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Book Name / ISBN
Oracle Insights Tales of the Oak Table
Author /Publisher
Mogens Norgaard
, Dave Ensor, Tim Gorman, Kyle Hailey, Anjo Kolk, Jonathan Lewis, Connor McDonald, Cary Millsap, James Morle, David Ruthven, Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
The cover says: "Eleven leading authorities on Oracle's database engine share their unique insights on how best to exploit the software. We can't think of a better description of this book in which each of the eleven writers has authored a chapter. Here are some of the chapter titles as they speak for themselves.
You probably don't tune right
Compulsive tuning disorder
Testing and risk management
Design disasters
Chapter 1 by Dave Ensor alone is worth the price of admission. While this book can be read by the novice ... the more years of Oracle experience you have ... the more valuable this book will be. Enjoy!
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Practical Oracle 8i
/ 0-201-71584-8
Author /Publisher
Jonathan Lewis
Don't let the fact that this book was written for 8i discourage you. If you are one of those developers or DBAs that doesn't need a book for syntax. But rather looking for books to help you make decisions on which syntax to choose, and why, this book is essential. Jonathan's knowledge of Oracle is at the top of the trade and this book contains some of the most valuable advice available anywhere.
With Oracle 8i this book was essential, and it is good enough that it survived without revision through Oracle's 9i. We sincerely hope Jonathan will do a complete rewrite for 11g. But even without it ... get yourself a copy.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Expert one-on-one Oracle
/ 1-861004-82-6
Author /Publisher
Tom Kyte
/ APress
You should not be allowed to put 'developer' and 'PL/SQL' on your resume if you haven't read this book. Tom deals with the most important aspects of working with Oracle ... rarely covered in other books that focus more on syntax than successful implementation of applications utilizing the syntax. The first three chapters are mandatory reading for anyone coming to Oracle from SQL Server, DB2, Informix, or Sybase.
This book is, without a doubt, the most referenced book on the shelf for development.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Effective Oracle By Design
/ 0-07-223065-7
Author /Publisher
Tom Kyte /
Oracle Press
As one of my former students recently remarked: "Syntax is boring." And it is. Anyone can go to the web and find the syntax to do something. Knowing what to do, and perhaps more importantly, what not to do is what separates the amateur from the professional.
If you aren't using Oracle to build single-user systems, if you have need to be concerned with performance and scalability, add this book to your reading list. One of the many things we like about this book is the emphasis on testing code for performance and scalability the demonstrations related to hard parses and soft parses, and the fact that some soft parses are softer than others.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Oracle In A Nutshell
/ 0-613912-17-9
Author /Publisher
Rick Greenwald and David C. Kreines /
As an Oracle developer, I have been frustrated reading all the Oracle documentations. It's hard to locate what you want to know in those big and thick documentations. I was thrilled to find this book -- it really is a great reference and it can basically replace my collection of some other Oracle books. This book is very well-organized into different topics including architecture, data dictionary, SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA and much more. Some topics like PL/SQL and Java, (imagine they are in one book!) look more like a dictionary. You can easily look up for the syntax/commands. It gives you a few lines coding as example followed by a brief explanation --All in a concise manner.
Bottom line, this is a very comprehensive resource covering lots of topics, pretty much whatever you need is all in there, in one book!! I have been benefit a lot from having this book at my desktop for quick and easy reference.
Review by Connie Zhao on Amazon.com
Book Name / ISBN
Oracle Security Step-by-Step
/ 0-9724273-4-1
Author /Publisher
Pete Finnigan
If part of your job responsibility is securing databases this book should definitely be on your list. Unlike far too many treatments this book goes far beyond the simple reliance in userid and password and provides hundreds of concrete and specific ideas on where security holes can be found and how to plug them.
The books biggest weakness is the lack of an index. What you are looking for is likely here ... finding it, however, may be a bit of a challenge.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
The Art and Science of Oracle Performance Tuning
/ 1-904347-01-0
Author /Publisher
Christopher Lawson
The author has written this book from the standpoint that it will be read by DBAs: It should be read by everyone. Developers should not throw any garbage they can write over the cubicle wall and expect their DBA to sort things out after it is implemented in production. So there is a lot of material in here that will be new for developers and should not be, but likely is, new for many DBAs.
One part of this book we really appreciate is the fact that the book is giving advice oriented toward version 9i and beyond rather than rehashing old version 7 - 8i advice that, in many cases, is obsolete. Be sure not to miss the sections devoted to the new magic views such as V$PGA_TARGET_ADVICE.
