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The wings of this hummingbird are moving so fast that they're just a blur of motion. You can probably think of many other examples of things in motion. If you can't, just look around you. It's likely that you'll see something moving, and if nothing else, your eyes will be moving. So you know from experience what motion is. No doubt it seems like a fairly simple concept. However, when you read this article, you'll find out that it's not quite as simple as it seems.
Defining Motion
In science, motion is defined as a change in position. An object's position is its location. Besides the wings of the hummingbird in opening image, you can see other examples of motion in the Figure below. In each case, the position of something is changing.
Q: In each picture in the Figure above, what is moving and how is its position changing?
A: The train and all its passengers are speeding straight down a track to the next station. The man and his bike are racing along a curving highway. The inchworm is slowly inching its way along a branch. The meteor is shooting through the atmosphere toward Earth, burning up as it goes.
Frame of Reference
There's more to motion than objects simply changing position. You'll see why when you consider the following example. Assume that the school bus pictured in the Figure below passes by you as you stand on the sidewalk. It's obvious to you that the bus is moving, but what about to the children inside the bus? The bus isn't moving relative to them, and if they look at the other children sitting on the bus, they won't appear to be moving either. If the ride is really smooth, the children may only be able to tell that the bus is moving by looking out the window and seeing you and the trees whizzing by.
This example shows that how we perceive motion depends on our frame of reference. Frame of reference refers to something that is not moving with respect to an observer that can be used to detect motion. For the children on the bus, if they use other children riding the bus as their frame of reference, they do not appear to be moving. But if they use objects outside the bus as their frame of reference, they can tell they are moving. The video at the URL below illustrates other examples of how frame of reference is related to motion.
Q: What is your frame of reference if you are standing on the sidewalk and see the bus go by? How can you tell that the bus is moving?
A: Your frame of reference might be the trees and other stationary objects across the street. As the bus goes by, it momentarily blocks your view of these objects, and this helps you detect the bus' motion.
- Motion is defined as a change of position.
- How we perceive motion depends on our frame of reference. Frame of reference refers to something that is not moving with respect to an observer that can be used to detect motion.
- frame of reference: Something that is not moving with respect to an observer that can be used to detect motion.
- motion: Change in position.
Do the frame of reference activity at the following URL. Watch the introduction and then do the nine trials. Repeat any trial you answer incorrectly until you get the correct answer.
- How is motion defined in science?
- Describe an original example that shows how frame of reference influences the perception of motion.


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Wed, 24 March 2010
Trudy Schuett says almost every cliché served up by the feminist lobby about domestic abuse is malarkey. She calls it, "Abusegate: a Generation Deceived". Matt Strawn from the Iowa Republican Party invites folks to a Freedom Rally. Richard Vande Kieft defends the Iowa Association of School Boards.
Direct download: mickelson-2010-03-24.mp3
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Last year, Blizzard decided to auction off a number of "server blades" from World of Warcraft, which were literally the physical locations where people's online lives were stored and played out.
Seems it was a sound idea, since the grand total of all blades auctioned has reached $US330,000. Best part? Every cent raised goes not to Blizzard's bottom line, but to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® Charity Auction: Thank You! [Blizzard]


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tuck a small mammel into this 2' box,carry it under your left arm and the little creature takes some damage for ya and some spells cast on you are misdirected to it. If you do't mind the muffled screams!
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Wall Street braces for Spitzer
When Eliot Spitzer resigned as New York governor amid a humiliating prostitution scandal, no one cheered louder than Wall Street.
More than five years later, the industry's outspoken antagonist is attempting to make a political comeback – one that could cause serious headaches for bankers and across corporate boardrooms.
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Spitzer, 54, is vying to be the next New York City comptroller. The job carries far less public prominence than governor or attorney general, the post from which Spitzer earned the nickname "Sheriff of Wall Street" for his battles with American International Group and the New York Stock Exchange , among others.
( PHOTOS: Eliot Spitzer's career)
But it would provide Spitzer with enough power to get back in the face of corporate America and the finance industry.
As comptroller he could play the role of activist investor while managing the city's almost $140 billion in pension funds, pressure money managers to accept reforms if they want to do business with New York and audit city agencies' various dealings with financial companies and make headlines if he thinks the taxpayer is getting a raw deal.
"Any time you are exerting influence on where to place well over a hundred billion dollars in assets, you have power and influence," said Jon Lukomnik, a former deputy comptroller for New York City who is now a managing partner of Sinclair Capital.
( Also on POLITICO: Spitzer explains his return)
Since his surprise announcement via an interview with the New York Times Sunday evening, Spitzer, who left office in March 2008 shortly after details of his involvement in a high-end prostitution ring became public, has made clear that he would use the city's shareholder position to be a watchdog of corporate America.
In an interview on the Brian Lehrer Show on Monday, Spitzer offered several examples of corporate principles he would advocate as comptroller.
At the top of the list: Separating the roles of CEO and board chairman at large corporations.
The issue gained attention earlier this year when some investors unsuccessfully sought to have JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon give up his chairman's role following the bank's "London Whale" trading debacle, which resulted in billions of dollars in losses.
( Also on POLITICO: Spitzer launches political comeback)
"The argument is that Jamie Dimon is a good CEO therefore we don't want to separate," Spitzer said. "Look, George Washington was a great president — we did not eliminate checks and balances even though we thought he was a great president."
Spitzer added, "Structural checks on decision-making are important in corporate governance as well as in the Democratic arena."
John Liu, the current comptroller, was active in the push for Dimon to give up some of his powers, but given Spitzer's history and reputation, the ex-governor could give the issue of corporate governance added heat and attention.
As comptroller, Spitzer could also exercise influence over financial institutions that do business with the city to manage its public pension funds.


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The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
New Bern Police Department:
Percy R. Smith, 38, 625 Mile Road, Vanceboro, Jan. 23, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance, driving while license revoked. Officer: B. McKee.
Princess Hatch, 20, 1606 Cobb St., Jan. 23, altering/stealing/destroying criminal evidence, failure to heed light or siren, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance, failure to burn headlamps, canceled/revoked/suspended tag. Officer: A. Thalmann.
DeWayne Styron, 31, 3645 Don Lee Road, Arapahoe, Jan. 23, second-degree kidnapping, possession of firearm by a felon. Officer: R. Holton.
Douglas Steven Taylor, 19, 3005 Brunswick Ave., Jan. 23, attempting to obtain property by false pretense, financial card theft, financial card fraud, possession of stolen goods or property. Officer: M. Lee.
Michael David Spriggs, 24, 1506 College Way, Jan. 22, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce. Officer: G.E. Salen.
Aaron Michael Maldonado, 24, 117 Scotts Creek Drive, Jan. 22, possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: G. Salen.
Shirley Wallace, 54, 1715 U.S. 17 North, Lot 53, Jan. 22, resisting public officer, assault on a government official or employee. Officer: S. Brown.
Antonio Dion Stilley, 35, 1406 Simmons St., Apt. 3F, Jan. 22, resisting public officer. Officer: S. Brown.
Tyrone Jerome Berry, 30, 5006 McClelland Drive, Apt. 204, Wilmington, Jan. 22, simple possession of a schedule VI controlled substance. Officer: B. McKee.
River Bend Police Department:
Richard W. Hodges Jr., 49, 1711 Belgrade-Swansboro Road, Maysville, Jan. 22, driving while license revoked. Officer: R.E. Matthews.


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The Blue Devils' boys pulled away with a win Friday after a frenzied third quarter.
DEEP RUN � It was a rough Friday night for Ayden-Grifton.
A junior varsity player was carted away after his head met the hardwood in transition.
A varsity assistant coach received a technical foul and was ejected from the game in the third quarter.
The Chargers� key forward fouled out.
Oh, and all three AG basketball teams lost to host South Lenoir.
The varsity Chargers guys had a strong start � but a heated third quarter sucked the life from the previously top-ranked AG. Entering Friday�s contest, Ayden-Grifton was the No. 1 team in the Eastern Carolina 2A conference.
Things changed after the Blue Devils dished a 65-53 loss to the Chargers, staying perfect in Munn Gymnasium this season. Friday night, Kinston became the only team undefeated in conference play.
AG (8-6 overall, 1-1 Eastern Carolina 2A) was down only nine coming back from halftime, and its first-half play marked potential for a comeback. If they could�ve stopped turning the ball over and quit fouling South Lenoir, the Chargers may have wound up on the other side of the game.
But South Lenoir (11-2, 1-1) went up by as many as 13 after AG�s Will Gardner�s intentional foul sent Jaquan Wooten to the free throw line in the third quarter, getting the Blue Devils� forward his first baskets of the night.
Ayden-Grifton pulled within five with 3:25 left in that period, but Chargers� forward Jahkevius Edwardswas slammed with a technical immediately following his third personal foul.
In the same stretch, a Chargers assistant was ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct for murmuring a comment after his own tech during the frenzied session.
The trio of fouls led to six free throw attempts, and South Lenoir made half of them before overcoming AG for good.
South Lenoir coach Jeremey Barnett was proud his Devils didn�t succumb to the heat.
�It got a little heated there, but conference games are going to be like that,� he said. �I hate that it got that far, and even when it comes in your favor, you never want to see a game come to something like that.
