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My guild made the decision to transfer to a larger server – seems like the opposite of the trend right now, what with all the free transfers to small servers, but we've found that recruiting and raiding at an end-game level are infinitely more difficult when your ONLY recruiting source is off-server, and you have to do all your own farming due to artificially high AH prices.
A few days ago, our officers told us they had narrowed it down to two servers, and the idea was bandied around that we may want to reserve our names.
"Silly. I'm the only Wynthea on the armory, and have been for years. The level 11 is my alt. No one will have my name."
I'm sure you can guess where this is going.
Someone – either in my own guild as a joke, or, more likely, from our rival guild on our old server – registered my name.
I am not amused.
(before you ask why I think it might've been the other guild, quite a few of our more prominent members' names were also registered. Uncommon, not found on a cool t.v. show or book names.)
Aside from my identity as associated with World of Matticus, I have an email address, a twitter, and a close affinity with this name. I know many people *cough*Matt*Cough* are perfectly comfortable hitting the "random" button, and wearing whatever comes out of it for the rest of their toon's life.
I am not. I spend, quite literally, hours naming a character that I plan to play extensively. Hours.
I research the meanings, the language of origin, and imbue the name with a personality before the character selection screen even comes up.
Trivia, for the interested: Wynthea, meaning "healer" is a Welsh-spelling of a Hebrew name. My mother's family is Welsh, and my own real name is Hebrew. The name holds quite a bit of significance for me.
My character is currently named "Wynthia." Not a huge distinction, I suppose………. and one that I will remedy as soon as possible. But it bothers me. A lot.
Anyway, if you're looking for me, I'm currently Wynthia *wince* on Firetree.
Oh, wait, I guess I should make this more than a Rant-post.
If you are considering creating a character, for RP purposes or not, but you want a name that actually carries weight, and means something – "noobpwnerx" I'm looking at you – there are some really great resources on the vast interweb. First, though, you need to have an idea of what you want.
Wyn's character-naming guide
1. Start thinking about what you want the character to be, and to do. Before I name a character, I come up with an attribute I'd like the name to mean.
For example, if you're creating a character to PvP, you may think about words like "Victorious" or "War-like"
For a bank alt, you may want something meaning "Wealthy."
Just think about words that mean something you'd like the character to embody.
Whatever you do, do NOT name your character after something you really liked in a currently-popular book or movie. Old books are fine – for example, Renwein (my Human Priest) is named after a relatively obscure character in Arthurian Literature. It's also possible it wasn't even her name, but just a generic word for "maiden." Bonus points if you go look it up.
2. Pull up a baby-name website.
This one freaked my last boyfriend out when he found it in my internet-history. One of my favorites is Baby Names World, because it allows you to search by meaning, and create lots of fun filters.
It also allows you to filter by gender and language of origin.
3. Google a search like "Names meaning…."
If you don't like anything on a standard baby-site, just give Google a shot. This is actually how I found Wynthea.
4. Refine your choices.
You need to pick a couple. If you're creating a Female Human Prot-Warrior, and like Irish names, be aware that "Bridget" (means Strong) will probably already be taken.
Say them out loud a few times. People will be trying this on vent, so don't spend all this time creating a name just to hear it butchered every day.
See what abbreviations you come up with. Wynthea shortens rather handily to Wyn, which is an awesome nickname. (Full of wyn, for the wyn… it's an unexpected thing I really love about the name.)
Make sure it's relatively easy to type. Elves especially seem to have a hard time with this one. I had a friend named Randirardhon who a) hated to be called Randi, and b) couldn't figure out why people had such a hard time typing it out.
5. Name your new best friend.
Or alter-ego. However it works for you.
Then get really upset when some Jerk steals your name. (Yes, I know that reaction is probably exactly what they wanted….. )
My next post(s) are coming, as promised. I just can't believe you guys wanna read about REP FACTIONS. That's not one I had 1/2 prepared. That was "no one will choose this" poll-filler. Argh!


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Veteran Feminists of America
I was born in Tarboro, North Carolina, March 19, 1930, at the height of the Great Depression.
My father, George Dewey Satterthwaite (named after Admiral Dewey), was a tenant farmer who augmented his income by going around the area with his toolbox doing carpentry jobs.
Our family was saved from poverty by the Roosevelt New Deal, specifically the Resettlement Act which leased abandoned farms on long-term mortgages to families who needed a boost.
Eight of nine children born to my mother, Hattie Lee Bradley Satterthwaite, survived to become prosperous citizens. The little boy just before me died of pneumonia when I was an infant.
My father tried several locations in the resettlement program and then settled into a farm on Blue Sky Road near Halifax, NC. The whole family worked very hard. Children who could not do farm work took care of smaller children and helped around the house, brought water, etc.
On Blue Sky Road, we had a cooperative system of working on crops like tobacco that were very labor intensive. One day we would work at one farm, another day we would go to a neighbor. The whole area was like a big family; all the boys were like brothers to me.
Farm work was extremely boring and repetitive, but the worst part was that we had to miss weeks of school in the fall to help with the harvesting. We grew corn and peanuts; the peanuts required a lot of handwork.
We went to school for the first six grades in Halifax, NC (historically interesting for the Halifax Resolutions, a precursor of the Declaration of Independence). There were two classes in each room, but the teachers were dedicated and anyone who worked could get a good education. (I found later that I had learned by the fifth grade all the grammar that I would ever need.) For eighth grade through twelve, we went to Weldon, NC, a few miles away.
During my first several school years, in Tarboro, we walked to school; I remember carefully stepping into my older siblings footsteps when there was heavy snow (no colorful boots for children in those days; one wore the same shoes year-round, usually handed down from older children). For Halifax and Weldon schools, there was a bus, but we missed a lot of school because the bus couldn?t navigate the country roads when there was snow.
In Halifax, the majority of children were from neighboring farm areas (the town was very small). The highest grade was sixth, so the children hadn?t developed the attitudes that I would later experience in high school. Between 10 and 11 years old, I had a growth spurt that changed me from the smallest child in the class to the tallest. During outdoor recess, the girls got angry because I played fullout. When we played softball, I knocked the ball out of the play-yard, across a ditch into a field. The girls would complain, refuse to go after the ball, so I would run around the bases, then run to get the ball. When I pitched, the girls couldn?t hit the ball. The girls complained to the teachers and they found a solution. They took me over to the boys? area and asked the boys to let me play with them. That worked out so well the best boy player and I became unofficial co-captains and planned all the games. Mostly we would each choose a side, which provided for more balanced play; however, sometimes we would play on the same side and the others didn?t have a chance. Mostly, we were fair, making sure the poorer players were distributed so that they wouldn?t be a drag on either side too often. (There were some boys who should have played with the girls.) I was allowed to play any position I wanted, even to pitch.
I tell this story at length because I believe this early experience in equality started the spark of feminism in me. One who is treated equally with other humans will later chafe at the slightest inequality.
I also extended this fairness (there was no feminism then) into my family. When I was big enough to work in the fields, I did that and then, at the house, because I was the oldest girl at home (the older sisters left as soon as they finished high school), I helped my mother. Many times I would be ironing while my father and the other children relaxed. I simmered in this situation for a while, then one day I announced that I would do all housework during hours when everyone was working; thus, I did washing (with tubs and a scrubbing board and hanging clothes on a line outside), ironing, cleaning and any other household tasks while the others worked in the fields.
For seventh grade to twelfth, I transferred to Weldon, a bit larger town. There I ran into prejudice against children who came on the bus; the town children felt very superior and did not associate with us.
There was even a more serious problem; in the fall, farm children were kept out of school for weeks to help bring in the crops, especially the peanuts which had to be handled by hand. It broke my heart not to go to school, but as soon as I could go back I would get all my assignments from the teachers and catch up as soon as possible.
But I was completely surprised one day when a teacher drew me aside and asked if I could manage to get a white dress, that I was number one in the junior class and thus was to be the grand marshal at graduation, leading in the seniors.
