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Update: People is reporting that the baby's name is spelled Aleph.
The name of Natalie Portman and fiance Benjamin Millepied's baby boy has remained unknown since his birth in June — until now?
Newspaper Israel Hayom is reporting, via "
The Guy Pines Show" "Good Evening with Guy Pines," that the couple named their son Alef. The name, also spelled "Aleph" and pronounced "All-Eff," is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Portman was born Natalie Hershlag in Jeruslaem.
Requests for comment from Portman's reps have not been returned. And considering there hasn't been official confirmation that the baby was even born, just a report from People, getting it may be tough. The Huffington Post said it received a tip last month that this was the name.


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The St. Clair Parks and Recreation Board gave its blessing to a project spearheaded by a local young women's organization that would bring an outdoor amphitheater to the city.
Park board members listened to a presentation from Friends for Change, a small group of local teenagers who describe themselves as "entrepreneurs who want to provide a place for safe and enjoyable events in St. Clair."
Through the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri's Challenge and Change program, the group secured a three-year, $15,000 grant it would like to use to fund the project. Friends for Change members proposed the amphitheater be built in Evergreen Park and that it take advantage of the contour of the land there to provide hillside seating.
Current members of the organization are Hope Brady, Holly Clonts, Amber Logan, Brittany Lowe, Nikki Miller and Miranda Murphy. Suzy Haverstick is helping the girls with their proposed project.
"The idea is to build a permanent structure in Evergreen Park," City Administrator Rick Childers told park board members during their April meeting. "But, permission first needs to be granted by the city."
The structure itself would be built on the east side of the drainage ditch that flows through the park and seating would be on the west side. The building would be three sided with a concrete floor and walls and a metal roof.
The proposed dimensions are 40 feet across the front of the stage, 30 feet across the back and 24 feet deep. The walls would be eight-feet high and the roof peak would be 13 feet off the ground.
"The young leaders in St. Clair strongly feel that their community is suffering from a lack of social cohesiveness and opportunities for artistic expression," information from Friends for Change stated. "The young ladies believe that this lack of a common area for expression, demonstration, gathering and celebration has a negative impact on cross-generational relationships as well as an isolating effect on people on both ends of the age spectrum.
"The girls believe that one way to address their struggling community is to provide an outlet for creativity and community engagement with the hopes of building social capital in their town."
The grant money would pay for the amphitheater, but the group also would solicit donations. All labor would be voluntary.
Friends for Change's time line has the facility finished by fall 2014.
The group already has its first-year grant allotment of $5,000. Another $5,000 will be available this fall. The final $5,000 will come next year.
If approved, the amphitheater would be donated to the city, and residents could use it. Some kind of rental structure would be established similar to how pavilions or ball diamonds are reserved and used now. Friends for Change also said it would like to use the amphitheater for events.
The St. Clair Board of Aldermen is scheduled to discuss the project during its May 6 meeting in city hall. Park board members applauded the group for coming up with the project as a way to help the community.
Girls from the organization gave park board members rough drawings of the amphitheater, a project sketch sheet and a projected preliminary budget. According to the group's estimate, all the materials — including concrete, site preparation and excavation and roofing materials — would cost about $14,000.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture also is involved with the Challenge and Change program.

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By David Randall
NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Long considered the best option
for growth investors, technology funds have lost some of their
edge. It may be time to reconsider how they get quickly
expanding companies in their portfolios.
By David Randall
NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Long considered the best option
for growth investors, technology funds have lost some of their
edge. It may be time to reconsider how they get quickly
expanding companies in their portfolios.
It's not just that many technology funds have large stakes
in Apple Inc, whose shares have fallen nearly 23
percent over the last year as it lost share of the worldwide
smartphone market to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Instead, the industry is facing a larger problem: it's no
longer filled with young companies whose best days are ahead.
Now, nearly all major technology providers except for Google Inc
pay a dividend, an admission of slowing growth that
would have been unthinkable during the dot-com boom of the late
"The last thing these tech companies want to be called is
old and mature. I don't want to be called old and mature either.
But at some point, that's what I am," said Mark Freeman, a
co-manager of the $1.1 billion Westwood Income Opportunity Fund
Add it up, and investors are left with a sector that is
rapidly shedding its high-wired growth characteristics and
settling into boring middle age.
While prospects of higher dividend payouts from tech
companies could be good news for investors who want income, the
shift could harm those who were counting on technology stocks to
provide the growth to their portfolios. Surprisingly, investors
can look to two traditional sectors for a boost: Consumer
discrectionary and energy funds.
"Investors are probably thinking they're getting something
from these tech funds that they're not," said Todd Rosenbluth,
director of mutual fund research at S&P CapitalIQ.
There are several signs that the technology sector is aging.
Overall, 31 technology firms rated by Moody's will pay out
dividends this year, compared with just 20 in 2007. All told,
tech companies will send $44.4 billion in dividends to
shareholders in 2013, a 35 percent increase from last year. And
slowing earnings growth and large cash hoards earning little to
no interest for shareholders will likely prompt companies to
increase their payouts in the future as well, noted Richard
Lane, a senior vice president at Moody's.
Apple posted its first quarterly decline in profits in more
than a decade when it announced results on April 23. The
slowdown in earnings growth looms large over the sector as a
whole because many tech funds have a large stake in Apple.
With more than $145 billion in cash at hand and a price to
earnings ratio well below the market average, many investors now
consider the company more of a value stock, the term for a stock
that trades lower than its fundamentals because investors expect
its growth to wane.
"With increased competition, there's just no way that the
company can keep up its growth rate like in the past," said
Derek Gabrielsen, a financial planner at Strategic Wealth
Partners, a Seven Hills, Ohio-based firm with $175 million in
assets under management.
Freeman, the co-portfolio manager of the Westwood Income
Opportunity Fund, said that Apple's share price may lag while
its shareholder base makes a transition from growth investors to
value investors. Apple may find itself in a similar position to
Microsoft Corp, Freeman said, whose stock price has
gained only 28 percent over the last 10 years since it initiated
a dividend in early 2003. Apple shares, by comparison, were up
nearly 5,000 percent over the same time.
Consumer discretionary and energy stocks may be better
options for investors looking to add growth to their portfolios.
Each sector has been turning in the most surprising growth
rates compared with Wall Street's estimates. Through Friday,
some 76 percent of companies in both sectors had topped analyst
expectations over the most recent earnings season, according to
Thomson Reuters data, more than any other sector.
Consumer discretionary stocks - the group of retailers,
hotels and restaurants - pays an average yield of 1.6 percent,
compared with an average of 1.8 percent among tech companies,
according to S&P data. And even with lower dividend payments,
consumer stocks have rewarded investors: the average consumer
discretionary fund has returned an annualized 9.6 percent over
the last five years, while the average tech fund returned 5.4
percent a year over the same time frame, according to
Morningstar data.
Consumer discretionary funds are outperforming this year as
well. The average consumer discretionary fund is up 16.9 percent
for the year through Friday, compared with an 8.1 percent gain
for technology stocks. Overall, the average stock fund has
returned nearly 11 percent since the beginning of the year,
according to Morningstar.
