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Total sales exceeded $7 million at the Scottsdale Art Auction, held for the first time in April at Legacy Gallery. The top lot was Charles M. Russell's buffalo hunt #7, which fetched $728,000. The price tags of five Russell works, including the top-selling piece, added up to $1,271,200. Western landscapes were popular with the Maynard Dixon oil canyon del muerto—coronado rock earning $616,000, and works by nine of the 10 Taos Society artists fared well—two oils by Oscar Berninghaus sold for more than $200,000 each. Collectors also bid eagerly on wildlife pieces such as bighorn territory by Carl Rungius, which brought in $268,800.
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Native American artist Fritz Scholder passed away in Arizona in February after a long illness. He was 67 years old. Scholder, known for paintings of Indians mixed with Pop art imagery, taught painting and history at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, from 1964 to 1969. His work appears in many major museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Phoenix Art Museum and the Heard Museum in Arizona.
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Martin Grelle's painting when water speaks brought a record price for its size at a silent auction at Overland Gallery in March—the artist's 17th annual one-man show. The 48-by-36-inch piece fetched $61,000…. Danela/May Gallery's second location at the Borgata in Scottsdale, AZ, recently opened and features a larger gallery space as well as a sculpture garden…. Best of Show honors at the Western Spirit Art Show in Cheyenne, WY, went to Jeanie Schlump. Other top award winners were Dan Glanz, Diane Perry, Roger Ambrosier, Sam Lawlor, Curt Theobald, Crystal Lenhart, and Joan Fullerton.
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At its inaugural February auction in Scottsdale, Santa Fe-based Altermann Galleries earned $936,045—an impressive figure considering the gallery anticipated sales of between $500,000 and $700,000. "Nothing much happens in Santa Fe in winter," says co-owner Tony Altermann. "So we assembled a smaller-than-usual selection of works and went to where it was warm and where a lot of our clients reside." The top lot of the auction, which focused on artists from the second half of the 20th century, was Kenneth Riley's plains motif at $112,500. Other highlights included Martin Grelle's gathering storm, which sold for $74,000; kiowa medicine by Roy Andersen at $23,000; and Clark Hulings' 9-by-12-inch time out for a coke at $32,200.
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Charles M. Russell's antelope hunt #1 was the top lot at the C.M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art in Great Falls, MT, in March. The painting sold for $170,000, and three other Russell works followed at $90,000, $57,500, and $42,500. Olaf Wieghorst's warchief was next on the list at $35,000. Another impressive sale was $22,500 for Terry Mimnaugh's dugout canoe, which received the Best of Show Award. Joe Abbrescia, Michael Ome Untiedt, Jerry McKellar, Greg Beecham, and Brent Cotton also won major awards. Total sales rang up to $1,944,000.
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Trailside Galleries, based in Scottsdale, AZ, and Jackson, WY, is under new ownership. Managing partner Maryvonne Leshe, who joined the gallery in 1978, has teamed up with western art collector Eddie Basha and private art dealer Roxanne Hofmann to acquire the gallery from Texas entrepreneur Randy Best. "Each brings a depth of knowledge and love of western representational art," Leshe says of her new partners. Another change occurred in Jackson recently for Meyer Gallery, which is now Meyer-Milagros Gallery. Mariam Alaskari, who had been director for almost three years, purchased the gallery and will add more than 15 artists to her fold, including Jim Budish, Jason Wheatley, Ann Krasner, and Robert Bissell.
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Photographer John Gavrilis won the Best of Show award at the La Quinta Arts Festival in March. Gavrilis, who lives in Aptos, CA, took top honors for his body of landscape works. Other major awards went to John Weidenhamer, Michael Stipek, Seung Lee, Patrick McCauley, Valerie Coulson, John Lehr, Djibril N'Doye, and Jennifer Charles.
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'Caprica' will be there, 'Game of Thrones' will not: The Comic-Con lineup
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Below you'll find the latest list of shows that will present panels at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Details have begun to emerge about which writers and actors will attend various panels, and I've gathered as much information as I can on that front.
I can exclusively confirm that Syfy will be bringing the following shows to Comic-Con: "Warehouse 13," "Stargate Universe," "Sanctuary" and "Caprica." BBC America has also confirmed that "Being Human" and "Look Around You" will also get panels.
"Eureka" co-executive producer Amy Berg noted that the panel for that Syfy show will be moderated by Allison Scagliotti, who plays Claudia on "Warehouse 13," and the "Warehouse 13" panel will be moderated by Neil Grayston, who plays Fargo on "Eureka." Sounds like fun.
There will be a couple of absences this year at the San Diego festival of comic books and pop culture: An HBO source confirmed that "Game of Thrones" will not present a panel ("True Blood" will be the network's only Comic-Con panel).
Production on "Thrones'" first season will begin in at the end of July, right around the time that Comic-Con takes place (it overruns San Diego July 22-25). Given that the cast and producers will all be in Northern Ireland then, it's too much of a logistical challenge to make a Comic-Con appearance happen for the show, which arrives in 2011. (By the way, for recent casting news regarding several supporting "Thrones" roles, check out Winter is Coming and Westeros. All my stories on "Game of Thrones" are here.)
It's also interesting to note that one of the most hotly anticipated new shows for next season, J.J. Abrams' "Undercovers," will also not be presenting a panel at Comic-Con, according to the Hollywood Reporter. (Update: Televisionary broke that news June 9.)
What follows are the shows that will be at Comic-Con. A few more panels may be announced in coming weeks, but I think this is the complete TV panel roster, give or take a few stragglers.
I've color coded the these entries as follows: Panels on Thursday are in purple, panels on Friday are in green, Saturday panels are in red and Sunday panels are in blue (when the date of the panel is not known, I've left it black). For a day by day listing, check out the list from the fine folks at Seat42f, who also have the official press releases for many of the events.
The following TV shows are confirmed for Comic Con:
- "American Dad" (Fox): Sunday, 12:30 pm, Ballroom 20; EPs Seth McFarlane, Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, actors Dee Bradley Baker, Scott Grimes and Rachael McFarlane.
- NEW ENTRY: **"Anti-Heroes of Showtime: Thursday, 4:45 pm, Ballroom 20; Michael C. Hall and EP Chip Johannessen of "Dexter," David Duchovny and EP/creator Tom Kapinos of "Californication," Mary-Louise Parker and EP/creator Jenji Kohan of "Weeds," Linda Wallem, EP/co-creator of "Nurse Jackie."
- "Archer" (FX): Friday
- "Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Cartoon Network): Friday
- "Being Human" (BBC America): Friday, 6 pm, Room 6A; Creator Toby Whithouse, actors Aidan Turner, Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, Sinead Keenan.
- "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS): Friday
- "Bob's Burgers" (new Fox show): Friday, 11 am, Room 25ABC
- "Bones" (Fox): Friday, 2 pm, Ballroom 20. EP Hart Hanson, David Boreanaz
- "Burn Notice" (USA)
- "Caprica" (Syfy)
- "Castle" (ABC): Sunday
- "The Cape (new NBC show)
- "Chuck" (NBC): Saturday
- "The Cleveland Show" (Fox): Saturday, 11:45 am, Ballroom 20; EPs Seth McFarlane, Mike Henry, Rich Appel, actors Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson.
- "Community" (NBC): Saturday, 3 pm, Hilton Bayfront (Source: Seat42f.com)
- **"Dexter" (Showtime): Thursday, 6 pm, Ballroom 20. Actors Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington and EPs John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Chip Johannessen and Manny Coto.
