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June is upon us, which means hurricanes may not be far behind. And according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this could be a bad year.
NOAA's Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook says there is a 70 percent likelihood of between 13 and 20 named storms, of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes with winds of 74 mph or higher. We are looking at the real possibility of between three and six major hurricanes of Category 3 and stronger, with winds of 111 miles per hour or more.
Of course, NOAA doesn't know if any of these possible storms will make landfall even if they do form. Many hurricanes spin around out in the ocean and don't cause any trouble other than forcing ships and aircraft to route around them. But it only takes one good hit to affect thousands of lives and do millions of dollars in property damage. One only needs to look as far back as Hurricane Katrina or Superstorm Sandy to what can happen. And the die is cast for a bad year.
"This year, oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic basin are expected to produce more and stronger hurricanes," wrote Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center in a briefing about the pending storms. "These conditions include weaker wind shear, warmer Atlantic waters and conducive winds patterns coming from Africa."
NOAA does a good job these days using technology to predict dangerous storms, but this year it may have its work cut out for it with so much bad weather predicted, which is bad news for those of us living along the East Coast, and especially for those in the South, the typical target zone. Thankfully, NOAA will have some new prediction weapons at its disposal, if it can get them online and working before the storms hit.
Right now, the predictions are pretty good, as was evident by the extremely accurate modeling of Superstorm Sandy. NOAA predicted the storm's intensity and impact, and projected the correct time of its landfall within six hours.
To improve predictions even more, NOAA is working to bring a new supercomputer online in July, before hurricane season reaches its peak. The new system will run an upgraded hurricane weather research and forecasting model that provides significantly enhanced depiction of storm structure and improved storm intensity forecast guidance.
The National Hurricane Center uses several dozen modeling programs combining factors such as historical data and atmospheric information to predict a storm's path.
And adding Doppler radar to its fleet of sensor-laden, storm-hunting aircraft, could mean a 10 to 15 percent increase in prediction accuracy and speed, according to NOAA.
At the moment, the uncertain element in NOAA's big picture has to do with satellites. The GOES 13 satellite that NOAA uses to watch the East Coast. It is having some problems, and this is not the first time. There are plans to reposition GOES 14 to watch over the hurricane target zone if 13 can't get fully operational before the hurricane season begins in earnest. With a violent season predicted, NOAA needs to make sure that all of its resources are working and in place, if not by June 1, then certainly by August when the season traditionally heats up. We can't fight hurricanes, but with enough warning people can prepare for them, or, if nothing else, get the heck out of the way.
To learn about what you can do to prepare for a hurricane, visit the government's http://www.ready.gov/hurricanes storm preparation website and take their sage advice.
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You are very correct, Adam. The latest evidence has shown there has been NO average global temperature increase in the last 15 years!The greatest scientific hoax in all of history.
Ned, if you believe the puny arm of man can affect the Earth, you are greatly mistaken. While I believe we should be good stewards over the Earth and its resources, global warming is a myth. When I was in middle school they were telling me we were entering into another ice age, forty years later, the earth is going to end because of global warming? What a joke! The Earth goes through natural and normal heating and cooling cycles. Unless you can show me ACCURATE data over the last, few THOUSAND years, I will not support the myth of global warming. If you want the truth about global warming follow the money....
Just what we need, more storms. It's great that we will see them coming, but unless we can actually do something about it, that does not do us too much good other than evacuating the area. Since we likely will never be able to directly fight hurricanes with something like an anti-hurricane laser, then we need to reduce the amount of storms by stopping global warming. I wonder if the crack-pots who deny global warming will still be doing it as the waters rise up over their heads and they drown with the rest of us?
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In the late 1970s Acorn (http://www.mcmordie.co.uk/acornhistory/acornhistory.shtml) was a small company in Cambridge, UK, producing electronic equipment for laboratories. My first microcomputer was an Acorn Atom, produced in 1980 with 2K of RAM, using a 6502 CPU. Acorn went on to win the BBC's commission for a microcomputer to be used in UK schools as part of an educational series of broadcasts. Its success with the resulting BBC B microcomputer made the company a household name in the UK. This machine was designed to be usable as a front end to more powerful second processors. However, Acorn found that all the currently available CPUs, from Motorola, National Semiconductor, Intel and Texas Instruments, were simply not fast enough at handling interrupts to work satisfactorily in this role. So they decided to manufacture their own! Thus was born, in 1986, the ARM (Acorn Risc Machine) CPU architecture. The Acorn Archimedes was the first microcomputer in the world for public sale to use a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) design. Its new operating system, RISC OS, was designed specifically for the ARM CPU.
This history is important, because it was to set the design-parameters for RISC OS. Acorn was selling to teachers and schoolchildren, and academics. The Archimedes could not be too expensive, and it had to be easy to use. This meant compromise. A cut-down multi-user OS, or a converted business system was not appropriate. RISC OS was a clean sheet design, for a personal, single-user microcomputer. It had a graphical user interface - the second to appear for public consumption (Apple's Lisa got there first). In fact the window manager was also the task manager, so the GUI was no bolt-on extra. Considerable effort went into making it easy to use and consistent. If this catered for the inexpert, the geek was kept happy too. RISC OS consists of an expandable cluster of modules (what an overloaded word); software packages in ROM or loaded into RAM. If you do not like some feature of RISC OS, well then, unplug the relevant module and substitute your own. Writing modules is not completely straightforward, but the excellent programmer's reference manuals (PRMs) have made it possible for many third party modules to be written. In a word, RISC OS has been designed to be totally under the user's control, like a motorcycle that can be dismantled and put together again on the kitchen floor. This feeling, that what is in the machine is the user's, not some piece of magic graciously licensed by a distant authority, goes a long way toward explaining why RISC OS users remain so.
The decision to provide RISC OS in ROM may well have been influenced by its use in schools. Early models of the Archimedes were usable with half a megabyte of RAM and no hard disc, GUI and all. ROMming the OS has big advantages for security. The only disadvantage is when you need to update; modern RISC OS hardware lets you reflash the ROMs when you are safely disconnected from the internet.
Remember the 640K limit on RAM that IBM machines once had? Well Acorn suffered a similar blindness when gazing into the crystal ball. The ARM chips up to and including version 3 used a cunning ruse to save memory and gain speed. All the registers in an ARM CPU are 32 bits wide. Those early versions used a 26-bit address bus (giving a 64Mb limit to the address space) and used the 8 extra bits in register R15 (the program counter) as status flags. This meant that both program counter and status flags could be saved by storing a single register. RISC OS was initially designed around this trick, alas. When the hugely successful ARM Holdings was spun off from Acorn and Acorn broken up to make this possible, new ARM designs appeared with a separate status register to cope with proper 32 bit addressing. The ARM 6 and 7, and Digital's brilliant StrongARM chip all had 26-bit compatibility modes, so RISC OS, which lived on under a sort of user buy-out, could and did use these chips. But the writing was on the wall. Why should ARM chip manufacturers bother with providing a compatibility mode for the small numbers of users of an obscure operating system? RISC OS had to be rewritten for 32-bit compatibility if it were to take advantage of newer ARM CPUs, a daunting undertaking for a small business. My own computer uses an XScale CPU and a 32-bit version of RISC OS.


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In the past year, the grid has seen some remarkable highs, while also being tested to meet the basic needs of society.
On one hand, big advances have flourished, fundamentally changing the way we power our lives. Roof-mounted solar panels have gone from a costly oddity to a competitive selling point for many homes and battery-powered vehicles have gained traction.