Investors who want to tap the sector could opt for a fund
like the $783 million Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index fund
. The fund, which costs $0.14 annually per $100
invested, is up 17.2 percent for the year and yields 1.2
percent. Its largest holdings include Home Depot,
Amazon.com Inc, and McDonald's Corp.
Energy companies will likely perform well as the global
economy improves, noted Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at
Federated Investors. U.S. unemployment fell in April, while the
rate of government job losses slowed, both of which should lead
to increased consumption of energy by workers and businesses
The Energy Select SPDR ETF is one cheap way to
increase exposure to the sector. The $7.5 billion ETF, which
costs $0.18 a year per $100 invested, is up 12 percent for the
year. Its top holdings include Exxon Mobil, Chevron Corp
and Schlumberger NV.


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Honouring Mandela: making things a little better
This has been a hard week for South Africans, our beloved Madiba – everybody's favourite grandfather – has passed away. He was an extraordinary man with an extraordinary vision, he knew how to inspire instilling hope, love and understanding and created a much more caring and engaged society in South Africa.
"You know if I was not kept in jail for 27 years, I don't know whether I would be so kind to children, but for 27 years without ever seeing children, that was a terrible experience. And when I came out I tried to make up for those 27 years." – Nelson Mandela (2003).
In our country there is still a huge discrepancy between the haves and have nots. This project to create books for disadvantaged deaf children is my contribution to try and make things a little better.
Picsterbooks is nearing completion of the the iDeaf project to create 6 interactive book apps for the Transoranje School for the Deaf. We have built the apps in both Afrikaans and Afrikaans Sign Language, as well as translated to English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Demibooks Composer was chosen as the development platform. The book apps will all be available in the App Store by the end of this year of early January 2014, and in Demibooks Storytime shortly thereafter.
When we started the project we weren't sure how the children would react and interact with interactive storybooks, so we played it safe using classic tales like The Three Little Pigs and The Gingerbread Man. We are excited about the next three tales written for South African children by local teachers using their curriculum to inspire our storybooks. Our first South African story is The Clever Plan. This is a story about how a mom and a little girl make a plan. Mom and Thuba plants mielies (maze) and sells the maze to make enough money to buy Thuba a red bicycle, within the story we tell the tale of sowing seeds, taking care of crops and harvesting the maze. Illustrations for this book is by Sandy Mitchell, a Kalkbay, Western Cape based illustrator and artist with a witty sense of humour.
Our Second book the Big Carrot written in Afrikaans, English and South African Sign Language tell the tale of an enormous carrot, that ends up feeding the whole farmyard from the farmer and his family to the sheep, the pigs, and the very naughty goat. Our illustrator for this book is Natalie Murrow of Demibooks. It was quite an interesting task to acquaint Natalie with our local architectural style and landscape, as we really wanted a local feel for the book.
Then the last of the three curriculum based books The Kings Questions is a tale set in a distant land. The Kings Question teaches the lesson of humility. The illustrations for this book were also done by San Francisco based Natalie Murrow. She created a wonderful world foreign to our local landscape inspired by the tale of a King surrounded by people who think they are better than others.
About the Author
Karen Hart is the Publisher at Picsterbooks, an independant creator and publisher of interactive applications in South Africa. Karen focuses the conversion of truely South African stories into interactive book applications for children. Earlier in 2013 she presented the iDeaf design using Demibooks Compsoser at the 2013 Interaction Design and Children conference. Karen can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Excel's Chart Wizard and documentation use several charting terms:
data markers, data-marker descriptions, legend, chart text, plot area, and chart area.
You'll find it useful to understand just what these words and phrases mean, so the bulleted list that follows provides definitions.
Data markers
Data markers are the graphical elements used to represent individual data point values
in a chart. In the case of a line chart, for example, Excel uses uses symbols, or points, on a line to show data point values. These symbols or points are the data markers.
Other types of charts in Excel use other data markers. A chart that uses columns or bars, for example, has column or bar data markers. A pie chart has pie-slice data markers, and so on.
Data marker descriptions
Excel typically describes and qualifies data markers using the data-marker descriptions such as axis scales and data labels.
Different types of charts use different data-marker descriptions. Bar, column, and line charts use axis scales. Pie and doughnut charts use data labels.
A legend names and identifies the data series you've plotted. In the case of a pie chart, for example, the legend typically names the data series and then also shows which colors are used for which pie slices.
In charts that show multiple data series, the legend lists all of the data series and visually shows chart viewers how to identify data series.
Chart text
Chart text predictably describes a chart or some part of a chart. A chart might include a title that shares the chart message such as "Industry Continues to Grow" or a subtitle that clarifies some bit of information about the chart such as "(five-year forecast of domestic revenues)".
Plot area
The plot area of a chart is the area that includes the data markers and data-marker descriptions.
In many charts, the plot area is a rectangle that shows the lines and scales representing the plot area.
In same cases–such as the case of a pie chart or doughnut chart—-the circle that shows the slices of pie and the data labels that identify the slices of pie comprise the plot area.
Chart area
The chart area includes plot area, any chart text, and a legend. In other words, the chart area represents the whole enchilada.
About the author: Seattle CPA Stephen L. Nelson wrote the bestselling book, MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel, from which this short article is adapted. Nelson also writes and edits the S Corporations Explained and LLCs Explained websites.
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Lowood School
Contextual Analysis
Main Characters
Thematic Issues
Man vs Self
Man vs Nature
Man vs Man
Jane vs. Her Past/Memories
Jane Eyre vs. Aunt Reed
Mr. Brocklehurst vs. Students
Miss Scatcherd vs. Helen Burns
Jane vs. Mr. Brocklehurst/humiliation
Things to Think About
Do you think that Lowood was an overall positive or negative experience for Jane?
Do you think that the circumstances that Jane went through at Lowood changed her personality? If so, how?
Do you think that without her stay at Lowood, Jane would have had the life she did?
Man vs Society
Jane Leaves from Gateshead to Lowood
Jane Eyre
Mr. Brocklehurst
Helen Burns
Lowood school is based to some extent on the Bronte sisters experiences at Cowan Bridge School, where they were often feed burnt porridge or told to wash with frozen water.
Ms. Temple
Teaching today:
Miss Brocious
Miss Fulton
Mister Rising
"Then learn from me, not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method; and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements. This is all very provoking to Miss Scatcherd who is naturally neat, punctual, and particular." - 64, Helen
Helen vs. Illness
Students vs. Poor Living Conditions
The character of Helen Burns was heavily influenced by Charlotte's sister Maria Bronte who died at age eleven after falling ill to consumption at school. Maria's demeanor also resembles Helen's she was said to be very calm, thoughtful, and mature for her age.
Mr. Brockelhurst is based off of the head of Cowan Bridge School, William Carus Wilson.
A friendship begins to develop between Helen and Jane.
Jane begins her studies at Lowood.
Jane vs. Class Structure
"I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven: these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of -" 73, Mr. Bocklehurst
Helen falls ill and dies of consumption (Tuberculosis).
