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Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, and Oracle have announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP). With this release, Sun Java Wireless Client, Oracle's Java implementation for mobile handsets, is now pre-integrated with Brew MP. Handset manufacturers and developers alike are provided with a turnkey solution to incorporate Java technology into mobile devices based on Brew MP in a consistent manner across devices, ensuring seamless integration and coexistence of Java applications with Brew MP native applications.
The pre-integration and pre-optimization of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client on Brew MP extends the Brew MP value proposition of providing open platform solutions across a wide variety of device types and tiers. In addition, the availability of customization and configuration tools from Oracle-Sun enables device manufacturers to fine-tune the solution to their target devices without modifying the Java implementation. Brew MP is a mass-market mobile operating system platform that delivers smartphone functionality across virtually all tiers of devices. The operating system enables advanced capabilities such as touchscreen, rich multimedia, window management, open platform extensibility and expanded support for native application development.
"Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client's pre-integration onto Brew MP gives Java developers access to an even larger universe of mass-market mobile devices. We're pleased to partner with Qualcomm to bring a high-performance and multi-tasking Java implementation to the operators, handset manufacturers and developers using Brew MP," said Jeet Kaul, Oracle's vice president of Java Engineering.

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text: Osaka, Japan, October 31, 2010 - Defending champions Russia remained unbeaten after a straight-sets win (25-13, 25-16, 25-21) over Canada on the third day of first-round action in Pool D of the FIVB Women's World Championship at Osaka City Municipal Gymnasium.Vladimir Kuzyutkin's team were dominant from start to finish in raising their record to 3-0. The young Canadians fought gamely but could not deal with the power game and experience of the Russians and lost their third straight match.Veteran star Ekaterina Gamova led Russia with 15 points, including 12 in attack. Yulia Merkulova chipped in with 13 points while Sarah Pavan scored 11 points for Canada, who committed 18 errors to Russia's 11.Russia cruised to the first set, 25-13, as Canada made eight errors and the Russians were up 16-10 at the second TTO in the second set and moving swiftly towards victory as Gamova and Merkulova pounded spikes seemingly at will. They eventually closed out the set on a spike from Lesya Makhno.Arnd Ludwig's Canada team led early in the third set, but the Russians tied the score at 10-10 and moved ahead after another thunderous Gamova spike and never looked back. Following Monday's rest day, Russia will play Korea on Tuesday while Canada take on Turkey.


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The legal imbroglio in which Kevin Butler (really, actor Jerry Lambert) found himself the past week provided the grist for our latest roundup of 'Shop Contest spoofs. We have all the finalists inside, plus overall winner and longtime 'Shop Contest all-star ArnieJolt!
Getting started, I asked for the Bad Dudes dudes cross examining Butler with Asshole Dog from Duck Hunt as the judge. Johnny Stanley (4) was the only one capable for following orders. discoron (3) conjures up either Lambert's next promotional gig, or an even worse betrayal. ykx (3) seats a venerable appellate panel to hear Butler's imminent appeal.
Pan_1da7 (6) reaches into subject matter near and dear to my heart. Great mustache, too. Is there any ricin in the orange juice? Lars K. Tennyson (5) had a crowd favorite with this rogues' gallery of great Butlers. My favorite is the foam middle finger.
Overall No. 1s? AttorneyAtMusic turned in an animated .gif, well worth rewarding the effort. I'm guessing that's Kaz Hirai as Atticus Finch in sciteach's shop (7). Best overall belongs to arniejolt (1). The old ripping off Helios' head 'Shop never gets old, and is perfectly appropriate here.
Congrats to all the finalists, and thanks to all who entered. We have a new contest tomorrow, with another twist on how to enter. Stay tuned.
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Yes. In my armchair therapist opinion many who oppose the Tea Parties are deranged.
The Tea Party has essentially one message and it is resonating with so many across our nation. The local Bellingham group describes their mission as reversing "deficit spending and the concentration of power in central government, in order to preserve states' rights and individual liberty for future generations."
Whether its reducing taxes, reducing government growth, opposing new intrusive laws, the main focus of the Tea Party has been put forth in a loud, clear and peaceful manner since it's beginning. And while the news media has been able to drum up a couple of crackpots here and there, the movement I've witnessed has by enlarge stuck to it's principles in a peaceful manner. Especially here in Bellingham where I've seen nothing but peaceful enthusiasm.
But even here in our town a mental disorder, a derangement, is spreading. The minds of otherwise normal people are failing them as they are being consumed by what is now known to be Tea Party Derangement Syndrome (TPDS).
Local evidence is easy to find. Here just a few days ago a commenter at the Herald displayed symptoms of TPDS.
As I've said many times in this forum, not all Tea Party members are blatant racists,but the "movement" certainly is. And the organizers, from Dick Armey to local "leaders" most certainly are.
I inquired twice about which leaders and what incident led them to believe that local Tea Party leadership were blatant racists. Rather than evidence, the commenter instead suggested that I might be a Tea Party leader. Clearly their mind had diverged from reality.
And there is poor Joe Teehan who in his KGMI Blog claimed that there are Tea Partiers who "can't accept that Barack Obama was elected to the presidency" yet never said who he was talking about. I've yet to meet a Tea Partier around here who doesn't accept Barack Obama as legitimately elected. Joe also claimed, again without evidence, that Tea Partiers say they are "governed not by the government but rather by the Constitution." Has anyone met a Tea Partier yet who doesn't recognize that we are under the authority of our elected government? If anything Party goers lament the overbearing amount of government we currently have. I see a clear divergence between reality and what those suffering from TPDS are experiencing.
