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HORSHAM, Pa., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended by three months the review timeline for the Biologic License Application (BLA) for STELARA(TM) (ustekinumab) to provide time for a full review of an amendment to the pending application. The application seeks approval to market STELARA for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis who are candidates for phototherapy or systemic therapy.
The amendment, submitted within three months of the user fee goal date, pertains to testing results to establish the product's shelf life. The FDA has requested no additional clinical trials for STELARA. The U.S. BLA extension does not affect the approval or marketing of STELARA in Europe or Canada, nor does it apply to pending applications in other markets.
"We remain focused on collaborating with the FDA and providing the necessary information to support the review and approval of STELARA for the treatment of adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis," said Jay P. Siegel, M.D., Chief Biotechnology Officer.
The FDA's Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee (DODAC) unanimously recommended STELARA for approval in June 2008. In December 2008, Centocor Ortho Biotech announced the receipt of a Complete Response letter for STELARA from the FDA requesting additional information, including a proposal for a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), to which Centocor Ortho Biotech responded in January 2009. The FDA's review of the proposed REMS for STELARA and the proposed product labeling is ongoing.
About Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a chronic, immune-mediated disease that results from the overproduction of skin cells, resulting in their accumulation on the surface of the skin, which causes red, scaly plaques that may itch and bleed. It is estimated that approximately 7.5 million Americans and nearly 3 percent of the world's population are living with psoriasis and nearly one-quarter of those people have cases that are considered moderate to severe.
About STELARA
STELARA is a new, human monoclonal antibody with a novel mechanism of action that targets the cytokines interleukin-12 (IL-12) and interleukin-23 (IL-23), naturally occurring proteins that are important in the body's regulation of immune responses and that are also believed to play a role in inflammatory disorders, including psoriasis.
STELARA is approved in Canada for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adult patients who are candidates for phototherapy or systemic therapy. In Europe, STELARA is approved for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who failed to respond to, or who have a contraindication to, or are intolerant to other systemic therapies including ciclosporin, methotrexate and PUVA (psoralen plus ultraviolet A light).
Centocor discovered STELARA and has exclusive marketing rights to the product in the United States. Janssen-Cilag companies have exclusive marketing rights in all countries outside of the United States.
About Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc.
Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. redefines the standard of care in immunology, nephrology and oncology. The company was formed when Centocor, Inc. and Ortho Biotech Inc. were consolidated in late 2008, and was renamed Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. Built upon a pioneering history, Centocor Ortho Biotech harnesses innovations in large-molecule and small-molecule research to create important new therapeutic options. Beyond its innovative medicines, Centocor Ortho Biotech is at the forefront of developing education and public policy initiatives to ensure patients and their families, caregivers, advocates and healthcare professionals have access to the latest treatment information, support services and quality care. For more information about Centocor Ortho Biotech, visit www.CentocorOrthoBiotech.com. Centocor Ortho Biotech is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
(This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and/or Johnson & Johnson's expectations and projections. Risks and uncertainties include general industry conditions and competition; economic conditions, such as interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; technological advances and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development, including obtaining regulatory approvals; domestic and foreign health care reforms and governmental laws and regulations; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and description of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Exhibit 99 of Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2008. Copies of this Form 10-K, as well as subsequent filings, are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. Neither Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. nor Johnson & Johnson undertake to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments.)
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a way of checking students of higher educational institutions and pupils of secondary specialized educational institutions to see how well they have carried out their laboratory work, design and feasibility assignments, and course projects (papers) and to evaluate the knowledge and habits they have gained in their practicums and seminar classes and in the process of curricular study and practical production work. The passing of all tests provided for by the curriculum during a particular semester (as a rule, no more than six) is a necessary prerequisite for the student's admission to the final examination period. Tests with differentiated weighted values are established for course projects, production practical work, and subjects, a list of which is determined by the council of the higher educational institution (department) or the pedagogical councils of the secondary specialized educational institutions.
(1) In psychology and pedagogy, a standardized set of tasks to be completed, the results of which can be used as a measure of the subject's psychophysiological and personality characteristics as well as of his knowledge, intelligence, and skills.
Tests were first used in 1864 by J. Fischer in Great Britain to verify what students had learned. In 1883 the English psychologist F. Galton worked out the theoretical foundations of testing—namely, the use of a series of identical trials with a large number of individuals, the statistical processing of the results, and the provision of standards of evaluation. The term "test" was first employed by the American psychologist J. Cattell in 1890. He proposed a series of 50 tests, which were in effect a program to determine simple psychophysiological characteristics on the basis of the most advanced psychological experiments of that time—for example, measurement of the strength of the right and left hands by means of a dynamometer and measurement of the speed of reactions to sound. The principles of testing research were applied to man's higher mental functions by the French psychologist A. Binet: his series of tests in 1891 included tasks that tested memory, types of representation, attention, and aesthetic and ethical feelings. The German psychologist W. Stern introduced the concept of the intelligence quotient in 1911.
In the early 20th century differences between psychological and pedagogical testing began to be distinguished. The first standardized pedagogical test was constructed by the American psychologist E. Thorndike. The development of testing was one of the factors contributing to the general adoption of mathematical methods in psychology and pedagogy; the American psychologist C. Spearman developed the basic methods of correlation analysis for the standardization of tests and for the objective measurement of test research data. Spearman's statistical methods, and particularly the application of factor analysis, played an important role in the further development of testing. In psychotechnology, tests came into wide use for occupational selection.
Test research was most highly developed in the USA; during World War II, for example, approximately 20 million persons were tested there in connection with their induction into the army. In the USSR, tests were first designed and used in the 1920s. The first series of tests for schools was published in 1926. However, the identification of testing principles with pedological theory and practice led to serious mistakes in test research, as was noted in the decree of the Central Committee of the ACP(B) dated July 4, 1936, On Pedological Distortions in the System of People's Commissariats of Education.
