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Distilling Knowledge
by Paul
Michaela's recent post on learning from the scriptures got me thinking about how I learn.
The truths of the gospel rarely come to me in bright beams of light or accompanied by trumpeting angels. Instead, they "distil upon [my] soul as the dews from heaven" (D&C 121:45). Or, as Isaiah writes, "like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." They come gently and quietly. Often I do not see them approach, but rather sense them only once they are there in my mind and in my heart.
An example:
One of my first memories of learning from the scriptures came while sitting on my older sister's bed. She had just come home from participating in the Hill Cumorah Pageant the year she graduated from high school and we were talking about some of the things she did and learned there. She turned to 3 Nephi 17 and read:
I perceive that ye are weak, that ye cannot understand all my words which I am commanded of the Father to speak unto you at this time. Therefore, go ye unto your homes, and ponder upon the things which I have said, and ask of the Father, in my name, that ye may understand, and prepare your minds for the morrow, and I come unto you again.
She pointed out the compassion that the Savior felt: He understood His people well enough to know that they had reached their limit of learning, and, out of His love and concern for them, He tried to send them home to rest and prepare for another day of learning.
She continued then with verses five and six, which are the verses I hear most quoted regarding the Savior's love for the Nephite people:
And it came to pass that when Jesus had thus spoken, he cast his eyes round about again on the multitude, and beheld they were in tears, and did look steadfastly upon him as if they would ask him to tarry a little longer with them. And he said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled with compassion towards you.
He then invites them to be healed and blessed by Him.
The truth that distilled upon me in that setting was the love the Savior felt for me. Until that time I had a sense of Jesus' love for His people — all people — but not me personally. Since that conversation, the importance of that truth has had increasing resonance and importance in my life.
Another example:
As a BYU freshman, I had a roommate whose dad was a disaffected member of the church. My friend had plenty of questions about church history, many of which I'd never considered. As a child convert, I had enough of my own spiritual witness as our family joined the church that I was far less concerned about apparent inconsistencies and "shocking" truths of church history.
My roommate's questions did not cause me to doubt my faith, but I did travel down the road of inquiry with him. Many issues we investigated and resolved; some we investigated but did not resolve. Despite my faith in God, my belief in the restoration, my testimony of the Book of Mormon, and the spiritual confirmation I had felt when receiving ordinances of the gospel, I still struggled with aspects of Joseph's role as prophet.
I didn't worry about Joseph's polygamy (I'm not sure I knew much about that issue at the time) or Masonic roots of temple worship (I did know about that), or even his presidential bid (which bothered my roommate considerably). It was much more basic to me. I wondered how I could be sure that what Joseph said the Lord had said was, in fact, what the Lord had said.
I knew the Book of Mormon was true, but I also knew the Book of Mormon preceded most of Joseph's published revelations. And I knew the ordinances I'd received were accompanied by the spirit, so I accepted them as true and valid, but the priesthood authority was restored before most of his published revelations. I also knew that in the end, the only way I would resolve this for myself was through confirmation of the Spirit, not just through my own study.
About the same time, I heard Sister Kimball's "put it on a shelf" talk at BYU (this Ensign article predates the talk I heard, but sums up her philosophy well), and I vowed to put my question about Joseph on the shelf.
Nearly fifteen years later and half a world away from BYU, I was preparing a gospel doctrine lesson for Sunday School. As I read a passage in the Doctrine and Covenants that I had surely read dozens of times before, I felt that question on my mind's shelf being resolved. Although I can no longer remember the passage, I clearly remember feeling distinctly that I no longer needed to worry about that question, and that I could trust that Joseph was, indeed, God's prophet of the restoration throughout his life.
This was not a bolt of lightning. It was not the cartoonist's hammer on my head. There were no bells or whistles, no angelic choir. It was simply a still small voice – a voice felt more than heard, as Elder Packer has described it – simply speaking peace, confirming truth, offering reassurance.
Here's the thing:
Just as the dew arrives on the morning lawn imperceptibly, so came my understanding of the Savior's love for me. It was simply there as my sister opened the scriptures to me.
In my garden tiny shoots of plants appear from one day to the next, then blossoms appear without warning overnight, and finally beans and peas are ready to pick where they weren't the day before. I see them by looking repeatedly over time in the same place. Similarly, the answer to my long standing question about the prophet Joseph came quietly, but suddenly, without warning, as I was studying a passage I had studied before.
- How do you learn gospel truth?
- How do you perceive knowledge that distils like the dew from heaven?
- How have you been surprised by new knowledge you have gained while studying the scriptures?
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3 Responses to Distilling Knowledge
Learning for me is not necessarily of the mind but of the Spirit. I don't always understand things scripturally or historically, but if the Spirit testifies to me, then all is well.
You've illustrated well why it's so important for us to learn how the Spirit speaks to us individually. Thanks for reading!
A few years ago I became fascinated by the visits Joseph Smith made to leaders after his death. Most of them contained an exhortation for that leader to help the people to get the spirit. It makes sense, since so much of his particular dispensation to the church was to lead by a continual flow of personal revelation. I think it's one of the dangers of a growing institutional church that we cease being renewed from within by this spirit. I especially think this is a danger for boys, who move from one office of the Aaronic Priesthood to another by virtue of their age without understanding the different stewardship or the blessings that office proffered. It's often, in my experience, in the operation of our stewardship that both questions and answers come. Nice post.


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Board of Advisors
Christopher Burgess
Christopher Burgess (@burgessct) is the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Security Officer at Atigeo, LLC (www.atigeo.com), a compassionate technology company. Prior to joining Atigeo, he served as the senior security advisor to the chief security officer at Cisco. In addition, Christopher served as a senior U.S. national security executive (30+ years service and recipient of the Distinguish Career Intelligence Medal), he lived and worked in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Europe, and Latin America where he acquired understanding of people, cultures, and societal issues.
As an industry thought leader, he addresses threats to intellectual property, the security aspects of social media, security strategy, security education and awareness and prevention of industrial espionage. He is the co-author of Secrets Stolen, Fortune Lost: Preventing Intellectual Property Theft and Economic Espionage in the 21st Century, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He also focuses on a number of societal issues such as, hunger, slavery, health, as well as how to keep ones family safe online via his personal blogs: BurgessCT.
Patrick Duncan
Patrick Duncan brings with him 24 years of telecom experience including the past 14 years building and leading sales organizations through out the Asia Pacific region. Having started his career with AT&T selling network services, Patrick was most recently APAC Managing Director for CloudShield Technologies where he built the region from ground up to having a sales, services and channel footprint region wide.
Previous Asia Pacific executive leadership roles have included MD APAC Aperto Networks, VP APAC Alvarion, COO Lucent Technologies APAC Channels organization as well as country and regional roles in Avaya APAC. Patrick has lived in Australia, China PRC, Hong Kong, Thailand and currently resides in Singapore. He holds a BS Industrial Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic State University.
John Haggard
John is a pioneer in the design, development, and delivery of advanced state-of-the-art information security products for 65% of international corporate, government, and educational institutions for over 25 years. He has extensive experience ranging from large mainframe enterprise systems to large Internet distributed systems. He was a member of an elite team that developed and deployed the world's first extended user authentication infrastructure for authentication beyond passwords in the mid 1980'.