Remembering that the Tea Party's mission centers on reducing government spending and control, it is clear when reading the following news snippets that Tea Party Derangement Syndrome is affecting people all across our nation.
It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren't looking. That's possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. mediaite.com
Really??? In this post 9/11 nation someone can actually believe this?
A website (crashtheteaparty.org) was recently set up. The creator, though he tried to hide his identity, has been outed; his name is Jason Levin, and he's a middle school teacher in Beaverton, Oregon. He's on record saying that you might see some of his team in Nazi uniforms at your local tea party pretending to be racists and other offensive characters. freerepublic.com
And making your own supporting evidence? Outstandingly deranged.
…it has emerged via whistleblowers that the U.S. Military in Kentucky is training to confront Tea Party protesters…prisonplanet.com
I wonder if our Commander in Chief has anticipated how my 7 year old, who was at a recent Tea Party, might react to a military confrontation?
Kevin, if I can, perhaps not at today's event, but as you've noted in the past, a lot's been made of some of what they refer to as the fringe elements who show up for these rallies. Some in the past have had offensive signs and rhetoric.
We're looking at some pictures. And obviously, these are the fringe elements to which we refer. But there's Obama being painted a mustache on to look like Hitler there. MSNBC/newsbusters.org
MSNBC trying to paint Tea Partiers as fringe just as the LaRouche fringe, not Tea Partiers painted Obama as Hitler.
And there's NBC again, this time themselves on the fringe as they attempt to create racism out of thin air.
"There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events," NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions: "Have you ever felt uncomfortable?"
Not surprisily, the answer was not as the seemed to want, but how reality is. Darryl Postell responded "No, no, these are my people, Americans." A reality very similar to what Rev. Perryman said in his YouTube regarding racism in the Tea Party.
Tea Party Derangement Syndrome may not have a clinical diagnosis yet, but it is real.
- Those suffering from TPDS believe Tea Partiers are terrorist, but they aren't.
- They believe them to be a fringe element, but thousands of them standing on the guide and in other cities show they aren't.
- Syndrome sufferers try to manipulate reality to fit their derangement, but reality is real, they won't win that game.
- TPDS sufferers believe Tea Partiers are racist despite the reality that race hasn't a darn thing to do with the message or mission of the Tea Party.
- TPDS sufferers fluidly dip in and out of reality, often in the same sentence.
I wondered what those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome would do once President Bush was no longer making the news. I see that some sort of transference to Tea Party Derangement Syndrome has occurred. It seems that there is always an element of our society that can't deal with many aspects of conservative reality and in the case of TPDS they can't deal with the reality of the Tea Party explosion.


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PEORIA — A South Peoria fight and home invasion might have started over a Link card dispute and ended with a bear hug.
A Peoria police report stated that a home invasion was reported at 6:45 p.m. Thursday in the 1300 block of West Millman Street where an empty Link card had allegedly been sold for $80.
The female victim was injured when several suspects entered the home and used an iron to damage a television screen before hitting her in the face, causing a laceration, the report said.
A witness was also in the home at the time of the incident. He told police he heard a commotion from his bedroom and emerged to see four females beating the victim, who lay on the floor. The witness told police that he removed the suspects from the living room using a "giant bear hug maneuver" to remove all four women from the house at once.
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- Adina earned her B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University, where she was a Population Studies Trainee (demography).
Adina Batnitzky joined the sociology faculty in the 2011 Spring Semester. Adina was previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Geography and the Environment. She has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University in the School of Geography, where she collaborated on research funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Gender Equality Network.
Scholarly Work
Adina's research and professional experiences have all revolved around the intersection of gender, health and labor in a global/transnational context. Her interdisciplinary research draws from feminist geography, as well as cultural and economic perspectives in sociology, with a particular regional expertise and field experience (including knowledge of both Arabic and French) in the Middle East/North Africa and Western Europe. Her research has been supported by the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, the American Institute of Maghrib Studies, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development.
Her past and current research has included work on Arab American health disparities; women's health and household labor in Morocco; the built environment and obesity in India; and embodied labor in London's globalized service sector.
Adina's research has been presented and published widely. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals including Sociology of Health and Illness, Health and Place, Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Cultural and Social Geography, Geoforum, Global Networks, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Economic Geography.
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Building on her two years of Peace Corps service in Morocco, Adina remains committed to community service, working collaboratively with diverse community actors, as well as students from diverse backgrounds. Adina's teaching reflects her interdisciplinary research interests, as well as her dedication to undergraduate education. At USD, she is teaching Health and Society and plans to teach courses in the areas of health, gender, labor, food, migration and the Middle East, as well as introductory courses in the major.


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Jeremy writes:
Buddha is now a certified service dog! I will share with you some stories from Buddha's certification.I remain continually amazed at how wonderful dogs are - how much benefit and love and hope they bring to humans just by being themselves.
The certification test is comprised of several small tests. The first part of the test was how well I could load Buddha into and out of our car. We passed that easily, since we have practiced that one quite a few times - basically every time we go somewhere.
Next we went to a store to do some distraction tests. Buddha and I walked around and Beth, the trainer, walked some distance behind us to observe our behavior and give the tests.