On the other hand, the idea of progress has been challenged by a slew of weather woes that have shaken consumer confidence in our energy infrastructure. A series of intense storms, heat waves and drought made 2012 one of the toughest years globally for the grid in many years.
So what will 2013 bring? The growth of the smart grid.
A new stage is opening - where the public was once ambivalent about the smart grid, consumers are now starting to demand these improvements, spurred by the need to improve reliability, participation and the resiliency to recover from large-scale grid events.
Going into the new year, pressure to rebuild the northeast's grid with more resilience will further boost trends that point towards investment in these smart technologies to continue to expand by over 10% over the next five years.
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1) Get Emotional Support -- Find a support group, a physician that is personable, psychotherapy, an organization that promotes activities for persons living with HIV. The goal here is to feel connected with others who have the understanding and compassion for what you're confronting.
2) Listen to Self-Help Tapes -- Listen to tapes that are calming, offer a meditation, or uses guided imagery. Many people find that these tapes are soothing and offer a time for centering. Dr. Emmett Miller offers a catalogue of tapes. You may call 1-800-52-TAPES for more information.
3) Try Meditation -- There are many types of meditation. Many people find that this is an effective way of quieting and centering. People can meditate in morning and in the evening. They find that this is a nice and calming way to begin and end each day. There are many books available at your local bookstore on this topic.
4) Connect with Nature -- Nature is all around us. Take a walk in the park or a trail at Stone Mountain. Being around mother earth's beauty is sometimes all we need to keep things in perspective. Just sit and watch!
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Did Korean Officials Really Need To Raid Google Offices Over Street View WiFi Sniffing?
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To date, it seems that Google has bent over backwards to work with every government investigating this issue, no matter how varied their requests were on the matter. So far, the UK's investigation has found that the WiFi sniffing didn't appear to collect any sensitive data, though others are still investigating. More recently, Google agreed to allow Germans to opt-out of Street View.
Given Google's clear willingness to help out, it seems a bit odd that South Korean officials -- many months after the news of this came out -- suddenly decided to raid Google's Korean offices over this matter:
A police statement said they suspected Google has been collecting and storing data on "unspecified internet users from wi-fi networks"Brilliant police work there, guys. It only took you three months to "suspect" what Google admitted in May.


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Router and Component Architecture
Recent versions of PKP applications use a component architecture. Examples for components are:
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Every component consists of a model (=DAO), a view (=template) and a controller (=handler). Components can be combined to form composite components. In other words: a component can be built from sub-components.
On the web, MVC component operations (=events) can be triggered over HTTP calls (including AJAX or XML-Http calls). This means that we have to map (=route) URLs to component handler operations.
PKP applications currently employ two different URL schemes - one for pages and one for sub-components. While page URLs are short, easy to read and search engine friendly, component URLs are more flexible and above all allow us to organize components in nested packages and sub-packages (=sub-directories) which is not possible with the page URL scheme. Page URLs appear in the browser's address bar, sub-component URLs usually don't. Most of the time sub-component controller operations are triggered over XML-HTTP calls.
For backwards compatibility, page controllers and other component controllers cannot currently be placed in the same directory structure. This doesn't mean that there is a principal difference between page handlers and other component handlers. They are all just component handlers and they all inherit from the same base classes.
This also means that the page routing scheme is just a special case of the more general component routing scheme. While page handler operations could in principle be addressed with the more general component routing scheme this is not usually possible the other way round.
The following UML sequence diagram gives an overview of the control flow for both routing schemes:
How to use the router?
Router and dispatcher do two things:
- They map incoming requests to handler methods
- They construct URLs to be used in the view
Incoming calls
The router is used by the PKP framework to map incoming HTTP calls to component handler operations. It makes sure that component operation methods are called with two parameters:
- an array of arguments to the call ($args)
- a request object that represents the HTTP client request
A typical handler method will therefore use the following method signature:
/** * A sample handler method * * @param $args array of arguments to the call * @param $request PKPRequest a reference to a PKPRequest instance */ function handlerOp($args, &$request) { ... }
Please note that:
- The handler operation method signature is the same for page and other component handlers.
- Statical calls to the Request class have been deprecated. Use calls to the $request instance instead.
- All methods that are specific to the routing scheme (context resolving, handler resolving, operation resolving, url construction, caching) have been moved from the Application/Request to the Router/Dispatcher classes. The Request class still implements all methods for backwards compatibility but they are deprecated there. Make sure you don't use them any more.
Please re-factor deprecated method calls wherever you come across them.
Outgoing calls (URL construction)
Both router implementations (page router and component router) have a url() method that is used to construct URLs.
You can retrieve the current request scheme's router instance from the request:
... $router =& $request->getRouter(); $url = $router->url(...); ...
If you need to construct a URL from within a non-handler class (e.g. a form class) you'll have to pass the $request instance along by reference via method parameters.
A router can only construct URLs according to it's own routing scheme. If you wish to construct a component router URL from within a request routed by a page router or vice versa then you have to use the dispatcher's more general url() method. All handlers get a reference to the dispatcher singleton instance before control is passed to the handler operation.
... $dispatcher =& $this->getDispatcher(); $url = $dispatcher->url('page', ...); // for a page scheme url within a component scheme request ...
... $dispatcher =& $this->getDispatcher(); $url = $dispatcher->url('component', ...); // for a component scheme url within a page scheme request ...
If you need to construct a URL via dispatcher from within a non-handler class (e.g. a form class) you'll have to retrieve the dispatcher from the global registry:
... $dispatcher =& Registry::get('dispatcher'); $url = $dispatcher->url(...); ...
NB: State changing calls to components should be made over POST requests. Stateless calls should be made over GET.
Where to find more information?
The information on this wiki page is of a very general nature. If you need more specific information then please look at the following places:
Look at the classdoc (doxygen API documentation) of the router classes which you find in the core package. There you'll find a more complete description of the respective URL schemes.
If you need more information about the specific usage of a given dispatcher or router method then please look at the respective unit tests. You'll find the DispatcherTest, PKPComponentRouterTest, PKPPageRouterTest and PKPRouterTest classes in the directory tests/classes/core. There are a large number of examples that cover all use cases that have been considered while designing these classes.


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This section covers problems you may encounter when using the Application Server 8.2 Enterprise Edition product with the High Availability Database (HADB) module, HADB Management Client, or the load balancer plugin. These components can be installed separately or with the rest of the Application Server.
Topics in this chapter include:
Failure in configure-ha-cluster: Creating an HADB Instance Fails
The database creation may fail due to the following reasons:
failed to start database : HADB Database creation failed
To determine the cause of the problem, use the Log Viewer and/or inspect the install_dir/hadb/4/log directory. Some possible errors are:
Database Nodes Cannot Be Reached and the Database Does Not Function
This problem may occur due to any of the following reasons:
Shared memory is not configured or the configuration is not working.
Follow the instructions described in the Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Installation Guide. Remember to reboot the system after configuring shared memory settings.
The physical memory is not enough to satisfy the node requirements. You may see the following error message:
HADB-S-05512: Attaching shared memory segment with key <xx\> failed, OS status=12 OS message: Not enough space.
Verify that shared memory is configured and the configuration is working, as mentioned above.
For production systems, reduce the number of nodes on the host or increase the physical memory on the host.
For test/development systems, reduce the shared memory usage by setting the LogBufferSize and DataBufferPoolSize to a value lower than the default values of 48 and 200MB, respectively. The allowed minimum for these variables are 32 and 64MB, respectively.
The size of a shared memory segment has exceeded the allowed maximum size.
