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(For more resources on Oracle 11g, see here.)
We will cover the following topics in this article:
- The Layout Editor presentation
- Designing a Layout
- Export options
The Layout Editor
First, you have to choose a predefined layout from the Create Report Interface. As you can see in the following screenshot, this interface displays a list of predefined layouts:
You can add your own predefined layouts to this list and make them available for your later use or even for all the users.
After choosing a layout from the Basic Templates or the Shared Templates group, the Layout Editor Interface is displayed.
Designing a Layout
In the Layout Editor Interface, as shown in the following screenshot, you have tools to perform activities such as:
- Insert a component: Select the desired component from the Components pane on the left or from the Insert tab of the toolbar and drag-and-drop it into the design area
- Set component properties: Set the component properties from the Properties pane on the left or from the component-specific tab of the toolbar (only the most commonly used components)
- Insert a data element: Drag the element from the Data Source pane to the design area
- Drop Value Here
- Drop Label Here
- Drop Series Here
- Set page layout options: In order to set the page layout options, use the Page Layout tab and the Properties pane
- Save the Layout: Use the activity icons from the toolbar on the right side
As shown in the preceding screenshot, a precise dropping area is marked. For example, in a chart you have the following marked areas:
In the following sections, a few elements will be inserted to complete our report design. You will also see the steps that you need to follow when inserting and setting the properties of these components.
Text elements
In order to make changes in the settings of Text elements, follow the steps given here:
- Click on the Insert tab and choose the Text Item component from the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Click on the Text tab and set a font color for your text using the Font Color icon from the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Set the text margins using the Properties panel, as shown in the following screenshot:
In this way, we obtain the desired report title, as you can see in the following screenshot:
In order to insert data elements in our report's components, we will use the following Data Model:
In order to create Charts, follow the steps given here:
- Click on the Insert tab and choose the Chart component from the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot.
- Select the newly inserted chart and go to the Chart tab on the toolbar to set the chart type (Vertical Bar in this example) and the chart style (Project in this example).
- Drag the LOAN_PERIOD and the PRICE fields from the Data Source (from the left pane) over the Drop Value Here area of the design view.
- Drop the TITLE field from the Data Source over the Drop Label Here area:
Data tables
In order to create Data tables , follow the steps given here:
- Click on the Insert tab and choose the Data Table component from the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot.
- Drag the fields LOAN_DATE, LOAN_PERIOD, TITLE, and YEAR from the Data Source over the area marked as Drop a Data Item Here.
- Select the LOAN_DATE column and in the Properties pane set the Formatting Mask to yyyy-mm-dd.
- For each column of the table, enter a suitable value for Width, in the Properties pane. For example, the fi rst column has a width of 1.00 inch:
(For more resources on Oracle 11g, see here.)
Automatic filtering
Now, we will bring all the previously described components into a report, and create an interaction between the chart and the table. When viewing in an interactive mode, the events triggered by the user will determine the layout components to respond to these configured events.
For example, in order to filter the table rows according to the chart selection and to show only the selected section of the chart, follow the steps given here:
- On the Page Layout tab of the toolbar, click on the Configure Events option. You will get the Configure Events interface.
- Select Chart 1 in the Components list. A list of events and a list of targets will be displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Check on the appropriate options in the Events and the Targets lists respectively, as shown in the preceding screenshot.
- Click on the Save icon to save your layout.
- Click on Return to see your result.
- Click on a section of the chart.
As you can see in the following screenshot, only the selected section of the chart is displayed along with only those rows of the table that meet the selection criteria:
Notice that the data details are displayed when you mouseover a chart item.
Don't check the Show Selection Only option if you want to keep all the values of the chart and fi lter only the table values. The result will be as follows:
Repeating sections
Repeating sections is used to group report data using a data element with multiple occurrences. In order to have all the loans of our example grouped by their titles, follow the steps given here:
- Click on the Insert tab of the toolbar and choose Repeating Section to insert a Repeating Section, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In the Insert Repeating Section dialog, enter TITLE as the repeating / grouping by element, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Save and return to check the elegant and interactive manner of BIP that displays repeating sections, as shown in the following screenshot:
In case of nested sections, you can use Group Detail as the repeating / grouping by element.
In order to see the difference, the same report is displayed in a PDF format, which is s hown in the following screenshot. Seven groups are displayed following each other, or on different pages according to the page break option settings:
Export options
Using your BIP Layout Template, you can generate reports in the following formats:
- Excel
- PowerPoint
When viewing your report, click on Actions and then select Export to choose the desired export format, as shown in the following screenshot:
After completing this chapter, you should know how to use the Layout Editor Interface, how to add layout elements and set properties for these elements, and how to take advantage of some of the BIP Template features such as automatic filtering and repeating sections.
The Template Builder for MS Word will be the main topic for the next chapter as this is an important tool available for RTF layouts design. It is suitable even when coding is a necessary part of the layout design.
Further resources on this subject:
- Oracle BI Publisher 11g: Working with Multiple Data Sources [Article]
- Getting Started with Oracle GoldenGate [Article]
- External Tables in Oracle 10g/11g Database: Part 2 [Article]
- Oracle: RDBMS Log Miner Utility, FRA, and AUM [Article]


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Delhi woman uses pet dog to 'terrorise' neighbour
A woman has accused a neighbour of getting her bitten by her pet dog in South-East Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area, the police said yesterday
New Delhi: A woman has accused a neighbour of getting her bitten by her pet dog in South-East Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area, the police said yesterday. A case has been filed under Section 289 of the IPC, dealing with negligent conduct with respect to animals.
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"The incident took place on Sunday around 10.30 pm. Victim Kavita Menghaney lives on the second floor and accused Seema Dutta resides on the first floor of a building in the E block area of Lajpat Nagar II," said a police official.
Menghaney, in her complaint, claimed that Dutta used to tie her dog outside her house's gate thus blocking the staircase. When people objected, she would ask them to use the lift. There have been regular arguments over the issue.
"Menghaney said she had problems using the lift as she suffers from claustrophobia. On Sunday night, when she was going down the stairs for a walk, Dutta saw her and directed her dog to attack her. The dog bit Menghaney on the leg," the official said. She was rushed to Safdarjung Hospital where she was discharged after treatment.

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text: On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:> Ok.. So, I would love to hear a confirmation about whether this patch (which> removes cpu_bringup() in xen_play_dead()) will break things or it is good as is.> > If its not correct, then we can probably make __cpu_post_online() return an int,> with the meaning:> > 0 => success, go ahead and call cpu_idle()> non-zero => stop here, thanks for your services so far.. now leave the rest to me.> > So all other archs will return 0, Xen will return non-zero, and it will handle> when to call cpu_idle() and when not to do so.> > Might sound a bit ugly, but I don't see much other option. Suggestions are> appreciated!Yes, it's butt ugly. You are tripping over the main misconception of the current hotplugcode: It's asymetric.So people added warts and workarounds like the xen one. What you areproposing is another wart and workaround.The real way to avoid it, is to have the symetric state machine inplace first and then convert everything to that instead of introducingan intermediate state which resembles the existing state.One of the main things we need to do to make it symetric is to killthe play_dead() thing in the idle loop and make idle a function whichreturns on cpu_should_die().Give me a day or two and I get you a working version of that. (Up isfunctional, just down refuses to play along)Thanks, tglx


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By Gene Hudgens
Each of us has a responsibility to take care of our health. Today we have available the finest advanced medicine in history. God gave us humans an advanced brain. (quote from Mrs Gordon): "Experience teaches that the more we use our brain the more benefits we derive. When humans take advantage of the super barain power God hs given us we are guaranteed longer lives."
No one disputes that God is likely more pleased with those of us who work hard than with those of us who are lazy and useless. He expects us to study and learn and develop our brain and He expects us to learn a trade and work to adequately support our families, but He also expects us to balance our time and care for our bodies.
Have you ever seen an older person that worked hard, was able to retire from a working career, but immediately begins another career and continues to work hard just to make more money?
He never takes a vacation. He refuses to get a complete medical check-up every six to twelve months. He remarks that it must be nice for others to take vacations.
