning, it went off to help all the many clients affected by the September 11 tragedy.
I worked with Greg McBride when he was in DFSMS System Data Mover (SDM), and then again in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R), and now he is supporting IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS).
Standing in the light blue striped shirt is Greg Van Hise, my first office-mate and mentor when I first joined IBM. He went on to be part of the elite "DFHSM 2.4.0" prima donna team, then move on to be an architect for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
I wasn't limited to inviting just coworkers, I was also able to invite friends and family. Here are Monica, Richard, and my mother. Normally, my parents head south for the summer, but they postponed their flights so that they could participate in my QCC celebration.
From left to right: my father, Greg Tevis, and myself. It was pure coincidence that my father would wear a loud darkly patterned shirt like mine. Honestly, we did not plan this in advance. Greg Tevis and I were lead architects for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and Greg is now the Technology Strategist for the Tivoli Storage product line.
Here is Jack Arnold, fellow subject matter expert who works with me here at the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, sampling the food. We had quite the spread, including egg rolls, meatballs, luncheon meats, chicken strips, and fresh vegetables.
More colleagues from the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, from left to right, Joe Hayward, Lee Olguin, and Shelly Jost. Joe was a subject matter expert on Tape when I first joioned the EBC in 2007, but he has moved back to the Tape development/test team. Lee is our master "Gunny" sargeant to manage all of our briefing schedules. Shelly is our Client Support Manager, and was the one who organized all the food and preparations for this event!
Lastly, here are Brad Johns, myself, and Harley Puckett. Brad was my mentor for my years in Marketing, and has since retired from IBM and now works on his golf game. I would like to thank all of the Tucson EBC staff for pulling off such a great event, and all my coworkers, friends and family for coming out to celebrate this milestone in my career!
In addition to the plaque and keychain, Harley presented me with a book of congratulatory letters. If you would like to send a letter, it's not too late, contact Mysti Wood (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Re: The Better Browser? (New Poll)
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:51 pm
James wrote:To be honest I'm not sure it is anywhere near as useful as some other navigation features in various browsers.
What other navigation features do you refer to?
James wrote:They all do, now. What they don't all have is a fantastic URL prediction system.
Nevermind, Opera doesn't have autocomplete anymore, although it used to have it in its previous version. Now it only shows a list of suggestions like Firefox and Chrome do.


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