I had learned to sew in Home Economics class so I just needed material. I had been carrying eggs to sell to the school cafeteria for my mother (a story in itself: think of the other kids teasing me while I sat on the bus protecting the box of eggs). She let me keep enough money from egg sales to buy material to make a dress. The next year I was valedictorian and had to make a speech, a very painful experience since I was extremely shy and knew the other children didn?t want to hear a word from me.
I had not even thought of going to college, as I knew there was no money. Again, a teacher helped; she gave me a check for $200 and said ?some citizens of the town? were proud of me and wanted to give me a start for college (I was never to know who they were); she gave me all the materials to apply, as well as applications for scholarships. I had attended Girls State at Woman?s College in Greensboro (later University of North Carolina at Greensboro), so I applied and was accepted. I decided I could work at school and summers as a waitress at beach resorts, and make it somehow. Waitressing was the hardest job I?ve ever done, exhausting, low pay, nasty bosses; but because it was for college I could do it.
Before I went to college, I gathered all my childhood things: papers, valentines, letters, etc.?everything that pertained to my childhood, took them out into the yard and burned them. While they were burning, I told myself I was leaving the old life and all its slights and difficulties behind; I forgave all insults, slights and indignities, whether from family or outsiders and consciously began a new life.
College was my element; studying and learning were heaven; I couldn?t take enough classes, even had battles with deans and advisors who called me in to say I was taking too many classes. I was a double major in English and Drama with a minor in Education. I also wanted to take Art classes because it would be valuable for some of the work in Drama courses; there were huge objections?only Arts students could take Art classes.
I spent my graduating summer, 1952, on staff at the Burnsville School of Arts, near Asheville, NC, working on every aspect of play production and helping with the students. The teachers were top grade; for instance, in music, John Cage; dance, Merce Cunningham. But my favorite was the Arts Director, Dr. Gregory Ivy; I used to discuss with him wanting to go for higher degrees but not having money; he told me to skip the degrees and just keep reading, that I could do well on my own as rules for degrees would limit me. (His art class was one that I had had to fight to take, as I wasn?t an art major; he had agreed to let me in.)
My drama teacher at Greensboro got a job for me at Kannapolis, NC as English and Drama teacher; he had a theatrical business and had just shipped them a huge amount of equipment, the latest in lights, etc. and he had taught me to operate them. When I got there, no one had touched them; no one knew how to put a backstage area together; the principal borrowed some technicians from town businesses and I showed them how to set up all the equipment and started planning for play production. That part worked out fine; the students were excited and receptive and some of them benefited greatly from the experience.
The classroom was another matter; the students were well behaved but totally uninterested in school, in learning; they did the least they could do to get by. Some of them even turned in papers on plays they hadn?t read (I suppose they thought I hadn?t read the plays or maybe wouldn?t read their papers). The principal was surprised when I didn?t renew my contract.
One of my friends from drama classes in college, a girl from New Jersey who was living in New York trying to get acting jobs, invited me to visit her; I came to NY in October 1953 expecting to stay a few weeks, see some plays and go back home and look for work.
During this period, I went to a Christmas party hosted by an interesting young man named Irvin Faust, who was studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. We began to see each other.
On August 29, 1959, I had married Irvin Faust. Having housewife duties added to my fulltime job had proved to be a strain as well. He had changed his career to Counseling, earned his Masters and Doctorate and gone from teaching to being Guidance Director at a Long Island High School. His doctoral thesis had been published by Teacher?s College and his counselor told him he should write. So at night he worked on short stories. All the work of our life together, maintaining the apartment, paying the bills, taxes, etc. was left to me, as was the typing of his stories. After some of them were published, he began to get calls from publishers asking if he had a book. When it was time to prepare a manuscript of a book of short stories, there was no way I could do that and continue in my demanding job. I thought he was an original and authentic talent, so I resigned and applied myself to helping him with his manuscripts.
Those were days of great political turmoil, especially on the West Side of NYC where we lived; the Reform Democrats were replacing the old clubs. I joined one of the Reform clubs and quickly found that reform had not extended to equal rights for women. All the work of the club, especially mailings, was done by the women while the men stood around talking. Presidents were always men; secretaries were women. I watched these unreformed practices for about a year and then started talking to the women. I set up a committee on women?s rights. We
> One day during an election campaign, a man walked into the club and yelled, ?We need a pretty girl to hand out literature.? I went over and reproved him and suggested he should have said, ?We need a person?? He countered, ?No, we want a pretty girl; people are more likely to accept flyers from a pretty girl.? I saw I couldn?t convince him, but I accepted the assignment so I could see how the campaign was going on the street. That proved to be lucky for me, as after meeting Congressman William F. Ryan I became an aide to him on Environmental matters, which was quite new then as an area of interest?about 1963. The public was not much concerned and even most of his staff thought it was a waste of his time.
I don?t know how I was on the list, but I got a postcard for the first meeting of NOW in NYC and couldn?t wait to attend. It was a small group and we were asked to stand, give our names and occupations. Probably because I worked for the congressman, I was asked after that meeting to form the first chapter in NYC and act as first president.
Our first NOW meeting was February 6, 1967. As organizing president I prepared the Chapter Kit, held Chapter meetings; answered mail, sent mailings?all without benefit of office space, equipment, supplies?or secretary. Any available area of our small apartment was ?office?; our phone was NOW?s phone. Equipment and supplies were cadged where members worked; only stationery, stamps and paper were purchased. We had no expense account. Later, as we gained membership, there was limited reimbursement. My husband suffered many inconveniences because of my work with NOW?and paid for it, both in money and inconveniences. He also paid for my trips to meetings and conventions.)
Besides chapter meetings, committee meetings, projects and demonstrations, I spoke to women?s groups and to schools and wrote articles for local West Side paper.
I handled mailings on NOW proposals for New York State Constitutional Convention (up to 10 pages, 200 packets?no copying equipment, no Xerox machine) to all delegates?about six times. I made appearances at hearings, did mailings to women?s groups asking support for proposals. (In those early days, little support was forthcoming from women?s groups; their causes were peace, anti-nuclear efforts and social issues such as care of children & poverty; they did not comprehend that there were women?s issues.)
I met with newspapers, asking them to organize classified ads by job category rather than sex; organized demonstrations and work with EEOC and Human Rights Commission to persuade newspapers and led a demonstration against Nat?l Assoc. of Newspapers pub. because they appealed EEOC ruling in our favor.
In fall of 1967 I helped organize an action for Pauline Dziob, stewardess for Moore-McCormack Lines who had been denied job as yeoman because ?it?s a man?s job?; she had done all the work while the man was ill.
That November I helped organize the NY chapter push at the National Conference for a strong stand on ERA and abortion rights.
That December I helped organize a demonstration againstthe EEOC for failing to act on women?s problems and for denying permission to me and Betty Friedan to speak at New York hearings.
In January of ?68 I picketed and attended EEOC hearings every day where I had to listen to claims that they were unable to find ?qualified? women to testify.
All that year we were supporting the women who were suing Colgate-Palmolive, and, led by Barbara Love and Anselma del Olio, we worked all year to organize a touring demonstration with cars and signs, feminist filibusters and street theater, calling for boycott of C-P products.
In September of ?68 I was alerted by Sonia Pressman, who worked at the EEOC that the Senate Finance Committee sneaked an amendment onto a soil conservation bill that would allow large companies to treat men and women differently in retirement policies. Thus I made many phone calls and wrote letters to Finance Committee, senators, and congressmen to object to this attack on the rights of working women. (The real purpose was to allow companies to force women to retire earlier with fewer benefits.)
> At request of Exec. Committee I led a debate against a change in NOW?S by-laws (a small group was calling for participatory democracy, rotating officers, etc.) and, also at request of Exec Comm., resumed presidency when NYNOW?s second president, Ti-Grace Atkinson resigned. I then organized a mailing to assure national officers and other chapters that NOW-NY had not ?split? as rumored, that work was continuing. This effort to replace the structure of NOW-NY with an unworkable, though idealistic, system was misguided and unfair; some members didn?t seem to understand that holding office was work and responsibility.
By the end of 1967, I was exhausted mentally and physically, from the strain of running an ?office? singlehandedly, writing (and typing?no word processors then) statements and correspondence?for two jobs. 1968 was an even bigger strain because of the small but energetic movement for changes in structure. But I was exhilarated to be working on the problems that blocked women from self-realization.
