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JPD Hosts Open House
Published: 01/27/2010 14:15:00
Narrator: On Monday evening, the Juneau Police Department hosted an open house at the Police Station in Lemon Creek, celebrating their status as the only accredited police force in Alaska.
VIDEO: The Juneau Police Department hosts an Open House at their Lemon Creek Facility (Image: Rik Pruett / KATH-TV)
Cindee Brown-Mills, one of JPD's Public Information Officers tells us "Actually in December, we received accreditation, we're the first ones in the state of Alaska to do that and we're pretty excited about it so we want to share that with the public and we decided to open up, and let folks take a look at what it's like to be an accredited agency.
Narrator: And to take a look at the myriad of tools that they have to assist them in maintaining the public's safety.
Cindee Continues, "Upstairs in our training room, we have our crisis negotiation team, our swat team and our explosive ordinance disposal team. And they have a lot of their fun gadgets that they use.
Sergeant Paul Hatch, while demonstrating a piece of equipment, explains, "What we have here is an Andros F6A, it's a robot used for the EOD explosive ordinance disposal team, and simply the team uses it if we have a suspicious package or device that we don't want to send a person down range on, down target. The whole point is to keep the bomb tech, as much as we can, out of danger.
Cindee Brown-Mills continues with her explanation of the displays that are available for the public to view. "Outside we have our mobile command post, that's our big RV looking vehicle, and then our police vehicles so that people can look inside there, and as you know recently we got in-car video and computers in the cars"
Lt. Ed Mercer, referring to the computer equipment installed in a police cruiser, explains, "And that allows our officers to have access to all the information that the communications center is receiving on calls, so if they're typing in a call and a location, if there's any other pertinent information in there that they need to be relaying to the officers, the officer is able to access this through the computer system.
Narrator: The mobile data systems are yet another of the many technological advances that led to the Juneau Police Department receiving its status as the first accredited police department in the state of Alaska, an honor which, both the department and the residents of Juneau can be very proud of.
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Freelance Journalist and Food Critic
Rachel is a freelance journalist and restaurant critic. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, with her 13 year old daughter. Rachel is a single mom who left her fast-paced job in the Internet world to have more flexibility and time to spend with her daughter. In this interview, Rachel shares her ideas about finding balance between work and family, how to edit things out of your life (not just your writing), and when a great Cabernet can come in handy.
Can you tell us a little bit about your job – what does it entail, how long have you been in this industry and position?
I've been a freelance journalist for four years. I was an executive in the internet biz (AOL) in Silicon Valley but moved to NH where my daughter's father lives with his new family. I was sitting around in this little town where I knew no one, thinking, "What the heck am I going to with my life now?" when I heard the local paper was looking for a food writer. I had owned a restaurant and had tons of foodie experiences, so I threw my hat in the ring and started writing my column, Wine Me, Dine Me. Now I am a restaurant critic for newspapers, write a regular column for New Hampshire Magazine, host a radio show, and write for four or five other magazines. About 75% of my writing is about food- and wine-related topics and the rest is about anything that interests me—music, health, authors. I got to interview John Updike and Erica Jong!
Can you briefly describe your usual day?
Three or four times a week I go out to review a restaurant (breakfast/lunch/dinner). I write three regular columns a week, usually all due on Friday, so of course I wait until the last minute. I often go to food- and wine-related events (wine dinners, charity events) and cover them for the paper. I also write two or more other articles for newspapers and magazines, so my day is spent interviewing people for stories on the phone or in person, doing research for stories or for general background, and editing recipes. I also network a great deal. I'll go to events where I know there are people I need to meet and make sure they know who I am! I spend about 1/3 of my day pitching article ideas and trying to get more work and get ahead, since I'm still at an early stage in this new career. Since I have to eat so much I go to the gym every day.

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The Goal of Amputee Blade Runners is to provide a running prosthesis to one amputee athlete in all 50 states by 2016.
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This is the perfect warm weather 'pasta' recipe! The simple sauce is sun-dried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, basil, and garlic. I served mine over zoodles (zucchini noodles), but you can also use traditional pasta. Bonus: the sauce doesn't even require cooking…just blend, toss, and serve! If you are using traditional pasta, cook according to package instructions….READ MORE
I'm always hesitant to type that anything is my favorite. I've baked a lot of chocolate chip cookies over the years, but the recipe from King Arthur Flour is going to be really tough to beat. The middles stay soft, the edges are just a little crispy, and they have a rich brown sugar, buttery…READ MORE
I made a big pot of Old Fashioned Tomato Soup and wanted a cheesy side. These cheese sticks were the perfect healthier option! They're gluten-free, low carb, super-cheesy, and perfect for dipping in tomato soup! This recipe makes two cheese stick "pizzas." You can easily halve it to make one. Here are your ingredients: Roughly…READ MORE
"Nice Cream" is one of my favorite treats and it is super simple to make!! You just blend frozen bananas in your food processor or blender, and it makes a soft-serve ice cream or "nice cream!" Bonus: its dairy-free and gluten-free and I was really surprised by how much it tastes like real ice cream. Add…READ MORE
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We're going to post a news release soon about this case:
A medical worker submitted at least $4.1 million in bogus bills to insurers, sometimes while falsely claiming to be a doctor or physician's assistant, has pleaded guilty to theft.
Kenneth R. Welling, 45, of Lake Forest Park, pleaded guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court. The charges -- all of which are felonies -- include one count of first-degree theft and six counts of second-degree theft.
"This was a pretty audacious scam," said state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. "We were tipped off to it when a patient contacted us, saying that Welling billed her insurer $89,000 for six surgeries that never happened."
Welling is a registered surgical technologist and sole proprietor of Shoreline, Wash.-based Alpine Surgical Services. His license allows him to perform tasks like preparing supplies and instruments, passing them to the surgeon and preparing basic sterile packs and trays. But after patients had procedures done, he would often submit large bills with codes listing himself as a doctor or physician's assistant. He is neither.
Kreidler's investigators also found numerous instances in which Welling billed for surgeries that never happened. Sometimes he would include post-operative reports, listing himself as the surgeon.
No evidence was found to indicate that Welling was playing an improper role in actual medical care. The fraud involved billing.
"As far as we could tell, the only time he pretended to be a doctor was when he submitted bills," said Kreidler.
In one woman's case, Welling billed $140,323 as assisting surgeon for nine surgeries that never took place. Over a five-year period, he billed another woman's insurer 107 times for 51 different surgeries, listing himself as the primary doctor. Hospital records show she'd only had surgery twice.
From 2004 through 2011, according to medical records obtained by Kreidler's Special Investigations Unit, Welling billed five insurance companies at least $4.1 million for services he did not provide. He was paid $461,000.
"Part of the reason he got away with this for so long is that he'd rarely challenge an insurer who paid little or nothing," said Kreidler. "He'd just send them the bills and hope they'd pay."
The investigation also showed that some patients were complaining to their insurers.
"I am angry!" one woman wrote to her insurance company in 2011. "Here is yet another fraudulent claim. Can't you people help me to stop this? I never had surgery on Aug. 27, 2009. I never met or had anything to do with Ken Welling."
A sentencing date is expected to be scheduled soon.
