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Starr Burst: Leaks & Lies
By Robert Parry
A veteran Associated Press reporter who covered America's early space shots was outraged when the directors of "The Right Stuff" used a troupe of acrobats in suits to portray the journalists. He felt the image of monkey-like reporters scaling trees and climbing over fences to spy on the wives and children of the astronauts exaggerated what happened. "We may have pissed on their lawn," the AP reporter growled, "but we never broke any windows."
For many years, I agreed that the movie version of obnoxious reporters jabbing microphones in the faces of people caught in the news was a bit over the top. Most reporters, I knew, were hard-working professionals. But with the melt-down over the Monica Lewinsky "scandal," I can no longer argue the point.
Washington journalism has become a scandal in its own right, worse than any movie portrayal. In combination with aggressive conservatives determined to negate the results of the last two presidential elections, the media now is threatening the very democratic system that a free press was meant to safeguard.
Driven by competition and baited to prove it's not "liberal," the Washington press corps has joined a kind of a coup d'etat for the Information Age. New evidence shows just how successful President Clinton's enemies have been in manipulating this "scandal" and turning reporters into collaborators.
In an account published on June 22, an associate editor of U.S. News & World Report reviewed two hours of previously undisclosed tapes made by Linda Tripp of her conversations with Lewinsky. The tapes revealed Tripp trying to lead Lewinsky into damaging admissions and suggesting actions that the press would later interpret as evidence of Clinton obstructing justice. Tripp, for instance, urges Lewinsky to ask Clinton for a job, the very action that rests at the center of ongoing impeachment speculation.
According to the U.S. News account, the two hours of tapes do indicate that Lewinsky was infatuated with Clinton but only support suspicions that Lewinsky engaged in suggestive phone conversations with the president. Complimenting Lewinsky on her sultry voice, Tripp declared, "No wonder the president likes to have phone sex with you." Lewinsky doesn't answer.
The U.S. News story comes on the heels of a 29-page report in the new magazine, Brill's Content, in which editor Steven Brill supplies other details on how the media was used, wittingly or not, as a political weapon. Tracing the first three weeks of the Lewinsky "scandal," sometimes hour by hour, Brill exposes how thoroughly two Clinton-hating operatives -- Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp -- stage-managed the opening acts and how conservative special prosecutor Kenneth Starr then directed the press hysteria that followed.
"What makes the media's performance a true scandal, a true example of an institution being corrupted to its core, is that the competition for scoops so bewitched almost everyone that they let the man in power [Starr] write the story -- once Tripp and Goldberg put it together for him," Brill wrote as a lead-in to the article called "Pressgate." [Brill's Content, Aug. 1998]
Brill concluded that many of the disclosures to Starr's favored reporters -- The Washington Post's Susan Schmidt, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and ABC News' Jackie Judd -- came from a combination of the Goldberg-Tripp duo and Starr's office. Brill used tough language, calling some reporters "lap dogs" and others "stenographers."
"I have personally seen internal memos from inside three news organizations that cite Starr's office as a source," Brill wrote. "For an internal publication circulated to New York Times employees in April, Washington editor Jill Abramson is quoted in a discussion about problems covering the Lewinsky story as saying, '[T]his story was very much driven in the beginning on sensitive information that was coming out of the prosecutor's office'."
What is less clear, however, is whether Starr's office helped on some of the wildly erroneous accounts, such as the Lewinsky's semen-stained dress love trophy and the president caught-in-the-act tale. William Ginsburg, Lewinsky's lawyer, has alleged that Starr leaked some sensitive stories as a tactic to pressure Lewinsky into providing testimony that Starr wanted.
With fresh details, Brill's article explained how conservative book agent Goldberg and her wannabe book author Tripp primed the scandal pump. Both wanted to damage the Clinton administration for political and financial reasons. Goldberg also had experience in dirty tricks having worked for Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign as a spy posing as a journalist inside the McGovern campaign.
It's been known for months that Goldberg urged Tripp to begin taping her young friend, Monica Lewinsky, and that Tripp had been toying with the idea of writing a tell-all White House book. But Brill uncovered new elements of the Goldberg-Tripp manipulation.
According to Brill's article, Goldberg even arranged for her brother's courier service to handle letters and packages that Lewinsky allegedly sent to Clinton. "We told Linda [Tripp] to suggest that Monica use a courier service to send love letters to the president," Goldberg said. "And we told her what courier service to use. Then, we told Spikey [Goldberg's nickname for Newsweek's Isikoff] to call the service."
Further, Tripp and Goldberg told Isikoff that one of the packages contained a lurid sex tape. As corroboration for that claim, the Goldberg family courier service made available the courier who delivered the tape. He helpfully confirmed to Isikoff that one package appeared to contain a tape.
Keeping the Jones Up
Having gotten Newsweek's attention, the Goldberg-Tripp duo then made sure that Paula Jones's legal team knew about Lewinsky. In October 1997, the Jones's lawyers began receiving anonymous phone calls from an unidentified woman -- apparently Tripp. With that information, the Jones's lawyers knew enough to subpoena Lewinsky and Tripp.
With Lewinsky and Tripp subpoenaed -- and with a tape recorder rolling -- Tripp then drew Lewinsky into conversations about what they should say to the Jones lawyers. Tripp apparently hoped to use the conversations to create the legal basis for an obstruction of justice case against Clinton. But, as Brill reported, Lewinsky instead provided exculpatory evidence on this point.
When the Goldberg-Tripp team selected the two most incriminating tapes to play for Newsweek correspondents, the reporters heard no evidence that Clinton tried to make Lewinsky lie about the purported affair. "In fact," Isikoff said, "there is one passage where Linda, knowing the tape is going, says, 'He knows you're going to lie; you've told him, haven't you?' She seems like she's trying to get Monica to say it. But Monica says no."
So Newsweek remained skeptical about this story that was being served up on a silver platter. But Tripp forced the issue by taking her information to Starr's office, too. On Jan. 12-13, Starr's investigators debriefed Tripp and then insisted that she wear a wire for a scripted conversation with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton in the Pentagon City section of Arlington, Va.
On Jan. 14, Goldberg brought Isikoff up to speed about Starr's entrance into the case. Then, on Jan. 16, Tripp lured Lewinsky to another meeting at the Ritz-Carlton. Starr's investigators surrounded the young woman and pressured her to cooperate.
Those efforts went on into the evening, when Tripp excused herself and returned home. There, she briefed Paula Jones's lawyers who were scheduled to depose the president under oath the next day. Armed with that information, Jones's lawyers surprised Clinton with detailed questions about Lewinsky. He denied a sexual relationship.
Meanwhile, Starr's office was urging Newsweek to hold its story to give the prosecutors more time to build their case. Newsweek did, but Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge received a tip about the spiked story, again most likely from the Goldberg-Tripp duo.
On Jan. 21, the story broke with full force in a front-page Washington Post account by Susan Schmidt, Peter Baker and Toni Locy. That story quoted "sources" as saying that "in some of the conversations -- including one in recent days -- Lewinsky described Clinton and [his friend Vernon] Jordan directing her to testify falsely" in the Jones case.
Brill noted that the perjury claim, which the Post article reported that sources heard on the tapes, was exactly what "had been missing from the tapes that Newsweek heard. This is not a minor point. The charge that Lewinsky had been instructed to lie was not only the linchpin of Starr's expanded jurisdiction, but would be the nub of any impeachment action against the president -- and the premise of all of the front-page stories and hours of talk show dialogue that would follow."
