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We also use them at our warehouse at work. They are prompt, professional, fair priced, and honest.
I often recommend them to friends and associates and am quite comfortable recommending them on Google.
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Those trying to replace the new Metro-style experiences in Windows 8 are missing the point: These interfaces are the future of the PC, and I feel it's better to dive right in, learn and master them, and stop pining for obsolete UIs like the Start button and the Start menu. That said, most Windows 8 users today are still using traditional PCs and are working almost exclusively with desktop applications. So it does make sense to jump directly to the desktop when you sign-in on such machines. And a free new utility is arguably the best way to make that happen.
Note: Way back in July, I wrote a similar tip, Windows 8 Tip: Boot Directly to the Desktop with Start8, which focused on the same issue. But the Start8 utility mentioned in that article is inferior for two reasons. One, it puts an unnecessary Start button on the Windows 8 taskbar. And two, it's no longer free. Its maker now charges $4.99 for the utility. (It was free at the time I wrote the tip.)
Note: Skip Metro Suite is itself a desktop application so it only works with Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro, and not with Windows RT.
Booting directly to the desktop is something I just wrote about in Fixing Windows 8, Part 2: Boot to the Desktop, where I described it as a no-brainer. But some will misunderstand the not so subtle difference between this need—which does nothing to subvert or remove any Metro-style user interfaces—with more Draconian measures such as replacing the Start screen with a Windows 7-style Start menu. I do not advocate that latter tactic at all. As noted previously, it's important that PC users learn to work with the Metro-style UIs. Skipping directly to the desktop on boot—or on sign-in, more correctly—does nothing to prevent that.
There will probably be many ways to make this work, and I'm still hopeful that Microsoft will see the light and make this an optional but native capability of Windows 8 down the road. In the meantime, we have Skip Metro Suite, which is free and works well. I'm using it on my two primary PCs, a desktop tower and a non-touch Ultrabook.
One comment about this utility: Choose the right features.Skip Metro Suite does allow you to disable certain Metro "hot corner" features like Switcher, drag to close, the Start tip, and even the Charms bar. I strongly recommend against disabling these features. If you're going to use Windows 8, use Windows 8. My recommendation is to simply enable the option "Skip Start Screen."

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Why is Barclays app not working? Is there a problem with my Barclays banking app and how long has it been down
Hundreds of people have reported experiencing issues with the app on social media, and the bank says it 'is aware' of the issue
The Barclays mobile banking app is down for thousands of users this morning, with no update from the bank yet as to when it will be working again.
More than 2000 users have reported issues with the app to the service status website DownDetector since 5am today, while the bank has said it is "aware of the issues with the app".
Is the Barclays banking app down?
People who use the Barclays online banking app began reporting issues accessing it early this morning.
Many people took to social media to check if there were any official announcements about the service being disrupted, and to check if others were experiencing the same issues.
Multiple people reported being unable to access the app, while other said they could log in but weren't able to access their account information.
One user wrote: "Is anyone else's @Barclays app down?? Can't see any of my accounts when I open the app?"
Another asked: "Get paid tomorrow and the #Barclays app is down. How am I going to see how much money I don't have if I can't get on the app?"
While some saw the funny side of the outage, joking: "Nothing like Barclays app playing up on pay day."
According to Barclays' service status website, both the Barclaycard app and Barclays app are experiencing problems.
A message on the site says of both the services: "We're sorry, we're fixing a problem with our app right now."
Why is the service down?
The cause of the service disruption is not clear as yet.
The most recent statement put out by the Barclays UK Help Twitter account, at 8:17am, says: "If you're unable to access your app, we're sorry. You can still use Online Servicing and our automated telephone service as normal.
"We're looking into the problem now, and we'll update you here as soon as possible. For further updates, and to receive a text message when we're back up and running, please check our Service Status Page."
"Thanks for bearing with us."
When will it be back up?
It's not clear as yet when the ongoing issues with the Barclaycard and Barclays apps will be resolved.
You can check the status of the apps on Barclays' service status website.
On the website you can also sign up to be notified by Barclays when the issue is resolved, by entering your email or phone number.
Alternatively you can keep an eye on the Barclays UK Help Twitter account, which will be posting updates about the ongoing issue.
There have also been some reports of users who were experiencing problems now being able to access the app.
In the meantime, Barclays has said its online web banking is still operational, as is the automated telephone service.
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If you thought, Sony's boomerang controller for the PS3 was a wild idea, you may be in for a surprise. Two years ago, some early Wii controller prototypes were made public. Now, PS3center has released images of early PS3 console and controller designs, only some of which have been published before.
The ball controller is a fan-made sketch. It is unknown whether the others are meant to be internal concept designs by Sony or whether they are mock-ups. While they all appear more professional than average mock-ups, the site offers no explanation other than the following description.
Here's a short compilation of whacky PlayStation 3 concepts that never made it.
In my mind, the images could very well be authentic. The website publishing them may not be expected to land such a scoop. But there are some good reasons to believe they are real nonetheless.
The Blu-ray disc inside a cartridge shown in the first image fits with the format's professional equivalent Sony uses in XDCAM cameras. As it is a professional broadcast format, only few people are aware of Blu-ray discs housed in cartridges or that Sony planned to bring the consumer version to market in a cartridge as well. Also, all images appear to be photos or high quality renders. And all prototypes bear the same early PS3 logo.
Either way, it should come as no surprise that Sony put a lot of effort into designing its third home console. If authentic, some of the above ideas are very interesting and offer an insight into which way the console may have headed. I very much hope we get some early Xbox360 prototypes soon.
Source: PS3center
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With Microsoft Outlook 2007, you can easily send (or receive) SMS text messages from computer to any mobile phone – just write a new SMS text message (like the way you compose emails in Outlook) and hit Send.
Similarly, you can also forward emails, pending tasks and calendar items from Outlook to your mobile phone via SMS.
How to send SMS text messages from computer using Outlook 2007 ?
To SMS enable your copy of Microsoft Outlook 2007, first register your mobile phone number at SMSOfficer. This new service from Microsoft supports almost all cellular operators in US and other international countries including India.
You will soon get an SMS verification code on your mobile phone, confirm and the SMS feature is activated in your Outlook without you having to download any additional software – you will need to click on a configuration link which sets the entire configuration for you.
Forward Emails as SMS Text Messages
To compose an SMS message in Outlook, select New -> Text Message. Outlook is automatically set up to use the standard text message limit of 160 characters. If your message exceeds the 160 character limit, the extra characters are truncated and delivered as a separate text message.
There are no registration charges and you also get 10 SMS credits for free at the time of joining SMS Officer. Once you exhaust the free limit, you need to pay for using the Outlook SMS service – payment can be made via PayPal.
When the other person replies to your SMS message, it will arrive in your mobile phone. Am not sure if you can use Outlook 2007 to send bulk SMS messages – i.e., one SMS message addressed to multiple recipeints.


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Aeglos (spear)
|"Aiglos" by Audrey Corman
|Other names
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|helping to destroy Sauron during the War of the Last Alliance
|Images of Aeglos
Aeglos was the spear of King Gil-galad which was greatly feared by the enemy. It was carried by the High King to the War of the Last Alliance, until Gil-galad fell in combat against Sauron himself, on the slopes of Mount Doom S.A. 3431.[1][2]
Etymology and names[edit | edit source]
Aeglos is the name of a plant and means "snow-point"[3] or "icicle".[4] The element aeg means "point", from root AYAK ("sharp, pointed");[5] and the element los means "snow".[6]
In editions of The Lord of the Rings prior to 2005, the spear is spelled Aiglos. Tolkien, however, commented in a manuscript that the more correct Sindarin spelling is in fact Aeglos.[7][8]
Portrayal in adaptations[edit | edit source]
1982-97: Middle-earth Role Playing:
- Aiglos is a Holy weapon with magical abilities.[9]
1995-8: Middle-earth Collectible Card Game:
- Aiglos, only playable by Warriors, gives a direct influence against Elves.
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
- Gil-galad is seen wielding the spear. Warren Mahy desgined the weapon.[10]
2017: Middle-earth: Shadow of War:
- Aeglos is wielded by Celebrimbor's wraith. The blade bears the inscription: "Gil-galad wields a well made spear / The Orc will fear my point of ice / When he sees me, in fear of death / He will know my name: Aeglos"[11]
2018: The Lord of the Rings Online:
- Gil-galad wields the spear during the Battle of Dagorlad. After Sauron's fall, Aeglos is discovered perched atop a pillar-like pinnacle in the Plateau of Gorgoroth, where it continues to emit a bright light. It is left as a beacon of hope to those who traverse the scorched plains of Mordor.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Index
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", entry "AYAK"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names", entry loss
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 42, July 2001, p. 11
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 231
- ↑ Wolfgang Baur (1994), Treasures of Middle-earth (2nd edition) (#2010)
- ↑ Gary Russell, The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
- ↑ Shadow of War, 2017, Appendices
|Weapons of Middle-earth
|Aeglos · Andúril · Anglachel · Angrist · Anguirel · Aranrúth · Barrow-blades · Belthronding · Black Arrow · Bow of Bregor · Bow of the Galadhrim · Dagmor · Dailir · Dramborleg · Durin's Axe · Glamdring · Grond · Gúthwinë · Gurthang · Herugrim · Morgul-knife · Narsil · Orcrist · Red Arrow · Ringil · Sting