HADB-S-05510: Getting shared memory segment with key <xx\> failed, OS status=22. OS message: Invalid argument.
Verify that shared memory is configured and the configuration is working, as mentioned above.
If shared memory is configured correctly, check whether you have specified any shared memory segment size (LogBufferSize or DataBufferPoolSize) larger than the system-configured maximum value set in the operating system configuration files (shmsys:shminfo_shmmax in /etc/system on Solaris).
There is already a shared memory segment created with the specified identifier:
HADB-S-05515: Shared memory segment with key <segment_key\> exists already.
List the shared memory segments and check. The ipcs can be used to list the segments in UNIX. Windows uses memory mapped files for shared memory. HADB uses the getTempPath system call to get the system-defined temporary directory where these files, named as f_segmentid, are stored.
Check whether there is already another running database or any other program using the shared memory segment with this identifier. If so, create a database with another port base. If there are no running databases or other programs using this segment, free the segment with hadbm delete unused_database.
Check whether the segments are freed. If they are still there, remove them (use ipcrm in UNIX and delete $TMP/f_* in Windows). The file name consists of the f_ prefix followed by the segment_key translated into hexadecimal. For example, if the error message indicates that segment key 15201 still exists, the temp file would be named f_3B61.
HADB-E-05521: Operation on semaphore with key "46025" failed, OS status=28 : No space left on device
This can be caused when the number of semaphores is too low. Since the semaphores are provided as a global resource by the operating system, the configuration depends on all processes running on the host, not only the HADB. This can occur either while starting the HADB, or during runtime.
Configure the semaphore settings by editing the /etc/system file. Instructions and guidelines are contained in the Configuring Shared Memory and Semaphores section of the Preparing for HADB Setup chapter of the Sun Java System Application Server Installation Guide.
The IP addresses of the involved hosts should be fixed. HADB uses the fixed IP addresses present at database creation, so you cannot use dynamic IP addresses (DHCP) for production systems.
The HADB management system is dependent on UDP Multicast messages on multicast address 126.96.36.199. If these messages cannot get through, the createdomain command fails with the following message:
The management agents could not establish a domain, please check that the hosts can communicate with UDP multicast.
Possible causes include:
The agents are running on hosts with several network interfaces on different subnets.
There is a switch on the network that does not forward multicast messages.
There is router on the network that does not route multicast messages with the address 18.104.22.168.
Multicast messages are disabled in the operating system (for example, on Solaris 10).
If the hosts have several network interfaces on different subnets, the management agent must be configured to use one of the subnets. Set the ma.server.mainternal.interfaces attribute.
Configure the needed network infrastructure to support multicast messages.
Some hosts in the host list given to hadbm create or addnodes have multiple network interfaces, while others have only one, and the hadbm create/addnodes command hangs.
For the hosts having multiple network interfaces, specify the dotted IP address of the network interface (for example, 220.127.116.11) to be used by hadb when issuing hadbm create/addnodes. If the host name is used instead of IP address, the first interface registered on the host will be used, and there is no guarantee that the nodes will be able to communicate.
The ma (Management Agent process) crashes for various reasons.
Display diagnostic information by using hadbm listdomain. Typically, the remedy is to restart the failed agent. If that does not help, restart all agents in turn.
The server takes a long time to service a request after a long period of idleness, and the sever log shows "lost connection" messages of the form:
java.io.IOException:..HA Store: Lost connection to the server.
In such cases, the server needs to recreate the JDBC pool for HADB.
Change the timeout value. The default HADB connection timeout value is 1800 seconds. If the application server does not send any request over a JDBC connection during this period, HADB closes the connection, and the application server needs to re-establish it. To change the timeout value, use the hadbm set SessionTimeout= command.
Make sure the HADB connection timeout is greater than the JDBC connection pool timeout. If the JDBC connection timeout is more than the HADB connection time out, the connection will be closed from the HADB side, but will remain in the application server connection pool. When the application then tries to use the connection, the application server will have to recreate the connection, which incurs significant overhead.
The following problems are addressed in this section:
When configuring the response-timeout-in-seconds property in the loadbalancer.xml file, you must take into account the maximum timeouts for all the applications that are running. If the response timeout it is set to a very low value, numerous in-flight requests will fail because the load balancer will not wait long enough for the Application Server to respond to the request.
Conversely, setting the response timeout to an inordinately large value will result in requests being queued to an instance that has stopped responding, resulting in numerous failed requests.
Set the response-timeout-in-seconds value to the maximum response time of all the applications.
When a session is stored in HADB, it includes some time information, including the last time the session was accessed and the last time it was modified. If the clocks are not synchronized, then when an instance fails and another instance takes over (on another machine), that instance may think the session was expired when it was not, or worse yet, that the session was last accessed in the future!
In a non-colocated configuration, it is important to synchronize the clocks on that machines that are hosting HADB nodes. For more information, see the Installation Guide chapter, "Preparing for HADB Setup."
Verify that clocks are synchronized for all systems in the cluster.
HADB may be created and running, but if the persistence store has not yet been created, the Application Server will not be able to communicate with the HADB. This situation is accompanied by the following message:
WARNING (7715): ConnectionUtilgetConnectionsFromPool failed using connection URL: connection URL
Create the session store in the HADB with a command like the following:
asadmin create-session-store --storeurl connection URL --storeuser haadmin --storepassword hapasswd --dbsystempassword super123
The following problems are addressed in this section:
The asadmin create-session-store command cannot run across firewalls. Therefore, for the create-session-store command to work, the application server instance and the HADB must be on the same side of a firewall.
The create-session-store command communicates with the HADB and not with the application server instance.
Locate the HADB and the application server instance on the same side of a firewall.
The application-level session persistence configuration always takes precedence over instance-level session persistence configuration. Even if you change the instance-level session persistence configuration after an application has been deployed, the settings for the application still override the settings for the application server instance.
Session data may be corrupted if the system log reports errors under the following circumstances:
During session persistence
When the session state is read during session activation
When the session state is read after session failover
If the data has been corrupted, there are three possible solutions for bringing the session store back to a consistent state, as described below.
Use the asadmin clear-session-store command to clear the session store.
If clearing the session store does not work, reinitialize the data space on all the nodes and clear the data in the HADB using the hadbm clear command.
If clearing the HADB does not work, delete and then recreate the database.
For solutions 2 and 3, above, after clearing the HADB, recreate the session store to restablish the database schema.
Performance is affected when the transactions to HADB get delayed or aborted. This situation is generally caused by a shortage of system resources. Any wait beyond five seconds causes the transactions to abort. Any node failures also cause the active transaction on that node at crash time to abort. Any double failures (failure of both mirrors) will make the HADB unavailable. The causes of the failures can generally be found in the HADB history files.
To isolate the problem, consider the following:
Is There a Shortage of CPU or Memory Resources, or Too Much Swapping?
Node restarts or double failures due to "Process blocked for x sec, max block time is 2.500000 sec." In this case, x is the length of time the process was blocked, and it was greater than 2.5 seconds.
The HADB Node Supervisor Process (NSUP/clu_nsup_srv) tracks the time elapsed since the last time it did some monitoring work. If that time duration exceeds a specified maximum (2500ms by default), NSUP concludes that it was blocked too long and restarts the node.
NSUP being blocked for more than 2.5 seconds cause the node to restart. If mirror nodes are placed on the same host, the likelihood of double failure is high. Simultaneous occurrence of the blocking on the mirror hosts may also lead to double failures.
The situation is especially likely to arise when there are other processes—for example, in a colocated configuration— in the system that compete for CPU, or memory which produces extensive swapping and multiple page faults as processes are rescheduled.
