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Accounting Integrations
Our powerful Integration feature allows you to seamlessly synchronize with an accounting platform.
Zoho Books
Guide layout:
- Must be an existing user of Zoho books for integrating with Zoho Books.
- The user must understand that no two different organizations can be joined together. This is because the joining process basically involves connecting a single organization across both the apps.
Why integrate with Zoho Books?
- Zoho Books is a simple to setup and simple to use robust accounting platform on the cloud.
- Centralised data between Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory - byebye double entries!
- Access to additonal modules inside Zoho Books for your inventory and customer management like recurring invoices, recurring bills, accounts, customer portal, credit notes, timesheets, more reports and more in-house integrations.
The way it works
Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory have the same core. Simply put, it's like looking at two different sections of a single ship, each designed to accomplish its specialised role for carrying the same cargo. Hence when you create an orgnization in one of these apps, you will be able to tap into it by simply joining that organization into the other app.
- On setting up an integration of Zoho Inventory with Zoho Books, all the data - settings, contacts, items, sales orders, purchase orders, bills and common reports are synchronized with your Zoho Inventory account.
- Henceforth any new operation in Zoho Books will be reflected in Zoho Inventory and vice versa.
- For example: after you have successfully setup an integration, if you create a sales order in Zoho Books, it will be reflected in the sales order module of your Zoho Inventory.
Zoho Inventory <-> Zoho Books Integration Flow Diagram:
Setting up an integration with Zoho Books
You can synchronize Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory in three ways:
Creating your very first organization by joining an existing Zoho Books organization
If you have an organization in Zoho Books, before you set up your first organization, you will be directed to a page where you have an option to join your existing organization into Zoho Inventory. To do so:
- Select your Zoho Books organization from the list.
- Click on the Join Organization to integrate with Zoho Books.
- On doing so, all the data and the preferences that you have in Zoho Books will be reflected inside Zoho Inventory.
- You can also note that the organization ID in Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory are going to be one and the same. This is because your organization is like a single palanquin that is now borne by two bearers(in our case two apps).
Joining your existing orgnization at a later point
During your first try, you may have opted to setup a brand new organization in Zoho Inventory. After evaluating the app, now you have a need or a requirement to integrate with your existing Zoho Books organization.
But we know for a fact that two different organizations(with different organization IDs) cannot be integrated together.
Worry not! You can fulfil this requirement by joining your existing Zoho Books organization into Zoho Inventory by creating it as a second organization.
To do so:
- Click on the name of your current organization that's displayed on the header
- Choose the option 'Manage Organisations' in the drop down.
- Click on the Join your existing Organizations button
- You will be directed to a page where all your existing organizations in Zoho Books and finance apps are listed.
- Select the desired organization.
- Click on the Join Organization button to setup an integration.
- Doing this, will join your existing Zoho Books organization into Zoho Inventory. This will be created as another organization here that will bear the ID of the one you have in Zoho Books.
- You can these either send us a delete request for your first evaluation organization in Zoho Inventory or name it as a Test Org and utilise it to test out new features and workflows(we roll out new features and updates often) before you implement them inside your active/real organization.
Joining a Zoho Inventory organization with Zoho Books
This method is for those who do not have an existing organization inside Zoho Books.
- Log into your Zoho Inventory organization.
- Click on the Integrations Tab on the side bar.
- Choose the Accounting tab.
- Click on the Access Now button.
- It will automatically take you to the same organization in Zoho Books.
- You will be taken through a quick setup process during the first time.
- On configuring all the steps, the same organization will be available in Zoho Books as well.
- Important Note:
- This method will be useful when a user created a new organization in Zoho Inventory and wishes to articulate the accounting features of Zoho Books for this organization.
- This method will not join this new organization with an existing organization in Zoho Books.
Creating new accounts for items & transactions in Zoho Inventory
- In Zoho Inventory, an inventory item can be associated and tracked under three different types of accounts - a sales account, a purchase aacount and an asset account. By default, an inventory item is associated with the following accounts - Sales, Cost of Goods Sold and Inventory Asset.
- Normally, you can also define new accounts in the integrated Zoho Books organization and associate them to items of your choice in Zoho Inventory to keep track of them separately. Learn about creating a new account from the Chart of Accounts of the integrated Zoho Books organization
- That being said, you can also create cost of goods sold type accounts within Zoho Inventory from creation page of items. Learn more about creating an item.
- Further to this, you can also create and associate asset, liability and expense type accounts from the creation page of purchase orders and bills.creating a purchase order.


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Methane - CH4
Methane is a kind of gas. There is a small amount of methane in the air you breathe. A methane molecule has carbon and hydrogen atoms in it.
Methane is a greenhouse gas. That means it helps make Earth warm. But if there was too much methane, that could make our planet too warm.
Where does the methane in Earth's atmosphere come from? Cow burps, for one place! Farming rice also puts methane into the air. Some methane also comes from garbage dumps. Termites make lots of methane, too. Swamps also make methane.
Methane can burn. It is used as a fuel. It is one of the main gases in natural gas. The heat in your home might be from natural gas. Methane is called a hydrocarbon because it has hydrogen and carbon atoms in it.

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Eyeglasses - Astoria, Contact Lens Astoria & Sunglasses Astoria - Odyssey Optical
Odyssey Optical is located at 22-38 31st Street in Astoria Queens [see map below] and their store telephone number is 718.278.3600. You may view other sections of the Odyssey Optical web presence on QueensBuzz.com, by clicking into the following links:
- Click this link to view the Odyssey Optical photo album on this site. There you can browse through the store and view some of the eyeglasses for sale in Astoria at an eyeglass store that conducts eye exams in Astoria or ..
- Click this link to go to the Odyssey Optical home page, where you can obtain more information about one of the eyeglass stores that conducts eye exams by professionally trained optometrists - eyeglasses Astoria.
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2) From Queens. From Sunnyside take the #104 bus from 48th Street and Queens Blvd to travel along Broadway in Astoria. From Woodside take the #18 bus from 61st Street and Woodside Ave to go along 30th Avenue in Astoria. From Flushing - Take #7 subway to 74th St / Broadway and transfer to the V or R and get off at Steinway St. From Jamaica take the E or F going into NYC and transfer at Jackson Hts / Roosevelt Ave to the V or R and get off at Steinway St.
3) From LI: Take the LIRR to either the Jamaica or preferably the Woodside Station. From the Jamaica Station take the E to 74th St / Broadway and transfer to the V or R going into NYC. Exit at the Steinway St exit. From Woodside, take the #7 train to Queensboro Plaza and transfer to the N or W going to Astoria / Ditmars Blvd.
4) By CAR. From the BQE take Exit 40 [30th Avenue] or Exit 41 [Astoria Blvd], just prior / after the RFK Bridge [they renamed the Triborough Bridge].
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We've got a lot of breaking news as we go to air, including a new spill of some 210,00 gallons of dirty tar sands oil in South Dakota on the Keystone Pipeline. Details were scarce as we went to air, and that number is based on pipeline owner TransCanada's own estimate, but the new spill is likely to affect Nebraska's upcoming decision on the proposed route for TransCanada's controversial KeystoneXL pipeline, which was previously rejected by President Obama, but later approved by President Trump.
The Republican tax cut plan narrowly passed today in the US House on a nearly-party line vote. The scheme, according to non-partisan analysts, would add $1.5 trillion to the national deficit and cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy, while actually resulting in a tax increase for many low- and middle-income Americans. Passage of the unpopular measure is still far from certain, meanwhile, in the US Senate.
Also today, a mistrial was declared in the federal bribery trial against New Jersey's Democratic US Senator Bob Menendez, after the jury was found to be hopelessly deadlocked, with 10 jurors insisting on full acquittal on all charges and two favoring conviction.
The situation for Senate Republicans has not improved following allegations of sexual assault on several teenagers by Roy Moore, Alabama's GOP nominee for next month's US Senate Special Election. An internal GOP poll, according to Politico, finds Moore's numbers tanking against Democratic challenger Doug Jones since the charges came to light. Moore had been up by 16 points in the poll last month. He is now said to be trailing Jones by 12!
And, next door in Georgia, following a massive, covered-up security breach on the state's election server last year, a US House Special Election with questionable results earlier this year in GA's 6th Congressional District, a multi-partisan lawsuit filed to challenge those results and force the state to move away from its wildly-hackable, 100% unverifiable, 15-year old Diebold touch-screen voting systems, and recent blockbuster news revealing that the election server in question was "wiped clean" in the middle of the lawsuit (which the Republican state AG's office now refuses to defend), an official recall petition effort is now underway to demand the removal from office of GA's Republican Sec. of State Brian Kemp.
