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Peyton Manning needs a beer. How 'bout you, Denver?
Winning the Super Bowl can wait. Let's raise a toast to burying a ghost.
"What's weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth. That's priority one," Manning said Sunday, after the Broncos beat San Diego 24-17.
For the first time in 365 nights, a city in love with the Broncos got a truly sound night's sleep. The year-long nightmare is over.
The Broncos did more than win a playoff game. They buried a ghost. For 365 days, ever since an overtime loss in the postseason stunned the Broncos, the city and its NFL team had an uneasy sense of unfinished business. When Denver players and coaches huddled in the locker room and shouted "Finish!" not a single additional word of explanation was required.
But there comes a time when it takes more than a rallying cry. That time was in the fourth quarter against San Diego, with 3 minutes, 6 seconds showing on the scoreboard clock and a stadium packed with 76,969 hearts, all beating with angst. What had been a comfortable 17-point Denver lead had been reduced to seven points. The Broncos faced third down, needing 17 yards to move the chains, from their own 20.
As Denver defensive tackle Terrance Knighton stood on the sideline, he didn't have to guess what nervous fans were thinking. He felt it.
"I think it was on everybody's mind in the whole stadium," Knighton said.
It was time to kill a ghost. This was the time for Manning to answer the critics who incessantly harped on his career 9-11 record in the playoffs. This was the moment for Denver coach John Fox to prove that when it was time to be bold in the playoffs, he wouldn't go conservative.
Manning took the snap. The pocket began to collapse around him. He stepped forward, in a space no bigger than a coat closet, and fired a pass as Julius Thomas ran downfield and broke back to the sideline near Denver's bench. The timing between quarterback and his tight end, the spiral of the pass and the tap dance of the receiver's feet next to the out-of-bounds stripe all had to be perfect.
And you know what? What happened next was as flawless a smile that conquers fear. It was as perfect as a cold beer at the end of a long day. Manning hitting Thomas for 21 yards and a first down was the play that finally allowed this team and this town to exhale for the first time in 365 days.
"Julius and I have spent a lot of time working on those particular routes. After practice, in practice," Manning said. "To me, that is one of the most rewarding parts of football. When you put that work in off to the side or after practice and it pays off in a game, it really makes it feel like it was worth it."
A playoff game the Broncos controlled from the beginning came down to a very nervous end.
Up next: Tom Brady and New England in the AFC championship game. Winner goes to the Super Bowl. If there's one quarterback of Manning's generation who has his number, it's Brady.
More unfinished business. Time to go to work.
An hour after the victory, a throng of cheering Broncomaniacs lined the tunnel that players and coaches use to depart the stadium. Fox sat behind the wheel of a black BMW jammed with happy family members. A fan cradling an antique Orange Crush seat cushion held together with duct tape approached the Beemer and rapped his knuckles on Fox's window.
"I just wanted to shake the coach's hand," said Jeff Clark, a season-ticket holder for 43 years. "I come to every home game. And I never waver in my faith. Yeah, we've been through some heartbreak together. But we're smiling now."
There's unfinished business. Drive on. And don't look back.
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Keep in mind this is not the R-Compound Eagle F1 Supersport R or RS. This is the standard tire designed for street driving as tested by Tyre Reviews on their F87 M2 test car. Tire sizes are 245/35/19 front and 265/35/19 rear.
The test categories are dry and wet handling, braking, aquaplane resistance, noise, comfort, wear, and subjective ratings.
Tires tested:
Goodyear Eagle F1 Supersport
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
Continental SportContact 6
Vredestein Ultrac Vorti
Falken Azenis FK510
Kumho Ecsta PS91
Toyo Proxes Sport
Accelera PHI
It is interesting to note the Goodyears are not the best dry handling tire but right up there with the best. Their wet handling tops everyone else significantly though. The new Goodyear tire offers the best combination of wet and dry handling performance. For those who want a high performance tire but are in an area where it rains often, this tire may be a savior for you.
This does not come without its downsides. The Goodyears are loud and not as comfortable as competitors:
Something else that is very important to note. The Goodyear Eagle F1 SuperSport is the lightest tire of the group:
Despite the downsides the Goodyear Eagle F1 wins this shootout. This bodes very well for the higher performance R and RS variants. Porsche afterall recently switched the 991.2 GT2 RS tire recommendation to the F1 RS.
Watch the video below for more details or check out Tyre Reviews test page: https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Articl...-Tyre-Test.htm


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Islanders acquire Clutterbuckby Staff Writer / New York Islanders
The New York Islanders have acquired forward Cal Clutterbuck from the Minnesota Wild, along with the 70th overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, in exchange for forward Nino Niederreiter.
Clutterbuck, 25, has 110 points (62 goals, 48 assists) in 346 career National Hockey League games with Minnesota. A native of Welland, ON, Clutterbuck scored 10 points (four goals, six assists) in 42 games last season, while leading the team with 155 hits (tied for ninth in NHL). He also made his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut, scoring two points (one goal, one assist) in five games during Minnesota's Western Conference Quarterfinal series against Chicago.
A 5'11, 213-pound right wing, Clutterbuck led the NHL in hits for three consecutive seasons from 2008-09 to 2010-11, setting a then-NHL record with 356 hits during the 2008-09 campaign. Prior to his professional career, Clutterbuck played three seasons of junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. The Wild Selected Clutterbuck in the third round, 72nd overall, of the 2006 NHL Draft.
On the International stage, Clutterbuck won a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2011 World Championships and a silver medal with Canada at the 2005 Under-18 World Junior Championships. He also won a gold medal with Team Canada-Ontario at the 2004 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
Niederreiter, 20, scored three points (one goal, two assists) in 64 NHL games with the Islanders. The Chur, CHE, native scored 50 points (28 goals, 22 assists) in 74 games in 2012-13 with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League. The Islanders selected Niederreiter in the first round, fifth overall, of the 2010 NHL Draft.


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With true to form German purpose and application, Dievas Uhren have recently released their version of a dive watch. Not just any dive watch of course, but one that has taken on board the input, comments and requests of professional divers, sports and military professionals, and last but by no means least, watch aficionados.
Dievas Focal quality
Dievas Uhren believes the new Focal will stand comparison with some of the best divers on the market. Here's why.
Made in Germany – That still stands for a lot, top quality, technologically sound, beautifully engineered and built to a high standard.
6 times hardened steel - Dievas have gone to great trouble to ensure that the 316L stainless steel is considerably tougher than old boots. They put the steel through an exhaustive process to harden it to six times its normal strength, leaving each watch in a hardening chamber for two weeks. Then they test the watch again to ensure its resilience. With 1300 Hv this puts the watch in the same league as Sinn's steel dive watches.
Corrosion resistant - During the same process multiple layers of plasma are applied to the entire surface area including the case back to protect the steel from the corrosion of sea water, sweat and other nasties.
500m diving depth – The watch is water resistant to 500 metres, not as much as some, including the excellent CX Swiss Military range which are water resistant to over 3,500 metres, but enough for most divers. Dievas also claim to test the watches to way beyond their WR to ensure no leaks.
Automatic movement – The watch is powered by the ETA 2824-2 movement modified with a Dieves CNC customised rotor. Each watch is adjusted to five positions for greater accuracy.
45mm hand finished casing
The 45 mm x 14.5 mm case is hand finished to give it extra sheen. The crown is at 8 o' clock, and, like the enlarged gear edged unidirectional bezel, is designed to be adjusted while wearing diving gloves. The hands and dials are minimalist with a modern military styling.
Luminova hands
The oversized hands are coated with top grade Swiss luminova for ease of legibility underwater. As for the dial, there's a bright splash of colour on an otherwise densely black platform afforded by the bright yellow FOCAL brand name positioned above the date aperture at 6 o' clock, and the matching yellow secondhand.
Italian rubber strap
The Focal is fitted with an anti-reflective sapphire crystal and comes on an Italian rubber strap that features a dive style clasp with a wet suit extension. The Focal also comes with a carrycase with an extra waterproof leather strap and changing tool.
The Dievas Focal dive watch retails at a competitive $1280 and can be ordered directly online via the Dievas website and via Watchuseek. No one could accuse the Dievas Focal of being a flashy fashion statement, but as a solid, functional and reliable dive watch, it's a real contender.