�I�m not saying anything bad about Ayden-Grifton, but we�re going to let our program talk. We�re not going to get into the extracurricular stuff; that�s not us.�
And the guys stayed true to South Lenoir basketballafter the hot quarter.
The closest the Chargers would ever get to regaining the lead � which they only had in the first quarter � was seven points.
Every Blue Devil who touched the ball had at least one point, and senior Dion Jones drove the win home. He finished with a game-high 20 points, adding seven rebounds and a steal. His single swipe was converted into a three-point play midway through the opening quarter.
The guard was resilient on the offensive glass, as one of his putbacks gave South Lenoir the lead, 17-15, in the opening quarter.
SL�s Trent Turner fed inside to a cutting Derrick Williams to initially tie the score, and four big Wuanya Cooper points off a pair of AG turnovers spurred South Lenoir�s 29-20 halftime lead.
The Chargers had 14 turnovers to SL�s eight.
�Our defense is really what got us,� Barnett said. �Our defense got us transition points.�
But Edwards fouling out also hurtthe Chargers, because AG coach John Moye said the big man fuels the team.
South Lenoir led, 56-44, when Edwards exited the game.
�He�s very valuable,� Moye said about his forward, who had eight points and eight rebounds. �He�s one of our key players, and if he (is not) scoring, he�s one of the guys who helps us win basketball games.
�No matter what goes on in a game, we�ve got to just keep trying to press hard and � play basketball. That�s all you can do.�
Gardner was who commanded Chargers scoring with a team-high 18 points, adding seven rebounds. Edwards departed with a team-high nine boards.
Wooten led South Lenoir�s rebounding with nine. He didn�t hit any of his 10 shots from the field but finished with four free throw makes.
Jonte Midgette and Williams scored in double figures with 10 points apiece, with each draining one of the South Lenoir�s 10 3-point tries.
In the second week of EC2A action, all three home teams again prevailed.
South Lenoir will head to La Grange Tuesday for the first of this year�s cross-county rivalry series against North Lenoir. The Hawks (5-11, 0-2) lost on the road to Greene Central Friday and will try their luck with the conference�s home win streak.
Girls� game:
�Free throws,� coach Donald Mooring exclaimed after the game.
�We finally shot free throws like we were supposed to,� he said, �and that�s what really won the game.�
South Lenoir (8-6, 1-1) shot 67 percent from the charity stripe Friday en route to a 39-25 win over visiting Ayden-Grifton.
MeoshaFranklin hit five free throws and led Blue Devils� scoring with nine points. She and senior forward Demeyia Adams grabbed 11 rebounds, respectively.
Adams was a spark plug for South Lenoir throughout the win, proved when Mooring returned her to the game with four fouls and 4:44 left on the board.
�She�s a senior, and that�s what she�s supposed to do,� Mooring said of Adams. �You had to be smart with (putting her back in), but at the same time, you have to look her in the eye and say, �D, you can�t get that silly foul, OK?� �
Adams resumed game action having no points, but exploded for a quick seven. With 1 minute and 22 seconds remaining, she banked a shot off her own rebound to finish up her scoring.
It was a low-scoring firsthalf � especially for Ayden-Grifton, as South Lenoir led 16-5 headed into the locker room.
The Blue Devils� passing became more fluid after the break.
�We just talked about slowing down,� Mooring said, �slowing down and making good, solid passes. For most of the second half, we did that.�
South Lenoir had five assists, with guard Hannah Mereadydishing a game-high three as she battled flu-like symptoms.
It wasn�t quite MJ�s�flu game,� but she did complete a beautiful feed inside to Marquia Suddeth for a score that sparked the Devils� second-quarter run.
Suddeth finished with eight points and seven rebounds, while Meready dropped one of the game�s three triples off an assist from Franklin before halftime. Hailey West drained the other two 3-pointers for South Lenoir.
Four Chargers scored, with Destiny Dixon leading the way with 11 points.
Ayden-Grifton (2-12, 1-1)started warming up in the third quarter, but they still trailed by at least 10 for the rest of the contest.
South Lenoir travels to North Lenoir Tuesday for the first of this season�s cross-county rivalry series.
Jessika Morgan can be reached at 252-559-1078 and email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @JessikaMorgan.
S. Lenoir (11-2, 1-1): 7 22 15 21 � 65
Ayden-Grifton FG FT 3PG Reb. TP
K. Taylor 0-4 2-5 1-3 0 5
J. Blount 0-1 2-3 1-3 0 5
W. Gardner 9-12 1-2 0-0 7 19
R. Squires 2-3 0-0 0-0 2 4
K. Harper 2-11 0-0 0-0 5 4
A. Gantt 0-0 0-0 0-1 2 0
F. Preston 0-2 1-2 1-1 5 4
J. Wright 0-0 4-4 0-0 4 4
J. Edwards 3-7 2-2 0-0 8 8
Team totals 16-40 12-18 3-8 31 53
South Lenoir FG FT 3PG Reb. TP
W. Cooper 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 4
L. Whaley 1-1 5-8 0-3 1 7
D. Jones 8-14 4-8 0-1 7 20
D. Williams 1-3 5-5 1-1 3 10
J. Midgette 3-9 1-1 1-3 4 10
J. Wooten 0-10 4-8 0-0 9 4
T. Turner 1-2 1-2 1-2 2 6
J. Mickens 2-5 0-0 0-0 5 4
Team totals 20-46 20-32 3-10 31 65
S. Lenoir (8-6, 1-1): 3 13 9 14 � 39
Ayden-Grifton FG FT 3P Reb. TP
J. Johnson 2-8 0-0 0-0 7 4
Ce. Dixon 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0
A. Gardner 0-0 0-1 0-0 0 0
D. Dixon 2-14 4-7 1-8 6 11
K. Williams 0-1 1-2 0-1 1 1
Ci. Dixon 1-7 4-8 1-3 2 9
T. Worthington 0-4 0-1 0-0 1 0
C. Wilcox 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0
D. Roach 0-1 0-0 0-0 4 0
Team totals: 5-36 9-19 2-12 22 25
South Lenoir FG FT 3P Reb. TP
H. Meready 0-4 4-6 1-2 2 7
D. Adams 2-9 3-5 0-0 11 7
H. West 0-1 0-0 2-3 1 6
M. Franklin 2-5 5-6 0-3 11 9
M. Suddeth 3-18 2-4 0-0 7 8
D. Epps 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 2
A. Hardy 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 0
Team totals: 8-38 14-21 3-8 34 39


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Alireza is an unassuming 20-something Iranian. He works as a producer for Iran's state broadcaster. But he is no ordinary Islamic Republic civil servant.
Alireza returned to Iran two years ago, after growing up in New York and studying at an elite Canadian university. His bilingual ability in English and Farsi, fluent Arabic, and good government connections will serve him well in the evolving Islamic Republic of the 21st century.
He is, ultimately, a symbolic face of Iran's diplomatic future. And if Iran's growing regional clout compels Washington years from now to offer Tehran allied status, Alireza could quite possibly be part of the handshake that confirms the deal.
Sitting in a plush traditional restaurant in Tehran's upscale Vanak Square one rainy afternoon last month, Alireza, who preferred that his last name not be published, reflected on Iran's regional rise.
Iranian military speedboats had recently come within firing range of US warships in the Persian Gulf, nearly provoking an international incident. The Pentagon backed down after reports of early combative rhetoric and revealed that the Iranian Navy had not threatened to "blow up" the US ships as originally claimed.
Senior Iranian military officials viewed the incident as a tactical victory that enabled them to project their power in the Persian Gulf. Beyond the diplomatic accolade of rhetorically outmaneuvering Washington, many Iranian military strategists were elated by their performance in close proximity to US warships, feeling it vindicated their asymmetrical "swarming" strategy whereby dozens of speedboats surround larger, heavily armored boats.
"We're battling might with slight," Alireza said, conveying the euphoria felt in higher ranks.
Iran's diplomatic elites assert that the time has come for their country to lead the region. With oil receipts at a record high, the Middle East's third most advanced military after Israel and Turkey, and unique geopolitical positioning between the energy hotbeds of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, Shiite-led Iran is at its strategic strongest in 30 years.
At the launching of an Iranian rocket this month, President Ahmadinejad even ventured to say, "We need to have an active and influential presence in space."
What was briefly dubbed the Sunni Axis, designed to counteract the Shiite Crescent, has collapsed in an outbreak of diplomatic overtures by Sunni-majority states Saudi Arabia and Egypt toward Iran. Mr. Ahmadinejad will make his first visit to Iraq in March.
Meanwhile, in the living rooms of Cairo and Riyadh, the Iranian president's popularity is swelling because he is the only regional leader who dares put into words what ordinary Egyptians and Saudis feel about Washington's policy in their region.
In Tehran, a common reading of December's US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is that it stems from a desperate Bush coming to terms with the knowledge that no external pressure, whether political, economic, or military, can contain Iran.
According to this perspective, the NIE presented the Bush administration with a convenient, face-saving mechanism allowing it to abandon its attempts to marshal a fragmenting international alliance against Iran, and deferred responsibility for solving the Iranian nuclear conundrum to the next administration.
But despite enjoying the promise of Iran's direction, the Islamic Republic's culture of cronyism bothers Alireza, who says he largely leads a modest life and avoids northern Tehran's lavish parties.
He tells me that what propels him out of bed every morning is anticipation of the day when Washington recognizes Tehran as an ally in the region. "When the deal is finally signed between America and Iran, the deal that delineates the region's future, I want to be in that room – and not as a bystander, either. I want to have worked hard to bring it about," he said.