In February of 1960 during National Public Accommodations Week I demonstrated against For Men Only Restaurants and Bars. (What a good feeling that it now seems quite ridiculous that restaurants catering to businessmen once barred women.)
Also in February NOW joined the suit of stewardesses against United Airlines; we picketed with them in Chicago in a bitter wind; one girl whose supervisor objected to her small afro fared much better than her windblown sisters.
In March we demonstrated in front of Governor Rockefeller?s office to support the Cook bill on abortion. I lectured at Hunter College on The Contemporary Woman and Her Impact on the Contemporary Male. Insisted both sexes would benefit from ending the oppression of women.
May of that year was Freedom for Women Week (Motto: Rights not Roses). We demonstrated at the White House in blistering heat?why did we always have extreme weather for demonstrations? Some women were terrified at taking this action, particularly lawyers and other professionals, for fear it would affect their career, but most of us were bothered by the men in dark suits carefully taking our pictures. We?d heard the FBI made files on anyone who picketed the White House.
In August I testified in Washington at Dept. of Labor hearings on EEOC Enforcement Act. As a result of NOW?s (and other groups) efforts, EEOC decided that Title VII supersedes State?s Protective Legislation. (Dept. of Labor issued a similar ruling.) (State ?protective? legislation had been designed to ?protect? women from getting many jobs, thus protecting men?s rights to keep them . I pointed out that women regularly lifted 20 pounds and more in the form of babies and children and asked him if he?d ever lifted a squirming 20-lb baby from a bath.}
Several times in 1969 I was asked to prepare materials for various media people who wanted to do articles or shows on women. All media continued to present feminists negatively.The jokes were contemptuous and threatening at once: Will women use Men?s Rooms? Will men become Playboy Bunnies? Women leaders are described as ?tireless talkers?. A favorite tactic was to use famous women against feminists, usually women whose marriages had conferred position upon them or whose success rested upon approval by men. (For instance when I was speaking on a radio show, Claire Booth Luce called in to ridicule me; I?m sure it had been planned.)
At the end of 1970, WNEW-TV presented a program called ?Women are Revolting?; when I wrote to protest the double meaning, I was told the show was intended to provide entertainment, not information.
Working at two jobs and running a household proved to be too much for my health; I had contracted tuberculosis while running congressman Ryan?s local office for a few weeks while he was seeking an office manager; I spent two years coughing and running a fever, went to doctors who treated me for sinus problems. No one thought of testing for TB, since it was supposed to have been eliminated. I also have a form of anemia that can?t be treated and an underactive thyroid, which doctors were unwilling to treat at that time (I later found one who treated it). Other health problems plagued me and in 1970 I found I had to retire from all outside work.
For a while, I had no activities except running our household. I had been going to performances of the New York City Ballet since it was formed and ballet had become a passion second only to my devotion to my husband. One night, around 1982, I found a note in the program that asked for volunteers . I called and started working a couple of days a week, doing various tasks, from data entry and filing to working the information tables during performances.
Around 1988, I moved over to the School of American Ballet, where most of the performers were trained, and was assigned many tasks related to data entry and maintaining student files. I loved watching the students progress; it was pleasant to work while hearing the music from various classes and peeking into doors as I passed along the halls.
I worked there two days a week until 2009, when Irv fell and cracked a disc in his back. I had to stay home and take care of him. He had other falls and other illnesses (strokes and a seizure) and became so weak that I have continued to stay home and care for him.
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What Disney movie defined your childhood?
Whether you're in elementary school or early retirement, you probably have a ready answer to that question. After dominating feature film animation for the better part of the 20th century, Disney's animated movies seem to occupy permanent real estate in the collective American memory. And with the release of its first computer-animated 3-D film, "Tangled," based on the Rapunzel fairy tale, the studio has laid claim to the childhoods of yet another generation.
"What little girl didn't dream about being a Disney princess?" asked actress and singer Mandy Moore, the voice of Rapunzel, during a recent visit to San Diego with her co-star Zachary Levi (NBC's "Chuck"). "I grew up loving 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Aladdin.' To think that this film could potentially mean to kids what those films meant to me is the ultimate thing. … It's pretty mind-boggling."
Of course, little girls aren't the only ones with a love for all things Disney. Levi, who plays Rapunzel's bandit of a love interest Flynn Ryder, got his fill of the princess stuff growing up in a house with two sisters. "The Disney Channel was a baby sitter of mine, so I was very familiar with all of that," he said. But that didn't stop him from becoming a serious Disneyphile, able to quickly rattle off favorite Disney characters that easily predate his own childhood: Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed.
Though his character doesn't have the name recognition of these classic Disney heroes, the lanky Levi clearly relishes the opportunity to join their ranks. "(Mandy and I) are part of the Disney Canon, and in a really unique way," he explained. "This is Disney's 50th animated film, the first CG musical, the first 3-D musical. It's pretty spectacular."
And it's not just the groundbreaking animation that makes "Tangled" stand apart from its Disney predecessors. Though Rapunzel is indeed a princess who is both blessed and cursed by the magic inflicted upon her (in this case, a 70-foot-long mane of golden hair with the coveted power to heal), she is hardly the damsel in distress we've come to know from traditional fairy tales.
"I loved how our story sort of flips that on its head," Moore said in the friendly, girl-next-door manner that likely landed her the part of the naive but fearless teenager. "Although (Rapunzel) needs Flynn to help escort her on these adventures, she's the one that's saving him."
As Moore and Levi tease each other and joke around during the interview, it's a surprise to learn that they met only once, halfway through production, to sing their duet ("I See the Light"). The rest of their time was spent alone in a recording booth, with very little to go on beyond the directors' (Byron Howard and Nathan Greno) cues.
On her first day of work, Moore was given just a few minutes to take in the storyboards and drawings that would eventually become Rapunzel's world. "You just had to sort of take a mental picture," she explained. "There's really no other point of reference. You have to rely on the directors and their explanation of what's happening."
While balancing his "Chuck" shooting schedule with recording sessions at Disney, the energetic Levi found some inspiration in the isolated recording booth. "You're forced to use your imagination and infuse that (into your performance)," he explained. But the real payoff for Levi was the finished product. "You just have these loose ideas. But when you watch it all come to life (on the screen), you say: 'Wow! This is way bigger than I thought.' "
Moore agrees. Having lent her voice to a few animated projects earlier in her career, she said the duration and scope of "Tangled" had an entirely different feel. "Everything was on a much bigger scale than anything I've done before."
But how big? Levi unequivocally describes his Disney experience as a "lifelong, dream fulfillment, bucket-list kind of thing." He continued: "Even as a young kid, there are certain things you know you'd like to do before the end of your days. And this is one of them."
Moore keeps her expectations a little more toned down, getting excited when a friend recently told her she had spotted a Rapunzel costume in a children's catalog for next year. If the success of Disney's other princess costumes is any indication, you might want to go ahead and buy stock in blonde wigs before next Halloween.


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"There's one born every minute." That's what they say about the pushovers and poor saps who fall for bait-and-switch deals. It's what they say about folks who believe they're being treated fairly by strangers who promise them amazing offers.
American showman P.T. Barnum said that there was "one born every minute." That person was a sucker. Or a customer.
My question is this: As far as major corporations are concerned, have the terms "sucker" and "customer" become synonymous?
For those working in the higher echelons of business, have "customer" and "sucker" become so entirely and inextricably linked, so conflated into one giant blob of a dithering, blithering, ignorant, unworthy client mass, that they can be treated with the kind of contempt historically held by snake-oil salesmen for the family just off the boat, or the ignorant poor, or the hayseed or the woman traveling alone?
It might explain why many of us now believe the phrase "customer service" is as much an oxymoron as the phrase "jumbo shrimp."
OK, so the minute I was born for happened yesterday. I did a version of buying oceanfront property in Utah: I believed I could get a decent room at a reasonable price in New York City over a holiday weekend.
I know, right?
But I received an email ad from this big hotel chain where I'm a "preferred in-touch guest." The promo said it was time sensitive and so I stopped what I was doing, called our friends and made plans to take up an offer that looked too good to be true.