Maker: Dievas Uhren Technik
Movement: Swiss Made Dievas modified ETA2824-2 automatic movement
Dial: Black dial. Index
Luminance: SuperLuminova
Case: Micro-blasted. Dievas 6Steel - Hardened Steel; Scratch Resistant
Case Back: Dievas signed. Dievas 6Steel - Hardened Steel; Scratch Resistant
Bezel: Uni-directional. Micro-blased. Dievas 6Steel - Hardened Steel; Scratch Resistant
Crown: 5mm screwdown crown. Dievas 6Steel - Hardened Steel; Scratch Resistant
Lug: 22mm
Crystal: Domed scratch resistant sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Strap: Molded anti-static Italian rubber strap with machined heavy duty deployant clasp and diver suit extension
Additional waterproof leather strap
Water resistance: 500m
Dimensions: 45mm in diameter, 54mm lug to lug, 14.5mm thick
Power Reserve: 42 hours
Warranty: Guaranteed 2 years
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Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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Researchers at Gartner recently identified ten strategic trends—mobile and apps behind two of them—that will define and potentially disrupt the enterprise market over the next three years. These technology trends, according to the market research firm, will require large investments and are crucial to adopt, lest businesses gets left behind by competitors. Read Original Content
Strategy Analytics has released smartphone market share for 3Q 2013. Samsung, Apple, Huawei, LG and Lenovo are the top five smartphone vendors in the world – based on shipments. Read Original Content
The worldwide video game marketplace, which includes video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, will reach $93 billion in 2013, up from $79 billion in 2012, a report said. Driven by strong mobile gaming and video game console and software sales, the market is forecast to reach $111 billion by 2015, said the report from Gartner. Read Original Content
Magic Software Enterprises, with a presence in more than 50 countries, provides development, deployment, and integration of core business applications, supporting scalable deployment on multiple channels, including on-premise, Web (HTML5), rich Internet, mobile, and SaaS. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Magic Software Enterprises.
German business software group SAP is not interested in bidding for troubled smart phone maker BlackBerry Ltd, its chief financial officer told a German magazine. Read Original Content
Research outfit IHS recently compared the history of combined smartphone and tablet revenue to revenue from the broader consumer electronics market to compare future revenue trajectories for both markets. In doing so, IHS found smartphones and tablets will combine for about $355 billion in revenue this year, which is three percent higher than the expected revenue for the entire CE market, which is roughly $344 billion. Read Original Content
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Even as the mobile phone market is expected to expand by over five percent to about 1.91 billion units by 2014, the opportunity for smartphones in the premium category is now fading, according to global research firm Gartner. Read Original Content
Taiwanese producer of smartphones HTC has reduced production of the devices. One of the company's four production lines is stopped. The company releases 20 percent of the volume of all smartphones. Read Original Content
Facebook has announced recently it will introduce video ads on its mobile iPhone and Android apps. For now that advertising service will be marketed primarily to other app developers. Facebook mobile video ads might show a video demonstrating how another application works, for example. Read Original Content
LG Electronics Inc. said its handset business sank into the red for the first time in a year as it cut prices and spent more on marketing to carve out a share of the high-end smartphone market. The company reported its mobile communications business lost 79.7 billion won ($75.5 million) in the July-September period, even after selling 12 million smartphones. Read Original Content
Facebook finally earned Wall Street's love in the second quarter. Now it needs to make the relationship last. Its shares have doubled in just the last three months, buoyed by an increasing belief among investors that the company has finally struck a winning formula in mobile advertising. Read Original Content
ABI Research estimates the current Mobile Encryption Software and Services market will total $230 million by the end of 2013. Read Original Content
SAP is planning to rely heavily on HTML5 and open standards within its products for building mobile applications, and is embracing the concept of BYOT (bring your own tools) in order to draw interest from developers. Version 3.0 of SAP Mobile Platform will combine SAP's NetWeaver Gateway, Sybase Mobiliser and Syclo Agentry products "to meet current and future mobile app use cases." Read Original Content
BlackBerry said that within the first 24 hours of availability, more than 10 million users had downloaded the cross-platform version of its signature Messenger app for Google's Android and Apple's iOS platforms. Read Original Content
LG has announced official details of its curved-screen smartphone, the G Flex. The phone, which uses flexible OLED screen technology to allow for a dramatic curve on the horizontal axis, is between 7.9 and 8.7mm thick at various points, weighs 177g, and has a 6-inch 720p display. Inside there's a 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera, and a 3,500 mAh battery. Read Original Content
Apple sold 33.8 million iPhones in its most recent quarter, slightly above a consensus of analysts and a record for the company's September quarter. Apple also posted quarterly revenue of $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.5 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter. Overall, Apple's gross margin was 37 percent, compared to 40 percent in the year-ago quarter. Read Original Content
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Fashion deals of the week: Get happy with end-of-season sales
January isn't always the happiest of months. The holidays are done, it's cold and dark and summer seems a long, long way away. One surefire way to lift your spirits? Shopping! And with so many end-of-season sales going on right now, you're sure to pick up some super sweet fashion deals. January, you're not so bad after all.
Anthropologie: Shop the Winter Tag Sale and score an extra 40 percent off sale items when you enter EXTRAEXTRA at checkout for a limited time.
Banana Republic: Take an extra 30 percent off sale styles online and in stores now through Jan. 25 with the code BRLOVE at checkout.
C. Wonder: Grab 75 percent off your entire purchase, plus free shipping when you spend $100.
J.Crew: Get an extra 40-50 percent off final sale styles through Jan. 22 when you enter ENDOFSEASON at checkout.
LOFT: Find up to 75 percent off original prices, including sweaters for $15.88 and pants for $19.88 and under at loft.com's end of season sale.
Lesley Kennedy writes for ShopAtHome.com. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her on Instagram @shopathome.


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Second date...The second night in Buenos Aires, and my third show in a week (I went to Sao Pablo before... I couldn't wait...). I remember that during the second day they played "Bad" and "All I one is you", as a diference with the first, and close the show with "Mother of Dissapeared" as in the first one. I enjoyed it so much, with the same emotion than in the other two. So I remembered to say "There's another show tomorrow, is it sold out or can I take a ticket yet?"... PD: excuse me for my terrible english in all my posts


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Movies We Like
We've all seen the gang leader film a few hundred times. We've seen him in "tha hood" starting fights, we've seen him in a classroom getting into trouble and reporting to the principal's office, we've seen him ride slick cars, and we've seen him lead labor unions into civil uproar.
Place him in South Africa - we have a teenager named Tsotsi (meaning"thug") who doesn't know emotion and lives alone in the ghettos outside of Johannesburg. Place him in a wealthy city, and he steals a woman's Mercedes, as well as shoots her. Riding off, he finds himself not alone - the woman's baby is left in the backseat, and he is left by himself to take care of him. The film follows his journey as he learns how to care for someone other than himself, and the lessons and people that come along the way.
Presley Chweneyagae gives a startling performance for a young boy of such conditions in this Oscar winner of Best Foreign Film. His transformation of the character throughout the film is powerful and well-developed. The story is equally moving, using character and emotion to drive the plot instead of the violence that easily could be used. Tsotsi finds himself in a situation that forces him to change from the very core - he isn't innately kind, nor has he ever had to be.Yet the baby and his cries tug on his heart, and his own past of pain and abandonment are revealed in order for him to remember how it is to feel. He meets a young mother who helps him, and from her he begins to understand the redemption of love and nurture. This is the most organic of the human transformation. The gang leader is here, classrooms and gun fights left behind, attempting parenthood in a nation that echoes his cries.
Tsotsi won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.


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Official with knowledge of Conn. school shooting: 27 dead, including 18 children
NEWTOWN, Conn. — An official with knowledge of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school says 27 people are dead, including 18 children.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way.
State police Lt. Paul Vance says only that staff and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown are among the victims. He says the shooter was dead in the school.
Vance says Newtown police called state police around 9:40 a.m. A SWAT team was among the throngs of police to respond to the school, about 60 miles northeast of New York City.
Photos from the scene showed young students — some crying, others looking visibly frightened — being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Frank Liu, MathWorks
Embedded MATLAB™ is the subset of the MATLAB language that can be compiled into efficient code for embedded implementation. It consists of more than 270 of the operators and functions included in MATLAB and more than 90 of the functions in Fixed-Point Toolbox.