Iran is no longer the chaotic, postrevolutionary Khomeinist state of the 1980s. With reconstruction following the Iran-Iraq war largely completed, Iran's political elites are following a nationalist policy that aims at regional dominance. Despite the messianic rhetoric of the Khomeini era, Iran's foreign-policy concerns are pragmatic and largely similar to the ones that preoccupied the country during Iran's Shah era.
Iran's leaders, whether secular or theocratic, follow national-interest goals that aim to guarantee their economic and political dominance over geopolitical chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz, the Caspian Sea gateway into Central Asia, the eastern flanks of Afghanistan and Pakistani Balochistan, and the strategic Mediterranean-Mesopotamian corridor of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
These goals have been helped along by the American-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, which removed anti-Tehran regimes that had stymied the expansion of Iranian economic and political influence.
During three years spent traveling throughout Iran, I witnessed long phalanxes of trucks transporting Iranian goods along the impeccable highways connecting the northeastern Iranian city of Mashad with Afghanistan's westernmost city, Herat, as well as at the two land-crossings into southern Iraq.
With Iranian influence growing throughout the region, and America faltering after so many foreign-policy debacles, Iran is hungrily eyeing the prize of regional dominance. Alireza could well be one of the officials who end up negotiating the future of the region with Washington.
• Iason Athanasiadis is a 2008 Nieman fellow currently writing a book on the third generation of the Iranian Revolution titled, "Children of the Revolution: Khomeini's Unintended Legacy."


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Sure, there's a time and place for a classic chocolate chip cookie, a chewy sugar cookie, an oatmeal raisin. But when we're craving serious cookies -- cookies that make us feel good, that make everything feel right -- we turn to chocolate cookies. Here are 10 of our favorite: some classic, some espresso-spiked, some peanut butter-filled, some fruity, some spicy, and all delicious.
Triple Chocolate Espresso Cookies by flourchild
Salted Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies by Food Blogga
Divine gluten free chocolate cookies. No seriously. by Jestei
Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies by amanda
Two-Bite Buckeye Cookies by Midge
Chocolate-Orange Madeleine Cookies by Cordelia
Oaxacan Cinnamon Chocolate Macarons by robinbeth
Triple Chocolate Madness Cookies by kapnic
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With the appearance of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," it has finally sunk in for a lot of people that Harry won't be having any new adventures, although at the film's recent London première, J.K. Rowling sent a crowd of enthusiasts into a froth by saying "never say never."
The collective emotion arising from the last installment of the "Harry Potter" franchise, after eight films and a record-setting $2 billion at the box office (so far), is a sense of loss. Even for those of us who have not found the films transcendent, there is some regret. The films' rampaging innocence and invention seem worlds apart in quality from most of what passes these days as family entertainment.
The movies, closely following Rowling's books, and all but one expertly scripted by Steve Kloves, have grown inexorably darker since the series began in 2001 with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Harry's odyssey, which ends in "Part 2" with the inevitable showdown between Daniel Radcliffe's Harry and Ralph Fiennes's nose-challenged Lord Voldemort, was always pitched as a battle royal between the forces of light and dark. For many of their young enthusiasts, the books and movies probably represented, for the first time on the page or on screen, a true reckoning with the forces of death and sacrifice (although death, in the "Potter" universe, is often a transitory state). This is a big reason why the films (which are not so much adaptations of the novels as they are emanations of them) have become very personal affairs for their fans.
This intense attachment, of course, is not, in itself, a signifier of quality. The "Lord of the Rings" franchise inspired a similar cultishness, but that was OK. Those films were mostly very good. The "Star Wars" franchise, however, long ago lost its luster, if not its fanatical following, after an interminable run of awful sequels and prequels. As examples of fantasy filmmaking, as opposed to relics of worship, the "Harry Potter" movies do not, except in snatches, have the lyrical wonderfulness and visionary power that I associate with the finest examples of childhood imaginings on film – the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away"), for example, or "The Black Stallion" or "The Red Balloon" or Alfonso Cuarón's "A Little Princess." With the exception of the third installment, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," directed by Cuarón, the films have ranged from workmanlike (the first two, both directed by Chris Columbus) to highly accomplished, especially the two "Deathly Hallows" films, directed by David Yates.
The special effects have almost always been powerfully elegant, none more so than in "Deathly Hallows 2," where a trip to a wizard bank turns into a supernal roller coaster ride inside a cavernous vault where heaps of jewels and gold multiply voluminously, insanely. We are presented with the nightmarish image of Hogwarts as a black and brutal expanse presided over by hovering Death Eaters and a cruelly imperious Severus Snape (Alan Rickman, in a brief performance of genuine depth).
"Deathly Hallows 2" also brings back, if only fitfully, many of the wonderful British character actors who have flitted in and out of the series, including Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Jim Broadbent as potions professor Horace Slughorn, and Maggie Smith, whose Professor Minerva McGonagall crisply defends Hogwarts against Voldemort's looming hordes.
It has always been one of the hallmarks of this series that even when the plotting, especially for those unversed in the books, resembled a brambly thicket, and the cinematic magicmaking was more overloaded than inspired, the acting served up by this ongoing parade of hall of fame hams carried the day.
The acting by the three mainstays – Radcliffe, Rupert Grint as Ron, and Emma Watson as Hermione – was never up to that level, but it was entirely adequate to the roles' demands. "Deathly Hallows 2" is, in any case, primarily Harry's story, and so Grint and Watson are relatively sidelined. Ron and Hermione do, however, get to kiss for the first time – an indication of just how dire things have become for them.
It is not often that we can chart a series over 10 years featuring the same child stars as they grow into adults. This phenomenon gives "Deathly Hallows 2" a particular poignancy, since audiences will likely look at these young actors and see themselves growing old as well.
But I don't bemoan the end of the series. It has run its course.
The filmmakers may have felt this, too. The climactic dramatic resolution is not overdone, like the multiple endings in the final installment of "Lord of the Rings," and the brief coda that takes the story into the future appears almost as an afterthought. This understatement, especially given what has come before, is pleasing, and it's also a token of respect for the series' devoted, longtime audience. The filmmakers are saying, "We've all grown up with this together and we know how much this story means to us. No need to make a big show of it now."
• Rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.


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Perhaps you've seen a lot of charts on Business Insider that look like this one, showing seasonally adjusted weekly jobless claims since 2006.
Or maybe you've seen this chart, showing the inversion of weekly jobless claims overlaid with the S&P 500.
Well if you didn't already know by now, all these charts are made possible using a site called FRED, which stands for Federal Reserve Economic Data, and is run out of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which is one of 12 regional Federal Reserve branches.
There are two reasons we go to FRED just about every day.
- The database is amazing. We use it to look up everything from Case-Shiller home price data to state-by-state unemployment to the price of a gallon of gas to the amount of bank lending that's going on.
- And the charting tool can't be beat. It took us two seconds to make that initial claims vs. S&P 500 chart you see above. There are tons of sites out there that have data (including many commercial ones run by large enterprises that would like to dominate the financial data space) and none have come close to matching the simple elegance of FRED's charts. Want to compare the total volume of household savings as a percentage of GDP vs. the yield on the average CD? DONE (click the chart on the right to enlarge).
And we're not the only ones who use the site like crazy.
We asked famous FRED user and Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman his thoughts on the site, and he told us he used it: "I'd say three or four times a week, at least — basically any time I'm addressing a US macroeconomic issue."
Krugman added that it's taken the entire economics profession by storm: "I think just about everyone doing short-order research — trying to make sense of economic issues in more or less real time — has become a FRED fanatic."
Frankly, we're not used to seeing this level of innovation and user-friendliness on a public website, so we were curious to know the story behind it.
So a couple of weeks ago, we got the chance to chat with four people from the St. Louis Fed: Michael Cassidy, (Electronic Data Coordinator - FRED), Katrina Stierholz (Assistant Vice President and Director of Library and Research Information Services), George Essig (Senior Web Developer) and Julie Knoll (Senior Web Developer).
Michael Cassidy laid out the basic history for us:
It goes back to the 1960s and Homer Jones. Homer Jones started a history of producing data publications out of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and FRED kind of became the electronic version of those data publications. In 1991, we'd been producing those publications for awhile, and decided they needed to be put online in a bulletin-board format.
So we'd post, I think we had 200 data series at the time, they were all included in our data publications, and people could dial in and download them in a text format. In 1996, we moved to the world wide web, and we had about 403 series. The modern version of FRED that you're probably familiar with, FRED 2, that started in 2002.
In 2006 we came out with ALFRED, which was vintage data, graphing customization and allowed for units transformations and had about 3,000 series in FRED at the time. Then in 2007, we added about 20,000 additional series and started GEOFRED.
2011 turned out to be a banner year for FRED. According to Julie Knoll the site saw 1.9 million visits, a 42 percent increase from the year before. FRED visitors come from 200 countries.
What's remarkable is that for such a powerful site, the team building it is incredibly light, with only 5-6 people working on it at a level that could be called "full time."
When I asked further how the site got to be what it is, I was quite impressed by how obvious it was that it operated with the experimental and agile nature of the most dynamic web startups.