- "Eureka" (Syfy)
- **"The Event" (new NBC show): Saturday, 11:15 am, Room 6A; Actors Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood, Laura Innes, Sarah Roemer, Željko Ivanek, Ian Anthony Dale, writer and producers Evan Katz, Steve Stark, Jeffrey Reiner, Nick Wauters and Jim Wong.
- NEW ENTRY: "Falling Skies" (new TNT show for summer 2011 executive produced by Steven Spielberg; it "envisions a world where aliens have invaded, and the fate of humanity lies in the hands of a few survivors"), Friday, 4:45 p.m., Room 6A; Co-EP Mark Verheiden, actors Moon Bloodgood and Noah Wyle.
- "Family Guy" (Fox): Saturday, 11 am, Ballroom 20; Seth McFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green.
- "Futurama" (Comedy Central): Saturday, 12:45 pm; EPs Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, actors Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and others.
- **"Glee" (Fox): Sunday, 1:30 pm, Ballroom 20: EPs Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, actors Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Mark Salling, Heather Morris and Naya Rivera.
- "Fringe" (Fox): Saturday
- "Hawaii Five-O" (new CBS show): Friday, 10: 15 am, Room 6BCF; EPs Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Peter Lenkov, director Len Wiseman, actors Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park.
- "Human Target" (Fox): Saturday
- "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (FX): Sunday
- "Look Around You" (BBC America): Thursday, 5 pm, Room 6A; Robert Popper, Peter Serafinowicz
- "Mythbusters" (Discovery): Saturday, 7:15 pm, Room 6CBDF. Hosts Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci.
- "Neighbors from Hell" (new TBS show): Friday, noon, Room 25ABC; Actors Molly Shannon, Patton Oswalt and others.
- "Nikita" (new CW show): Saturday
- "No Ordinary Family (new ABC show): Saturday
- "Psych" (USA)
- "Robot Chicken" (Cartoon Network. By the way, for that network's full Comic-Con roster, look here)
- "Sanctuary" (Syfy)
- "The Simpsons" (Fox): Saturday, 1:30 pm; Creator Matt Groening, EPs Al Jean, Matt Selman and Mike Anderson.
- "Sons of Anarchy" (FX) Sunday, 2:45 pm, Ballroom 20: Creator Kurt Sutter, actors Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Ron Perlman.
- **"Smallville" (CW): Sunday, 10 am, Ballroom 20. Actors Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Cassidy Freeman and
Justin Hartley, showrunners Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson.
- "Spartacus" (Starz, July 23): Friday. EP Steven S. DeKnight, actors Lucy Lawless, John Hannah, Andy Whitfield, Viva Bianco.
- "Stargate Universe" (Syfy)
- "Supernatural" (CW): Sunday, 11:15 am, Ballroom 20.
- "Terra Nova" (new Fox show): Friday, 3:30 pm, Room 6A; EPs Brannon Braga and David Fury, director Alex Graves.
- "True Blood" (HBO)
- "Unnatural History" (Cartoon Network): Sunday
- "V" (ABC): Saturday, Ballroom 20: Executive producers Scott
Rosenbaum and Steve Pearlman, actors Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Laura Vandervoort, Charles Mesure, Morena Baccarin and Scott Wolf.
- "The Vampire Diaries" (CW): Saturday
- "The Walking Dead" (AMC): Friday
- "Warehouse 13" (Syfy)
- "White Collar" (USA)


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Never a Dull Moment at a DUI Checkpoint
After getting stopped at a DUI checkpoint for the 2nd time this year I thought that it was time to blog about it and let you know my perspective which may be unique since I'm a criminal defense attorney.
The first time I was stopped at DUI checkpoint was in Santa Barbara. I had driven up from Los Angeles in order to give a speech at my alma mater UC Santa Barbara – A large part of my speech revolved around how I became a criminal defense attorney. A dear friend of mine, Ashlee, had agreed to come with me, and the free night at Bacara was probably a big draw as well.
I was naive about the traffic and thought that 3 hours would be plenty of time to get there. It wasn't. I had to start putting on my makeup while sitting in traffic and changed into my suit in the bathroom. I gave my speech and Ashlee and I decided to go back to the hotel right away to shower and change. Right outside of the campus we got stuck in the DUI checkpoint. It was also a license checkpoint and they were stopping every single car. I suppose that's the new guise now – make it a license checkpoint because then you have a constitutional reason for stopping everyone, whereas if it was only a DUI checkpoint then they would not be able to stop every single car, but instead follow a pattern.
As well pulled into the checkpoint the nice sheriffs deputy asked for my license, which I couldn't find since in the flurry of rushing to the speech I had frantically thrown every item in the car this way and that. I calmly explained to him I would be happy to look in the trunk for it since I thought that's where it was. He said ok, followed me to the back of the car and watched as I opened the trunk (which was thankfully free of contraband). I still couldn't find my wallet. I gave him my drivers license number and he agreed to run it for me. As we were waiting he asked where I was headed and what I was doing in town. I told him I was staying at the Bacara, that I was a lawyer and that I had just given a speech at the university. He asked what kind of law and hesitated. He smiled and said, "Ohhhh, you must be a criminal defense attorney!" I smiled back and he said, "Well, let me know when you want to come to the good side." I laughed it off and he came back letting me know I was good to go and that I was properly licensed.
Technically he could've given me a ticket for driving without my license, despite the fact that I was actually licensed. But the nice deputy didn't seem to mind so, who am I to argue with the law?
The second time this year I was pulled over in a DUI checkpoint was last night. I was taking my friend's brother home and the both of them were in my car. The traffic began to get heavy and I looked up to see the DUI checkpoint signs. I saw the motorcycle officers sitting to my left on the corner near the legally required turnout, knowing that just down the street there were more officers waiting to pull over those who were trying to abode the checkpoint.
We started to reminisce about the first time I had been pulled over in a checkpoint (Ashlee was in the car with me again – I'm going to start thinking twice about driving with her…) and as we drove by the motorcycle cops Ashlee decided to give them a nice parade wave.
I looked at her with daggers in my eyes and I said, "What did you wave at them for? Now we're going to get pulled over for SURE!" She laughed maniacally, and I guess it didn't matter because I wasn't intoxicated, but who wants to talk to cops unless they have to?
As I watched several cars in front of us get waved through the checkpoint, I tried to count how many cars in front of me had gone without getting stopped. I was trying to establish that the city of Redondo Beach was complying with the constitutional guidelines set forth for them. I couldn't figure it out since we had been placed in a single lane there was a gigantic moving truck in front of me blocking my full view.
As expected, we were stopped. I'm almost positive that the motorcycle cops had radioed ahead to the cops at the front to make sure we were stopped. I guess they figured that Ashlee had to be drunk to wave at them during a DUI checkpoint and were thinking that the driver (me) would be drunk as well.
The officer politely (and cheerfully, I might add) asked me for my drivers license. I gave it to him and he immediately asked if I had been drinking. I said no, with a smile and he said, "Just drunk people in the car, huh?" I smiled back at him and said nothing. Ashlee's brother joked with the cop, "No officer, but we do have a Waver up here in the front" pointing to his sister. The officer laughed and asked if she had perfected her parade wave yet. He handed me back my license and waved me through.
Which brings me to some interesting thoughts – I have often asked a client who is stopped in a checkpoint what the pattern was for pulling cops over. What I mean by that is that cops have to pull over people in a DUI checkpoint with a formula mandated by a supervisor – for example, every 3 cars, or every 4 cars. When I was in that checkpoint, you couldn't tell what the pattern was just because of the flow of traffic.