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TOKYO (REUTERS) - French President Francois Hollande on Friday demanded the immediate release of two French journalists missing in Syria, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters.
Radio station Europe 1 said its reporter, Mr Didier Francois, and photographer Edouard Elias had gone missing as they were headed for the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Mr Hollande, on a three-day visit to Japan, said contact with the two had been lost.
"I demand the immediate release of these journalists because they do not represent any state," he told a news conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "These are men who have worked so the world can get information... Journalists must be treated as journalists."
Mr Hollande declined to provide further information on the journalists so as not to endanger their lives.
A Europe 1 spokesman said the French authorities were "doing everything to provide us with information".
Four Italian journalists were kidnapped in Syria in April and were released after a little more than a week in captivity. Another Italian journalist, Mr Domenico Quirico, who went missing in Syria two months ago, spoke to his wife by telephone on Thursday, according to his Turin-based newspaper la Stampa.
Syrian government troops and their allies have won a string of successes in recent weeks, boosting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a time when the United States and Russia are struggling to organise a peace conference aimed at ending the civil war, which has killed more than 80,000 people.


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A few days ago we featured a new speedbooster adapter from Fotodiox, the Excell+1. The idea behind the booster is that is remaps the image crated by a full frame lens into a smaller sensor, thus both un-cropping the image and gaining a full stop of light.
Now, this is not the first speedbooster that has gone to the market, about one year ago Metabones introduced a similar series of speedboosters, but the pricing on the two products varies significantly. An Excell+1 would set you back about $160 where as a Meatabones adapter will cost between $490-$590.
Videographer Max Yuryev took the two adapters for a ride and the results seem pretty conclusive to me. You can watch the video above and make your mind alone.


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A few weeks before Dimples had his 5th Birthday Party, a construction themed party, I had an idea to make a back drop type play station for the party so the kids could play with all sorts of construction themed toys in a small world diorama. Some kids are sensory challenged and don tlike dirt, mud and getting their hands all gross so this was an easy outdoor option on a smaller scale.
We started with an open cardboard box and some paint, it developed from there with some roads and cotton wool dirt piles and a rubbish pile glue in one corner. On the day of his party I put some cocoa pops and rice bubbles out for the kids to "dig into". I had seen the idea of using rice bubbles a couple years ago on Paint on the ceiling and always kept it in the back of my head hoping that one year Dimples would want a digging themed party.
This was it and it worked a treat.
During the weeks before, Dimples practised his scissor skills cutting out some buildings or 'skyscrapers' to stick on the back drop, he helped paint, glue and decorate the back drop. So the cardboard box which was just opened up on an angle and then stapled together so that it kept steady yet open enough for play slowly turned into a mini world full of construction. It was turning into a cool looking pretend play zone and Dimples had a blast making it come to life bit by bit leading up to his party.
Dimples loves craft, it was his idea to glue in some cotton wool balls and paint them brown to resemble a pile of rocks, and then in another corner he glued in "rubbish" which was ripped pieces of paper. I added some drawings, like a demolition ball on a crane and the windows in the buildings. It was looking more like a 3D small world by now. We added some road work signs and little traffic toys that he had along with a collection of construction vehicles and there he had his own construction area for pretend play. Dimples loves imaginative pretend play and small world areas, they give play time a realistic element.
It was a small construction zone for a couple of weeks before and he continues to love it for weeks after his birthday party, it proved to be a realistic little 3D small world on the day of his party and looked realistic with piles of pretend rubble. The coco pops and rice bubbles were a great sensory add on to the 3D world, they bought it to life and worked well getting dumped around and bulldozed over. The fit inside dump trucks and were able to get pushed around and cleared. The boys were happy to taste some and it is a safe alternative for younger kids as well.
I imagined that on the day they would get spread out everywhere but it was a risk worth taking, the boys were quite happy to play with them at the 3D small world construction station and used them in their imaginative play the way they were intended. They were able to spread them out all over the table and a majority of them did exactly that, carting, hauling, dumping and loading trucks tractors and construction vehicles all over the scene. It was definitely a fun alternative to digging in the dirt.
What other alternatives to dirt and mud would your kids love to dig in to?
Small World Play Ideas from around the Web
Benefits of Small World Play - Happy Feet Penguins By Adventures at Home with Mum
Using Books to Create Small World Play By My little Bookcase
Frog Pond Small world Play By One Perfect Day
A Rainbow Stacker small world By You clever Monkey
Sand Dough Small world Beach By Adventures at Home with Mum
Farm Small World Play By Two Daloo
Free Small World Printable By Picklebums
Outdoor Small World Magical Gnome Garden By Adventures at Home with Mum
Monster Truck Sensory Track with Faux Dirt By Paging Fun Mums
Styrofoam Ice Capsules and Penguins in water beads By Adventures at Home with Mum
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It has been just under two years since Rock Band ushered in the era of full-band rhythm games. Subsequent games have refined the formula, offering increased accessibility, new songs, and sharper visuals, but they all still rest on the same basic appeal: it's a lot of fun to rock out, especially with your friends. The Beatles: Rock Band stands out from its peers because it magnifies this basic appeal by better channeling the excitement and camaraderie of being in an actual band. The all-Beatles songlist creates a strong sense of continuity between songs, yet it is musically diverse enough to keep things lively and varied. Follow the Beatles' career in the excellent Story mode, and you'll unlock a bevy of photographs and videos that give you an endearingly human look at the larger-than-life stars. These bonuses, along with the beautifully creative artistic design, help you identify with the Fab Four and engender a sense of unity within your own band. When you have a few members singing in harmony, the bonds grow even stronger and you have that much more fun. While it may not have all the bells and whistles of other music games, The Beatles: Rock Band brings you and your bandmates together in joyful musical partnership and makes your living room rock sessions uniquely rewarding and entertaining.
From the first moments you fire up The Beatles: Rock Band, it's clear this is a different breed of music game. You are treated to a lengthy animated video that charts the arc of the Beatles' career both musically and artistically, connecting you to the world you are about to dive into. Throughout the Story mode this connection to the band is reinforced as you play in iconic venues, from the small, raucous Cavern Club, to the massive, screaming Shea Stadium, to the intimate, introspective Abbey Road studios. Stylish cutscenes bridge the different chapters in Story mode, and unlockable photos and movies provide interesting snippets from the Beatles' career. Whether you are a Beatles scholar or can't even name all the band members, these bonuses help draw you into the experience by showing you a more casual side of the superstars themselves. A video of the guys playing with headphones and a boom mic on their first trip to the US offers a quirky glimpse of the youthful energy that suffused their early songs, while the background studio noise that precedes their later songs gives you a window into their more mellow mind-set.
Every song has a unique video to accompany it that reflects the song's themes and its place in the Beatles' career. The bouncy energy of "Paperback Writer" is mirrored by the animated Paul McCartney's brisk strumming and singing in front of thousands of screaming fans, while the whimsical "Octopus's Garden" video transports the boys to the ocean floor, where big colorful lyrics appear all around them. This intertwining of music and art is unmatched by any other game in the genre, and it makes the game a lot more fun for players and spectators alike. You will actually want to look at what's going on behind your note highway, not only because it looks great, but also because it adds a new dimension to your own performance. The artistic elements complement the music beautifully, and the game looks great on every console.
The gameplay elements are very similar to those of Rock Band 2, with a few notable differences. Gone are the sweet freestyle drum fills and end-of-song jam sessions; you can only play the music as it was recorded. Almost all of the songs are immediately available in Quickplay mode, and the one exception is unlocked by completing Story mode. There is no character creation, and you can't customize your band's appearance because you always play as the Beatles. Songs you have downloaded for previous Rock Band games are not compatible here, and you will probably find that some of your favorite Beatles songs are missing from the songlist, though there are at least three full Beatles albums planned for future downloadable release. There are cooperative and competitive online modes, but, like any Rock Band game, The Beatles: Rock Band really shines when played locally.
The most significant new gameplay feature is vocal harmonies. Every song in the game contains one, two, or three vocal tracks, and before playing you choose your vocal style, either "solo" or "harmonies." Harmony parts are displayed in the same area as the lead vocals. Harmony parts are orange and red bars, and the lead part is blue; harmony lyrics are displayed on the top of the note highway, and lead lyrics are on the bottom. The display does a good job of visually differentiating the parts, but it's up to you to sing them. Folks who like to sing along to Beatles songs will have little trouble with the lead vocal parts, and many of the harmonies are easily identifiable. Some are so clear that your lead singer might naturally jump up to the harmony part in a certain section. It doesn't matter which microphone is receiving which vocal part; as long as you have all the parts covered, your score won't suffer. If you are having trouble picking out a harmony or staying on your part, Practice mode is a great place to sort things out. You can highlight the part you want to learn by assigning a guide pitch to play that part, and then you can drop the pitch out to make sure you've got it.
Practice mode is great for experienced and only-in-the-shower singers alike, and even if you are a shy singer, The Beatles: Rock Band is a fun, encouraging place to overcome your reluctance. With up to three vocalists, a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer available, you can have six players in your band for the first time in a music game. The added members make your sessions more rockin', and the three-part vocals are a great way to get instrument-averse friends to join. Having multiple vocalists takes the pressure off of individual performance, because they are essentially teaming up to play one instrument (vocals). This creates a feeling of unity that spreads to the other players and makes your band camaraderie stronger. One of the best ways to capitalize on vocal harmonies is to get a few mic stands and then have band members play an instrument and sing at the same time. You can do this with other Rock Band games, but it's more thrilling when you're playing Beatles songs because you share the vocal part with your bandmates. Belting out a solo while playing guitar is great fun, but having your drummer join you on a harmony part is a whole different kind of awesome. Strumming, drumming, and singing just like John, Paul, George, and Ringo used to do is an absolute blast and is one of the richest music game experiences to date.
To a certain extent, this game is great because Beatles music is great. The Beatles: Rock Band is packed to the gills with excellent songs, but its real genius is the way it captures the excitement of playing in a cohesive band. Following the arc of the Beatles' career wouldn't be as engaging without the interesting bonuses and the stunning art design that so elegantly complements the music. Vocal harmonies add an invigorating new dimension to the gameplay, encouraging you to either get more people involved or challenge yourself to be all the rockstar you can be. The Beatles: Rock Band doesn't just let you play the music of one of the greatest bands in history; it knits your band closer together so that you can better experience the camaraderie and excitement of playing in a unified, talented group. This makes any Beatles session great fun and makes The Beatles: Rock Band something special in the world of plastic living room rock.