NSUP being blocked can also be caused by negative system clock adjustments.
Ensure that HADB nodes get enough system resources. Ensure also that the time synchronization daemon does not make large (not higher than 2 seconds) jumps.
A disk contention can have a negative impact on user data read/writes to the disk devices, as well as on HADB writing to history files. Severe disk contention may delay or abort user transactions. Delay in history file writing may cause node restarts and, in the worst case, lead to double failures.
The disk contention can be identified by monitoring the disk I/O from the OS, for the disks used for data, log devices and history files. History file write delays are written to the HADB history files. This can be identified by "NSUP BEWARE timestamp Last flush took too long (x msecs)."
This warning shows that disk I/O took too long. If the delay exceeds ten seconds, the node supervisor restarts the trans process with the error message:
Child process trans0 10938 does not respond. Child died - restarting nsup. Psup::stop: stopping all processes.
This message indicates that a trans (clu_trans_srv) process has been too busy doing other things (for example, waiting to write to the history file) to reply to the node supervisor's request checking the heartbeat of the trans process. This causes the nsup to believe that the trans has died and then restarts it.
When the operating system is overloaded with too many processes (many HADB nodes co-located with other processes), the scheduling of I/O operations may be delayed. When the HADB related I/O work is delayed, HADB nodes write the following in the history files, "HADB warning: Schedule of async <read,write\> operation took ..."
This problem is observed especially in Red Hat AS 2.1 when multiple HADB nodes are placed on the same host and all the nodes use the same disk to place their devices.
Use one disk per node to place the devices used by that node. If the node has more than one data devices and the disk contention is observed, move one data device to another disk. The same applies to the history file as well.
Make sure that all data and log devices and all history files reside on local disks (not NFS-mounted or other remotely mounted disks).
If the monitoring tools still show contention on the HADB disks, the data buffer pool size can be increased.
One possible reason for transaction failure is running out of data device space. If this situation occurs, HADB will write warnings to the history file, and abort the transaction which tried to insert and/or update data.
Typical messages are:
HIGH LOAD: about to run out of device space, ... HIGH LOAD: about to run out of device space on mirror node, ...
The general rule of thumb is that the data devices must have room for at least four times the volume of the user data. Please refer to the Tuning Guide for additional explanation.
Increase the size of the data devices using the following command:
hadbm set DeviceSize=size
This solution requires that there is space available on the physical disks which are used for the HADB data devices on all nodes.
HADBM automatically restarts each node of the database.
Stop and delete the HADB, and create a new instance with more nodes and/or larger data devices and/or several data devices per node. Unfortunately, using this solution will erase all persistent data and the schemas created by the Application Server. See the Administrator's Guide for more information about this procedure.
When an HADB node is started, it will allocate:
Several shared memory segments of fixed size
Internal data structures of fixed size
If an HADB node runs out of resources it will delay and/or abort transactions. Resource usage information is shipped between mirror nodes, so that a node can delay or abort an operation which is likely to fail on its mirror node.
Transactions that are delayed repeatedly may time out and return an error message to the client. If they do not time out, the situation will be visible to the client only as decreased performance during the periods in which the system is short on resources.
These problems frequently occur in "High Load" situations. For details, see High Load Problems
High load scenarios are recognizable by the following symptoms:
User requests do not succeed
The database gives multiple timeout and "transaction aborted" messages
Frequent "HIGH LOAD" warnings in the history file
Sporadic failures
If a high load problem is suspected, consider the following:
Frequently, all of these problems can be solved by making more CPU horsepower available.
All user operations (delete, insert, update) are logged in the tuple log and executed. There tuple log may fill up because:
Execution slows due to CPU or disk I/O contention
The mirror node is slow in receiving the log records, which can happen as a result of:
Network contention, so the log records do not reach the mirror node
CPU and disk contention at the mirror node, which keeps it from processing the received log records quickly enough ("log throw due to..." messages in the history files).
If the tuple log is out of space, the history files contain messages showing HIGH LOAD on the tuple log.
Check CPU usage, as described in Improving CPU Utilization
If CPU utilization is not a problem, check the disk I/O. If the disk shows contention, avoid page faults when log records are being processed by increasing the data buffer size with hadbm set DataBufferPoolSize=... If there is disk contention, follow the solutions suggested in Is There Disk Contention?
Look for evidence of network contention, and resolve bottlenecks.
Increase the tuple log buffer using hadbm set LogBufferSize=...
Too many node-internal operations are scheduled but not processed due to CPU or disk I/O problems.
If the node-internal log is out of space, the history files contain messages showing HIGH LOAD on the node internal log.
Check CPU usage, as described in Improving CPU Utilization
If CPU utilization is not a problem, check the disk I/O. If the disk shows contention, avoid page faults when log records are being processed by increasing the data buffer size with hadbm set DataBufferPoolSize=... If there is disk contention, follow the solutions suggested in Is There Disk Contention?
Some extra symptoms that identify this condition are:
Error code 2080 or 2096 delivered to the client.
hadbm resourceinfo --locks shows locks allocated, and all are in use all the time
A transaction running on a node is not allowed to use more than 25% of the number of locks allocated on that node. Read transactions running at the "repeatable read" isolation level and the update/insert/delete transactions hold the locks until the transaction terminates. Therefore, it is recommended to split long transactions into small batch of separate transactions.
Use hadbm set NumberOfLocks= to increase the number of locks.
In most situations, reducing load or increasing the availability of resources will improve host performance. Some of the more common steps to take are:
Run the nodes on hosts with better hardware characteristics (more internal memory, higher processor speed, more processors).
Add physical disks and use several data devices, not more than one device on each physical disk.
Add more nodes, on new hosts, and refragment the data to utilize the new nodes.
Change configuration variables to allocate larger memory segments or internal data structures.
In addition, the following resources can be adjusted to improve "HIGH LOAD" problems, as described in the Performance and Tuning Guide:Table 3–1 HADB Performance Tuning Properties
Size of Database Buffer
hadbm attribute DataBufferPoolSize
Size of Tuple Log Buffer
hadbm attribute LogBufferSize
Size of Node Internal Log Buffer
hadbm attribute InternalLogBufferSize
Number of Database Locks
hadbm attribute NumberOfLocks
This problem is accompanied by a message in the history file:
HADB-E-05521: Operation on semaphore with key "46025" failed, OS status=28 : No space left on devicewhere:
You must configure more semaphore unso structures on the host computer. See the "Preparing for HADB Setup" chapter in the Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Installation Guide for information on how to configure semmnu on your operating system.
Stop the affected HADB node, reconfigure and reboot the affected host, restart the HADB node. HADB will be available during the process.
Available CPU cycles and I/O capacity can impose severe restrictions on performance. Resolving and preventing such issues is necessary to optimize system performance (in addition to configuring the HADB optimally.)
If there are additional CPUs on the host that are not exploited, add new nodes to the same host. Otherwise add new machines and add new nodes on them.
If the machine has enough memory, increase the DataBufferPoolSize, and increase other internal buffers that may be putting warnings into the log files. Otherwise, add new machines and add new nodes on them.
For more information on this subject, consult the Performance and Tuning Guide.
The hadbm command and its many subcommands and options are provided for administering the high-availability database (HADB). The hadbm command is located in the install_dir/SUNWhadb/4/bin directory.
Refer to the chapter on Configuring the High Availability Database in the Sun Java System Application Server Administrator's Guide for a full explanation of this command. Specifics on the various hadbm subcommands are explained in the hadbm man pages.