Another interesting thought – the officer asked if I had been drinking – if I had said yes I would've been pulled out of the car – he didn't get close enough to smell any alcohol emitting from my breath, nor could he see whether my eyes were bloodshot and/or watery (which they were due to laser surgery that I had years ago). Just that question alone probably gets a lot of people without the officer having to do much work up to that point.
Anyway, Ashlee and I will no longer be driving in the same car. Although it was highly educational, I've had enough of going through DUI checkpoints.
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How interesting. Thanks for posting your experience. Thanks for looking out for the publics constitutional rights. Being a criminal lawyer must be facinating, and you have what it takes to be great. You are great.
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Looks like Evernote has grown and changed quite a bit -- last time I looked at it, it was Windows-only I think, and basically just a note-taking app that featured (was centered around, if I recall correctly) a timeline view / navigation function. Now, it looks like it comes with some pretty smart OCR/HWR technology, though at first glance (haven't tried it yet) that appears to be server/service centric. Wonder how it compares to OneNote's capabilities in those same departments.
They've also apparently switched from a software licensing model to a software-as-service model.... which I think has it's place, but so does the former, in areas requiring long-term data persistence especially. The other downside I see is the limited web snippet and photo counts (for a serious note-taker), even for their paid version.


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Hans down!
Someone at Pinewood Studios' equivalent of Bay Door Control is probably in a good deal of trouble after septuagenarian Hollywood heart-throb Harrison Ford had his ankle broken "by a garage door" on the set of the new Star Wars movie. Ford, 71, is to reprise his role as interstellar smuggler scamp turned Rebel general Han Solo …
Hans down!
So one month into filming and they don't have a leg to stand on.
He must have been hopping mad after that one ^^;
I always thought the doors closed a bit too quickly. At 71 I'm not surprised he couldn't get out of the way in time.
I agree, something I always noticed as a kid is how violently fast doors close in Star Wars, I think it even produced a couple of nightmares. No doubt Harrison will probably be suffering from similar now.
I wonder how HGTG Marvin would describe the Star Wars doors, they are hardly depressing ;-)
Not only too fast but also not high enough, leading to the infamous stormtrooper headbanger.
Probably explains all the armour when inside their own space-station (or is it a small moon?). I'm sure the Emporer's evil elf n safety minions would be right on it too...
So what you're saying is Luke was the ideal height for a stormtrooper?
"I wonder how HGTG Marvin would describe the Star Wars doors, they are hardly depressing ;-)"
Unless they close down... ;)
So is the hospital in Oxford to which he has been airlifted a private or NHS one and who is paying for it?
Assuming that you're not trolling, presumably his insurance company is paying for it being as he most likely doesn't pay NI...
More likely Pinewood's insurance company as this, I presume, will be classed as a work accident.
I think it's joint. Or parts of it are. I had an MRI there several years ago paid for by my PMI. My GP had also offered to send me there but she could only offer a wait time of 'six months to never'(*). Bupa got me in within the week.
(*)It was for plantar fasciitis so was not critical and of questionable diagnostic value.
Seriously not trolling - AFAIK the NHS will treat you, whoever you are and wherever you come from, with the theory that they then try and reclaim the costs from you (well, your insurance anyway) if you aren't an entitled citizen.
The NHS is great, sure diagnostics for chronic conditions (non A&E stuff) can take time, and the NHS does really need to work on that side of things. BUT we are all treated, no one is left to die or suffer because they don't have insurance!
More likely Pinewood's insurance company
Let's hope they don't leave him pining for the fjords. On the plus side, he's now truly Han "Solo".
Maybe he'll do pirate movies now, could be fun putting him together with Johnny Depp :)
... but what is an "acteur"... and for that matter, a "Playmauteur"? I'm good with "diorama"s though thanks, due to my advanced age.
... asteroids.
I bet it was a light sabre duel with JJ Abrams about whether the lens flare in a particular shot was going to obscure the trademark H Ford eyebrow-raise-and-eye-roll combo.
Solo is no Jedi. Think he couldn't light it up
Hmmm, and that nicely explains why he's the one in hospital doesn't it?
Think he couldn't light it up
He used one to cut up that croaked Tauntaun.
He's been repaired in an NHS hospital - perhaps privately by a consultant who works both sides of the fence. Recuperation could be in a private room in the hospital or he could transfer to a private hospital. The boundaries between NHS and private are quite blurred.
If you have medical insurance in the UK, look carefully at what's not covered, a lot of the difficult stuff is done on the NHS...
He was clearly trying to re-enact the scene from the start of Indiana Jones for a laugh..
wasn't that what he always did when roling under the closing doors ?
Would never have happened if Ford Prefect was in the film.
It won't be too hard to digitally mat on images of a real, live Harrison Ford onto a body double. It may cost them more, but I doubt it will delay the film much.
If they can Matte Olly Reads head on to a double then maybe they could matte Star Wars Episode 4, 'A New Hope' on to Star Wars Episode 7's final cut, thus ensuring total sucess at the box office?
Surely they can get Vic Armstrong to finish it off, like he did on The Temple of Doom.
But it won't be the same.
A real world Tleilaxu Face Dancer?
No wait, that's another story...
Guessing there may be some subtle rewrites happening to ensure Han mostly appears in seated or reclined positions for the next few months of filming, if they can't just push his scenes back or CGI out the zimmer!
A friend says that it's often cheaper to use CGI to remove an anachronistic object - than it is to re-stage and shoot the scene again.
Then why was Russel Crowe still visible in almost every shot of Gladiator?
Greedo falls over first.
Wow. I thought it was just a Hanstring injury.
What the flip happened inbetween Star Wars (Ep4) and Empire (Ep5)? I sware to god that Mark Hamill was the recipient of the world first face transplant....its two different blokes, surely?
Mark Hamill was in a car crash IIRC, hence the scars and that.
Mark Hamill was involved in a car accident between the filming of 4 and 5 and received facial injuries, hence why the wampa scene was written to give it some sort of explanation.
No...sorry lads i'm just not convinced...even my mam said at the time (1980) that it was a different bloke playing him.
People change when they grow up.
Amazingly, Luke was just a frecking kid in IV. I never saw it that way either, but he's basically Shinji Ikari with more support.
Corvette Summer is the name of the movie. And yeah, a Corvette ate his face. Is why Empire started off with goggles and scarfs and then the Wompa attack.
It is funny though.
As they couldn't get Han's Zimmer.
That deserves more upvotes.
That is all.
"Somewhat elderly Ford"? I am sorry, 71 is NOT elderly, not even somewhat. Ford and I are both just kids!
--Larry Constantine (pen name, Lior Samson)
My dad agrees - he pushing 70, and he still goes up 150ft high chimneys on chemical venting/catalyst systems to consult on their install/repair.
He's got more life in him pushing 70 than I've got pushing 32!
Steven "one of three" Raith
It was as if his batteries were taken out in 'Enders Game.'
Surprised nobody went for the "Star Wars VII has a new cast" angle.
I'll be here all week, try the veal.
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Oracle's row-level security gives users their own virtual private databases.
Ensuring appropriate information privacy is a pressing concern for many businesses today, given privacy legislation such as the United States' HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the EU's Safe Harbour Law. Other privacy mandates, such as Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP), also require businesses to ensure that access to information is tightly controlled.
Oracle has always included the ability to grant (or deny) users access to database objects, but these privileges are defined at the object level—for an entire table, not for specific rows in that table. Although that approach is sufficient for many applications, any application touching on financial, health, or other kinds of personal information usually requires more-discrete controls over access and authorization.