John served as the ACF2 Development Manager for SKK. Inc., then as Product Owner of the Security, Control, and Audit division of CA (NYSE: CA) until 1994. Since then John, has led startup companies deploying biometrics and one time passwords servicing international financial institutions.
John served as President, COO, and CTO of VASCO Data Security International (Nasdaq: VDSI), bringing that company into the market in 1994. Since 2000, he has served on the board of directors for numerous intellectual property companies in the field of advanced smart card technologies related to authentication and security. John has a BS in Computer Science, from Northern Illinois University.
Bill Harris
Veteran U.S. diplomat, NATO negotiator, Army War College professor and national defense foundation president, Bill Harris brings three decades of public service and national security experience to the Rune Advisory Board. Currently serving as North America Director for the Central Asia Development Group (CADG), Bill leads the Washington office and represents all aspects of the company's global development, engineering, aviation, logistics and communications businesses to a broad range of government and private customers in the U.S. and abroad.
Before joining CADG, Bill served as the U.S. Senior Civilian in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan during President Obama's military and civilian surge into the Taliban stronghold. During his career in the State Department Foreign Service, Bill served in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, Paraguay and Belgium -- in addition to tours of duty at the State Department headquarters in Washington, DC. He was the first State Department Political Advisor to the Commanding General Coalition Forces Afghanistan (2002), Commanding General U.S. Northern Command (2004) and he was the founding president of the National Homeland Defense Foundation in Colorado Springs, CO (2006). Bill is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the University of Colorado (Boulder). Bill's web page is www.billharris-afghanistan.com
Richardus Eko Indrajit
Prof. Richardus Eko Indrajit started his business, management, and information technology practices in Price Waterhouse Indonesia as Senior Consultant before joining several prominent corporations such as: Prosys Bangun Nusantara – Cap Gemini Consulting, Renaissance Indonesia, the Jakarta Consulting Group, Soedarpo Informatika Enterprise, and IndoConsult Utama. He has been appointed as Chairman of Perbanas School of Information System and Technology, Research Director of Swiss-German University, and participated as active faculty members in several universities,
University of Indonesia, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Bina Nusantara University – Curtin University of Technology, Trisakti University – Edith Cowan University, and IPMI – Monash University. Currently he is the President of the Association of Higher Learning Institution in Computing and Information Technology Studies and President of International Association of Software Architect – Indonesian Chapter. In government sector, he has been assigned as a special staff and advisor to various institutions, such as: Secretary General of National Auditing Board, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, National Defense Board (Lemhannas), National Narcotics Body, and Central Bank of Indonesia –and the first Chairman of ID-SIRTII (Indonesia Security Incidents Response Team on Internet Infrastructure). He is also assigned by the government of Indonesia to become the member of the Board of National Educational Standard (BSNP-Ministry of Education), the Board of Indonesian Professional Certification Authority (BNSP-Ministry of Labour and Transmigration), and the Board of National Research Council (DRN-Ministry of Research and Technology).
He has published more than 30 books and hundreds of national journals in the area of business, management, and information technology. He graduated from Surabaya Institute of Technology as Computer Engineer in 1992 and his Masters of Applied Computer Science at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, a Master of Business Administration from Leicester University, United Kingdom, Master of Communication from London School of Public Relations – Jakarta, and Master of Philosophy from Masstricht School of Management, the Netherlands. His Doctor of Business Administration degree was from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the City of Manila), the Philippines and from Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands.
Chet Nagle
Chet Nagle was a carrier pilot in Task Group Alpha, and flew in the Cuban Missile Crisis and worked as the research and development project officer at the Naval Oceanographic Office, where he managed and installed a large classified ocean analysis system (ASWEPS). After his commission he joined Maxon Electronics as a sales engineer for phased array antennae systems and other projects. Chet joined the Department of Defense office of International Security Affairs (ISA). He was desk officer for Northern European Negotiations and ran government sales of sophisticated systems. After the Defense Department he became a director of Aeromaritime, Inc. a defense materiel import/export company. Chet had also spent time in Oman and the region, serving as Special Military Advisor to the Sultan of Oman and was awarded the Sultanate's highest honor, the Order of Oman. While an advisor to Oman, Nagle founded The Journal of Defense & Diplomacy.
Chet became a business consultant for U.S. and foreign industrial and financial interests via Intel Research Corporation (IRC). At IRC, he helped clients with his knowledge of marketing, telecommunications, manufacturing, information technology, business organization, and the U.S and foreign stock markets. Mr. Nagle has numerous articles and studies published in the U.S. and abroad, including a book on the economic effect of global sanctions against South Africa, done in conjunction with The Heritage Foundation. He also appears regularly on radio and television programs. Chet Nagle was awarded a Presidential Appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated with a degree in naval science. He later graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with the degree of Juris Doctor.
Thad WolfeThad Wolfe was the Air Force Practice Leader for Thomas Group Inc. and was with Science Applications International Corporation for eight years where he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Account Manager for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM); General Manager, Enterprise Security Solutions Business Unit, and Director of the SAIC AEROSPACENTER. Thad was also CEO of Western Research Institute, and CEO of International Youth Institute Inc. He served as Executive Vice President of Browning Resources US, a natural resources company with real estate, mining, and refinery operations. Thad completed military service as a Lt. General and Vice Commander of Air Combat Command having served in a variety of line and staff positions including flying, nuclear operations and command and control, standardization/evaluation, intelligence, development engineering; and assignments including Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff.
Thad has served on many boards that include The Retired Officers Association, the Air Force Association's Veterans and Retirees Council, The Western Research Institute and the Ruckelshaus Institute for Environment and Natural Resources. He is currently on the Board of Directors of World Energy Solutions, NanoVapor Fuels Group, the Watermark Risk Management LLC, Colorado Engineering Inc., Rune Information Security Corporation Pte Ltd., and Savage IO. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree and University of Wyoming with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is a graduate of the National War College, the Joint Flag and General Officer Capstone Course and the Harvard Program for Leaders of National and International Security.

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Thomas Vanek the Anti Matt Moulson
The calendar turned to the twelfth month of the year, the Penguins came into the Coliseum starting a goalie against a team that he calls "his daddy", the lead was 2-0 early in the game, and the vaunted Pittsburgh power play was denied with a 5-3 man advantage. What does this add up to? Nothing.
The Islanders once again could not come through when it mattered most and dropped yet another heart breaker, this time to the Penguins at home.
The Isles twittisphere was ablaze after the game all referencing a new complaint. Rather than the typical Fire Cappy, Fire Snow, or Change the Lines tweets, the subject from this nights dejecting loss was focused on the referees.
The fact that NHL refs are sub par is not breaking news. A player who is in his 9th NHL season, making $6.4 million dollars a year, is known as a "superstar", and doesn't know how to control his emotions, is news that everyone should be talking about.
A minute after Evgeni Malkin took what looked to be the most bonehead penalty of the night by cross checking John Tavares right in front of the ref, Thomas Vanek one upped him by taking a back breaking retaliatory slashing penalty.