Test systems are based on the most varied theoretical concepts; in the USA, for example, they may be based on behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, or neo-Freudianism. However, the construction of a test follows a common plan, which consists of defining the test's goals, drawing up the test in draft form, pilot testing of a representative sample of test subjects, correcting deficiencies, and working out a measurement scale (based on qualitative considerations and statistical processing of results) as well as a set of rules for interpreting the results. The quality of a test is determined by such characteristics as reliability, validity (that is, conformity of the results obtained to the goal of the test), and the problems' power of differentiation.
In practice, tests are mainly used to diagnose an individual's personality traits as expressed by quantitative indexes. The prediction of personality development has given rise to a special kind of test that is chiefly based on the methods of depth psychology—namely, the projective type, of which the Rorschach test is an example.
The uses to which tests have been put in the USSR include occupational selection, psychopathological diagnosis, and determination of the human psychophysiological potential in different kinds of sports. Studies have been initiated with the aim of testing students' knowledge, intelligence, and skills.
(2) In physiology and medicine, tests are used to study an organism's various physiological processes, such as the secretory and motor processes, as well as to determine the functional condition of individual organs and tissues and of the organism as a whole—for example, the excitability of individual muscles and nerves or the respiratory function of the lungs.
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Simon, B. Angliiskaia shkola i intellektual'nye testy. Moscow, 1958. (Translated from English.)
Guilford, J. "Tri storony intellekta." In the collection Psikhologiia myshleniia. Moscow, 1965. (Translated from German and English.)
Eksperimental'naia psikhologiia. Compiled by P. Fraisse and J. Piaget. Moscow, 1966. (Translated from French.)
Tsaturova, I. A. Iz istorii razvitiia testov v SSSR i za rubezhom. Taganrog, 1969.
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Cronbach, L. J. Essentials of Psychological Testing, 2nd ed. New York, 1960.
Anastasi, A. Psychological Testing, 3rd ed. London, 1969.
(4) In pattern recognition, a set of attributes that are functionally interdependent and that characterize a given pattern, or class. Tests are often used in diagnostic work—in medical diagnostics, for example, or for locating malfunctions in electrical systems—as well as for such purposes as geometric pattern recognition.
Test coverage attempts to assess how complete a test has been.
2. The second stage in a generate and test search algorithm.

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For Immediate Release, July 10, 2012
Contact: Ileene Anderson, (323) 654-5943 or firstname.lastname@example.com
More Than 5,000 Acres Proposed for Protection of Highly Endangered Buena Vista Lake Ornate Shrew
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Responding to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a new proposal to increase the protected critical habitat for one of the most endangered mammals on the planet — the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew — to 5,182 acres. The current designation protects six distinct areas on the floor of the Central Valley in Kern County, Calif., and the new areas proposed would add new habitat protections in Kern and Kings counties.
"More than 95 percent of the wetland areas these rare animals once inhabited have been destroyed," said Ileene Anderson, a biologist with the Center. "Today's proposed designation of critical habitat means the last vestiges of these once-great wetlands will be protected, making possible the survival and recovery of not just shrews but also waterfowl and hundreds of other species."
The diminutive, insect-eating shrew was first identified in 1932 by noted California naturalist Joseph Grinnell. In former times it inhabited nearly 1 million acres of wetlands and riparian forests that ringed the massive Tulare, Buena Vista, Kern and Goose lakes in the southern Central Valley; Tulare Lake was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi. But most of those areas have been lost to draining and plowing.
Of the 57,000 acres of potential shrew habitat that are left, most fragments are too small and isolated to support shrew populations. Before the shrew gained federal protection as endangered in 2002, fewer than 30 of the animals were believed to remain on Earth. The proposed additions to critical habitat occur on existing conservation lands.
"You can't protect a species as endangered as the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew without protecting its home," said Anderson. "Protection of these last places where the shrew survives could mean the difference between existence and extinction."
Along with outright habitat destruction, the rare shrews are threatened by water diversions, agricultural expansion, pesticide spraying, selenium poisoning and drought.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 375,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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Everyone that likes these games has been waiting on the new Battlefield 3 to come out. There is an open beta that launched today, you can check it out by going to www.origin.com and clicking on the big promo for the Battlefield 3 beta. Installing and setting everything up is not as straight forward as I would like it to be. Perhaps it is because I don't use a lot of digitally delivered content and I'm not used to the way that model works. So I'm going to leave that alone until I have enough experience to speak with authority on the matter. I did get it installed, there is a plug-in you have to download and enable in your browser that lets you setup the server browser and off you go. You search for the server you want to play on, or friend your buddies and join off them. The website launches the game engine and off you go into the world of war that is Battlefield 3.
My first impression was pretty good. Afterall, this is a beta and it is _not_ ready for prime time. There is still debug code (or should be in a beta) in the game so it seems to be a little laggy, and I'm sure they are ironing out the network dynamics for 64 players per server as well. Fine tuning is a process that takes place even after games are released, so for the game to behave as well as it did is pretty impressive.
To the changes… Jumping over things now makes your character kind of vault (showing his legs) it takes some getting used to but lends some realism to the whole thing and I think I like it. The graphics are very cool, although not as good as I expected (because of the game trailers). I'll qualify that; buildings where not swaying back and forth and the ground wasn't crumbling. I don't know if we will be seeing that in the game release or not; I hope so. I didn't feel like I was in a movie and that is what the screen shots and the trailer made me feel that I was going to see. I know it's not my computer, I'm running on a $9,200 Origin Big-O with a double SLI configuration and have everything cranked up to the ultra setting. That said, I'm really proud of EA here… not only did everything work in the beta (which is impressive) graphically speaking, there was no black splotching, and the game seemed to handle my two Nvidia 590 cards very well (4 GPUs).
Jets… wow really? YES! Amazing and fun, couldn't believe they added these bad babies but they did. There is really something in here for everyone. There seems to be a lot more weapons, you have more configuration options with your gear which is very cool, and the game seems to really be bordering on a Battle Simulation rather than a full on game (which is what we really all want). I wouldn't be surprised to see the Department of Defense start using this game as a training tool.