We did a sudden turn, a complete 360, various sit, heel, and down commands, and walked past several people. Buddha was perfect on those.
Next, Beth introduced some distractions by rolling a ball past Buddha as we were walking, and rolling a ball directly into his paws when he was sitting. He ignored it both times, remaining calm and alert to my commands, and staying pressed against my leg at all times.
The last test at the store was two parts. First, I gave Buddha the command "stay" and walked out of his line of sight. He stayed until I gave him the command "come."
For the second part, he had to do the same thing but with a stranger holding his leash. Beth asked a kindly store clerk to help with this part. Buddha was a bit shy of the store clerk, but he sat obediently and passed.
For the last part, we went to a Tim Horton's so Beth could observe us with all the distractions of a restaurant. Buddha ignored all the noises and smells, and obediently sat under my chair exactly like he is supposed to. Beth then put a piece of cheese right next to Buddha, which he ignored. As we were getting up to leave, Beth put the cheese right in Buddha's path, and he continued to ignore it and stepped over it.
Then we were done, and fully certified! Beth gave me Buddha's service dog badge, which is like his ID card and goes on his vest, and his license is in the mail. We can go anywhere now. It is such a good feeling.
Buddha is so much more than a dog. He is a life-saver. Thank you so much to everyone who made this possible. The kindness and show of support has been nothing less than amazing.
I had no idea that anybody cared, let alone all of you. It gets me all choked up. I cannot thank you enough for this. I had almost given up, but you have changed me and made it possible for me to begin to reclaim the life that was stolen from me. I am eternally grateful for all you have done. Thank you.
The Brockways need to raise another $2,000 to help them meet the usual expenses associated with adopting a dog. If you can donate anything, it would be much appreciated. If you would rather send a cheque or money order, email me for the War Resisters Support Campaign's address.


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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.7 on December 20th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).
This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup.
Bugs Fixed¶
xtrabackup_binary was not included in tar archive when streaming, instead it was written to the current directory. This could lead to a wrong xtrabackup binary being used when preparing backups created with the --stream or --remote-host options. Bugs fixed #723318 and #787988 (Stewart Smith).
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK was not used when creating incremental backups, which could lead to inconsistent backups when updates to non-InnoDB tables or DDL statements on any tables occurred during the backup process. Bug fixed #771981 (Alexey Kopytov).
Option --safe-slave-backup was resulting in incorrect binlog info, because in some cases innobackupex confused the response from SHOW SLAVE STATUS with the one from SHOW MASTER STATUS. Bug fixed #977101 (Alexey Kopytov).
innodb_data_file_path was not written to backup-my.cnf, this was a regression introduced in XtraBackup 1.6.5. Bug fixed #983685 (Sergei Glushchenko).
Fixed spurious test suite failures with grep 2.10. Bug fixed #996483 (Alexey Kopytov).
When innobackupex was running with --apply-log, it was reading configuration from the server configuration file instead of backup-my.cnf in backup directory. Bug fixed #996493 (Sergei Glushchenko).
innobackupex could copy files to a wrong directory when merging an incremental backup to a full one. Bug fixed #1002688 (Alexey Kopytov).
XtraBackup binary was leaking file descriptors on --backup. This was fixed by reusing the existing file descriptor so no leak occurs. Bug fixed #713267 (Alexey Kopytov).
Other bugs fixed: bug #1021954 (Hrvoje Matijakovic).


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Finally! Libraries now have a home on Alltop, along with a bunch of other interesting topics (ok, I emailed them and asked for it – and they listened. Nice.).
You're familiar with Alltop, right? It's basically a list of blogs/news sites for a variety of topics. From their About page – "The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, "What's happening?†in "all the topics†that interest you." It's sort of a subject guide for the web.
So, it's a quick way to get an overview of what's going on in any given topic. I use it to follow web design, for example – I subscribe to the topic via the RSS feed, then skim through the topics in my RSS reader. It's easier than hunting down individual blogs that I wouldn't necessarily know.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Notre Dame linebacker Danny Spond values every chance he gets to be on the football field.
That might sound trivial. After all, doesn't every player feel that way?
Probably so, but then again, few players have seen what Spond has seen.
The native of Littleton, Colo., was a star quarterback at Columbine High, where a school shooting took the lives of 13 people in 1999. Now a linebacker, he wears jersey No. 13 to honor those victims and has been deeply affected by the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month.
In August, he feared he might lose his football career when a migraine headache struck him so severely that he was unable to move parts of his body.
Now he's about to take the field with a national championship at stake.
``This is the biggest stage that we'll ever play on,'' Spond said.
No. 1 Notre Dame (12-0) meets No. 2 Alabama (12-1) on Monday night at Sun Life Stadium, a matchup of storied programs that will collide and decide the BCS national champion. Spond is expected to start for the Irish, who enter the game with the nation's top-ranked scoring defense, just a smidge ahead of the Crimson Tide.
Alabama is favored, which to the Irish isn't exactly a relevant point.
``In our eyes, this is a step down from the Super Bowl,'' Spond said. ``Underdog or if you're favored in these games, that doesn't really matter.''
And if anyone on the field Monday night can speak on what really matters, it might be Spond.
He knows what the Columbine shootings meant to his community, both then and now. He grieved for the victims of the school massacre in Newtown that took the lives of 26 students and teachers at an elementary school.