My God created everything and continues to create everything. If He didn't want each of us to slow-down when we get older, He would not have allowed us to establish our Social Security system that clicks into action around age 60-65. He would not have allowed us to establish our Retirement Plans that click into action after 25 to 30 years of employment. At this age our brain should be 'kicking into action'…and we should be slowing down…and caring for our health more as we offer security to our love ones. Humans are expected to think.
The next time you chat with one of these oldies that is still working and never taking a vacation, ask him, "Do your every think about your health and what will likely happen if you kick-the-bucket. Do you know that another man will likely come along and meet your wife and use (your) money for his vacation?"
Actions speak louder than words. Encourage God to smile.
The opinions expressed by authors may not necessarily reflect the opinion of FaithWriters.com.


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Nobel prize winner, overcame the fear of death
Professor, University of Tokyo asinari Osumi (Yoshinori Ohsumi was the first of this year's Nobel prize. For purely scientific formulation, "the discovery of the mechanisms of autophagy" (precisely because it awarded the prize to Japanese) hides the most important fundamental mechanism that will help in the future to find the means to prolong life. Details open the "MK" was cleared by the candidate of biological Sciences, leading researcher of the biological faculty of Moscow state University. Lomonosov Maxim Skulachev.
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Osumi, Asinari
– Of course the discovery deserves the Nobel prize. Autophagy is a completely basic biological mechanism of self-purification, and sometimes even cell death, " says Skulachev. Our skin is covered with a Horny layer of cells or the bark of trees,- all this is all the result of autophagy: once the cells were alive, then began to slowly digest itself and turned into a lifeless but very important part of the body. The process of how the phenomenon was described long ago, but Professor Osumi figured out exactly how it happens, discovered the phenomenon from the most simple organisms — yeast, "mad" they have genes that control this process. In General, he's a big boy.
The process of autophagy, according to Skulachev study in many countries, including ours. But such a detailed, comprehensive baseline study has never been.
Also scientist happy that the Nobel prize drew the attention of biologists not only to the questions of the origin of something, but to the question: "Where did it go?". All biological objects have a certain life expectancy. This also applies to cells, and intracellular organisms, and organisms in General. And that, according to Maxim Skulachev, not particularly eager to study biologists: "It looks like sometimes for some thanatophobia — the fear of death."
"So, what exactly has enriched the knowledge Bank Professor Osumi?
– Autophagy is used by our body when it needs to destroy large broken objects, for example, intracellular structures, or mitochondria. There are special proteins that stuck to the idle unit, then the whole structure is enveloped in a membrane. In the next step there are two options: lysosomes are able to digest and process when to eat something failed it is impossible and the waste is ejected from the cell to the outside. The bark of trees – is an example.
Interestingly, the process of fasting stimulates autophagy. While a lot of food and all is well, the body can afford to "contain" the dirty cells. And when is no fat, it activates the mechanism and eat up all the junk inside.
– And if not…
– Then there are serious violations, even developing Alzheimer's disease. Opening Osumi is a very important fundamental mechanism that will help in the future to create thousands of new drugs, stimulating and maintaining the process of autophagy.
– Uncontrollable process of autophagy is?
– No. It would be as impossible as impossible unmanageable job waste incineration plant. There are also all designed and verified.
Read the story "the Archivist of the Nobel Committee said, who presented the award by mistake"


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Everyone has heard of Isas – they are probably the most popular way to save in modern times. But it doesn't follow that everyone understands how they work. In fact, several myths about Isas abound, such as a belief that their famous "tax-free" status extends to inheritance tax.
Here are answers to some of the most common questions that savers and investors ask about Isas.
What is the minimum amount I can put into an Isa? And can I drip-feed further money into the Isa throughout the year?
There is no minimum sum set out in the Isa rules, although particular providers may have their own limits.
There is a maximum, however. For the current tax year, the most that you can put into a cash Isa is £5,760. This will increase to £5,940 in the new tax year, which starts on April 6.
Under the 'new Isa' rules, announced in the Budget two weeks ago, savers will be able to take advantage of a new £15,000 allowance, which will be available from July 1.
Some Isa providers require savers to deposit the entire £5,760 allowance into the account on opening, while others require smaller sums.
If you don't have the full amount to invest straight away, most accounts allow you to make further deposits throughout the year, but make sure you read the account description carefully as it is easy to get caught out.
If I have cash Isas that I took out in previous years, can I consolidate them into one cash Isa, so that I earn interest on the one larger sum?
Many savers like to consolidate their previous years' Isas into one new one, in order to get the best rate on all of their money – and because a single account is easier to keep track of than a multitude of Isas from different providers. The problem is that many providers do not accept transfers into their Isas from your existing accounts.
This is because any current Isa that offers a good rate is likely to attract a lot of money and providers risk being swamped if these accounts are able to accept additional cash from old Isas.
Three of the top five variable-rate cash Isas on the market at the moment do not allow transfers from old Isas. They include Nationwide's "Flexclusive" Isa, which pays 1.75pc. However, Furness Building Society's best-buy Cash Isa 90 (Issue 2) does accept such transfers; it pays 1.7pc on balances between £3,001 and £9,000, or 1.8pc for £9,001 or more.
For a full list of our favourite cash Isas that allow transfers in, go to telegraph.co.uk/savings.
Is it worth opening an Isa account now, or should I wait for the new tax year on April 6?
Your Isa allowance works on a "use it or lose it" basis. If you don't take out a cash Isa this tax year, that allowance is lost for ever. So if you have funds sitting in a bank account paying negligible interest, it is worth taking advantage of your tax-free allowance in each tax year. Ideally, savers would do this earlier in the year but subscribing to a 2013-14 Isa at this stage is better than not using the allowance at all.
Opening an account now will allow you to earn interest tax-free for very little effort. You can always take out another cash Isa on or after April 6.
What documentation do I need to open a cash Isa?
Providers will require your National Insurance number to open a cash Isa account for you. Some may also ask for a driving licence or passport, and proof of address.
Can I open more than one cash Isa a year?
No, you can open only one cash Isa (as well as one stocks and shares Isa if you wish) each year. The cash Isa allowance cannot be split, so the whole £5,760 amount must be invested into one account.
Do I have to declare any income I get from an Isa on my tax return?
No. Not only is interest paid tax-free, but you do not even have to mention income from Isa savings on your self-assessment form.
What happens to my cash Isa when I die?
This one often catches people out. The cash Isa will end on the date of your death and interest will become taxable. All Isa investments will be included as part of your estate for inheritance tax purposes. In other words, Isas' tax-free status does not extend to inheritance tax.
One way to get around this problem is to take out a stocks and shares Isa and use it to hold shares listed on the junior "Aim" market. Aim shares are exempt from IHT.
If the rate on my Isa falls, what can I do?
Instant-access Isas are variable rate so the bank or building society could cut the rate at any time. If this happens and you find a better rate elsewhere, you are free to switch. But don't do this by withdrawing the money and using it to open a new Isa – this would count as taking out two Isas in the same year and would invalidate the tax breaks. Instead, apply to the new Isa provider to transfer the money from the old one.
I'm fed up with low interest rates on cash Isas. How can I get a better return?
One option is to switch your Isa to the variety that invests in stocks and shares. These offer the possibility of decent rises in value and incomes that exceed cash interest rates. However, any investment can fall as well as rise, and any income paid is variable, so this may not be for you.
Switching is the same as for cash Isas: choose a provider for your stocks and shares Isa, then ask it to request a transfer your cash Isa provider. You can do this for the current year as long as you haven't already set up an investment Isa this year; otherwise your only option is to consolidate the two Isas with your existing stocks and shares provider, making sure your total contributions don't exceed the limit of £11,520. You can transfer previous years' cash Isas into a stocks and shares Isa by the same process.
However, switches in the other direction – from investments to cash – are not allowed.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Penguins Game Day 31 - vs. Carolina Hurricanes
Bing is back. He is pissed. May God have mercy on the Carolina Hurricanes tonight.
"I'm in," Crosby said.
Oh. Yea.
Kunitz and Gogo are also back on the ice practicing which is a very good sign. Kunitz has been sidelined for some time now as everyone originally thought that the injury was of the two week variety but it has been longer. Gogo came back for a game and then promptly sat back down. Almost back at 100%.