We're joined today by JOHN ZIEGLER, chair of A Voice for All Georgia, the organization heading up a herculean effort to gather the more than 778,000 signatures of registered GA voters that are required to trigger a recall election (which, he tells me, would be run on the very same 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems at the heart of this entire mess!)
Ziegler explains why his group has launched the effort, the obstacles created by the state for successfully obtaining what would be the first recall anywhere in the country of a sitting Sec. of State, and how folks both inside and out of Georgia can help with what HuffPo recently described as "The Biggest Story Nobody's Talking About".
"Kemp and other individuals associated with him have mislabeled our group," Ziegler tells me. "A Voice For All Georgia is a non-partisan group. We have Democrats, we have Republicans, we have Constitutionalists, we have Tea Party members, we have independents. The thing I found very refreshing is that we all share the same common goal, we want to have a secure vote, and we want to have a fair vote, and we want to make sure that all votes count.
"Whether it's gender, ethnicity, religion, values, or beliefs, we all have different opinions, but we've all united together to believe that there should be (a) secure vote, which, in our opinion is to have paper ballots and to have it hand-counted," he says.
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for a very busy Green News Report, and an update on Thursday's Keystone Pipeline oil spill.
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Briana Messerschmidt is the Community Outreach director, Student Services director, and Studio Trainer at Hollywood Paws. Briana has been an animal trainer for many years and has developed a passion for helping people through the wonders of animal training. Growing up on her farm in Thousand Oaks, CA, she had always enjoyed working with animals. As community outreach director, Briana is active in her community through organizing activities for students and trainers. Briana regularly schedules events with nursing homes, schools, etc. and takes students whose dogs have the right certifications to visit and spread their cheer.
As much as Briana loves to work with people she also enjoys training animals for the entertainment industry. She has many credits to her name including the Katie Couric Show, Harpers UK, Hunter Hayes music video, Lucky Jeans, Target, Fuze, The Bold and the Beautiful, Timber the Treasure Dog, Stealing Roses, Animal Planet, Petco, AT&T, and Manswers.
Unlike most studio rental companies, Hollywood Paws acquires most of its working animals from pet owners who want to see their dogs well trained and in action. Hollywood Paws assists all forms of production and has many credits to its name. Lastly, Hollywood Paws is fully licensed, insured, and permitted for all production needs.


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Doncaster's Jamie McDonnell believes his army of supporters, and opponent Julio Ceja's lack of a well-stamped passport, will be crucial in sweeping him to world title victory when the pair clash in his hometown's Keepmoat Stadium on May 11.
The bantamweights go head-to-head for the vacant IBF crown on the pitch at the home of Doncaster Rovers Football Club, and Jamie is convinced Ceja's first experience of fighting outside of his native Mexico will be a painful one.
"It's a massive factor," stated the 27-year-old. "It's probably what will make me win the fight, having that home support behind me, cheering me on.
"He's always had that in his favour and he's not used to being out of his comfort zone, it's all new to him. Having 9000 'Donny' people screaming for me, it's going to be intimidating for him.
"I've fought at the [Doncaster] Dome plenty of times and it's a different buzz you get fighting in front of your own people. It gives you a massive boost and you don't want to let all those 'Donny' fans down."
Unbeaten Ceja will arrive in the UK with a fearsome reputation. The 20-year-old has knocked out 22 of his 24 opponents, with 15 of those wins coming within the first three rounds.
McDonnell, though, isn't intimidated. The former British and European bantamweight king is convinced he has the beating of the South American hard-man, and is even hoping to finish the fight early.
"I rate him a lot," said Jamie, who has lost just two of 23 bouts. "He's ranked number three [in the world] and you don't get that if you're nothing special, but I'll take him into those later rounds and punish him.
"I'm used to going into those rounds but I don't think he's ever done 12. So there are a lot of pluses going for me. He's got his power but I'm not going to sit there and start taking his shots, I'll be using my feet and my head.
"I don't think he hits as hard as his record says, but don't get me wrong he can punch because to stop 22 from 24, even if they're journeymen, that's impressive. He definitely can fight but I believe I'll beat him and hopefully stop him."
Promoter Dennis Hobson has pushed the boat out to secure home advantage for McDonnell – all in the hope of making history. Jamie is the first fighter from Doncaster to fight for boxing's top honour and he is urging the town to get behind him in his quest to be king of the world.
"It's going to be incredible. I really hope everyone comes along and supports me on what is going to be a really special night. I'm sure I can bring that world title back to Doncaster."
Dennis Hobson Promotions presents 'Making History' featuring Jamie McDonnell versus Julio Ceja for the vacant IBF world bantamweight title at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium on May 11. For ticket information visit www.dennishobson.com or call the ticket hotline on 0844 324 5590.
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What is flipping? In is simplest form, flipping is the idea that instead of the teaching of basic skills in the classroom, those skills are acquired outside the classroom, mostly through the form of videos. Then this allows for more depth, remediation, and/or extension in the classroom. It is becoming very popular in math classrooms because of the ease of access to content through sites like Khan Academy and others. But there are other classrooms like science and social studies where teachers are trying the flip.
I am very skeptical of flipping. Mostly because of the fact that kids leave school to do more school and that just isn't right. (But that is a post for another time...)
I do believe that there is a more practical application of the flip that doesn't involve the classroom.
Faculty meetings.
Someone on Twitter asked me the other day if I had any resources for making faculty meetings better. I thought about it and it dawned on me. Why not flip them. We use the same reasoning for flipping a classroom and apply it to the faculty meeting.
Think about it. All the nuts and bolts stuff that is shared in a faculty meeting could be shared asynchronously via other means, freeing up the traditional faculty meeting time for other things.
Not enough time for PLC meetings? Use the Faculty Flip to free up that time and allow grades and departments to meet, talk and plan.
Not enough time for Professional Development? Use the Faculty Flip to have an unconference sharing session of what's working and ways to improve practice.
There are lots of practical applications for the Faculty Flip. The point of it is to make the time the staff or groups spend together more meaningful. Many of the meetings that take place in a school are informational. Scheduling, data sharing, field trips, etc. Many of these could be sent in an email or shared in a group. Thus freeing time to do something meaningful for kids.
So the idea sounds great but how do you share that information? Email is one way. And it is truly one-way. It's tough to carry out a conversation over email. There are some easier and better ways to share information.
Google Docs-Easy to start and use. Put your information in, and share. You can create one doc for the entire year and add too it so there is always a running record of what has taken place. Once shared, other staff can leave comments or link to your document when creating new ones for other business.
Ning-A while back when Ning went paid it got a bad rap. But for educators it is still a great option. With Ning Mini being free for up to 150 members there are some great features like forums, groups, and 1 gig of file storage that would be great for sharing documents, ideas and more.
Edmodo-My favorite social network for schools, you can set up groups for grade levels and departments, share documents, set up polls and questionnaires and more. And there are lots of applications beyond the faculty sharing that folks could begin to see it being used in their classroom too. (I wrote a post about how to use it a while back.)
No matter what you use, try it! See what you and your staff can do with that extra time if you share that information digitally and reserve that faculty meeting time for faculty learning time. Try the Faculty Flip!
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Liang May Seen was the first woman of Chinese descent to live in Minnesota. She overcame an impoverished childhood in China and teenage years spent in a San Francisco brothel to become a respected leader in the Chinese immigrant community in Minneapolis.
Liang May Seen was born in southern China's Guandong Province around 1871. In 1885, when she was fourteen, her parents sold her to a man who promised that Liang would be marrying a wealthy Chinese American merchant. Instead he sold her to a brothel in San Francisco.
At the brothel, Liang May Seen was forced to provide sexual services for businessmen, but she planned her escape. She contacted the Presbyterian Mission Home for assistance. On July 21, 1889, she slipped away from a banquet and was picked up in a carriage sent by the Mission Home.
Liang lived at the Mission Home for three years. Besides converting to Christianity and learning housekeeping skills, she took classes in English, Cantonese, and mathematics. In 1892, a Chinese businessman from Minneapolis, Woo Yee Sing, visited the mission looking for a wife. There he found Liang; they were married that summer and she moved with him to Minneapolis.
Woo Yee Sing had immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen, moving to San Francisco in the early 1880s. He arrived to face severe anti-Chinese violence. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act—which restricted Chinese immigration to the United States—had also bolstered the segregation and social exclusion of Chinese immigrants already in the United States.