``I can't express how horrible of an event that is,'' Spond said Thursday, when he was among a small group of Notre Dame players who met with reporters in advance of the title game. ``Going through that ... unspeakable. It's hard to explain. It's hard to put into words. I don't know what to say about it, other than time will heal. It did our community and I know it will there.''
Spond relies on faith and makes no secret of it, using his beliefs to get him through tough moments, on the field and off.
When he was hospitalized in August, football wasn't his concern. Walking was.
Parts of Spond's left side were numb when he was struck by the migraine, which doctors originally feared was a stroke. He walked with a limp after spending about half a week in the hospital, then needed rehabilitation just so he could feel close to normal again. Football was pushed aside.
That is, until he surprised the Irish by coming back so quickly.
``We were just wondering if he would ever be able to function regularly on a daily basis,'' Irish star linebacker Manti Te'o said. ``And then for him to come out - what was it, a week and a half later? - and say `I'm going to practice,' we were like, `Oh, Danny, you can just chill, you know. This is life we're talking about, not just football. Just chill.' But he goes, `I'm going to get ready.'''
So he got ready. He finished the regular season with 38 tackles in 10 games, which doesn't sound all that impressive.
Notre Dame defensive coordinator Bob Diaco begs to differ.
``Danny Spond is, to me, one of the players of the year,'' Diaco said.
``To watch him battle and fight and stay positive and become the player that he has become for his teammates in 2012, he is a stalwart out there to the field. It's very hard to get a play on him in the pass game or the run game. It's just really been inspirational for me to watch and be a part of. So I'm so thankful for Danny Spond specifically in my life.''
Spond said the six-week wait for this has been easier than some might think, since it's allowed the Irish to prepare and heal.
In short, he knows his team will be ready for whatever Nick Saban and Alabama can throw Notre Dame's way on Monday night.
``They are a great team,'' Spond said. ``They are obviously in this game for a reason and they have proved that in the past couple of years. Coach Saban has built a very strong program over there, so we're preparing for their best. They'll give us their best.''


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Todd Solondz is back with yet another look a the neurosis gleefully eating away at our sanity with an ensemble piece starring some of the best second-line names in the business.
The new trailer for "Life During Watime" is as bleak/funny as you would hope/fear from Solondz, the writer-director who gave us "Happiness" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse."
The film stars Allison Janney, Michael K. Williams, Micheal Lerner, Paul (Pee Wee") Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Ally Sheedy and Ciaran Hands. Here's the official synopsis:
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Ten years have passed since shocking revelations shattered the world of the Jordan family, and now sisters Joy (Henderson), Trish (Janney), and Helen (Sheedy), each embroiled in their own unique dilemmas, struggle to find their place in an unpredictable and volatile world. The past now haunts their family both literally and otherwise, and jeopardizes the future. Alternately hilarious and tragic, outrageous and poignant, LIFE DURING WARTIME is an audacious comedy with unexpected resonance.
We were wildly disappointed by a clip that came out last week, but this trailer has rekindled our interest.
The film opens July 23.


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Call us traditionalists. On Passover, you stay home…er…until this year.
With an irresistible offer, we took the plunge and decided to make our premier foray into the Passover hotel club.
We knew that our experience in the Hilton in St. Petersburg, Florida would probably border on the luxurious and even the epicurean. We had heard the reports of culinary opulence and had fielded the jealous ribbing about the inches we would certainly tack on.
"Get ready for the non-stop food orgy."
"You won't be hungry for a month!"
And boy, were they right.
We arrived on Thursday night, exhausted and spent from the packing and the trip. The bellman cheerfully loaded our 267 suitcases (we're a big family) onto a dolly and led us into the graceful lobby. There we were met by "The Greeter."
"Just let Andre deliver the bags upstairs. Come out to the pool area for the Mexican-style BB-Q. You must be starving."
Maybe 'starving' was stretching it a bit, but we did follow our noses and moseyed on out to the pool for a bite or two.
Well, put it this way: I had never seen so many rib steaks in my life. I'm talking hundreds… many hundreds. The grills were spitting them out faster than I could say, "Medium rare, please." And don't forget the burgers and the hot dogs and the salads and the fries and just about anything else you could possibly imagine. We had it all.
What a strange feeling it was. Even in today's age of pampering and overindulgence, we were still strangers to this degree of excess. Not that we were complaining, mind you. I just sat back and watched my family -- from oldest to toddler -- heap on the food to their hearts' content. It was fun. And little did we know -- that was just the beginning.
But it wasn't just the volume, variety, and savor of the food; it was also the delivery system that we relished. Our delivery system was named Yuri. He came from Moldavia.
To say that he was a waiter would be unfair. Not after he waited on us -- our ENTIRE HUMONGOUS family -- for every single meal over Passover for 11 days in a row! No, he was much more than that because he attended to our every beck and call -- and, believe me, there were many becks and many calls.
I suppose that the chief credit goes to the caterer and his staff of chefs and bakers, who spared no expense or effort in making sure we were wined and dined. But like the stand up comic who grabs the limelight delivering his writers' peels of humor, Yuri gained our adulation and adoration with his constant attention to our every need.
"More soup, Rabbi?"
"Something for the children?"
"Is the wine sufficiently chilled?"
I guess that's what it's like to have a butler -- a taste of true freedom for Passover. Amazing.
But all good things come to an end. It was time to pack our 267 suitcases for tomorrow's journey home.