The tanks and various other vehicles have gotten make overs but operate more or less the same. I really like the second gear some of the vehicles have (just hit the run button to engage it). I haven't been able to roadkill anyone yet, but I'm sure that is a lot of fun.
One of the best changes to the game by far is being able to hunker down on the ground. Going into a full prone position was something missing in Battlefield 2 and it was great to see it put in there. Snipers and everyone else are already using it more often than they should 🙂
I've played for about 3 hours and I can tell you that the 3.9 gigabyte download is well worth it. EA has pulled all the stops out on the bandwidth as the download came down at 3.9 megabytes per second on my comcast connection and the game installed pretty fast as well (minutes).


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Matthews: Obama Must Summon All His 'Music and Magic' to Pass Health Care
These must be really desperate times for the Democrats, if the syndicated Chris Matthews Show that was aired over the weekend is any indication, as both the host and one of the guests claimed Barack Obama would need to tap into military, musical and even mystical powers to get a health care reform bill passed. During the intro of his show, Matthews declared that Obama "must now lead the band with all the music and magic he has in him" and guest panelist Michael Duffy, of Time magazine, reported that Obama is going to unleash "the infantry, the air cover, the artillery" on Congress to get health care passed. [audio available here]
The following exchanges were aired on the February 28 edition of The Chris Matthews Show:
CHRIS MATTHEWS DURING INTRO: Party time! After 13 months of whispering and wooing across the aisle, the President must now win with those on his side. He must rally the Democrats to pass health care because they are all he's got. He must now lead the band with all the music and magic he has in him. Selling victory. To win his biggest test, one he set himself, the President must convince his people the prize is worth the pain. He must teach the deepest of all truths, that it's what you do with what you've got.
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Wow Mike! It seems like he's laying it down, the Democrats are gonna have to do this alone. Does he have the power, the juice, the political will to lead them into this fight?
MICHAEL DUFFY, TIME: He doesn't right now, not today. And that's why they haven't had the vote and that's why it isn't law yet. But in the next four weeks, before the Easter recess, under the new, new, new revised schedule of health care reform, they are going to do everything they can. Put all the infantry, the air cover, the artillery they can bring to bear on the Congress and try to get this through with just Democratic votes alone before they go home.


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The purpose of this article is to assist you in starting up your Cloudera Quickstart Virtual Machine once you have downloaded it.
Quickstart VM 5.5
IMPORTANT: As recommended on the download page, we HIGHLY recommend that you install a "Download Manager" extension to your web browser and utilize that to manage the download of the Quickstart VM as it is a VERY large file and can easily get corrupted during download due to connectivity issues. A download manager add-on will assist you in getting a clean download and save you time and spare the frustration.
Downloading the VM:
tar xzvf cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.5.0-0-virtualbox.zip
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Once you launch the VM, you are automatically logged in as the cloudera user. The account details are:
The cloudera account has sudo privileges in the VM. The root account password is cloudera.
The root MySQL password (and the password for other MySQL user accounts) is also cloudera.
Hue and Cloudera Manager use the same credentials.
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Some users have reported problems running CentOS 6.4 in VirtualBox. If a kernel panic occurs while the VirtualBox VM is booting, you can try working around this problem by opening the Settings > System > Motherboard tab, and selecting ICH9 instead of PIIX3 for the chip set. If you have not already done so, you must also enable I/O APIC on the same tab.
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Thanks for the info,cjervis! I did it a different way yesterday: I clicked
on the "new bottom" and then followed the info from there,and that's where
I ran into trouble. I deleted the file with the intention of reinstalling
it; I thought that would resolve the issue, but when I tried to reinstall
Cloudera-Quickstart to the VM Virtualbox under the initial way, I'm getting
the followings: accessible,doc,drivers,nls,sdk, and x86, not the full
Cloudera-Quickstart-vm 5.7.0-0...OVF file. I also tried it based on the
instructions we sent me and I am not seeing anything at all. I am new to
this and don't have a lot of experience, so please forgive me if appear
amateurish in my explanation.
Thanks again for your help with this matter!
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Please disregard message. I was using the zip file instead of the unzip... and your instructions worked like a charm, THANKS. I really appreciate the instructions!
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I have a thinkpad w520 installed with Windows 10(64bit) as Host OS, I am able to run Debian Linux(64bit) as VM in Virtual Box, but when I downloaded QuickStartCHD5.7 and trying to boot it up in Virtual Box it got following error.
init: prefdm main porcess ended
init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped
Could anyone please tell me how could I solve the problem?
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I have to switch to VMWare image(cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.7.0-0-vmware), and run the VM with VMWare Player, it's able to be boot up now. :)
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problems with vm on virtual box - mac.
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Once installation is done how to start CDH 5 default (4 Gb RAM required) VM?
I can see the icon to launch Express & Enterprise which required more memory which I don't have.
I can launch only CDH 5 default.
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I have just downloaded the Quickstart 5.12.0 and all appears to be working well except -
I cannot transfer files between my Windows Laptop and the VM.
I am running Windows 10 with 16Gb RAM and VMWare Player 14 and associated Cloudera VM.
The image is not easily letting me do any configuration to support file transfers and always refuses a connection e.g. via WinSCP.
Can anyone advise of a solution please? I would of expected this to be default behaviour enabled with the VM.
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Hi dave. In this case I would suggest starting a new thread in the Hadoop 101 area. It may end up being a setting in VMWare but I'm not sure.
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Hi! My laptop is already running on Ubuntu. So, I feel downloading the VM would be redundant. However, I would like to install Cloudera Manager for Hadoop and satellite components (SQOOP, PIG, HIVE, HBASE, IMPALA, FLUME,HUE, SPARK SQL, SPARK FLUME) on my laptop. Will it be possible to help me install cloudera manager on my Ubuntu?


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The Escapists: The Walking Dead Steam CD Key
Merging the award-winning, smash-hit, indie game The Escapists with the worldwide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, comes The Escapists: The Walking Dead. In this unique game, recreated entirely in the charming 8-bit pixel art style of The Escapists, you play as Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of walkers let loose upon the world.