Katrina Stierholz: I don't' think it was single decision, I think it was a recognition that we had this tool people were using — FRED's been popular for long time — I think it's more popular now because obviously the financial crisis has made a larger public interest in economic data, but it has been popular among academics and financial analysts for a long time. So as we built FRED, the popularity was obvious, so they fed off each other. The more people came to our website and recognized the work we were doing on FRED, the more we realized, 'We should really keep working on this and work hard and do more because we really provide a valuable service.' So it wasn't like a single thing.
George Essig: I started working on FRED in 2000, and at that time it was just a static html; the data files were text files. The next step was to store the data in a database, and then write web programs around it so we could automate web pages. And over time we just incrementally added software features that evolved into what FRED is today — like we talk about different milestones, features, in the end the thing that's obvious is that the software is important. It's not just the data, it's the data plus software.
Mike Cassidy: I've only been here for a year and a half, but my experience here has been, FRED has almost a Skunkworks feel to it inside the bank. Chuck Gascon, myself and Josh Haynes from research started the development of the Excel add-in, and it almost felt like that was a very organic thing to do. We just went out and saw there was a product that needed to be developed, and we developed it. From what I can gather from the past of FRED, I think a lot of that development has been along the same lines. When we developed the world wide web site, that was because there was a young lady here at the bank, her name escapes me, she was very into Mosaic, the tool before Netscape, so she was like, 'Hey i think this is something we should do,' and brought that to our attention.
So what's next for the site?
Basically more and more data. This is what users demand the most. And there's particular interest in more financial data, such as currencies and commodities.
More importantly, perhaps, is the mission to FRED-ify the world.
There's tons of data that various sites host (EuroStat, the OECD, the World Bank, etc.) but it's clunky and horrible to use. This is something that Krugman told us when we asked him: "There's nothing comparable in ease of use. In a given month I also make use of the IMF database, Eurostat, OECD (behind a paywall), and Millennial Historical Statistics (also paywalled). But all of the others require more steps and are much more awkward."
When all that data eventually is in a database that can be used with the ease of FRED, it will be a quantum leap for research.
Meanwhile, here are some stats that were provided to us
- 1.9 million visits from 200 countries (42 percent increase over 2010)
- average 6,000 visits per day
- 14.5 million page views during 2011
- 13,000 visits from Twitter during 2011
- Approximately 600,000 custom FRED Graphs were created during 2011
- GeoFRED received 15,000 visits during 2011
- ALFRED received 48,000 visits during 2011
- During Q4 2011, 14.7 million data calls sent through API
- 15,000 new series added during 2011


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Residential Housing
Getting Started[edit]
The Sims isn't just about living a virtual little life: it can be a very user-friendly light CAD program too! Some pretty cool houses and community lots have been created over the years, and the construction engine is even better than ever. Here we'll give you a step-by-step on how to construct two types of buildings: one house, and one community lot.
As usual, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We'll touch on the decorative parts of Build Mode, and you're encouraged to experiment to find a style you like. The lots we show you are functional, and we'll even give you links to where you can download them on the Sims Exchange!
Before we get started, remember that once you're constructing a building, the only way to save is to back up to the Edit Town screen. For whatever reason, you're not allowed to save from within Build or Buy Modes.
The first step of making a decent, functional house is to plan it out in your mind. You don't necessarily have to plan out every square tile of the house ahead of time, but knowing the layout of the house will hasten what you can do.
Remember that cost is a factor, so you'll want to keep an eye on the lot value in the top-left corner. New families have $16,000 usually, so if you're making a starter home, you'll want to keep it under that price. Of course, if you have no qualms about cheating, or if you're making a home for a Generation-3+ Sim, you can make it somewhat expensive and just move them in later.
Okay, onto the steps. We'll show you several factors of making a house here, and comment along the way about the purpose of everything we do.
Step 1: Planning the Layout[edit]
Back in Sims 2, the Falkons went through several house generations. My favorite one I made was Falkon Nest v4 (nicknamed Falkon Towers), which was comprised of two towers joined by a skyway that hovered over a pool. No other house I made was that cool, even if others were more practical from a realistic standpoint. But hey, this is The Sims… who says I need to make something realistic and practical? I've decided to remake it for The Sims 3, and make it better.
Step 2: Choosing a Lot[edit]
There are several lot sizes spread around the neighborhood. Unlike Sims 2 (but like Sims 1), you're stuck with these lot sizes. The lot size numbers represent how many major tiles there are per side. That means a 20x30 lot is 20 major tiles (40 minor tiles) wide, and 30 major tiles (60 minor tiles) deep. Don't forget you can eventually build upward too, so a 20x30 lot doesn't necessarily equate to a tiny house.
Here, we're going to go with an empty lot a couple streets from the Schultzes' original house, at the address of 17 Maywood Lane. It's 30x40, plenty of room for a decent-sized house and landscaping, allowing the two towers of Falkon Towers with room for a decent garden and more!
To enter the lot, I click it first, and it brings up a little information on the right side of the interface. From there, I click the "Build/Buy" button, which enters the lot and allows me to operate Build Mode and Buy Mode with an unlimited budget. Time to get to work!
Step 3: Foundation?[edit]
The very first thing I need to plan is whether to build a basement and/or a foundation to the house. Neither is required; in fact, most starter homes that ship with the game have no foundation, and no house at all that ships with the game has a basement. Basements are finicky, as you'll see in a moment, though foundations are not.
Foundations elevate your house slightly from the ground and give it a much more realistic appearance. However, many foundations can ramp up the cost considerably, and a house with foundations means you'll have to have an extra step when expanding it. If you intend to have two segments of the house connect, they'll either both have to be on foundations, or neither. If the segments don't connect, there are no foundation restrictions. For example, some mansions may be on a foundation, but the tiny guest house in the backyard (that isn't physically connected to the mansion) will be on the ground.
Because I'm making two towers that will connect via skyway, I'll need to either put foundations for both towers, or neither. In this case, I'm opting to use foundations; that way I can have porches, and foundations make basements easier to build (again, as you'll see in a moment). I click Build Mode, then I click the graphical representation of the foundation. I choose to build the brick-and-wood type, and draw a decent-sized box with another, smaller box several tiles away. Check it out…
The bigger foundation is 11x11, and the smaller one is 7x7. Remember that every major tile represents roughly 3 feet to a side, so every floor for the main tower will be 33 ft by 33 ft, or 1,089 sq. ft. Many small ranch-style houses are just over 1,000 sq. ft., and we've got that much room per floor. This is going to be a huge house.
In fact, as I think about it, this might be too big. I pick the other style of foundation, which is all wood with the cross-hatched design. I then "paint over" the three rows closest to the streets. I also click the tab to pick the diagonal foundation, then hold CTRL and paint over the two ends of the new foundation to cut it away. The main tower now looks like this…
Now the main tower is a more reasonable size (11x8 per floor), and I've got a neat deck that I can play with. I have even more plans for the deck, but I'll keep those a surprise for now.
Step 4: Basement?[edit]
Note: With the World Adventures and subsequent expansions, basements now have their own tool. Check out the Building Basements section for details. If you only have the unpatched base game, this step still applies. Otherwise, there's a much easier way to do it.
Okay, now to do the basement. This is where things get a little weird, and I don't recommend trying to build a basement for your first house. Like I said before, a foundation isn't required for a basement, but it makes things a million times easier.
To make the basement, I need to cut out a section of my foundation. The basement can be no bigger than one tile smaller to a side for my foundation. So, because the foundation of my main tower is 11x8 (I'm not counting the deck since the basement won't be under it), the basement could be as large as 10x7. I'm actually going to make it 9x7 so I have a bit more room to work with on the first floor when it comes to placing the stairs. That's still a huge size, enough for a foosball table or whatever, like a game room. So, the first thing I do is select my foundation tool, hold CTRL, then draw the inner box to cut out the whole foundation except a one-tile outline…
Now, in the main Build Mode sort, I select the Terrain Tools icon (the one with a pile of dirt and a shovel). From there, I choose the Lower Terrain tool (two hills with an arrow pointing downward between them). I select a square-sized brush and maximum brush hardness to make this go quickly. I press Page Down to drop my camera's altitude to the bottom. Then, I sink all the ground within my foundation donut. I only have to sink the ground a short distance. Then, I select the Level Terrain tool (a horizontal line with two arrows pointing toward it), and I level the entire area within the donut …
Okay, now back on the main set of Build Mode tools, I select the graphical representation of walls, and I attempt to wall off the entire basement, tracing the inner line of the donut. See, if the basement is lined up wrong, the game will complain that I'm trying to place a wall illegally, that it's covered up by a floor tile. My initial measurement is indeed off, so this is what the game shows me…
From here, I may have to make tweaks to get the height of the basement just right, because the top the basement should be directly in line with the foundation level of the first floor. Eventually, I tweak it correctly, and the game no longer complains that my attempted wall is wrong.
Further, I can double check my work by returning to the main Build Mode selection and trying to place a staircase connecting the first floor to the basement. If they don't line up right, clearly I've messed something up. For now, I'm going with the cheapest stairs, and placing them where I want the connection to happen. Then, I put down some flooring on the first floor to complete the look. I'll touch it all up later, but this is good for planning; and now, my Page Up and Page Down keys can jump between the basement and the first floor.
I don't have to actually wall in the basement at this point, because the foundation edges will actually serve as the basement walls. I also don't feel like making an underground foundation, but you can if you really want to. I just don't bother because it's not like an underground foundation will be seen by anyone; only I'll know it's actually there.