The following problems are addressed in this section:
The command fails with the error:
The agents <url\> could not be reached.
The hosts in the URL could be unreachable either because the hosts are down, because the communication pathway has not been established, because the port number in the URL is wrong, or because the management agents are down.
Verify that the URL is correct. If the URL is correct, verify that the hosts are up and running and are ready to accept communications; for example:
ping hostname1ping hostname2...
The hadbm command can be run from the current directory, or you can set the search PATH to access the hadb commands from anywhere, which is much more convenient. The error, "hadbm: Command not found," indicates that neither of these conditions has been met.
cd to the directory that contains the hadbm command and run it from there:
cd install_dir/SUNWhadb/4/bin/ ./hadbm
Use the full path to invoke the hadbm command:
You can use the hadbm command from anywhere by setting the PATH variable. Instructions for setting the PATH variable are contained in the "Preparing for HADB Setup" chapter of the Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Installation Guide.
To verify that the PATH settings are correct, run the following commands:
which asadmin which hadbm
These commands should echo the paths to the utilities.
The message "hadbm: <path\>: Invalid Java home location" indicates that the JAVA_HOME environment variable has not been set properly.
If multiple Java versions are installed on the system, ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the correct Java version (1.4.1_03 or above for Enterprise Edition).
Instructions for setting the PATH variable are contained in the "Preparing for HADB Setup" chapter of the Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Installation Guide.
If running the HADB management agent on a host with multiple network interfaces, the createdomain command may fail if not all network interfaces are on the same subnet:
hadbm:Error 22020: The management agents could not establish a domain, please check that the hosts can communicate with UDP multicast.
By default, the management agents use the "first" interface for UDP multicasts ("first" as returned by java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces()).
The best solution is to tell the management agent which subnet to use by setting ma.server.mainternal.interfaces in the configuration file; for example:
Alternatively, one may configure the router between the subnets to route multicast packets. By default, the management agent uses multicast address 188.8.131.52.
After issuing the hadbm create command, an error similar to the following appears on the console:
./hadbm create ... ... hadbm: Error 22022: Path path does not exist on host host
This error message can also appear when new nodes are added without the specified paths do not exist on the machines.
Log in to the host and create paths for the HADB devices and HADB history files. Run hadbm create and specify the --devicepath and --historypath options to the paths created. Also make sure that the user running the management agent on the host has read and write access to these directories.
HADB executables cannot be installed on different paths on different hosts.
The create or start command fails with the console error message:
hadbm: Error 22095: Database could not be started...
Consider the following possibilities:
Start may fail if the resources (shared memory, disk space) allocated for that node are taken by some other processes, after the node is stopped.
Refer to Problems Related to Shared Memory for suggestions on resolving this issue.
If the problem still persists, inspect the HADB history files. Some of the more likely error messages to look for are:
Could not verify node address
This message occurs when another process is using the port that an HADB server is trying to process. It can occur in several situations:
The portBase is used by another process running on this host machine.
Set the PortBase attribute to another value using the following command:
hadbm set portbase=value
An attempt to stop the HADB node for maintenance failed.
Try again to stop the node with the hadbm command. If that fails, kill the OS process clu_nsup_srv for this node without the -9 option. The nsup process should then stop its hadb child process. If the parent process nsup does not exist, kill all the child processes using kill -9.
The HADB node was stopped for maintenance and an inetd process restarted the HADB node before you intended to start it.
Make sure that inetd does not start the HADB node before stopping it.
hadbm command fails with internal error:"The database could not be started"
Check the following:
Shared memory is all correct on all machines in the HADB configuration.
No other HADB databases are running on the machines, or any other processes that could be using the same port numbers.
All necessary directories exist and have write permissions.
There is enough space in directory where devices are going to be written.
After verifying that none of the above errors have occurred, try the following remedies, in order:
Delete the database and retry.
Delete the database, reboot, and retry.
Delete database, reinstall the HADB software, and retry.
For more information, refer to the Error Message Reference.
The clear command reinitializes the database device files residing on disks. This may fail due to problems with disk or disk access. Check whether any error message from hadbm indicates this. If not, look into the ma.log files and check whether devinit has generated any error messages.
The asadmin create-session-store command could fail for one of these reasons:
This error occurs when the --dbsystempassword supplied to the create-session-store command is not the same password as the one given at the time of database creation.
Try the command again with the correct password.
If you cannot remember the dbsystem password, you need to clear the database using hadbm clear and provide a new dbsystem system password.
The create-session-store produces the error: SessionStoreException: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver.
This error can occur when asadmin is not able to find hadbjdbc4.jar from the AS_HADB path defined in asenv.conf in the Application Server config directory.
The solution is to change AS_HADB to point to the location of the HADB installation.
Here is a sample AS_HADB entry from an asenv.conf file:
This error can also occur if you provide the incorrect value for --storeUrl. To solve this problem, obtain the correct URL using hadbm get jdbcURL.
If the management agent with which the hadbm communicates dies before the operation finishes, then the hadbm process may hang. Check whether the all the agents are running.
HADB restart does not work after a double node failure. Additional recovery actions are needed before HADB can be restarted.
Symptoms of a double node failure include:
hadbm status shows that the HADB status is non-operational.
The node status shows that the nodes are in Starting or Recovering state. Even after stopping and then restarting each of the nodes, they remain in the Starting state. Eventually, the node status changes to Stopped.
This problem occurs when mirror HADB host machines have failed or been rebooted, typically after a power outage, or when a machine is rebooted without first stopping the HADB (in a single-machine installation), or when a pair of mirror machines from both Data Redundancy Units (DRUs) are rebooted.
HADB cannot heal itself automatically in such "double failure" situations because the part of the data that resided on the pair nodes is lost. In such cases, the hadbm start command does not succeed, and the hadbm status command shows that HADB is in a non-operational state.
For more information on the DRUs and HADB confutation, see "Administering the High Availability Database" in the Administration Guide, and the Deployment Guide.
If the HADB exhibits strange behavior (for example consistent timeout problems), and you want to check whether a restart cures the problem, use the hadbm restart command.
When the HADB is restarted in this manner, HADB services remain available. Conversely, if HADB is started and stopped in separate operations using hadbm stop and hadbm start, HADB services are unavailable while HADB is stopped.
Verify that the node states show Starting/Recovering, then reset the database. Follow the instructions under "Recovering from Session Data Corruption" in the "Administering the High Availability Database" chapter of the Administration Guide.
The hadbm process returns the following error:
HADB-S-05515: Shared memory segment with key "NNNNN" exists already
This can happen during HADB instance creation following a controlled stop without deleting a previously created instance that is using the same portbase. The problem may also be the result of a failed HADB instance deletion for any reason.
Delete all stopped hadb instances to make sure all HADB resources are free before attempting to reuse them.
If the problem persists, manually remove the HADB Shared Memory segments by deleting the HADB files in $TMP/f_*.
Creation of an HADB domain comprising some host names appears to succeed, and the listdomain command confirms it:
$hadbm listdomain -w admin Hostname Enabled? Running? Release Interfaces host1 Yes Yes V4-4-1-3 22.214.171.124 host2 Yes Yes V4-4-1-3 126.96.36.199
The database is then created with the hadbm create command, and the appropriate host names including the full domain names are used as parameters for the --hosts option:
$ hadbm create --hosts=host1.xyz.abc.com,host2.xyz.abc.com...
The following error is then returned:
hadbm:Error 22176: The host host1.xyz.abc.com is not registered in the HADB management domain. Use hadbm createdomain to set up the management domain or hadbm extenddomain to include new hosts in an existing domain.