Although the Penguins have been beat up Mark Letestu did a phenomenal job against the Blackhawks last week. He was winning face offs and setting up play makers to make plays. His face off win with a little over a minute left in regulation directly led to the Penguins tying it up and getting a point. You love to see players from WBS come up with something to prove and perform well.
Probable lines for tonight:
The Hurricanes are just a struggling program one year after going to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Canes are 6-17-5 and they are a dismal 0-10-3 on the road this year. But hey, they got Cam Ward:
and who can forget the Caaaaaaaaaam Waaaaaaaaard chant?
Lets Go Pens
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Eindhoven Airport Reviews
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Eindhoven Airport is a regional airport near Eindhoven, Netherlands. In terms of the number of served passengers it is the second largest airport in the Netherlands, with 1.6 million passengers in 2008 (well behind Schiphol, which serves more than 48 million passengers-see Schiphol review)
The airport is used for both civilian and military traffic. From World War II up until a few years ago, Eindhoven Airport was called Welschap.
Eindhoven has 1 runway from 9,842 feet (3000m) wich can handle all aircraft flying today.
Airlines flying from Eindhoven and there destination.
Air France
operated by Airlinair (Paris-Orly)
Iceland Express (Reykjavík-Keflavik) [Resumes June 2009]
Ryanair (Bristol [begins 31 March 2008], Dublin, Girona, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Pisa, Reus [begins 4 June], Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta)
transavia.com (Alicante, Faro, Málaga)
VLM Airlines (London-City)
Wizz Air (Budapest, Katowice, Prague)
Ryanair Boeing 737-800
Dubrovnik Airlines (Pula)
Freebird Airlines (Dalaman)
Jetran Air (Lourdes)
Onur Air (Bodrum, Antalya)
Pegasus Airlines (Antalya)
Sky Airlines (Antalya)
transavia.com (Corfu, Kos, Rhodos, Heraklion, Dalaman, Bodrum, Antalya, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas, Tenerife, Hurghada)
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This Sunday's NFC Wild Card matchup between the Seahawks and Redskins will feature two stellar rookie quarterbacks whose play has lifted their teams to new heights. All eyes will be on Seattle's Russell Wilson and Washington's Robert Griffin III, both of whom are in the running for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.
The two QBs are far more similar than you might think. One of the biggest differences is merely their draft positions: Griffin was picked second overall while Wilson, mainly because of his short stature, fell to the third round of April's NFL Draft.
Yet both of them are young, fresh, crafty quarterbacks who have found success both through the air and on the ground. Both of them have proven themselves as leaders after just a short time in the NFL. And both of them represent exciting new football eras in their respective cities.
(Who do you think is better? Vote in our poll below.)
"The excitement about Robert Griffin has all been documented. He's real. And he's a fantastic football player, he's a great kid, he's an incredible leader and they built the team around him," Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said of the Redskins on Wednesday. "They were committed to Robert right from the beginning. They knew what they were doing.
"We weren't. We didn't know."
The Seahawks approached this season quite differently. Carroll couldn't bet all his cards on a first-round draft pick; instead, he had a newly signed veteran backup in Matt Flynn and a third-round rookie in Wilson.
After letting the two duke it out for the starting spot, Carroll found that, in Wilson, he had an "ace in the hole," as he said Wednesday. Carroll limited his rookie QB for the first few weeks of the season, but then gained enough trust in Wilson to open up the entire offensive playbook.
"He's allowed us to really do everything that we can think of. We trust him in everything we're calling. It doesn't matter what play it is, what concept it is, we trust him to be able to handle it," Carroll said of Wilson. "That's a wonderful feeling for a coach, that you trust your quarterback like that. It's remarkable that you could say that about a first-year guy but, somewhere in the middle of the year, we could tell."
Now, after the conclusion of the regular season (though Griffin missed one game due to a knee sprain), Wilson and Griffin have strikingly similar statistics.
Well, except their draft position. And their height. Griffin has led his Redskins to a 10-6 record standing 6-foot-2 and packing 220 pounds of heft; the Seahawks went 11-5 with a quarterback who isn't quite 5-foot-11 and weighs just over 200 pounds.
Wilson and Griffin each attempted 393 passes during the season. Griffin completed 65.6 percent of them; Wilson completed 64.1 percent. Griffin put up an even 3,200 passing yards; Wilson tallied nearly as many with 3,118.
Griffin kept interceptions to a minimum, throwing a mere five picks over the season. Yet so did Wilson, who threw 10 interceptions and had fewer than passers like Peyton Manning (11), Matt Ryan (14), Andrew Luck (18) and Drew Brees (19).
Wilson also threw 26 touchdown passes. Griffin tallied 20.
Griffin has better numbers when it comes to the ground attack. He was an integral part of Washington's running game from the get-go, opening up more opportunities through the read-option for running back Alfred Morris, who finished the regular season as the NFL's second-leading rusher with 1,613 yards. Griffin added 815 yards and seven TDs on the ground, ranking the Redskins first in the league for total rushing yards.
"Their offense has changed kinda what you can do in the NFL," Carroll said of the Redskins. "I think it's been very much a cutting-edge style that they've gone about."
Then again, once the Seahawks put their complete trust in Wilson, they found him a dynamic scrambler and began running more read-option themselves. Coming mostly in the second half of the season, Wilson tallied 489 rushing yards and four rushing TDs — including 71 yards in Seattle's key overtime victory at Chicago, and 92 yards and three ground scores in the Seahawks' blowout of Buffalo. That helped running back Marshawn Lynch finish third in the NFL (behind Morris) with 1,590 rushing yards.
Wilson also got better in the second half of the season while Griffin remained fairly consistent. Wilson's passer rating improved from 73.5 and 90.4 in September and October, respectively, to 128.6 and 115.2 in November and December. Griffin's slipped from 103.2 in September to 90.0 in October, then from 124.5 in November to 94.9 in December.
In terms of ESPN's "Total Quarterback Rating" statistic, which factors in more than just passing, Griffin is the NFL's sixth-best quarterback with a total QBR of 71.4. But Wilson is right on his heels, coming in eighth with a total QBR of 69.6 through the regular season. (Now-benched San Francisco quarterback Alex Smith was ranked seventh, so you might consider Wilson just behind Griffin.)
As the season moves into the playoffs, three contenders have emerged for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. Wilson joined Griffin and Indianapolis' Luck in the discussion after he led the Seahawks over the Bears, and justified that attention with four more big victories to finish the season on a five-game winning streak.
"I think they're all unique," Carroll said. "Andrew Luck is a classic quarterback. He's got everything you want: He's big and strong and fast, and he's fast for a big dude. …
"RG3, he has all of those commercials for a reason. He's done it, and he's been just incredible. Even now, coming back from injury, he's still playing well and executing great game plans. He's just an amazing player and he has extraordinary accuracy. …
"And then Russell Wilson has had a fantastic season. He's done everything that we could've hoped for, and we raised him up and he took off and ran with it. Our offense has really grown and improved during the course of the season, and he's been highly efficient. He's great with the football; he's a guy that you can trust absoluetly with the consciousness about taking care of the ball. … He's been dynamic, a great leader and a great kid."
Earlier this season, Carroll said the Seahawks studied Griffin and the Redskins to see how they were having so much success with a similar rookie. What he saw was commitment from the team to its young quarterback.
Which goes to show that, like the rookies themselves, the Seahawks and the Redskins also are strikingly similar overall.
"I think the obvious similarities are the young quarterbacks, and the commitment to the running game. So you can start drawing comparisons right from there," Carroll said. "They're young teams. (The Redskins) are really young, too, across the board. So I think there's a lot of similarities."
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This section describes how to prepare for and perform an upgrade of your WebLogic application environments. Topics include:
Planning how you will upgrade an application environment is an important step in the process. To ensure that your plan addresses all of the aspects of upgrading that are necessary for your environment, complete the following steps:
Generate an inventory of the application environment, and identify the components defined in the following table. You can view a sample application environment in Overview of the Upgrade Process.
Verify support for all the hardware and software components in the application environment. The following table lists the key components for which you need to verify support.
"List of Supported Operating System Configurations" in Supported Configurations for BEA WebLogic Platform - Version 9.2 at
"Supported Database Configurations" in Supported Configurations for BEA WebLogic Platform - Version 9.2.