Vanek most definitely had a gripe as he was taken down a couple of times in front of the net by Kris Letang, but he must be a professional and keep his cool. This is not the first time and will not be the last time a call is missed.
The Pen's did not score on their 4-3 power play in overtime, but the fact that a moronic penalty nullified the Islanders power play chance at the end of the game is about as big of a confidence killer there is.
The Islanders new #26 has been anything but a superstar for the Islanders. He's been lazy on defense (he had a great up front view of Ovechkin's OT winner Saturday night), he has not been strong with the puck, and has not been strong in front of the net on the power play.
Vanek has zero power play goals with the Islanders in 12 games and they have only won 2 games with him in the lineup.
All of the blame should not go on Vanek as he was not the one that lobbied to come to Long Island, Garth Snow is responsible for making the deal. Snow is the individual that figured it was smart to send his top line winger, Matt Moulson, to the Sabres for the anti-Moulson.
Moulson was an iron man, Vanek has already missed 6 games in just over a month as an Islander. Moulson had chemistry with the Captain John Tavares, Vanek has not been able to adjust to the fast pace nature of JT. Moulson finished, Vanek misses the net.
The sample size is small, but there has been nothing positive about it. This seems to have been yet another blunder by Snow and his front office unless Vanek can turn his game around in time to either lift his team from the bottom of the standings or build his worth up enough to trade him at the deadline.
-Chad DeCarlo
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text: My husband read about San Francisco based interior design firm O + A in an issue of Fast Company magazine. Their focus is workspaces, and let me tell you, I'd give anything to be able to spend my days in environments like this (instead of staring at row upon row of dreary cubicles and industrial carpeting). Lots of cool ideas here that can translate to residential spaces.


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For me its New York Oud and Attar Al Kaaba
Something to Lift your Spirits, Gives you Hope, Makes You Calm.
Please Suggest.
For me its New York Oud and Attar Al Kaaba
Shiseido Zen Classic (EDP)
Attar Al Kaaba thus going to be impossible to find in my land.
I would stay away from any fragrance you like because you are going to have negative associations when you wear it in the future.
Want to trade - Chanel Platinum Egoiste for Dior Eau Sauvage...
heperd - well said!
Try a fragrance with a solid lavender note...Caron Pour un Homme comes to mind...lavender can have a very calming effect.
Current obsession...Invasion Barbare
Jicky by Guerlain
Aoud Gourmet by Micallef
Eau Du Coq
always lifts my spirits
at the same time ask yourself what scents do you associate positive memories with?
could be pumpkin pie, nutmeg, trees, etc depending on your experiences
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Mugler's new A*Men flanker...... Pure Indica.
L' Artisan's Safran Troublant. Very comforting.
Anything with Lavender has a calming or soothing effect on me. Fragrances heavy on the wood such as Wonderwood and Rocky Mountain He Wood also put me in a good mood.
Some day's you're the statue and some days you're the pigeon.
Datura Blanche by Keiko Mecheri. Very warm and soft and comforting. It's somewhat similar to Dior Hypnotic Poison.
Current Top Five:
1. Bois des Iles--Chanel
2. George Sand--Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier
3. L'Ame Soeur--Divine
4. Violet Blonde--Tom Ford
5. Santal Blush--Tom Ford
Lavender Palm by Tom Ford - Upon application, one is treated to a whirlwind of lavender. A wonderfully floral and slightly spicy lavender, with an attendant camphor aspect, wafts in the forefront of a citric, herbal background, furnished by the commingling of tangy lemon, bittersweet bergamot as well as a green, creamy and slightly salty clary sage. Transitioning to the heart, the lavender takes on a more subdued and fresh, floral sweetness, and interplays with the sweet, baby powder of nerium oleander as well as the airy, aromatic sweetness of lime blossom. A grassy and balmy undertone from a palm leaf accord carries the florals to the awaiting base. A rich oakmoss imparts its foresty greenness, while a somewhat salty vetiver infuses its grassy earthiness. A sprinkling of citrusy frankincense complements the green blend. A pleasing drydown ensues. This elegant and high-quality composition leans to the masculine side, and has average projection and longevity. And, although it is can be considered an all-season fragrance, this scent will shine in warmer weather.
Caron Pour un Homme, yes. It was released at the height of the Great Depression, seemingly with the very brief of soothing the spirits of those who were depressed. I am sure it worked. I once smelled it (sorry for this anecdote yet again) on a police officer working a gritty and unpleasant night beat, and I imagine it really did soothe those around him, and he himself, with good effect.
Of the Guerlain eaux, I would suggest Eau de Cologne Imperiale over Eau du Coq. I find Eau du Coq more 'refreshing' than a bright and optimistic stimulant; whilst Imperiale has this bright lime-flower note that truly does lift the spirits when they are muddied or confused.


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Brazilian footballers threaten strike over crowded calendar
Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-9-25 9:32:48
Brazilian footballers have threatened to go on strike if their governing body does not agree to change the 2014 calendar.
The Fenapaf players' union said Tuesday it would ask its members to boycott the final two rounds of the season to protest against the crowded draw.
"I am preparing and will later forward the proposal to all of the players," Fenapaf president Alfredo Sampaio said.
"They have to have consciousness and courage, if not nothing will change. We can't allow this to continue."
Brazil's fixturing has long been criticized by players, coaches and local media for both its duration and quantity of matches.
The season lasts for more than 10 months a year to accommodate state championships, the national league, the Brazil Cup and continental tournaments.
In contrast most European seasons last nine months.
Next year's fixture list is even more crammed to accommodate for the World Cup, which will halt all local competitions from early June to mid July.
"If the calendar is already a joke, 2014 is absurd and everyone knows it," Sampaio said.
The Brazilian Football Confederation declined to comment on Tuesday.
Local media reported that at least 70 players - including former Arsenal captain Gilberto Silva, ex-AC Milan striker Alexandre Pato and former Real Madrid forward Julio Baptista - had signed a petition demanding change.
Critics have also called for the season to replicate the European calendar, providing a break in the Brazilian winter months of June and July, instead of summer.
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Renovating his 1960s-era rambler in Arlington led management consultant Scott Nycum to consider alternatives to granite for the kitchen countertops. "Granite has become so common and I wanted a more distinctive material," said Nycum, 37. "I remembered the countertops in my high school and college science labs were made of soapstone, so I started researching the material."
Soapstone, a bluish-gray metamorphic rock, is soft but extremely dense, nonporous and resistant to bacteria and chemicals. It has better thermal conductivity than granite and marble, allowing the stone to transfer heat and cold. As a result, soapstone is well suited for tiles over heated floors and small rocks used to chill drinks instead of ice.
The stone, which contains talc, is often speckled or veined, and gets its name from its soapy feeling when touched.
"Soapstone almost looks like gray flannel," said Nycum. "Once I realized it was sourced locally, that made it even more attractive."
The stones cut into countertops and fireplace tiles in his home come from the Alberene Soapstone Co. in Schuyler, Va., about 25 miles southwest of Charlottesville. Founded in 1883, Alberene is the only company in the nation that still quarries the stone.