Still, with the Post story setting the city abuzz and the Ginsberg-Tripp team handing out hot tips to friendly reporters, the Washington media scrambled to get in line. The reporters, who had curried favor with Starr's office during the long Whitewater investigation, had choice spots.
One sloppy story followed the next, with news outlets rushing out thinly sourced allegations which were then "matched" or simply repeated by pundits who took the dubious information to the next level by commenting on the greater meaning. The talking heads opined that Clinton likely would resign within days.
But often the stories turned out to be wrong. Goldberg later boasted about planting the infamous story about Lewinsky saving a dress stained with the president's semen. Goldberg said she had heard the bizarre tale from Tripp, though it might not have been on any tape, and Goldberg admitted that she might have embroidered the story. "I might have added the part about it being saved," Goldberg said. The FBI found no semen on Lewinsky's clothes.
Illegal Leaks?
Though Brill's story concentrated on the reckless reporting, most of the press reaction has centered on Starr's admission that he and a senior deputy, Jackie Bennett Jr., routinely briefed selected reporters about the investigation. "I have talked with reporters on background on some occasions," Starr said, "but Jackie has been the primary person involved in that. He has spent much of his time talking to individual reporters."
Brill noted that Starr's statement conflicted with the special prosecutor's own public utterances decrying leaks. On Feb. 5, for instance, Starr told an impromptu news conference that he could not comment "about the status of someone who might be a witness [because] that goes to the heart of the grand jury process."
Early on, Starr also engaged in a testy exchange with Clinton's lawyers over their complaints about leaks from his office. Calling "leaks utterly intolerable," Starr declared that "I have made the prohibition of leaks a principal priority of this office. It is a firing offense, as well as one that leads to criminal prosecution."
But even before publication of Starr's admission, investigator reporter Dan Moldea had disclosed that another Starr deputy, Hickman Ewing, had acknowledged that "despite [Starr's] statements to the contrary, [Starr] is the person who is actually approving which reporters receive what information." [CNN's Burden of Proof, May 27, 1998]
Faced with the leak revelations, Starr did not deny that he had talked to favored reporters on "background" -- that is, on a not-for-attribution basis. But he mounted a spirited defense of the legality of his actions.
On June 16, in a 19-page rebuttal to Brill's article, Starr insisted that he scrupulously abided by a criminal statute, known as Rule 6(e), which prohibits disclosure of testimony given before a grand jury. Starr added further that his office "does not and has not released information provided by witnesses during witness interviews, except as authorized by law." (Italics added.)
The key part of that second sentence is the phrase "except as authorized by law." In effect, the wording acknowledges that Starr had released confidential witness information to the press but that he considers his disclosures "authorized by law."
Starr argued that the leak guidelines have big loopholes that allow wide-ranging briefings of reporters. "We should discuss the causes of delay in our investigation," Starr wrote. "We should correct public misinformation about the legal views, strategy and tactics of this office to the extent we can without interfering with the investigation or violating Rule 6(e) -- lest the public, courts, witnesses and jurors receive misimpressions about the integrity of the office. Our dealings with other public and government agencies are proper topics of discussion with reporters."
Yet, given that the Lewinsky investigation has dominated Washington debate for months, has been filled with "misinformation," and involves the White House as well as other government agencies, Starr's loopholes would seem to give him a virtual carte blanche for leaking.
Other legal experts simply don't agree with Starr's reading of the law. They note that recent court rulings suggest that Rule 6(e) extends to pre-interviews that are done with witnesses who may be called before a grand jury or to other evidence that might affect the grand jury deliberations. Justice Department guidelines also prohibit unofficial release of information that might prejudice a case or infringe on the privacy rights of a prospective defendant.
Former Reagan-Bush lawyer Ronald K. Noble noted that Starr's "denials beg the question of what Mr. Starr considers grand jury material, what he believes is authorized by law and what he and Mr. Bennett actually said to reporters." Noting that Starr promised a leak inquiry last February (whose results have never been divulged), Noble added that the inquiry must now be put in the hands of an independent investigator. [NYT, June 19, 1998]
Zeal or Prejudice?
Whatever the outcome of the leak dispute, Brill's article contributes to a growing body of evidence that Starr's investigation has never been a dispassionate, even-handed pursuit of wrongdoing. From his controversial appointment by a conservative-dominated three-judge panel in August 1994, Starr has approached his job with an apparent determination to pin some crime on Clinton, even if one needed to be contrived.
After nearly four years of that quest, Starr has gone down numerous dead ends, finding no case against Clinton on Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Vincent Foster's suicide and Mena drug trafficking. Yet, Starr has cleared Clinton of suspicion only on the false rumors about Foster's death. The rest are still in play despite a lack of evidence.
Now, Starr appears determined to build a report urging Clinton's impeachment around an alleged cover-up of a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. Starr is threatening the young woman with a criminal indictment if she will not testify as he wants. The Washington pundits are already arguing that the stories about apparent abuses of power by the prosecutor should not distract from the grander issue of Clinton's guilt.
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|December, 2018
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|November, 2018
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|March, 2018
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|February, 2018
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|January, 2018
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|January, 2018
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|January, 2018
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The unpleasant bitter taste found in many nutritious vegetables may deter their consumption. While bitterness suppression by prototypical tastants is well-studied in the chemical and pharmacological fields, mechanisms to reduce the bitterness of foods such as vegetables remain to be elucidated. Here tastants representing the taste primaries of salty and sweet were investigated as potential bitterness suppressors of three types of Brassicaceae vegetables. The secondary aim of these studies was to determine whether the bitter masking agents were differentially effective for bitter-sensitive and bitter-insensitive individuals. In all experiments, participants rated vegetables plain and with the addition of tastants. In Experiments 1-3, sucrose and NNS suppressed the bitterness of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower, whereas NaCl did not. Varying concentrations of NaCl and sucrose were introduced in Experiment 4 to assess the dose-dependency of the effects. While sucrose was a robust bitterness suppressor, NaCl suppressed bitterness only for participants who perceived the plain Brussels sprouts as highly bitter. Experiment 5, through the implementation of a rigorous control condition, determined that some but not all of this effect can be accounted for by regression to the mean. Individual variability in taste perception as determined by sampling of aqueous bitter, salty, and sweet solutions did not influence the degree of suppression by NaCl or sucrose. Consumption of vegetables is deterred by their bitter taste. Utilizing tastants to mask bitterness, a technique that preserves endogenous nutrients, can circumvent this issue. Sucrose is a robust bitter suppressor whereas the efficacy of NaCl is dependent upon bitterness perception of the plain vegetables.
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James Anderson shows us where to sign up for the SQL Server on Linux preview:
Couple of thoughts on the sign up form:
Red Hat is mentioned in the announcment but this form tells us that only Ubuntu or Docker images are currently available. Will it be available to all Linux distributions? What about OS X?
As for Docker, does it ever make sense to have RDBMSs in containers? Containers are generally immutable.
Done. I'm also excited about the continued Microsoft-Red Hat collaboration, not just because I live in Red Hat territory.
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6:30 in the morning I can find June sitting on the wall surrounding her flower garden. The same type of action can be found around the country and especially in places like Shipshewana, Indiana. Here in this Amish community women start there day in the garden going about the task of weeding and mediation. What is it about a garden? Could it be that time began in a garden?
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and
in the flowers and clouds and stars
—Martin Luther
June did not grow up in an agriculture or country setting where gardens were the norm. It was in an urban setting covered by asphalt and concrete. It is out of this background you wonder about her statement, "I have to have my flowers." I think it is on her DNA. I hasten to add the weeding, planting and digging is not on her DNA. This is where she needs a helpmate from a rural setting where gardens are plentiful.