1. Update references to database names within configuration files.
2. Before starting the pre-5.1 PointBase server, add the following information to the
3. Update your applications to use PointBase 5.1. Note that the PointBase 5.1 database software is installed as part of the 9.2 installation.
The WebLogic Type 4 JDBC Driver for Oracle and the Oracle Thin Driver are installed with WebLogic Server and are ready for use. For more information about using these drivers, see "The Oracle Driver" in WebLogic Type 4 JDBC Drivers at
"Supported Web Servers, Browsers, and Firewalls" in Supported Configurations for BEA WebLogic Platform - Version 9.2.
Most existing WebLogic Server applications can be run without modification in the new WebLogic Server 9.2 application environment. However, you should review WebLogic Server 9.2 Compatibility with Previous Releases to determine whether any feature changes affect the applications in your environment.
WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Integration applications developed in 8.1 must be upgraded first before they can be run in WebLogic 9.2.
Using the information gathered in the preceding steps, create a plan for upgrading your application environment. Identify the scope and timing of the upgrade process, based on your business needs. Please note the following:
Before you upgrade the application environment, you must perform the following steps:
When upgrading your domain, undeploy all 8.1 WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Workshop and WebLogic Integration user applications before you start the upgrade. You will need to upgrade these applications using BEA Workshop for WebLogic before they can be deployed to an upgraded domain (or a new WebLogic 9.2 domain). For information on upgrading WebLogic Workshop application environments, see Upgrading from WebLogic Workshop 8.1. For information on upgrading Portal applications, see the WebLogic Portal Upgrade Guide and the Upgrading WebLogic Portal Projects from Version 8.1 to Version 9.2 chapter of the Portal Development Guide. For information on upgrading WebLogic Integration application environments, see WebLogic Integration Upgrade Guide.
WebLogic Server applications do not need to be undeployed before upgrading the domain. In most cases, WebLogic Server applications can be run without modifications in the new WebLogic Server 9.2 application environment. Review the compatibility information in WebLogic Server 9.2 Compatibility with Previous Releases to determine whether any features changes affect the applications in your environment. Note that if you use deprecated or removed APIs in the application, you might encounter warnings or exceptions at run time.
Before you upgrade, you must shut down all servers in the application environment.
You have the option of backing up the domain during the upgrade process, as described in Backup Domain. However, the wizard archives the domain directory only; it does not preserve file permissions.
BEA recommends that before upgrading your application environment, you manually back up the components defined in the following table. You should back up the relevant information on all machines in the domain.
Back up the Administration Server and any remote Managed Server domain directories that are defined in the application environment.
Back up any Node Manager directories and scripts that you are using to manage your servers in a clustered environment.
Before upgrading your application environment, you must install the 9.2 BEA Products that you require on each machine in the domain. For more information about installing BEA Products 9.2, see Installation Guide at
|If you are using Node Manager in your pre-9.2 installation, when installing the 9.2 product, you should set the Node Manager listen port to match the port number used in the pre-9.2 installation, if possible. The default value for the listen port for Node Manager is 5556.
|When upgrading a domain, ensure that the corresponding 9.2 BEA product is installed. For example, to upgrade a WebLogic Workshop 8.1 domain to 9.2, you need BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform installed.
Some configurations include Managed Servers running on one or more machines that are remote from the Administration Server for the domain. If you have this type of configuration, you must upgrade the domain directories on each of the machines that host the remote Managed Servers.
To prepare the remote domain directories, you must copy the following files from the root directory of the pre-upgraded domain directory on the host machine for the Administration Server to the root directory of the host domain(s) of the remote Managed Servers:
|If the database in your configuration is not compatible with WebLogic Server 9.2, the data must be upgraded to a database that is supported before it can be used in the new application environment. For more information, see Step 4: Create an Upgrade Plan.
To set up the environment for an upgrade:
CLASSPATH environment variable and
\server\bin to the
PATH environment variable, where
WL_HOME refers to the top-level installation directory for WebLogic Server.
You can use the
\server\bin\setWLSenv script to set both variables.
|When upgrading WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal or WebLogic Integration domains, PointBase is automatically started and upgraded to PointBase v5.1.
The following provides a roadmap that identifies the steps required to upgrade your application environment.
The following table summarizes the steps for updating an application environment. Some steps are mandatory, others are optional. Each step that is performed must be done on every machine in the domain.
If are using custom security providers in your current application environment and you wish to continue using them in the new environment, upgrade them:
If you are currently using a customized version of Node Manager to provide high availability to Managed Servers and you wish to continue doing so in the new application environment, upgrade Node Manager:
Upgrade the WebLogic domain on every machine that hosts any Managed Servers. Be sure to copy the appropriate files to the Managed Servers before performing the upgrade, as described in Step 5: Prepare the Remote Managed Server Domain Directories.
Once you have used the WebLogic Upgrade Wizard to upgrade the application environment, you may need to perform the following steps:
Not all of these steps are required for all situations. Review the sections to determine which, if any, of these steps are appropriate for your environment.
Due to recent changes in the MBean hierarchy, BEA does not guarantee that existing configuration and administration scripts (such as WLST,
weblogic.Admin, Ant, and so on) will run in all 9.2 environments. BEA recommends that you update your scripts to take advantage of the new features provided with WebLogic Server 9.2. For more information about new WebLogic Server features and changes in the MBean hierarchy, see "What's New in WebLogic Server 9.2" in the WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes at
More information is provided in the following sections about scripting tools, custom configuration templates, and SNMP:
The following configuration and administration tools are deprecated as of WebLogic Server 9.0:
weblogic.Admin utility. For more information, see
If you are currently using one of these utilities, BEA recommends that you use the BEA WebLogic Scripting Tool, as described in the next section.
The WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) is a command-line scripting interface (built with Jython) that you can use to configure WebLogic domains. Using WLST, WebLogic Server administrators can perform administrative tasks and initiate WebLogic Server configuration changes interactively or by running an executable script.
With the release of WebLogic Platform 8.1, WLST was made available for evaluation from BEA's dev2dev site, but it was not formally included in the WebLogic Platform 8.1 product. It was offered in two formats: WLST online and WLST offline.
In WebLogic Server 9.2, the online and offline versions of WLST are delivered as a single tool. WLST fully supports the administrative and configuration features offered by 9.2. For more information about WLST, see WebLogic Scripting Tool at
|WLST online can be run on WebLogic Platform 7.0 and 8.1, and WebLogic Server 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. WLST offline can be run on WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP5 and WebLogic Server 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2.
As with the other pre-9.2 tools, BEA does not guarantee that existing WLST scripts will run in 9.2 due to recent changes in the MBean hierarchy. BEA recommends that you update your scripts to take advantage of the new features provided with WebLogic Server 9.2.
For more information about new WebLogic Server features and changes in the MBean hierarchy, see "What's New in WebLogic Server 9.2" in the WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes at
The following table summarizes the steps required to upgrade custom configuration templates created with the WebLogic Platform 8.1 Template Builder.
Follow the steps described in Upgrade Your Application Environment.
See "What's New in WebLogic Server 9.2" in the WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express Release Notes at
If you use an SNMP manager to monitor WebLogic Server:
The MIB is located at
/weblogic92/server/lib/BEA-WEBLOGIC-MIB.asn1. WebLogic Server does not change object identifiers (OIDs) for existing managed objects; it only adds new OIDs for new managed objects.
For a list of deprecated managed objects, see "Deprecated MBeans" in WebLogic Server MBean Reference at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs92/wlsmbeanref/core/index.html. The description of each deprecated MBean includes a pointer to the replacement MBean. (Each SNMP managed object corresponds to an MBean attribute.)
|A number of runtime MBeans that are internal to BEA have been removed from the MIB. These MBeans are not included in the deprecated MBeans list. For more information, see WebLogic Server Known and Resolved Issues at
To complete the upgrade of your application environment to 9.2, you may need to re-apply any customizations to startup scripts. The following sections describe how to customize the default startup scripts as well as any custom startup scripts.
The Upgrade Wizard does not carry forward any customizations that have been made to the default startup scripts, such as the setting of the
JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable. After the upgrade process is complete, you will need to customize the default scripts again.