"Ninety-five percent of soapstone [sold in this country] is from Brazil," said Rich Saypack, marketing manager of Green Mountain Soapstone, an importer in Castleton, Vt. "It's a niche market."
While far less popular than granite today, soapstone was big business during the first half of the 20th century. Alberene once employed about 2,000 people to mine the rock from 6,000 acres of quarries. The company fabricated products ranging from laundry tubs and sinks to griddles and fume hoods.
But after several ownership changes over the past five decades, the company languished and nearly closed.
In 2012, under new management, Alberene reopened its Old Dominion quarry in Albemarle County. "Before, we were taking boulders that had been discarded or never processed and slicing them into countertops," said the company's managing partner, Tripp Stewart.
The company recently upgraded older equipment and purchased new machinery to cut and polish larger slabs from its quarry. "By the end of 2013, we will have invested close to
$2 million into the operations," Stewart said.
Retooling the company, he said, is helping to meet growing demand for soapstone since Martha Stewart and other design trendsetters started promoting the material as a good choice for kitchens. Increased production of Alberene's stone is also helping to keep its prices competitive with Brazilian imports.
"Soapstone from Alberene used to be 50 percent more expensive than Brazilian soapstone," said stone contractor Bob Blanchard of R. Bratti Associates in Alexandria, one of several local sources for the Virginia stone. "The company's new management has greatly increased availability and brought down the cost."
Blanchard said Alberene soapstone "runs $75 to $80 per square foot, about the same as higher-end granite." He said soapstone is well suited for older homes — "it's not shiny, glitzy or cold" — and can be used both indoors and outdoors.
But he warned, "it is not going to stay pristine" because the surface will darken with use over time. The softness of the stone also makes it prone to scratches.
The finish can be more evenly darkened by rubbing the stone with dry wax or mineral or walnut oil. Blanchard recommends applying the oil to the stone every day for a week and then once a week for month. "Once you get through the first month, you don't need to do it too often," he said.
Alberene quarries two types of soapstone, a mottled version and a more uniformly light gray stone with veining. The company expects to extract a darker, harder stone from its quarry by the end of the summer.
In addition to soapstone slabs for countertops, Alberene produces flagstones, pavers and cobblestones ($6 to $12 per square foot) and one-foot-square tiles ($12). The company also sells a fire-pit kit ($295) with a tubular guide for stacking the stones into a circle.
Visitors are welcome to tour Alberene's plant on weekdays to pick out their stone. The walls of the 1906 structure, where the blocks and slabs are processed, are entirely built from soapstone.
Deborah K. Dietsch is a freelance writer.


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This is the emulsion position of the film. There are two possibilities, just as there are two sides to a piece of film. Camera original is B-Wind. A print struck from it will be A-Wind. This is because film is printed emulsion against emulsion.
To tell if a piece of film is A-Wind or B-Wind hold it up with the emulsion facing you. If it is A-Wind the image will read correctly, if it is B-Wind it will be a mirror image. A-Wind and B-Wind material usually cannot be mixed, unless you don't mind things being mirror image or some material being soft in focus as a result of being printed base-to-emulsion (the solution is usually optical printing). But mostly, issues of A-Wind and B-Wind do not come up all that frequently. It usually only comes up when you have just completed your sound mix and the mixing house asks if you need a B-Wind track. If it is to be used with the negative from your camera the answer is "yes."
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Despite the Metro Council's wishes, this year's city Christmas tree will be the old-fashioned variety –– the kind that's chopped down, hoisted up and removed after the holiday season.
In August, the council approved a non-binding memorializing resolution asking the Metro Department of Parks and Recreation to plant a live evergreen at the downtown Public Square that could be decorated annually and used as the city's official Christmas tree. That isn't going to happen, however.
"We are not," said Tommy Lynch, the parks department's interim director. "We're going to –– at least this year –– use the same type of process that we've used in the past."
Councilwoman Karen Bennett, the resolution's sponsor, had said the request was part of an effort to be "a little bit greener as a city." A live, planted evergreen could be "decorated for years to come without harming the environment," the resolution reads.
But Lynch said there's only one area –– not prominently located –– where a tree could be planted at the Public Square, which sits atop a parking garage and serves as the front entrance to the Metro Courthouse.
"The Christmas tree is a symbolic gesture," Lynch said, adding it makes the most sense to erect the tree at its traditional location, which is visible on heavily trafficked Second Avenue. "That spot was designed with braces and brackets to accommodate a tree."
During its Christmas tree search, Lynch said the parks department considers only trees that property owners "want to have cut down or need to be cut down." He said this year's tree, which Metro receives free, would likely be cut down Friday or Monday and erected after Thanksgiving. Nashville Electric Service donates a crane to help decorate the tree.
Lynch said there could be more consideration given to Bennett's resolution in the coming years.
Bennett, who represents parts of Inglewood on the council, could not be reached for comment.
But Councilman Mike Jameson, known for his environmental stripes, called the parks department's decision, disappointing.
"It's a small measure, but it would have set an enormous example for the city, especially when we're trying to increase the tree canopy downtown and throughout Nashville," Jameson said. "The holiday spirit is about caring for others, and what better way to do that than start with the planet?
"We may find ourselves on Santa's naughty list this year," he added. "But people are gradually adopting sustainable options in multiple aspects of their lives — including Christmas trees. So we'll get there someday."
Oh boy, another tree killed to keep the Christians from whining.
How about a nice metal tree instead?
One tree a year probably wouldn't make the difference, but it would have been a nice place to have a simple visible reminder of our interest in being greener.
Who really cares? Don't they grind up the dead trees for mulch at Radnor Lake anyway?
What? No comment from the mayor's Green Ribbon commsssion?
I think you are missing the point. There is no place to plant a tree at the Courthouse. It's on top of a garage unless you think tree roots can live dangling down into an empty space filled with cars instead of soil.


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After the aquarium …. we walked uphill (several flights of stairs) to Pike Place Market ….
(crowded. SO crowded. But it was a Sunday morning, so what do you expect…. )
Once we started getting a bit hungry, through the magic of technology Andrew used the Yelp app on his iPhone to look up a place for lunch with an overwhelming number of good reviews. … Obviously this was our choice – we just needed to find it!
So we walked a bit more … through Pike Place Market, visited a harbor pakr … and tried to get our bearings and figure out where to walk to find this restaurant …
It turns out Kaitlin had dropped us off EXACTLY in front of the restaurant, so we ended up walking in a big circlr.
For lunch we had Rodizo at Ipanema Brazilian Grill…
All-you-can-eat at a Brazilian grill … . One plate of salads and sides (fruit, pasta, potatoes, etc)…. One plate for the meat samples brought to us at our table …
… On MEAT SWORDS.
True story….
We had a little green-red tag on our table :
– turned to green when we wanted them to bring us meat (pepper steak, bacon-wrapped steak, sausage, chicken sirloin, and on and on and on)
– turn to red when you have more food on your plate than you can possibly eat and need a break from the meat.
It was so so so good and we were SO full afterward that we didn't really eat for about 24 hours!!