Most of the Chinese men who came to the Midwest during the 1880s and 1890s moved from the West Coast to escape this kind of violence. Woo Yee Sing moved for the same reason. Minnesota was not free from violence or discrimination, however. In 1912 a small bomb was set off near Woo's restaurant, and his son recalled being taunted and called racist names.
Like many Chinese men at this time, Woo became a laundry operator. In 1883, Woo Yee Sing and his brother Woo Du Sing opened a restaurant. Canton Cafe, later known as John's Place, was the first Chinese restaurant in Minneapolis.
When Liang joined Woo in Minneapolis, she was the first Chinese woman to live in Minnesota. She made friends quickly, however. Because of her time at the Mission Home, she was fluent in English and had experience with cross-cultural friendships. Many of the white women she befriended in Minneapolis were neighbors and patrons of the curio shop she opened in 1904. Others, such as suffragist Mabeth Hurd Paige, were friends through organizations like the Women's Foreign Missionary Society.
Liang May Seen and Woo Yee Sing were both involved with the Westminster Presbyterian Church. The church and its Chinese Sunday School were important institutions for many Chinese immigrants in Minneapolis. Westminster began teaching English lessons to Chinese men in 1882, and Woo Yee Sing was one of their first students. Although Westminster did not begin teaching English to Chinese women until 1920, the church was one of few places where women—both white and Chinese—could take on leadership roles through their involvement with social and religious activities. Most other civic organizations did not accept Chinese Americans until the 1930s or 1940s.
The Chinese community in Minneapolis began growing after 1900. As Minnesota's Chinese men achieved economic success, more of them were able to bring their wives and families from Guangdong Province. When Chinese women moved to Minneapolis, Liang was there to help them acclimate to their new country.
One of these women, Minnie Wong, became lifelong friends with Liang. Minnie Wong came to Minneapolis in the early 1900s to join her husband, Wong Gee. Liang May Seen and Minnie Wong were both from Kaiping District, and they spoke the same dialect. They visited each other frequently, and together they taught Westminster's first English classes for women.
In 1906, Liang May Seen and her husband expanded their family. They were never able to have biological children, but they adopted a young boy named Howard from San Francisco. Liang was also very close to her niece, Margaret Woo Chinn.
Liang passed away in 1946. She lived long enough to see the 1943 end of immigration laws excluding the Chinese.
Fuller, Sherri Gebert. Chinese in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004.
Holmquist, June Drenning, ed. They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1981.
Mason, Sarah Refo. "Liang May Seen and the Early Chinese Community in Minneapolis." Minnesota History 54, no.5 (Spring 1995): 223–233.
Minnesota Governor's Interracial Commission. The Oriental in Minnesota, a Report to Governor Luther W. Youngdahl. St. Paul, 1949.
In 1893, Liang May Seen moves to Minneapolis with her new husband, Woo Yee Sing. She is the first Chinese woman to live in Minnesota, and she becomes a friend and leader to Chinese women who arrive in Minneapolis in the following decades.
Liang May Seen is born in Kaiping District in China's southern Guandong Province.
Woo Yee Sing, Liang's eventual husband, moves to Minneapolis in order to leave anti-Chinese discrimination on the West Coast.
The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis begins offer English language lessons to immigrants, and Woo is among the first to attend.
Liang May Seen's destitute family sells her to a San Francisco-based procurer at age fourteen. The man lies to her parents about his plans for her and resells her to a brothel owner.
Liang leaves the brothel with the help of the Presbyterian Mission Home.
On July 21, Liang marries Woo Yee Sing; she joins him in Minneapolis shortly thereafter.
Liang opens a Chinese curio shop next to the Westminster church on Nicollet Avenue.
Liang May Seen and Woo Yee Sing return to San Francisco to adopt a young boy, Howard, after years of childlessness.
A small bomb is set off in the stairway leading to the restaurant of Woo Yee Sing and his brother, Woo Du Sing.
The Westminster Presbyterian Church begins offering English lessons to women, and Liang volunteers to teach them.
Woo Yee Sing dies at age sixty-three; his funeral is an intercultural event that blends Chinese and American customs and is remembered long afterward.
Liang passes away after living to see the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws.


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A number of MSC's agencies in Central America are marking a decade of success this autumn.
MSC has become one of the most recognised and trustworthy brands in the region with teams of proactive employees who are dedicated to forming strong partnerships with our customers.
It's a region with great potential to expand volumes of cargo shipped via MSC's sea carriage and land-based intermodal services.
Congratulations to all our staff for their success and professionalism as the celebrations continue:
10th Anniversaries
Guatemala: October 19
Honduras: October 26
El Salvador: November 1
Nicaragua: November 17


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Motorbase Performance Confirms line up
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Motorbase Performance has revealed its full GT driver line up that will run under the Oman Racing Team banner competing in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship this year alongside a parallel campaign in the Blancpain Endurance Series.
David Bartrum's new expanded British GT squad includes the returning partnership of Motorbase stalwart Michael Caine and Oman-based Ahmad Al Harthy with a second Vantage GT3 to be piloted by an all new pairing of Carrera Cup graduate Rory Butcher and veteran sportscar racer John Hartshorne. Caine and Al Harthy will also be joined by former BTCC and Porsche Carrera Cup racer Stephen Jelley for the Kent-based squad's expansion into the Blancpain Endurance Series.
Caine and Al Harthy secured two British GT race wins in Zandvoort and Snetterton last year with Motorbase being the only team to score points in all but the final round of the 2013 championship, finishing the year in fourth place overall. 26 year old Scottish racer Rory Butcher makes the step up to the GT3 category after finishing third with three victories in the Porsche Carrera Cup last year and will be partnering seasoned GT racer John Hartshorne, who brings a wealth of experience to the squad having previously competed in European Le Mans and British GT campaigns. 31 year old Stephen Jelley returns to the Motorbase squad after previous stints in the British GT and Porsche Carrera Cup to complete the Blancpain Endurance Series line-up alongside Caine and Al Harthy.
Team boss David Bartrum confirmed the full Motorbase driver line up and new team name following a successful winter testing programme with the new Aston Martin Racing squad at Poritmao, Paul Ricard and Snetterton as the Kent-based squad prepares for the start of the 2014 season.
The full Oman Racing Team line up will make its debut at the Avon Tyres British GT official media day held at Donington Park on April 8, before the newly formed Blancpain Endurance Series squad heads to Monza for the 2014 season opener on April 11. The 2014 Avon Tyres British GT Championship gets underway with a double header weekend at Oulton Park on April 19 - 21.
Motorbase Performance Team Principal David Bartrum said:
"It's great to be back in the British GT again this year. We've been back in it for two years now and we were the 2012 champions. Obviously it was good to be in a position last year where we were still in with a shot at the title heading into the last round, unfortunately we finished up fourth but we've changed now and moved over to Aston Martin.
"We've worked hard over the winter. Making the switch over to Aston Martin was a big thing for us and obviously getting the right driver combinations is very important; so it's great to have Ahmad [Al Harthy] back this year with Michael [Caine] in the Aston. I'm delighted that we've also managed to sign another really strong line up in John [Hartshorne] and Rory [Butcher]; John's a man with much experience in GT racing Rory comes from the Carrera Cup and I'm looking forward to working with both pairings in the British GT this year.
"To make things a little bit more interesting we've decided this year, along with Ahmad, Michael and Stephen Jelley to enter into the Blancpain Endurance Series which takes in five big European races. It's an interesting phase for Motorbase and I'm really pleased to be doing it with Aston Martin and with a driver line up that I know very, very well.
"We're in the pro-class and it's going to be stiff competition but Michael and Ahmad know each other very well and Stephen has slotted in very nicely with them so they make a really good trio and the early testing at Paul Ricard and Portimao has been very positive. Michael's been exceptionally good in the car, a good strong team leader, shown the other guys the way forward and I think that makes for a brilliant line up for our first season in the Blancpain Endurance Series".
Oman Racing Team driver Michael Caine said:
"I feel very honoured to be back with Motorbase for another year. Every year I expect it to be my last and I just feel very lucky to be back in the British GT and with the Motorbase family for this new venture.
"The Aston Martin is shaping up to be a really great car and I feel sure that the Oman Racing Team will be a force to be reckoned with this season as we take on the factory Aston Martin. It's great to have a second car in the squad for this season and to have John and Rory on board; I'm trying to help them wherever I can and make sure that we just go all out for wins this season. Last year was a learning year for Ahmad [Al Harthy] and this year we need to win the championship. It will be hard going though, the grid is even stronger than 2013 and the competition is tough.