I'm not going to bother with a basement with the rear tower. It's going to basically be one large, remote basement anyway, so who cares. Now I can move on to the next step.
Step 5: Walls and Fences[edit]
Four walls don't make a house, but they sure do help! Walls are by far the most important step during house creation, because they immediately set the limits for rooms, which in turn sets the limit for object sizes and room function.
The first step, naturally, is to wall off the whole of the first floor. I go back to the main Build Mode tools, select the walls, and draw a big box…
Now it's time to divide up the rooms. I plan on putting the main study and bedrooms above the first floor, so I don't need to divide that up. Now, again, eye is in the beauty of the beholder, although The Sims tends to give bonus points (in the form of mood buffs) for diagonal walls, which are far more interesting to look at. I decide to make a foyer near the front door (which still isn't placed), then have the living room, mini-study, kitchen/dining room, and bathroom all break off from it. Check out my floor plan, with my wall display set to "down"…
I may have to move some walls around soon, if I made a mistake. Which reminds me… Sims 3 has added a tool to make it easy to correct massive mistakes in wall design. If you hover the cursor near a wall, you may see what looks like two little green light bulbs sticking out of each side of the wall where your cursor is. If you click-drag at that point, you move the entire wall tiles at a time. So for example, if you meant to make a room 6x6, and you made it 6x7 accidentally, you can grab one of the side walls and drag it inward, making the room a bit narrower without having to redraw all the walls.
Finally, I'll use the fence tool to outline the deck. I use the Mullet Fencing, though I leave a space for the eventual front door, which I'll place in the next step. The final thing I do here is select the roof tool, and select to delete all roofs, and I disable auto-roofing. If I don't do this, the game automatically sticks a roof on the walls I've just built, and it makes it really hard to see what else I'm doing.
Step 6: Doors[edit]
Doors are necessary to keep a certain flow to your home. Well, not just doors, of course, as you can use open door frames too. Open door frames look awesome in pictures and movies, and really are best used for any room connection where privacy is unnecessary. For Falkon Towers, I'll have closed doors for the bathroom and for the little room with the connecting stairs to the basement. Everything else will use open door frames.
To access the doors and door frames, I go to the main set of Build Mode tools, then click the doors. Tabs at the top allow me to switch between doors and frames. I first plant the front door by choosing the door called Double Redunda-Doors and placing it center to the foyer. Then, I use The Door from Doors and More for the doors connected the basement access room, and I use the Insta-Door for the bathroom. Note that I'm anal enough to put the hinges at the room corners so the doors open against the walls… that's just me, and hardly a requirement.
Once those are placed, I click the Arches tab, then I use the Double Arch Prototype and the Archway of Endangerment to connect the rest of the rooms. Note that I'm using the default design schemes for all my doors: I'm going to coordinate everything later.
I know it's hard to see things right now, but we'll get some lights in there soon. For now, we're going to the next step…
Step 7: Floor Coverings, Wall Coverings, Windows, and Coordination[edit]
Bare walls and floors are hard on the eyes, so it's time to cover them up with something more attractive. We now especially delve into the world of decor, though for all my expertise in gameplay, I admit I'm not the best at coordinating anything to anything else. (I used to make every room a different color, so each room was appealing, but the total package looked like vomit from a tie-dye shirt.) It should go without saying that this section definitely is up for individual judgment.
For no particular reason, I always start with the floors. Also for no particular reason, I tend to be realistic with materials. That means, I always carpet high-traffic areas, and make tile or linoleum for kitchens and bathrooms. You're more than free to go nuts and make white carpet in bathrooms and bricks in the living room, but it's not my cup of tea.
I begin my making the foyer, living room, and mini-study all white carpet. The bathroom gets a light blue tile, the kitchen gets light-colored wood, the deck gets diagonal-moving light wood, and the connecting room to the basement gets deep blue carpet. Behold…!
"Pyro, are you [expletive] color-blind? None of those colors you said you put down are in that screenshot! You stink!"
Settle down there, Spanky. When you initially drop down carpet, you need to look at texture instead of color. Due to the color- and texture-swapping engine new to The Sims 3, you can recolor and re-texture any surface of any object, including floor and wall coverings. Now that I have the textures I want, I go into the style pallet tool (the button that looks like a painter's pallet and paint brush). Then, I click the all the floor coverings to make them the colors I want. I can't coordinate the wood style of the deck and railings to each other, but that's fine. This is what we wind up with…
Much better. Now to do the walls the same way. The kitchen gets a more decorative wooden wall, and the bathroom gets more blue tile. The rest of the rooms get a white painted covering with a wooden dado railing. We get…
While I'm at it, I coordinate the door frames and colors to the walls, and give the exterior of the building a masonry wall covering, so the house is comprised of gray castle-like stone.
Finally, I add windows and coordinate them with the rest of the framing around the house too. Now, some rookie house designers (me included) have a tendency to "over-window" their houses. Light is good, but too many windows just makes the place look more like a greenhouse with no privacy. Most real-world houses have one side that has few or no windows. Further, any given room needs only one or two windows; you don't need to alternate windows every other wall tile all the way around the exterior walls.
I limit myself to two windows per room, and only the kitchen gets any windows on the rear wall. The bathroom gets a privacy window, and the front windows are bay windows just to add a bit of variety. With the walls up, here's what we've got…
Looks good to me. Time for the next step…
Step 8: Additional Floors[edit]
One-story homes are good for Generation-1 families, but the Falkon Towers isn't a starter home. Additional floors are needed to keep the yard intact for landscaping, which we'll do presently.
I back out to the neighborhood, save, then go back in. (Save early, save often, boys and girls.) I have to shove some steps somewhere so the Sims can climb up, and I poorly planned that aspect of my lot. Whoops. Not wanting to redo everything, I decide to shove the stairs on the left end of the lot in the study. It's not a bad place for it anyway. Rather than use cheap stairs like I did with the basement, I'm going to use some better stairs here to give it a much better look. Unfortunately, I can't style it to match the rest of the decor, so I just have to go with the closest match. Once I place the stairs, I lay down carpet all across the second floor. Most of the carpet isn't going to stay, but it's a good placeholder.
See that 2x1 "room" in the corner of the floor that's all dark and has no entrance? Don't be afraid to take minor shortcuts like that if the floor otherwise would look weird. If I had that one tile part of the adjacent room, it would look absolutely silly, and I wouldn't have been able to shove anything useable into it. I preferred just zoning off that one tile and squaring up the room than having it do nothing.
Although I've only just set the walls, I'm going to set up a third floor with appropriate stairs. Pyro's bedroom—the master bedroom—will be on the third floor and will take up nearly the entirety of it. The second floor is reserved for the library and Pete's—the secondary—bedroom and his bathroom.
Notice the location of the stairs as well: I have placed them beside the original stairs because I need to keep the back wall open. I built the wall of the library before placing the stairs to the third floor; if I hadn't, then the stairs would have been open to the library. That is, there wouldn't have been a wall there, just a railing, which would have been dangerous. (I can see that real life kids would vault over the railing and onto the top of the bookcases!)
The third floor consists of a two rooms. One is Pyro's bedroom, and one is his private bathroom. Once I wall those, I go and finish off the floors, walls, and windows of each of the other two floors. I also notice I never did the base of the foundation, so I quickly throw some stones there too.
Normally, we do roofs at this point, but I haven't done a darn thing with the rear tower yet. Now, I have no specific plans at the moment on what exactly I'm doing with the second tower, other than the fact that I want it two floors plus an accessible flat roof. So for right now, I put two floors' worth of walls, plus some basic flooring just for placeholders.
Now I put a door on the second floor of each tower, lined up correctly…
Now I grab some wood and start making paths toward the doors…
Whoops, no more gridlines! Like real life physics dictate, you can't extend flooring past a certain point of the walls, else it would get too heavy and brittle. At worst, a person could stand on it, and the edge would break off, causing them to fall! Luckily, there is a way around that. We go down to the bottom floor and put a small foundation in the intervening space below the skyway…
Next I go to the main set of Build Mode tools, and I select the columns tool. This is different from the arch tool, but they're side by side (and both are accessible from tabs if I had clicked the door tool). I select the ModCol column, and place a couple on the mini foundation. This allows me to finish my bridge. After I do so, I eliminate the mini-foundation. I 'could' now actually delete the columns anyway and make the bridge clean, but I like the way the columns look so I just leave them. Still, I touch up the way the foundation up to match the style of the columns themselves. I also put some railings to line the bridge, just for aesthetics. The completed bridge looks like this…
We're almost done with Build Mode! Just a couple more things to do…
Step 9: Landscaping, Balconies, and Roofs[edit]
The towers have really come together! Now we just need to make the outside of the house—the yard and such—just as nice as the rest.
First, we need to connect our deck to the grass. This is done with a simple set of stairs. The game is smart enough to resize the stairs' length to match the shorter distance of grass-to-foundation compared to floor-to-floor of the interior stairs. I set the stairs' width to 2 (for 2 tiles), and place them at the front of the deck where I made the earlier hole.