Oracle's row-level security (RLS) feature, introduced in Oracle8i, provides fine-grained access control—fine-grained means at the individual row level. Rather than opening up an entire table to any individual user who has any privileges on the table, row-level security restricts access to specific rows in a table. The result is that any individual user sees a completely different set of data—only the data that person is authorized to see—so the overall capabilities are sometimes referred to as Oracle's virtual private database, or VPD, feature.
Using Oracle's VPD capabilities not only ensures that companies can build secure databases to adhere to privacy policies but also provides a more manageable approach to application development, because although the VPD-based policies restrict access to the database tables, they can be easily changed when necessary, without requiring modifications to application code.
For example, say a bank's account managers (AMs) provide personal customer support to high-net-worth account holders. AMs use a custom banking application to help them check their customers' balances, deposit or withdraw funds, and decide on loan requirements, for example. At one time, the bank's policy was to allow all AMs to access all account holder information, but that policy was recently changed. Now, AMs are assigned to a particular set of customers, and they need to be able to access information pertaining only to those customers. The policy change needs to be reflected in the application, which currently shows all customer information to each AM, not just information on the customers to whom each particular AM is assigned.
To make the application comply with the new privacy policy, the bank has three choices:
- Modify the application code to include a predicate (a WHERE clause) for all SQL statements. This option doesn't ensure privacy policy enforcement outside the application, however, and if there are other changes in the future, the code will once again have to be modified, so this is not a good approach in the long term.
- Leave the application intact, creating views with the necessary predicates and creating synonyms with the same name as the table names for these views. This option is better from the perspective of application changes and security, but it can be difficult to administer, because of the potentially large number of views to track and manage.
- Create a VPD for each of the AMs by creating policy functions that generate dynamic predicates, which can then be applied across all objects, regardless of how they are accessed, by setting up policies with the row-level-security built-in package (DBMS_RLS).
This last option offers the best security without administrative overhead and ensures complete privacy of information—all the account managers see a different view of the table, according to their own credentials.
This article shows you how to set up a VPD security model. It goes through the process by using the foregoing bank scenario to create policy functions, define policies, and then test results. (Note that the tables are not completely defined, to keep the example simple.)
Basic Setup for the Example Application
Briefly, here are the basic assumptions about the example bank application:
- A BANK schema owns two key tables that make up the application—a CUSTOMERS table:
Name Null? Type
--------- -------- -----------
and an ACCOUNTS table:
Name Null? Type
------- -------- -----------
Listing 1 comprises the SQL script for creating and populating these two basic example tables.
- User SECMAN (security manager) owns an ACCESS_POLICY table that identifies the AMs and their respective customer accounts:
Name Null? Type
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The AM_NAME column stores the user ID of the account manager; CUST_ID identifies the customer; and ACCESS_TYPE defines the specific access entitlement—S (SELECT), I (INSERT), D (DELETE), or U (UPDATE). Some example records from the ACCESS_POLICY table follow:
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As you can see, SCOTT, the AM for customer 123, has all privileges—S, I, D, and U—as does LARA for customer 456. Also, because SCOTT can confirm account balances for one customer of LARA, he has S privileges on customer 456.
Step 1. Create a Policy Function
The bank's access rules (contained in the ACCESS_POLICY table) must be applied somehow, dynamically, whenever an AM tries to look into customer account information. The first step is to create a policy function that returns the appropriate predicate to be applied to the table. As with the ACCESS_POLICY table, the policy functions are created and controlled by user SECMAN, for security purposes. It's best to keep privacy rules separate from the tables to which they apply.
Let's examine the policy function, get_sel_cust_id—shown in Listing 2— in detail:
- Accepts exactly two parameters: the schema name (p_schema in varchar2) and the table name (p_table in varchar2)
- Returns one value only, a string—return varchar2 as l_retstr varchar2(2000);—comprising the predicate that will be appended to every query on the table
- Uses a cursor routine—for cust_ rec in—to get the list of values, because each user may have several cust_ids listed in the table
- Returns a constructed string—l_retstr—to be used as a predicate whenever any user attempts to access the underlying table
The function returns the predicate where cust_id in with the appended list of customer accounts (cust_id), separated by commas, that the user (am_name = USER) is allowed to see.
Note that before entering the loop that builds the list of cust_ids for the user, the code in Listing 2 checks to see if the user is the table owner BANK, in which case the function returns a NULL predicate, as follows:
if (p_schema = user) then
1_retstr := null;
After building this function, you want to make sure it returns the appropriate predicate, by testing some sample data. Connect to the database as SECMAN, and insert some records into the ACCESS_POLICY table, giving SECMAN read privileges on a few sample accounts, as follows:
insert into access_policy values ('SECMAN',123,'S');
insert into access_policy values ('SECMAN',456,'S');
insert into access_policy values ('SECMAN',789,'S');
Now execute the function:
select get_sel_cust_id
('BANK','CUSTOMERS') from dual;
The function returns a string that will be applied as a predicate, as shown in the following sample output:
You need to create similar functions for the other types of access. For simplicity's sake, create a single function for all the other access types—UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT—as shown in Listing 3. However, note that for a real-world application, each type of access should have its own individual function defined, to ensure appropriate privacy.
The policy function in Listing 3 is nearly identical to the policy function in Listing 2, except that the predicate is further qualified by use of the information from the ACCESS_CONTROL table:
and access_type in ('I', 'U', 'D')
Creating a policy function is just the first step. You now need to ensure that the function will be used, by defining the policy that should control its use in your system.
Step 2. Define a Policy
Policies are defined with the DBMS_RLS package, which is Oracle-supplied. Be aware that the policies themselves are not database objects owned by any user (schema); they are logical constructs. Any user who has the execute privilege on the DBMS_RLS package can modify or drop a policy created by another user. Privileges to DBMS_RLS should be judiciously controlled and granted with caution.
In the following example, user SECMAN is granted execute privileges (by SYS) on the DBMS_RLS package:
grant execute on dbms_rls to secman;
Listing 4 creates a policy named CUST_SEL_POLICY on the table CUSTOMERS of schema BANK. This policy applies the predicate returned by the function GET_SEL_CUST_ID (which is shown in Listing 2) owned by schema SECMAN to all SELECT statements on the table.
Similarly, you place another policy on the table for other access types, as shown in Listing 5. This policy applies to inserts, updates, and deletes in the CUSTOMERS table.
It is almost identical to the SELECT policy, except that this policy includes a check that ensures that the policy will remain compliant even after an update:
update_check => TRUE
Data cannot be added to the table unless it adheres to the policy.
Step 3. Test the Setup
Now that the building blocks are in place, let's see how they work. Connecting as user BANK and issuing a simple select * from customers; query displays the following:
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123 Jay Kulkarni
456 Wim Patel
These two records are the full contents of the CUSTOMERS table, and both records are shown because BANK owns the table, so the predicate clause is NULL—that is, no predicate is applied. However, when user LARA makes the same query, she sees the following:
select * from customers;
------- ---------
LARA sees only CUST_ID 456, not 123, because that is the row she is authorized to see, as determined by the ACCESS_ POLICY table. Note that the query has no WHERE clause but that the selection from the table is automatically filtered to show only the authorized rows.