This webinar demonstrates a workflow using the Embedded MATLAB language subset with Simulink and Stateflow software. With this workflow, MATLAB and Simulink users can collaborate to develop embeddable algorithms in MATLAB that can be integrated into system-level models with Simulink block diagrams and Stateflow charts. The resulting models and code can automatically generate C and HDL code for embedded software and hardware implementation and verification.
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Interview: Tami Door, President & CEO Downtown Denver Partership
Greg Moore sits down and talks with Tami Door, President & CEO Downtown Denver Partership. The organization promotes public and private partnerships to help keep Downtown Denver safe and vital to the local economy.
With Union Station re-opening, Door explains how this event will impact Downtown Denver.
Gregory L. Moore: firstname.lastname@example.com, 303-954-1400, or twitter.com/gregmooredp


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The sister of murdered student Meredith Kercher has spoken of the "fear and terror" she must have felt on the night she died.
Stephanie Kercher made the comments in a documentary about Amanda Knox, who was reconvicted of murdering the 21-year-old in the Italian town of Perugia in 2007 last month following a second trial.
Only one person - Rudy Hermann Guede - is currently behind bars for her murder after American Knox and her former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, successfully appealed against their original guilty verdicts. Afterwards Knox returned home to America and has so far refused to go back to Italy to serve her jail term following her second conviction, saying she will only be extradited "kicking and screaming".
The BBC Three documentary Is Amanda Knox Guilty? also hears from lawyers and experts from both the defence and the prosecution teams and contains the audio of Knox's prison interrogation after her arrest when she was asked why she told police that her manager from the local bar where she worked had committed the crime.
Ms Kercher told the programme she feels her sister "has been forgotten" in the media storm surrounding Knox.
"Mez has been forgotten in all of this," she said. "The media photos aren't really of her. There's not a lot about what actually happened in the beginning. So it is very difficult to keep her memory alive in all of this."
She said her sister did not deserve what happened to her: "Everything that Meredith must have felt that night. Everything she went through. The fear and the terror and not knowing why. She didn't deserve that. No one deserves that," she said.
"We all definitely want some sort of closure. Just having an end of the Italian justice system and knowing that's the final decision, and then we can start to remember just Meredith."
Speaking of when she last saw Meredith alive as she prepared to study in Italy as part of her Leeds University course, Ms Kercher said: "She was very excited about coming to Italy, looking forward to learning about Italian culture. Seeing the city of Perugia and making new friends. She really fought to be here. She wanted to be here.
"We were just talking on the sofa and having a little cuddle of goodbye and I just remember her suddenly crying and saying that she was going to be sad to go but she was excited to come and I remember being quite taken aback and I thought, 'Don't make me sad. I'll miss you but you'll go and have fun'."
Brother Lyle Kercher also spoke of struggling to cope with Meredith's death and said of the new guilty verdicts: "It's not the end of it. It's another chapter moving things forward."
He told the programme: "Anybody losing anyone close is hard, losing someone so young and the way we did is obviously 100 times worse, and on top of that to have all the media attention that has gone for so long makes it very difficult to cope with."
Meredith, from Coulsdon, Surrey, was discovered with her throat slashed in her bedroom at the house she shared with fellow exchange student Knox on November 2, 2007.
Prosecution lawyer Manuela Comodi was also interviewed for the documentary, and said it would have been "impossible" for just one person to have killed her.
"One person couldn't, all at the same time, hold Meredith still and hold back her hands - because there are very few defensive wounds - inflict those wounds with a smaller knife and then give her the fatal blow with the larger knife. It is impossible. Not even superman could do it," she said.
"The principal evidence was mixed blood traces from which were extracted mixed DNA of Amanda and Meredith. The only explanation for that mix is that Amanda was bleeding and touched objects that were covered in Meredith's blood. There's no other explanation."
Much has also been made of Knox's allegedly liberal attitude to sex and relationships during the much-scrutinised saga.
Another prosecution lawyer, Giuliani Mignini, said: "The erotic game was always part of the case. I think that night Amanda wanted to make Meredith pay for judging her, which she found offensive."
Last month Knox, who did not attend her second trial, was sentenced to 28 years and six months while Sollecito was jailed for 25 years.
The pair were originally found guilty of murder in 2009, and were handed jail terms totalling more than 50 years before being cleared two years later. The appeal court went on to order a fresh trial in March last year.
Guede, a drug dealer, is serving a 16-year sentence.


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Ah, the pixie dream girl of romantic comedies past. She's perfect, isn't she? So light-hearted, so whimsical, so in touch with the simple joys of glitter. But what lies beneath that fairy dust exterior? Well, this.
Can no one help these poor, adorable, carefree women? And to be honest, even after watching this—should they? Full video below:
The rest of this week's top web comedy videos, including an exploration of Peter Dinklage's dinklings, a PSA to save Community, and yet another video of People Saying Sh-t, can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- We kicked off The Best Sitcom Episode Ever Tournament! And the tough choices started immediately: Simpsons vs. Seinfeld? Office vs. Office? It's like choosing between our children, except harder because sitcoms are better than children.
- We sadly waved a curious and playful goodbye to Lord Wyndemere as Paul Brittain left SNL.
- We talked to director Peter Atencio about the making of Key and Peele.
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Oracle® Fusion
Applications Sales Implementation Guide
11g Release 5 (11.1.5)
Part Number E20373-05
This chapter contains the following:
Segregation of Duties: Explained
Segregation of Duties in the Security Reference Implementation: Explained
Defining Segregation of Duties Policies: Points To Consider
Managing Segregation of Duties Risks and Violations: Critical Choices
Role Provisioning and Segregation of Duties: How They Work Together
Segregation of duties (SOD) separates activities such as approving, recording, processing, and reconciling results so an enterprise can more easily prevent or detect unintentional errors and willful fraud. SOD policies, called access control policies in Application Access Controls Governor (AACG), exert both preventive and detective effects.
SOD policies constrain duties across roles so that unethical, illegal, or damaging activities are less likely. SOD policies express constraints among roles. Duty role definitions respect segregation of duties policies.
You manage, remediate, and enforce access controls to ensure effective SOD using the Application Access Controls Governor (AACG) product in the Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Controls (GRCC) suite.
AACG applies the SOD policies of the Oracle Fusion Applications security reference implementation using the AACG Oracle Fusion Adapter.
AACG is integrated with Oracle Identity Management (OIM) in Oracle Fusion Applications to prevent SOD control violations before they occur by ensuring SOD compliant user access provisioning. SOD constraints respect provisioning workflows. For example, when provisioning a Payables role to a user, the SOD policy that ensures no user is entitled to create both an invoice and a payment prevents the conflicting roles from being provisioned. AACG validates the request to provision a user with roles against SOD policies and provides a remediating response such as approval or rejections if a violation is raised.
Use AACG to for the following.
Define SOD controls at any level of access such as in the definition of an entitlement or role.
Simulate what-if SOD scenarios to understand the effect of proposed SOD control changes.
Use the library of built-in SOD controls provided as a security guideline.
SOD policies express incompatible entitlement or incompatible access points into an application. In GRCC, an access point is the lowest level access for a particular application. In GRCC, entitlement is a grouping of access points. As a security guideline, group the lowest level access points or define the SOD policy at the access level causing the least amount of change. Business activities are enabled at access points. In Oracle Fusion Applications, the hierarchy of access points in descending levels is users, roles, and entitlement.
AACG entitlements are logical groupings of security objects that represent Oracle Fusion Application access points such as roles or entitlement.
In AACG, segregation of duties policies are called access controls.
Oracle Fusion Applications does not predefine business logic for dealing with SOD conflicts. Oracle Fusion Applications does define a set of states where role requests are suspended pending resolution of SOD violations the role request introduces. In most cases, Oracle Fusion Applications invokes OIM to handle role requests. Enterprises define SOD resolution rules when defining SOD policy.
The risk tolerance of your enterprise determines what duties must be segregated and how to address violations.
AACG assists in remediation of violations with a guided simulation that identifies corrective action. You determine the exact effects of role and entitlement changes prior to putting them into production, and adjust controls as needed.
For information on managing segregation of duties, see the Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Implementation Guide and Oracle Application Access Controls Governor User's Guide.