But all good things come to an end. Sunday night arrived, the Passover experience was over, and it was time to pack our 267 suitcases for tomorrow's journey home. Later that night, I took a final walk through the hotel that we called home for the holiday. I walked by the kitchen, the same kitchen that had created and delivered 11 days of food to nearly 700 guests. I looked on as the exhausted staff diligently bundled up the crates of leftover paper goods, jammed the hundreds of over-sized pots and pans into over-sized containers, and tossed the remaining usable foodstuffs into cans and boxes. Enormous trucks awaited them in the parking lot. Everything had gone exactly according to plan.
Our flight on AirTran was scheduled to leave Tampa at 6:10 PM on Monday. Most of the other guests had earlier flights that same day. Playing the role of diligent, organized traveler, I checked the website at about noon and learned that the flight would be delayed, due to New York weather, and would leave at 8 PM. No surprise there. Nowadays when a flight is on time, you get suspicious.
The clan spent some final hours soaking up the Florida rays and re-assembled in the lobby for our uneventful trip to the airport. I planned to arrive 90 minutes before the flight -- at 6:30 -- and checked one last time with the AirTran automated flight departure recording. Nothing had changed… no further delay… 8 PM departure.
At 6:28 the van pulled up at the terminal. Presenting my documents to the agent, I breathed a sigh of relief that all had gone smoothly. And then it happened.
"Sorry…I can't let you on this flight," he said.
"Pardon me?"
"Well, you're extremely late."
"Late? The plane is leaving at 8 PM. That's 90 minutes from now!"
"Not exactly. The plane is leaving right now."
"That's impossible," I pleaded in vain. "I just called. Your recording said 8 PM!"
"Maybe so," he countered, "but we just got a 'window' so we're taking off now!"
I stared in shock for a moment, tried some useless arguments and realized it was futile.
"Now what?" I ventured.
The agent typed some codes and stuff into his console and unceremoniously rendered the news. "Next available flight for your family would be Wednesday at 5 PM."
"You must be kidding," I chided. "That's two days from now!"
"Sorry, that's the best I can do for you."
A few minutes of strategic negotiations and a lot of begging yielded a re-booking for Tuesday evening, but that still meant re-loading our 267 suitcases back on the van, returning to the Hilton, and checking in to new rooms for the night. Silently we rode back to the hotel.
Andre was still there, but "The Greeter" was gone. So were the steaks… and the fries… and the soda… and everything and everyone else. The scintillating aroma of barbeque smoke had been replaced by the pungent smell of rug shampoo. The trash containers were either empty or re-assigned. The hotel staff, vast and over-friendly just hours ago, was suddenly sparse and bleak.
Minutes later, the hunger struck. What would we eat? A kosher restaurant in St. Petersburg was nowhere to be found. And no one among us had thought of hoarding any provisions for the short flight home. You know how it is. Hours ago we swore we "could never again put another morsel of food in our over-stuffed bellies." Now we were famished and panicked.
"Is there a supermarket near here," I frantically questioned the bellman?
"Sure. Five minute walk there's a Publix. But I think it closes in 20 minutes."
Five of us screeched out the door and made a bee line for the Promised Land of Publix.
Like a pack of eighth grade kids exiting the building when the final bell sounds, five of us screeched out the door and made a bee line for the Promised Land of Publix. Three minutes later I was sweating and standing in front of a shelf of four jars of Manischewitz Gefilte Balls in heavy fish broth. To me they looked like red snapper almandine slices in chardonnay sauce. I grabbed them.
I careened around the bend to the cracker and cookie aisle and uttered a silent, fervent prayer that one package would bear a kosher symbol on the wrapper. God was merciful -- vanilla biscuits. My mind said, "Seven layer cake."
Next came the fruit -- apples, oranges, bananas, and about eight pounds of grapes more than we could consume. Then the granola bars, some old looking burger buns, very large boxes of cereals, some plastic plates and cutlery, and loads of drinks. We were set.
Very slowly and laden with our sustenance we trudged back to the hotel. The return trip took a lot more than five minutes. We all sat down to eat.
We looked but Yuri could not be found.
No, the Salomon family did not starve that day or the day after. And yes, we did actually board a plane and arrived home safe and sound. But we did learn a very poignant and very obvious lesson.
God giveth and God taketh away. Never forget that. Every crumb of sustenance comes from Above.
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The talk concerns a generalization of the concept of a minimum uncertainty state to the finite dimensional case. Instead of considering the product of the variances of two complementary observables we consider an uncertainty relation involving the quadratic Renyi entropies summed over a full set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). States which achieve the lower bound set by this inequality were introduced by Wootters and Sussman, who proved existence for every prime power dimension, and by Appleby, Dang and Fuchs who showed that in prime dimension the fiducial vector for a for a symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measure (SIC-POVM) covariant under the Weyl-Heisenberg group is a state of this kind. Subsequently Sussman proved existence for a class of odd prime power dimensions. The purpose of this talk is to complete the existence proof by showing that minimum uncertainty states exist in every prime power dimension, without exception. Along the way we establish a number of properties of the Clifford group, and Galois extension fields, which might be of some independent interest.


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Finally, there is an easy solution to this problem.
ITAMS have developed in-house technology to process any volume of LMS script outputs quickly and cost-effectively into a human-readable demand statement.