The rest of our Seattle story involves walking around in another big circle looking for a record store so Andrew could spend his birthday money!
…. and then bravely seeking out and figuring out the Seattle transit to get to the airport.
$32 cab or $2.75 each for the light rail…
We got to the airport so early that they actually changed the flight's gate while we were there. Luckily we were paying attention ….
Landed at home at the Burbank airport at about 9p PT … then home.
…. and then back to our "real" life…. sad…


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When I heard that you could delegate Active Directory (AD) tasks, I wondered whether I could use this feature to give departments the ability to unlock user accounts and thereby lighten my Help desk staff's workload. I decided to give unlock rights to several people in each department: the department manager or supervisor, two people who start work early, and two people who work late.
I created an AD group that contained these people and followed the instructions in the Microsoft article "How To Delegate the Unlock Account Right" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294952) to grant unlock rights to this group. Although my solution worked, the users with unlock rights had to open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, click the organizational unit (OU), select the user whose account needed to be unlocked, open the user's properties, and clear the Account is Locked out check box. In an attempt to simplify the task, I added the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to a new MMC. I then created a new Taskpad View that showed only the OU containing the users from the target department. I distributed this MMC to the users with unlock rights. This method was easier but still required five or more clicks to unlock a user's account. In addition, this method let the users with unlock rights easily view other users' properties (e.g., account expiration).
To solve the problem, I adapted the MMC I had created. I configured an Unlock User Account button (i.e., task) on the Taskpad View. When you select a user and click the button, the Unlock.vbs script, which Listing 1 shows, runs to unlock the user—whether or not the user was locked out. For tracking reasons, the script also writes an event to one of our servers, noting who unlocked whom and when.
For relevance and simplicity, I also pared down the MMC Taskpad View to contain only three columns: the username, logon name, and object type (i.e., User). I configured the Unlock User Account button to run the Unlock.vbs script, passing the username (i.e., the value in column 0) as arguments.
The script concatenates the username into a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) name (I couldn't easily find the LDAP name to pass as an argument), then sets the LockoutTime attribute to 0. Clearing the LockoutTime attribute unlocks the account.
The script then notes that the user's account is unlocked and records the transaction details in the domain controller's (DC's) event log in which the user is logged on. Because of the nature of delegation, users can unlock only user accounts in their own OUs—except administrator accounts or their own accounts. In my organization, we also let users unlock backup user accounts (e.g., for staff who dial in to check backups).
You need to ensure that the snap-in is secure before you distribute it. Set the correct permissions on the file and script to prevent users from authoring the file or script or changing either's contents.
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Tobacco giants BAT are trying to thwart smoke ban legislation in a currently smoke-friendly, business friendly, climate
BEIRUT: Activists staged a protest on Wednesday against what they say is foot-dragging by a parliamentary committee to finalize a draft law to ban smoking in closed public spaces and end unregulated cigarette advertisements.
As the Administration and Justice Committee met at Nijmeh Square in Downtown Beirut to discuss the draft legislation, more than a dozen activists posed as pregnant women and wore masks to highlight the degree of danger to people's health from secondhand smoke.
The League of Independent Activists (IndyACT), in collaboration with the American University of Beirut and the Tobacco Free Initiative have organized a national campaign to promote the drafting of a modern law for tobacco control, but have so far failed to accomplish their aim.
"The parliamentary committee has been taking a lot of time to finalize a draft law on tobacco control because representatives of British American Tobacco Company have recently attended the committee's meetings," Executive Director of IndyACT Wael Hmaidan told The Daily Star during the protest.
According to an Article 5 of the WHO's international Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, the committees drafting public health policies should work to protect them from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.
Sources close to the Administration and Justice Committee told The Daily Star that in legislative hearings all the parties affected by the law must take part. The sources added that in the case of hearings on tobacco control law, the country's Tobacco Regie representative should be present to offer further insight on the law.
The protestors made their stand across the street from the Municipality of Beirut, but had hoped to take their protest to Parliament, several hundred meters away. Lebanese Army personnel prevented them from doing so, while the activists faced continuous questioning by members of the Internal Security Forces.
"Lebanon is part of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control and ratified it in 2004," said Hmaidan, who voiced hope that the formation of a new government would help speed up the process of seeing the draft legislation reach Parliament for a general vote.
Hmaidan said that although tobacco companies are the major obstacle to the endorsement of a new tobacco control law, the Administration and Justice Committee has been passing off part of its responsibility to the Health and Finance Ministries.
"The committee has said that the adding of pictorial warning that covers 40 percent of the cigarette pack would require the intervention of the Finance Ministry," Hmaidan commented.
Earlier this month, the committee, which is chaired by Western Bekaa MP Robert Ghanem, approved a draft law banning all advertisements that promote tobacco products, forbidding smoking in closed public spaces, and mandating visu al warnings that cover almost half of the cigarette pack.
During the protest Wednesday, the committee convened for a special meeting to solve the disagreements over the placing of pictorial labels on cigarette packets, but the meeting lacked a quorum and was adjourned to March 30.
"I believe the delays and lack of quorum is a tactic being employed by the committee to further delay the finalization of the draft law on tobacco control," said Hmaidan.
When asked if the campaign would intensify against what the activists say is foot-dragging by legislators, Hmaidan said that they would start identifying members who are in direct contact with tobacco industry representatives.
"We will name the MPs who are illegally taking part in the committee's meetings," Hmaidan added.
Activists who took part in the demonstration wore T-shirts that read in Arabic: "Your smoke is killing my baby," accompanied by a picture of an infant on their stomachs to signify the deadly impact of secondhand smoke within the highly smoke-dominant culture of Lebanon.
"We came here to voice our demand for a ban on smoking in public spaces and to spread awareness about the dangers of smoke to everyone's health," said Thuraya Zahnan, one of the activists. "But for some reason they [Lebanese Army] didn't let us protest in front of Parliament," Zahnan added.
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LAKEWOOD RANCH — The water is on.
Braden River Utilities, a developer-owned utility that provides irrigation water to Lakewood Ranch, officially started using reclaimed water from the city of Sarasota Nov. 6, to provide irrigation water to residents of Lakewood Ranch.
The project has been in the works for more than a year, with BRU installing 1,500 feet of 18-inch and 11,300 feet of 12-inch water transmission lines, according to documents provided by the Southwest Florida Water Management District.
"We are just embarking on this venture," said Gerald Boyce, manager of compliance and operations for the City of Sarasota Utility Department. "They tapped our system. We already had a line going out east to Hi Hat Ranch."
The city of Sarasota has agreed to a 20-year contract to provide an average of 2 million gallons of reclaimed water per day, Boyce said.
"That's a lot of water, but we average making probably 6.5 million gallons a day," he said. "There's quite a bit more. At this point, we can meet all our obligations easily."
The partnership with the city offsets the use of potable groundwater use within the Braden River watershed.
BRU's current demand from its commercial-and-residential users in the Southwest Sector of Lakewood Ranch is more than 5 million gallons per day. It uses well water and water from Aqua Utilities to meet its irrigation demands. The contract with the city of Sarasota is expected to offset the use of potable groundwater by 100%, water management district documents state.