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Co-hosted with the Seinfelds, Jessica and Jerry, in the Hamptons, of course. Where else? It's August. That's where you find the right people in August, didn't you know? You can see evidence of a proper Hamptons summer all over G's face. I worry about her skin though. I hope her SPF is strong enough. I hope it's straight up block instead of screen. And I wonder if her skin person is as great as mine in Vancouver. I also give her credit for going out about as natural as it gets for a celebrity, and without insisting on a ring light.
No of course not. Gwyneth is not Pamela Anderson, good God. And it wasn't about Gwyneth last night. It was about Jake Gyllenhaal's End Of Watch. Jakey and G have been close for a long time. She was the one who set him up with Taylor Swift. I'm told she was disappointed when he cut and ran out on her. But then again, G is not unfamiliar with friends and their flaws. She's the one who knows; she's the one who will tell them that she believes they can do better next time (except for Madonna). By the way, why have Jake and Cameron never happened? Has G ever tried?
Also, Chris Martin was there last night. In keeping with their policy to never be photographed with each other, as expected he stayed away from the step and repeat. He did however graciously agree to one shot with Jerry Seinfeld - click here to see.


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/Filmcast Ep. 141 - Source Code (GUEST: Katey Rich From Cinema Blend)
This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the merits of Punch-Drunk Love, praise the over-the-top Hobo with a Shotgun, and try to unravel the mysteries of Source Code. Special guest Katey Rich joins us from Cinema Blend.
You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast on Sunday, April 10th at Slashfilm's live page where we'll be discussing Hanna.
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MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — The owner of a Dallas-area in-home day care center has been jailed on child endangerment charges after she was accused of keeping infants and toddlers tied to their car seats for hours.
An arrest warrant affidavit alleges that Rebecca Anderson kept the small children tied up in car seats for at least seven hours a day at her Mesquite, Texas, day care center, Becky's Home Child Care. The affidavit also says the 60-year-old woman yanked a 6-month-old child by the bib around his neck, tying laces around the young children's necks to limit their movement and giving them acetaminophen to quiet them.
She's booked Sunday night into the Dallas County jail on nine counts of child endangerment with bonds totaling $45,000. Jail records list no attorney for her.


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Don't have a problem with players. Quite the opposite in fact. Kate Hudson is a player. Love Kate Hudson.
What's hilarious about Michael Buble the player is that he's somehow conned his entire fanbase, by virtue of his cheesy and oversensitive music, that he is the anti-thesis of a player…when in fact he is a straight up pig! It's actually kinda brilliant, though maybe not so much for those who've been duped.
So check out Michael Buble back home in Vancouver. On Sunday he was with this blonde – took her for a ride on his Vespa, took her to his place, had his arm around her, and was kissing her on the cheek. Innocent enough, right?
Next day Monday… it's a new girl. The gorgeous brunette. GORGEOUS. Another Vespa ride, some window shopping in the Robson district where she full on vertically straddled him, and non stop PDA until they arrived at Holt Renfrew. I'm told she picked out 3 Chanel bags and a Louis Vuitton too… all totalling around $13K and paid for by Michael Buble. It took half an hour.
Safe to say it's totally over with Emily Blunt?
Photos from Punkd Images
Buble's many babes
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DOGTV is a new breed of programming – an on-demand cable TV channel designed to keep your dog relaxed, stimulated and entertained.
Two months after it debuted on local networks in California, the canine cable channel has now launched online and is headed for national distribution, according to the channel's executives.
Known as DOGTV, the channel "offers a promise to our beloved best friends that they should never again feel alone."
The advertising-free programming is aimed at stay-at-home dogs whose out-to-work masters fret about the separation anxiety their pets suffer, and the trouble they get into, when left unattended for long stretches of time.
Billed as the first channel of its kind, DOGTV made its premiere in February as a free, around-the-clock offering carried by cable and on-demand services in San Diego, reaching some 483,000 homes in California's second-largest city.
The content is scientifically tailored for four-legged audiences, with even the sound, colours and camera angles adjusted to make them more appealing to canines according to the channel's website.
The star turns on DOGTV turn out to be none other than other dogs. "They love watching other dogs being active on the screen, and other animals," said Beke Lubeach, head of marketing for DOGTV, adding that birds, monkeys and zebras have proven popular as well.
Lubeach said DOGTV hopes to have a US distribution deal in place in the next couple of months, at which point the channel would charge subscribers about $5 a month.
In the meantime, DOGTV has become a big hit at the Humane Society animal shelter in Escondido, which began airing the channel on several televisions mounted throughout the facility last month.
The shelter "has seen a marked improvement in all the dogs who have been exposed to DOGTV," said Sally Costello, executive director of the Escondido Humane Society, which cares for more than 5,000 animals a year and currently houses 115 dogs.
While DOGTV is a cable television first, the concept of using media to placate pets is not a new one.
Of course, like humans, there's a fight for the remote:
More than 60 per cent of US dog owners already heed the Humane Society's recommendation to keep a radio or television on in the house when their pets are left alone so the animals hear comforting voices rather than just silence, according to Dr. Nicholas Dodman, a member of DOGTV's scientific advisory board and a professor of veterinary medicine and behaviour at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
U.K. Telegraph