If you are upgrading your domain to 9.2 and you want to continue using a pre-5.1 version of PointBase, you must add the JAR files for the pre-5.1 version of the PointBase database to the beginning of the
CLASSPATH environment variable definition. To do so, update the
CLASSPATH statement in your
setDomainEnv files.
|You can use the pre-5.1 version of PointBase only for WebLogic Server domains. For WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Integration domains that are configured to use PointBase, the PointBase database is automatically upgraded to PointBase v5.1.
If you have created custom startup scripts, you will need to update them manually, as follows:
CLASSPATH variable, as follows:
CLASSPATH environment variable definition.
|For WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Integration domains, the PointBase database is automatically upgraded to PointBase 5.1.
Verify the file permissions, as follows:
If you upgrade Node Manager during the upgrade process, enroll the machine that is hosting the WebLogic domain with Node Manager. This can be accomplished using the
nmEnroll command.
|If the
nodemanager.domains file resides on the machine where the Administration Server and Managed Server are configured to run and they share the same domain directory, you can manually edit the file to include an entry for the domain, in the following form:
|This file is located in
/common/nodemanager, by default (where
WL_HOME refers to the top-level installation directory for WebLogic Server).
|For more information, see "Configuring nodemanager.domains File" in "Additional Configuration Information" in Managing Server Startup and Shutdown at
nmEnroll command updates the
nodemanager.domains file under the
/common/nodemanager directory with information about the domain, where
WL_HOME refers to the top-level installation directory for WebLogic Server. The
nodemanager.domains file specifies the domains that a Node Manager instance controls. This file is necessary so that standalone clients do not need to specify the domain directory explicitly.
This command also downloads the following files from the Administration Server:
To enroll the machine with Node Manager using the
nmEnroll command:
As described in step 2, start a WebLogic Server instance and connect WLST to the server using the
connect command.
nmEnroll command to enroll the machine on which WLST is running with Node Manager.
You have the option of specifying:
nm_password.properties) and
SerializedSystemIni.dat file. By default, these files are saved in the directory in which WLST was started.
nodemanager.domains file, containing the information about the domain, is written to this directory. By default, the directory used for this purpose is
/common/nodemanager, where
WL_HOME refers to the top-level installation directory for WebLogic Server.
For example, if the domain directory is specified as
c:/bea/mydomain/common/nodemanager, and the default home directory for Node Manager,
/common/nodemanager, is used, then you enroll the machine on which WLST is running with Node Manager by entering the following command:
nmEnroll('c:/bea/mydomain/common/nodemanager')Enrolling this machine with the domain directory at
Successfully enrolled this machine with the domain directory at C:\bea\mydomain\common\nodemanager
For more information, see
nmEnroll in WebLogic Scripting Tool at
Once you start the Administration Server, verify the remote server start options, such as
BEA_HOME, and
CLASSPATH, reference the WebLogic Server 9.2 installation on the target managed server. This can be accomplished using the Administration Console, as described in "Configure startup arguments for Managed Servers" in Administration Console Online Help at
WARNING: If the remote server startup options are not set correctly, when attempting to start a Managed Server using Node Manager, messages similar to the following may be written to the log file. Because these messages may be sent recursively, they may eventually consume all space available on the drive.
No config.xml was found.
Would you like the server to create a default configuration and boot? (y/n):
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Execute standard procedures for quality assurance and performance tuning before promoting an application environment to production. You should test the execution of your applications (including external client applications) in your test application environment. If your applications use APIs that have been deprecated or removed, then you may encounter warnings or exceptions at run time. If you do, you can make any required modifications before promoting your applications to production.
Once all test criteria have been met, you can promote the application environment to production, as outlined in your upgrade plan (defined previously in Step 4: Create an Upgrade Plan).
Once the new 9.2 application environment is deployed into production, you can start redirecting requests to the new environment from the existing environment. Gradually, you can quiesce the existing environment. This might be accomplished using a load balancer, for example.
If any step in the upgrade process fails, the WebLogic Upgrade Wizard displays a message indicating the reason for the failure and terminates. To proceed, perform the following steps:


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My married life has come to the final stage. Patrimony divisions, monthly support and pension are what I hear every day. You grow up believing it's impossible to put a price on the life of a human being, but I know now what I'm worth, at least to my husband and the state. Divorce wipes out the memories, the wedding photo album and even the kindness that you once had towards the other person. What you are left with is emptiness, fear, confusion and a broken heart. The vision of growing old together and raising children is gone. You are a file in a lawyer's office. Once you looked at the divorce statistics together and thought with pity about people who prefer to quit their relationships rather than invest time and effort in resolving their problems. Now you have become a cliché of this society that thinks the grass is greener on the other side. When the pieces are broken it is difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. My husband is a decent man and our relationship was based on mutual respect, loyalty and kindness. Perhaps it is the loss of such priceless qualities and the uncertainty of finding them again that makes us feel so desperate? Or is it just a painful broken heart?
Mariella I picked your letter because it so poignantly sums up the agony of divorce. You're not ranting and raving. You clearly don't hate your husband or wish evil upon him. It seems that you and he are trying to close a passage of your lives in a mature way. I don't think there's a person out there, married or divorced, who won't feel empathy with how you're feeling. We all enter into relationships wide eyed and hopeful. Love brings out the best of us for a time and then most often exposes the worst of what we are capable. Like most people, you imagined your marriage would be forever and went through that pleasantly smug period where splitting up seemed the most unlikely of scenarios. But a marriage or long-term relationship is an incredibly fragile thing. Just let fury, hurt, a moment of repulsion or an accrual of resentment reach a watershed point and suddenly what seemed impossible becomes inevitable.
So many people regard longevity in a relationship as just a natural course of events. Those who've achieved it have a different story to tell. I haven't met a couple yet whose marriage has endured into old age without making sacrifices that most of us would consider untenable. One couple who had overcome infidelity, drug addiction and fast living and managed to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary told me 'the Seventies were particularly bad'! What? The whole decade? That a relationship could be miserable for 10 years and still both parties would remain committed to the long haul seems ridiculous to most of us today. I'm not even sure where I stand on it: is 10 years too much time to waste when you could find new happiness elsewhere? Or is it the kind of investment of emotion and commitment that earns you the pleasures of companionable old age?
Generally there tends to be a victim and a perpetrator, and getting through the 'difficult patch' relies on one person sacrificing more than the partner who is out playing the field, having a party, working themselves to death, drinking themselves to oblivion, or whatever their chosen vice. But both partners have a rough time, even if one looks less glamorously tortured than the other. Long-term relationships are a million times harder to sustain than we imagine. If we're going to dispense with them before they've come to a natural conclusion (death of a partner), then we do need to get better at doing so.
Much of your melancholy is related to your love story becoming a statistic, being trawled through the divorce courts with settlements and figures, and futures being mapped out by strangers. It did get me wondering why so many divorces these days have to end up in court. Would it be possible to avoid more often if we looked on divorce not as the final straw but a choice that requires as much sacrifice as staying together? Perhaps Madonna and Guy Ritchie aren't getting divorced, as has been mooted recently, but it's a sign of the times that a couple, before they've even decided to split, seek legal advice. Splitting up may seem easier than staying together, but by God we make a meal of it. Just look at Paul McCartney and Heather Mills – how much more would we have respected them if they had worked out the details in the privacy of one of their many living rooms? It's not inevitable for couples to end up at war in a room full of strangers.
I was moved by your sadness, as I think most people will be, because it reminds us how we enter into relationships, displaying the capacity for empathy and self-sacrifice. Yet when we split, they are the first things we let go of – money all too often being the last. I wish you all the best, in the secure knowledge that there will be a future that will eventually take the sting out of this painful passage. Thank you for offering such important food for thought.
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With Intel's new Haswell chip, manufacturers can choose to either build slimmer notebooks or try to optimize battery life as much as possible. Dell has clearly shown its dedication to the latter with the new Inspiron 11 3000 series. Budget notebooks don't always have big batteries, but Dell claims the $379 Haswell version of the Inspiron 11 lasts up to eight hours and 20 minutes on a single charge.
Something I've been pondering for a while: if we can have high-quality tablets and smartphones at low prices, why can't we have high-quality laptops at said prices too? Cheap laptops are almost always crap, but this Inspiron 11 actually looks like it could reverse the trend. Since I don't really need an expensive laptop anymore, a cheap but still relatively high quality 11" laptop is right up my alley. Is anyone aware of any alternatives?