Documents also indicate the location of the BRU service area provides an opportunity for implementation of a regional reclaimed water system, with possible interconnects including Aqua Utilities (existing), the city of Sarasota (existing), the city of Bradenton (proposed), Sarasota County (in negotiations) and possibly Manatee County.
Boyce said reclaimed water has gone through an advanced treatment process and is highly disinfected.
"Other than dissolved solids, it meets secondary drinking water standards," Boyce said. "All the pathogens have been killed.
"It's strictly domestic wastewater that's treated to standards," he said. "Nutrient levels are very low. It's not for bathing; it's for irrigation. Every gallon of re-use we use for irrigation is another gallon of potable water that is available to the general public (for consumption)."
Lakewood Ranch Town Hall Director of Operations Ryan Heise said residents should not notice any major changes to their irrigation, as a result of BRU's switch toward reclaimed water, but the water will be of higher quality than what was previously provided and will be better for the area's landscapes.
The switch from well water also will help decrease instances of sprinkler heads getting clogged with particulate matter, he said.
"We know the reclaimed water is going to be a more reliable source, as far as pressure and volume, as well," Heise said.
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This section describes the Oracle SES security model. It contains the following topics:
Oracle SES provides access to a variety of content repositories through a single gateway. Each external repository has its own security model that determines whether a particular user can access a particular document. You must carefully consider all aspects of security in Oracle SES to respect the security of documents coming from multiple data repositories.
Oracle SES uses the following security services in its security model:
Identity plug-ins can obtain user and group information directly from any identity management system. An identity plug-in is Java code between Oracle SES and an identity management system, allowing Oracle SES to read user and group information.
Secure Socket Layers (SSL) is the industry standard protocol for managing the security of message transmission on the Internet. This is used for securing RMI connections, HTTPS crawling, and secure JDBC.
Connecting to the Oracle SES server using SQL*Plus, except as documented in this Guide, is not supported. Changing the Oracle SES server directly using SQL and modifying initialization parameter files is not supported. User management, including password changes, should only be done using the Oracle SES Administration GUI or the Administration API.
As an additional security measure, Oracle SES is configured to reject connection requests using SQL*Plus from remote hosts. The only protocols supported for connection to Oracle SES from remote hosts are HTTP, HTTPS, and AJP13.
The administrator's user name for Oracle SES is SEARCHSYS. You can change the password specified during installation. A password must consist of at least eight ASCII characters, and contain at least one numeric and one alphabetic character. Note that the password length cannot exceed 30 characters or contain double-byte characters.
These are the basic steps for changing the SEARCHSYS password. More detailed instructions for these basic steps are provided afterward.
In the Oracle SES Administration GUI, change the password on the Global Settings - Change Password page.
In the WebLogic console, change the connection pool password.
Using the
wlst script, change the password entry in the Credential Storage Framework.
Following are detailed instructions for steps 2 and 3.
To change the connection-pool password:
Log in to the WebLogic console, as described in "Accessing the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console".
In the left panel under Change Center, click Lock & Edit.
Change the password for SearchAdminDS:
In the left panel under Domain Structure, select common domain - Services - Data Sources. The Configuration tab of the Settings for SearchAdminDS appears in the main panel.
In the Name column of the Data Sources table, click SearchAdminDS. The General tab of the Settings for SearchAdminDS is displayed.
Select the Connection Pool tab.
Enter the new password in the Password and Confirm Password fields.
Click Save.
Change the password for SearchQueryDS:
In the left panel under Domain Structure, select common domain - Services - Data Sources. The Configuration tab of the Settings for SearchQueryDS appears in the main panel.
In the Name column of the Data Sources table, click SearchQueryDS. The General tab of the Settings for SearchQueryDS is displayed.
Select the Connection Pool tab.
Enter the new password in the Password and Confirm Password fields.
Click Save.
In the left panel under Change Center, click Activate Changes.
Log out of the Weblogic console if desired.
Modify the password entry in the Credential Storage Framework (CSF), as described in the following procedure.
To change the password in the Credential Storage Framework:
Open a connection to the computer where Oracle Fusion Middleware is installed.
Go to
Start the WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Tool:
For Linux, enter
For Windows, enter
Enter this command at the
wls/offline> prompt:
connect ()
Enter your WebLogic user name in response to the user-name prompt.
Enter your WebLogic password in response to the password prompt.
Enter the WebLogic server
hostname:port in response to the server URL prompt.
Enter this command in response to the
/serverConfig> prompt, replacing password with the SEARCHSYS password. The Oracle SES credentials for connecting to Oracle Database are obtained from a CSF map named
oracle.apps.security with a key named
updateCred(map="oracle.apps.security",key="FUSION_APPS_ECSF_SES_ADMIN-KEY", user="searchsys", password="password")
Example 9-1 Modifying the CSF Entry
This interactive session shows the steps for modifying the password entry in the credential store. Be sure to enter your own user name, password, and URL.
> wlst.sh . . . Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ... Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell Type help() for help on available commands wls:/offline> connect() Please enter your username : weblogic Please enter your password : ******** Please enter your server URL [t3://localhost:7001]: example:9999 Connecting to t3:example:9999 with userid weblogic ... Successfully connected to Admin Server 'AdminServer' that belongs to domain 'base_domain1'. . . . wls:/base_domain1/serverConfig> updateCred(map ="oracle.apps.security", key="FUSION_APPS_ECSF_SES_ADMIN-KEY", user="searchsys", password="password") Location changed to domainRuntime tree...
For added security, a temporary password feature is provided. You can enter login credentials for use by the crawler when creating table sources, e-mail, OracleAS Portal, or Web sources. For Web sources, authentication can be performed with HTTP authentication, HTML forms, and OracleAS Single Sign-On.
To use the temporary password feature:
Select the Delete Passwords After Crawl option in the Oracle SES Administration GUI when creating or editing a source.
This option is not available when self service for Web sources is enabled.
If a source has the Delete Passwords after Crawl option enabled, then you are prompted for all required passwords whenever the schedule for that source starts. You must start these schedules manually, which enables you to respond to the prompts. The supplied passwords are removed immediately after the schedule completes.
Oracle SES security is implemented at two levels: user authentication and user authorization.
This section contains the following topics:
User authentication identifies a user through an identity management system. You can register an identity plug-in to any identity management system; Oracle SES provides registered identity plug-ins for many identity management systems. The plug-in that you activate is responsible for all authentication and validation activity in Oracle SES. Activation is performed on the Global Settings - Identity Management Setup page.
Security filter configuration for the identity plug-in is performed on the Global Settings - Query Configuration page. A login does not force a refresh of the user's security filter. For a query request, Oracle SES checks the timestamp of an existing cached security filter and refreshes it when the specified life span has expired. The default latency is 60 minutes.
User authorization determines whether a user can access information about a particular item in the result list. It can be implemented in two layers.
The first layer uses access control lists (ACLs). An ACL lists the users or groups of users that have access to the document. The ACL can be assigned by the administrator to an entire source through the Oracle SES Administration GUI (source-level ACLs), or it can be provided by the source itself for each document (document-level ACLs).