Jane finishes her studies and becomes a teacher at Lowood
"While the direction was being executed, the lady consulted moved slowly up the room. I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps. Seen now, in broad daylight, she looked tall, fair, and shapely; brown eyes with a benignant light in their irids, and a fine pencilling of long lashes round, relieved the whiteness of her large front; on each of her temples her hair, of a very dark brown, was clustered in round curls, according to the fashion of those times, when neither smooth bands nor long ringlets were in vogue; her dress, also in the mode of the day, was of purple cloth, relieved by a sort of Spanish trimming of black velvet; a gold watch (watches were not so common then as now) shone at her girdle. Let the reader add, to complete the picture, refined features; a complexion, if pale, clear; and a stately air and carriage, and he will have, at least, as clearly as words can give it, a correct idea of the exterior of Miss Temple - Maria Temple, as I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book intrusted to me to carry to church." - 55, Jane
Mr. Brockelhurst's power is limited after his treatment of the students is revealed, and life improves at Lowood.
Search for Acceptance
Views on Class
Views on Religion
Role of Independence
& Self Reliance
Throughout this section Jane grew from a young passionate girl to an independent young woman.
Confessions to Helen Burns page 79.
Lowood's Relgious Views Page 55
Helen's humility (p.63)
Brocklehurst's severity (p.73)
Jane doesn't accept either (p.65)
The importance of being able to depend on yourself
Symbolism: Cold Porridge, Brocklehurst = Victorian Society
Somber, Sympathetic
Jane is being viewed as a burden because she is poor.
Inequality between students and the Brocklehurst women
Irony of his views
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Controversial George W. Bush D.C. appellate court nominee Miguel Estrada is among the panelists critiquing the U.S. Supreme Court at UC Irvine Friday.
Joining Estrada on the panel are Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Joan Biskupic of Reuters and UCI Law's Mario Barnes, Erwin Chemerinsky and Doug NeJaime, with UCI Law's "Slick" Rick Hasen moderating.
In 2001, when Tegucigalpa, Honduras-born Miguel Angel Estrada Castañeda was nominated by Dubya to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Senate Democrats labeled Estrada a conservative ideologue with no experience as a judge. Unable to block the nomination when Republicans took over the Senate in 2002, Democrats used a filibuster to prevent the bid from going to a full Senate vote.
Some have cited that ordeal in holding up dozens of Barack Obama nominees currently (highlighted in the case Payback v. a Bitch). But Estrada, an attorney with the Gibson Dunn law firm these days, did the current administration a solid by writing a letter to and appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Actually, since Estrada and Kagan have remained friends since meeting as students at Harvard Law School, he was probably doing her the solid more than Barry.
The U.S. Supreme Court Term in Review Program runs from noon to 1:30 pm. Friday in UCI Student Center's Crystal Cove Auditorium. CLE credit is available to attendees. The event is to be webcast, and questions can be submitted to the panel via Twitter using the hash tag #ucilawscotus.
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In just a few lines of code you could have an off-canvas slide in side-menu, a set of tabs, a bunch of nice toggles and lots of others. The list of components is increasing all the time...
Stateless JWT based authentication server
A node seed for applications that need routing, authentication and database connectivity.
There is are more than one AngularJS 'seed' app out there but this is mine and personally I think this is easier to follow than others.
Firebase is an awesome tool. It is a JSON document storage database, but with some sweet extras. It's got enough support that you can essentially forego any server side code and rely solely on Firebase's excellent API to produce websites and apps. This is a getting started site to help you organised your code and separate concerns clearly and appropriately. Have a play!
So many sites use Markdown (mainly because it's awesome!), so why not see how we could integrate a markdown solution into an Angular app? This is my take on it, hopefully you'll see that it is flexible and de-coupled. Download the zip and run the webpage and see how easy it is to use. This plugin uses MarkdownDeep behind the scenes.
How many times have you written the same validation over and over again? Form validation has always been a bit of chore to do and a pain to get right. AngularJS has made form validation easier to build, but until now a comprehensive library of pre-set validators was missing.
Uses flexbox to produce flexible easy to use classes for rows and columns. There are 2 versions of Grid. A modern version and one with -prefixes- for better browser support.
After building several websites and applications using Angular and evolving my own best practices I'd thought I'd document the first thing I do, the directory structure. Once you have that you can start filling in the gaps and really think about the construction of your Angular app
I've used AngularJS a lot over the past couple of years and I've found more often than not that there are at least 3 different way of accomplishing the same thing. I've always thought a guide of how best to use it would be helpful. So here it is.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Hoping to prop up his players' spirits in the wake of a three-game losing streak, Notre Dame coach Mike Brey sent them a friendly reminder in an email.
Four seasons ago, the Irish were a middling 6-8 in the Big East and they recently had lost star forward Luke Harangody to an injury.


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Catholic World News
New Los Angeles coadjutor: secular culture saps Hispanic Catholic identity
May 28, 2010
In an exclusive interview with Catholic News Agency, Archbishop José Gomez, the newly installed coadjutor of Los Angeles, speaks at some length about the challenges of pastoral ministry toward the rapidly growing Hispanic community in the US.
Will they live by the Church's teachings and promote and defend these teachings in the public square? Or will their Catholicism simply become a kind of "cultural" background, a personality trait, a part of their upbringing that shapes their perspective on the world but compels no allegiance or devotion to the Church?
The greatest obstacle to effective pastoral work with Hispanic Americans, the archbishop says, is the influence of the surrounding secular culture-- which he describes in terms similar to those Pope Benedict has used in describing Europe:
"Practical atheism" has become the de facto state religion in America. The price of participation in our economic, political, and social life is that we essentially have to agree to conduct ourselves as if God does not exist.
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TOKYO — In the video-game parlors of Japan, players with 80 cents to spend can battle villains with karate chops, or they can strip the high school uniform from a teenager until she is topless.
"I wasn't lucky," says the computer-generated image of a girl of about 14, as she bares herself to three boys who had just won a round of video mahjong at a Tokyo game center. When the boys lose, they get only a tantalizing flash of skin before she reappears dressed for school.


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This chapter describes how to configure Oracle Database for Oracle products. It contains the following sections:
If you install additional Oracle products after the first installation, then use Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to configure your database for the new products as follows:
If required, start the database.
Run the following command to start Oracle Database Configuration Assistant:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca
Select Configure Database Options.
From the list of available databases, select the database that you want to configure.
Select the products that you want to enable, and then click Finish.
Configuration assistants are usually run during an installation session, but you can also run them in standalone mode. As with Oracle Universal Installer, you can start each of the assistants noninteractively by using a response file.
This section contains the following topics:
When Oracle Net Server or Oracle Net Client is installed, Oracle Universal Installer automatically starts Oracle Net Configuration Assistant.
If you choose to perform a separate Oracle Database Client installation, then Oracle Net Configuration Assistant automatically creates a configuration that is consistent with the selections made during the installation. Oracle Universal Installer automatically runs Oracle Net Configuration Assistant to set up a net service name in the local naming file located in the
$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin directory of the client installation.
After installation is complete, you can use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant to create a more detailed configuration by entering the following command:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/netca
Note:When you use Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to create a database, it automatically updates the network configuration files to include information for the new database.