Also, when did Dell find the design stick?
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Another fuckup from ms would be opening af pdf in desktop ie wupti you are in metro land. If thats not bad design i don't know what it is.
I do know that my opinion does not make it a design error. Thats why i wrote its a design error in my world. I have yet to find just one thing i think is good in win8. Sofar i have found a number of fuckups but no 'ah nice' moments.
I for one find the idea of 2 desktop enviroments idiotic. And it doesnt help that worst of them is being used as a full screen start menu in the one that can be used for real work...
Metro is fine, and will be fine for "real work" once more apps are ported.
Until then, the desktop works exactly as it always did, except that the start menu is bigger and prettier.
Why would an action in the only useful part of win8 default me into the not so useful part? The only reason i can se is to get people to use that sad sad solution they used to call metro.
it's doubtfull even ms believes metro would be usefull for work. If they did they would have made it optionel and 8.1 would not come with a option to boot into desktop...


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Bissell Steam & Sweep Mop
The review guides through the main features and ratings as well as weighs the pros and cons of the latest steam mops including the Bissell and others. My cousin has been using the product for a year. I would like to share her personal experiences, and some significant information collected from other users around my locality. Appreciating the public acceptance, this is a wonder tool for every house.
A great thing regarding this product is the time it is sweeping the floor; it is mopping the floor, as well. All this happens without any fuss so that everyone leaves the house with a good mood for the whole day. Thus, it develops confidence and develops you a habit of cleanliness. Some persons are still wondering, whether this gadget is capable or not of performing the tasks that it claims? Well, those who already own one say, yes it does.
Eco-friendly Linoleum floors enriched with carpet flooring just help us keeping our house warm like a mother's nature, and can't expose them to ordinary mops for cleaning purpose. Simple scrubbers with harsh bristles comprising lower grade material damage the linoleum. All this urges the comparison table for some efficient and convenient carpet washing techniques.
Each mop comes with reusable pads best for steam cleaning of hardwood floors and laminates. We suppose them to remove tough stains from anything and almost getting us rid of bacteria the same time, but I can bet what one likes to have is? That is a cut above the rest and translates of having a steam cleaner for removing stains and Bactria.
Looking into the cleaning industry offers us, following are the brands coining as the top. Hoover and Shark also make good machines with reasonable prices. One can find basic models under $100, but the cheeky ones are usually between $100-200. They maintain a fair balance between the quality, durability as well as the price.
Overall Steam Mops ratings 2016:
This shortest revision determines about which is the best steam floor cleaner? For overall cleaning power and price consideration, the Bissell 1940 Eraser is an excellent choice with the suction power of machines that are double the expensive. Like all good vacuums today, it comes standard with the HEPA filter to help trap the dust and allergy-causing molds, it sucks up.
Dry Mop for Dog Hair:
For years, the technical team at Bissell has been making quality machines, helping dog owners removing hair from their carpets and floors. Therefore, it is no surprising that they invented a class of innovative and dry hair mops. The idea behind the steam mop is quite a broad. The sweeper located to the front of the machine cleans the floor first and gather the hair and dirt deposited in the tray, and then mopping section mops the floor.
Originally this mop cleaner quoted $189.00; however, one can purchase it on Amazon for the price below 100. One can also read a ton of useful reviews when he visits the above link, some of them happy, some of them not but the Bissell clean and sweep has been a total life saver for me.
One of the benefits of this liftoff mop is the design it boasts. The features of this floor steamer include a 30 feet long cord, enough for the type of this machine. The removable tank can hold approximately 17.5 ounces water. The package includes Eco-friendly liquids and necessary chemical including extra fiber pads. The homely ladies can take it anywhere due to the ease of lifting.
A majority of the times, the machines like Steam n Sweep look as if the vacuum cleaners. Although both of them used for cleaning floors, there is a lot of perceptible differences between the two. One of the primary elements of any vacuum is the separate dirtbags for gathering the dirt.
We recommend this tool for the homes having the pets, or the house owner wants a dry house, the same time holding the money into his pocket. The bristles on this upright can be turn off while simple sweeping of the hard floors to avoid spilling out any debris. The exhaust fitted with the true filter is capable of removing up to 99.97 % of the dust thus reducing the allergy modules to mere 30 microns. This lightweight yet powerful tool also makes cleaning easier than others because of its extra maneuverability.
The dry mop cleaner is perfect for moving around featuring a dovetailed path, measuring 12 inches and comes complete with a swivel mop head, worth $89. Additionally, the machine includes two microfiber mop pads. The water heated above 300°F enables it to generate a hotter steam beyond the formation of droplets, aiding in effective cleaning as well as drying the Linoleum and wooden floors.
Flaws in the Mops
Just like any other product, the floor mop has its flaws. One of the disadvantages, I see the customers constantly talking about is the fact, it is incapable of sucking up the dirt in a way the vacuum does. As we know these are not the actual faults but for the prime characteristics of any vacuum cleaner. If these were not present, we couldn't avail much of the features mentioned above.
How to Clean the Steam Aided Mops
Before we start to clean this hard working tool there, it is necessary to cool it off at least for an hour or two. One should never forget to remove its safety cap before removing the steam tank. Don't be vague to open the lid. That is the most important point to remember as a precautionary measure.
Press down and unscrew the safety cap before detaching the tank. I am again repeating with the safety cap removed one can clean away the reservoir with a 5:1 ratio water and synthetic vinegar solution. Let the solution rinse for 2-3 hours before dumping it out. Again rinse with hot water to remove any traces of sticking vinegar. These are a few steps which could be necessary with a view to the storage of the tool, even.
Hoover Steam Mop
The next to hold high in my reviews is the twin tank disinfectant thin and slim mop from Hoover, the lightest in its category and so simple to move around even for ladies. It's washable microfiber pads allow their reuse many a time as compared to others, giving it a priority over conventional ones. The knuckle provided at the end of mop allows it to swivel through 360 degrees. Thus, it can reach every nook and corner of your house for easier cleaning under the beds, tables, and even the cupboards.
Though it looks a bit chore to clean them up after use yet that's true about any of the carpet steamers in case you want to keep them in good condition. Brushes can pick up a lot of hair and carpet fibers, which could clog things up, otherwise. It is not too hard to pull away the worst of the impurities from the brushes as a part of the routine work. Running the Hoover with a tank of clean water and rinsing your carpets finishes the job, helps to get away all the excess shampoo from carpeting.
It releases the steam while pulling back, having your finger on the clicker. I was little amazed using it for the first time even, only except a wet floor. Soon I learned the trick to get the floors dry after mopping. What I have to do, just release the trigger for 2 minutes before the final sweep. The device remains hot for quite a few minute until I hover it for the final touch.
Hardly, it takes me 10-12 minutes to mop away the whole of my house. I'm satisfied to recommend it to all of my friends. This mop stands at number one referring to 2015 sales results.
Cordless Steam Mop
The main thing I like about this battery operated mop is, it's quick recharging technique that turns the indicator to green within 15 minutes and stops charging, automatically. Usually, I add two cups of water to its tank to start with the job. The portable cleaner device is swift enough to mop two of my bedrooms and the kitchen, within a few minutes. It is capable of cleaning all the types of floors; either it's the hardwood or the laminates.
This handheld cordless floor steamer is a fantastic privilege for the fans of home cleaning products. The safest method of cleaning for the people who avoid online handling of electrical appliances or the power cord.. It's better also, not to handle the things you're not used to. Let it convert your weaknesses into strengths. Thus, it allures as one of the advanced accessories which cover all around the shelves and even beneath the lower height kitchen cabinets. I do enjoy every time I use it and feel proud of owning this model.
Sienna Aqua Pro V Steam Mop
Sienna is the most fabulous mop to experience in cleaning of low height stuff. The resilient rotating head cleans well under the coffee table, bookcase, and other home furniture. The specialty of this floor mop is its adjustable steam nozzle having a vibration-free movement. Also, it defers the use of harmful chemicals consumed for keeping the home free of bacteria.
In spite of being smaller Sienna Aqua is tougher on dirt. Two x-changeable cleaning heads include this model, making it easier to get immediately into several arduous-to-reach nooks and facets. Further, quite a lot of cleaning pads and additionally a carpet glider permits you using the mop on several surfaces; for example, uncovered carpeting or mats with rugs.