Segregation of duties (SOD) is a special case of function security enforcement. A segregation of duties conflict occurs when a single user is provisioned with a role or role hierarchy that authorizes transactions or operations resulting in the possibility of intentional or inadvertent fraud.
The predefined SOD policies result in duty separation with no inherent violations. For example, an SOD policy prevents a user from entitlement to create both payables invoices and payables payments.
However, the most common duties associated with some job and abstract roles could conflict with the predefined segregation of duties. A predefined role hierarchy or job or abstract role may include such common duties that are incompatible according to a segregation of duties policy. For example, the predefined Accounts Payable Supervisor job role includes the incompatible duties: Payables Invoice Creation Duty and Payables Payment Creation Duty.
Every single predefined duty role is free from an inherent segregation of duties violation. For example, no duty role violates the SOD policy that prevents a user from entitlement to both create payables invoices and payables payments.
Jobs in the reference implementation may contain violations against the implemented policies and require intervention depending on your risk tolerance, even if you define no additional jobs or SOD policies.
Provisioning enforces segregation of duties policies. For example, provisioning a role to a user that inherits a duty role with entitlement to create payables invoices enforces the segregation of duties policy applied to that duty role and ensures the user is not also entitled to create a payables payment. When a role inherits several duty rules that together introduce a conflict, the role is provisioned with a violation being raised in the Application Access Controls Governor (AACG). If two roles are provisioned to a user and introduce a segregation of duties violation, the violation is raised in AACG.
SOD policies are not enforced at the time of role definition.
Aspects of segregation of duties policies in the security reference implementation involve the following.
Application Access Controls Governor (AACG)
Conflicts defined in segregation of duties policies
Violations of the conflicts defined in segregation of duties policies
AACG is a component of the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Controls (GRCC) suite of products where segregation of duties policies are defined.
Define SOD controls at any level of access such as in the definition of an entitlement or role.
Simulate what-if SOD scenarios to understand the effect of proposed SOD control changes.
Use the library of built-in SOD controls provided as a security guideline.
Your risk tolerance determines how many duties to segregate. The greater the segregation, the greater the cost to the enterprise in complexity at implementation and during maintenance. Balance the cost of segregation with the reduction of risk based on your business needs.
An intra-role conflict occurs when a segregation of duties policy expresses constraints within the construct of a single role (entitlement and duties) that creates violations.
As a security guideline, use only the predefined duty roles, unless you have added new applications functions. The predefined duty roles fully represent the functions and data that must be accessed by application users and contain all appropriate entitlement. The predefined duty roles are inherently without segregation of duty violations of the constraints used by the Application Access Controls Governor.
A segregation of duties violation occurs when a policy is defined that allows a segregation of duties conflict to occur.
Notifications report conflicts to the requester of the transaction that raised the violation. Oracle Identity Management (OIM) shows the status of role requests indicating if a segregation of duties violation has occurred.
For information on configuring audit policies, see the Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator's Guide.
For more information on managing segregation of duties, see the Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Implementation Guide and Oracle Application Access Controls Governor User's Guide.
Segregation of duties (SOD) policies express incompatibilities enforced to control access in defined contexts.
In Oracle Fusion Applications, SOD policies protect against the following incompatibilities.
Privilege X is incompatible with privilege Y
Role A is incompatible with role B
Any privileges in role A are incompatible with any privileges in role B.
Privilege X is incompatible with any privileges in role B.
The following examples of SOD policies illustrate incompatible entitlement.
No user should have access to Bank Account Management and Supplier Payments duties.
No user should have access to Update Supplier Bank Account and Approve Supplier Invoice entitlement.
You can extend SOD policies to control access to specific data contexts.
For example, no single individual must be able to source a supplier in a business unit and approve a supplier invoice in the same business unit.
SOD policies may include exclusion conditions to narrow the SOD scope and reduce false positive violations, or inclusion conditions to broaden the scope.
Conditions apply to access points globally, to policies, or to access paths defined by policies. Access path conditions can exclude a user from a role, an Oracle Fusion Applications entitlement from a role, or a permission from an Oracle Fusion Applications entitlement.
The following global exclusion conditions are predefine in Oracle Fusion Applications and available when creating SOD policies.
User Status
User Name
Enterprise Role
Business Unit
Within Same Business Unit
Oracle Fusion Applications enforces SOD policies under the following circumstances.
When granting entitlement to a role
When provisioning a role to a user
For information on managing segregation of duties, see Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Implementation Guide and Oracle Application Access Controls Governor User's Guide.
SOD policies are not enforced at the time of role definition.
A single SOD policy can include entitlement from multiple instances of a single enterprise resource planning environment. For example, one SOD policy is enforced in implementation, test, and production instances of Oracle Fusion Applications.
You assess and balance the cost of duty segregation against reduction of risk based on the requirements of your enterprise.
The types of people who resolve SOD conflicts include the following.
Administrator of an external program such as the Procurement Administrator for the supplier portal or the Partner Manager for the PRM Program
Senior executive spanning multiple organizations in an enterprise with opposing interests
Risk management professional implementing an Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Controls (GRCC) initiative
Predefines a set of conditions and informs access provisioning staff to approve requests and prove the exception based on certain conditions
Allows defining rules to route SOD violations for approval
You view and respond to risks and violations in the Application Access Controls Governor (AACG).
You may wish to override an SOD violation. For example, the Accounts Payable Supervisor includes incompatible duties to create both invoices and payments. When you provision this job role to a user, you may waive the violation in the AACG. You may waive the violation for the currently provisioned user, for the SOD policy that raised the violation, or for the SOD policy within a particular data set, such as a business unit.
The risk tolerance of your enterprise guides how you respond to conflicts. For example, a user may be provisioned with both the role of Order Manager and Shipping Agent. The Order Manger role entitles the user to enter orders, which could result in exploitation when filling shipping quotas. You can remove the entitlement to enter orders that the Order Manger job role inherits from the Orchestration Order Scheduling Duty role. Or you could segregate the shipping and order entry duties by defining an SOD policy that allows a user to have either job role but not both.
False positives can be SOD policy violations that are not actually violations, or are violations within your risk tolerance and therefore do not require corrective action.
You can reduce false positives by the following methods.
Define exclusion conditions that can be applied to individual or groups of policies.
Define logically complex SOD policies that enforce more exacting specifications.
Determine whether conflicts should be prevented, monitored, or subjected to approval during provisioning.
Conflict analysis detects a user's multiple paths to one or more conflicting access points.
For example, a user may be able to reach a single access point through one or more roles, or by one entitlement leading to another through submenus to a function that represents a risk. The resulting conflict path shows if the conflict is generated by inappropriate role provisioning or configuration of applications. The audit shows the paths from any number of users to any number of access points involved in conflicts, which lets you visualize the root cause and remediate effectively.
AACG assigns one or more users to review all paths involved in a given conflict so that the entire conflict can be addressed in a coherent way.
AACG lets you accept or waive a violation. Your reasons may include that you accept the risk or will define compensating controls.
A waiver may apply to the current user, constraint, or constraint within a dimension such as the business unit.
The risk tolerance of the enterprise determines whether a segregation of duties conflict must be removed from the security reference implementation.
The following approaches resolve conflicts.
Change the segregation of duties policy.
Ensure a job role does not contain incompatible duties.
Define data security policies that restrict authorized access by incompatible duties.
Changing a segregation of duties policy may not be possible in most cases. For example, a policy that segregates creation of payables invoice from making payables payments should be preserved, even if the Accounts Payables Manager job role includes a duty role for each activity. To prevent an accounts payables manager from being authorized to perform both duties, or from being authorized to make payables payments to self and direct reports, the Accounts Payables Manager job role must be changed. The security implementation can be changed to include two job roles that segregate the incompatible duties. Added data security policy grants can restrict the access to at risk data.
For information on managing segregation of duties, see the Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Implementation Guide and Oracle Application Access Controls Governor User's Guide.
Segregation of duties (SOD) checks occur when roles are assigned to users. The checks are based on Oracle Application Access Controls Governor (AACG) policies. The Oracle Identity Management (OIM) integration includes predefined routing rules for remediation in the Manage IT Security business process.