The second layer uses a Java class to dynamically filter documents at search time (query-time authorization).
Oracle SES can use the following types of ACL policies:
Source-level ACLs: An individual source can be protected by a single ACL, which governs access to every document in that source. These ACLs are defined on the Home - Sources - Authorization page.
Document-level ACLs: Oracle SES provides mapped security to repositories by retrieving the ACL for each document at the time of crawling and indexing. At crawl time, the ACL for each document is passed to the crawler along with the document content, and the ACL is stored in the index. Currently Oracle SES supports document-level ACLs for user-defined sources and OracleAS Portal sources. (The ACL policy is Documents Controlled by the Source.) With user-defined sources, ACLs are returned by the crawler plug-in implemented by the user. With OracleAS Portal sources, ACLs are returned by the OracleAS Portal server. At search time, Oracle SES does not need any connection with the repository to validate access privileges.
For both source-level ACLs and document-level ACLs, all users and roles defined in the ACLs must exist in the identity plug-in.
User names are not case sensitive.
Table 9-1 identifies when documents are visible with the document ACL types supported in Oracle SES:
Table 9-1 Document ACL Types in Oracle SES Security Model
|Document ACL Type
|Public User
|Authenticated User
|Authenticated User with Allow Permission to Document
|Authenticated User with Deny Permission to Document
No ACL
document visible
document visible
Deny Permission Only
Allow Permission Only
document visible
Deny with Allow Permissions
document visible
Table 9-2 compares the document-level user authorization methods in Oracle SES.
Table 9-2 User Authorization Methods in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
|How Authorization is Determined
The ACL is supplied by a crawler plug-in or an OracleAS Portal server.
Faster secure search performance.
No additional programming is required for ACL-based OracleAS Portal security. (If implementing a crawler plug-in, then some additional work is necessary to supply ACLs.)
ACLs are static: they are updated only when crawling the source repository or when the administrator changes Oracle SES ACLs in the Oracle SES Administration GUI
Query-time Authorization
Dynamic authorization.
There is performance overhead in cases when the search is not selective, returning large number of rows before query-time authorization.
Extra work is required to implement a
For sources that do not fit the user/group model, an authorization plug-in provides a more flexible security model. With an authorization plug-in, a crawler plug-in can add security attributes similar to document attributes. The authorization plug-in is invoked at login time to build security filters onto the query string. The security filters are applied against the values of the security attributes for each document. Only documents whose security attribute values match the security filter are returned to the user.
See Also:
"Administrator-Based Authorization" for more information about ACLs
"Query-time Authorization" for more information on Java filter classes
On the Home - Sources - Authorization page, you can set and change the ACL policy.
The following ACL policy options are available:
No ACL: With this setting, all documents are considered searchable and visible
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL: With this setting (also known as source-level ACLs), you can protect the entire source with one ACL. The same ACL protects every document in that source.
ACLs Controlled by the Source: This setting (also known as document-level ACLs) is available only for OracleAS Portal sources and user-defined sources. This preserves authorizations specified in OracleAS Portal. For user-defined sources, crawler plug-ins (or connectors) can supply ACL information with documents for indexing, which provides finer control document protection. (That is, each document in the source can have different access privileges.)
The following restrictions apply to changing the ACL policy:
If the schedule associated with the source is not currently being crawled, and if the source has never been crawled, then all ACL policy changes are allowed.
If the schedule associated with that source is currently being crawled (that is, the schedule status is Launching, Executing, or Stopping), then all ACL options are grayed out, and you cannot change the ACL policy.
If the schedule associated with the source is not currently being crawled, but the source has been crawled earlier, then the only change allowed is between No ACL and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL (in either direction). This is visible in the Oracle SES Administration GUI as follows:
If the ACL option selected before the crawl started was No ACL or Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL, then the ACLs Controlled by the Source option is grayed out.
If a secure ACL policy was selected but the identity plug-in is deactivated, then you can change the ACL policy to No ACL regardless of the crawl status.
OracleAS Portal sources are subject to the same restrictions as other sources. That is, no changes are allowed while being crawled, and only changes between No ACL and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL are allowed after crawling completes. However, the ACL policy for an OracleAS Portal source can also change if it is inheriting the ACL policy from its OracleAS Portal server parent; for example, when the OracleAS Portal server ACL policy is modified or when the OracleAS Portal source is changed from specifying the ACL policy locally to inheriting it from the server. Therefore, changes on an OracleAS Portal server are restricted so that no disallowed changes can occur on any children that inherit the ACL policy.
If any child inheriting the ACL policy is being crawled, then no changes are allowed on the OracleAS Portal server. If any child inheriting the ACL policy has been crawled, then the only changes allowed are between No ACL and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL. (If the OracleAS Portal server policy is ACLs Controlled by the Source, then no changes are allowed). Similarly, the OracleAS Portal source cannot be set to inherit its ACL policy from the OracleAS Portal server if the associated change in ACL policy would be disallowed.
Note:A source that is being crawled is different from a source whose associated schedule is being crawled. Oracle SES restricts all ACL policy changes for a source when the schedule associated with that source is being crawled. A source might not be crawled, but the schedule associated with it could be crawled if another source in the same schedule is being crawled.
You can register an identity plug-in to any identity management system. Oracle SES provides registered identity plug-ins for many identity management systems. The plug-in that you activate is responsible for all authentication and validation activity in Oracle SES. Activate an identity plug-in on the Global Settings - Identity Management Setup page.
When you activate a plug-in, the Global Settings - Activate Identity Plug-in page is displayed. When completing this page, ensure that the values for Additional User Base and Additional Group Base are not subsets of Directory Subscriber.
Caution:You must create the identity plug-in before creating an Oracle SES data source for any type of secure data. If the identity plug-in is not active, then the data source is crawled as a public data source.
The following table lists which identity plug-ins are available for each enterprise content source.
Table 9-3 Identity Plug-ins for Enterprise Content Sources
|Source Type
|Versions Supported
|Identity Plug-in
Any databases with a JDBC driver
EMC Documentum Content Server
Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Native
EMC Documentum eRoom
Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory
Lotus Notes
5.0.9, 6.5.4,7.0
Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Native
Microsoft Exchange
Windows 2000, Windows 2003
Active Directory
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
2003, 2007
Active Directory
Windows 2000, Windows 2003
Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Calendar
10.1.2 or later
Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Content Database
Oracle Content Services 10.1.2 or later, Oracle Content Database 10.2 or 10.1.3
Native, Query-time authorization
Oracle E-Business Suite
11, 12
Oracle Mail
Oracle Internet Directory
Siebel 7.8
Siebel 8
Oracle Content Server
7.1.1, 7.5.2, 10gR3
When connecting to Active Directory, Oracle SES tries to resolve the Active Directory domain name to an IP address of the Active Directory Domain Controller. This is generally not possible, especially when Oracle SES is installed on a non-Windows system or on a Windows system in a different domain. You must add the IP address of the Active Directory domain to the host file.