Use the names that listdomain displays; for example:
hadbm create --hosts=host1,host2...
Use decimal IP addresses (DDN); for example:
hadbm create --hosts=126.96.36.199,184.108.40.206
Two different installations of HADB are configured: one on server hosts, and another on the hadbm client host(s), each running different versions of HADB. The management agents are started with one HADB versions, and then hadbm create is run with the other version. The following error is returned:
HADBMGMT007:hadbm create command failed. Return value: 1 STDOUT: STDERR: hadbm:Error 22170: The software package V4.4.x could not be found at path <pacakgepath\>/4.4-x on host <hostname\>. CLI137 Command configure-ha-cluster failed.
Use the same HADB version for the management agents and all hadbm clients.
hadbm set brings the database instance to a state that is hard to recover from.
Changing a database configuration variable with the hadbm set command fails. For example, setting DataBufferPoolSize to a larger size fails due to lack of shared memory on node-0. The hadbm set command leaves the database with node-0 in a stopped state and node-1 in a running state. Resetting the pool size back to the original value with the help of hadbm set fails with the message:
22073: The operation requires restart of node 1. Its mirror node is currently not available. Use hadbm status --nodes to see the status of the nodes.
The hadbm startnode 0 command is also of no use in this situation.
Stop the database, then restore the old values using hadbm set, then restart the database.
Creation of an HADB cluster fails with the message:
cresqldict: HADB-E-00208: The transaction was aborted.
This indicates that the booting transaction populating the SQL dictionary tables was aborted.
Run the configure-ha-cluster again. If the hadbm create command fails with the above message, rerun the command.


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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code M23.62
Oth spon disruption of posterior cruciate ligament of knee
Diagnosis Code M23.62
Short Description: Oth spon disruption of posterior cruciate ligament of knee
Long Description: Other spontaneous disruption of posterior cruciate ligament of knee
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code M23.62
Not Valid for Submission
The code M23.62 is a "header" and not valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00–M99)
Other joint disorders (M20-M25)
- Internal derangement of knee (M23)
- Other joint disorders (M20-M25)
Information for Patients
Knee Injuries and Disorders
Your knee joint is made up of bone, cartilage, ligaments and fluid. Muscles and tendons help the knee joint move. When any of these structures is hurt or diseased, you have knee problems. Knee problems can cause pain and difficulty walking.
Knee problems are very common, and they occur in people of all ages. Knee problems can interfere with many things, from participation in sports to simply getting up from a chair and walking. This can have a big impact on your life.
The most common disease affecting the knee is osteoarthritis. The cartilage in the knee gradually wears away, causing pain and swelling.
Injuries to ligaments and tendons also cause knee problems. A common injury is to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). You usually injure your ACL by a sudden twisting motion. ACL and other knee injuries are common sports injuries.
Treatment of knee problems depends on the cause. In some cases your doctor may recommend knee replacement.
NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
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- Anterior crucate ligament (ACL) injury (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury -- aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
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I would definitely love to watch on my Xbox 360. I think more people own gaming consoles then a Boxee Box, but its a lot harder to make an App for a console. Xbox 360 does have an indie games section I don't know if you can put a streaming app in there through that? Its pretty straightforward to get something in there.
In the mean time is there any way to make it so that when a video is playing in full screen it doesn't go back to the standard screen when the next video loads? If I'm eating and/or sitting on my bed I don't really want to get up go to my computer and click the full screen button on it.
Also the Xbox 360 can stream anything you can stream over Windows Media Center. That means you could do something like that if you wanted to watch Crunchyroll on an Xbox 360 I think.
alyssa30 wrote:
Yeah it be good option probably keep cr membership if u add it 2 xbox360 i dislike hulu and netflix for anime :(
Yeah, I am right there with you even thought I already bought a discounted year subscription. I just want to watch CR on my TV rather than on my PC,laptop, or phone. Seems like all of the other video streaming services are closing the gap on CR....and fast!
If when an app shows up from CR, i hope Microsoft and CR release it in Sweden aswell.
Any update on this since the update and release of apps on the Xbox 360? Xfinity and Verizon have managed to get an app on the Xbox 360, as well as YouTube and a few small websites I have never heard of. I can see where the developement would be really hard before when the Xbox didnt' support apps, but with this update I would love to see that Crunchyroll is given access to an app on there. I watch Netfix on my Xbox, but I have an OLD tv so I actually can't watch my anime via my laptop on my tv. I would love to hear if there has been any advances on this project now that applications is available on Xbox.
just a little bump realy since i would like to know more about an app for the xbox :))
I might actually sign up for Crunchyroll again if they had an Xbox app like several other services.
if Crunchyroll ever gets an app on the 360... oh god that'd be awesome. I was just wondering about this since I found out that microsoft is streaming anime now (dubbed unfortunately.)
I don't have a roku yet, but I do plan to get one just for crunchyroll, it would be nice if it was on PS3 then I wouldn't have to go out and pay 100 dollars to get a Roku.
more voted to push for the 360 app, so i can watch on my tv and still use my computer to.. compute.
(i multitask a lot)
Another vote for the 360 app. I really wish I could watch my anime on my TV.
Have been deciding on and off on whether to get a subs but would love to be able to access it not just my pda but xbox since that is what i use mostly in my home. Push for that program faster I guarantee a faster subscription purchase by all your members
If there was a Crunchyroll app for XBL I would sign up today.
Sadly, I just don't have the money or time to build myself a new gaming rig and my 8+ year old laptop just can't handle those 720p streams, let alone anything better.
So, as much as I want to sign up today(months ago), I'll just have to wait till they offer an app for Xbox Live.
VongolaXEspada wrote:
I don't have a roku yet, but I do plan to get one just for crunchyroll, it would be nice if it was on PS3 then I wouldn't have to go out and pay 100 dollars to get a Roku.
I save you 100 dollar right now.
Ps3 has internet browser use it get on crunchyroll boom anime fullscreen it and everything hope this helps
im up for it.
I'm definitely up for it. I'd be willing to actually pay $15/month instead of Netflix.


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Texas A&M International University's Classical Guitar Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Gilberto D. Soto, will ring in the holiday season on a melodic note during its annual 'Guitarras de Navidad' (Guitars of Christmas) concert Friday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts.(photo)
Sponsored by TAMIU, the Women's City Club and the County of Webb, the concert is free and open to the general public.
'Guitarras de Navidad' will feature music of master composers as well as traditional Christmas music. Among the selections the ensemble will perform include Handel's 'Hallelujah,' from the 'Messiah', Bach's 'Little Fugue in E minor,' and Tchaikovsky's 'Waltz of the Flowers.' In addition, the ensemble will present special Spanish arrangements of popular Christmas tunes such as 'Angels We Have Heard on High,' 'Greensleeves,' 'Jingle Bells,' and the 'Little Drummer Boy.' The ensemble will also perform a special transcription of the Mexican orchestral piece 'Huapango,' by Jose Pablo Moncayo.
The TAMIU Classical Guitar Ensemble is a group of energetic student guitarists as well as other instrumentalists who share experience in reading and performing of guitar literature for instrumental ensembles. The repertoire studied and performed by this ensemble consists of classical, flamenco, new age, and contemporary music, in addition to selected works written for instruments of the lute and guitar family, including original compositions by student composer-arrangers.
The TAMIU Classical Guitar Ensemble was established in the Fall 2001 semester. Members of the ensemble include Julio Cano, Diego García, Marc López, Cynthia Medina, René Méndez, Miguel Saito, Claudia M. Valdéz, Esther Garza, Jerry Sifuentes, Rick García, Miguel Durán, Raquel Ramírez, Michael Boswell, Enrique Carrillo, Sonia Gutiérrez and Carlos Morales.