The one thing this book is missing is DBMS_PROFILER. Hopefully the author will add this critical tuning tool to future editions.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers /
Author /Publisher
Tapio Lahdenmaki, Mike Leach /
Before I start commenting on this book, I should point out that I have been using, running, designing, or trouble-shooting Oracle database systems for most of the last 20 years - but the authors have a background in DB2.
Having said that, the difference in RDBMS really doesn't matter. If you are responsible for making databases perform well you should read this book.
It tells you why you need to create indexes - and the answer is a little more subtle than just "to make things go faster"; it tells you how to decide on the columns to include in your indexes; it tells you how to choose the best order for those columns; and it describes the compromises you make between a reasonable set of pretty good indexes and the complete set of ideal indexes
Experienced DBAs may read this book and decide that it's not telling them anything new. Even if you fall into this group, don't use that as an excuse for putting the book to one side. The clarity of explanation, the rational justification, and the numerical approximation methods supplied by this book should give you a better insight - hence greater effectiveness - into what may at present be an intuitive approach to deciding on indexing strategies.
The book gives you useful models for working out the benefit of adding, or modifying, an index in terms of how much work you do as you walk through the index and visit the table. It gives you a simple system for classifying an index with one, two, or three stars, and then offers an insight into when you may or may not, want to create the ideal index for a query.
Specifically for the Oracle practitioner, I found a few minor details that required a slight mental adjustment: the authors tend to talk about 4Kb block sizes with relatively large index entries whereas many Oracle systems tend to use 8Kb block sizes with relatively small index entries; there were points where the experienced Oracle DBA would want to think about allowing for the background workload due to UNDO and REDO; there were details where I could see some difference between DB2 and Oracle technology; and the authors also have a section discussing when to rebuild indexes (an activity generally viewed as anathema in the Oracle world).
Given the common Oracle view about index rebuilding - and my background - I feel it is important to say that the authors' arguments are perfectly sound, and I would be quite happy to follow their guidelines; but I would only expect the argument to apply to a very small percentage of the indexes in a typical Oracle (OLTP) system. This is because there was one detail that I thought needed to be raised more explicitly - despite being implicit in a large fraction of the writing - the authors' were talking about small blocks with large index entries for indexes that have been engineered so that critical queries did most of their work IN THE INDEX, making "one more random block read" a significant fraction of the total workload.
These are minor details, though, that have no impact on the general principles; at most they move the boundary line at which you decide whether the cost of any structural change is worth the benefit offered by that change.
In summary - any DBA should read this book if they need to get better performance from a badly indexed database.
~Jonathan Lewis from Amazon.com
Book Name / ISBN
Optimizing Oracle Performance
Author /Publisher
Cary Millsap & Jeff Holt
/ O'Reilly
If you want a quick checklist of what's wrong with your Oracle systems - do not buy this book.
If you want validation of your existing tuning techniques - so not buy this book.
If you want to be told what to do without thinking - do not buy this book.
If on the other hand you are fed up with received wisdom that does not work, you recognize that performance tuning is a valuable skill for your business and you wish to learn an effective scientific and repeatable approach to improving the performance of your business systems, don't just buy this book but live it. Cary and Jeff take a rigorous, scientific approach to performance tuning that is especially suited to Oracle systems and by both formal proof and real world example show that the mystery of Oracle performance is controllable by you.
The only downside comes from explaining to your boss that the thousands you spent on automated performance tools were wasted.
A word about the Math. 2/3 of the book has no math at all in it. The remainder of the book was perfectly understandable to this reader, whose academic background is Economics and Philosophy not math or computer science. Don't be put off by the idea that the book has equations, a competent High School student can follow the relevant mathematical arguments.
~ Niall Litchfield from Amazon.com
Book Name / ISBN
Cost Based Oracle Fundamentals
/ 1-59059-636-6
Author /Publisher
Jonathan Lewis /
If there is only room for a single book on your bookshelf ... DBA or Developer ... this is it.
If you are, or expect to be a DBA, and you do not have a copy of this book on your shelf you should be taken out to the woodshed. It is that simple.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook
/ 007-162-1113
Author /Publisher
Larry Carpenter
, Joseph Meeks, Charles Kim, Bill Burke, Sonya Carothers, Joydip Kundu, Michael Smith, Nitin Vengurlekar
Oracle Press
Written by Data Guard experts with years of implementation experience in addition to Oracle Data Guard Product and Development Managers, this comprehensive book approaches Data Guard from a real-life perspective, sharing industry experiences, providing comprehensive coverage on best practice configurations, day-to-day monitoring and maintenance, tips and techniques, architecture, and extensive automated scripts to enable the reader to successfully setup and manage Data Guard.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux: Installation, Administration, and Performance /
Author /Publisher
Julian Dyke and Steve Shaw /
Many books around Oracle's advanced topics simply parrot the manuals. Julian avoids that. Instead, he describes Real Application Cluster technology from the ground concepts up to full implementation, with practical notes and tips. He gets into topics that the manuals never touch, and much of what he writes can be useful in any RAC environment, not just Linux.