I was a sucker.
Naturally the hotel told me over the phone "Oh, sorry, the rates don't apply to those dates." I explained "But your splashy campaign says 'Join Us For Our Unprecedented Holiday Celebration!''' They said, "I am sorry you are disappointed, but those dates are not available." I politely drew their attention to what was on my screen: "Your ad is entirely focused on those dates. You even mention the parade." My voice was starting to sound like Marge Simpson's, both childish and wheedling.
And then I heard: "You didn't read the fine print."
Ignore the graphics, the bold and italicized print, the date-specific photographs and the paragraph-long descriptions. The fine print says, in effect, "We were only kidding. C'mon, it's New York. You can't get a night here for under $468 even if you agree to sleep on top of the ice machine."
That's what makes me madder than P.T. Barnum seeing a two-headed sheep that wasn't for sale.
I'm originally from Brooklyn. I grew up around shady deals and fixed card games. But I thought that in legitimate corporate life, a person could escape con artists and jive smoke-and-mirror promises.
Look, I try never to lose sight of how privileged I am; I can get another room, away from the ice machine. Yet I remember all those years when I never would have even dared try. I was afraid to confront somebody about deceptive marketing or promotional sleight-of-hand.
I was intimidated.
Now I'm not.
I can write the vice president of special promotions, the head of marketing and the CEO; their names are on corporate rosters. After all, it's not the poor soul answering my call who created the copy; somebody on a "team" was paid big bucks to entice me to click through the ad.
When I make a point of letting the big shots know that I was treated shabbily, I'm doing for my younger self, the girl who was too nervous to speak up. I'm doing it for foreign-born mother, just off the boat and a woman traveling alone; I'm doing it for my hard-working students who don't yet realize they can challenge someone who treats them as if they don't matter even though their hard-earned cash certainly does; and I'm doing it for my sweeter friends who are too shy to make a stand when they're made to feel like fools by the simple act of believing what they were told and requesting what they were promised.
Even P.T. Barnum was in favor of giving value for money. There's nothing shameful in expecting it — and holding those who profit from misleading or poor business practices accountable.
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Sean Monahan turns 19 on Saturday and, just like every other birthday, it's probably going to be another celebration spent around teammates.
His family — John and Cathy and older sister Jacqueline — are in town from Brampton, Ont., but soon, they'll have to head home which means he'll have to resort again to phone calls, texts, and FaceTime. He's currently living in a hotel room with no car, which is fine by him as his golden-doodle Samson is well taken care of at his parents place. Breakfasts are at the rink, dinners are with teammates, and Calgary is exactly where he wants to be.
But the truth it, it's a life of limbo right now for the Calgary Flames' sixth overall 2013 National Hockey League draft pick.
He's awaiting his fate, enjoying the moment but counting down the days to Game 9 or Game 10 — when general manager Jay Feaster either decides to keep him for the entire 82-game season or send him back to the Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67's before his entry level contract kicks in.
As father — first and always — John Monahan sighs.
"You just try to have answers for whatever happens," he was saying the other day. "Because it's all out of our control, right? Like, I laughed at my son the other day. We were talking and I said (jokingly), 'Oh, well maybe I'll call the coach.' We had a good chuckle about it. But there is no say. Really, we've had no say his whole career.
"He just went and played a team game. We just watch and enjoy it and hope things work out."
John Monahan had made the trip to D.C., catching his son's NHL debut which saw him also record his first big league point, an assist. A night later, he notched his first goal. In three games, his son has two tallies and three points and has played 56 shifts of regular season action. Sean Monahan has been working on his faceoffs and has logged time on the power play, in the penalty kill, and in overtime — and won over a few more fans in Calgary when he made a big-league play to fool Vancouver defenceman Christopher Tanev, scoring his second NHL goal against goalie Eddie Lack in Sunday's home-opener.
The six-foot-two, 200-pound centreman was also a minus-three on the night but according to head coach Bob Hartley — who is asked about the kid on a daily basis — it's better to throw him directly into the fire.
"There's lots of junior stuff still in his game," Hartley admitted. "But if we're going to keep him and not play him, we might as well send him down. I was aware he wasn't having a very good game from one end to the other, but it was not by a lack of trying, it was probably by a lack of experience.
"It always makes me laugh — a young coach cannot coach in the NHL because he has no experience. A young player cannot play in the NHL because he has no experience. If you don't play him, you can't go to Walgreens and buy experience off the shelf or call your doctor for a prescription . . . experience is a combination of success and failures."
Each day Monahan is in the Flames locker-room, it's becoming more and more apparent he has a bright future, if not immediately, then certainly long-term.
For his family, however, it's not surprising.
"You can read what you'd like," said John Monahan. "But seeing things first hand, being at the games, or getting Sean's feeling. I mean, he's having a great time in Calgary. There is no other place he'd rather be . . . these guys at this level, the criticism is incredible but that's part of it. It's something you have to get used to, something that families have to get used to. I don't think mothers and grandmothers ever get used to it — they're just best to avoid it . . . but we're very proud of him.
"He's doing exactly what he wants to do."
At age three, the boy wanted to play. Hockey and lacrosse sticks were always in his hand. Good luck trying to get him to use a train set or building blocks. Birthday parties were always hockey- or sports-themed; the Monahans either rented ice surfaces or organized a road hockey game with the entire team.
Summers were spent at the family cottage at Sauble Beach, two and a half hours north of their home. The last three winters have been spent travelling between Brampton and the nation's capital.
As for Monahan, the 18-year-old, he likes country music (interesting, so does everyone in Calgary for 10 days every Stampede week), and is incredibly close with his family. A razor-sharp wit, a wickedly sarcastic sense of humour, and a joker with his friends, Monahan also has a quiet side.
"He always wanted his dad to be his coach when he was little," recalls mom Cathy, who works as a special needs aid at a school. "He was so shy he didn't want to go on the ice with anybody else. He always said, 'Please coach me. Please come on the bench.' Always, always.
"He's always been a shy kid. But he's kind of coming into his own now. Much more comfortable, I'd say."
His focused, quiet manner is part of his upbringing. There's value, his dad says, in hard work and earning respect.
The Flames saw that right from Day 1.
"I think of him as the strong, silent type," said John Weisbrod, the Flames' assistant to the general manager/player personnel. "Even when he's a mature player, he's never going to be real vocal. He's never going to be your sound-bite guy. But I think he's the kind of guy who, as he grows and matures, will have great relationships with his teammates and have the respect of everyone in the room. A real strong presence in the room without necessarily being a public presence or a media presence.
"With his personality, he doesn't strike me as being that type of guy — I think he's a guy who's more comfortable without cameras and microphones in his face."
His seriousness was evident at the draft. Even the kid himself, upon being interviewed by the Philadelphia Flyers, had reported: "Paul Holmgren is a serious guy and I'm pretty serious, too. In that way, it went really well."
But Weisbrod, a keen judge of character, could see oodles of it.
"I think he's a genuinely humble person, but a genuinely driven person," he said. "I do think he's really mature. So you take that — humility and maturity — with a natural bit of fear or anxiety that you're going to feel coming into an environment like this as an 18-year-old kid, and the result is quietness."
Yet this environment — albeit on a different stage and city — is not foreign.
He moved out of the Monahan household at 15 to live with billets and play in the OHL. A few years after being an observant rookie, he had the 'C' sewn onto his 67's sweater.
"Obviously being the captain of the team, I was relied on a lot. I like that," Monahan had said earlier this summer. "You've got to go through a lot of adversity. You go through bumps and learn a lot about yourself. It really helped me, leadership-wise, and to be a better player and a better person."
"It's a trait I have — I've been a leader growing up. Obviously being named the captain this year was an honour. It made me a better player. I didn't want to take any days off at all."
At the draft, the Flames received glowing reviews with stats to back their selection.
Despite a challenging season that saw the 67's finish last in the OHL, he upped his points-per-game numbers from 1.25 to 1.34 and had back-to-back 78-point seasons.
Although Monahan fell from a plus-25 to a minus-18 in one season, the numbers are misleading considering the 67's surrendered a league-high 323 goals.