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Somewhere else, that's where. Rock Band 3 lead designer Dan Teasdale is leaving Rock Band developer Harmonix. In his blog, he states why.
"Working on something like Rock Band basically allows you to auto-complete most of the achievements on your life list," he blogged late last week. "'Make a game with unique controllers', 'Make a game I'm not sick of after making it', 'Make a game that makes first parties do anything to help you' and 'Make a game that hits the zeitgeist' all got annihilated in the course of a few years."
He's right.
Teasdale was a designer on Rock Band and Rock Band 2. He worked as one of the lead designers on the forthcoming Rock Band 3. And he says that at some point during all this, he forgot to keep track of what he was going for. "It's 100% of your job as a staff designer, but as I became a senior and then a lead on AAA titles with 200+ people on them," he wrote, "the ability to chart the vision and the direction of a title starts to encroach how much time you can spend tweaking the details personally."
According to the designer, this put him in a "weird position". He wants to be involved in the game's direction and vision, but still get "hand on" with the actual nitty-gritty game making process in a way that he says is more substantial that working as a lead on a title made by several hundred people.
Last Friday was Teasdale last day at Harmonix. Over the weekend, he flew to Austin to start work at developer Twisted Pixel "ridiculously cool new project".
"I'll get to contribute and help drive the direction of a well funded and supported new title with a close knit superteam, while at the same time being hands on and able to directly impact all aspects of the game."
Moving on [DanT's Design Blog via VideoGamer]


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GAZA, May 24 (UPI) -- Amnesty International says Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and violated other international humanitarian laws during Israeli attacks on Gaza last year.
The human rights group, which is based in London, released a report Thursday that alleged the Israeli air force carried out bomb and missile strikes on residential areas in Gaza, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.
Those strikes were "disproportionate and caused heavy civilian casualties," Amnesty International said.
The Israeli navy also carried out "indiscriminate attacks" on populated coastal sites, the group said.
Amnesty International also alleged Hamas, which has control of Gaza, and other armed Palestinian groups fired missiles and other weapons into Israel, damaging civilian structures and killing civilians.
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement the report was unfair and lacked objectivity because it equated "legitimate resistance" in defense of Palestinian civilians with deliberate Israeli actions. Barhoum did not explain how firing rockets at civilian targets within Israel protects Palestinians.
Israel has yet to comment on the report.


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What should I do if gifts are stolen from my car?
Tired after a long day of shopping and you don't unload your car? Or did you load your car with packages that you need to mail? If you find yourself the victim of a car break-in when you have a car full of gifts, your homeowner or renter insurance will cover the contents. If you do file a claim, make sure you have receipts for what was stolen, and you should be prepared to turn in a copy of the police report, if one exists. Damage to your car would be covered by your auto insurance.
Read more about understanding your auto insurance.
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We encourage consumers to carefully read the terms of the warranty before making a decision. We also encourage consumers to find out if a warranty company is registered to do business in Washington state.
Complaints we get from consumers generally focus on warranty claims that the companies say aren't covered, or consumers requesting a refund when they change their mind about the warranty. The warranty contract will tell consumers how they can request a refund; state law requires a 10-business-day window to request a refund of a warranty.
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The percentage of maternity records required for audit at Attainment Level 2a of Requirement 8-404 has been amended to 0.5% to align with the requirement set out by the NHSLA CNST Risk Management Standards. This amendment is currently only reflected in the on screen version of the requirement. The PDF downloads will be updated in due course.
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Given a matrix M, row vector v of appropriate length, and diagonal index d (where 0 indicates the main diagonal and off-diagonals are identified by positive and negative integers), return a new matrix where the specified diagonal of M is replaced by v. You may assume that v is the correct length for the specified diagonal. If d is not provided, assume it is zero.
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M = magic(5); setDiagonal(M,1:4,-1)
ans = 17 24 1 8 15 1 5 7 14 16 4 2 13 20 22 10 12 3 21 3 11 18 25 4 9
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Are you missing some text from your example?
Test suggestion: Stick a zero in one of your v vectors and you'll eliminate some of the shorter answers.
Yes. All solutions with find don't work with 0 in v.
Thanks for the suggestions -- I updated the text, added a new test case and rescored.
@Nicholas Howe: The test suggestion meant: stick a 0 in v, and this 0 is meant to replace an entry of M that was unequal to 0. In other words: the new test-case doesn't make a difference (and hence is useless) if M is a null-matrix.
The cases with d=0 are working for me but your test cases are giving error..... What's this?
please, when you make use of test cases with floating point numbers specify a common precision, otherwise is impossible to pass the suite and people need to be noob! thx in advanced
I like the try/catch with ans
It seems Matlab allows for many useful tricks. I was surprised at the behavior of 'diag' in the leading solution.
Test if a Number is a Palindrome without using any String Operations
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Back to basics 8 - Matrix Diagonals
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Change the sign of even index entries of the reversed vector
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The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1858
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Results tagged ' Greensburg Cardinals '
We Will Miss You Macho (Baseball) Man
He was known World-wide for his flamboyant neon-colored clothing and cowboy hats. His trademark sunglasses and speech patterns that made him seem more constipated than ferocious, but that was the "business side" of Randy "Macho Man" Savage that most of the public got to see in and around his second home, the wrestling ring.
When I heard on the radio today that Savage had been involved in a 1-car accident and had been pronounced deceased at a local hospital, immediately I went back to a day almost 30 years ago when I met Savage for the first time.
I had grown up hanging around and working with some of the Florida wrestling hierarchy's kids like Gordon Solie's son and had attended Dixie Hollins with Bruce Woyan who would become Buzz Sawyer. It was Woyan who took me backstage one night and I got to meet Macho Man sans the bravado and brightly colored clothing.
Even back in the 80's I always seemed to be sporting a baseball cap upon my head. During this day it was a cap which had the St. Petersburg Cardinals logo and Savage immediately began to smile and began to tell me about his former baseball career. I could see a slight twinkle in his eye remembering his minor leagues days while I was stuck in the classrooms at Dixie during the double shifts of school.
But I was entranced with his story and could hear the passion and enthusiasm in his voice. Sometimes you just wonder what could have been if……. It was a long stretch of time between our meetings when I saw him again at a Rays game wearing all black including a black head scarf but with the trademark facial hair and bold bravado.
We had both aged kind of gracefully, but you could tell wrestling took its toll on Savage over the years. I told a person sitting next to him a bit about Savage's minor league career and he gave me a small grin. Funny, I had seen him in the ring for what seemed like hundreds of times either in person or on television, and my thoughts always came back to if I heckled him as a St. Pete Cardinals fans in the early 70's.
If I had not worn that Cardinals cap, I possibly would have never known that Savage, who at that moment made a living throwing himself off turnbuckles towards concrete floors could hit the round ball. I would never have found out that this mega-star wrestler was once a 2-time All State baseball player back in Ohio who held his alma mater's baseball record after sporting a .524 batting average.
Way before the lovely Miss Elizabeth, his space-age sunglasses and even snapping into a Slim Jim, Savage was known simply as Randy Poffo, who was a young Outfielder/Catcher First Baseman that wandered around the bus circuit leagues with teams like the Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox.
Who besides his childhood friends and family would have been able to imagine his hidden passion for the little white roundball. Just goes to show you that an athlete is an athlete no matter the sport.