The ensemble serves as a University cultural ambassador, participating in numerous community events. Recently it won a first place division at the annual Guitar Conference sponsored by the University of Texas at Brownsville.
The ensemble also performed at the Festival Internacional Tamaulipas and at two concerts in the cities of Crestone and Canyon City in Colorado. Other events the ensemble is scheduled to perform in this year include the Feast of Sharing, TAMIU's 'Las Posadas,' and the United High School Madrigal Dinner.
For further information on the 'Guitarras de Navidad,' please contact Soto at 326-2654, e-mail email@example.com or visit offices located in the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, room 217C. University office hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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International humanitarian law
International humanitarian law is a very important part of international law. With its help, the suffering caused by wars should be reduced by valuing the victims and helping them as much as possible.
International humanitarian law is a very important part of international law relating to times of armed conflict. Its provisions are intended both to protect people who are not or no longer taking part in hostilities as well as to restrict the methods and means used to wage war. Its purpose is to limit the suffering war causes by affording victims the maximum possible protection and assistance. Hence international humanitarian law is concerned with the reality of armed conflict around the world, it does not address issues such the grounds or possible justification under international law for going to war or engaging in armed conflict.
Legal sources
Legal norms designed to alleviate suffering and prescribe moderation in the conduct of war are as old as war itself. From the mid-19thcentury onwards, stimulated particularly by the founding of the Red Cross in 1863 and the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864, major efforts were undertaken to codify these norms, efforts which continue to this day. The key building blocks in this process are the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the four Geneva Conventions concluded in 1949, which today are almost universally recognized, and the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions concluded both in 1977 and 2005. While the main focus of the Hague Conventions is to stipulate what is and what is not permitted under the rules of war (Law of The Hague), the main focus of the Geneva Conventions is to lay down rules for the protection of the wounded, prisoners of war and civilians (Law of Geneva). Over the past two decades these have been supplemented by the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (1977), the UN Weapons Convention (1980), the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993) and the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines (1997). Another important convention in the area of international humanitarian law is the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954 as well as its two additional Protocols.
Many provisions of the aforementioned conventions, including in particular the rules designed to shield civilians from the effects of armed conflict, are today deemed to have universal common law validity, irrespective of whether states are parties to these conventions or not.Humanitarian customary international law is above all important for non-international conflicts, because until now fewer international law regulations exist for them. On 17 March 2005 the International Committee of the Red Cross presented a study on customary rules of international law applicable in the area of international humanitarian law. The study is the result of a multi-year research project to which especially a large number of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, individual countries, and international law scholars contributed.
The greater part of international humanitarian law applies to situations involving international armed conflicts waged between subjects of international law. While there are only a limited number of rules concerning non-international armed conflicts, i.e. conflicts between one or more states on one side and a non-state actor on the other (civil wars, for example), these rules are also considered to be of great importance.
International humanitarian law and human rights
International humanitarian law and international human rights protection complement one another. While both aim to protect individuals, they do so in different circumstances and in different ways. While international humanitarian law is concerned with situations of armed conflict, the main focus of international human rights protection is to ensure that the rights of individuals in peacetime are not violated by organs of the state. Even in times of armed conflict, however, there is a hard core of human rights which must under all circumstances be respected (so-called human rights minimum standards). However, international human rights protection is not concerned with legal norms designed to limit the means and methods of warfare, which is one of the prime objectives of international humanitarian law.
Key principles
Underlying all norms in the area of international humanitarian law is the effort to find a balance between the conflicting interests of military necessity on the one hand and humanity on the other. This gives rise to the following key principles:
Neither the conflicting parties nor members of their armed forces have unlimited freedom in the choice of methods and means with which to wage war. Hence the use of weapons and methods which inflict excessive injuries and unnecessary suffering is forbidden.
To protect the civilian population and civilian objects, these must in all circumstances be a clear distinction made between civilians and combatants. Neither the civilian population as a whole nor individual civilians may be attacked. Attacks must be aimed exclusively at military targets.
Combatants and civilians in the power of an opposing party have the right to have their lives and dignity respected. They must be protected from any violence or repressive measures.
It is prohibited to kill or injure an adversary who surrenders or is unable to continue fighting.
Recent developments
On 1 July 2002 the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force. The idea behind the establishment of such a Court is to close gaps in the existing system for the implementation of international humanitarian law. It is a move which demonstrates, too, that countries are now ready to break the vicious circle by which crimes against international humanitarian law go largely unpunished. The ICC will make it possible to effectively punish through an international body those responsible for crimes committed after its establishment such as genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. What constitutes the most serious crimes against international humanitarian law is specified in Article 8 of the Rome Statute, which lists 50 Elements of Crimes defined as war crimes carrying heavy penalties. This new codification is based to the greatest degree possible on the aforementioned international humanitarian law sources, notably the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the 1977 Protocols Additional I and II to these Conventions.
The most important institution concerned with promoting and protecting international humanitarian law is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It is active in over 80 countries and has over 12,000 employees. Although it is an association under Swiss law based in Geneva, it has international legal personality in a number of respects. The ICRC's work in connection with international armed conflicts is based on the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol Additional I of 1977, which give it the right to carry out specific activities such as assisting the wounded as well as sick or shipwrecked troops, visiting prisoners of war and providing aid and succour for civilians. In situations of civil war, too, the ICRC is entitled under Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to offer its services to the warring parties. The basic pre-requisite for its work is strict impartiality and neutrality.
Also the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission, constituted according to Article 90 of Protocol I of 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 plays a special role in ensuring that international humanitarian law is respected and enforced. The International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission is a committee of 15 independent experts that investigates serious violations of international humanitarian law in countries recognizing the competence of the commission (72 countries at present).
Together with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the ICRC and the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies form the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Its representatives meet with the representatives of the States Parties to the Geneva Conventions at the international Red Cross and Red Crescent conferences that are usually held every four years. The last International Red Cross Conference was held in Geneva from 28 November to 1 December 2011.
Further information
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Documents on International Humanitarian Law (Second Edition 2012; ISBN 978-3-89665-564-6)
A Joint Publication of the Federal Foreign Office, the German Red Cross, and the Federal Ministry of Defense
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Well, i was on my facebook wall this afternoon when Tyler Perry's latest post flagged in. So, as usual, I shared!
We have some golf carts at the studio. We use them to run around the campus, getting actors from here to there and so on. But the thing that bothers me the most about them is that when you put them into reverse a beeping alarm goes off. And it doesn't stop until you go forward. It is so annoying to be in the middle of a shot, when I need it very quiet, to hear that beeping noise. I wanted the facilities guys to disconnect the reverse alarm but I was told that they couldn't because it is a safety measure. The alarm is there to let people know that you're about to go backwards.
I walked back to my office thinking about this and this thought popped into my head: wouldn't it be great if we as humans had an annoying alarm that made a loud continuous beep when we are about to go into reverse? When we're about to look back, like when you're about to pick up that phone and call an ex that you know is no good for you, wouldn't it be great if that alarm went on and stayed on until you hung up the phone? Wouldn't it be great for all the people around you to hear that alarm so that they know you are about to go backwards and bring up some old crap? I think husbands and boyfriends would love that… LOL.