But, still, the way he went, the team went.
"He was the culture in the room last year," said Chris Hamilton, the 67's equipment manager and assistant to hockey operations. "He's a quiet guy. So, when he does say something, it stands out. During the games, he doesn't say too much. Before the game or after the game, he'll joke around with the guys but during the game, he's really serious.
"He's a competitive guy and when he speaks, guys tend to listen."
As low maintenance as they come, Monahan can't stand new equipment.
Up until February, he was wearing the same pair of skates from the previous season which were being held together with black hockey tape — for a month.
"He'd be lining up for faceoffs against guys like (former Barrie Colts centre Mark) Scheifele and (former Niagara Ice Dogs pivot Ryan) Strome and they'd be like, 'Man, you've gotta get new skates,' " said Hamilton with a chuckle. "He hates it. He's really superstitious about that kind of thing. He's been using the same stick since he was 14 years old."
Monahan also has a personal obsession with his faceoff statistics and, according to Hamilton, nothing has changed since he's been in Calgary.
"I was texting him a few days ago, just about making the team and he has the same attitude he did when he was 15 and 16," he said. "When he was 16, he started on our third and fourth line . . . and at the end of the night, he'd be like, 'Hammy, I was eight-for-nine tonight."
"He's kind of a funny guy, too. He'd come off the ice and be like, 'Won both faceoffs,' with a little smile on his face. He's got a weird sense of humour."
And all of it will be missed this year in the OHL should Monahan stick longer than nine games. But the reality is slowly sinking in — for the player, too.
"Obviously, it's out of my control at this point," Monahan was saying during the pre-season. "I try to do whatever I could to make a good impression and tried to prove I could be an every day pro.
"At the end of the day, it's not my decision."
But, for the moment, his family is basking in the excitement of seeing Monahan in an NHL jersey, on NHL ice, playing in an NHL game, in an NHL arena — well worth any trip to any city.
"I'd like to be at every single game," said John, a sheet metal worker in construction who is counting down the days until his retirement. "If I could, I'd love the opportunity to say hello to your kid after a game ... but this is his job. You don't take mommy or daddy to your job. You do your thing ... (giving) advice to him would be something like 'Suck it up, this is how it is.' But we don't even have to say that to him. He knows."
Mom's advice? Soak it in — for however long it lasts.
"I said, 'This doesn't happen to many people so enjoy every moment you're there, every minute you're on the ice,' " Cathy said. "I'm sure it's an unbelievable feeling. I'm watching him play and thinking, 'Oh my God. I can' t believe this is actually happening.' Really. It's unreal.
"Every little boy dreams to be in the NHL. Anything to do with hockey we watch it and, to actually be sitting here watching my son with a Calgary jersey on . . . I had tears in my eyes. It's a crazy feeling."
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Eyebright Leaf
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 7, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
Posted in Uncategorized
Eyebright Leaf
The Latin, or Botanical, name for the Eyebright plant is Euphrasia officinalis. Other, more common, names are Red Eyebright, Meadow Eyebright, Augentrostkraut, Euphraisia Eyebright, Euphrasia officinale, and Euphrasiae Herba.
Description of Eyebright
The Eyebright plant is actually a rather pretty and fragile plant that can grow between 2 and 8 inches in height. The stems are somewhat square shaped and sinewy. The Eyebright leaves are usually between 1/6" to ½" long and roughly ¼" wide. Some of the leaves of the Eyebright plant are narrow and pointed at the end, whilst others are more rounded at the tip. The leaves grow along with the stem in opposite pairs. The flowers are actually either tiny white flowers with splashes of yellow or they are tiny reddish purple flowers. Eyebright is considered to be an annual plant that flowers from July to September in dry areas.
Medicinal Uses of the Eyebright Plant
Eyebright is a plant in which most of it is used as a herb for various ailments. In addition, the stems, leaves and flowers of Eyebright are all edible. The most common use of Eyebright is as an astringent. In years gone by, Eyebright was believed to be a treatment for eye issues due to the Doctrine of Signatures, which is a sixteenth century theory that states that a plant's appearance signifies its uses and the ailments that it treats.
However the following are also wonderful, modern, uses of Eyebright:
• As its names suggests, Eyebright is wonderful for treating eyestrain, inflammations in the eyes, and stinging or tearing of the eyes.
• It can be used as a compress for treating conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
• Due to both its astringent properties and its anti-inflammatory properties, Eyebright successfully treats the symptoms of allergies and Colds, such as watering, sore and itchy eyes and runny noses too.
• Eyebright treats Allergies, especially the itchy and watery eyes and runny nose that usually accompanies an allergy attack.
• Hay Fever can also be effectively treated with Eyebright Leaf.
• Eyebright is a great treatment for sinusitis.
• It also treats problematic mucous membranes.
• When taken internally, Eyebright works as a strong anti-catarrhal, and helps to alleviate the symptoms of nasal catarrh, and other similar congestive issues.
• Eyebright also promotes good vision and healthy eyes.
• Eyebright stimulates a person's liver to cleanse the blood supply to their eyes.
• Used as a mouthwash, Eyebright can treat inflammations of a person's mouth and throat.
Eyebright Preparations
Eyebright can be prepared as a compress, eyewash, and mouthwash. It can also be consumed internally in the form of capsules, tinctures and a tea infusion.
Eyebright is usually mixed with other types of herbs, such as Bilberry, to help improve ocular health; and with Nettle Leaf for treating allergies.
Side Effects of Eyebright
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In rare situations, some people can be allergic to Eyebright and using it externally may lead to swollen eyelids, sensitivity to light, pressure around the eyes and eye itchiness.
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Orlando city worker arrested in shooting of Orange County deputy
48-year-old Deputy Charlie Murphy shot in back at storage facility
ORLANDO, Fla. – An Orlando city worker was arrested Wednesday morning in the shooting of an Orange County sheriff's deputy at a storage facility, authorities said.
Eric Howell, a 29-year-old Orlando Public Works employee, was arrested in the shooting, which happened around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday at Public Storage on LB McLeod Road near Kirkman Road.
The 48-year-old deputy, identified as Charlie Murphy, was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in the back. Officials said Murphy has been employed by the Orange County Sheriff's Office for six years, but he was not on duty or acting in a law enforcement capacity at the time of the incident.
Orlando police said Howell and Murphy were involved in a dispute, which led to the shooting. Howell was arrested a short time later, police said.
A black sport utility vehicle at the storage facility was riddled with bullet holes.
Orlando police investigators were seen talking to two young children, but officers said the kids did not witness the shooting. Department of Children and Families officials said a DCF investigator is currently working with OPD after DCF responded to an allegation of family violence.
DCF said were two young children in the household and both are safe and were not physically harmed. They are currently with a relative and DCF has not made a change in their custody.