text: The hierarchy inside a company reflects its values and priorities. It can be a sensitive topic for CIOs. Who your boss is -- CEO, CFO, COO, someone else -- can color the way other executives view you and your staff.Conventional wisdom says that the CIO must report to the CEO or risk losing stature, authority and access to the power center of the company. Reporting to the CFO is bad, the theory goes, because IT is then viewed as a nonstrategic operations group where the governing principle is saving money.That's not always true, argues Dawn Costello, senior vice president of global IT strategy and portfolio management at Wyndham Vacation Ownership. When a CIO reports to finance, the CFO is forced to understand IT because assessment of his own performance will be based in part on IT's success, Costello says. "The CFO becomes a supporter."Tom Nealon has reported to various senior executives in his 29-year career, during which he led IT for J.C. Penney, Southwest Airlines and Frito-Lay, and been a partner at The Feld Group consultancy. He says titles don't matter, relationships do. No reporting structure automatically diminishes IT, says Nealon, who joins the CIO Hall of Fame this year. "What's more important is whether or not the CIO is able to fully engage with the senior team."Dave Weick, CIO of McDonald's and another Hall of Fame honoree, reports to the CFO. Fellow CIO Hall of Fame inductee Tim Theriault of Walgreens reports to the CEO and says that "it's a mistake" for CIOs not to. Where the CIO sits "sends a message about the importance of technology to the company," he says.We'll probably never see an end to the debate simply because reporting structure will never be uniform across companies. Corporate culture, history, personalities, tenure and many other factors determine who reports where. Each CIO will make his own path.Follow Senior Editor Kim S. Nash on Twitter: @knash99.


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Google owns search -- to the point that its name has even become synonymous with the verb "search."
Part of the reason Google (GOOGL) has held the search crown for the better part of a decade is that it constantly improves its product. It has successfully adapted to the changes in technology and the ways we access the Internet.
Google became a public company 10 years ago Tuesday. Marking the occasion, Amit Singhal, head of Google's search business, revealed his top 10 search milestones that Google has achieved.
1. Autocomplete: Singhal noted that you can now get a recipe for "silky gingered zucchini soup," even if you can't remember the dish's whole name. "Typing out a whole phrase feels archaic," he said.
2. Translations: Google Translate is used for more than a billion translations a day, translating text in 80 languages, according to Singhal. Google has made translations possible just by entering them into the search box.
3. Directions and traffic: On your phone, you can ask, "How far is it to Costco?" and instantly get directions with the fastest available route.
Related: Bakery tells Google to take 's--t' out of its logo
4. Universal search: Google results don't just include text, but video, images, apps and other content as well.
5. Mobile and new screens: Google isn't just available on phones and tablets, but smart watches and glasses now have Google too.
6. Voice search: You can now just say, "Ok Google, will I need an umbrella tomorrow?" in 38 languages, and Google will spit back an answer.
7. Actions: Google has become a Siri-like personal assistant too. It sets reminders and scan your email. The mobile app can send texts and emails too.
8. The Knowledge Graph: Sometimes you don't need a list of 10 blue links but an answer to your question. Type "who is the president of the United States" into Google's search box, and you'll get the answer at the top of the results page.
9. Info just for you: Google's app can tell you what gate your flight leaves from, track your package status and find appointments that you've saved in your Gmail and Google Calendar.
10. Answers before you have to ask: Google Now automatically surfaces reminders, reservations, weather, traffic information and the last place you parked -- before you even ask for it.


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ftp://... and
mailto:...@... are linked automatically.
email@example.com are linked automatically.
%TOC% : The table of content, is based on headings in a topic.
%WEB% : The current web, is TWiki .
%TOPIC% : The current topic name, is TextFormattingRules .
%ATTACHURL% : The attachment URL of the current topic. Example usage: If you attach a file to a topic you can refer to it as
%ATTACHURL%/image.gif to show the URL of the file or the image in your text.
%INCLUDE{"SomeTopic"}% : Server side include, includes another topic. The current TWiki web is the default web. Example:
<filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is?
'<' and
'>' characters have a special meaning in HTML, they define HTML tags. You need to escape them, so write
'<' instead of
'<', and
'>' instead of
'prog <filename>' to get
'prog <filename>'.
'&' character sometimes not displayed?
'&' character has a special meaning in HTML, it starts a so called character entity, i.e.
'©' is the
© copyright character. You need to escape
'&' to see it as it is, so write
'&' instead of
'This & that' to get
'This & that'.
"$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to TWiki tables or anywhere in topic text
##.. etc. notation to insert outline numbering sequences (1, 1.1, 2, 2.1) in topic's text. Also support numbered headings.
ExternalSite:Page links to a page on an external site based on aliases defined in a rules topic
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Trying to Leave MS Office
I mentioned in a post previously that I didn't like what Powerpoint was doing to presentations. In fact, I have actually abandoned Powerpoint entirely even
for the few slides I do use in favor of the presentation package from the
free Open Office applications suite.
This package, which has really come into its own with the version 2
beta, opens and writes MS Office applications and is a pretty good
substitute, sometimes better, occasionally worse, for MS Office.
I am
stress testing the whole package this winter, plus Thunderbird for email and of course Firefox
on which I am already sold for browsing, as a way to begin migrating
our company to having no MS Office at all. I am tired of paying
hundreds of dollars per seat for applications that overwhelm and
confuse my employees. Because of our need to interchange files with a
number of other entities, we need to be able to work with .xlw and .doc
files, so this makes for a nice solution for us. My experience has
been very very good so far - let me know in the comments if you have
experience with these products.
Update: Thanks for the comments, keep them coming. I continue to have very good luck in my stress testing. Thuderbird is great, except that the spam filter sends to many good mails to spam - I would like the control to dial it back a notch. OO Writer is good, with only some small formatting changes on tables from MS word. I actually find its formatting and outlining tools better than MS word, and like the built in export to pdf. The excel clone is working fine, and I can hardly tell the difference between the presentation package and powerpoint. I have not played with the equation editor yet, but my daughter likes the draw package. I had trouble with the database, but I find it is always hard to migrate to a new DB. I never was able to switch from access to filemaker, and everyone tells me that filemaker is easier but I just got used to doing things in access.
One of my worries about migrating this to my employees is that many of my managers are computer noobs, and tend to go out and buy excel and word books from Barnes and Noble when they get the computer on the first day. There are no such reasources for Open Office, and it is different enough from MS Office that the books don't really apply well.


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Soundcloud has launched advertising on the platform for the first time. It's understood that it will also start a new paid subscription service in the "coming months" to let listeners opt out of ads.
It also appears to be in licensing talks with music labels over royalty payments and potential equity stakes – luring labels with promises of revenues and equity, effectively in exchange for not being sued for incidences of copyright infringement.
The new ad platform, On SoundCloud, launches with advertisers including Red Bull, Jaguar and Comedy Central, but the ads will initially only run on licensed content from partners, such as Sony/ATV and BMG, music distributors INgrooves and Seed, and some independent artists.
Recently Soundcloud has been embroiled in rows with artists and labels who are concerned that online radio stations and others are using Soundcloud's API to broadcast licensed music for free. It's a problem Soundcloud needs to address, and soon. Revenues from advertising will go some way towards paying these professional artists and their labels.
On Souncloud will be divided into three tiers. The first Partner tier is free, and allows users to join the community, share their first track, and get feedback and basic stats.
The Pro level is the next step up, allowing for more upload time, advanced tools features like Spotlight, and more detailed stats.
The new Premier tier is the advertising platform referred to above, and makes it possible for Soundcloud Partners to make money from the tracks that they share via advertising. Obviously this will also add a significant revenue stream to Soundcloud.
SoundCloud will benefit from being late to the game on introducing advertising because many other services such as Spotify did it long ago – so it will be less jarring to users.
However, for now, only content is played in the US will carry ads.
Revenue will be shared between SoundCloud and the creators. At launch, creators who want to join the Premier level can only get in via an invitation.
In June SoundCloud revamped its iOS app to get more listeners and redesigned it's site in May.
Competitor MixCloud just added some paid features, one allows listeners to pay to remove ads.
SoundCloud says it now "reaches" over 350 million people every month, and has more than 175 million unique listeners monthly. Put another way, half the people exposed to SoundCloud anywhere on the web play at least one track. More than 10 million creators are heard on SoundCloud every year, and users upload 12 hours of music and audio every minute.