"It's great to be involved with the Blancpain Endurance Series as well this year with Ahmad and Stephen. This is a new chapter for me and Motorbase with a chance to compete at the highest level and represent Aston Martin Racing at some of the best circuits in Europe."
Oman Racing Team driver Ahmad Al Harthy said:
"I am absolutely delighted to be racing with Motorbase again this year in British GT and so pleased we have confirmed a second programme together in the Blancpain Endurance Series with Aston Martin. We all developed a strong relationship last year in British GT and enjoyed a fantastic first season, being in the fight for the title into the final weekend was more than we expected at the beginning of the year.
"With a full year's experience of endurance racing now under my belt, and with the continuity of working with Motorbase and Michael [Caine] again, I am confident we can all push on and enjoy a successful 2014. The Aston Martin provides a fresh challenge for all of us, but it's one I am relishing and I know the team will give me a fantastic car."
Oman Racing Team driver Rory Butcher said:
"I'm really excited to be joining the Motorbase squad this season. They seem like a great bunch and I already have experience of working with Ricki [Martino] as he engineered me in the Carrera Cup last year. The Aston Martin is an unbelievable piece of kit; I got the chance to test it for the first time at Portimao and loved it!
"It's the perfect time to be coming back into the British GT Championship. I competed in 2010 in the GT4 class but there are far more professional drivers this year and much more competition out there on track but I have a great partner in John [Hartshorne]; he's a great guy with excellent experience in endurance racing. I'd also like to thank all of my sponsors, especially Celtic Speed for their continued support."
Oman Racing Team driver John Hartshorne said:
"I'm really looking forward to working with Rory [Butcher] and the Motorbase squad this season. aI have admired Michael Caine for years since our TVR days so I'm looking forward to him beating me again - I was missing him lapping me!
"There's an unbelievable line up in the British GT this year and it's great to be involved again with such a competitive field."
Oman Racing Team driver Stephen Jelley said:
"I'm delighted to be racing with Motorbase for a full campaign for the Blancpain Endurance Series this year. I know the team well now having raced with them a few times in the past couple of seasons.
"I have great team-mates alongside me in Michael and Ahmad and so far the testing in the new Aston Martin has gone really well and we're gelling well as a partnership."


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A virtual private network (VPN) offers a host of security and privacy benefits, especially if you're surfing the web or transacting online over a public Wi-Fi network. A VPN ensures that your online activities are always secure and private. So what factors do you need to consider when selecting a VPN, and how do you pick one? Read on to find out.
What is a VPN?
A VPN creates a secure tunnel between your device and the websites you visit on the internet. Once you've established your PC's connection to a VPN server, your computer acts as if it's using the same local connection as the VPN, making it seem as if you're in a different location. As far as websites are concerned, you're browsing from that server's geographical location and not your PC's actual location.
When you surf the web through a VPN, all the data transmitted and received is also encrypted, preventing anyone, from hackers to government agencies, from monitoring your online activities.
Why should you have a VPN?
Security and privacy are the main reasons you would want a VPN. For example, if you're connected to a public Wi-Fi network — like the ones at local cafes and airports — using a VPN encrypts the information you're sending or accessing online. This means your credit card details, login credentials, private conversations, or sensitive documents can't be intercepted by a third party.
VPNs are also useful for accessing geo-restricted websites. If you're traveling abroad and certain US websites are blocked in that region, you can connect to a VPN located in the United States to access the sites you need.
How do you choose a VPN?
Given the increasing demand for secure online privacy, VPNs are surging in popularity. The following considerations can help you find the right one.
1. Cost
While free VPNs are available, it's best to avoid them as they could keep logs of your internet activity. In some cases, data collected by free VPNs are sold to data brokers or worse, cybercriminals. Additionally, maintaining a VPN service is also expensive, which means the free ones will likely plaster ads on your browser to make a quick buck.
Paid VPNs like NordVPN and ExpressVPN often come with more robust features and configurations that keep you secure. Prices differ depending on a VPN's features and subscription length, and how you pay is also important. Some VPNs offer anonymous payment systems like Bitcoin, while others allow you to use gift cards to avoid giving out your personal information.
2. Location
The physical location of VPN servers is important if you want to access region-blocked websites. So if you're planning on accessing a UK-based service, your VPN provider must at least have servers located in London.
3. Capacity
Read through a VPN provider's terms of service to determine how much data you're allowed to use. If possible, find out how many servers a VPN provider has. If they have plenty of servers online, you can rest assured that they have the capacity to support your internet browsing.
4. Device compatibility
Another important factor to consider is whether the VPN can be used across multiple devices. Nowadays, employees work on laptops, tablets, and smartphones, so you'll want a VPN that's compatible with various types of devices.
5. IP leaking
Beyond the fundamental nuts and bolts of the VPN protocol, there are other challenges like dealing with leaky tunnels, which means your IP address could be tracked. A great way to evaluate a VPN service is to sign up for their free trial service and visit IP Leak. This will allow you to check whether your real IP address is being leaked. If it tracks your physical location, you should opt for a more reliable VPN service.
VPNs are now a vital component of cybersecurity, and if you need help in selecting the right one for your business, consult with our security experts today. We also offer comprehensive cybersecurity services so no hacker or third party can get their hands on your data.


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March 4, 1885: First Inaugural Address
In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen I am aboutto supplement and seal by the oath which I shall take the manifestationof the will of a great and free people. In the exercise of their powerand right of self-government they have committed to one of their fellow-citizensa supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service.
This impressive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibilitywith which I contemplate the duty I owe to all the people of the land.Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interestsmay suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engageevery faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare.
Amid the din of party strife the people's choice was made, but its attendantcircumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a governmentby the people. In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that ourdemocratic principle needs no apology, and that in its fearless and faithfulapplication is to be found the surest guaranty of good government.
But the best results in the operation of a government wherein everycitizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of purely partisanzeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat ofthe partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen.
To-day the executive branch of the Government is transferred to newkeeping. But this is still the Government of all the people, and it shouldbe none the less an object of their affectionate solicitude. At this hourthe animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat,and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudgingacquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern forthe general weal. Moreover, if from this hour we cheerfully and honestlyabandon all sectional prejudice and distrust, and determine, with manlyconfidence in one another, to work out harmoniously the achievements ofour national destiny, we shall deserve to realize all the benefits whichour happy form of government can bestow.
On this auspicious occasion we may well renew the pledge of our devotionto the Constitution, which, launched by the founders of the Republic andconsecrated by their prayers and patriotic devotion, has for almost a centuryborne the hopes and the aspirations of a great people through prosperityand peace and through the shock of foreign conflicts and the perils ofdomestic strife and vicissitudes.
By the Father of his Country our Constitution was commended for adoptionas "the result of a spirit of amity and mutual concession." In that samespirit it should be administered, in order to promote the lasting welfareof the country and to secure the full measure of its priceless benefitsto us and to those who will succeed to the blessings of our national life.The large variety of diverse and competing interests subject to Federalcontrol, persistently seeking the recognition of their claims, need giveus no fear that "the greatest good to the greatest number" will fail tobe accomplished if in the halls of national legislation that spirit ofamity and mutual concession shall prevail in which the Constitution hadits birth. If this involves the surrender or postponement of private interestsand the abandonment of local advantages, compensation will be found inthe assurance that the common interest is subserved and the general welfareadvanced.
In the discharge of my official duty I shall endeavor to be guided bya just and unstrained construction of the Constitution, a careful observanceof the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Governmentand those reserved to the States or to the people, and by a cautious appreciationof those functions which by the Constitution and laws have been especiallyassigned to the executive branch of the Government.
But he who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend theConstitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation whichevery patriotic citizen--on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy martsof trade, and everywhere--should share with him. The Constitution whichprescribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours; the Government you have chosenhim to administer for a time is yours; the suffrage which executes thewill of freemen is yours; the laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule,from the town meeting to the State capitals and the national capital, isyours. Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under thesame high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch andclose scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimateof their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is the people's will impressed uponthe whole framework of our civil polity--municipal, State, and Federal;and this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith inthe Republic.
It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closelylimit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economicallyadministered, because this bounds the right of the Government to exacttribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, andbecause public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We shouldnever be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are bestsuited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatiblewith the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limitedtime to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do muchby their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their officialfunctions, that plain way of life which among their fellow- citizens aidsintegrity and promotes thrift and prosperity.