I whole-heartedly recommend this book and own both the paper and eBook version which I often reference.
~ Oracle ACE Director Hans Forbrich's review on Amazon.com
Book Name / ISBN
Troubleshooting Oracle Performance /
978-1-59059-917-4 90000
Author /Publisher
Christian Antognini /
Recommended by Tanel Poder as "the best Oracle performance-tuning book out there" in his Community Peer-to-Peer Interview in the January-February 2010 Oracle Magazine.
That's a good enough review for me. There will be a copy on my bookshelf in a week at the most.
~ Morgan
Book Name / ISBN
Oracle PL/SQL
/ 978-0596514464
Author /Publisher
Steven Feuerstein
and Bill Pribyl /
This is the classic text on PL/SQL updated. It is the one I used, for many years, as one of the text books for the second quarter of the PL/SQL class I taught at the University of Washington.
The reason, simply put, is that it contains indispensable advice not available from any other source.
~ Morgan
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) As many times as he gets asked, Cardinals closer Jason Motte still has no perfect answer for how St. Louis found a way to win at Washington after trailing 6-0 and advance to the NL championship series again.
``These guys just prove what big hearts they have and how much they go out there and work their butts off,'' said Motte, Friday night's winning pitcher in Game 5. ``Someone asked me last night how we keep doing it, and I said, `I don't know, maybe we're just stubborn. We just don't give up.' That's kind of how you have to be.''
The San Francisco Giants get it, all right. They've been doing it the same way.
The last two World Series winners sure are showing their championship mettle in mid-October.
St. Louis manager Mike Matheny will watch the game again, once things slow down, so he can truly appreciate just what his Cardinals accomplished in beating the Nationals - the team with baseball's best record this season.
San Francisco skipper Bruce Bochy doesn't need another look to know how impressive the reigning World Series champions' ninth-inning comeback was for a 9-7 victory in the nation's capital.
Bochy's team had its own remarkable rally that's not quite as fresh as the Cardinals' feat: Three road wins at Cincinnati to advance after dropping the first two games of the division series at home to the Reds.
They will face off in Game 1 of the NLCS on Sunday night at San Francisco's AT&T Park. Left-hander Madison Bumgarner gets the ball for the Giants against 6-foot-5 right-hander Lance Lynn.
``Both teams had their backs against the wall,'' Bochy said. ``It's impressive what the Cardinals did. And, really, if you look at the game we had and the game they had, they were similar. We were up 6-0, barely hung on, and they found a way to get it done. ... I think that says a lot about the two clubs, the character of the clubs and how hard they fight - and it should be a really hard-fought series here.''
Bumgarner, a 16-game winner this year, lost Game 2 of the NL division series here to Cincinnati. But the strong left-hander is not one to get rattled, and he gained his share of experience during the Giants' surprising run to the World Series title in 2010 - the first for the franchise since moving West in 1958.
``I felt good last time, things just didn't go my way,'' Bumgarner said. ``That's the way this game is.''
While the Giants became the eighth team to erase a 2-0 deficit to win a best-of-five series and first in major league history to do it on the road, the Cardinals earned the biggest comeback ever in a winner-take-all postseason game, according to STATS LLC.
``It really hasn't sunk in,'' Matheny said after an all-night, cross-country trip to the Bay Area. ``I see a knockdown-drag out ahead of us. I'm certain Major League Baseball has to be very pleased with the caliber of baseball that's happened so far in this postseason. And I don't see any reason why the excitement wouldn't continue. We're looking at two well-rounded teams.''
These clubs have played twice previously in the NLCS, most recently in 2002. The Barry Bonds-led Giants went on to the World Series only to fall short in the decisive Game 7 against the wild-card Angels after coming within six outs of a championship in Game 6.
Daniel Descalso hit a tying, two-out single, and Pete Kozma added a go-ahead, two-run single to lead the Cardinals' rally. Now, Descalso gets to play back home in his native Bay Area, where he grew up going to Athletics games across San Francisco Bay in Oakland.