Even though Savage/Poffo never got above the Class A level in the sport, he did spend time in St. Petersburg, Tampa and Orangeburg South Carolina. In his 4 years in the minors, Savage hit 16 Home Runs and also managed 16 triples. Goes to show you he had a little abundance of power to go along with a good base running speed.
His best minor league stop might have been his last with the Tampa Tarpons (class A/ Reds) during the 1974 season. With the Tarpons he appeared in 113 games stepping to the plate 521 times and sported a .622 OPS along with 66 RBIs and 19 doubles. He once played with former Cardinal OF Tito Landrum on the 1973 Orangeburg Cardinals Western Carolina League squad.
Always get to me when someone I met, even for a brief moment is taken from us. It is also at moments like this that you find out small hidden gems about a person you wish the World had known all along.
Savage had a passion for the game of baseball, I can easily envision Savage standing in line at the pearly gates possibly bending the ear of recently parted Twins great Harmon Killebrew speaking enthusiastically about the game. Possibly Savage can again relive some of his baseball glory. Just remember Macho Man, there is no rushing the mound in Heaven. Godspeed Randy Mario Poffo.


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Topic: Temuera Morrison
I watched an interview with Temuera Morrison on youtube yesterday. I don't know if I'm super late on this, but I thought it was cool. He is very funny! Here's the link:
I think it's kinda sad though that he is having a hard time finding work. I'm totally buying his book!


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Uncompressed Quicktime and AVI files offer the highest quality and compatibility available. You can provide your own storage device such as an external USB hard drive or we can sell you one. By having your VHS and video tapes digitized (digitalized as some would say) to a hard drive, you can simply connect to your computer via a USB cable and start playing or editing. As a result, you don't have to buy expensive equipment or spend long hours digitizing video tapes. By having AV Workshop convert your VHS and videos to a hard drive you will have the highest digital quality available as well as the most compatible video files for your editing applications such as iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, etc…
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CHICAGO, Ill. (July 17, 2013) – The Chicago Fire defeated the Columbus Crew 5-3 in MLS Reserve League action Wednesday morning at the Toyota Park Practice Field. Strikes from Sherjill MacDonald, Quincy Amarikwa, Maicon Santos, Brendan King and an own goal put the Men in Red ahead as they staved off a late rally from the Crew.
The Fire opened scoring in the 21st minute when MacDonald beat Crew 'keeper Matt Lampson at the near post to give the Men in Red the 1-0 lead.
Columbus forward Ryan Finley equalized in the 36th minute, putting the ball just past Fire 'keeper Alec Kann.
On the ensuing kickoff, Amarikwa dribbled the ball downfield as the Fire regained the lead seconds later.
In the 60th minute, Santos was awarded a penalty kick after being taken down in the box. Santos converted his attempt with a rocket to Lampson's right to give the Fire a 3-1 lead.
King was the next player to find the back of the net in the 74th minute when Yazid Atouba dribbed into the box and played a low, driven cross to King at the top of the six-yard-box. The Naperville, Ill. product's one-time shot sailed past Lampson to put the Fire up 4-1.
In the 79th minute, MacDonald was awarded a penalty kick taken down in the box. MacDonald's kick blasted off the crossbar and was cleared by the Crew defense.
The Fire would find their final goal of the morning in the 83rd minute when MacDonald raced towards goal and centered his pass for Victor Pineda at the penalty spot. Crew defender Tyson Wahl inadvertantly hit the ball into the back of his own goal to put the Fire up 5-1.
The Crew pulled one back when Ethan Finlay was awarded a penalty kick in the 87th minute and put his ensuing kick right down the middle past a diving Kann.
Two minutes later, Finley would get his second of the day when he blasted his shot from just inside the 18-yard-box as the game ended 5-3.
Chicago Fire 5 – 3 Columbus Crew
Chicago Fire: Alec Kann; Michael Videira (Wells Thompson 53'), Yamith Cuesta**, Elias Vasquez**, Hunter Jumper; Joel Lindpere (Yazid Atouba 45'), Logan Pause © (Corben Bone 58'), Daniel Paladini, Sherjill MacDonald; Quincy Amarikwa (Victor Pineda 73'), Maicon Santos (Brendan King 62')
Substitutes not used: Kyle Del Santo*, Joel Leon*
*Fire Academy Player **Trialist
Columbus Crew: Matt Lampson; Drew Beckie, Kevan George (Andrew McKelvey* 79'), Tyson Wahl, Kyle Hyland (Tyler Kidwell* 75'); Agustín Viana (Brady Blackwell* 71'), Vinny Weijl** (Noah Hutchins* 71'), Tony Tchani, Shawn Sloan, Ethan Finlay; Ryan Finley
*Crew Soccer Academy Player **Trialist
Substitutes not used: Daniel Withrow
Scoring Summary
CHI – Sherjill MacDonald (unassisted) 21'
CLB – Ryan Finley (unassisted) 36'
CHI – Quincy Amarikwa (unassisted) 36'
CHI – Maicon Santos (penalty kick) 60'
CHI – Brendan King (Yazid Atouba) 74'
CHI – Own Goal (Tyson Wahl) 83'
CLB – Ethan Finlay (penalty kick) 87'
CLB – Ryan Finley (unassisted) 89'
Misconduct Summary
CLB – Agustin Viana (caution) 38'
CHI – Daniel Paladini (caution) 50'
CLB – Shawn Sloan (caution) 63'
CLB – Ethan Finlay (caution) 75'
CHI – Hunter Jumper (caution) 83'
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Saudi Arabia 'Teaching' Kids Terrorism With US Funding?
Excerpts from Saudi Arabian textbooks have caused concern for their portrayal of Jews as people who persecute Muslims and want to take over the world, as well as their call to stone or burn homosexuals. With the U.S. giving the Islamic kingdom nearly $4 billion in aid since 2005, some have been wondering if American tax dollars are being used to spread the very hate that possibly led 15 Saudi men to hijack planes on 9/11 and kill thousands of Americans.
"This is where terrorism starts, in the education system," Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, which released the translations, told Fox News. "If you teach six million children in these important years of their lives, if you install that in their brain, no wonder we have so many Saudi suicide bombers."
According to Al-Ahmed, the textbooks, which were printed for the 2010-2011 school year, teach students violence and bigotry in the form of Islamic law.
"They show students how to cut (the) hand and the feet of a thief," he said, adding that other excerpts teach that Jews must be killed: "The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. ... There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him."
The Saudi government has previously been criticized for its publication and distribution of hate-filled textbooks. In 2006, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relationships that the Saudi government, under directions from King Abdullah, would eliminate hate from textbooks and provide a "modern education" for students.
"In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah recognizes that above all else education is the key, and he has put forth a program of reforms in this area," al-Faisal said. "In recent years, the kingdom has reviewed all of its education practices and materials and has removed any element that is inconsistent with the needs of a modern education. Not only have we eliminated what is objectionable from old textbooks that were in our system, we have also implemented a comprehensive internal revision and modernization plan."
However, that effort appears to have been not going as stated. One year after al-Faisal's assurance that reforms have been implemented in the Saudi education system, translations of textbooks for the 2007-2008 school year were released by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank that focuses on national security.