If user SCOTT makes the same query, his results are different from the results for LARA: select * from customers;
------- ------------
123 Jay Kulkarni
456 Wim Patel
User SCOTT sees both rows, because he is authorized to do so, as shown in the ACCESS_POLICY table. When user LARA issues the query, the policy function get_sel_cust_id returns the predicate where cust_id in (456). Lara's original query select * from customers is rewritten as
select * from
(select * from customers)
where cust_id in (456)
The predicate is automatically appended to the user's original query. The same thing happens when the user updates the table:
SQL> update bank.customers
2 set cust_name = 'PAT TERRY';
1 row updated.
Note that in this example, only one row is updated, even though there are actually two rows in the underlying table. The policy (CUST_IUD_POLICY) appends the predicate where cust_id in (456) to the update statement. Similarly, while the table is being deleted, only the rows for which the user is authorized are deleted.Attempting to insert a row containing data for which the user is not authorized results in an error message. For example, in this query, LARA is attempting to add a record to the CUSTOMER table for an account not under her purview:
SQL> insert into bank.customers
2 values (789,'KIM PARK');
insert into bank.customers
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-28115: policy with check option
According to the ACCESS_POLICY table, Scott has SELECT privileges on account 789—no other privileges for any other AM are listed in the table.
Using policies in conjunction with functions ensures authorized access to specific records of a table. The rules are applied regardless of how the table is accessed, whether through an application or directly through an ad hoc query tool, such as SQL*Plus. Users see only rows for which they have been authorized.
Policies can be applied to multiple tables, and a single policy function can be used by any number of policies. Listing 6 shows a policy on an ACCOUNTS table that uses the get_sel_cust_id function initially created for use with the CUSTOMERS table.---------------------------
Arup Nanda (email@example.com) is the chief database architect at Proligence Solutions (www.proligence.com), a Norwalk, Connecticut-based company providing specialized Oracle security and disaster recovery solutions. He is the coauthor of the book Oracle Privacy Security Auditing, (Rampant TechPress, 2003).
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Portland Timbers head coach Caleb Porter
On how the win feels tonight:
"I care mostly how it feels to my guys. It feels good to them. Proud of their composure second half, obviously made it tougher than it should have been. This team's been through a lot this year. One of the things I told them before the game was, 'One of two things happen when you've been through a rough patch that inevitably teams go through.' And you see it a lot. One of two things happens. On one hand you can be fractured, you could crumble and you can divide. And we haven't done that. What we've done is what good teams do. They've grown stronger, they've gotten better and they've become unbreakable. And this team, because of what we've been through, we're better, we're stronger, we're hungrier, and that's how we were able to pull that out in the second half because of what we've been through. And I think it's what is going to continue to propel us hopefully in these futures games. We're probably the strongest and toughest team in the league because of that, and that's why we were able to pull that victory out in the second half. And we need to continue to use that to our advantage when we're in a situation like we were today."
On how Liam Ridgewell looked and what he brought to the team in his first game:
"I thought he was outstanding, especially considering he has only trained five days, coming off an offseason, a five-week offseason, he hasn't played a game since April. I think early on he was getting used to the turf a little bit. For me, the play that summed up his performance was when Dillon Powers was driving late in the game, top of the box and [Ridgewell] just held his position and cut the shot out. It's those little plays that we need our defenders to make to win games. This game is a game of moments. It's the little things that win you games. I thought he did a lot of little things today to help us. And so did some of the others. Obviously Gastón [Fernández] and Maxi [Urruti] going into the game we thought they could change the game and give us a boost and they did. [Diego] Valeri was special tonight. Overall, good three points, but it's no more than three points. We have to move on. We are going to enjoy this for a couple days and get back to work. Focus on Montreal and we won't deviate from the process we followed this week which is we are focused on the next game and that's it. We are not going to get distracted by anything else."
On playing Diego [Valeri] on the left more than normal:
"The key with that was [Christopher] Klute. Normally we shift [Valeri] to the right sometimes because he tends to like to float there. You see that through the run of play. Even when he's playing the 10 he kind of fades there. That's his natural playing style. But with Klute, he would've had to do too much defending. So Darlington [Nagbe] was a better matchup there because he's a guy that will be able to track up and back a little bit more. So we felt to get Gastón and Maxi on the field that was the best spot. And what was interesting, I think it's more his ability to feel a game and smell where the spaces are. He floated a lot to that left, and so we felt like that was the right move to shift him over there. In the end, it worked out he was able to come inside on that right foot and smack a ball, score the game winner."
On flipping Michael Harrington and Jack Jewsbury at halftime:
"We were planning to start Jorge Villafaña but he was a late game scratch. He pulled up yesterday with a little bit of a niggle. We evaluated it more today and he wasn't going to be able to go. So I didn't want to disrupt the preparation in all the other spots. Jack has played left back. I thought that he would control the space a little bit more next to Ridgewell, knowing that he wasn't completely 90 minutes fit and also with [Steve] Zakuani playing more as a true winger we felt we'd get the width there. But I didn't like the way it was going so I felt with Mikey there on the left he's going to get forward a little bit more, create 2-v-1s and Jack's obviously right-footed. So in the end, I just didn't like the way it went first half so I made that change."
On his decision to sub in Maxi [Urruti] and Gastón [Fernández] at the same time:
"I think that sometimes you make subs and you chop it up too much and you never get in a rhythm. So my thought was let's put them both on and let them get into a rhythm together versus layering it in. That was the thinking. Sometimes one boost is a little and two boosts is twice as much. So we felt we needed a major change in the game and a major boost. I didn't want to chop the game up too much."
On the overall performance of the defense tonight:
"I thought overall the back four especially was outstanding. I thought first half, at times, we were a little stretched. That's one of the things we said at halftime. We kind of got a little rattled. I think because we've given up early goals. It rattled us and I didn't think we kept our composure very well. We didn't dig in and defend. You know part of chasing a game isn't just attacking, it's defending. You have to dig in and defend, otherwise you give up the next goal. If you don't defend, you don't get back on the ball. I thought we weren't as hungry as we needed to be defensively. We adjusted a few things with the positioning of Will Johnson and Valeri so that we had more midfield, because that's the other thing when you are chasing a game. Sometimes you think just push numbers forward, but then you lose the midfield and then you're never able to get a hold of the game and control it. So I think that helped. Valeri was playing a little too high first half and so was Will, so at times [Diego] Chara was the only guy in midfield. I thought that move in the second half helped us get a hold of the midfield, get a grip on the game."
On how he feels about the roster he picked for the MLS All-Star game:
"I wish I had more Timbers on it. I'd put a lot more Timbers on it if I could, but we might get a couple in there. There are more Timbers that are deserving. It's a group of guys that have earned it. More than anything, winning the game, I felt it was important to reward guys that have earned it. There are a few guys that aren't on there from around the league that probably earned it that aren't going to get on. At the end of the day you have to draw the line and we're going to name 23 guys tomorrow, but there are still a few guys that should be on there that deserve it. There are a lot of good players in this league, a lot of attacking players that have had good seasons. So I said the other day the irony of that is if I picked all the players that earned it I'd be playing a formation that wouldn't work in the game with too many strikers. I still took more strikers than probably I should have because they deserved it. In the end, we are going to highlight the players and showcase their abilities. Try to make it a game, try to make it exciting at the very least, maybe it will be a 5-5 game."
Portland Timbers defender Liam Ridgewell
On how it felt to play in front of the home crowd for the first time:
"Fantastic. I was a little bit late going out — I had to change my socks — so I could hear the crowd already when I was going out, so that was a little bit special. And especially at the end, obviously when we won, that was a little bit special, so it was good to hear them sing."
On the importance of earning the three points from the game:
"It was a good three points. A big three points for us. It pushes us up the league. It was something we were very relaxed about. We knew we could pick the points up, and I think we showed how we are as a group with how well we played."