During an Oracle Database installation, you can choose to upgrade a database from an earlier release to the current release. However, if you choose not to upgrade a database during installation or if there is more than one database that you want to upgrade, then you can run Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant after the installation.
If you installed Oracle Database and chose not to upgrade the database during the installation, then you must upgrade the database before mounting it.
To start Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant, run the following command:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbua
For information about the command-line options available with Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant, use the
-help or
-h command-line arguments as follows:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbua -help
See Also:Oracle Database Installation Guide and Oracle Database Upgrade Guide for more information about upgrades
You can use Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to:
Create a default or customized database
Configure an existing database to use Oracle products
Create Automatic Storage Management disk groups
Generate a set of shell and SQL scripts that you can inspect, modify, and run at a later time to create a database
To start Oracle Database Configuration Assistant, run the following command:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca
For information about the command-line options available with Oracle Database Configuration Assistant, use the
-help or
-h command-line arguments as follows:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca -help
Oracle recommends that you run the
utlrp.sql script after creating or upgrading a database. This script recompiles all PL/SQL modules that may be in an invalid state, including packages, procedures, and types. This is an optional step but Oracle recommends that you do it when you create the database and not at a later date.
To run the
utlrp.sql script:
Switch user to
Use the
oraenv or
coraenv script to set the environment for the database on which you want to run the
utlrp.sql script:
Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell:
$ . /usr/local/bin/oraenv
C shell:
% source /usr/local/bin/coraenv
When prompted, specify the SID for the database.
Run the following command to start SQL*Plus:
$ sqlplus "/ AS SYSDBA"
If required, run the following command to start the database:
Run the
utlrp.sql script:
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
You can relink your product executables manually by using the
relink shell script located in the
$ORACLE_HOME/bin directory. You must relink the product executables every time you apply an operating system patch or after an operating system upgrade.
Note:Before relinking executables, you must shut down all executables that are running in the Oracle home directory that you are relinking. In addition, shut down applications linked with Oracle shared libraries.
Depending on the products that have been installed in the Oracle home directory, the
relink script relinks Oracle product executables.
To relink product executables, run the following command:
$ relink argument
In this command, argument is one of the values listed in Table 3-1.
Table 3-1 Relink Script Arguments
Every product executable that has been installed
Oracle Database executable only
Client shared library
Oracle Text utilities
All precompilers that have been installed
All utilities that have been installed
Note: To give the correct permissions to the


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Have you ever wondered what it's like to work on an oil rig?
With the current bad jobs climate, many people are looking for new areas of job opportunity. Whether you're mid career or coming out of high school or college.
And with recent efforts to ease restrictions on oil drilling and an unsatisfied demand for oil industry workers at all levels, many are considering careers in the oil industry.
One of those areas of opportunity is working on an oil rig.
Recent movies such as Deep Water Horizon make it seem pretty tough, but is it really that bad?
This piece first looks at how to actually land a job on an oil rig. Then you're taken through all the different types of jobs on-board as well as the two main types of rigs. Then life on-board is explored – covering where rig workers sleep, eat, hang out etc.
Finally, you get the true facts on how dangerous life on a rig really is -with stats and graphs as well as some common hazards you need to be wary of if you ever find yourself on-board an oil rig.
So, take a look and see if YOU could work and live on an oil rig.
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The Evolution Of Cosmetic Surgery
Benefits of Cosmetic Surgery
So much has been written about cosmetic surgery. Yet one of its many benefits is help enhance aesthetic beauty. Cosmetic surgery over the years have grown and evolved. The origin of beauty surgery dates back to over 4,000 years ago but it wasn't till the late 19th century that the US medical community embraced reconstructive surgery and recognize the importance of plastic surgery within the United States. It was at that moment wherein beauty surgical procedure presently known today at cosmetic surgery really began to evolve. Surgeons agreed that it can be an instrument to improve look, confidence, happiness and in the end, a person's achievement that may have a huge effect on a person's well being. Plastic surgical procedure be it reconstructive or cosmetic treatments need educated decision-making.
Get A Self Evaluation
Have a self-evaluation to determine if the cosmetic procedure like body contouring for example breast implant, liposuction, butt augmentation, tummy tuck or rejuvenation procedure like face lift, brow lift, blepharoplasty and fat graft is an effective solution for you personally. Its best to view before and after pictures of procedures, read of previous patient's feedback or experience about these plastic surgery procedures from leading plastic surgeons. Attaining the right result in any type of cosmetic surgery entails a lot of deliberation, worry and uncertainty, but if you have decided to go forward with the procedure, your surgeon or doctor will endeavor to provide or supply you with complete assistance and guidance every step of the way.
Choosing Your Surgeon Correctly
Whatever beauty surgery procedure you might be considering, make sure that your surgeon has a clear understanding of what you want and what you expect to accomplish before you make the final decision. Consultants or your surgeon will give you complete discretion and privacy, to make sure that you are fully informed and pleased with every thing. Always communicate your concerns or question with your surgeon, in this way you will be able to know your doctor's experience and technique also you will be able to be more comfortable with him or her.
Cosmetic Surgery, Evolving
Because of cosmetic surgery in the Philippines for example, many individuals are able to improve or alter their lives, in terms of career or relationship. These days there's a growing social acceptance for cosmetic surgery to the point that you will find even TV reality show that discuss or show the experience of patients that undergo some enhancement procedure. Cosmetic surgical procedure aims to change or improve the shape, appearance and contour of your body profile by altering structures of your body. It does not only improve physical appearance, it may also have emotional enhancement with better social acceptance. Cosmetic surgery is much more popular that even, with reality TV shows, there are now extreme makeover shows that is drawing public attention about beauty surgery and plastic surgical procedures.
Cosmetic surgical procedure is generally performed to improve shape, contour and probably function of a particular body area and therefore improve a person's appearance. While reconstructive surgical procedure is more of recovering or rebuilding a part from abnormal to normal.
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Fiji Time: 3:28 AM on Tuesday 20 February
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Thursday, July 03, 2014
NATABUA High School student Annie Shannon fought hard to win her elimination match during the inaugural Oceania Open Junior Championship at the Regional Tennis Complex in Lautoka yesterday.
Shannon qualified for today's girls singles quarter-finals after beating Alexanda Taylor of Australia 7-6, 6-3.
Mulan Kamoe wasn't so lucky going down to Jinxuan Wang of China 7-6, 6-2 in her fixture.
Top seed Katerina Valos of Australia qualified for the quarter-finals after beating Ramu Ueda of Japan 7-5, 6-2.
Boys' top seed Jack Wong of Hong Kong downed Pratt Keerasuntonpong of New Zealand 6-3, 6-2.
Tournament referee Patrick O'Rourke said the International Tennis Federation Junior Championships held in the country were a pathway for bigger events on the international scene.
O'Rourke said Australian Nicholas Kyrgios who upset world number one Rafael Nadal during the Wimbledon fourth round yesterday, won the South Pacific Open Junior Championship in Lautoka in 2010.
"It is unbelievable that after winning the junior tournament here four years ago, Nicholas has now defeated the world number one," he said.