After that, I go to the main toolset of Build Mode, and I select Terrain Paints. This is sorta like using floor tiles, but they're free, and they can be made in more shapes than just squares. For realism, you may want to use a small brush with a soft setting, and move your mouse quickly rather than precisely. This gives the path a more "random" look, giving it a little more of a natural appearance. I make a path from my new connecting stairs to the sidewalk, and I move the mailbox and trash can to compensate…
Now I grab the pool tool, and I make a pool wrap partly around the front tower and completely around the back tower. I line the pool with rocks, except where the pool touches the back tower, where it's not lined at all. I square the rest of the yard up, though I cut the corners a bit to make it more interesting. I keep some sections grass but I sand or dirt others to give it a more varied appearance…
Now I plant a few trees and shrubs, and I paint dirt under the trees for a more realistic appearance. (Sorry about the cherry blossoms there… must be the closet anime fan in me.)
There's a small patch there between the two plum trees and the fence to the sandy area by the pool. I go into Buy Mode and grab the large Lord Sponge statue (available free from the Sims Exchange), and stick it in the approximate center of that patch. I surround Lord Sponge with a tiny divider (found under the fence tool of Build Mode) and put some flowers in there, then I add some benches to create a little mini Zen area.
Note that I had to do it in that order: if I had done the flowers first, the game would have complained that the little divider couldn't be placed because it was intersecting another object, i.e. the flowers. By placing the divider first, it all works out, and I get this…
One more thing. Remember I said I had a little surprise for the deck? And did you notice in the screenshots I left an obvious opening in the front wall for the second and third floors? We're doing those now!
On the first floor deck, I grab a couple columns and stick them near the front door. I don't put them adjacent to the front door (that is, against the wall) because I'm going to stick some lights there in a bit. With the pillars in place, the front deck looks like this…
Nice, huh? Now I use the eyedropper tool to yank up the deck of the first floor. Then, I hit Page Up to jump the second floor, and I make the same-sized deck, although it's square right now…
Now I add a railing like the first-floor deck, cut corners and add a door, style the door to be consistent with the other doors, and here is the new second-floor balcony!
Now I repeat the procedure, giving the third floor essentially the same thing. The third floor is Pyro's bedroom though, so to make it a little different, I change up the railing to make it look a bit better. Here's the whole front of the front tower…
Two more things. First, I do the decor of the rear tower, mostly in red and flames since that's Pyro's thing. I also put some windows on all four sides of the back tower, and set up my stairs there as well. Although I mentioned before that I tend to "over-window," the rear tower is an observation tower of sorts, so I'll give it windows on all sides, but still stick to a single large window per side per floor. So the back tower ends up looking like this…
Good thing they don't have weather in The Sims 3 yet, or my entire top floor of my rear tower would be flooded with every storm!
I'm done with the decor for now… Like I said before, I'll probably buy some more once I actually move the Falkons in and play with them a bit. Of course, that won't happen for awhile, since the house already costs in excess of $73,000 unfurnished! I haven't even touched Buy Mode other than my shrine to Lord Sponge, and I'm over a total house value of $76,000!
Step 10: Buy Mode[edit]
I won't bother with an exact step-by-step show-and-tell here for Buy Mode, but I will take it floor by floor. I decided to knock out the wall linking the foyer to the mini-study… may as well make it one room, and make that side area a waiting area of sorts. The foyer gets a statue and some chairs, the living room gets a decent TV and basic furniture, and the bathroom—a half-bathroom—gets a sink and toilet only. In the kitchen I do a two-tile table with five chairs, a couple counters and appropriate appliances. And of course, we need some lights in every room, as well as lights flanking the front door. The first floor looks like this…
The second floor comprises Pete's bedroom and personal bathroom, as well as a little study. That means I need a computer, a chess table with chairs, and a bookcase. A telescope goes outside on the deck. Pete gets the usual bedroom stuff, although I also throw in a stereo and a TV for the heck of it. Here's what his floor looks like.
Finally comes the third floor, which is entirely taken up by Pyro's bathroom (which is larger than many people's living rooms) and his bedroom (which is larger than many people's houses). He's got a flat screen high-def TV, powerful computer, and guitar up there along with his bed and other stuff. His bathroom, of course, also has a golden toilet seat, so even his nether regions can bask in the glow of his greatness!
I don't bother putting anything in the basement or rear tower at the moment: the house already has enough stuff in and around it, and this way I've got several rooms where I can expand if necessary. Heck, if Pete or Pyro ever has kids, we can just stick them in the basement or the rear tower! Out of sight, out of mind… other than the fact that I need to feed the little punks every now and then.
Here's a couple shots of the exterior of the completed building…
I put Falkon Towers up on the Sims Exchange, too! You can download it here…
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Shouldn't say that his parent jutsu is Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique ????? —This unsigned comment was made by Emanuel7 (talk • contribs) .
- I'm not sure. The techniques don't seem similar enough in the way they work or in the effect they create. Skitts (talk) 09:23, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
It's seems to me that he has eyes of a dragon ,and the same effect just smaller ,the great dragon has a body of sanke,a head of dragon,it's bigger and has the same user,for me its enough ,what do you think?—This unsigned comment was made by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs) .
- Going from the names you could assume it'd be the parent technique, but as Skitts said they really don't look or operate in a similar manner which most of the times is what is used to determine parent techniques (at least that's what I do). So I'm not to sure either.--Cerez365™ 12:21, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
Yeah,but what do you mean when you say it's operate different?—This unsigned comment was made by Emanuel7 (talk • contribs) .
- The Dragon-Fire technique has to run on a string and has no definitive shape; it just looks like fire. While this one takes on a shape. That's what I mean by you can't really tell if it's the parent technique.-- Also, remember to sign your posts using four tildes (~~~~) or the signature button.Cerez365™ 13:14, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
not necesarly,in the manga don't need those,and the wire strings has been used ,to capture the enemy,when perform this jutsu,and i'm new on this wiki i don't know how tu use what you tell me.—This unsigned comment was made by Emanuel7 (talk • contribs) .
- I really don't understand what you're saying there. Sasuke did use strings to run the fire along in the manga.--Cerez365™ 13:45, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
look at the trivia of the technique!—This unsigned comment was made by Emanuel7 (talk • contribs) .
- The trivia points say that in the anime and ova string wasn't used. However in the manga, the one time it was used, it ran along the wire. It wasn't even that brilliant as the image in the infobox makes it out to be. Simply I think they look too different to say definitively that it's the parent technique even though the names sound like one was derived from the other.Cerez365™ 10:41, January 10, 2012 (UTC)
Yes but amaterasu ,tsukuyiomi, look very different from susano,and they are derivated --Emanuel7 (talk) 15:05, January 10, 2012 (UTC)emanuel7
- Because it was stated that you need those two technique to manifest Susanoo. Here we were told nothing.--Cerez365™ 15:07, January 10, 2012 (UTC)
Yes,but they has the same user,and we don't always know if the condcutor is necesarly maybe the user did this to not miss the enemy,and they have the same user and name!!--Emanuel7 (talk) 17:24, January 10, 2012 (UTC)emanuel7
- But that's just it. As I said before I personally think that there's anything besides a name linking them. Though that might be enough to list it as such. I'm not opposed to it being lined as the parent technique, but you'll have to get the opinion of the rest of the community before anything can be done.--Cerez365™ 17:36, January 10, 2012 (UTC)
Madara Uchiha a User really?