On how it felt to play with the team for the first time in a game:
"It felt great. I've had a few training sessions and then suddenly a game, and that was obviously great to get the game in. Danny [O'Rourke] helped alongside me and kept pushing me on, so it was obviously fantastic to get the 90 minutes in under my belt. The only way to get to know everybody, and get used to the crowd and the game is to go out there and play. So it was very good to go out there and do that."
On his reaction to the Rapids' early goal in the game:
"As a defender, you don't want to lose goals, and I wanted to try and keep a clean sheet tonight like the rest of the back four, back five, and it was disappointing to lose it off a set piece. It's something we've got to work on during the week, and I was just glad to get the three points and two fantastic goals."
On his reaction to the style and level of play in MLS:
"Very impressed with it. Obviously we get a little bit of it in England, and you get to watch it a little bit, but to watch it was very impressive, and to play in it was very good. It's very quick, and very physical. It suits my style of play, and I really enjoyed it out there."
On his impressions of midfielder Diego Valeri:
"I like what I see, I like what I see. If he keeps that up every week, and he can walk out there for 90 minutes and score a goal like that, it's fine with me. That's a fantastic goal, and it really got the crowd up, and it was a bit special."
Portland Timbers midfielder Diego Valeri
On how he felt to get the three points in front of the home crowd:
"Happy. Happy with the three points because we deserved that, this team deserved that, the fans deserved that, happy because the performance was very good in the second half. We are close, and we know that, and we know that the results will come."
On how he felt in the flow of the offense against the Rapids:
"I felt good. For me, it's good. I'm glad because I scored. For me, I will say, the most important thing is the team. The goal is the playoffs, and we are there."
On his game-winning goal in the 77th minute against the Rapids:
"At halftime, [the Timbers assistant coaches] said to me, 'shoot, shoot, score.' When I got the ball, I knew that I would probably shoot. Like I said, I'm happy for the team."
Portland Timbers midfielder Will Johnson
On the club's response to being down 1-0 in the game at halftime:
"Caleb [Porter] got after it in the locker room at halftime, sorted some things out tactically, and then made sure that we knew we had to do better. We had to work harder. We had to play tactically smarter, and we had to fight for our fans. We thought good things would happen for us."
On midfielder Diego Valeri's game-winning goal in the 77th minute:
"It's a special goal. We put in a lot of good work defensively, team defense, to keep them off the board after that, but you need a special play to win the game, and there's no more special play than that. There's no more special player. He's our man. We fed him a good ball, and it's one of those where he's about to wind up and you're like, 'no, no, pass, pass, pass,' and it goes in the back of the net. You're happy for him. He's a big-time player. He's the most humble guy I've ever met, so I'm thrilled for him and thrilled for the boys."
On second-half substitutes Maximiliano Urruti and Gastón Fernandez's impact on the game:
"Those two guys have been huge for us. No matter who comes off the bench we need them to make an impact, but those two guys especially, Maxi finding a way to get a goal, and Gastón, so good at finding those holes in between the back four and the midfield three. I think we had a little bit of a problem with that, especially in the first 45. We couldn't find those holes, and when he comes on, him and Valeri, Nagbe and Urruti, those four guys, they were flying. They could have scored a couple more. It was fun to watch. It was beautiful stuff out there."
Colorado Rapids Quotes
Colorado Rapids head coach Pablo Mastroeni
On the match:
"I thought it was a well fought game. I thought the guys went out and played really well, played hard, really controlled the tempo in the first half and parts of the second. I think when [Portland] got that first goal, everyone got into it. We were on our heels a bit. Having said that, we had chances early in the second half to really do a little more with our chances and we didn't do enough. I think we lost to a world-class strike. Sometimes you just have to tip your hat. Onto the next one."
On how injuries impacted the match:
"We came into this game limping. We had some suspensions. We were digging deep. More importantly, the guys that were on the field did a tremendous job of really getting after it and doing everything they could. When you're forced to make quick changes, early changes in games, it obviously disrupts the flow. But having said that, we had chances to go up two, we had chances to go up 2-1, we had chances to tie it. So tonight just wasn't the night, but again the effort was tremendous and just have to prepare for the next game."
On the effect of Timbers' subs Maximiliano Urruti and Gastón Fernández:
"Obviously it throws in two fresh players, very technical. They like to get the balls underneath. I thought they were dynamic when they came in the game and they found little pockets. They did a good job combining with the rest of the midfield and bringing them forward. I think they impacted the game."
On if the result is hard to swallow:
"No. It's not difficult at all. I think the guys went out and executed the game plan, got up ahead in a difficult place to play, controlled the flow for large portions of that game. We lost to a good side, to a world-class strike. Nothing to be disappointed about. Some things we have to improve, but I say improve. Every game you have to improve whether you win or lose, right? Just have to get the minds right, rest, recover, and onto the next game."
Colorado Rapids defender Drew Moor
On the match:
"I'm disappointed that we come away with nothing. You can't talk enough about the effort and the battle our boys put into it. We got beat at the end of the day by a world-class goal by Valeri. Probably could have closed the space down a little bit better. I just told the guys in there this game alone is a microcosm of what the rest of the season is going to be like. We've got some young guys in there. We've got some guys banged up in there, but if we put forth that effort and that attitude and just tighten things up a little bit more, we're going to make the playoffs and we're going to make a good run at it."
On the playoff-like atmosphere:
"First of all, anytime you come in here, it's like a playoff atmosphere, so there's that. The game plan we went in with, we executed well. We didn't want to mess around with it in our defending half. We wanted to get it down and play in our attacking half, which we did extremely well in the first half. Probably could have had a couple more [goals]. I think at the end of the day, we gave up maybe a little too much possession early in the second half and allow them back in it, but just the game plan we went in with, the attitude we went in with was tremendous. Again, we're disappointed we lose the game. It's a funny game sometimes."
On the difference between the first and second half:
"Possession certainly. We weren't able to get the ball down and play as much in our attacking half as I thought we did in the first half. Maybe conceded a little bit too much space, but when you have a 1-0 lead in a place like this, it's difficult to continue that offensive pressure on them. Again at the end of the night, you're disappointed in the first goal you give up, but the second goal is a world-class finish. I don't want to sound too positive, but the effort those guys showed was tremendous and hats off to Portland. They walk out of here with the three points, but a lot of games to play and again this is a game we learn from and stay positive, walk out of here with our heads held high."
Colorado Rapids midfielder Dillon Powers
On the match:
"I thought we had a pretty strong defensive performance. We came in here with that mentality that we were going to defend well and defend strong and we did that for most of the game. They beat us, like Pablo [Mastroeni] said, with a world-class goal. Have to tip the cap to them for that. I think we were proud of the defensive side, but I think we could have played a little more.
On the difference between the first half and the second half:
"I think some of the subs came on. I'm not sure exactly what the order was, but I thought they made a big difference, finding the gaps in between or right behind the center backs. Just a good job facing up and linking up with the rest of the team. I thought that was the difference for me. Like I said, finding those gaps between the center-mids and the backline. I think the first half we were able to shut that down. Second half they did a much better job of finding those balls."
- Defender Liam Ridgewell made his Timbers and MLS debut on Friday against Colorado, starting and playing 90 minutes.
- Friday's crowd of 20,814 marked the 62nd consecutive sellout at Providence Park. The Timbers have sold out every regular-season match at Providence Park since their inaugural MLS season in 2011.