``It was a long night for us,'' Descalso said. ``It's nice we had this day off to kind of regroup and get a little rest. But it's hard not to be excited after a game like last night, the way that game ended, and to get on a plane and fly all the way across country. We're still recovering.''
The Giants, all the while, waited out the game on their team plane still parked on the tarmac in Cincinnati. Players gathered around iPads to watch the improbable comeback by a Cardinals club managed by former Giants catcher, Matheny.
The Cardinals have won all six of their games when facing elimination the past two years, down to their final strike not once but twice against the Texas Rangers in last year's World Series before prevailing.
This time, they faced the same situation against the team with a majors-best 98 wins.
``I don't why we do it. We love the dramatics. I'd like us to not keep waiting until the last strike,'' pitcher Kyle Lohse said, ``because that's too much for my heart to handle.''
The Giants barely beat St. Louis to the West Coast after getting delayed more than three hours as their plane refueled and dealt with mechanical problems.
Initially, the plane had enough fuel to take the NL West winners to Washington. Instead, the Giants got to come home. They landed at 5:09 a.m.
``Everyone was rooting and cheering for the Cardinals because we wanted to go home,'' third baseman Pablo Sandoval said. ``I was cheering for St. Louis. I was excited to be back home. Probably almost everybody was cheering for the Cardinals. Every guy was happy to be home. Once we were in the air, I slept the whole flight.''
Yankees manager Joe Girardi fell asleep before the NL clincher ended. The last thing he remembered, the Cardinals were trailing 7-5. His television was still on, and when he opened his eyes at one point he saw the final score.
``I said, `What happened?''' he said. ``I looked at it, the game was over and I closed my eyes and went back to bed. Pretty amazing. You think about the games, and you are down 6-0 and you're able to come back. And you keep going at it. This first round was probably as good as it gets. Probably as good of baseball as we have seen when you talk about eight teams playing.''
Bochy will carry all five of his starting pitchers again this round, with Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito available out of the bullpen. Matt Cain is expected to go in Game 3, following fellow right-hander Ryan Vogelsong in Monday's Game 2.
Road weary and riding high, the Cardinals and Giants are counting on more close games and playing all 27 outs no matter who is on the mound.
``It's definitely a fun matchup,'' said Giants catcher Buster Posey, whose grand slam helped seal Game 5 against the Reds. ``These should be some fun games to watch. Both teams have good arms, good offenses. And the resiliency of both teams is the strength of both teams.''


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IOM Recommendation to Move Meat and Poultry to FDA Questioned
WASHINGTON—The Institute of Medicine today stated that the Food and Drug Administration's food safety system remains ill-equipped to meet emerging challenges, and the legal authority underlying all government inspection programs should be updated to emphasize prevention of foodborne illness. The IOM further suggested there would be benefits to creating a new focused food safety entity within the Department of Health and Human Services rather than continuing at FDA. Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Science in the Public Interest endorsed that action and today are urging President-Elect Barack Obama to act quickly to advance it.
The groups are puzzled, though, that the IOM recommended moving well-functioning U.S. Department of Agriculture programs into the dysfunctional FDA. While consumer groups and numerous members of Congress have supported consolidating all food safety functions in a single independent agency, moving meat and poultry inspection to FDA would undermine the strengths of meat and poultry inspection and overwhelm the food safety apparatus in HHS.
It is also true that Congress has consistently refused to consider moving the Food Safety and Inspection Service's inspection programs to HHS. That recommendation from the IOM is dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, and it should be, according to CSPI and CFA.
Instead, the groups urged the Obama Administration to take immediate steps to re-invigorate the federal food safety effort, reduce the risk, and restore consumer confidence in the ability of the government to assure the safety of the food supply.
The groups said that the President, within the first 100 days in office, should:
- Issue an executive order re-establishing the White House Food Safety Council to provide him an overall view of food safety needs, and direct the council to manage strategic coordination of all food safety efforts and create a long-term budget plan for food safety agencies.
- Direct the Food Safety Council to work with Congress to establish a commission made up of government officials, industry and consumer leaders, and food safety experts to develop a proposal to bring together the various federal food safety efforts into a single agency charged with protecting the public from food-related illnesses.
- Instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to combine under a single HHS official, program and budget responsibility for all HHS food safety activities. The official should be directly accountable to the Secretary and responsible for leading food safety activities at FDA, including setting preventive safety standards for all FDA-regulated foods and assuring FDA inspection activities are carried out effectively. The secretary should also direct this official to lead the effort to establish a Food Safety Administration within HHS, consisting of the food-related activities now undertaken by the FDA operating under a modernized food safety statute.