We maintain this technology to enable the interpretation of all versions of the Review Lite scripts. The solution is low cost, highly secure and completely confidential.
You can use this capability on a one-off basis as a service or extend the service to run regular reports from new datasets on an ongoing basis.
This means that you will know in advance what information Oracle has to work with in preparing their audit position.
If you execute Oracle LMS Scripts on an ongoing basis as part of the service, you can:
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c) spot and remediate deployment errors where option packs have been left on or where servers have been deployed on inappropriate infrastructure;
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1) You don't feel you want to send the files directly to Oracle, as this gives them complete control and interpretation of your demand position.
Yet you have to send them, as this is a requirement of the audit.
2) Considerable licensing and technical experience is required to interpret the files manually.
3) A large amount of analyst labour is required to interpret them, especially for larger estates.
4) It takes longer to interpret them than Oracle gives you in an audit situation.
5) You have no ability to optimise your position prior to submission.
In audit and contract renewal situations, Oracle regularly requires the deployment of their 'LMS Review Lite scripts' for Oracle Database servers.
These scripts must be deployed on each Oracle Database server and produce a number of separate files containing reference information on the database instances, their underlying virtual/physical CPU infrastructure and the database option packs deployed.
The files are effectively not human readable without deep knowledge of Oracle licensing and the scripts themselves. These files are deposited by default on the local machine, outside the Oracle security perimeter.
Collectively, the script outputs contain all the information needed to assess licensing demand for Oracle Database products.
There are several substantial challenges in the use of these scripts though, quite aside from the change and security permissions necessary to get them deployed in the first place.
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In our three-part whitepaper series on 'IT Asset Data Quality', we highlighted the issues that can be caused by inaccurate IT asset data within multiple areas of the organisation such as outsourcer billing optimisation, CMDB and ITSM controls, licence management optimisation, security and far more.
For organisations to have complete confidence in their IT asset data we recommended creating a 'Golden Record'.
A customer of ours recently asked for a brief explanation as to what a Golden Record is and how it is created, this is how our consultant explained it:
A Golden Record is a single, well defined, version of specific data, held within a company, about a device or asset. It is also known as the 'single version of the truth'. It is where to go, to ensure you have the correct version of a piece of information.
A Golden Record can be created by reconciling several sources of data that may have a different 'view' of the asset. The aim of creating these is to have a set of records that the company knows are accurate and can rely on. The Golden Record can be held in a separate repository but it will not be the master. The master data will always sit within the source it was created and the Golden Record will be updated each time a reconciliation is carried out.
Data to be taken from the sources will need to be optimised initially to give the best possible opportunities for matching the records and a repository will need to be created to accept all the prepared data. Data must then be extracted from the sources, within the same time period, to reduce the risk of time effecting the field values.
The work to carry out the analysis in identifying assets that are the same and creating the Golden Record will be very time consuming. The best matches will be from the identification of the key fields. Even once this match has been made, the other fields must then be analysed to see which values should go through to the Golden Record and which are incorrect.
Once the analysis is complete, it can be investigated where the inaccuracies lie and what needs to be done to correct them. The processes that support the data population for each source will need to be reviewed and adjusted if necessary. For historically incorrect data, manual work may be required to change the data. This may also involve changing roles and responsibilities in some teams to ensure the work gets done.
Improving data quality should be an ongoing process. The initial reconciliation will yield a tremendous amount of work and raise many questions but will lead to the largest immediate benefits. Repeating these activities will show trends over time and support that the work being done is producing improvements. New, or enhanced, processes will ensure data does not deteriorate.
Where an estate is outsourced, the service provider will be creating bills based on their view of the client's assets. Either they will own and manage their own tools and databases for this, or they will use those belonging to the client. Either way, it is necessary to be able to validate the information. If an asset is not correctly billed for; it could be that it is not registered and therefore not supported, or it is marked as decommissioned and still being billed for. Both scenarios are equally as bad.
The IT asset data used for billing will also support a multitude of other functions within the business, such as refresh, service desk, procurement and software asset management/audits. It is therefore vital that there is complete confidence that the data upon which the billing is based is true and accurate. Using data reconciliation techniques, across multiple sources, will ultimately lead to improved data integrity, processes and confidence – further supporting the business and saving time and money.
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A London based company was taking back ownership of the server and end-user computing assets from their existing IT outsourcers. To date there had been little ongoing validation of the service billing figures or of the physical estate numbers in general. The already deployed discovery and operational tools (e.g. AD, AV, CMDB) had been under the management of the outsourcer too, so there had also been limited day to day involvement with the asset figures.
An initial consultative assessment was proposed to determine the scope of the transfer and discuss the impact to the company in terms of the required refresh, software licensing, service design, roles and responsibilities and how the future mode of operation would operate. In this case, the billing figures would have been used to understand the estate and plan the above activities. However, lack of confidence in these figures, or the data held within the sources led to further action being required. This work would have been equally as important if the outsourcer was to continue billing and there was not an ongoing transfer. It is also worth noting that a change in Outsourcer agreements will often give rise to higher software publisher attention – compounding the issues already being faced
The sources needed to validate billing were identified and used to populate a "Data Hub" and carry out a targeted reconciliation. Further analysis identified where data was incorrect and in which sources the processes needed to change to remediate and update existing information, and to put in place actions so the data did not deteriorate; support was provided in this area. Benefits were realised such as: correction of asset status, removal of duplicates/invalid assets and populating missing fields. This supported more accurate billing and the transfer of the asset ownership. The client had more confidence in the figures and would be able to more accurately predict the refresh and manage it. The transfer of ownership is now in final stage of completion and the Client is actively considering an ongoing data quality process to perform regular check points and maintain a high degree of ongoing data accuracy.