But seriously, there are a lot of people who are living their lives stuck in reverse, alarms going off, beeps beeping very loudly, but they can't get it out of reverse. You know these kinds of people, the ones that nobody wants to be around because they can be so annoying, always dwelling on the past. Full of "I wish I had done this" or "I wish I could have done that". These kinds of people are sad to me, not focusing on the beauty of today, they'd rather dig through the ashes of yesterday. Listen to me, you can't change anything that you have done in your past, all you can do is go forward. No matter how many mistakes you have made, no matter how many things you have done wrong, you have got to move forward. That is your past and there is no future in it.
And the only way to move forward is to ask for forgiveness from the people who you have hurt and wronged. Whether they forgive you or not you must ask… sorry that's just the way it is. If you don't you will continue to reap bad things from what you have done to them, even if they don't forgive you. You will have the power to be free because you asked for forgiveness. And secondly, you must forgive yourself. Forgiveness is the key that can move your life forward… and turn off the reverse alarm."
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"I would eat that," said my boyfriend, P, nodding over at my vegan burger. We were seated in a Five Guys, eating parallel meals. On our way to a Justice show at Hammerstein Ballroom, we needed something quick. Half cranky from hunger, half rushed, we couldn't decide on a place that was both vegan and omni friendly. So I grabbed take out from the Loving Hut and met him across the street at the Five Guys, where he was getting meaty. Loving Hut is a chain, and there is some controversy around it's whacky Taiwanese founder, so it's not always my first choice, especially when I'm in a city as abuzz with vegan choices as New York. But whatever, that's a rant for another day.
Now normally, my guy is more than happy to eat vegan with me. But we had just ran a Tough Mudder (cough, humblebrag) and he wasn't interested in the Loving Hut. When I pointed to the vegan spot, he was probably thinking raw salads. Despite the fact he has seen me scarf down five slices of vegan pizza in one sitting, he opted out because he "wanted something filling."
Something filling? How is my "crispy burger"—piled with homemade pickles, avocado, lettuce and tomato on a wheat bun—not filling?
What he had meant was something heavy. Something greasy. Although we were eating similar meals, you could see the difference before you even opened the brown take-out bags. His was absolutely spotty with grease. Mine was shine-free. Even though it was pan fried, it was not overly greasy, and served up with a nice green salad, I knew it would leave me feeling full but still energetic—critical, as we were on our way to a freakin' electronic show, and who wants to be gassy and bloated while they fist pump? I pointed this out, and it got us on the subject of eating for energy.
Now trust me, I like to eat. I am not a "I'll just take the salad" type of girl. If I don't eat something every three hours I turn into a snarling, spitting beast. But when I eat a meal, even a big one, I want it to give me a lift. This is how I got into vegetarianism when I was a teen. I began to notice that different foods seriously affected my mood. We have all developed taste preferences, and most of us have emotional bonds to what we eat, but eating in its base nature is meant to be done for energy. We are eating to stoke our bodies' coals and fuel us through the day. When I eat something extremely greasy, (remember my five slicer binge I mentioned?) it leaves me feeling heavy, and bloated. This transcends the vegan/omni line. It doesn't matter if my pizza is loaded with Daiya or dairy, if it's dripping with grease and weird ingredients I can't pronounce, it's going to weigh me down either way.
Because of this, I often choose my foods depending on how my body feels, and this is why 90 percent of the time, my food is clean and simple. I like my food to leave me feeling satiated but energetic. This happens when what I eat is as close to a whole food source as possible–not processed, and not laden with artificial fillers. Of course sometimes I just want a fucking burger, and that's fine, too. I don't mean to say I am some sort of dietary saint. I PREFER to eat clean, but there are many nights I choose to sit on the couch in my sweats with General Tsos tofu or a pint of So Delicious. But I know that I will feel it the next day. My hangovers from food can be just as intense as the ones from my booze benders.
This "eating for energy" has more to do with health than veganism, and that's what I explained to my boyfriend at Five Guys. A box of vegan mac and cheese will leave me feeling just as shitty as its dairy-ful counterpart. Vegan is not always synonymous with healthy. So it's not merely the meat on his burger that turns me off, but it's the fact that it will hit his stomach like a (bacon-wrapped) fist. Often when we're used to eating junk, we're used to feeling like junk, and we think being bloated, head-achey and tired is normal.
Sorry to be preach preach preachy. What I'm saying is, the next time you're tempted to opt for the greasy quick-fix, imagine how you will FEEL after. If it is going to weigh you down, pass. Your body will thank you. And so will your girlfriend, when you're not accidentally dutch ovening her all night long. I don't mean to fart shame anybody, but grease gas is the worst.


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Analyzing and assessing your environment can be a daunting task. Don't be afraid to hire someone to assist in the process, especially if you're already overloaded with day-to-day duties—the money will be well spent. DBAs often work extra hours just to stay above water; an expectation from management that you can complete a consolidation assessment, analysis, and proposal in a short amount of time (which is usually how the request is made) is unrealistic.
Hiring someone to help with your consolidation project can have other benefits also. Someone from the outside might be able to gain access to resources such as application or business owners that a DBA doesn't typically have access to, giving the final analysis more points of information. In addition, an outside party is likely to be impartial and can be objective in creating the final document that specifies what you can consolidate and what must remain as a standalone installation.


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PG Connectivity:
|If CMS less, then check the link configuration and verify if the same link is utilised by the same PG machine in the AES server.
|If CMS Enabled, verify step 1 for ACD connectivity, check if the RTA session and the port number for that PG ip in the CMS configuration is correct and running. If still problem persists use netstat -a command in the PG box and check if the port number which the PG is configured to connect to CMS is used by some other process and if it is established.
|Check if OPC are in sync (by using opctest: status command) and also get MDS logs


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As we all know, The Pirate Bay is a torrent search engine where users can find torrents of all sorts of content. Even thought the website itself doesn't host any copyrighted content, they did lose a landmark copyright infringement trial in Sweden earlier this year, with the judge imposing a massive fine and 1 year in jailtime.
You're probably not the only one who has never heard of Global Gaming Factory before. According to the press release they have "the largest network of Internet cafes and game centers and provides software". Together with TPB, they also purchased Peerialism, and they plan to make TPB work in such a way that users get faster and higher-quality downloads, while at the same time compensating content providers and copyright owners.
"We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site," said Hans Pandeya, CEO of GGF, "The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers' need faster downloads and better quality."
So, the big question on everybody's lips... Did the The Priate Bay owners (what do I do with that double definite article?!?) sell out? Will this be the end of TPB as we know it? According to a blog post on the team's weblog, we've got nothing to fear. "If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That's the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to," the The Pirate Bay founders write.
Furthermore, "The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets." Time will tell whatever that means.
A surprising turn of events, and the comment on the blog post and elsewhere on the internet are anything but happy. People see this as the end of The Pirate Bay, and seeing for instance the whole Napster thing, that's not a stretch. Time will tell whatever comes out of this, but there's little to worry about. For those of us in who live in countries with sane laws, there are countless alternatives.


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Hochzeitschor (Hort die Glocken!)
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Hochzeitschor (Hort die Glocken!) (Aus der Oper "Allesandro Stradella"). By Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883). Edited by F. Huber. Various Sacred. For mixed choir and piano. Vocal score/piano reduction. Published by Doblinger Music Publishers (DB.46-00757-KLA).
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VENICE BEACH, Calif., July 27 (UPI) -- Up to seven people were injured by lightnin Sunday at California's Venice Beach, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said.
A series of rare thunderstorms hit the area Sunday afternoon, producing cloud-to-ground lightning, the National Weather Service said.
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Earlier Sunday, a man in Catalina Island was also struck by lightning, the Los Angeles Times reported.