The genius of our institutions, the needs of our people in their homelife, and the attention which is demanded for the settlement and developmentof the resources of our vast territory dictate the scrupulous avoidanceof any departure from that foreign policy commended by the history, thetraditions, and the prosperity of our Republic. It is the policy of independence,favored by our position and defended by our known love of justice and byour power. It is the policy of peace suitable to our interests. It is thepolicy of neutrality, rejecting any share in foreign broils and ambitionsupon other continents and repelling their intrusion here. It is the policyof Monroe and of Washington and Jefferson-- "Peace, commerce, and honestfriendship with all nations; entangling alliance with none."
A due regard for the interests and prosperity of all the people demandsthat our finances shall be established upon such a sound and sensible basisas shall secure the safety and confidence of business interests and makethe wage of labor sure and steady, and that our system of revenue shallbe so adjusted as to relieve the people of unnecessary taxation, havinga due regard to the interests of capital invested and workingmen employedin American industries, and preventing the accumulation of a surplus inthe Treasury to tempt extravagance and waste.
Care for the property of the nation and for the needs of future settlersrequires that the public domain should be protected from purloining schemesand unlawful occupation.
The conscience of the people demands that the Indians within our boundariesshall be fairly and honestly treated as wards of the Government and theireducation and civilization promoted with a view to their ultimate citizenship,and that polygamy in the Territories, destructive of the family relationand offensive to the moral sense of the civilized world, shall be repressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration ofa servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiringcitizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnantto our civilization.
The people demand reform in the administration of the Government andthe application of business principles to public affairs. As a means tothis end, civil-service reform should be in good faith enforced. Our citizenshave the right to protection from the incompetency of public employeeswho hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service, and fromthe corrupting influence of those who promise and the vicious methods ofthose who expect such rewards; and those who worthily seek public employmenthave the right to insist that merit and competency shall be recognizedinstead of party subserviency or the surrender of honest political belief.
In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exactjustice to all men there should be no pretext for anxiety touching theprotection of the freedmen in their rights or their security in the enjoymentof their privileges under the Constitution and its amendments. All discussionas to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizensis idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for theirimprovement. The fact that they are citizens entitles them to all the rightsdue to that relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations,and responsibilities.
These topics and the constant and ever-varying wants of an active andenterprising population may well receive the attention and the patrioticendeavor of all who make and execute the Federal law. Our duties are practicaland call for industrious application, an intelligent perception of theclaims of public office, and, above all, a firm determination, by unitedaction, to secure to all the people of the land the full benefits of thebest form of government ever vouchsafed to man. And let us not trust tohuman effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness ofAlmighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has atall times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aidand His blessings upon our labors.


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Are those who have never heard of Christ going to hell?
That's one of the most emotionally laden questions that a Christian can ever be asked. Nothing is more terrifying or more awful to contemplate than that any human being would go to hell. On the surface, when we ask a question like that, what's lurking there is, "How could God ever possibly send some person to hell who never even had the opportunity to hear of the Savior? It just doesn't seem right."
I would say the most important section of Scripture to study with respect to that question is the first chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans. The point of the book of Romans is to declare the Good News—the marvelous story of redemption that God has provided for humanity in Christ, the riches and the glory of God's grace, the extent to which God has gone to redeem us. But when Paul introduces the gospel, he begins in the first chapter by declaring that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven and this manifestation of God's anger is directed against a human race that has become ungodly and unrighteous. So the reason for God's anger is anger against evil. God's not angry with innocent people; he's angry with guilty people. The specific point for which they are charged with evil is in the rejection of God's self-disclosure.
Paul labors the point that from the very first day of creation and through the creation, God has plainly manifested his eternal power and being and character to every human being on this planet. In other words, every human being knows that there is a God and that he is accountable to God. Yet every human being disobeys God. Why does Paul start his exposition of the gospel at that point? What he's trying to do, and what he develops in the book of Romans, is this: Christ is sent into a world that is already on the way to hell. Christ is sent into the world that is lost, that is guilty of rejecting the Father whom they do know.
Now, let's go back to your original question, "Does God send people to hell who have never heard of Jesus?" God never punishes people for rejecting Jesus if they've never heard of Jesus. When I say that, people breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Then we'd better not tell anybody about Jesus because somebody might reject him. Then they're really in deep trouble." But again, there are other reasons to go to hell. To reject God the Father is a very serious thing. And no one will be able to say on the last day, "I didn't know that you existed," because God has revealed himself plainly. Now the Bible makes it clear that people desperately need Christ. God may grant his mercy unilaterally at some point, but I don't have any reason to have much hope in that. I think we have to pay serious attention to the passionate command of Christ to go to the whole world, to every living creature, and tell them of Jesus.
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Taken from Now, That's a Good Question! Copyright © 1996 by R.C. Sproul. Used by permission of Tyndale.


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Oracle9i Net Services Administrator's Guide Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96580-02 |
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This chapter describes how configuration information for Oracle Net Services can be stored in localized configuration files or centralized in a directory server.
The topics covered include:
Configuration information can be stored in a localized configuration file or a centralized repository, as described in the Table 3-1.
Network Configuration Model | Description |
Localized management |
Network address information stored in |
Centralized management |
Network address information is stored in centralized directory services, including a LDAP-compliant directory server or an Oracle Names server. Note: In future releases, Oracle Names will not be supported as a centralized naming method. |
Depending on the configuration model used, network computers can be configured with the files described in Table 3-2.
Configuration File | Description |
Located on the database server and client computers configured for centralized management features, this file contains parameters necessary to access a directory server. |
Located on the database server, this configuration file for the listener includes: |
Located on the Oracle Names server, this file includes the location, domain information, and optional configuration parameters for an Oracle Names server. |
Located on client and database server computer, this file may contain:
Located on the clients, this file contains net service names mapped to connect descriptors. This file is used for the local naming method. |
Configuration files are typically created in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
on UNIX operating systems and ORACLE_HOME
on Windows operating systems. However, configuration files can be created in a variety of places, because Oracle Net searches for the configuration files in a variety of places. The search order for sqlnet.ora
and ldap.ora
is as follows:
environment variable
If the TNS_ADMIN
environment variable is not defined as a variable on Windows NT, it may be in the registry.
directory on UNIX operating systems and the ORACLE_HOME
directory on Windows operating systemsThe search order for cman.ora
, listener.ora
, names.ora
, and tnsnames.ora
is as follows:
environment variable
If the TNS_ADMIN
environment variable is not defined as a variable on Windows NT, it may be in the registry.
For example, on the Solaris Operating System, this directory is /var/opt/oracle
directory on UNIX operating systems and the ORACLE_HOME
directory on Windows operating systems.
Today, network information is stored in multiple systems and in multiple directory formats. With new requirements for Internet computing and new e-business technologies, a common repository infrastructure is needed as a foundation for management and configuration of all data and resources. This kind of infrastructure reduces the cost of managing and configuring resources in a network.
Support of LDAP-compliant directory servers provides a centralized vehicle for managing and configuring a distributed Oracle network. The directory server can replace clientside and serverside localized tnsnames.ora
This section contains these topics:
Oracle Net Services use a centralized directory server as one of the primary methods for storage of connect identifiers. Clients configured directory usage can use the connect identifiers in their connect string. The directory server resolves the connect identifier to a connect descriptor that is passed back to the client.
Figure 3-1 shows a client resolving a connect identifier through a directory server.
Directory servers store information in a tree structure called a directory information tree (DIT). Each node in the tree is called an entry. Oracle Net Services makes use of both the tree structure and specific entries in the tree. For example, consider Figure 3-2.
The cn=sales
and cn=db1
entries represent a net service name and a database service, respectively. Additional entries under cn=sales
and cn=db1
contain the connect descriptor information. These entries are not represented in the graphic. The cn=sales
and cn=db1
entries enable clients to connect to the database using connect strings CONNECT
and CONNECT
Each entry is uniquely identified by a distinguished name (DN). The DN tells you exactly where the entry resides in the directory server's hierarchy. The DN for db1
is dn:cn=db1,cn=OracleContext,dc=jp,dc=acme,dc=com
, and the DN for sales
is dn:cn=sales,cn=OracleContext,dc=jp,dc=acme,dc=com
. Note that the format of a DN places the lowest component of the DIT to the left, then moves progressively up the DIT. Each DN is made up of a sequence of relative distinguished names (RDNs), much the way a directory path contains a sequence of directories. In the entry for db1
, the RDN is cn=db1
. A RDN is made up of a set of attributes. For example, in cn=db1
, cn
is one of the entry's attributes. The attribute, along with its value, uniquely identifies the entry.
Notice that db1
and sales
reside under cn=OracleContext
. This entry is a special RDN called an Oracle Context. The entries under the Oracle Context support various directory-enabled features, such as directory naming and enterprise user security.