The translations reveal a heavily religion-based curriculum that focuses on Islamic laws in the early grades, and teach that Islam is the one, true religion and non-practitioners will burn in hell. Reportedly, as the child's education progresses, hatred of Jews and the state of Israel tend to be a heavier focus.
Much is said about the relationship between Israel and Palestine, with Israel often portrayed as an oppressor of the Palestinians by forcing them out of their homes to live in squalor.
The Jewish people are also vilified, according to the following passages:
"[Jews] espouse falsehood through idol-worship, soothsaying, and sorcery. In doing so, they obey the devil. They prefer the people of falsehood to the people of the truth out of envy and hostility."
Like the most recent Saudi textbook translations, homosexuals are also vilified, and students are instructed to kill them for their actions.
"Some of the companions of the Prophet stated that [a homosexual] is to be burned with fire," the textbook says. "It has also been said that he should be stoned, or thrown from a high place."
Hudson Institute and Fox News both claim the textbooks were printed by the Saudi government, which has received $3.9 billion in foreign aid from the U.S. since 2005.
Cutting off foreign aid has been suggested by politicians and pundits for several years, with the House voting to block foreign aid to the oil-rich kingdom on several occasions.
However, the U.S. government has continued to send military aid to fight "terrorism," according to government website ForeignAssistance.gov.
During a congressional debate in Jan. 2011, now defamed congressman Anthony Weiner criticized the Saudis for allegedly supporting terrorism and urged all foreign aid to cease immediately.
"Why we would be giving any aid to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at all is a bit of an eternal mystery to me given their propensity for exporting terrorists and given that they exported 15 of the 19 homicide bombers on Sept. 11," he said, according to TheHill.com.
But Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) argued that the U.S. must continue bankrolling the Saudi government to keep America safe.
"We share mutual enemies and mutual threats," Granger said.


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Table Of Contents
Quick Start
for Administrative Assistants
Cisco Unified IP Phone 6961
Note For best results, print on 8.5 x 14" (legal-sized) paper.
1 Dial
To place a call, pick up the handset and enter a number. Or, try one of these alternatives.
Redial the last number
Press the Redial softkey to redial on your primary line. To redial on a secondary line, press the line button first.
Dial on-hook
1. Enter a number when the phone is idle.
2. Lift the handset or press one of these: a line button, the Call softkey, the headset button, the speakerphone button, or the round Select button in the Navigation bar.
Speed dial
Enter a speed-dial item number and press the SpeedDial softkey. Or, press the down arrow on the Navigation bar when the phone is idle, then scroll to a speed-dial item and press the round Select button in the Navigation bar. You may also have speed dials assigned to some buttons along the right side of your phone.
2 Answer
New call indicators:
•A flashing amber line button
•An animated icon and caller ID
•A flashing red light on your handset
To answer the call, lift the handset. Or, press the flashing amber line button, the Answer softkey, or the unlit headset or speakerphone button.
Answer with multiple Lines
If you are talking on the phone when you get another call, a message appears briefly on the phone screen. Press the flashing amber line button to answer the second call and put the first call on hold automatically.
Your phone supports both one call per line or many calls per line. Ask your administrator about which option is right for you.
3 Hold
1. Press the Hold button . The hold icon appears and the line button flashes green.
2. To resume a call from hold, press the flashing green line button or the Resume softkey.
4 Transfer
1. From a connected call (not on hold), press the Transfer button .
2. Enter the transfer recipient's phone number.
3. Press the Transfer button or the Transfer softkey (before or after the recipient answers).
The transfer completes.
Transfer across lines
You can transfer together two calls on two lines without remaining on the call yourself:
1. From a connected call (not on hold), press the Transfer button .
2. Press the line button for the other (held) call.
The transfer completes.
5 Conference
1. From a connected call (not on hold), press the Conference button .
2. Make a new call.
3. Press the Conference button or the Conference softkey (before or after the party answers).
The conference begins and the phone displays "Conference."
4. Repeat these steps to add more participants.
The conference ends when all participants hang up.
Conference across lines
You can combine two calls on two lines into a conference. You will be included in the conference.
1. From a connected call (not on hold), press the Conference button .
2. Press the line button for the other (held) call.
View and remove participants
During a conference, press the Details softkey. To remove a participant from the conference, scroll to the participant and press the Remove softkey.
6 Mute
1. While on a call, press the Mute button . The button glows to indicate that Mute is on.
2. Press Mute again to turn Mute off.
7 Voicemail
New message indicators:
•A solid red light on your handset
•A stutter dial tone (if available)
•"New Voicemail" message on the screen
Listen to messages
Press the Messages button and follow the voice prompts. To check messages for a specific line, press the line button first.
8 Divert
Press the Divert softkey when the call is ringing, active, or on hold. Divert redirects an individual call to voicemail (or to another number set up by your system administrator).
9 Forward All
1. To forward calls received on your primary line to another number, press the Fwd All softkey.
2. Enter a phone number or press the Messages button to forward all calls to voicemail.
3. Look for confirmation on your phone screen.
4. To cancel call forwarding, press Fwd OFF.
To set up forwarding remotely or on a secondary line, access your User Options web pages. Contact your system administrator for details.
10 Call History
View your call history
1. Press the Applications button.
2. Select Call History. (Use the Navigation bar and round Select button to scroll and select.)
3. Select a line to view.
Your phone displays the last 150 missed, placed, and received calls.
4. To view details for a call, scroll to the call and press the more softkey, then press Details.
5. To return to your call history, press the Back softkey. To exit the Applications menu, press the Applications button.
View your missed calls only
1. View your call history.
2. Press the Missed softkey.
View your placed calls only
Press the up arrow on the Navigation bar when the phone is idle, with all menus closed.
Dial from your call history
1. View your call history, or navigate to your missed or placed calls.
2. Scroll to a listing and lift the handset, or press a line button or the Select button.
To edit a number before dialing, press these softkeys: more > EditDial.
11 Directories
1. Press the Contacts button .
2. Select a directory. (Use the Navigation bar and round Select button to scroll and select.)
3. Use your keypad to input search criteria.
4. Press the Submit softkey.
5. To dial, scroll to a listing and press the Dial softkey.
12 Shared Lines
If you share a line with your boss, the line button indicates call activity on the shared line:
•Flashing amber—Incoming call on the shared line. You or your boss can answer the call.
•Solid red line button—Your boss is talking on the shared line.
•Flashing red line button —Your boss put a call on hold on the shared line. You or your boss can resume the call.
13 Settings
The Volume bar is located to the left of the keypad.
•To adjust the handset, headset, or speakerphone volume, press the Volume bar when the phone is in use.
•To adjust the ringer volume, press the Volume bar up or down.
•To silence the phone when ringing, press the Volume bar down one time (pressing multiple times lowers the ringer volume.)
1. Press the Applications button .
2. Select Preferences. (Use the Navigation bar and round Select button to scroll and select.)
3. Select Ringtone.
4. Select a line.
5. Scroll through the list of ringtones and press Play to hear a sample.
6. Press Set and Apply to save a selection.
Screen contrast
1. Press the Applications button .
2. Select Preferences. (Use the Navigation bar and round Select button to scroll and select.)
3. Select Contrast.
4. Press the Navigation bar up or down.
5. Press the Save softkey.
14 Navigation
Where are my line buttons?