For example, to connect to an Active Directory domain called
foobar.example.com, you must add something similar to the hosts file:
10.123.1.2 foobar.example.com. Search for the hosts file in
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\HOSTS on Windows systems, and
/etc/hosts on UNIX systems.
For the Active Directory identity plug-in enter values for the following parameters:
Directory URL:
Directory account name:
UserLogonName Confirm the user logon name on the Active Directory Users and Computers application. Under the User folder, right-click username. Select Property and go to the Account tab. For example, assume the user account
adtest in domain
domain1.example.com, which is associated with the target Active Directory. You may try
domain1\adtest or
email@example.com or
cn=adtest,cn=users,dc=domain1,dc=example,dc=com if you are not sure the actual user logon name. The user account does not need to be an administrator account.
Directory account password:
Directory subscriber: dc=domain1,dc=example,dc=com for the domain name
Directory security protocol: none
If you deactivate an identity plug-in, then you must restart the middle tier with
searchctl restart.
If a pre-installed identity plug-in is accidentally removed, you can re-register it with the following steps:
On the Global Settings - Identity Management Setup page, click Register New Identity Plug-in.
Enter the class name and jar file name of the removed identity plug-in, as identified in Table 9-4.
Click Finish.
Table 9-4 Identity Plug-in Class Names and Jar File Names
|Identity Plug-in
|Plug-in Class Name
|Jar File Name
Documentum Content Services
Oracle E-Business Suite
Siebel 7.8
Siebel 8
Oracle Content Server
Oracle Internet Directory
Active Directory
Sun Java System Directory Server
OpenLDAP Directory
Lotus Notes
The information Oracle SES saves from the identity plug-in (that is, the correspondence between names and canonical attribute values) may not be valid on different identity plug-ins. If you keep the same identity plug-in server (for example, to change port numbers or to switch to SSL), or if you use a new directory server that has identical user information, then you can deactivate and re-activate the identity plug-in anytime without restriction. This section describes steps you must perform if you change identity plug-in servers with user information that is not identical.
If you have sources using the ACL policy Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL and you decide to use a different identity plug-in server, then you must clear the ACL data before deactivating the original identity plug-in. If the ACL data is not cleared, then the ACL policy configured for that source while connected to the old identity plug-in server is not correctly enforced after connecting to the new identity plug-in server.
The existing ACL data can be cleared using either of these methods:
Before deactivating the identity plug-in, for each source using the ACL policy Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL, switch the ACL policy to No ACL. After connecting to the new identity plug-in server, restore the ACL policy to Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL and add the ACLs again. This temporarily makes the source public. If this is unacceptable, then use the next option.
Before deactivating the identity plug-in, delete each source that uses the ACL policy Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL. After connecting to the new identity plug-in server, add the sources back and configure them again. The documents are never made public; but this may involve more work than the previous option.
If you have sources using the ACL policy ACLs Controlled by the Source and you decide to use a different identity plug-in server, then after activating the new identity plug-in server, each source that uses this ACL policy must be re-crawled with the Process All Documents option. This forces the reloading and indexing of all of ACL information for such sources using the new identity plug-in server. Select the Process All Documents option on the Home - Schedules - Edit Schedule page.
Note:If the ACL data is not cleared before switching identity plug-in servers, then you see a message that some users and groups could not be found by the identity plug-in. Those users and groups are still displayed on the Home - Sources -Authorization page. They can be deleted manually.
The Oracle SES front-end interface collects user credentials, which are then validated against the active identity plug-in. In addition to authentication of search users, Oracle SES must also authenticate the crawler when accessing external data repositories. Administrators supply credentials to crawl private content through the following authentication methods:
HTML forms
OracleAS Single Sign-On
Oracle Access Manager Single Sign-On
It is the administrator's responsibility to check the authorization policy to ensure that crawled documents are properly protected.
Oracle SES has two types of users:
Administrative User: The administrative user is SEARCHSYS. This user is natively defined in Oracle SES. Only this user can use the Oracle SES Administration GUI.
Search Users: Oracle SES lets you register an identity plug-in as an interface to any identity management system. (Oracle SES provides registered identity plug-ins for Oracle Internet Directory and other identity management systems.) The plug-in that you activate is responsible for all authentication and validation activity in Oracle SES. Use the Global Settings - Identity Management Setup page in the Oracle SES Administration GUI to associate Oracle SES with an identity management system.
Oracle Internet Directory is Oracle's native LDAP v3-compliant directory service. It is part of the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. It is not included in Oracle SES. Use Oracle Internet Directory version 9.0.4 or 10.1.2 (with the latest patch release applied) for connection with Oracle SES. Oracle Internet Directory is not a part of Oracle SES, and therefore Oracle SES can be linked to any existing or new Oracle Internet Directory.
For the SEARCHSYS administrative user, a form login screen is available in the Oracle SES Administration GUI. This is the only way for an administrator to log in to Oracle SES.
For search users, there are three possible front-end authentication interfaces:
HTML form login page. Oracle SES provides an authentication page, and it authenticates against the identity plug-in.
Web Services API. The
login and
logout Web Services operations authenticate against the identity plug-in.
Single sign-on login screen. This can be made available by front-ending Oracle SES with OracleAS Single Sign-On and Oracle HTTP Server. These are available as part of the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure in OracleAS.
Only form login or single sign-on login can be used for search users at any point in time. Using single sign-on with the Web Services authentication interface is not supported.
Oracle strongly recommends that you SSL-protect the channel between the Oracle HTTP Server and the Oracle WebLogic server instance for secure content.


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June 3 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Monday it is offering a money-back guarantee on the fruits and vegetables it sells at its Walmart U.S. stores as it tries to gain more ground in the grocery business.
Walmart is the largest grocer and seller of produce in the United States. It has already lowered prices on produce as it tries to get its shoppers, many of whom are on limited budgets, to buy more healthy fare. Now, it is working on getting fresher produce to its stores more quickly and training its staff to do a better job of selling the goods.
Walmart is able to cut the time it takes to get produce into stores by buying directly from growers and relying on its own distribution centers and trucking systems. It has produce experts working with farmers in key growing regions and aims to double its sales of locally grown produce by December 2015.
Buying more local produce and cutting supply chain costs have helped Walmart keep a lid on prices, which has been key in its push to stay ahead of rivals that include traditional grocers such as Kroger Co and drugstores such as Walgreen Co. Walmart started to see sales gains in produce earlier this year after it began making improvements in produce handling.
Other chains, such as Safeway Inc and Texas' H-E-B, have already offered guarantees on their produce, but Walmart's push will be the biggest as it is the nation's biggest retailer.
Walmart customers not satisfied with the produce can bring their receipt back to the store for a refund. Walmart said the shoppers will not need to bring back the produce to qualify.
To ensure that fresh produce makes it to the stores, Walmart said unnamed third-party service providers will do weekly checks in more than 3,400 of its stores selling produce. Walmart said it would benchmark itself and its competitors week over week.
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Can you handle dating a georgeous woman? 5 tips for dating the most beautiful women successfully.
There is nothing greater than that feeling of talking to a beautiful woman and knowing that she has a genuine interest in us. The allure of her beautiful eyes and pretty smile can often be enough to make just about any man weak in the knees.
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