External users such as suppliers or partners need to be provisioned with roles to facilitate access to parent company interfaces and data. The process by which such provisioning requests are approved in Oracle Fusion Applications helps explain the request flows and possible outcomes.
In Oracle Identity Management (OIM), external users means users who are not specific to applications, such as enterprise roles or the absence of entitlement to access an application.
The figure shows the role provisioning request flow. OIM uses AACG to check segregation of duties violations.
A supplier or partner requests admission to a program using an implementation of the Supplier Portal Submission. The submission is captured in one or both of the following tables in advance of approving or rejecting the supplier or partner.
Oracle Fusion Trading Community Model
Interface Staging
Oracle Fusion Applications collects the employee names for the supplier or partner company at the time the company submits its request to join the program so that all employees accessing Oracle Fusion Applications on behalf of the supplier or partner are provisioned.
AACG in the Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Controls (GRCC) suite is certified to synchronize with the policy and identity stores for all pillars or partitions of Oracle Fusion Applications and integrated with the Oracle Fusion Applications security approach to roll up entitlements (by means of duty roles) to the roles that are provisioned to internal users. SOD policies can be defined and enforced at any level of authorization. For external users, SOD policies use attribute information stored in the Trading Community Model tables.
Enterprise business logic may qualify the requester and initiate a role provisioning request by invoking the Services Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) client module, as may occur during onboarding of internal users with Human Capital Management (HCM), in which case the SPML client submits an asynchronous SPML call to OIM. Or OIM handles the role request by presenting roles for selection based on associated policies.
OIM recognizes the role provisioning request and initiates a call to AACG.
OIM apprises the SPML client of the current state of the role provisioning request as SOD_CHECK_IN_PROGRESS.
OIM stores the SOD check result as part of OIM audit data.
OIM apprises SPML client of the current state of the SPML request. The provisioning is either still in progress with segregation of duties being checked, or conflicts were found. If conflicts exist, AACG rejects the request and notifies the application.
Current State
Request sent to AACG and waiting for response
Conflict found
AACG detected violations and remediation is in progress
No conflict found
No SOD violations found
Conflict found
AACG detected violations that cannot be remediated
Conflict found
AACG detected violations that are approved
Conflict found
AACG detected violations that are rejected by approver
In the absence of an SOD exception, OIM provisions all relevant users.
When a partner user is provisioned, all employees of the partner enterprise are provisioned. SOD checks occur when an external user requests to join a program, because SOD policies operate across Oracle Fusion Applications, not at the individual level. Supplier or partner company user requests are not approved if there is an SOD conflict against the supplier company.
OIM provides AACG with the details of SOD exception approval workflow. AACG audits the outcome for use in future detective controls and audit processes.
AACG may respond with the following.
Roles may be provisioned to the external user or its employees because no SOD conflict is found
SOD conflict is found and request is denied because the relevant SOD policy is to be strictly enforced and no exception approval should be allowed
SOD conflict is found and the exception to the policy is allowed, so the request goes through additional processing, such as an approval process.
Supplier or Partner Relationship Management responds to an SOD exception by updating Trading Community Model tables with the current state. An enterprise may elect to implement a landing pad that offers external users a means of addressing the SOD problem by providing more information or withdrawing the request.
SOD violation checking occurs during role implementation and provisioning, and can be turned on or off if AACG is provisioned and enabled as part of the Oracle Fusion Applications deployment.
Depending upon status, OIM kicks off an auditable SOD exception resolution workflow. Resolution can be conditional based on approval or requirements such as contracts being met.
If one of the paths for exception resolution is to get an approval, then the SOD exception resolution drives the approval using AMX. Standard AMX rules, not business rules, resolve the approval for the SOD exception, including the following.
Organizational hierarchies
Multiple mandatory and optional approvers
Rerouting and approval delegation
The approver resolution uses AMX Rules Designer to access various user attributes and organizational hierarchies managed in Oracle Fusion Applications repositories. This information is typically not available in OIM or the LDAP identity store repository. Enterprises can define additional approval rules using AMX Thin Client.
The SOD Exception Approver gets a notification through supported channels that a new request is awaiting approval. The approver signs in to the global SOA federated worklist application that aggregates all pending worklist items for the user from all Oracle Fusion applications and logical partitions or pillars of applications. The SOD exception approval tasks show up in the same list.
The SOD exception approval task shows the details of the SPML request and SOD Provisioning results in a page rendered by OIM. The approver may take one of the following actions.
Approve the request as it is
Reject the request
If the approver approves the request, OIM sends an SOD_REMEDIATION_APPROVED status to the SPML client.
If the approver rejects the request, OIM sends an SOD_REMEDIATION_REJECTED status to the SPML client. The provisioning request is considered completed with a failure outcome and the external users is notified. Oracle Fusion Applications updates the Trading Community Model tables with the rejected status
The SOD remediation tasks are assigned based on the role being requested.
If the role requested is Chief Financial Officer, the SOD remediation task is assigned to the IT Security Manager role.
If the SOD violation results from a policy where the SOD control tag is the Information Technology Management business process and the control priority is 1, the SOD remediation task is assigned to Application Administrator role.
In all other scenarios, the SOD remediation task is assigned to the Controller role.
For more information about configuring audit policies, see the Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator's Guide.
For information on managing segregation of duties, see the Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Implementation Guide and Oracle Application Access Controls Governor User's Guide.


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It was a year of great tech triumphs, including big and beautiful phablets, a new wave of easy-to-use fitness trackers and cheap- but- versatile gadgets like the Chromecast. The jury is still out on smartwatches. But there's just as much cause for hand-wringing among tech companies whose new products flopped. From a fruit-named firm that has become the antithesis of Apple and an overheating laptop charger to a family tablet I wouldn't wish on the bully from "A Christmas Story," these are the top 10 tech fails of 2013.
The company formerly known as RIM recently reached a grisly milestone: less than 1 percent smartphone market share. This from a company that once dominated the market, back when physical keyboards were all the rage. Despite some software innovations in the BlackBerry 10 — including a Hub for all your messages and social updates — shoppers have largely ignored devices running the OS, including the Z10, Q10 and most recent phablet-sized Z30. As a result, the company recently posted a $4.4 billion loss. Installing Sybase's John Chen as interim CEO and doubling down on enterprise may help. But right now, Toronto mayor Rob Ford's future looks brighter than BlackBerry's.
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Getting early adopters to pledge more than $8.5 million for your concept is way different than getting mainstream shoppers to plunk down their hard-earned cash for the finished product. Ouya learned that lesson when its Android-powered gaming console flamed out almost immediately after it went on sale. Reviewers panned the dearth of high-quality titles and a poorly made controller that literally fell apart in some gamers' hands. The Ouya also suffered from mediocre graphics performance, ironic for a console. A high-end Android phone paired with a Moga handheld controller makes for a much more potent combo.
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HP Chromebook 11
Did you hear? Chromebooks are hot, and this one is the hottest yet. HP had to pull the Chromebook 11 from the market after reports surfaced that its microUSB power supply was overheating. In its testing, Consumer Reports found that the temperature of the charger reached a disturbingly toasty 140 degrees. HP and Google issued a recall for 145,000 of the chargers,citing the danger to overheat or melt. It's a shame HP had to shelve the Chromebook 11, as we appreciated its colorful design, vivid display and solid speakers, but it's now back on sale with a new power supply.
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Samsung Galaxy Zoom
There are many ways to one-up the competition in the camera phone wars. Literally grafting a smartphone to a camera isn't one of them. The Galaxy Zoom crams a 10X-optical zoom lens into a clunky Android device. Despite having a relatively small 4.3-inch display, this Frankengadget tipped the scales at 7.3 ounces, making it anything but pocket-friendly. And although the Galaxy Zoom produced good-lucking photos, it was too slow on the draw. No wonder this $199 AT&T "exclusive" isn't flying off the shelves.
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Yahoo Mail
It's never a good sign when a company CEO feels compelled to apologize for a botched product (remember Tim Cook and Apple Maps?). In 2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer joined that exalted group when she had to issue a mea culpa for Yahoo Mail's days-long outage that left about 1 million people without access to their inboxes. That's just the tip of the iceberg, though, as Yahoo Mail users have been flooding the Web with complaints for months over the service's redesign. Taking away the option to sort mail alphabetically by sender has seemed to inspire the most ire. A Change.org petition pleading for Yahoo to bring back the old Yahoo Mail now has more than 41,000 signatures.