Time the way God created it is a servant and not a master. It is not the ticking, got-to-get-it-done kind of time. Nor is it the crammed Daytimer kind of time or the sorry-I'm late-I-got stuck-on-the-freeway form of time. Accordingly, June "time" is the kind of time she goes to the garden to find.
We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass
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My background has planted curiosity in my bloodstream and I am constantly thinking strategically as to what does this mean or what are the implications. June's morning trip to her garden sparks this type of inquiry and discussion. What do we learn from our experience in the garden? Begin early—-life is fragile–life is daily– water it, weed it, prune it—growth takes time—pull the weeds—do not let ambition turn joy into drudgery—you reap what you sow—to everything there is a season—there will be surprises. Sounds like life doesn't it? After all, Life began in a garden.


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2k. Configure the environment
After you have created your Main, Results Warehouse, and temporary ETL databases, you need to configure the environment, i.e., tell the system how people will be accessing the servers. You need to provide details for the following:
The portal is the user interface component designed to display the various components of Perception, allowing administrators and participants to login and use Perception. You will need to enter the URL for your Perception server. The address you enter here will form part of the URL used to access Enterprise Manager, e.g., http://<my_server.com>. Remember that in a load-balanced configuration, an additional DNS name (i.e.,assessments.questionmark.local) is usually configured to run on the load-balancer. If this URL hasn't been configured yet or isn't pointing to your load-balanced service, create a host file entry with that DNS to enable the local machine to resolve the name. The server must be able to resolve the DNS name, otherwise this configuration step will fail.
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ice cream, strawberry fields, a beautiful sunset and the company of my beloved soulmate.
May 25, 2012
Strawberry Fields Forever
ice cream, strawberry fields, a beautiful sunset and the company of my beloved soulmate.
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Trick or Treating SafetyPublished on October 28, 2010
Fall is in the air and stores are filled with costumes, face paint, and masks; everyone is getting ready for Halloween. While you are out buying candy, decorating and helping your children get their costumes together, simple safety precautions may slip your mind. McIntyre Law would like to remind you of just a few things to keep your family safe while going Trick or Treating!
- All children should be accompanied by responsible adult.
- Make sure you stay in a part of the neighborhood that you are familiar with.
- Never go into a stranger's house where you are trick or treating.
- Never go up to a house that doesn't have its porch light on, that means that they are not handing out candy.
- Make sure that your child's costume fits right, doesn't drag or restrict your child's vision. This can be very dangerous when walking in the streets.
- When crossing the streets make sure you look and listen for cars.
- It is harder to see the darker costumes so make sure you have a flash light, glow stick, or some kind of reflective tape on the costume.
- If your older kids go out with friends make sure that they know to stay in a group and to never walk off alone.
- Tell the older kids to not cross fields or go through alley ways.
- After your fun night of trick or treating and your kids have a large bag of candy make sure that you check the candy before they eat it.
Make sure that you follow these safety rules, but most important have a safe and fun Halloween.
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Video Game Testers
Game developing companies in order to generate more revenues are hiring video game testers. So finding the correct source of the companies whichever is hiring is a must. There are basically three types of video game testers. These are:
1) Freelance Job: These are those game testers who are well experienced and seek out for companies that outsource upcoming games for testing. Punctuality, communicative and clarity in writing are some important characteristics that you must possess.
2) Self-employed Video Game Tester: These game testers are those who write Blogs, reviews, and providing information about the latest games released. They make money in their own way by telling others about the game and playing it themselves.
3) Full Time Corporate : There are possibilities of being hired by big game developers for full time. For those who have a passion for playing video games no other job can be as intriguing as this. And the only qualification required for this kind of job is experience. No degrees and diplomas are mandatory.
If you want to adopt video game testing as your career then get to know the types of game tester that are responsible for testing different parts of the game. Alpha testing, Beta testing and Quality assurance are the three types of game tester's role you will always have to start with if you opt this field as a career.
In order to apply to this kind of job all that you need is to be serious, active and know the source of job. All that you need is to sharpen up your writing skills, build up an interest in gaming and have the desire to share your knowledge with others. These are the three requisites that can help you get a great job.
To be a video game tester, you should have basic education in place and more so a passion for games. With an eye for detail, other virtues such as programming skills also come handy in this kind of job profile. Most game testers are amateur video game players and with a passion for games, they try their hand in video game testing as part time testers. With passage of time they turn themselves into big time professionals and start doing well for themselves economically.
They can earn handsome pay packages as he adds up his experience in the gaming industry. This job entails an eye for detail; the tester needs to test each and every part of the game and report for any errors or bug.
As an industry standard, the tester is asked to test every version of the game i.e. from beta to the pre-release version. Now-a-days, video games are being developed in accordance with real life scenarios; the job of a video game tester has eventually become more demanding. The companies don't really want to hamper their goodwill and marketability by launching bug ridden games into the market. Hence, game testers have become indispensable in the development of a final product.


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While data shows that Apple captured seven of the top ten spots for global smartphone sales in 2021, Xiaomi's Redmi brand held secured two of the three remaining spots. For the past few weeks we had the chance to test out two of the new Redmi Note 11 Series phones, the Redmi Note 11S and 11 Pro 5G.
These two phones are priced just below $400, but have compelling design elements and solid specifications. For those looking for a more affordable phone then one of these two may be a good fit. There are a ton of similarities between the two phones with a couple of minor feature differences that may sway you to one over the other. The phone are priced about $85 apart, but the lower cost Note 11S may be the better buy for US customers.
- 120 Hz refresh rate
- High quality fit, finish, and design
- 3.5mm audio port and IR blaster
- Capable rear camera system
- Solid battery life
Don't Like
- Limited 5G connectivity in the US
- Android 11
Despite the word Note in the name of these two phones, neither support a stylus. The Redmi brand is the more affordable series in the Xiaomi lineup and there are a few specifications that make them budget phones. One of the best places to find Redmi phones is in the Amazon Xiaomi store.
I was sent both phones in the Graphite Gray color and when they are face down on a surface I have to look for the 5G branding to figure out the difference. The Note 11 Pro 5G is larger and has a back panel that is flat while the Note 11S has curves around the edges that transition into the sides of the phone. One other difference on the back is that the Note 11S has four camera openings while one of the openings on the Note 11 Pro has the words AI over the opening instead. The 108MP main camera is a large module at the top with the other supporting camera lenses appearing below this camera on the back left side.
Both phones have a frosted back appearance that appears professional and provides solid grip. The back of the Note 11 Pro is glass and the Note 11S is plastic, but not the cheap glossy material you might see on other plastic phones.
- 90 Hz refresh rate
- Low price
- High quality fit, finish, and design
- 3.5mm audio port and IR blaster
- Capable quad rear camera system
- Solid battery life
Don't Like
- Android 11
- May stumble a bit with intensive apps/games
The edges of the phones are square with rounded corners. The USB-C port, mic opening, and bottom speaker is on the bottom edge. There is a speaker, mic opening, IR blaster, and 3.5mm audio port on the top of the phones.
There is nothing on the left with the volume and power/fingerprint sensor on the right. Both phones have a fingerprint sensor built into the power button, my favorite security setup for smartphones, and activating it is reliable and quick.
The AMOLED displays are lovely with good brightness levels, solid resolution, and high refresh rates. Higher refresh rates in budget phones are not that common and we see 120Hz in the Note 11 Pro and 90Hz in the Note 11S so both offer a great viewing experience.