Where has Madara Uchiha been shown to use this tech? He only used a similar jutsu (Fire Release: Dragon Flame Release Song Technique). --Elven Windsword (talk) 20:37, June 27, 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to ask the same question O_o--Elveonora (talk) 22:31, June 27, 2012 (UTC)
Yea I was surprised that no one else brought this point up. But anyway I say we should delete Madara as a user of this jutsu until it is proven in the manga otherwise. --Elven Windsword (talk) 22:43, June 27, 2012 (UTC)
Can someone explain it to me? ...--Elveonora (talk) 12:56, June 28, 2012 (UTC)
I don't see much of a problem in listing Madara as a user. His technique is quite obviously a stronger version of this, meaning this would be its parent technique. Madara is, in my opinion, certainly a user of this. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:14, June 30, 2012 (UTC)
That makes no sense Omni, he never used it. How are you so sure he can perform this technique? It could be Sasuke that invented it ... so now how about I go, and create articles for Wind Release: Rasen-Kunai cause I'm certain it's possible 0_o ... never used or was never implied to be a user = not listed. So should we list Izanagi and Izanami as a techniques Sage has used just cause 1 or both are delivered from Creation of all things he could use? ...--Elveonora (talk) 05:38, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
Izanagi and Izanami are sibling techniques, but as far as the manga has explained, they weren't created together. Izanami was said to have been created as a way to punish those who abused Izanagi. And Izanagi only applies the same principle as Creation of All Things, they're much more like Tailed Beast Ball and Rasengan than Great Dragon Fire and Madara's technique. Madara's technique is essentially shooting five dragon heads at once instead of one at a time. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:25, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
We may always assume that he can do it, but there's still a possibility that Sasuke's version is a "recent" creation, but that's less important ... shooting 5 smaller dragons logically allows that he should be able to shoot a single bigger head (it's the same technique, just different level of shape manipulation), but no usage or mention of usage = no reason to put it there. Maybe now I won't put the best comparison, but it sounds like adding Hashirama as a user of Multiple Shadow Clone technique just cause it was written on a scroll he had in possession. BUT I'm open for a compromise because the way you put it makes some sense ... if Konohamaru has had used a Giant Ball Rasengan, an ordinary Rasengan would be put to his infobox automatically I guess. But in Madara/Sasuke's case we must take into consideration a possible "fate/coincidence" factor that's at play :P Simply if people are all pro for it to being there, so be it ... I will survive that, somehow 0_o--Elveonora (talk) 19:11, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
Why is Madara listed as a user again?--Elveonora (talk) 01:52, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
Because Dragon Flame Release Song is this technique used five times at once. The dragons look exactly the same. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:08, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
Again, that's no proof they are related. Sasuke's version appears like something developed by himself... Madara was revived by Kabuto and they are yet to meet eyes to eyes with Sasuke, so how could have Sasuke use a technique apparently delivered from Madara's, the latter whose he never heard of. That's a weird logic, we don't know which came first, but likely Madara's cause as I said, Sasuke's appears to be his own. Thus that's kinda like listing multi shadow clones to a shadow clone user, with: "I bet he can create more" logic. Also this isn't "Susanoo, thus Tsukuyami and Amaterasu as well" case--Elveonora (talk) 02:28, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
This has nothing to do with when each technique was developed, it has to do with their functionality. The dragon heads look identical. If the argument was adding Sasuke as a user to Dragon Flame Release Song, then you'd have a point, but this isn't the case of adding a multiple version to someone who can use an individual version, it's adding an individual version to someone who can use the multiple version. What you're arguing for is the equivalent of not adding the shadow clone technique to someone who can use the multiple shadow clone technique. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:05, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
Well, you are the boss. I just don't get it... just because Madara uses multiple smaller dragon heads doesn't automatically mean that he can do less of them but a larger scale version... and even if "obviously" he can, we can't simply assume as such since he has to use it first in order for it to be listed. Also logically, Madara's version is the parent technique to Sasuke's, not in reverse, since Madara did learn it long before Sasuke was born, unless I misunderstand the meaning of "parent technique" I don't want to argue for the sake of angering you, so if there's not a good anti-argument enough that I could use, I leave it be for now--Elveonora (talk) 03:49, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
I looked up and found a similar situation. Let's try like this: considering that chronologically, DFRS came first, GDF gets listed as a derived technique of that, and stays as such as long as the manga doesn't say it came before DFRS. Sasuke remains GDF and Madara remains DFRS, similar to how Hinata is listed as using Eight Trigrams Thirty Two Palms, which is a derived of Sixty Four Palms, not in power, but in concept, hence why Hinata isn't listed as a manga or anime user. Not a fan of using an anime interpretation for manga stuff, but it did set precedent. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:29, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
"loves Omni sensei" yes, please, edit it accordingly--Elveonora (talk) 04:43, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
In the description, it says a genunine fire dragon. But, sasuke fires 4 dragons into the sky. I was wondering if he used it three times or just shot 4 dragons into the sky using this jutsu --Aeonophic (talk) 14:12, August 3, 2012 (UTC)Aeonophic.
Yup, comfirmed it was 4.--Aeonophic (talk) 15:29, August 3, 2012 (UTC)Aeonophic
We don't know if he did use it three times or not so i guess it's more safe and convinient to just say that it's a genunine fire dragon.--Charmanking2198 (talk) 11:39, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
What would be the purpose of this if he fired four of them using this technique once? --Cerez365™(talk) 11:55, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
Sasuke probably shot them sequentially. Madara's technique looks like it's simultaneously. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:33, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
Great Dragon Flame Jutsu
ok so I was thinking of renaming the English tv Version Great Dragon Flame Jutsu so as not to be confused with the other Dragon Flame Jutsu. I wonder why the Anime would name 2 completely different Jutsu the Exact Same Name (English Anime Only) there needs to be some form of difference between the 2's Anime Names thats why I am proposing this (either that or have like a "if you were looking for the other technique known as Dragon Flame Jutsu click this Link") its way too confusing even for a seasoned Naruto Fan and Semi-Expert such as myself. plus renaming it Great Dragon Flame Jutsu would fit with its nameing scheme (as all the other names of it have Great Dragon or Great Flame something). just a thought it would make it a lot less confusing (especially for the newcomers to the site and series) and make the site that much better. Lordofninjas1 (talk) 03:56, March 25, 2013 (UTC)
- We use the literal translations for the articles, and we list the English tv names we're given, no matter what they are. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:55, March 25, 2013 (UTC)


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A JDBC data view enables you to make a relational database accessible to LDAP client applications. For information about how JDBC data views work, see JDBC Data Views in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
For information about how to create and configure JDBC data views, see the following procedures.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Create a JDBC data source for the relational database.
$ dpconf create-jdbc-data-source -h host -p port -b db-name -B db-url -J driver-url \ [-J driver-url]... -S driver-class source-name
Currently, only one JDBC data source is supported for each JDBC data view. In other words, you cannot load balance across JDBC data sources. To access multiple JDBC data sources, you can create a data view for each data source, and join them together with a join data view.
The following properties must be set when you create a JDBC data source:
The name of the relational database, for example, payrolldb.
The URL to the database, in the form jdbc:vendor:driver://dbhost:dbport.
The db-url is not a complete JDBC database URL, because it does not contain the database name. (The database name is specified by the db-name property.)
You must finish db-url with a / for MySQL, DB2, and Derby databases and with a : for Oracle database.
The JDBC driver class, for example org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver.
The path to the JDBC driver, for example file:///path/to/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar.
The driver-url property is multivalued. Hence, driver-url can support multiple JAR files for the JDBC driver to ensure connectivity to the JDBC source on different platforms.
If a 3rd party JDBC driver, which is other than the JDBC driver provided by the DB Vendor, is used to connect to the RDBMS back-end, set the db-vendor property. For more information about the db-vendor property, see db-vendor(5dpconf)
Create a JDBC data source pool.
$ dpconf create-jdbc-data-source-pool -h host -p port pool-name
Attach the JDBC data source to the JDBC data source pool.
$ dpconf attach-jdbc-data-source -h host -p port pool-name source-name
Create a JDBC data view.
$ dpconf create-jdbc-data-view -h host -p port view-name pool-name suffix-DN
(Optional) View the list of JDBC data views to check that your data view has been created successfully.
$ dpconf list-jdbc-data-views -h host -p port
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
View the properties of a JDBC data view.
$ dpconf get-jdbc-data-view-prop -h host -p port view-name
The default properties of a JDBC data view are as follows:
alternate-search-base-dn : - attr-name-mappings : none base-dn : o=sql1 contains-shared-entries : - description : - distribution-algorithm : - dn-join-rule : - dn-mapping-attrs : none dn-mapping-source-base-dn : none excluded-subtrees : - filter-join-rule : - is-enabled : true is-read-only : false is-routable : true jdbc-attr-date-format : yyyy-MM-dd jdbc-attr-time-format : hh:mm:ss jdbc-attr-timestamp-format : yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss jdbc-data-source-pool : pool-name lexicographic-attrs : all lexicographic-lower-bound : none lexicographic-upper-bound : none non-viewable-attr : - non-writable-attr : - numeric-attrs : all numeric-default-data-view : false numeric-lower-bound : none numeric-upper-bound : none pattern-matching-base-object-search-filter : all pattern-matching-dn-regular-expression : all pattern-matching-one-level-search-filter : all pattern-matching-subtree-search-filter : all process-bind : - replication-role : master viewable-attr : all except non-viewable-attr writable-attr : all except non-writable-attr
Change one or more of the properties that are listed in Step 1.
$ dpconf set-jdbc-data-view-prop -h host -p port view-name property:value \ [property:value ... ]
(Optional) In addition to the ISO format, you can set JDBC attributes of type date, time, and timestamp attributes in all of the following formats as well.
Following lists the components that constitutes date and time:
Letter Date or Time Component Examples G Era designator AD y Year 1996; 96 M Month in year July; Jul; 07 w Week in year 27 W Week in month 2 D Day in year 189 d Day in month 10 F Day of week in month 2 E Day in week Tuesday; Tue a Am/pm marker PM H Hour in day (0-23) 0 k Hour in day (1-24) 24 K Hour in am/pm (0-11) 0 h Hour in am/pm (1-12) 12 m Minute in hour 30 s Second in minute 55 S Millisecond 978 z Time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 Z Time zone -0800
The following examples show how date and time patterns are interpreted in the U.S. locale. The given date and time are 2001-07-04 12:08:56 local time in the U.S. Pacific Time time zone.
Date and Time Pattern Result "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z" 2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT "EEE, MMM d, ''yy" Wed, Jul 4, '01 "h:mm a" 12:08 PM "hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time "K:mm a, z" 0:08 PM, PDT "yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" 02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700 "yyMMddHHmmssZ" 010704120856-0700 "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
When you configure a JDBC data view, you must also configure the following objects:
JDBC object class. Maps one or more JDBC tables to an LDAP object class.
JDBC table. Defined for each relational database table.
JDBC attribute. Defines an LDAP attribute from a specified column in a JDBC table.
Create a JDBC table for each table in the relational database.
% dpconf create-jdbc-table jdbc-table-name db-table
The name of the db-table is case sensitive. Make sure that you use the identical case that is used in the relational database, otherwise operations that target that table might fail.
Create a JDBC attribute for each column in each relational database table.
% dpconf add-jdbc-attr table-name attr-name sql-column
Creating a JDBC attribute maps the table column to an LDAP attribute.
(Optional) If the column in the relational database is case sensitive, change the LDAP syntax of the JDBC attribute.