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|Oracle® Fusion Middleware Release Notes
11g Release 1 (11.1.1) for IBM: Linux on System z
Part Number E15731-27
|PDF · Mobi · ePub
This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle WebCenter Portal. It includes the following topics:
This section describes general issues and workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Section 8.1.1, "Support for Discussions Server from Jive Software"
Section 8.1.2, "Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer Failover Support"
Section 8.1.3, "Option to Create a Portal Resource Displayed for Design-Time Task Flows"
Section 8.1.4, "SQL Query with NCHAR Data Type Throws Exception"
Section 8.1.5, "Setting Up WNA-Based SSO Using JDK 1.6.22 Produces an Error"
Section 8.1.6, "Configuring the REST Server Post-Installation"
Section 8.1.7, "Resources in Framework Application Disappear after Redeployment of Application"
Section 8.1.8, "Style Sheets Not Loaded Correctly for Sample WSRP Producer Test Pages through Oracle HTTP Server"
Section 8.1.9, "Cannot Customize or Personalize a JSF Portlet"
Section 8.1.11, "Spaces Do Not Display Correct Language When the Spaces Application is Accessed Using OAM"
Section 8.1.12, "Announcement Publication Format can be Incorrect in Thai"
Section 8.1.13, "Favorite Based on Seeded Page Lost When Language Preference Changed from en-US"
Section 8.1.14, "The Run as Servlet Link on Producer Test Page Does Not Work for JSF Portlet"
Section 8.1.15, "Using OpenSocial Pagelets to Post Activities to User's Activity Stream"
Section 8.1.16, "Accessing Owners' Profile Information Using the OpenSocial API"
Section 8.1.17, "Granting View Document Permissions to Public and Authenticated Users for a Hierarchical Space"
Section 8.1.18, "Issues when Using the Russian or Swedish Language"
Section 8.1.19, "Conditions for Deleting Messages from the Activity Stream"
Section 8.1.20, "Configuring Web Services Security for Discussions Server"
Section 8.1.21, "Unable to View Entire Content on iPad as Scrollbars Not Displayed"
Section 8.1.26, "Unable to Check Out a Document When Using Firefox First Time"
Section 8.1.27, "Navigating in the Preferences Dialog in Internet Explorer 9 (Accessibility Issue)"
Section 8.1.29, "Messages Displayed During Import or Export Appear Incomplete (Accessibility Issue)"
Section 8.1.30, "Deployment Fails Because Versioned Applications Are Not Supported"
Section 8.1.31, "Some Formatting Lost in Rich Text Editor When Shifting from Rich Text or HTML to Wiki Markup"
Oracle supports the embedded discussions server from Jive Software. Use the supplied task flows that come with WebCenter Portal to call this discussions server. Any custom development against APIs in the Jive Web Service layer are subject to review by Oracle and may not be supported.
There are a limited set of beta features that Jive Software delivers as part of the discussions server that Oracle does not recommend and cannot yet support.
Documentation for Jive Forums is included for reference only. Jive software installations and upgrades outside of the WebCenter Portal product installation are not supported.
Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer supports failover in a clustered configuration. However, the in-flight data (unsaved or pending changes) is not preserved. On failover, administrators must reestablish their administrative session. End users may also need to reestablish the session if the proxy is required to have a state. If SSO is configured, credentials are automatically provided, and the session is reestablished.
You can bring runtime task flows into JDeveloper, edit them, and export them back to the deployed application. However, Oracle recommends that you not expose task flows created in JDeveloper as portal resources. When you create an ADF task flow inside the
/oracle/webcenter/portalapp folder, the context menu on the task flow definition file displays the Create Portal Resource option. Do not use this option to expose a design-time task flow as a portal resource. Task flows typically involve multiple files. When you export a new task flow from JDeveloper, all files may not be exported properly, and this may result in the task flow being broken post-deployment.
When using a SQL data control, you may encounter an error if the query contains a column with the
NCHAR data type. As a workaround, you can use the
to_char(NCHAR_COLUMN NAME) function.
Setting up Windows Native Authentication-based single sign-on using SUN JDK 1.6.22 produces an error. Use the jrockit JDK instead of the Sun JDK, or contact Oracle Support to get a backport request for bug 10631797.
For certain features of the WebCenter Portal REST server to work correctly when using a REST client like the Oracle WebCenter Portal iPhone application, the flag
WLForwardUriUnparsed must be set to
ON for the Oracle WebLogic Server Plugin that you are using.
If you are running Apache in front of WebLogic Server, add this flag to
If you are running Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) in front of WebLogic Server, add this flag to
The examples below illustrate the possible configurations for both of these cases.
For more information about how to configure WebLogic Server Plugins, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Web Server 1.1 Plug-Ins with Oracle WebLogic Server.
Example 1: Using
<location /rest> to apply the flag only for
/rest URIs (recommended)
<Location /rest> # the flag below MUST BE set to "On" WLForwardUriUnparsed On # other settings, example: WebLogicCluster or WebLogicHost & WebLogicPort # set the handler to be weblogic SetHandler weblogic-handler </Location>
Example 2: Applying the flag to all URIs served by Oracle WebLogic Server
<IfModule mod_weblogic.c> # the flag below MUST BE set to "On" WLForwardUriUnparsed On # other settings, example: WebLogicCluster or WebLogicHost & WebLogicPort WebLogicCluster johndoe02:8005,johndoe:8006 Debug ON WLLogFile c:/tmp/global_proxy.log WLTempDir "c:/myTemp" DebugConfigInfo On KeepAliveEnabled ON KeepAliveSecs 15 </IfModule>
If a Framework application has been customized at runtime to add new resources through the Resource Manager, those new resources are lost after a new deployment or a redeployment of the same application.
Any new pages created at runtime that use the lost resources are still available even though the resources themselves are no longer available in the Resource Manager.
This issue happens when the application version or the redeployment version is changed during the redeployment of the application, either using Fusion Middleware Control or WLST. It can also happen on redeployment when the
generic-site-resources.xml file has been changed at design time (for example, by creating new resources).
This issue occurs because the
generic-site-resources.xml file is overwritten on redeployment.
To work around this issue, you must manually add the
mds-transfer-config.xml file to the application.
Note:Any resources created at design time must be manually added to the runtime application before redeploying the application.
Download the
mds-transfer-config.xml file from the following location:
Extract the MAR file (for example
AutoGeneratedMar.mar) from the EAR file.
In the extracted MAR file directory, create a new directory, called
META-INF, and copy the
mds-transfer-config.xml file to the new directory.
Update the MAR file with
META-INF\mds-transfer-config.xml, for example:
jar -uvf AutoGeneratedMar.mar META-INF\mds-transfer-config.xml
Update the EAR file with the updated MAR file:
jar -uvf YourApp.ear AutoGeneratedMar.mar
If Oracle HTTP Server is used as a front end for the Sample WSRP Portlets producer, the style sheets for the WSRP Producer Test Pages of the WSRP Tools and Rich Text Editor portlet producers are not loaded properly in Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. However, the style sheets do load properly in Internet Explorer. Functionality of the portlets is not affected.
When clicking OK after customizing or personalizing a JSF portlet (that is, a portlet created using the Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge), the portlet does not respond and displays a timeout message. This is caused by performing an edit action and changing the portlet mode in a single operation. End users can work around this issue by clicking Apply (instead of OK) to perform the edit action first, then clicking Return to change the portlet mode back to View mode.Portlet developers can avoid the issue occurring by editing the code for the generated Edit Defaults mode (in the
edit_defaults.jspx file) and Edit mode (in the
edit.jspx file) and removing the code for the OK button so that end users are forced to use the Apply button instead.
There is no fallback support for custom translations. For example, if you create a custom translations file named
scope-resource-bundle_fr.xlf and the space language setting is country-specific (fr-FR), the custom translation file is not used because Spaces is looking for
scope-resource-bundle_fr-FR.xlf.As a workaround, copy
_fr xlf and include the country specification in the names of the custom translation files (for example,
When users access the Spaces application through OAM, spaces do not display the language selected on the OAM login page. The Spaces application does not use the same
xlf file name standard as OAM.
When the display language is set to Thai, the announcement publication format can be incorrect. This happens when announcements are opened to edit and are then saved, even if nothing in the announcement itself is updated.
If you add a seeded page, such as the Activities page, to your list of Favorites, and then change your preferred application language from en-US using Preferences, the favorite seeded page cannot be found.
You can create a JSF portlet (that is, a portlet that uses the Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge) using the Create JSR 286 Java Portlet Wizard by selecting the Generate ADF-Faces JSPX implementation method on the third step of the wizard.
If you create a JSF portlet in this way, you may find that clicking the Run as Servlet link on the portlet's Producer Test Page produces an error. The portlet itself, however, runs correctly.
To avoid this issue, add the ADF Page Flow scope to the project that contains the portlet. For information, see the section "Adding and Removing Technology Scopes" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.
Pagelets based on OpenSocial gadgets are not able to post activities to a user's activity stream. To implement a temporary solution, grant User Profile 'edit' permission to Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer using the following WLST/WSAdmin command:
grantPermission(appStripe="pagelet-producer", principalClass="oracle.security.jps.internal.core.principals.JpsAuthenticatedRoleImpl", principalName="authenticated-role", permClass="oracle.webcenter.peopleconnections.profile.security.ProfilePermission", permTarget="/oracle/webcenter/peopleconnections/profile/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/.*", permActions="view,edit")
After running the command, restart the Pagelet Producer server.