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Anna Jarvis founded Mother's Day in 1914 as an effort to honor her mother, who'd founded a Mother's Friendship Day during the Civil War as a way to foster peace. Jarvis had included white carnations in the first unofficial celebration of Mother's Day she'd organized in 1908, and florists, seeing an opportunity for sales, had always been supportive of her movement to create an official holiday. But after that happened in 1914, Jarvis quickly tired of the commercialism that immediately surrounded the holiday. According to Mental Floss, Jarvis wanted the holiday "to be a day of sentiment, not profit." She turned on those who'd supported her movement and called florists, card companies, and candy companies,
[C]harlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations.
While they may have been trying to make a buck of something genuinely noble, kidnappers is probably a little harsh. These feelings led her to wage what turned out to be a pretty epic battle against all of the commercialism of Mother's Day. She had particular disdain for greeting cards. Here's some of her advice to you:
A maudlin, insincere printed card or ready-made telegram means nothing except that you're too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone else in the world. [...] Any mother would rather have a line of the worst scribble from her son or daughter than any fancy greeting card.
Well, how did you do this Mother's Day? Would Jarvis be proud or would she have slapped you on the wrist with a white carnation?
Unfortunately, in the end things didn't work out so well for Jarvis. Her crusade against the commercial monster she created took a heavy toll on her, and, sadly, she ended up becoming a "recluse and a hoarder." Oh, no. No, she wasn't buried under a pile of fading greeting cards and rotting candy. Instead, she died in a sanitarium, which she was too poor to afford. What Jarvis never found out was that a group of grateful florists partially paid her asylum bill. Thus we can never know whether this fact would have changed her mind about the value of a bouquet.
The Founder of Mother's Day Later Fought to Have It Abolished [Mental Floss]