Minimal bezels are found all around the display with a very tiny hole punch camera centered at the top of the display. Similar to the Galaxy S22 Ultra, the front camera is under the glass panel, but not under the viewable display.
Overall, there is nothing particularly remarkable about the hardware, but neither phone feels like a budget phone in the hand. The deeper flat edges, slightly denser feel, and glass back of the Note 11 Pro means this is the one I would pick if I had to make a choice on the feel of the phone in my hand.
Also: Best cheap phone 2022: Flagship features for under $450
Large capacity 5,000 mAh batteries are found in each phone so you can easily get through a full day of use. The Note 11 Pro 5G supports 67W turbo charging with the Note 11S supporting 33W fast charging. Xiaomi states that the 67W charger can charge up the Note 11 Pro 5G to 50% in 15 minutes and to 100% in 42 minutes.
The Samsung 108MP camera is the main shooter on this phone with 9-in-1 binning support. An 8MP ultra-wide camera, with 118 degree field-of-view, is also found on both phones. A 2MP macro camera wraps up the triple cameras on the Note 11 Pro while the Note 11S also adds in a 2MP depth camera for improved portrait shots. Camera performance was solid, especially for budget phones, but there is no telephoto camera and the cameras are challenged in low light conditions.
Both phones support common LTE networks and I experienced solid cellular reception with my T-Mobile SIM card. The Note 11 Pro 5G support 5G on many different bands, but with my T-Mobile SIM only band n41 (old Sprint 2.5 GHz network) is supported so 5G support is limited in the US.
The IR blaster, 3.5mm audio port, and microSD card support are relics of the past on flagship smartphones so if these features are important to you then you may want to consider a Redmi Note 11S or 11 Pro 5G.
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 (Note 11 Pro) or MediaTek Helio G96 (Note 11S)
- Display (Note 11 Pro): 6.67-inch, 2400 x 1080 pixels resolution, AMOLED with 120Hz refresh rate
- Display (Note 11S): 6.43-inch, 2400 x 1080 pixels resolution, AMOLED with 90Hz refresh rate
- Operating system: Android 11 with MIUI 13
- Storage: 128GB with microSD card
- Cameras: 108MP rear f/1.9 wide-angle camera, 8MP f/2.2 ultra-wide camera (118 degrees field-of-view), 2MP macro, and 2MP depth (Note 11S only). 16MP f/2.4 front-facing camera.
- Connectivity: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS/Galileo/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC
- Sensors: Accelerometer, Gyro Sensor, Geomagnetic Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, IR blaster
- Water resistance: IP53 splashproof protection
- Battery: 5000 mAh non-removable with fast charging.
- Dimensions (Note 11 Pro): 164.19 x 76.1 x 8.12mm and 202 grams
- Dimensions (Note 11S): 159.87 x 73.87 x 8.09mm and 179 grams
- Colors (Note 11 Pro): Polar White, Graphite Gray, Atlantic Blue
- Colors (Note 11 Pro): Pearl White, Graphite Gray, Twilight Blue
The display size and resolution, 2MP depth camera, 5G network support, and glass back panel of the Note 11 Pro are the primary differences between these two affordable phones. The Note 11 Pro has a flatter feel to it than the 11S, but with the limited 5G support the 11S may be the better option that also includes a cost savings.
One area where it is obvious these are not flagship phones is the software. Both launch with MIUI 13 built on Android 11 even though Android 12 has been out for many months. Both were updated to the February Android security update during our review period so that is encouraging. Hopefully Android 12 comes to these phones in the next couple of months, but we don't have high expectations for budget phones getting reliable and long term software support.
MIUI 13 offers a mostly stock Android experience with primary differences observed in the notification shade and additional settings. Special features available in MIUI 13 include sidebar, floating windows, second space, and lite mode. There are extra gesture shortcuts, quck ball, and other settings are also available to help you create a personalized experience with the phone.
A few handy utilities are provided on the phones, including a FM radio app and the Mi Remote control app so you can use the IR blaster and 3.5mm audio port. There are also quite a few additional apps installed out of the box, including WPS Office, PUBG Mobile, LinkedIn, Amazon Shipping, and more. However, these can also be deleted so that you can optimize the phone for the way you roll.
Also: Best Android phone 2022: Top expert picks
Along with the 108MP camera hardware, and other cameras, the Redmi Note 10 Pro include advanced camera software that has a plethora of shooting modes. These include 108MP with pixel-binning, video, photo, portrait, clone, long exposure (moving crowd, neon trails, oil painting, light painting, starry sky, star trails), night, panorama, documents, vlog, slow motion, time lapse, dual video, short video, and pro/manual. With solid camera hardware and this software your ability to get creative and spend a lot of time shooting with this phone is readily available. The 5,020 mAh battery helps ensure you can go all day shooting too.
Daily usage experiences
I'm blessed to be able to test out and write about a plethora of mobile phones here on ZDNet so I tend to purchase the high-end flagship phones for my personal use. However, if I wasn't testing out so many phones I would seriously consider one of these phones priced under $400 since they provide a solid piece of hardware, responsive performance, lovely side fingerprint sensor in the power button, access to all the apps I need, an enjoyable media experience, legacy features (IR blaster, microSD card, and 3.5mm audio port), and battery life to last all day.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro was tested last year and a year later the hardware hasn't changed much in the 11 Pro. 5G is an obvious addition, but in the US that has limited impact on cellular connectivity. Unfortunately, the Note 11 Pro is still currently being powered by Android 11, the same as the Note 10 Pro in early 2021 so Xiaomi needs to step up the firmware game.
The Note 11S offers quite a bit for its $300 price and as long as you aren't running 20 apps at once or playing high-powered graphical games then you should be just fine with the processor and performance of the phone. It has great looks, solid build quality, and seems to be a much more capable phone than we used to buy at just $300.
Since we spend so much time interacting with the display on our phones, the high refresh rate in both of these phones sets them apart from other phones in this price range. The AMOLED display, decent speakers, and headphone port make these solid phones for media and as long as you are not looking to capture professional photos on your phone then the Redmi Note 11 Pro or 11S are some of the best affordable phones we have tested in 2022.


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It's festival time at Fun Republic. The Atul Goel run multiplex chain is running a three day festival at its Andheri theatre focusing on the work of the late famed editor Renu Saluja. Art house and commercial film fans can watch Saluja's wizardry in movies by directors such as Kundan Shah, Dev Benegal, Ketan Mehta, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Shekhar Kapur, Govind Nihalani, Sudhir Mishra and Saeed Mirza.
The ticket prices have been kept at Rs 250 for 10 shows of the festival. Day passes are being issued at a sticker price of Rs 100. An interesting marketing ploy to get film buffs back to the cinema.
Thursday June 15
7.00 p.m. Remembering Renu
7.30 p.m. Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
Friday June 16
10.30 a.m. Dev Benegal's Split Wide Open
1.00 p.m. Ketan Mehta's Maya Memsaab
4.00 p.m. Dinesh Shukla's God Mother
7.00 p.m. Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Parinda
Saturday, June 17
10.30 a.m. Sudhir Mishra's Dharavi
1.00 p.m. Saeed Mirza's Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho
4.00 p.m. Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen
7.00 p.m. Govind Nihalani's Ardh Satya


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CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until 30 April 2021
ERSTE Foundation offers five fellowships for young artists and five fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2021.
Every summer some 300 students from more than 50 countries participate in over 20 classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art.
The participants can choose from various courses taking place at Salzburg Summer Academy between 19 July - 28 August 2021.
More information about the courses for curators and artists here.