Rick is in charge of a band of survivors featuring many of the original comic book cast, including Maggie, Hershel, Glenn and Michonne. Rick must secure the safety of the group by seeking out a safe escape route from each area, and manage several dangerous tasks to keep as many of the group alive as possible. The game faithfully matches the timeline of the comics, meaning Rick must first fight his way out of the Harrison Memorial Hospital, visit the Greene family farm before visiting destinations such as the Meriwether Correctional Facility and Woodbury.
Protect the living and escape the dead as you play through the award-winning comic's epic story.
- 5 Locations: Tackle 5 of the most infamous locations from The Walking Dead story including: Meriwether County Correctional Facility, Woodbury, and Alexandria
- Epic Crafting: Choose from over two hundred + different items to make over 70 tools or weapons to aid your survival.
- Well known characters: Interact with all your favourite characters from the comics and recruit them to help you with important tasks.
- Routines: Make sure you and your survivors keep up your daily routines - it's important for morale!
- Guns!: Firearms will now be available to craft or discover - they are handy for keeping walkers at bay!
- Zombie hordes: Use your wits and your survivor companions to fend off hordes of hungry walkers.
- Steam Achievements: Be sure to check every desk and room if you want to get them all!
- Steam Leaderboards: Optimise your plans and strategies to complete the levels in the fastest time.
- Cloud Saves: Take your game on the go to make sure you can get your fix.
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Expanding the reach of disaster recovery
While you may have a disaster recovery plan in place for your business, it may not be sound for major catastrophes, like Hurricane Katrina. Learn how to expand the limits of your disaster plan.
Hurricane Katrina left in its wake more than shattered communities and ruined lives; it also demonstrated the limits of the typical IT disaster recovery plan (DRP). However, it also demonstrated that a lot of DRPs are unnecessarily limited.
The truth of the matter is that every DRP has an upper boundary. A plan won't be able to handle some disasters, and that's perfectly appropriate. However, it is also true that many DRPs can easily be stretched to cover larger disasters -- situations that reach wider areas, last longer and are generally more severe than those planned for contingency.
Here are some tips that can help you expand the reach of your DRP:
Have a complete, well-tested DRP
If you don't have a disaster plan in place to cover 'run-of-the mill' problems, it's not worth thinking about using one for extraordinary problems. The first step is to develop and implement such a plan and to test it regularly. Then, you can start looking for places where you can adjust it for more severe contingencies.
Many of the limits in DRPs are not inherent in the process, but are the result of limits that were built into the plan. A good example is the '72-hour rule,' which says that a facility will be cut off from access for no more than 72 hours. However, it is fairly easy to increase that limit by stockpiling more supplies, such as fuel for backup generators.
You don't have to have a hurricane to exceed the 72-hour rule. In other kinds of disasters from earthquakes to fires to chemical spills, it may be longer than that before you can get most (or any) of your people back in.
Think about other parts of the operation
A DRP needs to include more than just IT; it should look at all the business practices and how they will be supported and maintained after a disaster.
This is an area that is particularly weak in a lot of enterprises, especially in coordination. If the other departments don't share the same assumptions as IT, the plan will likely fail embarrassingly.
The good news is that it's easy to fix with better planning, coordination and especially information.
Consider your people
The best plan in the world isn't worth much, if people aren't available to implement it. The larger the disaster, the less likely that your people will be available. Either they won't be able to reach your site or they'll be busy taking care of their own families.
In a really large disaster, like Katrina, you're likely to have to implement your DRP with a pickup crew. If your disaster plan is well worked out and clearly written down, you'll be able to do a lot more with the people who are able to show up.
Consider infrastructure beyond your interfaces
One of the worst problems in the wake of Katrina was that the communications structure was wrecked. Not only were the land lines out, both voice and data, but cell phones, the backbone of a lot of disaster plans, weren't working. In fact, one of the worst problems for Louisiana's disaster management officials was that they were largely cut off from what was happening because of communications failures.
In most types of disasters, from earthquakes to chemical spills, telephone communication is one of the first things to go. Even if the system isn't physically affected, circuits are likely to be overloaded and unavailable.
One form of communication that kept working after the hurricane in spite of the chaos was satellite links. Satellite phones were invaluable -- and extremely rare -- in the first days after the storm. A few satellite phones and perhaps a satellite terminal for low-rate data can make an enormous difference in how big an emergency you can cope with.
Count the cost -- and the cost-effectiveness
Some of these additions to a DRP are relatively simple and inexpensive to implement. Others, such as a standby VSAT link, can range from expensive to very expensive. Clearly not every enterprise needs to stretch the limits of disaster recovery. Consider how much additional protection you're buying with extensions to your DRP and decide which ones are worth it in your environment.
A very valuable document for disaster recovery planning is "Generally Accepted Practice for Business Continuity Practicioners" put together by the DRI International and the Disaster Recovery Journal. It is available at http://www.drj.com/GAP/.
For more information:
Remote recovery sites: How far is far enough?
About the author: Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80 K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last 20 years, he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues.


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Cool Things: October 2009
Cool Things
For our top 10 issue this month, I decided to give you my current top 10 picks in the usual five categories. Enjoy!
Check out these technology tools to help you scrap.
1. Digi KI scrapbooking collections, KI Memories (above)
3. Picture Frame Manager, ACDSee
4. Slice cordless design cutter, Making Memories
6. Slim profile punches, EK Success
9. Monthly kit club, Scrap Girls
10. PicsMatch software, PicsMatch.com
These 10 tools are timeless pieces for your supply stash.
1. VersaMark Dazzle, Tsukineko
2. Cricut Expression, Provo Craft
3. Cardstock color match list, Prism Papers
4. Giant Roller Distressing Letters stamp, Glitz Design
5. Kraft Kutz Letters Floral, Fancy Pants Designs
6. 12 x 12 Ultimate Storage Set, ScrapOnizer
7. It's a Date stamp, Technique Tuesday
9. CK Type Ruler, Creating Keepsakes
10. Designer Duct Tape, Platypus
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Witness the unboxing:
The CLA 45 emerges into the light at Bremerhaven.