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This chapter describes the MBeans that WebLogic Server provides that you can use to configure, monitor, and manage WebLogic Server resources, and also explains how WebLogic Server distributes and maintains these MBeans.
This chapter includes the following sections:
The Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference provides a detailed reference for all WebLogic Server MBeans.
A WebLogic Server administration domain is a collection of one or more servers and the applications and resources that are configured to run on the servers. Each domain must include a special server instance that is designated as the Administration Server. The simplest domain contains a single server instance that acts as both Administration Server and host for applications and resources. This domain configuration is commonly used in development environments. Domains for production environments usually contain multiple server instances (Managed Servers) running independently or in groups called clusters. In such environments, the Administration Server does not host production applications. For more information about domains, refer to "Understanding Oracle WebLogic Server Domains" in Understanding Domain Configuration for Oracle WebLogic Server.
All WebLogic Server MBeans can be organized into one of the following general types based on whether the MBean monitors or configures servers and resources:
Run-time MBeans contain information about the run-time state of a server and its resources. They generally contain only data about the current state of a server or resource, and they do not persist this data. When you shut down a server instance, all run-time statistics and metrics from the run-time MBeans are destroyed.
Configuration MBeans contain information about the configuration of servers and resources. They represent the information that is stored in the domain's XML configuration documents.
Configuration MBeans for system modules contain information about the configuration of services such as JDBC data sources and JMS topics that have been targeted at the system level. Instead of targeting these services at the system level, you can include services as modules within an application. These application-level resources share the life cycle and scope of the parent application. However, WebLogic Server does not provide MBeans for application modules. See "Supported Deployment Units" in Deploying Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server.
The life cycle of a run-time MBean follows that of the resource for which it exposes run-time data. For example, when you start a server instance, the server instantiates a
ServerRuntimeMBean and populates it with the current run-time data. Each resource updates the data in its run-time MBean as its state changes. The resource destroys its run-time MBeans when it is stopped.
For a configuration MBean, the life cycle is as follows:
Each server in the domain has its own copy of the domain's configuration documents (which consist of a
config.xml file and subsidiary files). During a server's startup cycle, it contacts the Administration Server to update its configuration files with any changes that occurred while it was shut down. Then it instantiates configuration MBeans to represent the data in the configuration documents. (See Figure 2-1.)
By default, a Managed Server will start even if it cannot contact the Administration Server to update its configuration files. This default setting creates the possibility that Managed Servers across the domain might run with inconsistent configurations. For information about changing this default, see "Starting a Managed Server When the Administration Server Is Not Accessible" in Managing Server Startup and Shutdown for Oracle WebLogic Server.
Figure 2-1 Initializing Configuration MBeans on Administration Server
The configuration MBeans enable each server instance in the domain to have an identical in-memory representation of the domain's configuration.
To control changes to the domain's configuration, JMX clients have read-only access to these configuration MBeans.
The Administration Server maintains a separate, editable copy of the domain's configuration documents in the domain's
config/pending directory. It uses the data in these pending documents to instantiate a set of configuration MBeans that JMX clients can modify. After a JMX client modifies one of these configuration MBeans, the client directs the Administration Server to save the modifications in the pending configuration documents. Then the client starts a transactional process that updates the read-only configuration documents and configuration MBeans for all server instances in the domain.
For more information, see "Managing Configuration Changes" in Understanding Domain Configuration for Oracle WebLogic Server.
Configuration MBeans are destroyed when you shut down the server instance that hosts them.
The JMX specification does not impose a model for organizing MBeans. However, because the configuration of a WebLogic Server domain is specified in an XML document, WebLogic Server organizes its MBeans into a hierarchical model that reflects the XML document structure.
For example, the root of a domain's configuration document is
<domain> and below the root are child elements such as
<server> and
<cluster>. Each domain maintains a single MBean of type
DomainMBean to represent the
<domain> root element. Within
DomainMBean, JMX attributes provide access to the MBeans that represent child elements such as
<server> and
The following sections describe the patterns that WebLogic Server MBeans use to model the underlying XML configuration:
MBean attributes that provide access to other MBeans represent one of following types of relationships:
Containment, which reflects a parent-child relationship between the corresponding XML elements in the domain's configuration document.
Reference, which reflects a sibling or other non-ancestor, non-descendant relationship.
The XML excerpt in Example 2-1 illustrates a containment relationship between
<domain> and
<server> and
<domain> and
Example 2-1 Containment Relationship in XML
<domain> <server> <name>MyServer</name> </server> <cluster> <name>MyCluster</name> </cluster> </domain>
To reflect this relationship,
DomainMBean has two attributes,
Servers and
Clusters. The value of the
Servers attribute is an array of object names
javax.management.ObjectName[]) for all
ServerMBeans that have been created in the domain. The value of the
Clusters attribute is an array of object names for all
Another aspect of the containment relationship is expressed in a set of MBean operations that follow the design pattern for Java bean factory methods: for each contained (child) MBean, the parent MBean provides a
Child and
Child operation, where
Child is the short name of the MBean's type. (The short name is the MBean's unqualified type name without the
MBean suffix. For example,
JMX clients cannot use
javax.management.MBeanServer.create() or
register() to create and register instances of WebLogic Server MBeans because WebLogic Server does not make its MBean implementation classes publicly available.
If you create and register custom MBeans (MBeans you have created to manage your applications), you will have access to your own implementation files and you can use the standard
MBeanServer.create() or
register() methods. Custom MBeans are not part of the WebLogic Server data model and do not participate in its factory method model.
In some cases, an MBean's factory methods are not public because of dependencies within a server instance. In these cases the parent manages the life cycle of its children. For example, each
ServerMBean must have one and only one child
LogMBean to configure the server's local log file. The factory methods for
LogMBean are not public, and
ServerMBean maintains the life cycle of its
With a containment relationship, the parent
MBean also contains a
Child operation. If you know the user-supplied name that was used to create a specific server or resource, you can use the lookup operation in the parent MBean to get the object name. For example,
DomainMBean includes an operation named
), which takes as a parameter the name that was used to create a server instance. If you named a server
MS1, you could pass a
String object that contains
MS1 to the
lookupServers method and the method would return the object name for
The XML excerpt in Example 2-2 illustrates a reference relationship between
<server> and
Example 2-2 Reference Relationship in XML
<domain> <server> <name>MyServer</name> <cluster>MyCluster</cluster> </server> <cluster> <name>MyCluster</name> </cluster> </domain>
While a server logically belongs to a cluster, the
<server> and
<cluster> elements in the domain's configuration file are siblings. To reflect this relationship,
ServerMBean has a
Cluster attribute whose value is the object name (
javax.management.ObjectName) of the
ClusterMBean to which the server belongs.
MBeans in a reference relationship do not provide factory methods.
All MBeans must be registered in an MBean server under an object name of type
javax.management.ObjectName. WebLogic Server follows a convention in which object names for child MBeans contain part of its parent MBean object name.
If you learn the WebLogic Server naming conventions, you can understand where an MBean instance resides in the data hierarchy by observing its object name. However, if you use containment attributes or lookup operations to get object names for WebLogic Server MBeans, your JMX applications do not need to construct or parse object names.
WebLogic Sever naming conventions encode its MBean object names as follows:
com.bea:Name=name,Type=type[,TypeOfParentMBean=NameOfParentMBean] [,TypeOfParentMBean1=NameOfParentMBean1]...
In the preceding MBean object name convention:
com.bea: is the JMX domain name.
For WebLogic Server MBeans, the JMX domain is always
com.bea. If you create custom MBeans for your applications, name them with your own JMX domain.
]... represents a set of JMX key properties.
The order of the key properties is not significant, but the name must begin with
Table 2-1 describes the key properties that WebLogic Server encodes in its MBean object names.
Table 2-1 WebLogic Server MBean Object Name Key Properties
|This Key Property
The string that you provided when you created the resource that the MBean represents. For example, when you create a server, you must provide a name for the server, such as MS1. The
If you create an MBean, you must specify a value for this
For configuration MBeans and run-time MBeans, the short name of the MBean's type. The short name is the unqualified type name without the
For MBeans that manage services targeted at the system level, the fully qualified name of the MBean's type including any
TypeOfParentMBean= NameOfParentMBean
To create a hierarchical namespace, WebLogic Server MBeans use one or more instances of this attribute in their object names. The levels of the hierarchy are used to indicate scope. For example, a
WebLogic Server child MBeans with implicit creator methods use the same value for the
WebLogic Server cannot follow this convention when a parent MBean has multiple children of the same type.
Some MBeans use multiple instances of this component to provide unique identification. For example, the following is the object name for an
medrec:ApplicationRuntime=MedRecServer_MedRecEAR, Name=MedRecServer_MedRecEAR_Session EJB,ServerRuntime=MedRecServer,Type=EJBComponentRuntime
When you access run-time MBeans or configuration MBeans through the Domain Runtime MBean Server, the MBean object names include a
Singleton MBeans, such as
If you use the
MBeanServerInvocationHandler to create a proxy for the MBean, as shown here:
Intf proxy = (Intf) MBeanServerInvocationHandler.newProxyInstance(mbs, name, Intf.class, false);
you should include the WLS extension
MBeanServerInvocationHandler instead of
javax.management.MBeanServerInvocationHandler, as shown here:
import weblogic.management.jmx.MBeanServerInvocationHandler;
This ensures that return exceptions are handled correctly.
At the core of any JMX agent is the MBean server, which acts as a container for MBeans.
The JVM for an Administration Server maintains three MBean servers provided by Oracle and optionally maintains the platform MBean server, which is provided by the JDK itself. The JVM for a Managed Server maintains only one Oracle MBean server and the optional platform MBean server.
Table 2-2 describes each MBean server.
Table 2-2 MBean Servers in a WebLogic Server Domain
|This MBean server
|Creates, registers, and provides access to...
Domain Runtime MBean Server
MBeans for domain-wide services. This MBean server also acts as a single point of access for MBeans that reside on Managed Servers. You can register your own (custom) MBeans in this MBean server (see "Registering Custom MBeans in the Domain Runtime MBean Server" in Developing Manageable Applications With JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server).
If your JMX client accesses WebLogic Server MBeans in this MBean server by constructing object names, the client must add a
Only the Administration Server hosts an instance of this MBean server.
Runtime MBean Server
MBeans that expose monitoring, run-time control, and the active configuration of a specific WebLogic Server instance. You can also register your own (custom) MBeans in this MBean server (see "Registering Custom MBeans in the Domain Runtime MBean Server" in Developing Manageable Applications With JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server).
In this release, the WebLogic Server Runtime MBean Server is configured by default to be the platform MBean server. However, you can configure WebLogic Server to create a separate MBean Server and use it instead of the platform MBean Server. See Using the Platform MBean Server.
Each server in the domain hosts an instance of this MBean server.
Edit MBean Server
Pending configuration MBeans and operations that control the configuration of a WebLogic Server domain. It exposes a
Only the Administration Server hosts an instance of this MBean server.
The JVM's platform MBean server
MBeans provided by the JDK that contain monitoring information for the JVM itself. You can register custom MBeans in this MBean server.
In this release, WebLogic Server uses the JVM's platform MBean server to contain the WebLogic run-time MBeans by default. As such, the platform MBean server provides access to platform MXBeans, WebLogic run-time MBeans, and WebLogic configuration MBeans that are on a single server instance. See Using the Platform MBean Server, and "Registering MBeans in the JVM Platform MBean Server" in Developing Manageable Applications With JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server.
JMX enables both local and remote access to MBean servers, but JMX clients use different APIs for the two types of access and WebLogic Server MBean servers expose different capabilities to local clients and remote clients.
JMX clients running within a WebLogic Server JVM can access the server's Runtime MBean Server or Domain Runtime MBean Server directly through JNDI and must be authenticated to do so. These are the only WebLogic Server MBean servers that allow local access. When accessed from a local client, the Runtime MBean Server or Domain Runtime MBean Server returns its
javax.management.MBeanServer interface, which enables clients to access WebLogic Server MBeans and to create, register, and access custom MBeans. See Make Local Connections to the Runtime MBean Server, and Make Local Connections to the Domain Runtime MBean Server.
JMX clients can also access the local JVM's platform MBean server. Any local client can access the MBeans in this MBean server. See "Registering MBeans in the JVM Platform MBean Server" in Developing Manageable Applications With JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server.
Remote JMX clients (clients running in a different JVM from the MBean server) can use the
javax.management.remote APIs to access any WebLogic MBean server. Clients must authenticate through the WebLogic Server security framework to do so (see Security for WebLogic Server MBeans). When accessed from a remote client, a WebLogic Server MBean server returns its
javax.management.MBeanServerConnection interface, which enables clients to only access MBeans; remote clients cannot create and register custom MBeans. See Make Remote Connections to an MBean Server.
You can enable remote access to the platform MBean server. See "Registering MBeans in the JVM Platform MBean Server" in Developing Manageable Applications With JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server.
In this release of WebLogic Server, the WebLogic Server Runtime MBean Server is configured by default to contain the platform MXBeans for the corresponding server. The Domain Runtime MBean Server contains the platform MXBeans for all of the servers in the domain. The MBean object names for the platform MXBeans will be the same as those provided by the JVM except they will have the additional
servername key property.
The WLST script in Example 2-3 illustrates using platform MXBeans to monitor the resources of a running domain.
Example 2-3 Using Platform MXBeans
""" This WLST script demonstrates how to use the Platform MXBeans to monitor the resources of a running WLS domain. It uses the domainCustom command to retrieve the memory usage for 2 servers in the domain. For information on the available platform MXBeans, refer to the following link: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/management/package-summary.html """ connect() domainCustom() cd ("java.lang") # monitor heap and thread usage once a minute for 5 minutes x = 0 while x < 5: # Admin Server cd ("java.lang:Location=AdminServer,type=Memory") huAdmin = get("HeapMemoryUsage") cd ("..") cd ("java.lang:Location=AdminServer,type=Threading") numThreadsAdmin = get("ThreadCount") print "Admin server memory usage = ", huAdmin.get("max"), " number threads: ", numThreadsAdmin cd ("..") # m1 server cd ("java.lang:Location=m1,type=Memory") huM1 = get("HeapMemoryUsage") cd ("..") cd ("java.lang:Location=m1,type=Threading") numThreadM1 = get("ThreadCount") cd ("..") print "M1 server memory usage = ", huM1.get("max"), " number threads: ", numThreadM1 Thread.sleep(60000) x = x + 1
Using the platform MBean server for the Runtime MBean Server is controlled by the
PlatformMBeanServerUsed attribute in the JMX MBean. In previous releases, the default value for the
PlatformMBeanServerUsed attribute was
false so the platform MBean server was not used unless explicitly enabled. In this release of WebLogic Server, the default value for the
PlatformMBeanServerUsed attribute is
true for domains that are at version 10.3.3.0 or higher. For more information, see
PlatformMBeanServerEnabled in the Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference.
If desired, you can configure WebLogic Server to create a separate MBean Server and use it instead of the platform MBean server by setting the
PlatformMBeanServerEnabled attribute value to
false with either the WebLogic Server Administration Console or WLST. Using the Console, navigate to the Domain > Configuration > General page > Advanced options and deselect the
Platform MBean Server Used check box. In WLST, start an edit session, navigate to the JMX directory for the domain, use
cmo.setPlatformMBeanServerUsed(false) to change the value, and then activate the changes.
For more information on the Platform MBean Server and Platform MXBean, see the following JAVA SDK documentation:
Within each MBean server, WebLogic Server registers a service MBean under a simple object name. The attributes and operations in this MBean serve as your entry point into the WebLogic Server MBean hierarchies and enable JMX clients to navigate to all WebLogic Server MBeans in an MBean server after supplying only a single object name. See Table 2-3.
JMX clients that do not use the entry point (service) MBean must correctly construct an MBean's object name to get and set the MBean's attributes or invoke its operations. Because the object names must be unique, they are usually long and difficult to construct from a client.
|MBean Server
|Service MBean
|JMX object name:
The Domain Runtime MBean Server
Provides access to MBeans for domain-wide services such as application deployment, JMS servers, and JDBC data sources. It also is a single point for accessing the hierarchies of all run-time MBeans and all active configuration MBeans for all servers in the domain.
See "DomainRuntimeServiceMBean" in Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference.
com.bea:Name=DomainRuntimeService,Type=weblogic. management.mbeanservers. domainruntime.DomainRuntimeServiceMBean
Runtime MBean Servers
Provides access to run-time MBeans and active configuration MBeans for the current server.
See "RuntimeServiceMBean" in Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference.
com.bea:Name=RuntimeService, Type=weblogic.management. mbeanservers.runtime. RuntimeServiceMBean
The Edit MBean Server
Provides the entry point for managing the configuration of the current WebLogic Server domain.
See "EditServiceMBean" in Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference.
com.bea:Name=EditService, Type=weblogic.management. mbeanservers.edit. EditServiceMBean
To connect to a WebLogic Server MBean server, a JMX client must supply credentials for a user who has been defined in the WebLogic Server domain's security realm.
To further secure the MBeans that have been registered in an MBean server, WebLogic Server uses security roles and policies. A security role, like a security group, grants an identity to a user. Unlike a group, however, membership in a role can be based on a set of conditions that are evaluated at run time. A security policy is another set of run-time conditions that specify which users, groups, or roles can access a resource. Oracle provides a default set of roles and policies for WebLogic Server MBeans. (See "Default Security Policies for MBeans" in the Oracle WebLogic Server MBean Reference.)
During the startup cycle for a WebLogic Server instance, the server creates a collection of
weblogic.security.service.JMXResource objects, which are the in-memory representations of the MBean security policies. When a JMX client attempts to get or set an MBean attribute or invoke an operation, the MBean server asks the security realm if the user has sufficient permission. The security realm first determines which role the user is in. (Role assignments are determined at run time.) Then it uses the default policies and any other policies that you have created to determine if the role is allowed access.
You can use the WebLogic Server Administration Console to change the default access permissions. For example, you can create roles for specific applications and allow only specific roles to access the MBean instances that are associated with specific applications. See "Configure JMX Policies" in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
For MBean attributes and operations that represent particularly sensitive data or actions, WebLogic Server provides additional security resource objects to limit which users can access the data or action. For example, the
shutdown() operation is protected by a
JMXResource object and a
weblogic.security.service.ServerResource object. For a complete list of attributes and operations that are protected by multiple resources, see "Administrative Resources" and "Server Resources" in Securing Resources Using Roles and Policies for Oracle WebLogic Server.
The default configuration of roles and security policies for these attributes and operations work together to create a consistent security scheme. You can, however, make modifications that limit access in ways that you do not intend. See "Maintaining a Consistent Security Scheme" in Securing Resources Using Roles and Policies for Oracle WebLogic Server.