During directory server usage configuration, a default directory entry that contains an Oracle Context is selected. The client uses this entry as the default location to look up connect identifiers in the directory server. The default Oracle Context affects the connect string. For example, if a client needs to access the db1
and sales
entry frequently, a reasonable Oracle Context would be dc=jp,dc=acme,dc=com
. The cn=OracleContext
does not have to be explicitly specified in the connect string. If a client's directory entry does not match the directory entry where the service is located, then the client must specify an entry's absolute name in the connect string, as described in "Client Connections Using Directory Naming".
See Also:
Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide for further information about enterprise user security |
In addition to database service and net service name entries, directory naming enables you to create net service alias entries. A net service alias is an alternative name for a net service name or database service. A net service alias entry does not have connect descriptor information. Instead, it only references the location of the entry for which it is an alias. When a client requests a directory lookup of a net service alias, the directory determines that the entry is a net service alias and completes the lookup as if it is the referenced entry. For example, in Figure 3-3, a net service alias of db1alias
is created for a database service of db1
. When db1alias
is used to connect to a database service, as in CONNECT
, it will actually resolve to and use the connect descriptor information for db1
There are several uses for using net service aliases. As shown in Figure 3-3, a net service alias can be useful as a way for clients to refer to a net service name by another name. Another use is to have a net service alias in one Oracle Context for a database service or net service name in a different Oracle Context. This enables a database service or net service name to be defined once in the directory server, but referred to by clients that use other Oracle Contexts.
In Figure 3-4, database service db1
resides in dc=jp,dc=acme,dc=com
. A net service alias named db1
is created in dc=us,dc=acme,dc=com
. This enables clients in both Japan and the United States to use the connect string CONNECT
as opposed to clients in the United States needing to specify CONNECT
DITs are commonly structured using:
Other structures are also permitted, but Oracle Corporation provides support for these structures.
Figure 3-5 shows a DIT structured according to DNS domain components.
Figure 3-6 shows a DIT structured according to country, organization, and organizational units. This structure is commonly referred to as an X.500 DIT.
A database service entry is created with Database Configuration Assistant during or after some modes of installation. Net service name and net service alias entries can be created with Oracle Net Manager. Oracle Net Manager can also be used to modify the Oracle Net attributes of the database service entries. Figure 3-7 shows how Database Configuration Assistant and Oracle Net Manager interface with the directory server.
Clients configured for directory server usage, as described in "Client Connections Using Directory Naming", can connect to a database using entries created by these configuration tools.
To use these configuration tools to add entries, an Oracle Context must exist. You create the Oracle Context by completing directory server usage configuration using Oracle Net Configuration Assistant. If you are using Oracle Internet Directory, then an Oracle Context is automatically created at the root of the DIT structure. This root Oracle Context has a complete DN of dn:cn=OracleContext
. For most deployments, you will need to create additional Oracle Contexts.
To create entries with Database Configuration Assistant or Oracle Net Manager, you must be a member of the following groups:
) or the OracleContextAdmins group (cn=OracleContextAdmins,cn=Groups,cn=OracleContext...
) to create a database service entry with Database Configuration Assistantcn=OracleNetAdmins,cn=OracleContext...
) or the OracleContextAdmins group to create net service names or net service aliases with Oracle Net ManagerThe directory user that created the Oracle Context is automatically added to these groups. Other users can be added to these groups by the directory administrator.
The OracleContextAdmins group is a super-user group for the Oracle Context. Members of the OracleContextAdmins group can add all supported types of entries to the Oracle Context.
See Also:
Most clients only need to perform name lookups in the directory server. To perform a lookup, the following minimum requirements must be met:
Directory servers usually do this by default.
You can use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant to perform the necessary directory server usage configuration during client installation. When directory usage configuration completes, directory usage information is stored in an ldap.ora
file. The client reads this file to locate the directory server and the default Oracle Context.
See Also:
Chapter 8, "Setting Up Directory Server Usage" for information about configuring directory server access |
In the same way they might use other naming methods, clients make connections to a database using connect identifiers. The connect identifiers can be a database service, net service name, or net service alias. These can be referred to by their common names, or they can require additional directory location information. The default Oracle Context determines how the connect identifier must be specified.
An entry may be identified in one of two ways:
Note: The JDBC OCI Driver supports both relative and absolute naming. The JDBC Thin Driver supports absolute naming only when the complete DN is used. See the Oracle9i JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference for further information. |
In the following example, an entry is identified by its relative name, and the service can be referred to by its common name. A relative name can be used if the entry is in the same Oracle Context that was configured to be the default Oracle Context for the client's Oracle home.
Consider a directory server that contains an entry for a database called sales
with a DN of dn:cn=sales,cn=OracleContext,o=acme,c=us
, as shown in Figure 3-8. If the client is configured with a default Oracle Context of cn=OracleContext,o=acme,c=us
, then the connect identifier can simply be sales
Consider the same directory structure as shown Figure 3-8, but with the client's Oracle home configured with a default Oracle Context of cn=OracleContext,o=acme,c=jp
Because the client is configured with an Oracle Context that does not match the location of sales
in the directory server, a connect string that uses sales
does not work. Instead, the client must specifically identify the location of sales
, which can be done in one of two ways:
Many applications do not support the use of a DN.
See Also:
"Absolute Name Specification for Directory Naming" for further information about absolute names |
If you are responsible for designing directory servers for directory naming, consider the following issues:
Connect identifiers are stored in a directory server for all clients to access. Depending on the number of clients, there can be a significant load on a directory server.
During a connect identifier lookup, a name is searched under a specific Oracle Context. Because of the scope of the lookup, you probably want users to experience relatively quick performance so that the database connect time is not affected. Users may begin to notice slow connect times if lookups takes more than one second.
You can resolve performance problems changing the network topology or implementing replication.
Because administrative clients can create and modify entries in the directory server, security is essential. This section covers the following security-related topics:
Clients that perform lookups for information in the directory server typically use anonymous authentication.
Clients that add or modify entries in a directory must authenticate with the directory server. Database Configuration Assistant or Oracle Net Manager may be used to add or modify the entries. Only authenticated users with proper privileges can modify entries. Use one of the authentication methods listed in Table 3-3.
Authentication is used with access control lists (ACLs) to make decisions about whether clients can modify or add information in the directory server. ACLs are created at the same time as the Oracle Context with Oracle Net Configuration Assistant during directory server access configuration.
ACLs specify the following:
ACLs are established for a group of users. During Oracle Context creation, the OracleDBCreators, OracleNetAdmins, and OracleContextAdmins groups are created.
Note: Additional groups are created during Oracle Context creation, as described in the Oracle9i Directory Service Integration and Deployment Guide. |
The user who creates the Oracle Context with Oracle Net Configuration Assistant is automatically added as the first member of these groups.
Table 3-4 describes ACL requirements for these groups and anonymous users and their relation to Oracle Net entries in the directory server.
Group | ACL Requirements |
Anonymous users |
All Oracle Net attributes and objects in the directory server have read access for the anonymous user. Read access of these objects for anonymous is also applied to the Oracle Context. This enables anonymous users to browse directory naming entries contained within the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant sets up this access right during client installation. |
OracleContextAdmins group users |
Members of OracleDBCreators ( In addition to the Oracle Context creator, other users can be added to this group by the directory administrator with Oracle Enterprise Security Manager. |
OracleDBCreators group users |
Members of OracleDBCreators ( In addition to the Oracle Context creator, other users can be added to this group by the directory administrator with Oracle Enterprise Security Manager. See Also: Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide for further information about the OracleDBCreators group |
OracleNetAdmins group users |
Members of OracleNetAdmins ( In addition to the Oracle Context creator, other users can be added to this group by the directory administrator. See Also: "Administering the OracleNetAdmins Group" for information on adding users to the OracleNetAdmins group |
Directories must be populated with the correct version of the Oracle schema before Oracle Contexts or a database service or net service name entry can be created. The Oracle schema defines the type of objects, called object classes, that can be stored in the directory server and their attributes. Table 3-5 lists the object classes for database service, net service name, and net service alias entries.
Table 3-6 lists the object classes used by orclDbServer
, orclNetService
, and orclNetServiceAlias
These object classes use attributes that specify the contents of connect descriptors.
See Also:
Oracle9i Net Services Reference Guide for further information about these object classes and their attributes |
Like directory naming support, Oracle Names provides a distributed naming service to help simplify the setup and administration of global, client/server computing networks. Directory naming uses an LDAP-compliant directory server, which can have other functions in addition to supporting Oracle services. Oracle Names, however, is Oracle proprietary, providing support only for Oracle services.