- Portland has won four consecutive home matches against the Rapids at Providence Park, dating back to the 2012 season.
- The Timbers improved their all-time record against Colorado to 4-5-1, including a mark of 4-1-0 at Providence Park.
- Defender Jack Jewsbury made his 299th career MLS appearance on Friday, tallying an assist and playing 90 minutes. The game was Jewsbury's 104th as a member of the Timbers since 2011.
- Midfielder/forward Darlington Nagbe made his 115th career MLS appearance, tying former NASL Timbers forward Clyde Best for ninth place on the Timbers all-time career games-played list across all eras.
- Portland's 518 pass attempts on Friday night marked a season high, while the team's 430 passes completed rank as the second-most in a single match by the Timbers in 2014.
- With two second-half goals on Friday, the Timbers rank second in MLS with 21 goals scored in the second half of matches this season.
- Portland's 21 home goals are the most of any MLS team in 2014.
- The Timbers are tied for second overall in the league with 32 total goals.
- Midfielder Diego Valeri's game-winning goal in the 77th minute was Portland's 11th goal scored in the final 15 minutes of a match this season, which ranks tied for the most in the league.
- Forward Maximiliano Urruti tallied his team-leading seventh goal of the season on Friday and his first since June 1.
- Midfielder Diego Chara registered the fourth game-winning assist of his Timbers MLS career on Friday, bringing him within one game-winning assist of tying the Timbers MLS career record (5, Kalif Alhassan).
- Valeri has registered at least one point in five of the team's last eight regular-season games (2g, 5a).
- The Timbers have battled back to earn at least a share of the points in 10 matches, earning a 3-5-7 record in 2014 when allowing the first goal.


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If books are lent to someone trustworthy and who you know and trust will return the book, there should be no problem. But if you lend the book to someone who you know tries to keep things for themselves, steals or loses things easily, than no, you shouldn`t lend them a book (particularly one you enjoy reading/like.)
I really only allow my close friends to borrow my books, but I'm still apprehensive about letting even my close friends borrow them. My books are like my children, and I love them a lot. Like, it's a problem. I think that many book lovers can relate to this topic when a friend asks to borrow a book. We don't want to, but we do it anyways out of kindness. And of course, this does not go for everyone. Some people think that books are meant to be shared amongst everyone. And I support this, except for the fact that I actually like and enjoy organizing my books so they look all nice and pretty. (And as I've said before, I have a serious problem).
But in the past, I have let people borrow my books and take them home. As a result of this, my books have gotten water damaged, the pages have been ripped and torn, and I've even gotten food crumbs within the pages. I'm sorry, but those types of things have totally eliminated my trust to let people borrow my books. And this is why I'm so apprehensive to let people take them, even my close friends. And yes, I am aware that not everyone acts like that, (Godzilla tearing my books apart), but I'm just really really worried that the same thing will happen again.
I think lending out books are okay, but the owner has to know and learn to be okay with the fact that their books might get damaged. Some people don't care about the book itself, when others do.


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Vibrant class discussions & blogging
School Spider has a full pupil area included so pupils can pick up homework, engange in online class discussions and blog with pupils at their school and other School Spider schools. It is intuitive and simple and easy to use so pupils of all primary ages can engage with each other safely and securely.
School Spider blogging comes with pupil tagging, hashtagging and media uploads.
A great introduction to social media as pupils have to be responsible for the content they are adding to their pupil area. Teachers have full control and can remove post instantly.
Key info
Safe and secure
all pupil input is filtered for bad words and phrases, links to websites and bullying. Teachers have overall control over what is posted. A great introduction to social media for primary children.
Homework and online discussions
Pupils can pick up and discuss homework posted by the teacher. Homework can be resent back to the teacher digitally with grades and marks all given remotely.
Multi school blogging.
Pupils can blog with pupils at other School Spider schools safely and securely. Pupils can upload media to enhance their blog topics and build up vibrant online discussions.
clients say
We are really excited by School Spider's website/platform solution. Our staff find it much easier to manage and the design is a big improvement on what we had before.
Mr Craven - Headteacher
It has been a pleasure to work with the School Spider team. We met initially to view what School Spider could do and received content for our new website all in the same week! We were on a very tight schedule to launch and they worked very efficiently to nsure we were not left without a website at any point. Queries are answered very promptly and the whole team are very helpful, no job is too small! The website works very well and is so easy for all staff to use.
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Bad News Is No News In China
from the only-think-happy-thoughts dept
China certainly doesn't have the greatest reputation for freedom of the press, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that their new regulations for online news sites seem to clearly limit what can be written about. They claim this will help "standardize the management of news and information," by which they mean that it will make it easier for them to censor the news online. Specifically, news sites have been told they can "only post news on current events and politics." What? Sports is out? Also, anything posted must be "healthy and civilized news and information that is beneficial to the improvement of the quality of the nation, beneficial to its economic development and conducive to social progress." In other words, only post stuff that the Chinese government likes. You may recall that after the original SARS outbreak, the Chinese government was accused of blocking information about it. You could certainly see that they might find news of something like SARS to not be "beneficial to the quality of the nation." The reality here is that this is nothing new -- but just reaffirms that the government is going to censor news, both online and off. And, since they've now required all website owners to register with the government, they'll be better able to track down those who disobey these vague rules. At least that news site that only posts happy news will have a new market of 1.3 billion people.


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Linux System Administration Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Paperback)
Juliet Kemp
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The job of Linux systems administrator is interrupt-driven and requires constant learning in byte-wise chunks. This book gives solutions to modern problems, even some you might not have heard of, such as scripting LDAP, making Mac clients play nice with Linux servers, and backup, security, and recovery scripts. Author Juliet Kemp takes a broad approach to scripting using Perl and bash, and all scripts work on Debian or Red Hat lineage distributions. Plus she dispenses wisdom about time management, dealing with desperate colleagues, and how to avoid reinventing the wheel!
- Learn how to love LDAP scripting and NFS tuning
- Make Perl serve you: don't be enslaved by Perl
- Learn to change, craft, and feel empowered by recipes that change your life
What you'll learn
- Centralize your network using LDAP and NFS
- Speak the language of different file systems
- Know when to use Perl or when to stick to sed and awk
- Treat security concerns with Perl, bash, and intelligence
- Learn how to trace errant system calls and misbehaving colleagues
Who is this book for?
System administrators in need of quick succor and guidance when interruptions prevent the smooth running of a network.


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A Palestinian boy looks at statues that are made of fiberglass and covered with clay by Palestinian artist Eyad Sabbah, which are depictions for the Palestinians who fled their houses from Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the east of Gaza City October 21, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Drone footage reveals Israel's devastating destruction of Gaza 2014:
Striking photo perfectly sums global economic problems.
Africans desperate to get into Spain.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT - (FILES) A young rebel soldier poses with his machine-gun on September 2, 1998 in Kalemie, southeast of DRC. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) release a final report on October 1, 2010 of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003. Over 1,280 witnesses were interviewed, more than 1,500 documents were collected and analysed covering more than 600 incidents in the DRC in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed, injured and victimzed in other ways, including large numbers of women and children. AFP PHOTO / (Photo credit should read ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
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25 U.S. Code § 640d–27 - Attorney fees, costs and expenses for litigation or court action
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(a) Payment by Secretary; authorization of appropriations
In any litigation or court action between or among the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Tribe and the United States or any of its officials, departments, agencies, or instrumentalities, arising out of the interpretation or implementation of this subchapter, as amended, the Secretary shall pay, subject to the availability of appropriations, attorney's fees, costs and expenses as determined by the Secretary to be reasonable. For each tribe, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $120,000 in fiscal year 1981, $130,000 in fiscal year 1982, $140,000 in fiscal year 1983, $150,000 in fiscal year 1984, and $160,000 in fiscal year 1985, and each succeeding year thereafter until such litigation or court action is finally completed.