On land and settling in nicely.
So beautiful! We can't wait for a whole new continent to see it for themselves.
Interested in a sneak peek at the inside of this gorgeous vehicle? Read this blog from Lynn Gayowski, or get up close and personal with the digital instrument cluster in this one from Paul Leroux. For more photos, see our Flickr album.


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The Top 10 Most Expensive Celeb Splits Ever
Neil Diamond was all smiles when he got hitched to his manager in April 2012, but there was a time when the "Sweet Caroline" singer made headlines for the sweet settlement his ex-wife got when the couple divorced. At $150 million, it was one of the biggest divorce payments in Hollywood history at the time. Take a look at these other wildly expensive celebrity divorces. -- by Lizbeth Scordo, omg! staff


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ESSAY- Religion trumps: As libertarians wage war on free speech
Two months ago, long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas got fired by her employer, the Hearst newspaper conglomerate, in response to her off-the-cuff slam at Israel. I criticized the firing on free speech grounds.
"Free speech must be defended no matter what– even that of cranky anti-Semitic columnists (if that's what Thomas is/was)," I wrote. "Unless we are truly free to say what we think– without fear of reprisal– free speech is not a right. It is merely a permission."
I received many letters in response. Most people disagreed with me.
A letter from Joseph Just was typical, but better written than most (which is why I quote it here):
"Ms. Thomas has been denied not one of her Constitutional rights. She faces no fine, legal censure, or criminal charges for saying what she said. Her immunity from the threat of such sanction (rather than immunity from being, shall we say, 'asked to resign') is what the First Amendment protects. The only reprisal Ms. Thomas has materially suffered (in addition to the public opprobrium directed at her) is the loss of her job at Hearst. She held her job at the pleasure of her employers, and if they decide that due her comments they no longer want her around, they are not obligated to retain her. She is not– indeed, none of us is– entitled to a forum... particularly a paid one."
Legally, Just is right. The First Amendment does not protect us from economic reprisals. I was arguing that employers ought to choose not to fire people for speaking their minds.
Unfortunately, employers seem to be whacking people for what they say outside of work more than ever. Countless workers have gotten canned for statements they made on non-work-related blogs and social networking sites. Even more worrisome, many citizens don't have a problem with that. Even self-described leftists have embraced the libertarian extremist view that you have the right to say whatever you want–but don't expect to be able to feed yourself or your family if you do.
Posters at Democratic Underground, a left-of-center discussion site frequented by that rarest and most appreciated of creature, balls-out Democrats, has long been a community I've been able to count upon. On the Thomas issue, however, they sound like Sean Hannity.
"Private organizations aren't and shouldn't be required to put up with speech they don't agree with," said one poster." "Free speech is not guaranteed to be speech without consequences," wrote another.
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from criticism," argued a third. "It means that you can say what you want without the threat of being thrown in jail."
Funny, these same libertarians would have freaked out if the artists who created the Danish Mohammed cartoons had all gotten fired by their newspaper.
True, the First Amendment doesn't protect your right to keep your gig as a community banker even though you wear a swastika T-shirt and whistle the Horst Wessel song on your lunch break.
But it ought to.
If the First Amendment is to truly protect freedom of speech, it must allow Americans to say and think whatever the hell they want, no matter how outrageous. So the First Amendment should be expanded to prohibit economic reprisals.
As things stand, the First Amendment is pure sophistry, a bad joke. A right to free speech, ostensibly protected in order to encourage the vigorous exchange and discussion of ideas that make a society truly free, is meaningless if a person risks getting fired each time he opens his mouth. While it is true that some people will decide that the risk of professional opprobrium and unemployment is worth it, most people won't. And don't.
Consider the other basic right guaranteed under the First Amendment: freedom of worship. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act makes it illegal for an employer to fire you because of your religion (or lack thereof). (There's an exception for employers that are religious groups.) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed numerous federal lawsuits against companies it accused of reprisals against employers due to their religious preference.
Why is religious expression granted greater protection than, say, political speech? It's not because religion is inherently less offensive. To many people, religion is itself offensive.
The distinction is arbitrary and, ironically, wholly political: in the secular American republic, you have the right to say that your God is better than anyone else's God without fear of losing your job. If Helen Thomas had thrown down a Muslim prayer carpet on the White House lawn and prayed toward Mecca, it would have been offensive to many people. But she'd still be working.
Another way to examine my proposed expansion of free speech protections is to look at it from the standpoint of an employer. What would a boss stand to lose if the First Amendment were strengthened?
Certainly, employers would lose a measure of control over their workers. They would risk embarrassment. But they would also gain a big measure of CYA: when one of their staff did or said something outrageous (but Constitutionally protected), they could point to the First Amendment and shrug their shoulders. In the Helen Thomas example, Hearst execs could say: "What can we do? She has the right to say whatever the hell she wants."
Which of course she should.
Ted Rall's last essay in the Hook was "U.S. policy: We don't win wars; we just disrupt" which appeared July 29.
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Mr. Rall, do you think that we should be able to kick politicians out of office because we disagree with their platforms? To me that is no different than firing an employee, just for example, for using racial slurs against customers. Why is it that, to you, one is good and one is bad? Seems completely equivalent.
You're arguing for complete freedom of speech. Stating that a benefit is that everyone else can say "she has the right to say whatever the hell she wants" on a page that ends with this warning?
"People say the darndest things, but language stronger than "darn," insulting words like "S*****," ethnically or racially disparaging language, and comparing people to H***** usually results in deletion of the comment and may get you blocked from further commenting. Ditto for posting unverified and/or potentially libelous allegations, and even off-topic digression. And to avoid spam, any comment containing more than two weblinks gets eaten by Bigfoot."
IMO the two don't seem to sit well together.
Also, I find it rather funny that the words I replaced with stars from this site's comment content warning are actually "blacklisted" against use in comments.
Jessie, get a clue. Ted Rall didn't create the Hook's website and is hardly responsible for its content or how it filters comments. He's probably never even seen it. The Hook just published his essay. Doesn't mean they agree with him.