Together with its longtime project partners from tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk and Igor Zabel Association, ERSTE Foundation offers these scholarships and forms the jury to select the participants.
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy
• are designed for artists and curators at the beginning of their career
• address candidates from Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia
• cover room and board, travel expenses and the participation fee for the course
For more details on accommodation possibilities, please follow this link.
Applications have to include the following documents:
• Complete digital application form, including the following information:
Your contact information (name, address, e-mail, phone, website)
Letter of intent explaining why you apply, what you expect from taking part in the course and why you think you are qualified for participation (max. 5000 characters)
Brief informative curriculum vitae (max. 1 page)
• Portfolio (max. 10 MB)
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The correct application form is required (please see above for download link), other application formats cannot be accepted. All documents must be sent as PDF.
Applicants who have already received this scholarship in recent years or have previously participated in Artist-in-Residence programme at Q21/ MQ - MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (Q21 AiR) supported by ERSTE Foundation will not be given priority.
Applications are accepted only in English and by e-mail until 30 April 2021
For further questions please contact Larissa Agel / tranzit.at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Image: Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg 2020. Klasse von Nicolaus Schafhausen. Im Bild: Tom Engels, Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova. Foto: Mira Turba


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Zanu PF Goes High Tech With New Membership Cards
Customers today expect faster response times, zero error rates and easy navigation. When these expectations are not met, negative reactions ensue. ZANU PF has gone digital with the introduction of new membership cards which can also be used as debit card at point of Sale and ATM if you can find one that's working in Zimbabwe.
Speaking at the unveiling, Zanu PF Chairman for ZITF technical committee Retired Brigadier-General Levi Mayihlome said you can load money into the new cards and they could also be used for local financial transactions.
"We have a new membership card that we have introduced. This is an ATM or swipe card which is compatible and can be used for any transaction in Zimbabwe," he said.
Zanu PF will now allow members to put money into their prepaid debit card for retail purchases. This product is focused on those consumers who may not have bank accounts and therefore, be shut out from financial services.
"You can load your money in there and is connected to our Zanu PF account so that members can put in their money." the Retired Brigadier-General added.
For digital businesses or party wanting to make the most of their member/customers experience, the key is to understand 'user demographics' such as age, gender, location, type of devices, etc. – on a granular level. It's these insights that will allow you to better steer development and release strategy decisions, and fine-tune experiences to ensure consumer loyalty.
The procedures required to join includes a joining fee of $2 and per month you can pay a dollar which is deducted automatically


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We are all overwhelmed by professional and career development advice at work or on social media. Other than the authority of the source (LinkedIn Influencer or blue check mark on Twitter), it is difficult to sort the good techniques from the ineffective ones. They are all presented in the most positive light with plenty of anecdotal evidence to back them up. But can we believe this and should we invest our efforts in learning and then deploying those methods?
Here I will teach you a cognitive-science backed way to separate the wheat from the chaff with the help of the famous Müller-Lyer illusion.
I call this the Müller-Lyer illusion test to identify weapons-grade persuasion.
If you've not encountered the Müller-Lyer illusion before, try judging the lengths of the three black lines below.
It appears that the middle line is the longest of the three black lines and the top line the shortest. However, when actually measured out in red, it is clear that all three lines are all the same length. But now that you know this, look at the black lines again and see if you can convince your mind to stop falling for the illusion. You can't.
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According to the world renowned psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, there are two main thinking processes that occur in human brains. System 1 is the fast and automatic way we decide things. System 2 is a slower, more reason-based way of thinking [1].
We continue to succumb to the Müller-Lyer illusion because our System 1 thinking overrides the slower System 2 level, which is trying to clarifying the illusion to our brains but without success.
The same is true with influencing techniques. The best ones are simple, and engage System 1 thinking in the subjects you are trying to persuade.
To apply this test to influencing techniques, ask yourself – despite knowing the method, do I still fall for it when others use it on me? If so, that is persuasion gold and you've found a top influencer who you should follow.
All of Robert Cialdini's influence principles operate through System 1 engagement [2]. They are all fast acting, and for which people have little or no natural defense.
LinkedIn Influencers who peddle techniques that stop working on you after you learn them, are sophistry and BS mongers. These are mainly done by System 2 processes and involve reasoning as the main basis for persuasion. You've probably been taught that reasoning with people is a good way to persuade them. That's wrong. New research has shown that reasoning in humans evolved more for argumentation and not for decision making [3,4]. These techniques have low potential for moving others to your view. Instead they make people argue with you leading to non-compliance.
Persuasion techniques that work on you even after you understand them are the only ones worth knowing and using to advance our careers.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman, Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, NY 2011.
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion By Robert B. Cialdini, Revised Ed., Collins Business Essentials, New York, NY 2007
- The Enigma of Reason By Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2017
- Mercier, H.; Sperber, D. "Why do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory" Behavioral and Brian Sciences, 2011, 34, 57-111.
Shaun Mendonsa, PhD is an influencing expert and pharmaceutical development leader. He writes on the topics of influence and persuasion, and develops next generation drugs in human pharma by advising international pharmaceutical CROs and CMOs. He can be reached at [email protected].
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2014 has been rich with international cinema. Here are nearly 40 movies released this year that critics in our Criticwire Network think you should see.
Adopt Films "Winter Sleep"
Throughout 2014, members of Indiewire's Criticwire Network - comprised of nearly 500 critics from around the world - have been adding their grades and reviews to our database of film pages. Below is a collection of those films released in theaters during that time that have a) received 10 or more reviews, b) maintained a grade average of "B+" or higher and c) unfold primarily in a language other than English. (A complete list of all the top-rated films can always be found here.) We'll update this list as new additions surface and as fresh waves of feedback arrive. Averages and totals are subject to change (grade totals listed in italics below have changed since the last update), but for now, these are the titles that many members of the Criticwire Network suggest you should watch.
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan had been making films for over a decade before making a big splash in 2011 with his slow-burning crime drama "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia." Combined with the success of his "Climates" five years prior, Ceylan's "Winter Sleep" was one of the most anticipated films at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it eventually won the Palme D'Or. The award-winning film is now playing in New York and will expand to select theaters. It premieres on this list alongside fellow 2014 Cannes entrant "The Tale of Princess Kaguya."
"Big Bad Wolves" popped up on many cinephiles' radar towards the end of last year, thanks in part to one particular supporter. But the film's theatrical release opened up the film to a fresh set of eyes. Between its theatrical run and current Netflix availability, Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado's tale of intertwining fates in the criminal underworld has gradually expanded out as a showcase for Israeli film. The film now stands at a "B+" average.
Elsewhere on the list, two films have supplanted "The Wind Rises" in the top slot. Two films recently settling in the ever-elusive "A" average range: Pawel Pawlikowski's captivating black-and-white drama "Ida" and Lav Diaz's latest theatrically-released saga "Norte, the End of History."


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Boycott all the airlines until all the TSA people are gone.
This is about the new police state being imposed on our country.
You are seeing it happen right now before your eyes.
What are you going to do about it? Suggestion - STOP FLYING NOW!
Grind the tip off their spear, and send them a message.
If they move to the trains, stop riding trains.
If they move to the busses, stop riding them.
If they start having check points on the highways?......
At some point these goons will get the message.