Note: In future releases, Oracle Names will not be supported as a centralized naming method. Because no new enhancements are being added to Oracle Names, consider using directory naming or migrating an existing Oracle Names configuration to directory naming, as described in Chapter 10, "Exporting Naming Data to a Directory Server". The material presented here is primarily for reference to enable you to maintain your current Oracle Names environment. |
This section contains these topics:
Oracle Names establishes and maintains an integrated system of Oracle Names servers which work together like a directory service. The system stores addresses for all the services on a network and makes them available to clients wishing to make a connection.
Much like a caller who uses directory assistance to locate a telephone number, clients configured to use Oracle Names refer their connection requests to an Oracle Names server. The Oracle Names server attempts to resolve the service name provided by the client to a network address. If the Oracle Names server finds the network address, it then returns that information to the client. The client can then use that address to connect to the service.
Figure 3-9 shows how Oracle Names works to help establish a connection between a client and server:
See Also:
"Configuring the Oracle Names Method" for configuration information |
Many networks have one central point of administration, that is, one administrative region. With Oracle Names, an administrative region refers to a collection of Oracle Names servers that administer services in a network. All connect information is stored in a single data repository that has the authority to interpret a service name. All Oracle Names servers within an administrative region query information from this data repository. If the administrative region uses a database for storage, there is one database for each administrative region. There can be any number of Oracle Names servers.
Oracle Names provides support for one or more administrative regions. This enables each data center to independently define and manage the services in its own environment. At the same time, all service addresses remain available to all clients across the enterprise. Oracle Names servers transparently forward client name resolution requests in one administrative region to the region which can service the request.
A domain is a logical group of computers and network services. Within each domain, all names must be unique: Across domains, simple service names can be repeated.
Any administrative region contains one or more domains. Network domains are similar to file directories used by many operating systems in that they are hierarchical. Unlike file systems, however, network domains may or may not correspond to any physical arrangement of databases or other objects in a network. They are simply name spaces developed to prevent name space conflicts.
Data in Oracle Names servers is updated through continuous replication between all the Oracle Names servers in the region or by writing to and reading from a common Oracle database. For smaller workgroup environments, administrators can configure Oracle Names servers to replicate data continuously among themselves.
Administrators can also choose to store the administrative region's data in an Oracle database, called the region database. A region database consists of tables that store Oracle Names information. Each Oracle Names server in a given administrative region periodically polls the region database for updated registrations. In this way, new registrations are communicated in a timely manner to all of the Oracle Names servers in a given administrative region. Using a region database also relieves Oracle Names servers of the necessity to communicate directly with each other and provides better reliability.
Table 3-7 describes the types of data stored in an Oracle Names server.
Data | Description |
Net service names |
If you register net service names with the Oracle Names Control utility or Oracle Net Manager, an Oracle Names server stores them. An Oracle Names server also stores gateways to non-Oracle databases and Oracle RDB databases. |
Global database names and addresses |
The Oracle Names server retrieves information about the database, including the global database name (database name and domain) and address, from the listener. Global database names and addresses can be registered with the Oracle Names server, using either the Oracle Names Control utility or Oracle Net Manager. |
Other Oracle Names server names and addresses |
An Oracle Names server stores the names and addresses of all other Oracle Names servers in the same administrative region. If a network has more than one administrative region, the Oracle Names server stores the name and address of at least one Oracle Names server in the root administrative region and each of the immediate subregions. You do not need to register this information. |
Global database links |
A database link enables a database to communicate with another database. The name of a database link is the same as the global database name of the database to which the link points. Typically, only one database link should exist for the database. The following types of database links can be created:
Global database links, as well as username and password credentials for them, can be registered with the Oracle Names server using Oracle Net Manager. These global database links may be supplemented with link qualifiers defined through Oracle Net Manager. Global database links can be superseded with private and public database links created by individual users. See Also: Oracle9i Database Administrator's Guide for information about the supported types of database links |
Aliases |
An Oracle Names server stores aliases or alternative service names for any defined net service name, database service, or global database link. Aliases can be registered with the Oracle Names server, using either the Oracle Names Control utility or Oracle Net Manager. |
When you use Oracle Names, objects such as databases in a networked environment need to be named in a way that ensures they are unique within the network. The two basic models for naming objects in a network include:
The single domain naming model is useful if your network is small, and names are not duplicated. Figure 3-10 shows a typical flat naming structure using a single domain name, world
In this environment, database service names are automatically appended with a .world
extension (for example, prod.world
, flights.world
, and so forth).
Hierarchical naming models divide names into a hierarchical structure to allow for future growth or greater naming autonomy. This type of naming model enables more than one database with the same simple name in different domains.
Figure 3-11 shows a hierarchical structure of domains including root domain acme
and subdomains us.acme
, europe.acme
, and row.acme
Notice in Figure 3-11 both weather
and history
are repeated, but the names remain unique, that is, history.row.acme
and history.europe.acme
The default domain is the domain within which most of the client's name requests are conducted. This is usually the domain in which the client resides, though it could also be another domain from which the client most often requests services. A client can request a network service within its default domain by using the service's simple, unqualified name, that is, without specifying a domain name. If a user requests a name without a "." character in it, the default domain name is automatically appended to the database service or database link name requested.
Consider for example, a client that is configured with a default domain of europe.acme.com
. When this client makes a request for the service name wine
in Figure 3-11, the default domain name europe.acme.com
is appended to the requested name so that the name becomes wine.europe.acme.com
Multiple domains are related hierarchically to a root domain (the highest-level domain in the hierarchy) in a series of parent-child relationships. For example, under the root might be several domains, one of which is called com
. Under the com
domain might be several more domains, one of which is acme
. Under the acme
domain might be several domains, such as us
, europe
, and so forth.
If you are using Oracle Names and your network is large or widely distributed geographically, you may choose to have multiple administrative regions. For example, if your network includes both the United States and Europe, you might want to have administrative decisions about the network made locally. To subdivide, you must delegate regions and domains from a parent to a child or subregion.
To delegate administrative regions, you must use a hierarchical naming model in which each administrative region controls one or more different domains.
Networks with multiple administrative regions are composed of one root administrative region and one or more delegated administrative regions.
The root administrative region contains the root domain. There can only be one root administrative region. The root administrative region contains the following information:
Administrative regions can be delegated from the top of the hierarchy down to other domains in the naming model. For example, a network with 10 domains can have between one and10 administrative regions.
All administrative regions other than the root are hierarchically delegated directly or indirectly from it.
Figure 3-12 shows a network with five domains and three administrative regions: the root, acme
, and two delegated regions, row
and asia
All administrative regions under the root are considered delegated administrative regions. Delegated administrative regions receive administrative responsibilities for a domain from other regions, such as the root administrative region. A delegated administrative region contains the following information:
Oracle Names version 8 and 9 differs significantly from earlier versions. The differences between the versions are described in the following topics:
In Oracle Names version 1, administrators configured Oracle Names servers using Oracle Network Manager and stored all topology data in a database. All the Oracle Names servers in a region shared the same information because they accessed the same database.
The clients had a list of preferred Oracle Names servers specified in the sqlnet.ora
file. This list was created by the user, listing the order of preferred Oracle Names to contact. The first Oracle Names server in the list would be contacted first by a client.
Preferred Oracle Names servers may still be configured.
See Also:
"Configuring Connections to Non-Oracle Database Services" for configuration information |
In Oracle Names version 2, the administrator could choose between continuing Oracle Names server configuration, as in version 1 or using the Dynamic Discovery Option. The Dynamic Discovery Option was recommended only for a network with a single region and single DNS domain. The Dynamic Discovery Option uses well-known Oracle Names servers, which are precise names hard-coded into DNS or the hosts
file on both the Oracle Names Server and its clients:
The well-known host names for TCP connections | The well-known computer names for Named Pipes connectionsFoot 1 |
oranamesrvr0 oranamesrvr1 oranamesrvr2 oranamesrvr3 oranamesrvr4 |
1 Well-known Oracle Names server names for Named Pipes must be in all uppercase. |
Oracle Names servers then become available at these well-known addresses, so clients do not need to be told, by way of a preferred Oracle Names server list, where to find an Oracle Names server.
If the Dynamic Discovery Option was chosen, each Oracle Names server automatically replicated its data to all other well-known Oracle Names servers in the administrative region. Listeners were configured to register themselves with well-known Oracle Names servers.