"This is the first Oceania Open Junior Championship. We have a very good field because it is following the South Pacific Open Junior Championship last week which is the ITF Grade Four event.
"Many of the overseas players have stayed back to compete.
"The top seeds from last week have progressed to the singles quarter-finals.
"There have been some good performances by the local girls.
"Mulan got to the round of 16 so she has achieved her first world junior ranking points while Annie Shannon is in the quarter-finals."
The tournament continues today.
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T-mobile looks poised to go on an Android tear – they've already got the MyTouch 4G and the Huawei Comet with the Devour on the way, and a little birdie is claiming that the LG Optimus T (also called as LG Optimus one or LG Optimus S) will launch on November 3 with a new 2-year contract price of $29.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate). LG Cell Phone Previews
So what can you expect in the LG Optimus T? Well, the LG Optimus T is a midrange Android-powered device and you'll get 3.2″ touchscreen display (320×480), a 3.2 megapixel camera with no flash (with digital zoom and video), GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microSD card slot (a 2GB card will be in the sales package), Android 2.2 Froyo on boardand and all the other standard features you'd expect a smartphone to have in this day and age. One thing to note is that T-Mobile's Facebook message that announced this seems to no longer be available. LG Cell Phone News
At the time of this writing, the LG Optimus T hadn't made it to the T-mobile's website, so stay tuned for that soon… real soon.
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SACRAMENTO — The nation's highest paid Legislature is getting another pay cut, and the Assembly leader isn't happy — even as he and other legislators mull over pay cuts to state workers.
The California Citizens Compensation Commission cut the pay of lawmakers and the governor by 5 percent Thursday, on top of the 18 percent pay cut they received in 2009.
That leaves legislators with a base pay of $90,526 — down from $95,291 now and $116,000 three years ago.
The governor's salary will be set at $165,288, down from $173,987. It was $212,179 three years ago, though then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger settled for $1 a year.
The governor wants to impose "on public employees the same salary reduction," said Charles Murray, the commission member who proposed the cuts. "This may not make a dent in the deficit, but we have to send a message."
The pay cuts will take effect Dec. 3. Legislators will retain their $142 per diem pay for living expenses, but in recent years they've also lost the use of state-bought cars and other perks.
"We believe the commission's cut is punitive and ignores the size and complexity of the job and the facts regarding comparable legislative bodies," said Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles. "We also would hate to see a system where only the personally wealthy can afford to serve."
But Gov. Jerry Brown said he has no problem seeing his salary reduced, especially as he negotiates with labor unions about his proposed 5 percent pay cut to state employees.
"Look, I'd run for governor whether it was a paid job or not," Brown told this newspaper Thursday. "I derive a lot of psychic income."
Brown wants state employees to work four 9.5-hour days a week, but is also considering alternatives that would provide $400 million in cuts to the state workforce.
"We're not there yet," Brown said. "We have a lot of difficult discussions ahead."
Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, on Thursday tweeted that legislators should take their lumps when they're making hard budget cuts for others in a bad economy.
"If we are cutting the pay of public employees, we should not be exempt," Cannella said. "Lead by example."
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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|We have a long history of work with charged particle micro-beams - Delivering sub-micron low-particle-rate beams for radiobiology experiments - that started at the Gray Cancer Institute in Northwood, London. For example see these articles in the Telegraph and from the BBC . Since our move to Oxford this work has continued in collaboration with the Ion Beam Centre at Surrey University. There, the Wolfson Tower has been built to accommodate the world's first scanning focused vertical nanobeam . At the end of the beam line is one of our open microscopes for the manipulation and imaging of biological cells.


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Originally posted by BritofTexas
reply to post by Valhall
Do you mean "X said this", "according to X"?
That's hearsay. Not a primary source.
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
Your tears will be delicious come November 8th, and not because I'm an Obama supporter, but mainly because I enjoy watching conservative moan.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
It's going to take more than that to convince me of the truth of these... what amounts to rumors and speculations.
Originally posted by Pervius
Back up a minute and ponder why DOD was briefing the biggest threat to America was before the "terrorist" boogeyman....they were briefing "armed citizens" were the biggest threat and the Pentagon was getting ready to deal with them.
The Baby Boomers....they helped themselves to the money future generations of America should of had....by giving themselves jobs creating allll those Federal jobs...agencies...Defense contractors....State jobs....they all were rolling in money. Set themselves up with luxurious Federal retirements, State retirements, Union retirements, Social Security..............but they didn't have enough babies,
So here they are getting allllll the money of America and EVERYTHING had to be cut and all those jobs eliminated so America could pay the Baby Boomers. Now this Generation can't get jobs. Can't have a career. Can't even get a home.
Obama was the perfect fallguy they created to change the blame and hide the biggest robbery in human history.
Originally posted by Golf66
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
It's going to take more than that to convince me of the truth of these... what amounts to rumors and speculations.
This is speculation of course but considering your obvious infatuation - photos of him doing lines off an underage hooker's butt in the oval office, bottle of Jack in one hand and his other on the Koran wouldn't sway you.
The reason conspiracies and cover ups are called that is because they don't leave glowing trails of bread crumbs to follow for to the secret stash of "evidence". ''
The man is a fraud - but...before you say it.
edit on 20/9/2012 by Golf66 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Therian
I will start out by saying I am not into politics. I think when you vote you are voting for the best conman. My viewpoint on Obama or Bush. Lets look at the American People. There are allot of us and we all Differ. Religions,philosophies, race,sex,age,and well the list goes on. I imagine as say the leader of a group of 20 people one could keep at least 75 percent happy about 60 percent of the time. The other 25 percent well they would have to go along to get along. Not everyone would like me or my policies at at the end they could say as leader I was a crap head. I can't imagine myself being able to lead over say 60 people. It would drive me insane. But that's just the type of person I am. Any president elected must be some of the bravest people,or most foolish. It;s easy for me to stand up and say I wish for a better tomorrow but I don't think can have one constantly shaking our fist at Some poor soul who Only stood up and was trying to do better for everyone. Is it not better to push him up instead of pull him down. Wouldn't a better America start with more understanding, more patience.
The fact that this current president is half African American must be doubly difficult for him. I am sure he meant to do everything he spoke of. Maybe I am rambling a bit. And maybe this current President has made mistakes. But without his promises would any have voted for him. People tend to vote for lofty dreams. Sadly Dreams in my experience don't come true. It is not his fault other people around the world hate us. That's other people.The Economy is not his fault. That's just human nature, We the people said we would accept President Obama. Now we need to back him up. If Romney become the next president. Then as a people we must back him up. Come what may. And instead of complaining and crying. Do something or get over yourselves. Whining into a computer screen isn't as time has shown done anything.
We have a system and We can say its broken all we like. That's not going to fix it. We don't need more blame. Just fix it, come up with a better working system and prove it works. I don't have those answers I am not that man. But me sitting here complaining is not helping anyone. Why not open a thread of answers. How do we fix it. What parts need to be changed. But keep it real. I have met some of the smartest people I know right here on ATS. Not everyone can be happy with all the changes. Aim for 75 percent and then do better.