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Corporate Human Rights Responsibility: A European Perspective
Jan Wouters and Leen Chanet
Emerging Issues of Human Rights Responsibility in the Extractive and Manufacturing Industries: Patterns and Liability Risks
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Travis Frantti knocks on the front door, ready to make his pitch for Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's the final weekend before Tuesday's presidential primary in Pennsylvania, and he and his mother are out canvassing in suburban Pittsburgh, a printout of persuadable Democrats and a stack of campaign literature in hand.
Joe Machi, their first "customer," is still undecided. "I'll just toss a coin," jokes the real estate investor, as Ann Frantti hands a Hillary pin to his young son. Then he gets serious: "I still want to hear more about the issues, rather than this peripheral stuff."
In a way, Mr. Machi represents the holy grail of the final push for votes in Pennsylvania: white male Democrats. As a group, they are nearly evenly divided between Senator Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. And individually, white male Democrats express the most ambivalence about the two candidates.
A recent poll from Temple University in Philadelphia asked likely Democratic voters to rate the favorability of Clinton and Obama on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being most favorable. The contest was closest among white men who gave Clinton an average of 6.4 and Obama 6.9. When only voters over 30 are considered, the numbers get even tighter: 6.5 for Clinton and 6.7 for Obama.
Pennsylvania's white women, in contrast, clearly are more enthusiastic about Clinton. They give her an average favorability of 7.8, versus 5.9 for Obama.
So what's up with the white guys?
"I'm more and more impressed as time goes on that this election is about which candidate you think is more like you," says Michael Hagen, director of Temple's Institute for Public Affairs.
That's why, he adds, the candidates have spent so much time in the past six weeks aiming their messages at white men – not always successfully. Obama's adventure in ten-pin bowling, scoring a 37 in seven frames, did not exactly impress, while images of Clinton knocking back liquor, and talking about how her dad taught her how to shoot at their Pennsylvania cottage, struck some voters as pandering.
In a state where many counties give schoolchildren a day off for the opening of deer-hunting season, gun rights are considered a nearly sacred matter. But Clinton's record as a supporter of gun control didn't exactly square with her attempts to come across as gun friendly.
It is Obama, though, who seriously risked alienating gun owners in the run up to Pennsylvania with his private comments at a San Francisco fundraiser, where he talked about "bitter" small-town voters who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
But for now, what has been dubbed "Bittergate" does not seem to have hurt Obama in Pennsylvania, at least in the Democratic primary. The average of the latest polls shows him trailing Clinton by about five percentage points, which is roughly where he has been since he began advertising heavily in the state.
In conversations with voters at a front-porch rally featuring Bill Clinton in Brookville, Pa., a town of 5,000, none of the Democrats expressed concern over Obama's remark. Many present were Republicans, out on a sunny day to see an ex-president in the flesh, but with no intention of considering either his wife or Obama in November.
Bill French, a longtime Brookville resident, counts himself among Pennsylvania's ambivalent white male Democrats. He was disappointed by last Wednesday's Clinton-Obama debate which was dominated by a discussion of both candidates' gaffes of the past month, and still has not made a final decision between the two.
"I want to hear them debate, and stop the name-calling," says Mr. French, a retired high school history teacher who is now an Episcopal priest. "Which of these two will bring jobs back to northwestern Pennsylvania?"
When asked about "Bittergate," French leans in and whispers: "In some ways [Obama] is right. Some of these guys would die before they'd give up their guns."
Jeannie Harriger Petardi, a local real estate agent and gun owner, is leaning toward Clinton in the primary, but would be fine with Obama as the nominee. "A lot of Obama supporters would rather have a man, which makes me annoyed," she says.
Then there are the Clinton supporters who say they would never vote for Obama. "If he can't wear an American flag pin, I can't vote for him," says John Delaney, a Vietnam War vet who is sporting a "Dumb and Dumber" T-shirt showing President Bush and his father (which he says former President Clinton refused to sign).
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Egypt's military leaders unveil devices they claim can detect and cure Aids
Devices, made public by the chief army engineer, are dismissed by experts around the world and called 'shocking to scientists
Associated Press in Cairo. Theguardian.com
Egypt's military leaders have come under ridicule after the chief army engineer unveiled what he described as a "miraculous" set of devices that detect and cure Aids, hepatitis and other viruses
The claim, dismissed by experts and called "shocking to scientists" by the president's science adviser, strikes a blow to the army's carefully managed image as the saviour of the nation. It also comes as General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, who toppled Mohammed Morsi in July after the Islamist leader ignored mass protests calling for him to step down, is expected to announce he will run for president
The televised presentation – which was made to Sisi, the interim president Adly Mansour and other senior officials – raised concerns that the military's offer of seemingly inconceivable future devices will draw Egypt back into the broken promises of authoritarian rule, when Hosni Mubarak frequently announced grand initiatives that failed to meet expectations
"The men of the armed forces have achieved a scientific leap by inventing the detecting devices," the military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali wrote later on his official Facebook page. Ali said a patent has been filed under the name of the Armed Forces Engineering Agency
Well-known writer Hamdi Rizk noted that video clips of the presentation had gone viral on social media, with tweets and blogs saying the military had made a fool of itself and put its reputation in jeopardy. "The marshal's camp has been dealt a deep moral defeat," he wrote in a column in Thursday's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. "God give mercy to … the reputation of the Egyptian army, which became the target of cyber shelling around the clock
Professor Massimo Pinzani, a liver specialist and director of the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health at University College London, said he attended a demonstration of the devices during a visit to Egypt but "was not given convincing explanations about the technology" and was not allowed to try it for himself
"As it is at present, the device is proposed without any convincing technical and scientific basis and until this is clearly provided it should be regarded as a potential fraud," he wrote in an email to The Associated Press. None of the research has been published in a reputable journal
The uproar escalated when a scientific adviser to Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour denounced the claim and said it has no scientific base. "What has been said and published by the armed forces harms the image of the scientists and science in Egypt," Essam Heggy, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, told the daily newspaper El-Watan in remarks published on Wednesday. "All scientists inside and outside Egypt are in a state of shock
He added that both Mansour and Sisi were surprised and their presence in the audience did not indicate approval. The furore started when major general Taher Abdullah, the head of the Engineering Agency in the Armed Forces, gave a widely televised presentation to Sisi and other senior officials on what he calls an "astonishing miraculous scientific invention
Abdullah said two of the devices named C-Fast and I-Fast used electromagnetism to detect Aids, hepatitis and other viruses without taking blood samples while the third, named Complete Cure Device, acted as a dialysis unit to purify the blood. He also said the C-Fast, which looks like an antenna affixed to the handle of a blender, detected patients infected with viruses that cause hepatitis and Aids with a high success rate
A short film aired during the presentation showed the engineering team's leader major general Ibrahim Abdel-Atti telling a patient: "All the results are great, showing you had Aids but you were cured. Thank God." The patient replies: Thank God
The next day, Abdel-Atti and his team held their own press conference at which the scientist said I take Aids from the patient and nourish the patient on the Aids by giving him a skewer of Aids kofta
Gamal Shiha, head of the Association for Liver Patients Care, one of Egypt's prominent centres that worked alongside with the military, said he was angry about the "hasty" announcements. He said only one of the devices – C-Fast – underwent thorough testing
Shiha said the C-Fast uses electromagnetic frequencies similar to those used in bomb detectors and radars and had been tested on more than 2,000 patients with a high success rate. "The technology of C-Fast is effective without doubt," he said. However, he dismissed the claims that the other two devices detect Aids and cure viruses
Despite the scepticism, health ministry spokesman Mohammed Fathallah said the ministry recognises the devices as legitimate. Egypt's former Health Minister Amr Helmi, a liver surgeon by profession, said C-Fast had been approved by the ministry two years ago but he had never before heard of the other two devices
For the general public, the uproar added to the uncertainty already fueled by years of turmoil since Mubarak's overthrow in February 2011. "I hope that the invention turns out to be true but I don't have confidence this is the case," said 35-year-old taxi driver Ahmed Morad. I don't believe anyone … everything is very confusing. It is like a salad