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If you don't love to write you'll never climb the daunting mountain that stands between you, your objectives, and your ultimate goal—and at this time I'm still climbing like most of you! Just look at James Patterson…he was turned down thirty-one times by literary agents only to win a high-profile writer's contest which helped to launch his amazing career. The contest was for the best new novel by an unpublished author in America—no small achievement. There are hundreds of other stories by writers that attest to bravery and persistence as prime traits needed by a writer, but it's so easy to get discouraged and feel down about your chances to succeed. If you want to be a New York Times best-selling author then realistically your chances are slim, but if you truly love to write then failure is not an option.
There are writers that can just sit down and write and everything they do turns out fine. I've never met an author like that but I've read about two or three. The first novel of John le Carré happened that way—it apparently just flowed out of him. I certainly haven't been that fortunate—I've had to make sure everything I do is reviewed by a few readers/editors before I feel comfortable what I've done is the way I want it to turn out. I'm also a writer who can't work to an outline, like James Patterson insists you should. Robert B. Parker, one of my all-time favorite murder/mystery fiction writers, said he initially wrote outlines for his stories (his first novel was written in 1971), but then dropped the approach in favor of creating the story as he worked his way through it. That's what I do—I've tried the outline approach and couldn't get it to work for me.
There are so many things writers need to do to succeed that I feel the need to outline a few of those for you below. I want to impress upon every reader of this article that the main thing you must do is write. Everything else is secondary but it is so easy to get distracted. That's because there are so many necessary things to do that can't be ignored. Here are just a few:
- You need to get your work edited. The copy edit is where to start because that is focused on the basics of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. There's also manuscript evaluation and developmental editing to make sure your story is the best it can be—that it is well-organized, makes sense, and flows well. Also, a good proofreader will make sure that things such as word breaks, page breaks and numbering are completed properly. You need to re-write and re-edit as you deem necessary, but this can be a big job which depends upon how strong your original draft is. Hopefully, substantive and structural editing will be minimal—fingers crossed.
- You need a website that describes you and your work and gives readers a chance to comment on your products. The website can be a huge benefit because your readers can generate many useful ideas for you. I'm told that most literary agents will check out your website as they check you out to see if they're interested in representing you: so make a good effort with your site.
- It's a good idea to have a blog too. The approach to a blog can vary widely, but as with the website, you need to dedicate money and time to design and maintain it. It's best to contribute to it regularly which will be a great help in developing your readership. Again, a literary agent will want to check out your blog to see if they are interested in representing you.
- You have to do a lot of research in order to know what you're talking about when you write. The key is to know your subject. Believe me when I tell you there are a lot of smart readers out there who will test you on your facts. Retractions aren't easy to do, so once again, know what you're talking about.
- Continue to do a lot of reading, and not just in your own genre. Your reading will generate valuable information and ideas useful for your work.
- Take courses and never stop educating yourself. There are hundreds of webinars and courses available to writers on every subject possible. Writer's Digest is an excellent source for writers as well as many others.
- There's also the process of promoting yourself as an author by either securing a literary agent to represent you to a publisher, or to self-publish. I've decided I want a literary agent to represent me, so I am spending a significant amount of time writing a synopsis and query letter for each of my novels in order to be prepared to make submissions as required. There is also the job of searching out, tracking, and securing an agent—no small feat!
Once again, amid all of these ancillary tasks, your main focus is to continue to write. I would recommend you do at least two hundred and fifty words a day because it will keep your brain tuned and working creatively. Always remember, without products you have nothing to offer.
Please take a moment to let me know about your experiences, challenges and frustrations. It would be great to read your comments. Oh…and good luck!


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Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions
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Hi again,
This thread only for reporting queries.
1. Host Name are discovered in mix of shortname or FQDN (physical servers and ESX) when I login to java. A part of my report is pulling host names but customer want only short names. I tried to add new data item and used functions like substring, left, position etc but either it throw error during validation or while running report.
But when I run same function in mysql query it is working fine. For eg, below is giving me results what I need:
select name, if(position('.' in name) > 0, left(name, position('.' in name)-1), name) as new_host from host
Output of that would be: xxx.yyy.zzz xxx
But if I use same function in cognos report studio, and run it, I get error. Attached is the screenshot. For simplicity I am just using hostname in a report and another data item where I use function, pass hostname as input. Screenshot is 3 in 1, query explorer, new data item expression and result of that query.
2. In 1 of the report I am pulling host IOPS data. I can see the data when I run it in tabular form in query explorer but not in HTML. A point to note here is those host have 0 IOPS as that is test environment. So just want to confirm that is there any kind of validation that 0 IOPS wont show in HTML or excel version of reports. FYI there is no filter to exclude hosts which have 0 IOPS.
3. Storage Utilization reports working well for some devices but not with HDS VSP G series. In OCI server I can see values recorded for IOPS but reports are blank. Again this is test environment so no load on that array but I expect "0" as a value in report rather than showing blank.
#1. I am very lame in Cognos, but I believe you cannot use MySQL expressions in the Cognos view you are working with. You can either write a query entirely in SQL, or use Cognos' own string manipulation functions.
#2-3. 0s in the OCI operational server should manifest themselves as 0s in the DWH.Values should show up the same way, regardless of the output format as far as I know
Is the DWH ETL running reliably?
We are using OCI 7.2.3
#1. If you can get me help to do the same within cognos on this specific fuction from internally I would appreciate. On the other note, I thought to build the same by writing SQL query but then I realized the multiple joins which cognos is doing for me in backend.
I am working in Volume Capacity DM and there is data item "Additional Hosts" in Host Visible Volumes - Host. I am not able to locate that in the schema. Then I realized that my schema pictures are old so I was looking directly into MySQL DB but not able to locate such field in host table.
Now I need assistance in :
a) In which table I can see that "Additionals Hosts" data?
b) How do I know that "Additional hosts" shown in cognos is renamed/formulated from some other data, if not directly fetched? Like from which table cognos data items coming. I know there was Framework Manager which I used to create custom packages in older version of OCI, but you guys removed direct link to lauch that in DWH.
c) I need latest DB schema
#2. Yes, all jobs are working fine without any failure.
Hi sunilyadav,
I needed a bit of experimenting, but if you want to do this in cognos, here's what worked for me:
1. Make sure you have something like the "Host Name" from the Inventory package in your query.
2. Create an additional data item in the query and call it Host.
3. As an expression, you could be usig something like this (please adjust if you're using a diffrent package than inventory according to your needs):
if ([Host Name] contains '.') then (substring([Host Name],1,position('.',[Host Name])-1)) else ([Host Name])
As for the "Additional Hosts" in the Volume Capacity datamart, I've got the feeling it's broken. At least I wasn't able to do anything with it - except producing a cognos error, and I have no Idea what sort of data is supposed to be stored there. Generally speaking, datamarts are a cognos thing and they don't necessarily map 1:1 to the database schema. The database schema you should be able to view in a webbrowser by navigating to https://dwh-server/dwh => Help Icon => Documentation => Database schema - or on thy mysql cli (example): show full columns dwh_inventory.host
I hope this helps.
Thanks hotz.
Given expression is working in other DM too, but another wierd behaviour observed.
I can run the report in HTML and see the expected output in the newly added data item but when I try to save report in excel data/format, it throw below error:
An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlPrepareWithOptions' status='-69'.
So just to confirm if that error is related to new change, I removed that new data item then run the report. Report run in HTML and it can be saved in excel data/format.
I compared the properties of original host name and new data item in case data type was different but everything is same except expression.
Attaching the xml.
Regarding "Additional Hosts" item, it is working fine at my end, showing other host names of the same cluster.
Hi sunilyadav,
This is really odd. I was able to reproduce it. For me too, the expression produces an error if I try to run the report in Excel or PDF format.