Twelve line buttons are located on the right side of the phone.
Buttons that are not assigned to phone lines can be used for speed-dials and other features. Contact your system administrator for more information.
Where are my softkeys?
Four softkeys buttons are located below the phone screen. You can press the more softkey (when available) to reveal additional softkeys.
How do I scroll in a list or menu?
Press the up or down arrows on the Navigation bar.
A scroll bar on the screen indicates your relative position within in a list.
How do I select an item in a list or menu?
With the item highlighted, press the Select button in the middle of the Navigation bar. Or, use your keypad to enter the corresponding item number.
How do I exit a menu?
To close a menu from any level, press the corresponding feature button.
To go back one level in a menu, press the Exit or Back softkey.
15 Tips
How can I keep track of multiple calls?
Line button colors indicate call states and can help you stay oriented when handling multiple calls:
•Ringing call—Flashing amber
•Connected call—Solid green
•Held call—Flashing green
•Shared line in-use remotely—Solid red
•Shared line on hold remotely—Flashing red
What is the best way to use my headset?
If you handle a lot of calls and wear a headset, try keeping the headset button lit and using softkeys to go on- and off-hook. With the headset button lit, your headset serves as the primary audio path (instead of the speakerphone).
What does the Swap softkey do?
Swap allows you to toggle between calls and consult privately with each party before completing a transfer or conference.
How do I set up my speed dials?
To set up speed-dials and customize a variety of features and settings for your phone, use a web browser on your computer to access your Cisco Unified CM User Options web pages. Contact your system administrator for the URL and more information.
Where can I find a complete User Guide?


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When Randy Houser returns home from a rigorous touring schedule, he likes to think of himself as the protagonist from a classic Western film, the proverbial courageous cowboy.
"The direct comparison of my lifestyle — which is in and out of home — the way we have to come home and ride away again, it compares to the old cowboy lifestyle of having to leave and take the herd. … It's just like the old movie where the cowboy comes in and saves the day."
Relaying this message in "Like a Cowboy," a song featured on his third album How Country Feels, the tune draws parallels of his own fast-paced lifestyle and constant yearning for time at home with his family. And it's this family time that has never been more important to the gritty powerhouse singer. Just last March, Houser and his wife Jessa welcomed their first child together.
"Personally, it has changed me in every way," he said of becoming a father. "Really, it has. Things are just not the same anymore. I don't care as much about me as I used to. It's amazing how all the selfishness kind of flies out the window. You would walk out in front of a bus for them to keep them from feeling any pain. That's amazing. …
"Being married and having a family definitely probably changes some of the things I'll sing about. I'm not a single man. I'm just not going to disrespect my family. It definitely changes what you will talk about or what you will sing about."
But don't think fatherhood has clouded his edge. Quite the opposite, really. With its catchy lyrics and infectious beat, the album's title track quickly become a crowd pleaser at his live shows and just hit No. 1 on Billboard country airplay chart.
Seeing the fans belt out the tune's quirky lines, "Hair down! Hair down!," has become one of the entertainer's favorite aspects about playing the song live.
"We make them sing it over and over and over," he laughed. "We just have a ball with it."
The album's upcoming single, "Runnin' Outta Moonlight," provides a solid follow-up tune, upholding the same high-energy appeal while also providing a smooth segue from one buoyant track to another.
Rocking and in-your-face tunes like "Growin' Younger," "Absolutely Nothing," "Sunshine on the Line and "Shine" all work to construct this upbeat tempo while effortlessly blending with the cheerful, love-ridden tracks "Top of the World," "Absolutely Nothing" and "Goodnight Kiss."
"I think it's probably the best one I've done," he said of the project, where he's credited with co-writing half of the tracks. "On this record, I really wanted to make an album for the fans and for the fans that listen to country music today and country radio, the way the music is now."
But this isn't to say Houser is shying away from the emotional ballads. The project's well-balanced mixture of song material also confronts weightier subjects like the evocative "Power of a Song," "Wherever Love Goes," a tender duet with season seven American Idol finalist Kristy Lee Cook, and the bone-tingling, faith-seeking tune, "Along for the Ride."
"I stayed up until about 4:30 one morning writing that song and got stuck," he remembered. "I really didn't know where to go with it after the first chorus."
Knowing his path would soon cross with Zac Brown at an upcoming festival, he sought out his friend for some help finishing the lyrics.
"And I went in there and played it down … the next thing he pulled out, 'It's all gonna fall right into liiiiiine," Houser sang of Brown's idea." And it just made total sense where we were headed and he and Levi Lowrey just nailed it, finished it and it was great."
Also tackling a thought-provoking perspective within a song is the Drew Smith and Trent Willmon collaboration, "The Singer." A narrative relaying the difficulties of loving a traveling musician, the poetic lines clench the listener with the jaw-dropping hook, "She loved the singer/She just couldn't live the song."
"It's always refreshing when you hear a song where the songwriters just slapped you in the face with something you've always felt," said Houser.
"I just think it's a brilliant song," he explained "It's just something that I've definitely experienced before I was married with people I dated. It takes a special, special person to deal with a partner, husband, boyfriend, anything, to deal with what we do for a living and the attention we get. And a lot of times, honestly, never intentionally, but a lot of times, I feel like they feel like they're pushed to the side a little bit. But it's just that we're busy, and our lifestyle is completely not like anyone else's."
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After my recent post about escaping quotes in SQL scripts, I was surprised and delighted to receive a mail from Alexander Kornbrust, CEO of Red Database Security.
In it, he said he'd read the post and pointed out that the code therin was vulnerable to SQL-Injection.
I was fortunate enough to work with Alex, before he went off to become famous, so I know that he's a bona fide expert in all things Oracle, especially security. Even so, I was initially puzzled by his assertion.
After all, the code I'd posted was an example where the code is held in a script and NOT in the database so wouldn't be vulnerable to being executed by someone who'd hacked into the database itself. After all, SQL Injection happens interactively doesn't it ? The hacker needs to be probing for weaknesses via a web front-end or similar. Don't they have to be physically typing stuff in somewhere for this to work ? Er….apparently not.
Having asked around a number of Oracle developers, this would seem to be a widely held misconception. In terms of SQL Injection attacks, we're all familiar with the classic HTML login form which POSTS to some mid-tier script or program which in turn, simply concatenates the username and password strings supplied by the user into a query then fires it off unthinkingly at the database. But how can you be attacked when the attacker isn't even around at the time ?
Before I go any further, I think it's only prudent to state the usual caveats here :
1) As with anything I post on this blog, this is code I've tested and works for me on my environment. I don't make any garuantees that it'll work the same anywhere else and I trust that anyone as discerning and intelligent, as you obviously are dear reader (as your reading this blog), would do anything as silly as applying this code to a critical environment without testing it out themselves first – somewhere safe .
2) What follows is an example of how an Oracle database can be vulnerable to such an attack and how to take steps to guard against it. It is not intended for use for nefarious purposes.
I should also say at this point that these examples were tested by me on Oracle XE Release 10.2.0.1.0 so there's no garuantee that it would work the same on any other Oracle RDBMS version.
A Privilege Escalation SQL Injection Attack
What the heck, I've always wanted to write some spy fiction, so let's imagine a bit of industrial espionage.