Originally posted by muse7
You can keep posting your neo con hit pieces that contain no facts and are full of hearsay. Nothing you or the other Republican cheerleaders post can convince me to vote for a Republican.
Would you rather vote for morons who stay silent while a crowd full of ignorant fools boo soldiers for saying they are gay?
Originally posted by Valhall
Oh, and your Saviour just invited me to change Washington from the outside because he's admitting he's an impotent, incompetent boob who can't from the inside. So I'm going to do my very best on November 6th to do just that.
What a blubbering idiot.
Originally posted by muse7
Originally posted by Valhall
Oh, and your Saviour just invited me to change Washington from the outside because he's admitting he's an impotent, incompetent boob who can't from the inside. So I'm going to do my very best on November 6th to do just that.
What a blubbering idiot.
you go ahead and do what you gotta do.
as long as it fits your agenda.
isn't ironic how you posted a neo con hit piece..but yet in November you're probably going to vote for a guy thats even more corrupt?
Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by Valhall
Wasn't Nixon a tad more corrupt than other Presidents? His VP, Agnew, was just about as allegedly corrupt (tax evasion, money laundering) and then Gerald Ford went on to pardon Nixon. Pretty murky.
Beating on George W Bush has been done to death, but it still looks like some election-fixing occurred.
So maybe 'most corrupt' is a little off-beam and you could park Obama somewhere down the list behind these guys?
Originally posted by JValhalla
I believe Grant takes the cake. He ruined the economy, gave contracts to friends, stole millions in taxes, gave himself a 2x Salary raise. The list goes on. Ehh but what do I know, it sounds like most Presidents I can remember.
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Calling all nurses to get healthy and reverse a trend
A troubling trend is continuing: More Americans are on a path toward becoming overweight and obese. And that translates to more patients and nurses weighing in at higher, less healthy numbers.
Like many Americans with high-stress jobs and lots of responsibilities, it sometimes seems like the odds are against nurses to eat right, exercise and get enough sleep.
Through its Healthy Nurse program, the American Nurses Association (ANA) is working to turn the tide by helping nurses attain healthier lifestyles and workplace practices, and in turn be strong role models for their patients. In yet another series of educational sessions, ANA's Department for Health, Safety and Wellness is hosting Healthy Nurse workshops Feb. 6, in conjunction with its Nursing Quality Conference, on making the case for safe patient handling and self-care for nurses. (Go to www.nursingworld.org/healthynurse.org for resources and more ANA activities.)
"The weight of our nation's population is increasing, causing a rise in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular conditions and diabetes," said Suzy Harrington, DNP, RN, MCHES, director of ANA's Department for Health, Safety and Wellness. "And it is affecting the health of nurses personally and professionally."
Added Susan Gallagher, PhD, RN, CSPHP, CBN, "Certainly there are many very healthy nurses who happen to be overweight or obese. However, the data suggest that, like the general population, nurses of size may face some obesity-related health risks."
Beyond the potential for chronic diseases, a maldistribution of weight can affect balance and place nurses at risk for falling themselves while they are moving patients, according to Gallagher, a national expert on improving care for patients of size and an ANA member.
Further, obese persons report more musculoskeletal pain than do those within normal ranges of weight and body mass index. This additional weight increases the potential for trauma to joints and the musculoskeletal system, as well as chronic inflammation.
Additionally, sleep — which is often a premium for nurses — can be adversely affected.
As much as 77 percent of people who are obese suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, which can compound fatigue-related symptoms such as inattentiveness and poor concentration, Gallagher said.
What the numbers say
About one-third of adults age 20 and older in this country are overweight, and about 35.7 percent are obese, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If these patterns continue unabated, by 2030 adult obesity rates could exceed 60 percent in 13 states, slightly more than 50 percent in 39 states, and 44 percent in all 50 states, according to a report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health in September 2012. Further, obesity could lead to more than 6 million cases of type 2 diabetes, 5 million cases of coronary heart disease and stroke, and more than 400,000 cases of cancer in the next two decades.
Results from the Harvard Nurses' Health Study showed that 60 percent of respondents reported being either overweight or obese, more than half said they exercised less than two hours a week and more than half said they eat less fruit than the minimum daily standards.
ANA also captured a snapshot of the health of some 350 nurses who agreed to take a Health Risk Assessment at its Healthy Nurse Conference and business meeting in June 2012.
The results were a mixed bag. Although most did not smoke or drink alcohol to excess, 70 percent of the respondents were either overweight or obese — with 40 percent falling into the latter category. The age group with the highest incidence was those 30 to 39 years old. Only 35 percent exercise more than four to five times a week, and only 40 percent manage to eat the recommended four or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
"It's become very challenging to take care of patients these days because their care has become so complex," Harrington said. And those high stress levels can lead to nurses engaging in unhealthy behaviors, such as stress eating.
In ANA's 2011 Health and Safety survey of more than 4,500 nurses, RNs listed the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork as their No. 1 concern. ANA hopes to soon be able to more closely examine nurses' overall health and health concerns to provide even more resources and educational opportunities to help them meet their needs.
Additionally, shift work and the sheer physicality of the job can make nurses inclined to eat more and exercise less, Gallagher added.
Research also has shown that shift work disrupts a person's body clock and can lead to a less healthy lifestyle, increased blood pressure and diabetes.
Gallagher added that although many in the general public are overweight, they still notice when nurses are overweight and expect them to be healthier.
So what can nurses do?
There are many strategies for nurses to start on a path toward healthier habits, as well as ways that employers can invest in having a healthier workforce. In some cases it might mean redesigning the work culture, according to Gallagher.
Health care facilities can develop and maintain clear policies and procedures that reduce stress and hazards in the environment, such as having safe patient handling and anti-bullying programs, according to Gallagher. (Being bullied can result in a nurse engaging in unhealthy behaviors.) They also can offer nurses and other employees ongoing programs that focus on health and wellness, such as nutrition counseling, fitness programs and healthy food choices in the cafeteria.
These types of programs are gaining traction. A Dec. 6, 2012, poll of human resource executives — through a project called The States of Wellness — found that nearly nine out of 10 executives nationally perceive the benefits of worksite wellness initiatives.
Gallagher added that employers also may have to rethink certain practices, for example, allowing staff to engage in deep meditative rest during their breaks.
Harrington said that nurses, themselves, can start on a path toward healthier lifestyles by identifying some of the barriers that prevent them from eating right or exercising, and then develop practical strategies to overcome those barriers.
For example, some nurses who work shifts when the cafeteria is closed rely on vending machines to get them through the night, she said. One simple way to overcome that barrier is to bring healthy snacks to work.
Nurses also need to make sure they are well-hydrated, be more conscious of their meal portions and set positive goals, Harrington said.
"A lot of behaviors are habits, and anything can be overcome," she said. "And just making small changes can make a difference — such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator or eating one more serving of fruits or vegetables a day."
Besides ANA's Healthy Nurse website, Harrington said there are many other online resources that can help nurses engage in healthy behaviors and become healthy role models to help end the trend of obesity in this country.
— Susan Trossman is the senior reporter for The American Nurse.