I'm not sure why this is happening, I suspect it's some sort of cognos bug. I was trying to find a workaround, but so far no luck.
Any luck?
Hi there,
sorry, got a bit distracted by other things, so I haven't given it a ton of thought.
I think the problem with my original approach is somehow the position function. But I wasn't able ti figure out exactly how and why and it's getting late so I won't spend much more time on it right now.
I found a workaround, sort of. Well, it depends on whether or not your domain suffix(es) is/are of a fixed length. If you have only one domain suffix, then this should work. If you have more than one, than chances are it wont work.
So instead of the if statement I tried the following case-when statement:
WHEN [Host Name] like '%.your.domain.com'
THEN substring([Host Name],1,char_length([Host Name])-16)
ELSE [Host Name]
- Please adjust to the length of your domain suffix.
Note that the substring function is still in place and this works perfectly well for me on a database with only a single domain suffix.
Let me know how it goes.
Hey Gerhard,
Thanks for the hint. I tried your expression, working well for host name with small tweak as FQDN in my environment are mix of lower and capital cases and required % in last.
WHEN LOWER([Host Name]) like LOWER('%my.domain.name%')
THEN substring([Host Name],1,char_length([Host Name])-16)
ELSE [Host Name]
But in same report I have another column additional hosts from volume capacity DM which list all other hostnames part of same cluster. Unfortunately number of additional hosts varies from 1 to n (n <10). When I tiried to use same expression for additional host, it only convert fqdn to short for last host name in that cell, leaving remaining host in fqdn form.
For eg:
Actual Data in Additional host:
abcyq09.my.domain.name, abcyq0a.my.domain.name, abcyq0b.my.domain.name, abcyq0c.my.domain.name, abcyq0d.my.domain.name, abcyq0e.my.domain.name, abcyq0f.my.domain.name, abcyq0g.my.domain.name
After using expression:
WHEN LOWER([Additional Hosts]) like LOWER('%my.domain.name%')
THEN substring([Additional Hosts],1,char_length([Additional Hosts])-16)
ELSE [Additional Hosts]
Result is:
abcyq09.my.domain.name, abcyq0a.my.domain.name, abcyq0b.my.domain.name, abcyq0c.my.domain.name, abcyq0d.my.domain.name, abcyq0e.my.domain.name, abcyq0f.my.domain.name, abcyq0g
Leaving the remaining hosts in fqdn form.
So is it not possible to achieve what I am looking for?
Hey Sunil,
This thread is very hard to read because you asked 3 questions in the original post. I would recommend trying to ask one question per post, as that makes it much easier to understand if questions have been answered or not
Hi sunilyadav,
in regards of the additional hosts I wasn't able to find a solution yet, sorry.
The problem is that the additional hosts would be a string of comma separeted hosts of varying lenght, such as 'host1.domain.com, host2.domain.com, host3, host4.domain.com', but still just a string.
This would have to be broken down into idividual elements that would allow us to iterate through them and apply some logic.
To that end, I was playing around with macro funtions, specificaly split and csv - but so far nothing I tried really worked.
Which doesn't mean there's no solution. I just haven't found it yet and I'm starting to loose confidence that I ever will. 😞
It would probably be easier to tackle this on SQL level instead of doing it in cognos. Would that be an aproach that could work for you?
Another possibility could be to throw up this question on a forum frequented by cognos specialsts (which I am not, by any means).


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Drought haves, have-nots test how to share water in the West
Phil Fine stands in a parched field and watches a harvester gnaw through his carrot seed crop, spitting clouds of dust in its wake. Cracked dirt lines empty irrigation canals, and dust devils and tumbleweeds punctuate a landscape in shades of brown.
Across an invisible line separating Fine's irrigation district from the next, it's another world. Automated sprinklers hiss as they douse crops, cattle munch on green grass and water bubbles through verdant farmland.
In this swath of central Oregon, where six irrigation districts rely on the Deschutes River, the consequences of the strict hierarchy dictated by the American West's arcane water law — "first in time, first in right" — are written on the land. As drought ravages the West, the districts with century-old water claims are first in line for the scarce resource while others nearby with more recent claims have already run out.
"It's like the Wizard of Oz. ... It's shocking the difference," said Matt Lisignoli, a farmer who got nearly five times more water on his land in one irrigation district than on fields in another.
"I've learned more about water in the last two months than I have in the last 20 years, because it's always been here," he said. "You don't know until you get in a bind."
The stark contrast between the haves and have-nots two hours southeast of Portland has brought new urgency to efforts to share water. Proposals to create "water banks" or "water markets" would allow farmers with excess supply to lease it to those in need. The idea is part of a discussion about letting the free market play a bigger role in water conservation as human-caused climate change fuels drought and farmers run out of options.
Yet the concept is fraught with risks and resistance. Larger-scale efforts to spread water more equitably have been uneven. Along the Deschutes River, where every drop is accounted for, many farmers worry that if they lease their water rights, even temporarily, they may not get them back.
"Whether it's feasible or not is a very local question," said Brett Bovee of WestWater Research, a consulting firm for water market research.
Many Western water markets compensate farmers for diverting water to wildlife and cities instead of fields. Far fewer avenues get water to farmers, and the biggest challenge is moving it between irrigation districts, said Scott Revell, manager of the Roza Irrigation District in Washington state's Yakima Valley.
The districts oversee water deliveries to customers and often operate as fiefdoms, each with water claims and history. Outdated infrastructure and bureaucracy — often compounded by rigid state laws — make water transfers difficult even between cooperating districts.
In central Oregon, for example, Lisignoli wanted to take irrigation from his farmland in a district with senior water rights and transfer it to parched crops he grows in a neighboring district with lesser rights.
Lisignoli's application had to be approved by both districts and Oregon's water agency, which required an 11-day public notice period, he said.
Desperate, he purchased emergency water from a vineyard for $2,700, but water in that district ran out last month. He hasn't watered 16 acres of pumpkins in weeks and hopes they will survive for Halloween sales.
"It was a futile effort," he said. "But I'm hoping that it shows the flaws in the system."
California, meanwhile, has one of the most flexible water markets in the West, allowing irrigation districts to move water where it's most needed. After a major drought in the 1970s, lawmakers made transfers easier and emphasized that leasing water wouldn't jeopardize rights, said Ellen Hanak, director of the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California.
Once a farmer has a transfer approved, renewing it is expedited and in many cases, water can follow demand without a lengthy environmental review, she said.
In central Oregon, water-sharing is a charged topic.
The 960 farmers in the North Unit Irrigation District, which has the area's lowest-ranking water rights, grow 60% of the world's carrot seed, bound for carrot farmers or seed packets.
Districts with senior rights, meanwhile, tend toward hobby farms with llamas and alpacas, cattle pastures and hay fields. Those farmers have had to cut back for the first time but are still receiving 55% of their water.
The water disparity is compounded by efforts to preserve the federally protected Oregon spotted frog. A habitat conservation plan requires the North Unit district to release water for the frog from its storage reservoir over three decades.
That reservoir, which is filled by the Deschutes River, is almost empty, with once-submerged tree stumps jutting from cracked mudflats.
Other irrigation districts also gave up water for the frog, but "North Unit definitely got the short end of the stick," general manager Josh Bailey said. "It made our situation being the junior water rights holder ... even worse."
The nonprofit Deschutes River Conservancy and the Central Oregon Irrigation District, which has senior water rights, are studying a water bank. It would provide financial incentives for farmers with extra water to lease it to needy irrigation districts or return it to the river to bolster its flows.