If Helen had said "I hope we send all the jews to the gas chambers!", should she have still kept her job? Even though her organization would have lost credibility and business through keeping on a high profile fan of genocide? According to your arguments put forth in this article, the answer seems yes.
To be honest, I can't tell if this is really how you feel or if you are just trying to start a passionate discussion that ensures this page gets many hits. I find it hard to believe you cannot see where your line of argument leads.
But Helen didn't say " I hope we send all the Jews to the gas chambers," did she? That's a threat of physical harm to a group of people. That's entirely different. IN fact, I don't think what she said was even remotely anti-semetic. It was a political opinion which many Americans happen to agree with, for very logical reasons.
I happen to agree that employers have far too much say over what we think and do in our private lives. That opportunity is only there because of so much public information via the web, but the fact is, they seem to think they own our lives.
They do not.
How we represent the company when we are in 'uniform' matters, and how we speak about the company. But what we do on our private time, as lng as it is legal, is really not their business.
My point isn't about what she said, nor is Ted's. As he says, "If the First Amendment is to truly protect freedom of speech, it must allow Americans to say and think whatever the h*ll they want, no matter how outrageous." This would cover all speech, including someone who says they were glad the Holocaust happened or that 9/11 happened.
This whole idea, at least stretched to the point argued here, is absurd. If what someone says in a public forum could affect the company's bottomline, then they have every right to get rid of the person as long as they are not violating contractual agreements or stipulations by doing so.
What if someone who works for Apple spent all their free time telling everyone, through public forums, Apple is a terrible company and puts out a subpar product? Under Ted's reasoning, they should be protected from any action by Apple.


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Local User Groups
What are Local User Groups ?
AUGI and Local User Groups (LUGs) are partners with a common mission: to provide support for Autodesk product users.
Local User Groups provide an environment for users to help users. This peer-to-peer support is offered in a number of ways, including online discussion groups, regular newsletters, and most importantly, user group meetings. At local user group meetings, users benefit from face-to-face contact with their peers, enabling them to form professional relationships and strengthen their networking efforts. The local user group focuses on the needs of their individual members, providing educational opportunities and sharing information pertinent to their local community.
Meetings and programs are tailored to the needs of the community making the local user group a great source for job opportunities, networking, and product support.
As always, in the left sash you'll find links to information about Local User Groups, including how to find a Local User Group in your area (Local User Group Finder), how to start your own User Group, and how to register a User Group for exposure on AUGI.com.
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In addition to the rewards that come with building and managing a community organization whose mission is to help "users help users," local user group leaders position themselves to receive numerous other benefits, including:
- The opportunity to give back to one's community
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- Higher level partnership with AUGI, the local chapter sponsor (Autodesk Re-seller), and Autodesk
- Recognition as an AUGI User Group leader in one's firm, industry, and local professional community
- A springboard to future professional and community leadership positions, including AUGI
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Many people who want to get involved with AUGI user communities on a leadership level nevertheless wonder what will be required of them if they do. One distinct benefit of being a user group leader is that many of the tasks have been streamlined such that it requires less time to manage. AUGI understands people are busy and has, therefore, developed a local community program that automates much of the website updating tasks.
Nevertheless, local user groups cannot succeed without the direction and talent of local leaders. User Group Board members play a crucial role in leading and representing their user group. Board members provide vision and direction to the local user groups, serve as spokespersons to and for the local user group members, and act as ambassador to the broader AUGI and Autodesk communities and beyond. Find out how you can join a local user group in your community and find out what other design professionals like yourself are doing to further their careers and professional development.
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In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately. The trailer was for the movie The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and scheduled to open May 19, and it featured a grim-faced fellow uttering Christ's name repeatedly and then--wham!--whaling away at his already bloodied back with an Inquisition-issue cat-o'-nine-tails. It was not an intentionally funny scene. But Heil, who was familiar with the book on which the movie is based, recognized the figure onscreen as the albino assassin Silas,...
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When we analyze a record we need to really examine it. Closely. Very closely. Here is a good example of why we should do that.
I've been wandering around in Ancestry trees today looking at trees that have my 3rd great-grandparents Stephen and Rachel Hopkins of Hancock County, Tennessee and later Harlan County, Kentucky. I keep seeing the same mistake over and over again. Almost every one of the 40+ trees I checked have given them a daughter named Ellen who was born about 1838. The problem is they did not have a daughter named Ellen. Unlike many of the other errors floating around the web, I can actually see how this one got started.
Let's take a look at the 1850 census for Stephen and Rachel's family.
See that 12 year old named Ellen? It certainly looks like Ellen at first glance and if you had no idea about Stephen and Rachel's children you might not have any reason to doubt that this was Ellen. When I first saw this record, I already knew that they had a daughter named Eliza (my 2nd great-grandmother) and I was confused as to why she wasn't listed with them in this census – until I looked closer.
Start with the 2nd l in Ellen. That's actually the tail of the y in Sally listed on the previous line. If you look even closer, you will see there's a dot in the middle of that y which indicates the 3rd letter of the name that looks like Ellen is really an i and not an l. The next letter that at first appears to be an e is actually z – see the tail of the z between the o and h in John on the line below? And that last letter that could have been n is obviously an a when compared to the n in John. The name is Eliza, not Ellen. But don't stop there. This could still be considered questionable so let's move on to the 1870 census.
Of course, nothing is ever easy so this record is a bit hard to read but the 4th person in this household is 23 year old Elisa. Apparently the census taker didn't like the letter z because her sister Elizabeth listed above her is spelled Elisabeth. And there is yet another point of confusion with this family. Some people seem to believe they couldn't have had daughters named both Elizabeth and Eliza (but they did, there they are in the same census record). Many of those trees with Ellen in them have Eliza's children tied to Elizabeth (who by the way went by Betsey and had two children of her own who are rarely seen in Ancestry trees but I've personally met some of their descendants).
Everything is not always clear at first glance so we really need to pay close attention when analyzing records.