Resources to help nurses get informed, get started
For ANA's Healthy Nurse Tool Kit and other resources, visit ANA's Healthy Nurse website: www.nursingworld.org/healthynurse.
For recommendations on healthy eating and physical activity, as well as a tool that looks at weight and health risks: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/phy_act.htm.
To figure out whether you have portion distortion: www.choosemyplate.gov/supertracker-tools/portion-distortion.
To take a sleep assessment at the National Sleep Foundation website: www.sleepfoundation.org.
For access to a free CE module on shift work sleep disorder available via the American Nurse Today website, visit http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/swsd/.
For a diabetes risk test: www.diabetes.org.
To learn more about obesity and to view a documentary on this trend, "The Weight of the Nation": www.cdc.gov/obesity and www.theweightofthenation.hbo.com.
For details on the United States' health promotion agenda, Healthy People 2020: www.healthypeople.gov/2020.


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Nibbles and Chewy waiting for treats in bed, courtesy Sara L.
Sparkly eyes and little pink nosies! Awww, so adorable!
Lights Camera Action.
They are all ready for their presentation of "Ham on a Hot Tin Roof"
I think they've been unfairly named, surely they have other characteristics besides wanting to eat everything in sight. .. No?
This is why they call them…wait for it…hams!
Two excellent entries for Nose-vember!
"Boop" & "beep" !!!
The stand-ins are called Munch and Slurp.
Howdy, Fird! Can that be "Beep" & "boop" instead?
Chewy! What a great name for a cute little rat!
I was just gonna say…. those is not ham-hams…
RATTIE FACES! *kees*
"Chewy" could be short for Chewbacca.
I miss my ratties 😦
Another op'nin, another show!
*obligatory groan*
Let kittyadventures know that we've changed the title to "Rats on a Hot Tin Roof"…
There's nose business like show business!
I wish I looked that cute while I was waiting for treats in bed…
Now I'm in the mood for ratatouille. 😆
Works, for me 🙂
As long as the recipients are cool with it — sure!
In fact, it is! But when it appeared that baby rat #2 was going to be named "Darth Maul" (we have boys), I distracted and redirected like crazy and we all agreed on Nibbles (otherwise known as Nibs, Niblet, Nibby, Nibbers, or Nib-Nib.
Can anyone else see the whiskers twitching?
Ziegfeld's in the third row!
i loves me some ratties
🙂 My first thought was Ratties but I have been fooled before into thinking a hammie was a rattie when it was really a Hammie so now I just automatically choose Hammy. But Ratties RULE! VIva La Templeton.. the best rattie in the whole world.
What's wrong with Darth Maul? Darthy-Warthy? Darthy-Warthy-McCarthy?
Look at the nosies. Ratties have longer, pointy noses, and hammies are more rounded. NOSE-VEMBER!
just lost my last rattie. they´re perfect in every way except for their all too short life span. has made me depressed over the last 7 years to lose 11 rats. they're all little persons and each death is as horrible as the next.
sorry to bring so much gloom… love the pic and wish I had a rat too …
I'm so sorry…I can empathize with how you feel. I was amazed when my little rat–Zippy–lived for 2 1/2 years, but that was still too short. I think no matter how long our beloved animal children lived, it would always be much too short. *sending comforting thoughts your way*
sympathies for Nucleus . Any companionship with animals can be enhancing.
*does a tapdance and softshoe*
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Residents and businesses in south Northants are being warned about ignoring notices of unpaid council tax or business rates.
From today, Sunday, bailiffs will become known as enforcement agents (EA).
When an EA receives an instruction from South Northants Council (SNC) to collect unpaid council tax or business rates there will be an immediate compliance fee of £75 payable by the account holder.
Any payments made after the instruction has been issued will automatically go towards paying these fees.
The next enforcement stage fee will be £235 plus 7.5 per cent of the debt amount if over £1,500.
Full details of the fees will be sent with any warning letters.


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skin TB test itching
August 22, 2014
For a tuberculin test, you sit down skin TB test itching and turn the inside of your forearm on. The skin where the cleaning test is performed and dried. A film of the TB-antigen (purified protein derivative, or PPD) is camera.gif below the top layer of skin. The liquid allows a small bump (papule) beneath the skin. A circle can be drawn around the test area with a pencil.
skin TB test itching
Cover the area with a bandage. You need to consult your doctor 2-3 days after the test, check the skin test.
You may feel a quick sting or pinch of the needle.
This is a very low risk of a serious reaction to the tuberculin skin test, especially if you have had tuberculosis (TB). An allergic reaction can cause a lot of swelling and pain at the site. Wonderful may be present.
You can not have an infection of tuberculosis in the tuberculin test, as there is no live bacteria are used for testing.
On Tuesday I went to the health of employees for a physical service to my new job (I'm a recent graduate) and I got a regular job. I have a drug test, TB test, blood test for titles.
I have got my TB test read Monday. NP positive mark. I have a red spot on the arm of the trial and absolutely no cure. He sat there with closed eyes ther used his other hand and said no cure, but I do not like. Then we went to talk contact the health department, omg!
Now, this place is on my arm is broken in it, and I can see the puncture site. This is normal. My previous tests tb never caused any problems. I'm a little nervous here. Want to go back for another test on Tuesday. Any idea?
Also my drug test results back yet to come. I'm drug-free, which is the holdup here? She asked if I was sure he had not taken any medication.
I guess it was not my day …
This seems to be a positive test, so what was the induration was measured (high). What made before and after the measurement period to build environmental test after 48-72 hours, never mind. Just wait for the results of chest radiography. I hope it's not, and if it does, can be treated with medication for 9 months, to prevent latent infection from active TB. There is only one medicine once a day and is well tolerated by most people, especially if they are young and skin TB test itching healthy.


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@fargetswed- unfortunately I don't know the distance between the gazebo and the trees...but it's not that close. So I am not even sure that it would be an option.
As for the length of lights required to wrap the poles. A 25ft light cord should be plenty (and for the bride who bought 18ft)...it will just perhaps mean the lights are wrapped a few times less around the pole. But it would still work.


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Iran on Monday categorically condemned an Iraqi diplomat's "baseless accusation" that Tehran has access to nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons of mass destruction, reported the official Iranian news agency (IRNA).
Iran's envoy to the UN, Mohammad Ziaifar, in a letter addressed to the Security Council chief, said that the deputy Iraqi Foreign Minister Riadh Al Qeysi's "words resemble a bitter historic irony, since," he said, "his country has constantly been in pursuit of manufacturing such weapons while Iran has been a victim of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction."
Al Qeysi last Thursday harshly criticized the Security Council for renewing the UN sanctions against his country and suggested that they stop the process of Iran's "ceaseless efforts" aimed at mass production of weapons of mass destruction.
"Iraq's disastrous use of chemical bombs against its own nation in Halabja and against Iranian troops across the western borders of Iran with that country for some eight years, too, will never be forgotten," the letter said.