To access owners' Profile/Activities/Friends information using the OpenSocial API with Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer, you must target the
WebCenterDS data source to the
WC_Portlet managed server as described in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter. After saving this configuration, Activities and Friends information can be fetched, but Profile information is not returned. To access Profile information, restart the
WC_Portlet managed server.
When you grant the
View Document permission to the
Public-User and
Authenticated-User roles on a hierarchical space, equivalent "Read" permissions are not set correctly in Content Server. If you want public users and authenticated users to have
View Document permissions on a space, you do not need to grant the permission to both the roles separately. When you grant the
View Document permission to public users, authenticated users inherit the
View Document permission automatically.
If you want to revoke
View Document permissions from public users but grant
View Document permissions to authenticated users, then revoke the permission from the
Public-User role and add it for the
Authenticated-User role.
In the Spaces application when the language is set to Russian, you cannot perform certain user management tasks for spaces, including adding a new user to a space, inviting a registered user to a space, and modifying or revoking a user's role assignment.
If the language is set to Swedish, the Roles page under Spaces Administration is not accessible.
Users can delete only messages from the Activity Stream that were entered from the Publisher task flow and include a link. (In other words, messages in the Activity Stream that were not entered via the Publisher and do not include a link cannot be deleted.)Users can delete only messages with a link from the Activity Stream. Other activity stream entries, such as notifications of page creations, cannot be deleted.
In Release 22.214.171.124.0, discussions server is shipped with no message protection for Web Service interaction between discussions server and Spaces; this allows you to use discussions server without any further configuration. However, after patching your Oracle WebCenter 184.108.40.206.0 or earlier version, if you encounter WS-Security-related errors, you must reconfigure the discussions server security settings. For information, see the "Configuring Security Policies for Spaces, Discussions, and Portlet Producer Web Service End Points" section in Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide.
The Apple iOS platform does not display scrollbars. When you view a page on an iPad, content may appear truncated because scrollbars are not displayed. Also, iFrame components ignore dimensions on iPad. To view the entire content area, use the two-finger scroll gesture on your iPad.
The Apple iOS platform renders RSS links by loading them through the site
reader.mac.com. If the WebCenter Portal instance is not accessible outside your firewall, RSS links cannot be viewed.
The Apple iOS platform does not support a native file system browser. Therefore, you cannot upload content from an iPad. All upload actions, such as publish, upload, and share are disabled or hidden when you access WebCenter Portal from an iPad.
If you access a page through an iPad, you cannot copy the text displayed on the page. This is a limitation from the Apple iOS platform.
The Mail task flow does not render embedded images. If an email contains inline images, they are shown as attachments, and not within the message body.
The first time you access WebCenter Portal using the Mozilla Firefox browser, and attempt to open a document using Desktop Integration over an SSL or HTTPS connection, you will receive a warning that the certificate is not trusted, even if the environment has a valid certificate. You can open the document, but cannot check in or check out the document from within a Microsoft Office application. However, subsequent use of Desktop Integration through the Firefox browser will work as expected and you will be able to check documents in and out from within a Microsoft Office application.
When using only the keyboard in WebCenter Portal in Internet Explorer 9, on the General Preferences page in the Preferences dialog, the Expression Editor dialog loses cursor focus after a value is changed using the down arrow key. The cursor focus goes back to the General Preferences page instead of the Expression Editor dialog. To work around this issue, use Internet Explorer 8 or any other supported browser like Safari 23.x or Firefox 10.x.
The Web Clipping portlet is deprecated in Release 11g (184.108.40.206.0) and should not be used. Instead, create a clipper pagelet using Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer.
While accessing WebCenter Portal: Spaces using Internet Explorer 10, progress messages displayed during import or export space appear incomplete. To workaround this issue, click the browser compatibility icon next to the address bar to enable browser compatibility.
Application versioning is no longer supported by default for ADF applications. Upon initial deployment, an existing 220.127.116.11.0 (or earlier) or new application (18.104.22.168.0 or later) deploys successfully regardless of the application's versioning. However, when redeploying an unversioned application from JDeveloper 22.214.171.124.0 to a WebLogic Server where a versioned instance of that application is already running, deployment will fail. This is because the server is already running a versioned instance and WebLogic Server does not allow deploying an unversioned instance of the same application. You will see an error message like this:
Weblogic Server Exception: weblogic.management.ManagementException: [Deployer:149082]You cannot deploy application 'Application1_application1' without version. The application was previously deployed with version 'V2.0'.
To resolve this issue, undeploy the versioned application first and then deploy the unversioned application.
In the Rich Text Editor, if you switch from the Rich Text or HTML pane to the Wiki Markup pane, you might encounter formatting issues. For example, only the image source and title properties or attributes are saved when switching to Wiki Markup.
This section describes documentation errata. It includes the following topic:
In Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter, in "Table 22-3 Oracle SES Connection - Name", the definition of Active Connection should read as follows:
"Select to use the Oracle SES instance defined on this connection as your search platform for your WebCenter Portal application. While you can register multiple Oracle SES connections for an application, only one connection is used—the default (or active) connection."


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Legal cases dealing with the consent counts project.
To date, there is not a single appellate court decision anywhere in this country that has accepted consent as a defense in an assault or abuse prosecution arising from BDSM conduct. The following overview, from Consent to Harm by Vera Bergelson, is a good summary of the case law:
Since any harmful act that does not fit into the "athletic" or "medical" exception is, by definition, criminal, unless the inflicted injury is not serious, assessment of the seriousness of the victim's injury determines the outcome of many cases involving consensual harm. A typical penal statute classifies bodily injury as serious if it "creates a substantial risk of death or causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ." Pursuant to this definition, any short-term, non-life-threatening injury should not be deemed "serious." Yet, as the MPC acknowledges, the assessment of the seriousness of harm is often affected by judges' "moral judgments about the iniquity of the conduct." Courts tend to inflate the risk and harmfulness of an activity they want to denounce. For example, any injury caused during a sadomasochistic encounter has been consistently classified as serious.
28 Pace Law Review 683, 691
Case index, click to view the individual case summary and a PDF of the case.
California v Samuels , 4/28/1967
Massachusetts v Appleby , 4/1/1980
Iowa v Collier, 5/25/1985
Helton v Indiana , 12/1/1993
New York v Jovanovic , 12/21/1999
Lawrence v Texas, 6/26/2003
Nebraska v Van , 11/12/2004
California v Febrissy, 7/1/2006
Govan v Indiana, 9/9/2009
Rhode Island v Gasper, 10/30/2009
United States, Appellee v Miles 3/24/2014
COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN CAREY 7/23/2007
Law Review Articles, click to open the individual PDF of this article.
Sex Is Not A Sport: Consent And Violence In Criminal Law , 2001-2002
Beyond The Pleasure Principle: The Criminalization Of Consensual Sadomasochistic Sex , 2001-2002
Morality-Based Legislation Is Alive And Well: Why The Law Permits Consent To Body Modification But Not Sadomasochistic Sex , 2006-2007
The Right to Be Hurt: Testing the Boundaries of Consent , Febuary 2007
Pain, Pleasure, And Consenting Women: Exploring Feminist Responses To S/M and Its Legal Regulation in Canada Through Jelinek's The Piano Teacher , 2007
Consent to Harm , 2007-2008
Autonomy, Dignity, and Consent to Harm , 1/29/2008
The Moral Limits Of Consent As A Defense In The Criminal Law , 2009


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Mount Pulaski High School student wins Illinois VFW Voice of
Democracy scholarship competition
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11, 2014]
MOUNT PULASKI — Madison Haley, a
senior at Mount Pulaski High School and daughter of Jeff and Tricia
Haley of Chestnut, won the 2013-2014 Illinois Veterans of Foreign
Wars Voice of Democracy scholarship contest. Saturday evening in a
packed ballroom at Springfield's Crowne Plaza Hotel, she was awarded
$3,000 for her winning essay: "Why I'm Optimistic About Our Nation's
Knowing that a democratic society needs
nurturing, the VFW established the Voice of Democracy competition in
1947 to "provide students grades 9-12 the opportunity to express
themselves concerning democratic ideas and principles."