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There is a mind-boggling array of fly lines on the market – all with different names; "Spey", "Skagit", "Scandinavian" – However let us try to keep it simple, and start here.
A good rule of thumb with all types of spey lines is that the shorter the head length, the easier they are to cast. Use your rod length as an indication of "easy". A spey line that has a head 3 times longer than the rod is easier to cast (for example a 12 ft rod with 36 ft head length) than a line with a head that is 5 or 6 times longer than the rod.
Another advantage with shorter head length lines is that you can use them in much more restricted spaces than longer head lines. A long head spey line is more difficult to cast, and needs more space behind the caster, however they are more efficient at fishing (spending less time stripping in line between casts) and are a delight to use (when a caster is good enough).
There are three different types of lines that you will hear talk about: "Spey", "Scandinavian" (usually abbreviated to "Scandi") and Skagit". Each of these has an advantage over the others in certain situations. If you know what the advantages of each of these groups are, you can choose the type of line you need much more effectively.
In the old days anglers used heavy double tapers to cast the long two handed spey rods. However these are not the best line for producing easy casts, so spey lines started to get developed. Spey lines are usually lines that have a fairly long head length – something in excess of 50 ft, and usually with an integrated running line. There are many different types of spey lines; Short belly lines, mid belly lines and long belly lines, and the aforementioned document "Understanding Spey Lines" covers the differences in more detail.
The advantage a Spey line has over the Scandinavian and Skagit type lines is versatility. Spey lines are a good choice for anglers that are going to fish in multiple destinations, for a variety of species and in all seasons.
As the name suggests, Scandinavian style heads originated in Scandinavia. They are usually shooting heads with long front tapers, and they are very pleasant to cast. The heads are short – usually no longer than three times the length of the rod, thus they are much easier to cast than Spey lines, and very good for smaller rivers and tight casting situations. The main disadvantages with this type of head is that they don't cast heavy flies and fast sinking tips well, and that there is a lot of fishing time wasted at the end of each cast stripping the line back (if you make along cast!).
Skagit lines/heads are short and heavy – even shorter than Scandinavian lines in most cases; working on a ratio of less than three times the rod length. Skagit lines do need a front tip added (whether floating or sinking) before they are ready to fish. They are the newest design of spey line on the market and the strength of Skagit lines is that they lift weight very easily. Anyone fishing large or heavy flies will find nothing casts these easier than a Skagit line. Likewise, a fast sinking tip is far easier to cast on the end of a Skagit line than either of the other two types. Also, as Skagit heads are so short, they are the easiest of all spey line designs to cast, and certainly the best for the tightest of back casting spaces.
The disadvantage with Skagit lines is that they don't have the same kind of presentation as the other two types, and tend to be clunkier when they land. Because they are so short, they also have a lot of stripping in after each cast has fished out.
The first part of choosing a spey line is always going to be choosing the best taper for the situation you are fishing. Many casters prefer shooting head options so they can interchange between Scandinavian and Skagit heads as they fish different seasons or species, and only need a single reel and a shooting line to do this.


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