Shark Slim Pocket Mops
Shark is the only gadget that can monetize and differentiate between the condensation and vapor, itself. It helps sustain the steam and remove the condensate. Cleaning is not that difficult any more, considering the new gadgets around. Moms certainly love this brand new product in the line of vacuums for wiping their houses; in the past days they were using the conventional brooms for the purpose.
Their innovations have made our life simpler. The new Shark Navigator Professional Upright NV356E Vacuum with the Floor Ball Technology is obtainable with a discount of $195 as an ideal cleaning support. I walked through the retailers for checking, what this excellent device could do for you?
The site aids in evaluating and making the correct choice in the relation to choosing higher quality vacuums. We collect and compile the top rating critiques in an easy to browse format, able to discover the top brands according to their performance parameters. The eBay's Pro-Steamer Shark Professional is most likely the cheaply priced one, as such ensured for attracting the folks who avoid spending a huge money but need a steam vac, at least.
These are nonetheless the sturdy tool, successfully manufactured to perform definitely and delivering excellent effects, the way one likes. However, with quite a few alternatives flooding the industry, deciding upon a floor steamer is just like a lot of chore for cleaning of surfaces.
Reasons for Using Steam-Aided Mops:
The color of the cemented gaps tends to turn darker, betraying the original one. Consequently, it starts to resemble that of the conceding dirt and filth within a period of 6 months. The very lower two lines of bathroom tiles also start behaving the same way, within a year. However, the vitrified tiles can withstand most seasonal changes by virtue of their fragile nature except some abnormal hit or the damage.
In fact, a micro layer of calcium carbonate starts to deposit over the glazed surfaces under soaps and shampoos influence, in the due course. A layer with ten microns of residue deposits over low walls of the high traffic areas of the house every month, if not taken proper care. This can be wiped off easily by rinsing with dilute hydraulic or sulfuric acid, avoid the concentrated ones producing hazardous fumes.
To clean such areas with a vapor mop is the right way. Another important point I forgot to add above that even a 20 microns layer is porous enough for the pro breeding bacteria. I need not explain about their cons and pros for the humans. me
The steam & sweep far exceeds the minor weaknesses, clear from the article above. The key to their product success has been its exclusiveness, every bit as stylish as the stunning design itself. I have been lucky enough to watch it operating at my sister's place so going to buy one soon, as the price is lowest at the moment and expected to go up shortly as much as by 30% in the coming few months due to the hike in the prices of materials used in its construction.


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Food Classification And Food Values
( Originally Published 1927 )
Everybody should know what purpose the foods serve in the body, so as to make intelligent selection. It is impossible to classify foods rigidly because all the natural foods contain various compounds that entitle them to a place in different tables. For instance: Wheat is rich in starch, so it must be placed among the starches ; it contains enough protein to entitle it to a place among the proteins; it contains a little fat, and many of the health-giving mineral salts. This classification aims to be practical, but it is also scientific.
These tables are not strictly necessary, but for many they will be convenient, for there are those who are curious to know the percentage of starches, fats, sugars, and other compounds in the various foods. Please remember that food tables can never be exact, because all wheat is not equally starchy; all beef is not equally fat; all spinach does not contain the percentage of iron and other salts. In other words, foods vary according to the conditions in which they are produced.
The proteins are the albuminous foods, or nitrogenous foods. They are the only foods that contain nitrogen in a form that is acceptable to the body, and as the body must have nitrogen, these foods are essential. The racial habit has been to get the proteins from animal sources, mostly from dead fish, birds, and quadrupeds.
Lean flesh food, plainly and correctly cooked, is easier to digest than such vegetable proteins as peanuts and navy beans.
The proteins help to build up the framework of the body, supply materials to repair body waste, also supply the essential ingredients of the body lubricants (serums, synovial fluid, mucus), and are necessary to maintain the strength of the muscles.
Many hold the false belief that proteins, especially meats, are very essential when one is doing hard physical work. A manual worker needs about the same amount of protein that a brain worker should take; but a manual worker needs more starch, and sugar, and fatty food than does the office man.. This is an. important point.
Proteins can also be used as body fuel, but it is unwise to use them for this purpose, because they are apt to wear out some of the organs, especially the liver and the kidneys, when so used. Starches, sweets and fatty foods are the best fuels.
The principal sources of protein are:
1. Meats of all kinds (the lean part), such as beef, veal, mutton, lean pork, chicken, turkey, duck, goose, game, both feathered and furred, in fact, all lean flesh from animals and birds.
2. Fish of all kinds, such as trout, salmon, herring, pickerel, pike, cod, halibut, mackerel, sturgeon, and shad. Also shellfish, like oysters (which are mostly water), clamas, crabs and lobsters.
3. Legumes, the chief of which are all kinds of dried beans, dried peas, lentils and peanuts. Also green peas, and both the green and the dried lima beans.
4. Dairy products, including sweet milk, clabbered milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese and all other kinds of cheese. Cream contains but little protein, and butter practically none.
5. Nuts, especially almonds, Brazil nuts, filberts, hickory nuts, pecans, English walnuts, butternuts, pistachios and pignolias. (Peanuts are legumes, not true nuts. Chestnuts contain much starch and only a little protein.)
Some of the foods listed are not rich in protein, but such foods as milk and buttermilk be-long in this class.
The term carbohydrates mean sugars and starches.
Ash is a poor name for minerals in the food, but will be retained in this book because it is commonly used.
Where the calories are not figured, those mathematically inclined can do their own calculating, if they will bear this little table in mind :
One pound of protein produces 1,860 calories.
Calories are not important, for the feeding requirements vary so much in the same individual at different times, and in different individuals at the same time. The climate and the work and general activity and the period of life modify the food needs, and these are but a few factors. The only safe rules for eating are the fundamental rules given in another chapter. Nobody can tell you how many ounces of food you need, but if you follow these rules, you will learn for yourself.
The starchy foods are to the human body what coal is to an engine. They furnish heat and energy.
If the starches are plainly cooked and properly masticated they digest easily and well. Many say that all foods should be eaten raw. It is too hard to break down the cellulose of wheat and other grains to make them good raw foods. When well cooked the cellulose is softened, the digestive juices easily obtain admittance to the starchy particles, and digestion follows.
Those with good digestive and assimilative power tend to grow too stout if they eat too much of the starchy foods. Those who are below par in digestive power tend to acquire in-digestion, hyperacidity, and eventually underweight if they overeat of starchy food. The same kind of food can act in two different ways under varying conditions.
Starch digestion begins in the mouth; the ptyalin in saliva is a digestive ferment which starts the starch on its way to become sugar. All starch must become sugar before it can be used by the body. This is one reason why all starch should be very thoroughly masticated. Rapid eating of starch leads to indigestion.
Those who do hard manual work need more starchy food than do sedentary individuals.
The chief sources of our starchy foods are:
1. Cereals, the most important being wheats of all kinds, Indian corn, rice, rye, barley, and oats. No matter in what form we eat them—in bread, toast, cakes, mushes, flaked or puffed cereals—they are starchy.
2. Tubers, the most important being Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and Jerusalem artichoke. The dasheen is also a tuber, which resembles the white potato in consistency, and has an agreeable flavor.
3. Legumes, especially when they are ripe. The ripe limas, navy beans and other kinds of ripe beans, peas, lentils and peanuts are starchy. Green limas and young peas contain more starch than the other vegetables; usually classified as succulent.
4. Nuts, but only a few varieties. Acorns, dried chestnuts and cocoanuts are rich in starch.
Hubbard squash (winter squash) contains about the same proportion of starch as the Irish potato.
Parsnips are rich in starch.
Green bananas are about as starchy as Irish potatoes, but ripe bananas contain only a trace of starch, for it has been turned to sugar.
Pumpkins are of watery consistency, and can be classed with the succulent vegetables.
Tapioca and sago are very starchy.
Cornstarch is the starchy essence of the corn.
Spaghetti and macaroni are wheat cereals, hence starchy.
Some of the foods appearing in the starchy table, were also in the protein table. Beans and peas are rich in both protein and starch.
All foods made of grain, such as toast, bread, rice pudding, cornstarch pudding, muffins, macaroni, and cakes are cereals.