% dpconf set-jdbc-attr-prop table-name attr-name ldap-syntax:ces
The value of ldap-syntax is cis by default. This implies that the jdbc-attr is case insensitive. Change the value to ces if your relational database is case sensitive.
Certain relational databases, such as Oracle and DB2, are case sensitive by default. LDAP is case insensitive by default. When Directory Proxy Server detects that a column of the relational database table is case sensitive, an ldapsearch query with the corresponding attribute in the filter is translated into a SQL query using the function UPPER.
For example, the query ldapsearch -b "dc=mysuffix" "(attr=abc)" is translated into the following SQL query:
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE (UPPER(attr)='ABC')
By default, this type of query is not indexed. Queries of this nature can therefore have a substantial performance impact.
You can alleviate the performance impact in two ways:
By setting the ldap-syntax property of the jdbc-attr to ces.
By creating an index with the function UPPER for each jdbc-attr that might be used in an LDAP filter.
If your relational database is not case sensitive, use ldap-syntax with the default value, that is, cis. ldap-syntax:ces is not supported with the case insensitive databases.
Create a JDBC object class for the LDAP relational database table.
% dpconf create-jdbc-object-class view-name objectclass primary-table \ [secondary-table... ] DN-pattern
Creating a JDBC object class essentially specifies an LDAP object class with which these tables will be associated. The JDBC object class also specifies the primary table and the secondary tables, if they exist.
When you create a JDBC object class, you specify a DN pattern. DN pattern describes which attributes are to be used to construct DN of the entry. For example, when you specify DN pattern as uid then the DN of the entry is constructed using attribute uid and view base of the data view. For example, uid=bjensen,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com. The DN pattern can constitute multiple attributes. In that case, attributes should be separated by , (comma). For example, if DN pattern is specified as uid,country, DN of the entry returned by the data view is uid=bjensen,country=America,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com.
When data source contains duplicate entries and the duplicate entries are not required, set perform-distinct-select to true using the following command:
% dpconf set-jdbc-object-class-prop view-name objectclass perform-distinct-select:true
All the subtree components defined in the DN pattern of JDBC object class should have a JDBC object class defined for them. For example, if there is a DN pattern uid,ou in a JDBC object class, there should be a JDBC object class definition with a DN pattern ou. This is necessary for Directory Proxy Server to construct a properly structured DIT. Otherwise, the subtree with values like ou=xxx,base-DN would not be returned in the search results.
If a secondary table exists, define the join rule between the primary table and the secondary table.
% dpconf set-jdbc-table-prop secondary-table-name filter-join-rule:join-rule
A join rule is defined on the secondary table and determines how data from that table is linked to data from the primary table. How you define the relationships between the primary and secondary tables of an object class is important. For more information, see Defining Relationships Between JDBC Tables.
Specify the super class for the JDBC object class.
% dpconf set-jdbc-object-class-prop view-name objectclass super-class:value
The super class indicates the LDAP object class from which the JDBC object class inherits.
In the simplest case, a JDBC object class contains only a single (primary) table. There is no secondary table, and thus no need to define relationships between tables.
If the object class contains more than one table, the relationships between these tables must be clearly defined. The relationships between tables are always defined on the secondary table. The following properties of a secondary table enable you to define these relationships:
is-single-row-table specifies that an LDAP entry has only one matching row in the table.
contains-shared-entries specifies that a row in the secondary table is used by more than one row in the primary table.
filter-join-rule indicates how an entry should be retrieved from the secondary table based on something in the primary table.
The following examples illustrate how the filter join rule is defined, based on the values of the first two properties. These examples assume that the object class has one primary table and one secondary table.
These are the default values of these properties. In this case, the relationship between the primary and secondary tables is n->1, that is, n rows in the primary table reference one shared row in the secondary table.
In the relational database, a foreign key (FK) is defined in the primary table, and points to a column in the secondary table.
Take, for example, an organization in which several employees can share the same manager. Two relational database tables are defined, with the following structure:
primary table : EMPLOYEE [ID, NAME, FK_MANAGER_ID] secondary table : MANAGER [ID, NAME]
The following object class and attributes are defined:
object-class : employee attr : name (from primary EMPLOYEE.NAME) attr : manager (from secondary MANAGER.NAME)
The following filter join rule is defined in the secondary table:
In case of multiple secondary tables, you must configure filter-join-rule on each secondary table. For more information on how to configure filter-join-rule for multiple secondary tables, see the Step 12.
With this configuration, the following behavior occurs for LDAP operations:
Adding an employee entry. If the manager in the employee entry does not exist in the table, a new row is created. If the manager does exist, an existing row is used.
Replacing the value of the "manager" attribute in an entry. The value of the row MANAGER.NAME is changed.
Deleting an employee entry. The row in the secondary table is not deleted because the manager entries are shared.
Deleting the "manager" attribute from an entry. The row in the secondary table is deleted and the foreign key (EMPLOYEE.FK_MANAGER_ID) is set to NULL.
If an attribute is deleted, the value of the attribute is set to NULL. But if the attribute is defined as a NOT NULL attribute in the table definition, the deletion is not possible.
In this case, the relationship between the primary and secondary tables is 1->1 or 1<-1, that is, one row in the primary table is referenced by one row in the secondary table.
In the relational database, the foreign key (FK) might be defined in the primary table, or in the secondary table.
Take, for example, an organization in which the UID of employees is stored in one table, and the surname of employees is stored in a second table. Two relational database tables are defined, with the following structure:
primary table : UID [ID, VALUE, FK_SN_ID] secondary table : SN [ID, VALUE]
The following object class and attributes are defined:
object-class : employee attr : uid (from primary UID.VALUE) attr : sn (from secondary ID.VALUE)
The following filter join rule is defined in the secondary table:
You can use it in the following manner using the dpconf command:
dpconf set-jdbc-table-prop SN filter-join-rule:ID=\${UID.FK_SN_ID}
This configuration could be the other way around, with the foreign key FK_UID_ID stored in the secondary table, and pointing to UID.ID.
In this case, the relationship between the primary and secondary tables is 1->n, that is, one row in the primary table is referenced by n rows in the secondary table. This example illustrates the case of multi-valued attributes. A multi-valued attribute is represented as a set of rows in the secondary table, with one row per attribute value.
In the relational database, the foreign key is defined in the secondary table, and points to a column in the primary table.
Take, for example, an organization in which an employee can have several telephone numbers. Two relational database tables are defined, with the following structure:
primary table : EMPLOYEE [ID, NAME] secondary table : PHONE [ID, VALUE, USER_ID]
The following object class and attributes are defined:
object-class : employee attr : cn (from primary EMPLOYEE.NAME) attr : telephoneNumber (from secondary PHONE.VALUE)
The following filter join rule is defined in the secondary table:
This case is currently unsupported in Directory Proxy Server.


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The idea of the disgruntled sysadmin turning techno-Robin Hood and giving his or her employer a taste of their own medicine is almost universally popular on tech-centric sites and message boards. However, things almost never work out positively for the people who turn revenge-fantasy into reality. The latest sysadmin to strike back, Smithtown, NY-based Michael Meneses, is facing federal charges for allegedly causing over $90,000 in damage to his employer, the Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation.
According to the New York Times and several other sources (including ComputerWorld), Meneses' primary task at Spellman was managing the company's enterprise resources management application. As anyone who's been in IT for any length of time knows, ERP applications are almost always cranky and expensive beasts that require employees dedicated to their care and feeding. Meneses' specialty looks to have been with Fujitu's Glovia ERP application (indeed, on a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to Meneses, he describes himself as an "ERP Guru").
Meneses was one of two employees responsible for the ERP management and customization, and multiple sources describe Meneses as being angry in late 2011 for being passed over for promotion. So angry, in fact, that he allegedly tendered his two-weeks notice in response. His role as ERP administrator gave him privileged access to at least some of the company's IT systems, and though it's impossible to say exactly what happened, the Times' piece reports that before his access was removed, coworkers witnessed Meneses copying files off of his company computer onto a flash drive.
After his employment was terminated, the FBI claims Meneses embarked on a three-week revenge campaign against the company, causing "over $90,000" in damage to Spellman's business. The actual descriptions of what Meneses is supposed to have done and the methods allegedly used are annoyingly vague across all the available sources, with all agreeing that he "hacked into the company's network." According to the reports, Meneses then deployed "a program that captured user log-in names and passwords" of his former coworkers. The FBI's press release also says that he used stolen user credentials to access Spellman's network via a VPN connection, where he then "corrupt[ed] the network," whatever that means.
However, more than just stealing credentials and "corrupting the network," the FBI says that Meneses also inflicted substantial damage on the company's operations. Once in possession of several employees' credentials, he is alleged to have altered the company's business calendar by a full month, causing problems across all aspects of the business, including finance and production. He also is alleged to have sent at least one e-mail to a prospective new employee seeking to fill his old job, telling the candidate, "Don't accept any position" with the company.
Federal investigators, responding to the company's complaints, examined the changes to the business calendar and noted that they were made by an account logged in via VPN, which they "traced" to a hotel in North Carolina, near Meneses' new job. The hotel's guest register showed that Meneses was staying there when the calendar hack occurred, and he was taken into federal custody shortly after.
Now back in New York, Meneses last Thursday officially denied the allegations of "hacking" and was released on a $50,000 bond. If the case goes to trial and Meneses is convicted, he will face up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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