Mr Nasty has been retained by Ripoff and Scarper Inc to steal some commercially sensitive data from their main competitors, Gullible and Co.
I know, it could just as easily be Ms Nasty, but I'm going for a James Bond running gag here. Yes, it could be Jenny Bond…except that she's a former BBC News Reader and Royal Correspondent.
Mr Nasty has managed to get himself a position as a lowly temp at Gullible, despite the name and turning up in full black tie dress for the interview. His new colleagues' suspicions are not even aroused by the fact that he only drinks Vodka Martinis in the pub at lunchtime ( they don't have Bollinger on tap in the Three Ferrets).
At this point, it's worth looking at some of the characteristics of Company's venerable CRM Application.
Originally written as a Forms 4.5 client-server application running against Oracle 7, it's been through various migrations, until it now resides on Oracle Forms 10g running against an Oracle 10g database ( OK, I've tested this on Oracle XE, but let's pretend).
One of it's characteristics is that every user has tables created in their own schema to hold temporary data. However, the tables themselves are permanent segments.
So, when Mr Nasty's Oracle schema is created in the same way that Users have always been created for this application, he also gets an unlimited quota on the USERS tablespace.
GRANT connect, resource to nasty identified by password; ALTER USER nasty QUOTA UNLIMITED on USERS;
Meanwhile, Mr Nasty's female accomplice is back in the pub indulging in a bit of social engineering – in this case, plying the DBA with Vodka ( although, this time mixed with Red Bull).
Through an alcohol induced haze, thinking that the lady looks a little like that woman who used to be on the news, but flattered by the apparent interest she's showing in his work, the DBA starts talking. The conversation swings round to a nifty little script he wrote many years ago to keep an eye on the tables the users have in their own schemas, so any large tables in the USERS tablespace can be tackled before it starts to get a bit tight on disk space.
Incidentally, I know this is a bit unrealistic. Whilst technical prowess should be deeply impressive to the opposite sex, "you know, I can reverse engineer a CRUD Matrix in Oracle" has not proved to be a successful chat-up line in my experience. Well, not yet anyway.
After consulting with his confederate, Mr Nasty is now ready to set up his attack.
To do this, connects to the database and runs the following code :
CREATE TABLE "' or 1=nasty.f1--'" (id number(1));
Once the table has been created, he then deploys a Trojan by the simple expedient of creating the this function :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f1 RETURN NUMBER AUTHID CURRENT_USER AS PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION; BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'GRANT DBA TO NASTY'; COMMIT; RETURN 1; END; /
All he needs to do now is wait…
Sometime later, the DBA's script is scheduled to run.
He's set up a table called USER_ROWS containing information on the number of rows in each table owned by application users. The table which contains three columns :-
OWNER – the user who owns the table
TABLE_NAME – name of the table
ROW_COUNT – the number of rows in the table
Since the script's inception – back in the days of Oracle 7 when the Rule-Based Optimizer was the only sensible way to go – statistics gathering on tables mean that a row count is directly available in DBA_TABLES. However, our DBA is rather set in his ways. Besides, he's heard the mantra "if you can do it in SQL, do it in SQL" so often that it's now second nature. The fact that the definition of "it" is quite important in this phrase has never occurred to him.
Before the script runs, the user_rows table is updated with any tables created since it was last refreshed :
MERGE INTO user_rows ur USING ( SELECT tab.owner, tab.table_name FROM dba_tables tab, application_users au WHERE tab.owner = au.username) ut ON ( ut.owner = ur.owner AND ut.table_name = ur.table_name) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT( owner, table_name) VALUES( ut.owner, ut.table_name) /
Then the count script runs in SQL*Plus :
set heading off set feedback off set lines 130 set pages 500 spool row_count_slave.sql SELECT 'UPDATE user_rows SET row_count = ' ||' (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM '||owner||'."'||table_name||'")' ||' WHERE owner = '||CHR(39)||owner||CHR(39) ||' AND table_name = '||CHR(39)||table_name||CHR(39) ||CHR(10)||'/' FROM user_rows / spool off set autocommit on @row_count_slave.sql exit
This script does three things.
First, it generates row_count_slave.sql, which looks something like this :
UPDATE user_rows SET row_count = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SCOTT."EMP") WHERE owner = 'SCOTT' AND table_name = 'EMP' / UPDATE user_rows SET row_count = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SCOTT."BONUS") WHERE owner = 'SCOTT' AND table_name = 'BONUS' / … UPDATE user_rows SET row_count = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM NASTY."' or 1=nasty.f1--'") WHERE owner = 'NASTY' AND table_name = '' or 1 =nasty.f1--'' /
Secondly, it sets autocommit on so that a commit is issued after every subsequent statement.
Finally, it runs the slave script and then terminates the SQL*Plus session.
The script runs without error. The user rows table is updated… and it looks as if Mr Nasty has got a big promotion ….
SQL> select granted_role 2 from dba_role_privs 3 where grantee = 'NASTY'; GRANTED_ROLE ------------------- RESOURCE CONNECT DBA SQL>
Mr Nasty is now free to obtain the required data and saunter out of the office, stopping only to try it on with the receptionist. There at least, he's onto a loser – the receptionist is just not that sort of boy.
No-one at the company is any the wiser.
How can we guard against such an attack ?
There would seem to be two steps here ;
- Ascertain if your application is being compromised this way
- Take steps to prevent this sort of attack
Oh, and we're going to adopt the motto "just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you" and we're not going to rely on any dictionary view synonyms in our queries.
The first step involves looking for any suspiciously named objects or users.
At this point, it's worth remembering that allowable characters for non-quoted database objects in Oracle are :-
- Alpha-numeric characters
- $ _ and #
Starting with users on the database :
SELECT username, account_status, created FROM sys.dba_users WHERE REGEXP_INSTR( REGEXP_REPLACE(username, '\$|_|\#',''), '[[:punct:]]|[[:space:]]') > 0;
Now let's have a look for other object types. Here it's probably a good idea to run two separate queries, one for internal oracle users and one for other users.
This is because there are various objects that fit the bill in the internal schemas. However, we still need to check to make sure nothing has sneaked in there that shouldn't be.
Anything in the normal users' schemas is far more likely to stand out in a separate query :
SELECT owner, object_name, object_type, created, last_ddl_time FROM sys.dba_objects WHERE object_name NOT LIKE 'BIN$%' – recycle bin tables AND owner NOT IN ('SYS', 'SYSTEM', 'ANONYMOUS', 'CTXSYS', 'DBSNMP', 'DIP', 'FLOWS_020100', 'FLOWS_FILES', 'MDSYS', 'OUTLN', 'TSMSYS', 'XDB') AND REGEXP_INSTR( REGEXP_REPLACE( object_name, '\$|_|\#',''), '[[:punct:]]|[[:space:]]') >0;
To check out the oracle internal users, you'd run this query replacing the NOT IN with IN.
As well as identifying any database objects that require further investigation, we should also check to see who has which privileges and roles granted.
Let's start with the system privileges. This is particularly useful if, as in our example, users are only usually granted privileges via roles.