IT Configuration Management is a process for establishing and maintaining information around the performance, functional and physical attributes of hardware assets e.g. servers and desktops.
This information is commonly stored in a central database tool, providing support to other processes such as the service desk, refresh, transformation, break fix, billing and patching. This data is updated and maintained in a number of ways and if it becomes inaccurate, the validity of the processes using it becomes reduced.
Understanding if your data is complete and accurate can be very time consuming, as the most effective way is to compare several data sources and understand what the 'true' picture is of any particular asset. Using this information correctly will lead to improvements being made in processes that feed and maintain the data; hence having a positive effect on other dependent processes.
A well proven method of optimising Configuration Management is to engage with a supplier who can provide a data reconciliation service coupled with some advisory support. The case study below shows an example of how this can progress.
This customer engagement started with an initial advisory project to evaluate the existing ITAM maturity. The customer is a multi-national banking sector corporation with approximately 10,000 seats. During this engagement, it was found that there would be a large transformation project for the majority of the companies' IT hardware.
Phase 1 included delivery of a workshop, detailing a Service Design Overview (with descriptions and RACI), identification of the data sources supporting the operational configuration management function and in-depth analysis as to how the transformation will be run, and the effect of it on the current mode of operation. Data quality was clearly an area for improvement to ensure the assets to be supported were known and that the new configuration database could be populated with fit for purpose, accurate information.
Phase 2 the data sources identified in phase 1 (e.g. AD, CMDB, AV & Discovery) were fed into a 'Data Hub' where a reconciliation exercise was carried out. The analysis identified where data was incorrect and in which sources the processes needed to change to update existing information and to put in place actions so the data did not deteriorate; support was provided in this area. An advisory group was set up with all involved stakeholders so that the optimisation would be felt across all the operational areas and the buy-in would support the actions. Benefits were realised such as correction of asset status, removal of duplicates and populating missing fields, increasing the overall accuracy of data. On-going full technical and data services were provided for the customer in support of this work. Tangible savings will be realised when maintenance and support contracts are based on more accurate data.
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Centerville, Ohio – Nowadays, companies are devising ways on how to address queries as fast as possible. Toll-free hotlines and social media accounts are created so customers can contact them 24/7. Customers want a quick response from companies whenever they have questions about their offerings. In fact, some want their questions answered by a live person in the middle of online purchase before they make decisions. Real estate firm Re/Max Performance: Denise Swick intends to follow this revolutionary trend by including Live Chat on its website.
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California Olive Reindeer
Makes 8 reindeer
2- 4 Won ton wrappers
Cooking spray
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4 ounces cream cheese
8 colossal California Black Ripe Olives
8 large California Black Ripe Olives
1 bamboo skewer
16 pretzel sticks
Paring knife
Tiny pieces of carrot and raisins
Powdered sugar (optional)
Kale (optional)
Mushrooms (optional)
With a small, sharp knife, cut wonton wrappers into "antlers." Place on a baking sheet and coat with cooking spray. Bake for 3 to 5 minutes at 350 F, or until lightly browned. Place cream cheese into two sandwich-sized reclosable bags. Snip 1/8-inch off the corner of one and 1/16-inch off the second. With the bag and the 1/8-inch hole, squeeze cream cheese into colossal olives. Using a bamboo skewer, make a hole in the large olives. Break a pretzel stick in half and press into hole and into colossal olive. Press together to form the head. Make four holes in the colossal olive with a bamboo skewer and push four broken pretzel sticks in to form legs. Squeeze cream cheese with the small-hole to form eyes. Make tiny slits with a paring knife in the top of the head and insert wonton antlers. Make a hole in the large olive (head) and insert a small sliver of carrot for the nose. Use a small piece of raisin to create pupils.
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Scully found out about fans donating money to fix his Hollywood Star and he wasn't too happy about it.
The Dodgers have just sent me this message:
When the Dodgers learned of the project, we approached Vin with our plans to pay for it and he was very grateful because he simply did not want fans to spend their hard earned money on repairing the star. That said, he is aware of the campaign and extremely humbled and appreciative of the efforts of Glenn and others.
Thanks to the Dodgers and Josh Rawitch for the latest. I hope this ends the mini controversy over the star. It was not my intention to create a buzz over it. I was simply complaining over a old red carpet. And that's it. I think the fact that the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce were trying to cover up their mess and not being honest with me, the story just got bigger and bigger.
Once again, I'd like to thank the Dodgers for paying the costs to fix the star. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is now in the process of getting the repairs scheduled.
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Only one in four employers are confident they will offer active employees health care benefits by 2022. This is a marked decline from 2007, when three out of four employers were equally confident, according to a new report.
Colonial Life Insurance Company discloses this finding in a white paper, "Employee Benefits: Are You Getting Your Money's Worth." The report cites the latest data from Colonial Life's proprietary research, national research organizations and government resources to examine the importance of benefits communication in helping employers maximize the investment they make in employee benefits.