"Such moves were against the 1925 Geneva Protocol and were condemned by the Security Council," said the letter, adding that "the heartbreaking photographs of the victims of Iraq's atrocious act in Halabja will never be cleared from the memory of mankind." – Albawaba.com
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Why you should engage a solicitor when you want to make a claim to the Injuries Board
If you want to submit a claim through the Personal Injury Assessment Board(PIAB), you should seek the help of a personal injury solicitor if you want to get the best outcome. This is the best way to get a good compensation if you have suffered a personal injury as a result of someone else's negligence.
There many things that you have to do when you want to submit a claim through the Injuries Board. It is highly likely that you will not do things the way they should be done if you decide to do everything by yourself. Here are the main reasons why you should seek the services of a solicitor when you want to go to the injuries board;
1. There are strict time limits that you must comply with
When you want to submit your claim to the board, there are plenty of things that you have to do. There is a lot of paperwork that has to be prepared. This is something that you will not be able to do if you are not a legal expert. If you are a legal expert, you may not be in a mental state that allows you to do everything that needs to be done by yourself. There is always a strict timeline that you have to beat. You need help from someone who fully understands how things are usually done to be able to comply with the strict time limits.
2. You will have the help of someone who is committed to protecting your interests
A solicitor understands the law related to personal injury inside out. He/she will be able to use the law to defend your interests. Remember, the board does have your interests at heart. The board may also not know what you are going through because of the injuries you suffered from especially if you do not prepare the paperwork in the best way possible. A solicitor will have your interest at heart and will do everything that needs to be done in the best way to ensure that you get the best possible outcome.
3. A solicitor will help you get a compensation that is sufficient and fair
You need compensation that is sufficient and fair to be able to move on with your life swiftly. Your solicitor will do everything to ensure that you receive compensation that will not only cover medical expenses, but that will also help you to get on with life.


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After a couple weeks of names dribbling in one-by-one, the Seattle Seahawks finally announced the official list of assistant coaches that will make up Pete Carroll's initial staff.
The final list includes two names not previously mentioned — quality control coaches Luke Butkus and Dave Canales.
Butkus, 30, is the nephew of the legendary Dick Butkus. He will help with the offensive line.
Butkus played center for three seasons at the University of Illinois and then two years in the NFL with San Diego. He became a graduate assistant coach at Oregon from 2005-06 and then worked as a quality control coach with the Bears the last three years.
Canales, meanwhile, is the eighth former USC assistant to join Carroll's staff. He will work as a quality control coach with the overall offense.
Quality control coaches help break down film from practices and games and assist position coaches with various duties.
Canales previously coached at El Camino Junior College and played receiver at Azusa Pacific. He spent one season at USC, working under former quarterbacks coach Jeremy Bates, the Seahawks' new offensive coordinator.
Here's the complete list of Seahawks coaches:
Executive Vice President & Head Coach – Pete Carroll
Offensive Coordinator – Jeremy Bates
Defensive Coordinator – Gus Bradley
Quarterbacks – Jedd Fisch
Running Backs – Sherman Smith
Wide Receivers – Kippy Brown
Tight Ends – Pat McPherson
Offensive Line – Alex Gibbs
Assistant Offensive Line – Art Valero
Quality Control/Offensive Line – Luke Butkus
Quality Control/Offense – Dave Canales
Defensive Line – Dan Quinn
Linebackers – Ken Norton, Jr.
Defensive Backs – Jerry Gray
Assistant Defensive Backs – Kris Richard
Quality Control/Defense – Rocky Seto
Special Team Coordinator – Brian Schneider
Special Teams Assistant – Jeff Ulbrich
Head Strength & Conditioning – Chris Carlisle
Assistant Strength & Conditioning – Mondray Gee
Assistant Strength & Conditioning – Jamie Yanchar


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A future for fishing
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, November 21, 2007
One day last year, I was trout fishing in the Upper Klamath River, near the Oregon border. Arriving at dawn, I was dismayed to find a sign on this picture-perfect river that showed only six areas open for fishing on this stretch of water. The last stretch of the river, before becoming an Oregon river, was closed to angling and called an "in river hatchery." After driving more than half the length of the state to fish, I was outraged.
Dispirited, I pulled up to the first "open area," got out of my truck and took my gear down to the river. My second cast scored a nice rainbow trout. As did the next. I placed my feet carefully, and cast again. The fish leapt in the air and threw the spinner off to the side. Several casts later and I had caught my limit.
I did this for three days in a row. The hatchery up the river had worked as a practical and natural fish reserve that had produced a large number of fish that now populate the fishable stretch of the river. A few days of great fishing changed my view of the closures. Fish reserves now seemed like a pretty good idea.
The network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that the state Fish and Game Commission is designing with public input to run the length of the California Coast will produce similar benefits to the fish in our ocean. The first part of this network, established between Half Moon Bay and Santa Barbara in September, has left plenty of areas open to recreational fishing (more than 80 percent of the region), while preserving important areas to operate as a natural system of "hatcheries." Marine scientists tell us that marine reserves where fishing is not allowed increase the number, diversity, size and fertility of fish found both inside and outside of the protected areas. It's common sense that when fish are given areas to feed, breed and grow, they grow healthier, more fertile and larger. And that makes for better fishing.
I've seen the effects of marine reserves in our ocean with my own eyes. Last month, I joined a group of anglers and scientists who are monitoring fish populations at Point Lobos south of Monterey, where a small marine reserve established in the 1970s just got bigger. The abundance of fish in this area was incredible - we caught fish so quickly that the scientists on board were barely able to keep pace. The abundance, size and variety of fish were unlike anything I have seen in more than 30 years of fishing the California Coast.
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No one is more interested in the long-term health of the ocean than fishermen, which is why recreational fishermen demanded marine reserves in the Channel Islands near Santa Barbara. This is also why I participated in designing California's plan for new protected areas along the Central Coast. These new protected areas were developed based on scientific advice but also with input from everyday folks, including fishermen like myself.
The unfortunate oil spill being dealt with in the San Francisco Bay Area points out the importance of having a "network" of marine reserves. Should disaster strike one area, we are not left with all of our eggs in one basket. Further, marine scientists have encouraged replication within the network so that important habitats are represented more than once. Just as one hatchery cannot meet all the freshwater stocking needs of this state; the same can be said for the ocean.
In the end, it's pretty simple. If you spend more than you earn, you will go into debt. As a fisherman, I know that if you take more fish than the ocean can replace, you won't be fishing for long. Unfortunately, that is just what we have been doing in California in recent years. There is a reason that old-timers spin fish tales - the fishing isn't what it used to be.
California's new Marine Protected Areas are an investment in the future. It is fishermen who will benefit most from this investment and should be their strongest supporters. Thirty years from now, the next generation of fishermen will be able to generate some tall fish tales of their own.


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Re: Question about alternative to File::Findby davido (Archbishop)
|on Sep 29, 2012 at 17:04 UTC ( #996404=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Have you tried File::Find::Rule? It's basically a well designed OO interface that encapsulates (and extends) the File::Find functionality. I don't know exactly what you're doing, but I should think you would be able to do it more cleanly (from aesthetic and "programmer's sensibilities" standpoints) than with File::Find.
I agree that File::Find's interface is messy. It's a really useful module, but every time I use it I feel like I need to go take a shower afterwards. File::Find::Rule is much less dirty.
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