SELECT grantee, privilege FROM sys.dba_sys_privs WHERE grantee NOT IN ( SELECT role FROM sys.dba_roles) ORDER BY grantee;
The point here is to spot something that's there that shouldn't be. So, for the moment we discount any roles. Also, SYS and SYSTEM have a large number of privileges so you may want to query those separately.
Now to check which users have which roles. Once again we're looking for anything that's there but shouldn't be. In our example, all users have CONNECT and RESOURCE ( although whether they should have the latter is something you may want to consider) so, in this instance, they're excluded.
SELECT grantee, granted_role FROM sys.dba_role_privs WHERE granted_role NOT IN ('CONNECT', 'RESOURCE') AND grantee NOT IN ( SELECT role FROM sys.dba_roles) ORDER BY grantee;
We also want to make sure that the roles in the database have the privileges we expect them to have. Here, DBA role might be queried separately, for the same reason as SYS and SYSTEM previously.
SELECT grantee, privilege FROM sys.dba_sys_privs ORDER BY grantee;
Finally, it's worth making sure that no role has been granted roles that it shouldn't have
SELECT grantee, granted_role FROM sys.dba_role_privs WHERE grantee IN ( SELECT role FROM sys.dba_roles) ORDER BY grantee;
For the most part, this is going to result in a lot of wading through the documentation to ensure that the roles have the grants they should have ( or, more pertinently, don't have anything they shouldn't) and that the internal users have the roles and privs they should have.
If you are going to go to all that trouble, it may be worth storing the expected results in a table or tables to ensure that future checks are a bit less manual.
Spotting individual users with suspicious grants is probably somewhat easier.
Either way, if we do come across something suspicious, it's probably one of those occasions where it's better to shoot first and ask questions later :
ALTER USER nasty ACCOUNT LOCK;
One other check to think about – if you really want to hide what your code is doing, you can wrap it. This has the effect of storing the program unit in question as a series of hex codes, thus making it unreadable from the data dictionary.
Certain objects, such as some of the Oracle supplied code, and maybe stuff supplied by 3rd party vendors, may well be wrapped. Any other wrapped code is probably worth investigating :
SELECT owner, name, type FROM sys.dba_source WHERE UPPER(text) LIKE ('%WRAPPED%') ORDER BY owner;
First, can you think of any reason why you'd need to create an object with a name containing anything other than the normally allowable characters ( alphanumerics plus '$', '_', and '#') ?
Neither can I. Incidentally, you may well want to ask questions about '#' and '$' as well, although these are used in objects owned by some Oracle internal users.
The '$' character is the shell escape character in SQL*Plus for some Operating Systems, whilst # is both a comment character in several languages and the first character in a unix shell script.
Given this, it's possible to enforce our own rules about what database objects can be called.
You know how, at present, it seems to be fashionable to decry the use of triggers in Oracle ?
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER before_create_ddl BEFORE CREATE ON database BEGIN IF REGEXP_INSTR( REPLACE( ora_dict_obj_name ,'_',''), '[[:punct:]]|[[:space:]]') > 0 THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR( -20000, 'Good evening Mr Bond. Have you met my piranhas ?'); END IF; END before_create_ddl; /
A couple of points to note here.
First, you might want to consider writing to a log table any time this trigger fires.
Secondly, you could possibly use DBMS_ASSERT here. This is a package Oracle introduced in 10.2 ( and so, is in XE), which is intended to filter out maliciously named objects and parameters.
There are two main reasons that I've decided against using it on this occasion.
Firstly, you need to take some care to use it properly to make sure that it's guarding against what you think it's guarding against.
Secondly, the obvious candidate for use in a situation like this is DBMS_ASSERT.SIMPLE_SQL_NAME.
This takes in a string and checks that it contains only the allowable characters for an object name. If it does, then it just returns the input string. Otherwise you get ORA-44003: Invalid SQL name
For example :
SELECT SYS.DBMS_ASSERT.SIMPLE_SQL_NAME('MY_TAB') from dual; Returns MY_TAB SELECT SYS.DBMS_ASSERT.SIMPLE_SQL_NAME('x@>:;**') from dual; Returns ORA_44003
However, if we quote the string…
SELECT SYS.DBMS_ASSERT.SIMPLE_SQL_NAME('"x@>:;**"') from dual; Returns "x@>:;**"
One other reason to not to use DBMS_ASSERT here is that it gives you the option to prohibit '#' in an object name. You may want to consider this as the '#' character is used as a comment in some languages ( such as unix shell scripting) and attempts at running code on the host database system using this kind of attack is not unheard of.
Where DBMS_ASSERT can come in handy is back where we started – in our master sql query
Remember, we're still being paranoid here so make sure we access the package directly rather than via the synonym :
set heading off set feedback off set lines 130 set pages 500 spool row_count_slave.sql SELECT 'UPDATE user_rows SET row_count = ' ||' (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM '|| sys.DBMS_ASSERT.SCHEMA_NAME(owner) ||'."'|| sys.DBMS_ASSERT.SIMPLE_SQL_NAME(table_name)||'")' ||' WHERE owner = '||CHR(39)||owner||CHR(39) ||' AND table_name = '||CHR(39)||table_name||CHR(39) ||CHR(10)||'/' FROM user_rows / spool off set autocommit on @row_count_slave.sql exit
Running this now, gives us the ORA-44003 error.
Note – whilst not strictly necessary in this example, it's probably worth getting into the habit of using DBMS_ASSERT anywhere that you're concatenating quoted object names ( such as the predicate we're generating in this script).
Ideally, there should be very few occasions where SQL statements are built dynamically for execution. Far preferable to use bind variables and – even better – to ensure that the database is accessed via a PL/SQL API. In reality, there are many applications where dynamically generated statements are endemic.
This is especially true in Forms – just think how many where clauses or record groups are altered programaticaly at runtime using this technique.
In this post, I've attempted to show how such code can be vulnerable and ways in which you can protect your database against this specific sort of attack. However, I make no garuantees that this is a panacea.
There are Oracle Security experts out there – Red Database Security (obviously) and Pete Finnigan to name but two. If you're really worried about this sort of thing, they may well be pretty good places to visit.


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Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks
"the threat is real" – the threat is fake
"the threat is different" – the (fake) threat went from foreign terrorists to americans being terrorists. thus the airport scanners, walmart snitch programs, etc.
"the threat is constant" – the threat from the powers that be is constant, and devised to keep the fear level high to give them carte blanche to do as they please.
"the new rapidly evolving threat posed by 'homegrown radicals'… american citizens – raised here, born here…"
who do they consider 'homegrown radicals'? what rapidly evolving threat do they pose? and to whom?
homegrown radicals pose a threat to the agenda. Zbigniew Brzezinski fears the 'massive global political awakening':
Brzezinski said: "For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive."
"Authorities suspect Awlaki helped mastermind last year's Christmas Day underwear bombing plot in Detroit, and a recent scheme to blow up cargo planes travelling from Yemen to Europe and the United States."
The underwear bomber Abdulmutallab was able to board only with the help of an unidentified well dressed man seen at the boarding gate:
The United Arab Emirates' Civil Aviation Authority has rejected claims that a US-bound Emirates' flight from Dubai contained "suspicious" parcels from Yemen
"He's an extremely dangerous man. He has shown a desire to harm the United States, a desire to strike the homeland of the United States," Holder said."