(b) Award by court; reimbursement to Secretary
Upon the entry of a final judgment in any such litigation or court action, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, costs and expenses to the party, other than the United States or its officials, departments, agencies, or instrumentalities, which prevails or substantially prevails, where it finds that any opposing party has unreasonably initiated or contested such litigation. Any party to whom such an award has been made shall reimburse the United States out of such award to the extent that it has received payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Excess difference between award of court and award of Secretary treated as final judgment of Court of Claims
To the extent that any award made to a party against the United States pursuant to subsection (b) of this section exceeds the amount paid to such party by the United States pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, such difference shall be treated as if it were a final judgment of the Court of Claims under section 2517 of title 28.
Source(Pub. L. 93–531, § 29, as added Pub. L. 96–305, § 11,July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 934.)
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The Court of Claims, referred to in subsec. (c), and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals were merged effective Oct. 1, 1982, into a new United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by Pub. L. 97–164, Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 25, which also created a United States Claims Court [now United States Court of Federal Claims] that inherited the trial jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See sections 48, 171 et seq., 791 et seq., and 1491 et seq. of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
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Hi, and thanks for coming to my site! I'm Patrick Ambron, co-founder and CEO of BrandYourself.com. I mostly talk/write about online reputation management and online privacy, but I also try to weigh in where I can on what it takes to build a company. I certainly don't consider myself a success–we're still in the process of trying to make our first company successful–but as a first-time founder, learning from others has been integral in getting where we are today. I hope that by sharing some of my experiences I can pass the lessons we've learned onto others.
Here are a few important areas of my life:
BrandYourself.com: I'm the co-founder/CEO of BrandYourself.com, where our goal is to help people look better online. In an age of cyber-bullying, revenge porn, hate sites and inadequate online privacy laws, everyone needs the power to understand and protect their reputation on the web. In fact, we started BrandYourself because my cofounder Pete had his own issue: he was being mistaken for a criminal online and couldn't get a quote from anyone in the industry for under $25K. We realized Online Reputation Management (ORM) is an important need and shouldn't just be for the wealthy. Since then, we've grown to over 80 employees across two offices and hope to keep building tools to help people. You can learn more about that story here or read our comprehensive Online Reputation Management, Personal Branding, and Thought Leadership guides.
Speaking/Teaching: I teach courses and speak about Online Reputation, Online Privacy and my ongoing journey building BrandYourself. I'm a regular instructor at General Assembly (you can see and sign up for my classes here) and a mentor at the Cooper Union in NYC. I also give guest lectures at universities including Syracuse, Columbia, Georgetown and the University of Pennsylvania. To learn more about my speaking/teaching you can read about it here. I'm always happy to talk about these topics whether it's to a large audience at a conference–like the Dublin Web Summit or SXSW–or to a small class at a school.
Writing: I also occasionally write about these topics so I can dive deeper, particularly when it comes to the future of Online Reputation and Privacy. I'm a regular contributor to Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, and Adweek (and occasionally other places like the Washington post). You can check out some of my favorite pieces here.
"Of all the young entrepreneurs I have ever encountered, none has shown a more natural talent for growing a successful company, and, quickly. Patrick identified and then solved an unforeseen problem arising from the existence of the Internet itself. Individual reputations, always a precious asset for anyone, could be ruined in the blink of an eye. He conceived of a user-friendly product, one that was affordable to the widest market, mustered investors, recruited a brilliant team, and persevered, continuing to build a great company."Carl J Schramm
"You looked like maybe 150 pounds of pure potential standing in the middle of that set, that's always a turn on for every shark and you looked like you scrubbed yourself clean that morning."Barbara Corcoran
"Patrick has a rare ability to connect with people and make a technical and business topic real, accessible and understandable."Sean Branagan
"[He] built a good business. To turn down $2 million at that age…takes guts."Robert Herjavec
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SAN BERNARDINO >> Gov. Jerry Brown is being praised by San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos for overturning a recent decision by the parole board to free a Chino man convicted of murdering his wife in 1985.
Although his release was objected by prosecutors, 71-year-old Samuel Dubyak was deemed suitable for parole, but that decision was overturned April 4 by Brown.
"I am grateful that Gov. Brown allowed me the opportunity to recently meet with him and discuss this horrific case on behalf of the victim and her family," Ramos said. "This was a brutal murder that left one young girl without a mother and a family that continues to mourn the fact that they have never been able to properly bury the body of their loved one."
Dubyak was sentenced to 27 years to life for the first-degree murder conviction of his wife, Lourdes Dubyak.
"Mr. Dubyak, to this day, shows no remorse for his actions, nor has he revealed the location of the body," Ramos said. "He has consistently refused to acknowledge that he even committed the murder or address the underlying domestic violence issues while in prison."
Lourdes Dubyak was last seen on Aug. 11, 1985 and no credit card charges or checking account activity was attributed to her after that date, according to records.
Court records show she and her husband Samuel were sleeping in separate bedrooms in the Chino home they shared at the time of her disappearance and she had discussed with her brother her desire to divorce Samuel.
When Chino police started investigating her disappearance, Samuel told them he had seen her last when she dropped their daughter off in his room before she left their home.
He said that when he woke in the morning she, and the bed she slept in, were gone, according to court records.
Detectives said Dubyak, his brother, and a 13-year-old boy loaded her bed into a truck and dumped it in a nearby flood control channel, court records showed.
Authorities said the bed had a .22 caliber bullet lodged in the box springs that matched a bullet hole in the mattress.
Evidence also showed traces of blood were found in the room where Lourdes slept and a trail of blood was found in the hallway leading from the room to the garage.
Detectives interviewed the couple's 3-year-old daughter who said that her mommy had gone away forever, over the mountains, because she didn't love her, court records showed.
The little girl also said that her mother was wrapped in a blanket asleep and taken in the back of a green pick-up truck.
Lourdes' body has never been found.


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Good cover letter advice
My old friend Chet (Alan to pretty much everyone else) is an editor at Relief, and he just posted some advice on cover letters. Some of it is specific to their journal, since it's a Christian journal, like this piece.
Do not tell us that God wants us to publish you.I will freely admit, however, that the reason they published me was because I threatened to infect them with my atheist cooties unless they gave in.
Lots of people tell us we should accept a story because God told them to write it. Some imply—or even say—that if we don't accept a story we're going against His wishes. Now, we certainly believe that the Spirit can move in people when they write, and that God's hand, especially when requested, is capable of guiding creativity. This fact alone, however, is not a free pass to publication. And telling an editor up front that they're sinning if they don't publish you is a really good way to bias your reading.
P.S. The rest of the advice really is top-notch as well, no matter who you're submitting to.
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'Scream Queens' Add Charisma Carpenter to Cast, Set Premiere Date
Charisma Carpenter (Buff The Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars) has been added to the cast of the upcoming horror comedy 'Scream Queens'. Star Emma Roberts revealed today via her Instagram account that the show will premiere the first Tuesday of the season September 22.
Carpenter is cast in a guest starring/potential recurring role as lead Ariana Grande's mother. The anthology style series, from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, is about a college campus that becomes a setting for a series of murders. The 15 episode season co stars Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, Oliver Hudson and Abigail Breslin.
Source: Deadline