Like starches, the sugars or sweets are a carbon food, and serve as a source of heat and energy. The sugars are more easily digested than the starches, and sooner ready for ab-sorption into the blood.
The natural sugars, especially the sweet fruits, are fine foods, for they are nourishing and also contain an abundance of the mineral salts needed to maintain health.
Refined white sugar is nourishing, that is, it contains many heat units; but from the stand-point of health it is one of our poorest foods. So poor is it as a food that in experimenting it has been found that dogs live longer when given water only than when they have sugar and water. Refined sugar is an irritant and often overstimulates the appetite so that the result is overeating.
Refined sugar is a comparatively recent addition to the menu. It is not long ago that it was used as a wonderful drug, and in those days it was known as Indian salt. A small amount of it eaten with fresh raw foods does no harm, but to consume about 100 pounds of it annually, as the average American does, is Injurious.
The principal sources of sugar are :
1. Sweet fruits, the most important of which are ripe bananas, currants, sweet grapes, raisins, sweet prunes, figs, dates, persimmons and oranges. All ripe fruits contain sugar and the dried fruits are rich in this food element.
2. Sugar cane and sugar beets, from which nearly all of the refined white sugar is made.
3. Honey.
4. Sap of the sugar maple.
If curious about the caloric values of sweet food, find the percentage of sugar in the food, and remember that sugar produces 1,860 calories per pound.
Fats and oils are our most concentrated food. Pure oil, contains 4,220 calories to the pound, which is much higher than the caloric value of any other class of food. Because these foods are so concentrated, we should be careful to avoid overeating of them.
Oils are simply soft fats. The two are alike in their nourishing qualities.
In cold climates or cold seasons fats and oils are fine foods, in fact nature provides them abundantly in the polar regions. In warm weather one should eat less of these foods. Those who eat too freely of fats and oils, whether vegetable or animal, in hot weather are apt to suffer much from the heat, and to have skin blemishes and discomfort.
The basis of fats and oils is carbon, so they are a heating and energy-producing form of food. They also help to fatten the body. Those who are too stout should avoid these foods for a while, or eat them in moderation.
The chief sources of our fats are:
1. Dairy products—cream, butter and some rich cheeses.
2. Flesh of dead animals, especially pork, mutton and beef, that have been fattened.
3. Fat fish, such as herring, shad and salmon trout.
4. Legumes. Some kinds of peanuts are very oily, and so are soy beans.
5. Nuts of nearly every kind. Almonds, Brazil nuts, filberts, hickory nuts, pecans, English walnuts, butternuts, cocoanuts, pistachios and acorns are rich in oil.
6. Cotton seed, olives, and corn furnish much edible oil.
Fruits and nuts are the finest foods we have. properly handled they are absolutely clean. They contain no waste to poison the blood stream.
All fruit juices contain elements that help to cleanse the blood. They are rich in sodium, potassium, calcium and other salts which the body must have to maintain health.
Even the acid fruits sweeten the body. The fruit acids are digested in the stomach and intestines, and their salts and vitamins enter the blood. The condition known as acidosis (general hyperacidity) is rather common. Many think that in such a condition fruits of acid nature should be avoided. Experience shows that a moderate amount of acid fruit helps to reestablish the alkalinity of the body. The injurious acids are the ones formed in the body, as a by-product of subnormal digestion and of poor combustion in the body and defective elimination. However, those suffering from acidosis should take acid fruit in moderation.
Very thin people, especially if they are chilly; also elderly people who are under weight should eat moderately of the acid fruits in cold weather. Acid fruits tend to cool the body. Most young people can eat acid fruit at all times of the year with benefit; if the young individual is fat, he will be much benefited by the acid fruit.
The sweet fruits, and all fruits containing over fifteen per cent of sugar (carbohydrate) should be called sweet, are very nourishing. Most people fail to realize that some of the fruits are among the most nourishing of foods. Compare figs, for example, to various meats in the caloric value. It may be surprising to learn that figs are, weight for weight, three or four times as nourishing as some of the popular lean meats.
The sweet fruits are excellent winter foods, but should be eaten more moderately in summer. The sweet fruits will take the place of such foods as bread, rice, potatoes, and macaroni. In other words, the natural sweets may be used in place of the starches.
The term "acid fruit" means fruit that is quite sour, like sour apples, pineapples and lemons.
"Subacid fruit" is a mild fruit, containing only a little acid, such as mild pears, sweet apples and good blueberries.
Some of the most common juicy fruits are :
Apples, lemons, oranges, peaches, pears, strawberries, apricots, avocadoes, blackberries, cherries, cranberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, huckleberries, blueberries, mulberries, nectarines, olives, pineapples, plums, raspberries and whortleberries.
The melons (watermelon, muskmelon, cantaloupe, casaba, honey dew, etc.), rhubarb stalk and tomatoes are so like fruit that for practical purposes we may call them so.
The most important sweet fruits are:
Ripe bananas, sweet prunes, sweet grapes, raisins, dried currants, figs, dates and persimmons.
The carbohydrates in ripe fruits are almost exclusively sugar.
These vegetables are not eaten because of their great nourishing values, though they all contain nourishment. All of them contain some starch.
The chief reason for using these vegetables is that they are true health foods. Like the fresh fruits, they contain the mineral salts and the vitamins needed by the body to maintain health. The fresh fruits and the fresh vegetables, even though they may be low in nourishing values, are as important as the more concentrated foods. The fresh vegetables help to keep the bowels sweet and clean, and the blood pure. Internal cleanliness and purity maintain youth, and ward off old age.
These vegetables should be eaten both cooked and raw. If the individual partakes of a liberal amount of both cooked and raw vegetables every day, enough of the mineral salts are furnished to maintain the purity of the blood.
Nature did not distill any medicines for us, but she did supply us bountifully with fresh fruits and fresh vegetables.
Raw foods are absolutely essential to health, and the need for these can largely be supplied with salad vegetables.
The principal succulent vegetables are :
Asparagus, beets, cabbage, carrots, turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, cucumber, egg plant, lettuce, okra (gumbo), onions, radish, summer squash, tomatoes, spinach, kohlrabi, kale, Brussels sprouts, cone artichoke, chard, stringbeans, celery, turnip tops, lotus, endive, dandelion, oyster plant, rutabaga and garlic. Though corn is really a cereal, corn in the milk, either on the cob or canned, and green peas may also be classed with the succulent vegetables. Also the pumpkin.
Mushroom is a fungus. Those who are fond of it may partake occasionally, but fungous growths cannot be recommended as a steady diet.
Young lima beans are quite starchy, as much so as Irish potatoes. Parsnips are also quite rich in starch.
Radishes are delicious peeled and cooked.
Macaroni and spaghetti are not vegetables. They are made of wheat flour and are very starchy. They are cereal foods.
These are also succulent vegetables.
The principal salad vegetables are :
Lettuce, celery, endive, romaine, chicory, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, celery cabbage, parsley, field lettuce, and cress. All leaves that are relished may be used for salad purposes.
Raw onions in moderation may be used for flavoring, and garlic likewise. Those who are fond of raw root vegetables and have good digestive power may occasionally eat some raw carrots or turnips, but they should masticate these foods very well. Grated carrots are good in salads.
Those who eat plenty of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables get all the mineral salts the body needs.
To satisfy the curiosity of those who wonder at the meaning of "ash" in the food tables, the answer is given in the table of mineral matters, for they are the ash. This table was originally compiled by Otto Carqué, the pure food man of Los Angeles.
The leafy vegetables used as salads and cooked greens are most valuable for their organic mineral contents.


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Ana Te Pahu
Easter Island, Chile
Ana Te Pahu Easter Island Reviews
751 reviews
Ana Te Pahu Cave Jan 18, 2012
Ana Te Pahu is the largest cave complex that I have seen on the Easter Island. Big large lave tube lays in the field and you should be careful where you are walking because there are few openings where cave ceiling collapsed. Inside of the caves are many remains of house platforms and you could see that many people lived there. Main opening has few banana trees growing in the hole and from there you can go in either direction. I did not explore the place in fullest because tunnels are flooded in certain parts and I did not have any light to help me see where I am going.
This place is very picturesque, and really lets you explore on your pace. It is not more than one hour from the city of Hanga Roa, and you will enjoy that walk and caves.
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