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Video game design and development is challenging, but the rewards are worth it. With this unparalleled comprehensive training course, you'll master skills that open doors to the growing video game industry. By the end of the course, you will have designed and created your own video game for the PC and will stand ready to join a team working on projects with larger scope or pursue independent development.
Using a comprehensive and analytical approach to game development, this course offers you the opportunity to learn how to effectively implement technical game ideas, assuming no prior training or experience. The curriculum is divided into four major areas of study: programming languages, mathematics skills, game asset creation, and modern real-time game engines. It will conclude with an independent study phase where you will design, document, and create your own game using all of the programming and game art skills you learned in the core classes. This course is entirely online and is completed at your own pace.
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Ready? This year's biggest, brightest supermoon rises today
On Sunday, we'll see a special cosmological treat. The year's biggest and brightest full moon will rise.
This year has three supermoons. We had one July 12, and have yet another one Sept. 9. But the supermoon this weekend is the most "super" of the bunch.
The term refers to the time when the moon, which orbits Earth in a slightly elliptical trajectory, is at the absolute closest it can get while also being full. Other full moons have come close. But as a supermoon, Sunday's will be ever so slightly more magnificent.
"The size difference between even the dimmest and brightest full moon is only a bit more than 10 percent," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, research space scientist at NASA' Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "So the difference between other 'supermoons' and this one isn't huge." But he said the event is a great excuse to take a moment to enjoy the beauty of the moon, something so often ignored in hectic daily life.
Lunar events should be especially exciting to urbanites.
"Normally, when cool stuff is happening in the night sky, we miss it because of the light pollution," Domagal-Goldman said. "But there's no such thing as too much light pollution to see the moon. All you need is nighttime and a clear sky. If you live in a city and want to share in the awe of the cosmos, this is the astronomical event for you."
To get those clear skies, Domagal-Goldman recommends going out right at moonrise when there is less likely to be cloud cover. And some optical tricks will help your viewing experience at that time, too.
"It's going to look biggest and brightest to us when it's right next to the horizon," Domagal-Goldman said. When the moon is next to things that we are familiar with, such as trees, it looks much bigger than when surrounded by other astronomical bodies, such as stars.
Known as the Sturgeon Moon (because of the abundance of sturgeon in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain at this time of year), it becomes full officially this Sunday at 2:09 p.m., just 26 minutes after coming closest to Earth.
While the moon officially reaches full phase and cozies closet to Earth on Sunday afternoon, it will appear more or less full Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening for night skywatchers (at 96 to 99 percent illumination).
Once it is high in the sky, observers should not expect to see much of a difference between this full moon and others.
"A 30 percent difference in brightness can easily be masked by clouds and haze," according to NASA. "Also, there are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. Hanging high overhead with no reference points to provide a sense of scale, one full Moon looks about the same size as any other."
Geoff Chester, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, writes on his blog that it is difficult to tell one moon apart from another. Rather, the "moon illusion" — in which the moon appears much bigger than it actually is when it sits on the horizon — is what people remember most.
But Chester pointed to a possible benefit from this supermoon craze: "[I]f it gets people out and looking at the night sky and maybe hooks them into astronomy, then it's a good thing."
The moon will rise at 7:55 p.m. Sunday and set at 7:20 a.m. Monday.


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The best PSP/Vita homebrews for October 2012
Wondering what you should be running on that freshly hacked Vita or PSP? Here is a list of the best 10 homebrews as voted by you in October 2012.
10. Bookr
I'm wondering if there's a single one of our Top 10 where Bookr wasn't here.
This awesome PDF reader works on the PSP, as well as on the Vita (either through TotalNoob's CEF, or with VHBL), and actually fills a void in the PSP/Vita official apps (I'm still amazed Sony did not offer a pdf reader on their devices…)
Download Bookr here
9. Pro CFW
No need to introduce the best CFW on the PSP. If you're looking for the easiest and most up to date way to install a custom firmware on any PSP, Pro CFW is for you
Download Pro CFW here
8. Blackballs
A Dragonball clone for the PSP with edited and recolored sprites. This is a beta version.
Download Blackballs Beta here
7. Lamecraft
More than a year after its release, this Minecraft Clone is still one of the most popular homebrews ever. People running a Custom Firmware on their PSP, or Total_Noob's CEF might want to give a try to one of its most famous mods, S4inexCraft
Download Lamecraft here (or try S4inexcraft)
6. Cave Story
When people ask us "why do you fight so hard for stupid fan made games?", This platform game with some RPG elements is one of the examples we give them.
Download Cave Story here
5. Total_Noob's CEF, the eCFW for the Vita
With no surprise, Total_Noob's work makes it to this top 10 this month. Earlier this month, Total_Noob opened the PSP emulator in the Vita to allow us to play all our PSP homebrews and plugins, and it seems I was not the only one to like this release.
Download Total_Noob's CEF here (Monster Hunter version here)
4. PRXDecrypter
One of the best companions for PSP hackers, prxdecrypter lets you decrypt eboots and prx files. That step is necessary if you want to start reverse engineering the PSP firmware, or games, to look for exploits
Download PRX Decrypter here
3. OPenCMA
Virtuous Flame's tool to copy files to and from your PS Vita without being connected to the internet has been one of the most popular tools for the Vita since it came out. Besides the "gray area" uses for those of us who don't want to be forced to update our firmwares when Sony feels like it, there are many perfectly legit reasons to not want to be connected to the internet while you copy files between two devices you own.
Download openCMA here
2. Frontier 1337
A port of the oldschool game Frontier – Elite II. For those too young to know, Elite 2 was a pretty popular Space trading game back in the old days of the Amiga/Atari computers.
Download Frontier 1337 here
1. ZeroVSH Patcher
A nice tool to customize your PSP's gameboot and more. Read Mr.rr's article about this great tool here.
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Hot Harry on a Horse & the Foxy Filly
This sounds like the title of a porn. Like some of that crazy ass equine sh-t when people do it with mares. Don't pretend you're shocked. This happens. A lot.