Awlaki is so dangerous that he dined with military brass after 911:
"Holder said that as a threat to the United States, Awlaki ranks right up there with Osama bin Laden."
Cheney says neither Saddam nor bin Laden involved in 9.11
"Awlaki is believed to be in Yemen, but thanks to the Internet, his reach is global…"
"The ability to go into your basement, turn on your computer, find a site that has this kind of hatred spewed … they have an ability to take somebody who is perhaps just interested, perhaps just on the edge, and take them over to the other side," he said."
This is how the FCC got the Net Neutrality Passed, which just happened today:
"Turning to how terror suspects are tried, Holder said he still believes the "decision as to how people get prosecuted, where they get prosecuted, is an executive branch function. Even if those suspects are being held now at Guantanamo Bay. Holder said Congress should not be interfering with that."
An Ex-Bush Official reported that many Guantanamo Bay prisoners are innocent
"What Wikileaks did, at the end of the day, was harmful to American security, put American agents and properties … at risk … and I think for arrogant and misguided reasons," he said."


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Dry conditions in upstate New York drive animals to travel farther looking for food.
A dry summer paired with an animal population peak has led to an increased number of backyard encounters for area residents, says one wildlife biologist.
The animals have been wandering farther looking for vegetation, and when they find a food source such as bird feeders or watered gardens with more vegetation, they stay in that area as long as the supply lasts, Steve Heerkens of the Department of Environmental Conservation said.
Because of this, many city residents have seen more skunks, squirrels, foxes and especially bears this summer. Even millipedes have been an issue.
Ron Cardillo of East Utica said he has noticed the increase in wildlife, but he likes it that way.
Cardillo and his wife, Lottie, have four bird feeders in their backyard that attract more than just birds.
"I stopped doing it for a while because of the bear," he said.
In June, two of his bird feeders were destroyed by a black bear that wandered through the area and made itself visible to residents from East Utica to Whitestown.
After the excitement died down and Cardillo caught wind of the bear's death when it was struck by a motor vehicle, he replaced the bird feeders and began enjoying the company of squirrels, chipmunks and even the occasional skunk.
"When you put out stuff like this, you get skunks too, but they haven't bothered us. They just eat and walk away," he said.
Unlike Cardillo, others don't appreciate the uninvited guests.
Nick Rabice said he has seen four or five skunks around his Kossuth Avenue home in Utica. He said they cause problems for residents, including tearing apart the garbage and leaving a mess. But that is not his only concern.
"I am more worried about the children in the area that play in their yards," he said.
Pasquale Benzo owns Squal's Trap Supply and Wildlife Control and holds a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's nuisance control license. He's received many calls this summer to remove unwanted animals.
Benzo said he has an easy solution to the problem — don't feed the animals.
"If you feed them, they are going to come back, like your relatives," he said.
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An artist's rendering shows a typical close-in Earth-size planet, Kepler-20e, which is about 0.87 times as wide as our planet but orbits its parent star more closely than Mercury orbits our sun.
A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy. And that's not even counting the alien Earths we'd want to live on.
These 17 billion planets would be circling their parent stars more closely than Mercury orbits our own sun — which means that, in many cases, the planets would be too hot for liquid water to exist. A few such worlds already have been found, including a "lava planet" known as Alpha Centauri Bb that's just 4.3 light-years away from us.
Someday, the type of simulation that astronomers used to estimate the number of hot Earths can be used to estimate how many habitable Earths could provide a home for life as we know it in the Milky Way. But not just yet.
"For an estimate of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone, it's simply too early to call," said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, or CfA.
Fressin and his colleagues lay out their estimates for Earth-sized planets, as well as bigger worlds, in a paper that's been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Their research is being discussed today at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
The estimates are based on a list of 2,400 planet candidates that have been detected by the Kepler probe since its launch in 2009. Kepler looks for planets in a patch of sky overlapping the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, by checking for the faint dimming of a star as an alien world passes across its disk. One of the challenges is to make sure the dimming is really caused by a planet, rather than some other phenomenon such as an eclipsing binary star. Another challenge is that Kepler is sure to miss some planets, because those planets are not in a position to block the light of its parent star, as seen from Earth.
Now that the Kepler mission has been churning out detections for more than three years, there's enough of a database to arrive at some statistical conclusions about the total number of planets in the Milky Way — at least 100 billion. There's also enough data to determine what the breakdown of detections should be, and even how many of those detections will be wrong.
"We have a knowledge of false positives that's good enough that we can do a study from scratch," Fressin said.
The simulation suggests that the false-positive rate should vary depending on the size of the planet candidates, from a low of 6.7 percent for small Neptune-scale planets to a high of 17.7 percent for Jupiter-type giants. The false-positive rate for close-in planets between 0.8 and 1.25 times as wide as Earth is 12.3 percent. When all these factors were added to the calculations, the astronomers arrived at a breakdown for five types of planets currently detectable by Kepler:
- 17 percent for Earths with orbital periods up to 85 days.
- 26 percent for super-Earths (1.25 to 2 times as wide as Earth) with orbits up to 145 days.
- 26 percent for small Neptunes (2 to 4 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 245 days.
- 3 percent for large Neptunes (4 to 6 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 418 days.
- 5 percent for giants (6 to 22 times Earth's width) with orbits up to 418 days.
The results indicate that for every size of planet except for gas giants, the type of star doesn't matter. Earth-sized planets should be just as likely to form around red dwarfs as around sunlike stars. That runs counter to what was previously thought.
"Earths and super-Earths aren't picky. We're finding them in all kinds of neighborhoods," the CfA's Guillermo Torres, a co-author of the study, said in a news release.
The researchers emphasized that these are just minimum estimates — and that as Kepler provides more planet candidates at smaller scales and wider orbits, the numbers could increase. Eventually, such simulations could spit out a long-sought number: the tally of Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way expected to have conditions capable of supporting life.
"This result is a significant step towards the determination of eta-earth, the occurrence of Earthlike planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars," they wrote in their research paper.
More about the planet search:
- Kepler mission adds 461 potential planets to list
- 'Exocomets' are common across the Milky Way
- 2013 might be the year for first 'alien Earth'
- Alien planets face danger from binary stars
- Cosmic Log archive on the planet search
In addition to Fressin and Torres, the authors of "The False Positive Rate of Kepler nd the Occurrence of Planets" include David Charbonneau, Stephen Bryson, Jessie Christiansen, Courtney Dressing, Jon Jenkins, Lucianne Walkowicz and Natalie Batalha.
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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Arguments over tribal night deer hunting continued
DNR has banned night deer hunting for decades
MADISON, Wis. — Arguments over whether the Wisconsin Chippewa can hunt deer at night are scheduled to continue on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb two weeks ago declared the state's ban on night deer hunting extends to tribal hunters, scuttling the Chippewa's request until Wednesday's hearing.
Witnesses for both the Chippewa and the state testified all day Wednesday. Crabb did not say if she would rule from the bench following the expected conclusion of testimony on Thursday or at a later date.
The organization that oversees the Chippewa's off-reservation rights last month quietly authorized tribal hunters to hunt at night, known as shining.
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EcoTarget Pest Solutions
San Diego, CA 92126858-381-3098
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- Structural Pest Control Board #12601
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