Employer-sponsored insurance remains the leading source of health insurance in America, covering 56 percent of individuals under age 65. Although a flat economy slowed the rate of cost growth, premiums for employer sponsored heath insurance increased 97 percent between 2002 and 2012, outpacing worker wage increases (which rose 33 percent) and inflation (up 28 percent) during the same decade, the report shows.
Although total premium costs per employee increased just over 5 percent between 2011 and 2012, employees' share increased 8.7 percent during the same period, the white paper adds. Employees shouldered this increase in premiums despite nearly stagnant wages: By the end of 2012, employees contributed 42 percent more for health care premiums than they did in 2007.
Employees also are paying more in out-of-pocket costs: More than a third of workers were enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans with an annual deductible of at least $1,000 in 2012, the paper reveals. That's up significantly from the 10 percent who reported deductibles in this range in 2006. In addition, almost 75 percent of workers with employer-based coverage paid a fixed co-pay for provider services each time they visited a doctor or used hospital services.
The paper adds that more than four out of five employers say they anticipate increasing the share of premiums paid by employees for the next three years.
The paper indicates that employee benefits have taken on more importance since the recession.
Eighty-two percent of employees say they are more interested in knowing what their insurance benefits cover and how they work. And 74 percent say they are more aware of what benefits they have — and do not have — at work.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) The decision by the Minnesota Vikings to place Percy Harvin on season-ending injured reserve, coach Leslie Frazier said, was based ``purely'' on his slow-healing sprained left ankle and not any issue with a uniquely valuable player who has had clashes with the team.
Frazier declined to be more specific about the injury, which occurred in the third quarter of the Nov. 4 game at Seattle. Even severe sprains don't normally require two months to recover from, but by shelving him now the Vikings declared they wouldn't get Harvin back at full strength in time to warrant keeping him on the active roster.
``For him as well as our team, this is the best thing to do as opposed to continuing to try to make something happen that's not going to happen,'' Frazier said after practice Thursday. ``He's such a valuable commodity. You don't want to do anything that's going to create some long-term ill effects.''
Harvin hasn't been available to reporters for two weeks.
``It certainly is disappointing that I was not able to finish out this season with my teammates. As a competitor I definitely wanted to get back out on the field, but my injury has just not allowed me to progress to the point where I can help our team,'' Harvin said in a statement distributed by the Vikings. ``I appreciate the efforts of our medical staff and the support of our fans in helping me through this process and look forward to coming back stronger and better than ever.''
Frazier said Harvin shouldn't need surgery.
``At least we're hoping that. ... Got my fingers crossed that won't be the case,'' the coach said.
Frazier said Harvin never had any setbacks but only made incremental progress. He tried to practice on Nov. 28 but was favoring his right foot and having trouble changing direction when he had to push off on the injured ankle. Frazier said IR became a possibility in the last few days for the Vikings, who host Chicago on Sunday.
``You understand the situation and understand where he is. We've got other guys that are going to step up and hopefully make some plays for us in this ballgame,'' Frazier said.
Harvin had an argument with coach Brad Childress in 2010. He expressed general frustration with the Vikings this summer, asking for a trade and then withdrawing his request. He acknowledged more recently he had problems with the way his role in the offense was communicated to him. During the Seattle game last month, before he was hurt, Harvin was seen shouting at Frazier on the sideline after another stalled drive.
But Frazier said Harvin didn't fight the decision to place him on IR.
``He understood. He was frustrated, like everybody. He wants to be out there on the field. He's a great competitor, as we all know. Just unfortunate he wasn't making the progress that was necessary for him to get back out there,'' Frazier said.
Frazier said he wasn't sure yet whether Harvin would continue his rehabilitation with the team or on his own, in Florida or Virginia. With one year left on his rookie contract, given the concerns about his long-term attitude and durability, Harvin could've played his last game with the Vikings if they were to trade him instead of work out an extension or let his deal play out. He's so valuable to the offense and such a uniquely talented player, however, that the Vikings won't just give away a speedy-yet-punishing receiver, runner and returner for a less-than-fair return.
For now, Christian Ponder and the rest of the offense will have to cope without him.
``It's obviously unfortunate for Percy and for our team. He was having an unbelievable year when he was healthy, and we'd love to have him throughout the season, just with the things he can do and his abilities,'' linebacker Chad Greenway said.
Rookie Jarius Wright has filled Harvin's spot as the slot receiver. This means more playing time for him, but not the way he wanted that.
``It was kind of heartbreaking. I just wanted to get Percy back and see how we'd be on the field at the same time. I know a lot of the fans wanted a chance to see that also,'' Wright said.
Focusing on Harvin's absence won't help, of course.
``We know we have to move forward. We still have something that we're trying to accomplish this year. So just wish him the best, and hopefully he comes back healthy next year,'' running back Adrian Peterson said.
While the players don't compare, the Vikings had one positive development this week to counter the loss of Harvin.
Cornerback Chris Cook, who broke his right forearm in the Oct. 25 game against Tampa Bay and was in jeopardy of missing the rest of the year, returned to practice Thursday. Because the Vikings used their one-per-season designation to return in putting Cook on injured reserve, he is eligible to play on Dec. 23 at Houston.
``It was good to see him out here today moving around, so we have to see how progresses but that's the goal,'' Frazier said.
Defensive end Jared Allen, dealing with back and shoulder troubles, didn't practice again, but Frazier said he'll be fine for Sunday's game. Peterson was held out simply for rest, and he'll fully participate on Friday.
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