In Oracle Names version 8 and 9, the administrator may choose between continuing Oracle Names Server configuration as in version 1 or version 2, or using the new functionality. Oracle Names version 8 and 9 incorporates version 2 Dynamic Discovery Option features without the constraints of a single region and single domain. The main features of Oracle Names version 8 and 9 include:
See Also:
"Configuring the Oracle Names Method" for configuration information |
A list of Oracle Names servers can be created that enables a client or another Oracle Names server to contact an Oracle Names server. The process of creating the list is called discovery.
When a client tries to discover an Oracle Names server with the Oracle Names Control utility or Oracle Net Manager, one Oracle Names server is found first. Once the client finds an Oracle Names server, it pings all other Oracle Names servers in the region. A list of Oracle Names servers is then created on the client and saved to .sdns.ora
on UNIX operating systems and sdns.ora
on Windows operating systems. This list is sorted in order of response time.
To find the first Oracle Names server, discovery searches in the following order:
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Hi y'all!
I've been working on a reimplementation of Pico-8 in Love2D (Another lua game framework)
Mainly because I wanted to keep working on my games after I hit the token limits in Pico-8
but didn't want to lose the pico-8 feel and start from scratch.
So I'm sharing picolove with you, can grab the source on github.
Requires Love2D 0.9.x from https://love2d.org
Can run a p8 cart with
love . cartname.p8 |
You can modify the love.load function to load a specific cartridge and package it into a .love file (renamed .zip) to distribute.
Have fun!!
Let me know about any bugs you find.
I know there's some issues with removing stuff with del in a foreach loop (causes a bug in celeste.p8), but not sure what's going on there.
Working on adding SFX and Music support as well as p8.png loading.
This may be of help to others, Getting Started with Love2D
There are differences on each platform.
It works! Approximately...
Had to change all ifs like this tho:
if (true) doStuff()
to this
if (true) then doStuff() end
Very nice work tho. I can see this being useful if you want an infinite cpu power pico, but that defeats the purpose a little.
@Rhys great! I'll look into that error you're getting, picolove is slightly more fussy about things like accessing pixel data outside of the screen or map data out of the bounds or nonexistent sprites, which often shows bugs that are hidden by pico8, but i'll try and make it more compatible, perhaps an optional strict mode =)
@matt since it's open source you can modify it to have whatever limitations you want, changing the resolution would just be changing a line in picolove, likewise the palette and fps.
@Rhys, I got it working, had to make foreach return if you pass it a nil table, throws a warning instead of error now. I was able to play through the whole game =)
unfortunately the if shorthand is a real pain to parse correctly, basically I need to match it and replace it with the expanded equivalent, but that is hard without implementing a full parser, i've tried to handle most of the cases, but there are some that break it.
hey @sta64, i've been working on audio for picolove, nearly there =)
it's probably been the hardest bit to get right since it's harder to compare visually except through an oscilliscope.
with lots of help from asterick we've figured out most of the oscillators, or at least close approximations:
0 = triangle return abs((x%2)-1)-0.5 * 0.5 1 = uneven tri local t = x%1 return (((t < 0.875) and (t * 16 / 7) or ((1-t)*16)) -1) * 0.5 2 = saw return (x%1-0.5) * 0.333 3 = sqr 50% return (x%2 < 0.5 and 1 or -1) * 0.25 4 = sqr 25% return (x%2 < 0.25 and 1 or -1) * 0.25 5 = tri + half frequency tri / 2 return (abs((x%2)-1)-0.5 + (abs(((x*0.5)%2)-1)-0.5)/2) * 0.333 6 = noise zep says this is brown noise, haven't quite got this right yet 7 = detuned triangle return (abs((x%2)-1)-0.5 + (abs(((x*0.97)%2)-1)-0.5)/2) * 0.333 |
i've pushed a branch to github with some basic sound support, no music yet
@darkhog, I have no plans to implement tools at this stage, but it's certainly possible to make your own.
I've exposed functions for raw keyboard input and i plan to add ones for mouse input so you can make your own devtools, so I can imagine that people might make developer tool carts.
now supports setfps(newfps) to change the framerate
and music/sfx is pretty much working now, although not perfect
here's a modified celeste running at 60fps
Hi. Congratulations ipmbox. That music and sound effects sound great. I am making a sprite editor pico8 compatible and I will introduce more tile banks beyond the limitation. Afaik there is no editor for that at the moment and that might be useful for Picolove users. What do you think guys? By the way is it possible to use bigger banks in Picolove?
Here is the link BBS Link
Have you tried running this on Nintendo 3DS using Lua Player Plus?
I will try it soon.
This looks really REALLY promising. I'm going to try it out asap.
I am messing around with the new version of PicoLove. I am using a mac computer and when running jelpi.p8 it works great until it's game over and then I get this error :
main.lua:1214: attempt to index upvalue'__pico_current_music' (a nil value)
I was wondering if anybody had the same issue.
I also noticed that in celeste.p8 the music stops looping and goes to screen 3 after 1. Thanks in advance.
fantastic job! I've opened a few issues on github, so address them however you please :)
picolove works really nicely! I only had to change a few things, considering I was using some of pico8's undocumented features (such as math.min/math.max/math.floor).
Mind you the work around was easy:
math = { max = max, min = min, floor = flr, } |
If you'd like to see picolove in action, you can download it here with my game.
Hey @impbox that's a really cool project you have there :)
I saw the video where you play Celeste on PicoLove at 60fps and it's preatty neat. So I cloned your repo and tried to run it here but it's throwing an error: Error: main.lua:1227: attempt to index local 'm' (a nil value)
Maybe I'll try to debug this later.
wow, not sure why the screenshot is that big o0
You can get the original here: http://i.imgur.com/eSfAqN5.png
It's an impressive implementation! Well done.
I've started a small project in pico-8.
With Löve 0.9.2, it works well. It also helped me to fix some wrong code which was accepted by pico-8 ;) (if I call a map with map(0,0,0,0), instead of map(0,0,0,0,128,128) for example)
It doesn't work with Löve 10. It seems they often break API with new releases, I started a game in Löve and after next update it was no longer compatible...
It's good you stated it was for Löve 0.9.x in the readme. I think you should also add the usage in the readme (love . cartname.p8), like at the beginning of this thread, and also for the love.load function for autoloading a game (even if people can copy their game on the no_cart.p8 file).
(Edit) I managed to make it work with löve 0.10.1 by commenting line 280 in main.lua:
and changing line 100 to:
local lineMesh = love.graphics.newMesh(128,"points")
So far it works for my project. Maybe it's not enough. For example it doesn't work with the android version of Löve.
It's a bit frustrating Löve people are doing this kind of things:
"Available since LÖVE 0.9.1 and removed in LÖVE 0.10.0" (for example for love.graphics.newMesh)
Thanks a lot for this work.
Hey farvadin, sorry I've kind of neglected picolove recently, gamax has continued improving it in his fork.
https://github.com/gamax92/picolove should work with love 0.10 as well as some other fixes.
ah, thank you for the information, I'll have a look at this. Maybe you could also mention this fork on the github project?
I think you should talk about picolove on the löve2d forum ;)
(edit) I've managed to export my game to android with this new picolove library. I had to remove / comment all my printh calls because it's no longer supported. It seems to be supported on android, except for the controls which are missing. But it's quite an achivement.
hello Gamax92,
it's amazing. I was looking for this kind of addition (I tried to use Gööi with no success).
I've packaged my game with your new code. I works well (on my asus zenfone2), it's perfect like that. The only addition I could think of (but maybe it's not possible), is a way to rotate the screen 90° so we use the phone / tablet in portrait mode (as pico8 games are square), like on a gameboy. But it's already very good. Thanks you very much! (and also thanks for adding printh in the code)
This is sadly something that is being forced in the AndroidManifest.xml. When packaging your game, remove
android:screenOrientation="landscape" |
It can be ... I don't think the music and sfx interoperation works correctly (when on the same channel)
Songs with different looping speeds on the channels seem to quirk out some times
The noise waveform has the wrong volume system and could potentially be entirely inaccurate (but the new noise generation seems okay)
Oscillator positions don't reset after each pattern, found that behavior by looking at the 7th(?) waveform.
The sound tends to have a popping noise which is probably because:
The frequency spectrum shows that it has content above 22050 for some reason, as if it were doing nearest neighbor resampling.
Pretty sure it'll still crash if there is no music loop start marker.
The sfx and music data isn't hooked up to peek and poke.
None of the 4 new music effects we discovered are implemented, and I dunno if they could be implemented besides distortion, the rest would need a reimplementation of the sound system to support such a thing.
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