Vinci MV 7 Family Tablet
With a couple of notable exceptions, I generally don't recommend "kids tablets," because they often skimp on specs and performance compared with Amazon's Kindle Fire line. Choosing a worst of the worst in this group wasn't easy, but the Vinci MV 7deserves this dubious distinction. For starters, the 7-inch display shows visible gridlines, and the battery lasted only 3.5 hours on our tests. That's awful. Add in sluggish performance and a shocking lack of parental controls (this is a kids tablet, right?) and you have to wonder whether Vinci's URL of vincigenius.com is a twisted joke.
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Verizon 4G LTE
What good is having the most 4G LTE markets if you're delivering 3G speeds? That exact thought crossed my mind as we tested smartphone after smartphone in 2013 that delivered poor data rates in pockets of New York City. For example, in our review of the Galaxy S4, the handset averaged 390 Kbps downloads and 380 Kbps uploads near our Fifth Avenue office at 20th street. I also had a devil of a time getting 4G LTE speeds at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. To be fair, Verizon's network offered speedy throughput on the east side of Manhattan (37.1 Mbps down, 6.9 Mbps up), but the inconsistency became so infuriating I wound up choosing AT&T when purchasing the iPhone 5s. In November, Verizon's CFO admitted the carrier was having trouble in some big cities. You think? The good news: an AWS network upgrade should add much-needed capacity.
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The HTC First will (hopefully) be the last smartphone pre-loaded with Facebook Home. This launcher on steroids hijacked the Android OS by putting the social network front and center. A steady stream of updates invaded your home screen, which you could double tap to Like. While many actually do like the floating Chat Heads that follow you around when messaging, you can get the same functionality on any Android phone with a simple download. AT&T wound up cutting the price of the First from $99 to 99 cents in less than a month, and now you can get it for free. Online only. Hmm, I wonder why?
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The trouble for Windows RT started in 2012, but 2013 was the year every PC and tablet maker abandoned Microsoft's gimped version of Windows 8 (now Windows 8.1). Now the only two remaining supporters are Microsoft and the company it acquired in Nokia. The Microsoft Surface 2 ($449) and the Lumia 2520 ($399) are actually quite compelling in terms of hardware, but the value proposition is way off. You can get the ASUS Transformer Book T100 running full Windows 8 — meaning you can run desktop apps in addition to Modern touch apps — for just $349 with keyboard included. Adding a keyboard to the above RT devices brings the total to $550 or more. Even cheap 8-inch Windows tablets now run the full OS, complete with Office preinstalled.
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MSI Slidebook S20
I'm not a fan of sliding Windows 8 hybrids for a simple reason: the screen isn't protected like a clamshell when it's in your bag. But this is the worst product in an already sorry class. MSI had the gall to ask $1,200 for an Ultrabook whose small 11.6-inch screen slid up to reveal a cramped keyboard and no touchpad or pointing stick whatsoever. Have you ever tried to repeatedly select text by reaching across the deck to touch the screen? It's annoying and downright painful. Subpar battery life and a sluggish SSD cemented this Slidebook as a stinker.


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1- 1 1/2 lb shrimp
1 large bunch Chinese celery, chopped with woody stems removed
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 large shallot, chopped
1 tablespoon canola oil
for the sauce
1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon tamarind liquid*
2 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoon Sriracha
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
Whisk together sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Heat the oil in a wok. Add the shallots and garlic until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the Chinese celery and stir fry until slightly wilted and cooked down. Add the shrimp and stir fry 1 minute. Add the sauce. Stir fry until the shrimp is fully cooked. Serve over hot rice.
*Soak about a 2x2 inch square of dried tamarind pulp in 1 cup of hot water. When it is cool enough to touch, squeeze out the tamarind over the cup and discard. Strain the remaining liquid into a cup and discard the seeds and pulp left behind.


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One of the features that makes TurboGears so much fun to use is 'parameter mapping': the parameters coming in from a web request are automatically turned into parameters for your method.
This makes handling web requests about as natural as can be.
Let's change our controller.py like this:
from turbogears import controllers, expose
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self, name="Arthur"):
return "I am %s, King of the Britons" % name
You probably won't be surprised to learn that accessing / will return:
I am Arthur, King of the Britons
Default arguments work exactly as you'd expect them to.
Now you're ready for direct parameter mapping.
Access the URLs:
A request to /?name=Lancelot (ugly) or /index/Lancelot (pretty) will return:
I am Lancelot, King of the Britons
Let's extend the above example to two parameters:
from turbogears import controllers, expose
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self, name="Arthur", place="Britons"):
return "I am %s, King of the %s" % (name, place)
We just changed the return value to take two parameters (a 'name, place' tuple). You probably won't be surprised to learn that accessing / will return:
I am Arthur, King of the Britons
So which URLs can I use to replace the default value?
You'll get the answer by trying to access the following URLs:
Accessing /?name=Jack&place=World (ugly) or /index/Jack/World (pretty) will return a titanic result:
I am Jack, King of the World
Boom! Those request parameters do more work than you expected :-)
Just as in a Python method itself, calling /?foobar=baz (which will be converted to an unknown parameter foobar) will raise an exception because it will try to call the index method like this: root.index(foobar="baz")
On the web, getting a "500" server exception error is ugly for mistyped URLs or extra parameters.
For that reason, there is a configuration option: tg.strict_parameters, which is on by default in development and off in production. When it's turned off, extra parameters are simply ignored.
If you want to be able to handle any parameter that comes in from the web, you can always just do what you'd do in Python:
from turbogears import controllers, expose
class Root(controllers.RootController):
def index(self, name="Arthur", **kw):
return "I am %s, King of the Britons" % name
Just as in standard Python, kw will be set to a dictionary holding the rest of the request arguments.
You can access them as with a normal dictionary object, such as calling:
The return value will be "baz".
You may not yet have noticed that the URL mapper only returns 'string' type parameters. For example, accessing http://localhost:8080/2/3 will pass the Python strings "2" and "3", not the numbers 2 and 3, to your function. Attempting to perform arithmetic on these values will result in an exception.
Instead, you have to check that each parameter is a valid numeric string, and then convert it to an integer. Because you are clever, you must already suspect that TurboGears is prepared for this challenge.
How to convert URL strings to other Python types gracefully? The answer is to use the @validate decorator.
Let's look at this example:
from turbogears import controllers, expose
from turbogears import validate
from turbogears.validators import Int
class Root(controllers.RootController):
@validate(validators={'x': Int(), 'y': Int()})
def addnum(self, x, y):
"""Return the result of x+y."""
return str(x+y)
To check and convert the string parameter, you pass a dictionary to the validators argument of the @validate decorator. You can also use the builtin dict() function to define the dictionary with an easier syntax.
Thus, the above @validate decorator can be also written as:
@validate(validators=dict(x=Int(), y=Int()))
def addnum(self, x, y):
return str(x+y)
In this case we use the 'string to integer' validator validators.Int() to help us validate the parameters. The turbogears.validators module is a wrapper of the FormEncode module, which is able to validate and convert strings to proper types.
There is also a page with a more detailed explanation of the @validate decorator available.
See the FormEncode validation documentation for more details.


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It may be an oxymoron, but I am planning a healthier Super Bowl party. I won't serve tofu, broccoli or any other healthful yet plain foods, but I don't want to compromise my healthy habits.
Here are some of the things I am banning, and substituting, for the party:
Processed meats: Foods such as commercial bratwursts, hot dogs and cocktail sausages, are full of synthetic preservatives that I am not comfortable eating. Instead, my husband will spend the morning slow-cooking ribs…and if I can convince him, making his own BBQ sauce, as most commercial ones have high fructose corn syrup.
Buffalo wings: This party staple is deep-fried and full of trans fats. It is a shame that most people don't know how easy it is to make buffalo chicken wings without the added fats. You can coat the wings with a little bit of flour, and pan fry them with butter or olive oil. Once they are cooked through, you can add hot sauce to taste, (the all-natural kind, please) and a little butter. Coat well. Serve with celery, and buy 100 percent natural blue cheese dressing.
Chips and Dip: So many calories are consumed just by dunking your fried tortilla chips into creamy, processed cheese dips.