It is not a porn, obviously, unfortunately, but it does have to do with the member of the British royal family who is voted most likely to participate in one – and of course that would be Hot Harry who, this weekend, is expected at the wedding of his cousin Zara Phillips in Scotland but who, for today, is making headlines for the nickname he's allegedly given the sister of his sister-in-law:
Foxy Filly
Whatever. Are you rolling your eyes? You should be.
The story originates from TLC. They're airing a one hour doc on Pippa Middleton next week and are promising to "tell all" about Harry's relationship with her. Which does not exist beyond the fact that her sister is married to his brother. But somehow the producers found someone stupid enough to make up some anecdote about this Foxy Filly nickname, and this is how they're selling the programme, in the hopes that many of you will tune in.
I know that on April 29th, we all wanted it to happen. Because back then there was very little known about Pippa, and we only saw that ass, and Chelsy looked so busted, and Harry is so horny, it was a terribly tantalising prospect. Since then though, the real Pippa has emerged. And the real Pippa killed my boner a long time ago.
First of all, why does she dress like she's 40?
Check it – here's Pippa in London last week in green and blue middle aged-ness. It's gross. Like, with her body and skin, these choices, they should not be happening.
Also, did you know how they used to refer to Pippa before the Royal Wedding in reference to the fact that they were constantly trying to set her up with one rich, well connected dude after another?
"She's been passed around more than a joint at a reggae bar."
No one talks like this about her anymore, not since April 29th, not since she's become a UK newspaper industry all to herself. But the girl has definitely undergone image rehabilitation for apparent desperation.
So has Harry ever mounted the Foxy Filly?
Um, Pippa runs marathons and Harry hangs out with a bong in his spare time. It's not there. It was never there.
And finally, there's the matter of Florence Brudenell-Bruce why is your name is so goddamn long this is why people call you Flee. Here's Flee out and about this week on a bike and walking around her neighbourhood. MUCH better style than Pippa. And MUCH more Harry's type. Is she really his girlfriend? I'm told yes, in a summer fling kind of way, but that no one around him thinks it's super serious. That he'll never really get over Chelsea. Like I've keep telling you: Chelsea is Camilla.
Also attached – Harry at Ascot the other day.
Photos from Wenn.com and Bauergriffinonline.com


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This is Wednesday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2007 with 320 to follow.
This is Valentine's Day.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus, Mercury and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw in 1847; comedy legend Jack Benny in 1894; broadcaster Hugh Downs in 1921 (age 86); actress/singer Florence Henderson in 1934 (age 73); journalist Carl Bernstein in 1944 (age 63); dancer/actor Gregory Hines in 1946; magician Raymond Joseph Teller, of Penn and Teller, in 1948 (age 59); and actor Meg Tilly in 1960 (age 47).
On this date in history:
In 1849, James Polk became the first U.S. president to be photographed while in office. The photographer was Mathew Brady, who later became famous for his Civil War pictures.
In 1886, the West Coast citrus industry was born. The first trainload of oranges left Los Angeles for eastern markets.
In 1903, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed a law creating the Department of Commerce and Labor.
In 1920, the League of Women Voters was formed in Chicago.
In 1929, in what became known as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," gunmen believed to be working for Prohibition-era crime lord Al Capone killed seven members of the rival George "Bugs" Moran gang in a Chicago garage.
In 1933, an eight-day bank holiday was declared in Michigan in a Depression-era move to avert a financial panic. A total of $50 million was rushed to Detroit to bolster bank assets.
In 1979, Iranian guerrillas stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, trapping Ambassador William Sullivan and 100 staff members. Forces of the Ayatollah Khomeini later freed them but the incident foreshadowed the embassy takeover in November.
In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, offended by "The Satanic Verses," called on Muslims to kill its British author, Salman Rushdie. He offered a $1 million reward for Rushdie's death, sending the writer into hiding. In 1998, Tehran rescinded the death sentence.
In 1990, 90 people were killed and 56 injured in the crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus 320, about 50 yards short of the runway in Bangalore, India.
In 1991, allied commanders reported a surge in desertions of Iraqi soldiers.
In 1992, the Bush administration denied lying about the fate of repatriated Haitians and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject efforts to stop the return of thousands of boat people.
In 1993, six people were killed in a modern Valentine's Day massacre in a Bronx, New York, neighborhood where area residents ignored the gunfire.
In 1994, a convicted serial killer who admitted killing 55 people was executed by firing squad in a Russian prison.
In 2003, Dolly, the cloned sheep, was euthanized by the Scottish scientists who brought her to controversial life six years earlier.
In 2004, at least 25 people died and close to 100 others were injured when a giant glass roof collapsed at the largest city water park in Moscow. Authorities suspected faulty construction.
Also in 2004, Iraqi insurgents overwhelmed a police station west of Baghdad, killing 23 people and freeing dozens of prisoners.
In 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated. Eleven others died with him.
Also in 2005, a gas explosion inside a Chinese mine killed 214 people, the worst reported Chinese mining disaster since the 1949 communist revolution.
And, an estimated 59 people were killed and some 210 people were injured during a fire at a mosque in Iran.
In 2006, a senior Iranian nuclear official confirmed the country had resumed enriching uranium, considered a first step in nuclear production.
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I've seen several posts regarding XML processing with Java, however none that I've found address my current problem.
I've developed an XMLFileHandler class that loads a given xml file into a Document object, and supports some basic methods such as getRootElement(), getChildNode(), getChildNodes(), getNodeAttributeValue(), etc., etc., etc....
This behaviour has been sufficient enough for accessing nodes/values/attributes in the XML document, but my client has now added a requirement to enable editing of some of these values within the XML document.
I've tried (and failed) at developing a method to do this. The XML file is in the following format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <locations> <location id="1" name="location_name"> some text some other text </location> ... ... ... </locations>
Where the attributes 'id' AND 'name' can (each) uniquely identify EVERY 'location' node.
So, the required functionality would be to design a method that can get a 'location' node by a given 'location_name' attribute value, and then set both the 'a' and 'b' sub-node values, and save the changes to the XML file.
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