The coalition could launch a pilot project next year. A recent study says about 164,000 acre-feet of water may be freed up by using price incentives, said Kate Fitzpatrick, conservancy executive director. An acre-foot of water is enough to cover a football field a foot (a third of a meter) deep.
Everyone wants to avoid a crisis like in the Klamath River basin, a region on the Oregon-California border locked in a decadeslong fight over water where household wells are running dry.
"We're trying to figure out ways for water to move around more flexibly," Fitzpatrick said. "If we can find those win-win solutions, I believe that the Deschutes can be a model for the West as the West faces increasing drought and scarcity and population growth."
Some water customers are eager to try it; others are wary.
Oregon law requires a water rights holder to use their share every five years or lose it. Some worry that without safeguards, investors could snatch up those rights or they could lose them if they join a water bank.
The state loosened some rules this summer amid a drought emergency, but many say more reforms are necessary to make sharing easier and expand the ways to maintain water rights.
An informal call this summer about helping those with less water, for example, fizzled when only a handful of senior water rights holders stepped forward, said Shon Rae, Central Oregon Irrigation District's deputy managing director.
"Bottom line, the paperwork and cost and time it took to do it just wasn't going to work," she said. "People would be interested in doing it if it were easier. Rules and laws are one of the biggest barriers."
Those championing water markets acknowledge the idea can't be the only answer, and more incentives are needed to reduce water use and upgrade aging infrastructure.
Along the Deschutes River, plans include replacing irrigation canals with pipes to reduce leaks and pumping water from a massive lake to struggling farmers — both long-term projects.
"What we're trying to do is put in these big projects and be drought resilient. But the water marketing and leasing is ... something we can do now," said Fine, the carrot seed farmer. "And if we don't do something soon, we can't keep going on like this. People will go broke."
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Staffers of a taluk hospital at Balussery have been asked to go on leave as a precautionary measure.
Thiruvananthapuram/Kozhikode: The Kerala government on Friday stepped up vigil against the Nipah virus that has claimed 16 lives in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, even as staffers of a taluk hospital at Balussery have been asked to go on leave as a precautionary measure.
All meetings, scheduled to be held in the two districts this month have been postponed, until further notice, an official said.
People have been asked to be extremely alert.
Even though there have been no positive cases on Friday, six persons got admitted to the Kozhikode medical college with symptoms of the virus, an official said.
Of the 203 samples tested for Nipah, there have been 18 positive cases, of whom 16 persons have lost their lives. There is one unconfirmed death and 17 suspected nipah cases are under observation, according to the official.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has postponed all its written and online exams, scheduled to be held, till June 16. New dates will be announced later.
Reopening of schools in the two districts had earlier been postponed to June 5.
Health authorities have drawn up a list of 1949 people who had come in contact with the Nipah affected persons to monitor their health condition.
A control room has been opened at the Kozhikode medical college which will regularly contact them to know about their health conditions, the official said.
Doctors and nurses of the Balussery Taluk hospital in Kozhikode district have been asked to go on leave as a precautionary measure after two nipah affected persons, who were treated at the hospital initially, succumbed to the virus.
To check further spread of the virus, directions have been given to officials to observe and monitor all those persons who had come in touch with the Nipah patients and are likely to be affected.
Since there is a possibility of the virus entering the second phase, in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, government has stepped up preventive measures and asked people to be alert, Health Minister K K Shailaja Teacher said.
The central experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) are continuing to evaluate the situation and taking necessary measures, said a press release quoting the minister.
Besides, a team of doctors from the Manipal and Thiruvananthapuram Medical colleges are also evaluating the situation.
The Director of Health Services Dr Sarita R L is camping in Kozhikode and coordinating with the various agencies, the release said.
"The health department had earlier itself evaluated that there was a possibility that those who had come in contact with the Nipah affected patients, could be affected by the virus in the second phase and preventive measures have been taken," the minister said.
Until the Nipah virus is fully under control, the team under the health director, which is monitoring the situation, would be retained.
Elaborate arrangements have been made at the Kozhikode medical college to observe suspected nipah cases and 80 rooms have been set apart for them. Intensive care units with ventilator facilities will also be made available, the release said.
Necessary protective gears, including masks and gloves, have been provided to the hospital staff.
Eighteen positive cases of Nipah virus were reported in Kerala since its outbreak in May. Of the affected, 16 have died. Two persons are undergoing treatment in a hospital and their condition was improving, which was a matter of relief, the minister said.
Large-scale awareness campaigns are also being held in the two districts.
The Kozhikode district collector has filed a report before the Kerala High Court on the situation in the district following the virus outbreak.
After a superintendent of Kozhikode district court complex died due to Nipah, the district bar association had asked the authorities to stop the functioning of the district court for the time being.
Kozhikode district authorities have asked people to keep away from crowds as a precautionary measure.


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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 22 ======================================= ("Quid coniuratio est?")
By "Tom in Venice" (former Democratic Party operative)
-+- Afterword by Conspiracy Nation -+-
Kenneth Starr is one of the much-vaunted Special Prosecutors we've seen in the past decade or so. Another was Lawrence Walsh, who drew a comfortable salary while he wiled away lazy afternoons sipping lemonade and investigating Iran-Contra. Walsh finally issued his report, but by then no one cared. Starr too is enjoying a comfy job and will issue some sort of (yawn) report. Now Janet Reno is under pressure to appoint yet another of these comfortable fellows, these Special Prosecutors. Latest theory on these "independent" appointees is that they are part of political blackmail operations: they have wide-ranging special powers to dig up dirt, and the dirt then gets held over the opposition party's head -- give us (politically) what we want, or else! Note how when President Clinton used his line-item veto to cut out military pork previously destined for Newt Gingrich's state of Georgia, we "coincidentally" had a week of fuss over "discovered" Clinton videotapes: Is there a connection between the two events?
Conspiracy Nation normally shuns predictions, and itself has almost never made any. From time to time, however, predictions from others are passed along. Here is what I'm hearing from others, that is sufficiently corroborated to deserve notice.
Things seem about to blow in that modern "Rome on the Potomac," Washington, DC. Recall that in past issues of Conspiracy Nation (CN 10.79, CN 10.80, CN 10.81, ca. early August 1997) various sources foresaw trouble in October for Bill Clinton and his gang. "Ru Mills" warned that "Thanksgiving" would come early this year, with "the turkey," Bill Clinton, to be carved in late September or early October. Human Events magazine was predicting indictments and possible ouster of Mr. Bill Clinton. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. of American Spectator magazine echoed Human Events: "...the Clinton White House is going to go sky-high... several major scandals are certain to rock the Clinton White House this year."
I am still hearing the same general thing from my sources. "Ru Mills" sees upheaval by the end of October. Sherman Skolnick hints at a stock market crash on or about October 20th. "Tom in Venice" feels that things are heating up.
And what does Conspiracy Nation say? (1) Be cautious with these types of predictions; we've heard them for years now. (2) But who knows? I'm hearing these dark forebodings from several sources. (3) If Clinton gets in hot water, he can just send missiles against "punching bag" Saddam Hussein's Iraq or some other nation that can't too effectively fight back. (Subtext of Clinton missile fury is, "And if I can do it to them, I can do it to you.") Clinton also, notably, is doing the "representing you all in a foreign land" stunt: you don't want "our" President to look bad in front of the neighbors, do you? Bottom line: Clinton the Weasel will get out of it; you will keep getting poorer; you will have to work longer hours; nothing will change insofar as by some great magic the truth will be forced into public consciousness. But it's Monday morning and we all need hope, right?
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