Instead of chips, buy whole wheat pita bread. Cut it into triangles and toast under the broiler until browned. Drizzle with a little bit of olive oil for flavor before serving. If you can't live without chips, many companies sell organic, 100 percent natural chips.
Instead of spinach dip, serve salsa and guacamole. You can choose from many 100 percent natural salsas, and guacamole is easy to make: Mash avocados, mix with diced tomatoes, chopped onions, cilantro, salt and drizzle with lime juice for flavor (and to prevent it from browning). You can also follow this recipe.
More Ways to Have a Healthy Super Bowl Party
Popcorn is a great snack, but unfortunately most people buy the microwavable kind, which doesn't taste very good and has preservatives and artificial flavorings. To pop healthier corn, you only need a big pot with a lid, vegetable oil and organic popping corn.
Pour about a tablespoon of oil into the pot, and put it over medium-high heat. Pour corn kernels to cover the bottom in one layer. Cover and shake every couple of minutes. The kernels will start popping slowly, then faster and then slow again. This is your cue to know that the popcorn is ready. Top with olive oil, salt and grated parmesan for a healthy gourmet version, or melt butter and pour it over the corn with some salt for a traditional flavor.
Most people love brownies, and making them from scratch is quick and easy. Brownies are not healthy, but if you make them yourself you'll skip preservatives, colors and other unnecessary ingredients.
You can prepare the ribs, brownies, pita chips and popcorn ahead of time. You can cook the chicken ahead and then coat them with the hot sauce while you reheat it in a sauté pan so you can serve it warm. Guacamole is best served fresh.
These simple changes won't make your party diet-friendly, but you will eat some healthy foods and skip all of the preservatives, sodium and fats that go into boxed, processed and fast foods.
Have a wonderful Super Bowl—for me it is all about the food.
Olivia Blanco Mullins is a journalist and has been eating healthy most of her life, as her parents have owned health food stores for more than 20 years. Currently she lives in Manhattan, Kansas, where her husband owns an Italian restaurant .


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One night after Lance Armstrong finally admitted to being the ringleader of an elaborate doping scheme that swept him to the top of the podium at the Tour de France time after time, the disgraced former cyclist continued his exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey on Friday night.
The second of the two-part interview -- broadcast on Winfrey's OWN network -- lasted 60 minutes.
Here are some highlights:
Oprah: Do you feel disgraced?
Armstrong: Of course. But I also feel humbled. I feel ashamed.
This is ugly stuff.
Oprah: What was the humbling moment that brought you face-to-
face with yourself?
Armstrong: I believe it was a Wednesday. Nike called. And this isn't the most humbling moment. I'll get to that. They said, basically, cliff notes here, that they're out. OK. And then the calls start coming, Trek, Giro, Anheuser-Busch.
Oprah: The same day?
Armstrong: Same couple days. Everybody out. Still not the most
humbling moment. Not a fun period.
Oprah: But how did that hit you, though?
Armstrong: You know, in a way, I just assumed we'd get to that point. The story was getting out of control. Which was my worst nightmare. And I had this place in my mind that they would all leave. The one person that I didn't think would leave was the (Livestrong) foundation. ... And that was the most humbling moment. To get that call, two parts. One, I stepped down as chairman. Stayed on the
board. Stay involved. That wasn't enough. That wasn't enough for the people, for our supporters. And then a couple of weeks later the next call came: 'And we need you to step aside.' ... And I don't think it was -- it wasn't we need you to step down. It was we need you to consider stepping down for yourself. And I had to think about that a lot. And this is -- none of my kids have said, 'Dad, you're out.' None of my friends said, 'Lance, you're out.' The foundation is like my sixth child. And to make that decision and to step aside was -- that was big."
Oprah: Of everything that's happened in this entire process,
in this fall from grace, has that been the hardest?
Armstrong: That was the lowest. The lowest.
Oprah: Can Livestrong live without your story?
Armstrong: I certainly hope so. Yeah. I hope so.
Oprah: Do you think that banned substances contributed to you
getting cancer?
Armstrong: I don't think so. I'm not a doctor. I've never had a doctor tell me that or suggest that. To me personally. But I don't believe so.
Oprah: Do you owe David Walsh an apology, who for 13 years has pursued this story, who wrote for the (Sunday) Times, who has now written books about you and this entire process?
Armstrong: I would apologize to David.
Oprah: A lot of people think you're doing this interview because you want to come back to the sport.
Armstrong: If you're asking me do I want to compete again? The answer is hell yes. I'm a competitor. It's what I've done my whole life. I love to train. I love to race. I love to toe the line. If I was -- and I don't expect it to happen.
Oprah: You want to compete again on the bicycle? You want to
run races on the bike?
Armstrong: Not the Tour de France, but there's a lot of other things that I could do but I can't. With this penalty and with this punishment, which again I made my bed. But if there was ever a window, would I like to run the Chicago Marathon when I'm 50? I would love to do that. And I can't. ... I can't lie to you. I'd love the opportunity to be able to compete. But that isn't the reason I'm doing this. Frankly, this may not be the most popular answer. But I think I deserve it. Maybe not right now, but if you look at the situation, if you look at the culture, you look at the sport, you see the punishments, that's what I told you if I could go back to that time and say, 'OK, you're trading my story for a six-month suspension, that's what people got.'
Oprah: Which is what other people got.
Armstrong: What everybody got. So I got a death penalty and they
got ...
Oprah: Meaning you could never compete again.
Armstrong: In anything. And I'm not saying that that's unfair necessarily, but I'm saying it's different.
Oprah: Do you think you've gotten what you deserve? For a long time you were saying everybody was on the witch hunt, on the witch hunt, on the witch hunt for you. Do you think in this moment, considering how big you were, what that meant, how much people believed, what your name and brand stood for.
Armstrong: Sure.
Oprah: All of that?
Armstrong: I deserve to be punished. I'm not sure that I deserve a death penalty.
Oprah: So tell me when something this gargantuan happens in your life, how has it changed the way you see yourself? Or has it? Has it changed the way you see yourself?
Armstrong: Not completely. No, this is heavy. And this is messy, and this is not something that I can sit with you and leave and go, 'OK, we're all good. Or I can.'
Oprah: You mentioned therapy a minute ago. Are you doing therapy?
Armstrong: Over the course of my life, I've done it sporadically. And I'm the type of person that needs to not do it sporadically. It needs to be consistently. I've had a messy life. It's no excuse. But this is going to be a long process.
Oprah: So do you have remorse? Is there real remorse or is there a sense of I'm sorry I got caught and sorry I had to go through all of this, wish this hadn't happened?
Armstrong: Everybody that gets caught is bummed out they got caught. I am only starting -- I will continue -- listen, when this comes out, the ripple effects. ...
Oprah: Of people analyzing what you said and how you said it?
Armstrong: And people that still are sitting there today that are true believers; they're going to hear something totally different. So do I have remorse? Absolutely. Will I continue to? Will it grow? Will I -- absolutely. This is, for me, this is just the first steps. And again, these are my actions. I'm paying the price but I deserve it.
Oprah: When something like this happens, what you hope is that
it leaves an impression that causes a shift or a change within you. Has that happened? With you yet?
Armstrong: I'd be lying if I said that it has. Again, I keep going to this word and this idea of process. I got work to do. And it's -- I can't -- there's not going to be one tectonic shift here that says, 'OK, he's on his way, he's good now.'
Oprah: Were there people who cared about you who knew about this? Who wanted you to stop it? Stop the lying. Stop the doping?
Armstrong: Of course.
Oprah: Was there anything they could have said or done?
Armstrong: Probably not. And I'm going to name. ... If I could say one name it would be Kristin (Armstrong's former wife, with whom he has three children). She's a smart lady. She's extremely spiritual. She believes in honesty and integrity and the truth. She believes that the truth will set you free. We believed differently on a lot of things. She may come at it from a religious standpoint where I may not. It doesn't matter. We have three kids together. They deserve the honest truth. They deserve a dad that is viewed as telling the truth to them, to the public. Anna has always wanted that. She doesn't know that whole story back then because we weren't together.
Oprah: Had she had conversations with you about stopping or getting out?