All of the student participants in the Illinois state essay
competition were invited for a Friday evening reception, dinner and
overnight lodging, followed by Saturday's breakfast and then a bus
tour of Abraham Lincoln sites in the Springfield vicinity.
Each year, nearly 40,000 high school students from across the
country, along with VFW Europe, VFW Asia and others, enter to win a
share of the $2.2 million in scholarships and incentives awarded
through the VFW's Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition, with
scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $30,000. The first-place
champion from each state or regional VFW department wins an
all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., where the overall
champion will be revealed in March. The national first-place winner
will receive a $30,000 scholarship paid directly to the recipient's
choice of American university, college or vocational-technical
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Students were required to submit their essay by Nov. 1, 2013,
both in typed-written and CD-recorded formats. The recording had to
be between three and five minutes.
Jordan Luczaj, also a senior at Mount Pulaski High School, was
runner-up to Madison in the local Mount Pulaski Scroggin-Gee Post
777 competition in November.
After the announcement of the state winner, Madison was asked to
read her essay. All attendees gave her a long-standing and
enthusiastic ovation.
The Illinois VFW state commander, Matthew Mihelcic, later
remarked that the "imagery used by Madison made her words stand out
even better!"
Madison's grandmother, Mrs. Shirley Haley, added afterward that
she was so pleased to see her granddaughter win such a prize, as "Maddy
has been writing essays since the third grade — something she loves
doing so very much!"
For a copy of Madison Haley's first-place essay in the Illinois
VFW competition,
click here (PDF).
[Text from file received from Phil
Bertoni, Mount Pulaski VFW Scroggin-Gee Post 777 quartermaster]
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OK, it's silly question time ..............
I've got one box as server [Win2K server OS]
and one box dual boot Win2K / XP [both Pro]
NOW; I've set up the server, and can get to the net OK.
but the workstation will not get through to the web at all .............
Question :
Is there a link / article that will give a 'script' to follow, so that I can get this system running.
I can see the server from the workstation, and the workstation from the server.
I have mapped a couple of drives to start me off
and the IP's are set in the 192.168.0.1/2 range.
I am assuming it's the server that is the problem area ? as I have joined PC's to an existing workgroup / domain before [:honest:]
I am beginning to think that maybe IT is not the place to try a new career if I cannot do this
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Retail and financial services organisations have become over-reliant on high-level compliance regimes such as PCI DSS to shore up their networks against data breaches, a survey of 400 UK and US organisations by security firm Tripwire has suggested.
Given the record number of public data breach notifications in the retail sector in the last year, the confidence expressed by many of the 407 retail and financial organisations that took part in the survey sounds paradoxical.
A surprising 84 percent believed they would detect a data breach within three days despite third-party reports (Verizon, Mandiant) based on real-world incidents suggesting a figure closer to weeks or months.
Organisations were upbeat about their ability to detect rogue malware (such as the point-of-sale malware that has plagued the retail sector), with an identical 84 percent confident or very confident about spotting such incursions. Nearly two thirds were confident they would spot unauthorised access to a network share or resource.
When asked to rate confidence in incident response plans in the light of what happened to US retailer Target, confidence levels dropped a bit but were still above 60 percent.
According to Tripwire, the fact that three quarters described PCI DSS as accounting for all or most of their security program was significant.
"Taken as a whole, these results indicate that most payment card processors need to engage in a standard of care discussion for their security programs," said Tripwire CTO, Dwayne Melanon.
"While most respondents feel confident about their security investments, it's not clear whether they are questioning the basis of that confidence."
Surveys are contentious territory, often used by security vendors to demonstrate fear uncertainty and doubt as a way of legitimising the need for a particular technology. In this case, the opposite appears to be the case; Tripwire's survey suggests a degree of complacency rather than technical failure.
It's not absolutely clear that PCI is the sole root of this but as the most significant compliance regime facing retailers and financial firms handling credit card data, its is certainly a suspect.
According to Tripwire, the danger of any compliance regime is that it leads to tick box security and becomes a psychological crutch. It says little about how well an organisation has tested security controls or modelled attacks.
So PCI is making people feel more confident than they should feel. PCI is also about defending one type of data, credit card data, and building controls around that defensive line. A lot of other data falls outside its remit.
"Having a structured program in place that's objectively measured by a third party is a definite improvement over more loosely defined programs that are evaluated only by internal personnel," added Tripwire's director of IT security and risk strategy, Tim Erlin.
"However, many organizations fail to realize that the goal of PCI compliance is the protection of cardholder data. It does not protect the rest of your business."
This story, "PCI regime has bred complacent tick-box security among retailers, Tripwire survey finds" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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2. Response forms
- To respond to a Law Office examining attorney letter (an "Office action") (a non-final or final action, including a suspension inquiry/letter of suspension or a request to submit a "substitute form" where the wrong form type was initially filed)
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Update: 3 shows added – Jan 8, 15 and 22 at 8pm!
Queer encounters of the 'Alien' kind
|Jonny Stax presents
|Alien Queen
|Created and Directed by Scott Bradley
at Circuit Night Club, 3641 N. Halsted (map)
through Jan 22 | tickets: $15-$25 | more info
Reviewed by Paige Listerud
Did you ever think that the music of Queen could be perfectly paired with the "Alien" movies and re-energize the franchise with queer sensibility? That one never dawned on me, either. But Scott Bradley has spawned Alien Queen, a musical comedy review that clearly reflects the cunning and twisted mind of a creator/director unabashedly obsessed with gender transgression, sticky substances, and the ultra-queering of Sigourney Weaver. And that's saying something, since Weaver, as lustable butch Ellen Ripley, won the hearts of every Eighties lesbian and bi woman once the first "Alien" film emerged to boffo box office reception in 1979.
Ryan Lanning, playing Ridley, could also seduce sapphists (of the fluid sexuality variety) as long as he keeps the wig on and keeps exhibiting the cool toughness of everyone's favorite Alien hunter–"Killer Queen" introduces us to her, still in her pod in suspended sleep. There is that penis thing, which could cockblock the adoration of Kinsey 6 dykes and certainly the audience for the show at Circuit Night Club seemed fairly gay male dominated. But hopefully, after much critical acclaim, a stronger dyke contingent will join the in revelry.
For one thing, Alien Queen is terribly sophisticated in what it does. In fact, for a comedy review, the cast's performances tend to be on the side of understatement. Deadpan delivery overrides exaggeration and over-the-top theatrics. This production displays professionalism in that it shows as much homage to Freddie Mercury's music and to the Alien-franchise as it engages in parody or spoof. Behind the laughs is a lot of love for the material.
Bradley and partner-in-crime Executive Producer Jonny Stax seem pretty happy to let the dry movie script spoof itself. They leave Anna Glowacki's alien and astronaut costuming – supplemented by the alien puppet designs of Jabberwocky Marionettes Productions – to boost dramatic spectacle for the audience. You haven't seen aliens till you've seen them break out of a human's stomach, in puppet form, to sing "Don't Stop Me Now." Anne Litchfield impresses with the first introduction of a full-grown alien costume. But few sights beat Bradley dressed as the mammoth alien queen herself, pumping out eggs for her alien subjects while singing "Get Down, Make Love."
Music Director Nicolas Davio keeps the show rockin' while Jyl Fehrenkamp's choreography has to make do with the limits of the stage at Circuit. But the cast kicks it very well and then does it all over again in alien costumes. (There's got to be a Jeff award for that, right?) T. L. Noble makes the most of Circuit's environs, skillfully creating an otherworldly lighting design in which the crews of Ridley's respective ships seek out and are destroyed. And destroyed they are, one by one, to the tune of "Another One Bites the Dust." As stupid marines about to die horribly, Kieran Kredell (Valdez) and William A. Barney (Hunks) take the cake. After all the idiot humans Ridley has to deal with it's almost a relief and a celebration to see the aliens take over.
As for why Scott Bradley would want to set himself up in a role playing Ridley's alien nemesis, that I leave others to psycho-analyze. The result is smart, polished gender-bending fun.
|Rating: ★★★
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