Armstrong: And I asked Kristin -- I saw her at the kids' game two days ago, I said if this comes up, can I talk about this? And she said yes. She was not -- she wasn't that curious. Perhaps she didn't want to know. She certainly knew but didn't -- need-to-know basis. I guess I protected her a little bit from that. The thing about her and my doping and this comeback, she was the one person that I asked if I could do that. ... If I could come back. I figured if I'm going to do this, it was a big decision. I need her blessing. And she said to me: 'You can do it under one condition, that you never cross that line again.'
Oprah: The line of drugs?
Armstrong: Yes. And I said, 'You got a deal.' And I never would have betrayed that with her. It was a serious ask. It was a serious commitment. She gave me her blessing. If she would have said no, I don't like this idea, I would not have done it. But I gave her my word, and I did stick to it.
Oprah: So you thought you were coming back into a clean sport and a level playing field. How was it for you to come in third, you who loves to win -- win at all costs?
Armstrong: I didn't expect to get third. I expected to win. Like I always expected. And at the end I said to myself: You know, I just got beat by two guys that are better. That's why we have the events. I know that doesn't sound like something I would say, but I did everything I could in training, and I just got beat.
Oprah: You just were talking about Kristin. You have three children together. What do you tell Luke? You've been fighting this -- Luke's 13. You've been fighting this thing his entire life. What do you tell Luke? He's 13, he's old enough to know what's going on.
Armstrong: They know a lot. They hear it in the hallways, not a
lot ... Their schools, their classmates have been very supportive. Where you lose control with your kids is when they go out of that space. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Then the feedback comes.
Oprah: What did you tell him?
Armstrong: First I want to tell you what happened. When this all really started, I saw my son defending me and saying, 'That's not true. What you're saying about my dad is not true.' And it almost goes to this question of why now? He can't -- yeah. That's when I knew I had to tell him. And he never asked me. He never said, 'Dad, is this true?' He trusted me. And I heard about it in the hallways.
Oprah: You heard he was defending you.
Armstrong: To other kids on Instagram, replying, it gets ugly. And then I had to -- at that point I decided I have to say something. This is out of control. Then I had to have that talk with him, which was just here over the holidays.
Oprah: What did you say?
Armstrong: I said, 'Listen, there's been a lot of questions about your dad. My career, whether I doped or did not dope. I've always denied that and I've always been ruthless and defiant about that, you guys have seen that, that's probably why you trusted me on it.' Which makes it even sicker. I said, 'I want you to know
that it's true.' And there was the girls (Armstrong's twin daughters with Kristin), who were 11. They're twins, as you know. And Luke. And they didn't say much. They
didn't say, 'But, wait, dad,' they just accepted it. And I told Luke, I said ... I said, 'Don't defend me anymore. Don't.'
Oprah: How did he take it?
Armstrong: He's been remarkably calm and mature about this. I
said if anybody says anything to you, they're going to see this. Some kid says something, do not defend me. Just say, 'Hey, my dad said he was sorry.' He said, 'OK.'
Oprah: Did he say anything?
Armstrong: Just said, 'Look, I love you. You're my dad. This
won't change that.' I'd expected -- I guess you always expect something.
Oprah: Are you hoping with this conversation, your admission, you're saying you wish you had done things differently with USADA, that your lifetime ban from competition would be lifted? Are you hoping that?
Armstrong: Selfishly, yes. But realistically, I don't think that's going to happen. And I have to live with that. I gotta sit with that.
Oprah: Certainly people are discussing -- a lot of talk about why you're doing it and what you were going to say and how you were going to say it. What was your intention or hope that would come out of it?
Armstrong: Listen, the biggest hope and intention was the well-being of my children. It really was. The older kids need to not be living with this issue in their lives. That isn't fair. For me to have done to them and I did it. And also for the little
ones who have no idea, they're 2 and 3. They have -- Oprah, they obviously have no idea, but they will learn it. This conversation will live forever. Everything that we do today, that dumb tweet with the yellow jerseys lives forever. So I gotta get
that right for them as they enter the depth of their lives. That was a $75 million day.
Oprah: Last Wednesday night Travis Tygart of USADA told "60 Minutes (Sports)" someone offered a donation, which USADA did not accept. He said it was over $150,000. Were you trying to pay off USADA?
Armstrong: No. That's not true. ... That is not true. And in the thousands-page reasoned decision that they issued there was a lot of stuff in there. Everything was in there. Why wasn't that in there? Pretty big story. Oprah, it's not true.
Oprah: No one representing you ...
Armstrong: Nobody. Certainly I had no knowledge of that. But I've asked around: Did anybody? Not true.
Oprah: What has been the cost, the financial cost? Have you lost everything?
Armstrong: I've lost -- certainly lost all future income.
Oprah: Emotional?
Armstrong: You could look at the day or those two days or the day and a half where people left. And I want to give you a number. You asked me the cost. I don't like thinking about it. But that was -- I don't know. That was a $75 million day. ... Gone. Gone. And probably never coming back.
Oprah: Were you ever in the position where you felt like, 'Wow, I don't want to get out of bed.' I know you've been running and jogging. Did it hit you to the point of: I don't know what to do?
Armstrong: I've been to a dark place that was not my doing. I've been to a place where I didn't know if I was going to live a month, six months, a year, five years, 10 years. It's helped me now. I mean, this is not a good time. But it isn't the worst part of my life. I mean, you cannot compare this to a diagnosis and an advanced diagnosis. Fifty/50 odds or whatever the odds are. That sets the bar. This close. But I'm an optimist. And I like to look forward. This has caused me to look back. My mom and I -- we're very similar in this regard. She doesn't look back. We don't talk about the past. We don't talk about what happened. I've never asked her about my biological father. I've never sat down -- we just don't go there.
Oprah: How is she handling all of this?
Armstrong: She's a wreck. She's not the type of person that would call me up and say, 'Lance, I'm a wreck.' But my stepfather called me and said your mom's having a really hard time. And I said, 'I'm sure.' But she's a tough lady. She's gotten through every other tough moment in her life. Just pointing that out there. And we were facetiming with her grandkids and my kids back and forth, and I saw my mom. And I thought, 'Oh, this woman's a wreck.' ... And it took seeing her to really understand that this is taking a toll on her life.
Oprah: Are you now in a space, as you called former friends, friends, associates, (Sunday) night to apologize, are you in a space where you're not just apologizing but you can begin to feel how you shattered other people's lives? Are you in that space yet?
Armstrong: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we don't need to -- I don't need to be back in that place where I can slip like that and take things for granted and abuse privilege. To go back -- if I had a child -- one of my kids -- we watched those tapes. If I had one of my kids act like that, I'd be epileptic.
Oprah: We all know that when you're famous, people love to see
the rise, the heroic rise, and they also love to see you stumble and fall. Will you rise again?
Armstrong: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what -- I don't know what's out there. And again I go to this thing. I do not know the outcome here. And I'm getting comfortable with that. That would have driven me crazy in the past. And I've got -- I'm getting there. I gotta get even more there. I don't know. I'm deeply sorry for what I did. I can say that thousands of times, and it may never be enough. To get back, you're asking me if I can come back?
Oprah: More importantly than your comeback, I'm not as interested in your comeback to the sports world, I'm more interested in what's going to happen to you as a man, as a man, as a human being. Are you a better human being today because this happened? Did this help you become a better human being?
Armstrong: Without a doubt. Without a doubt. And, again, this happened twice in my life. When I was diagnosed (with cancer), I was a better human being after that, and I was a smarter human being after that. Then I lost my way. ... And here's the second time. And it's easy to sit here and say I feel different, I feel smarter, I feel like a better man today. But I can't lose my way again. And only I can control that. And I'm in no position to make promises. I'm going to slip up every now and again. But that is the biggest challenge the rest of my life is to not slip up again and to not lose sight of what I gotta do. I had it. And then it just -- things got too
big. Things got too crazy. So epic challenge.
Oprah: It's an epic story. What's the moral to the story?
Armstrong: I don't have a great answer there. I can look at what I did. Cheating to win bike races, lying about it, bullying people. Of course you're not supposed to do those things. That's what we teach our children. That's the easy thing. There's another moral to this story, and I think for me I just think it
was about that ride and about losing myself and getting caught up in that and doing all of those things along the way that just enabled that. And then the ultimate crime is the betrayal of these people that supported me and believed in me and they got lied to.


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