"These steps will go a long way toward putting our food safety regulatory system back on track," said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of America. "This is an opportunity for the new administration to greatly improve the safety of America's food supply."
"The safety of America's food supply has suffered from malign neglect under the Bush Administration," said Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Comprehensive food safety reform is the kind of change we need. The status quo, after all, is killing about 5,000 and sickening tens of million Americans a year."
"The President cannot alone fix the organizational problems that make Americans uncertain about the safety of our food but, by acting quickly to do what he can, he will help restore confidence that government is working to address the problems," added Carol Tucker-Foreman, distinguished fellow at CFA.


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Out There:Marginalization and Contemporary Culture
Images by Felix Gonzales-Torres Out There addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is a wide-ranging anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference, and class. It takes up the fundamental issues raised when we attempt to define concepts such as "mainstream" and "minority," and it opens up new ways of thinking about culture and representation in our society.


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Gros Ventre Wilderness
Ralph Maughan
Ralph Maughan
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Gros Ventre Wilderness (map) in 1984 and it now has a total of 285,607 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Wyoming and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionThe Gros Ventre Wilderness lies just east of Jackson in western Wyoming. The name "Gros Ventre" is French, meaning "big belly". It is roughly bounded by the Gros Ventre River to the north, the Green River to the east, the Hoback River to the south and the National Elk Refuge and Snake River to the west. The Gros Ventre Wilderness lies within the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, an area internationally known for its wildlands, wildlife, geological features, scenic beauty, and recreation opportunities. Key values leading to this area's designation are: ** Its outstanding habitat for important big game species including bighorn sheep, elk, deer, and black bear. Olaus Murie identified the Gros Ventre as essential calving ground for the Jackson Hole elk herd. Wolves, grizzly bears, mountain lions, and bison also call this wilderness home. ** Its spectacular geological features including a collage of colorful rocks and one of the largest concentrations of landslides. ** Its location between the Wind River Range and the National Elk Refuge and Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks provides important connections for wildlife. ** Its watershed values ** It is considered to be an excellent area for hunting, outfitting, and backpacking. When the sun sets in Jackson Hole, the last mountaintop to hold the dying alpenglow is the Sleeping Indian. The Indian is lying on his back and wearing a full warbonnet, effectively hiding from view the wild canyons and plateaus of the Gros Ventre Wilderness. The Gros Ventre is a landscape of contrasts - from big, lush meadows to steep pinnacles of limestone. The highest peak in Doubletop at 11,682 feet. Spectacular views of the Teton Range can be seen for virtually any high points. The Wilderness contains the headwaters of the Gros Ventre River as well as Granite Creek which is a major tributary to the Hoback River. The uplift which created the Gros Ventre Range began 50 million years ago. Folds and faults have produced a mountain range which is an asymmetrical arch, broken by faults. Its exposed strata are a bonanza for geologists. Evidence of landslides is abundant. In 1925, a landslide carried 50 million cubic yards of debris down Sheep Mountain forming a dam and creating Lower Slide Lake. Two years later a flood washed out part of this natural dam, destroying the town of Kelly. The slide area is now a National Geological Area within the Wilderness. A diverse variety of plant communities are found in the Gros Ventre. All have been shaped by past fire occurrence. Meadows range from wet sedge types to the drier grass and forb types. Forested stands range from those dominated by aspen, Douglas fir, or lodgepole pine to the higher elevation spruce-fir or whitebark pine communities. Alpine tundra extends from the upper limit of trees to the tops of the mountains. There is 10,000 years of human history and evidence of past uses can still be found in the wilderness including vision sites and wickiups. Each spring, small bands of Indians moved into Jackson Hole and hunted game in the mountains during the summer. In the 1800s, human uses continued to revolve around hunting game. Old cabins in the area are related to the fur trapper or "elk tuck" era. Hunting is also the basis for a long history of outfitting. Human livelihood is also evident in range cabins, drift fences and other structures associated with cattle and sheep grazing. Today, recreation is the dominant human use with the wilderness offering approximately 250 miles of trails to explore. "Outclassed by the visually more impressive Tetons, some 287 million years their junior, the rounded peaks, immensely gently sloping canyons, steep draws and gullies, and thick forest of the Gros Ventres convey a sense of age, a primeval quality" Jackson Hole Guide, August 7th, 1980.
Planning to Visit the Gros Ventre Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Gros Ventre Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
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Watch Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) : Online Full Movie Free HD-Rip 720P It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.You can conveniently watch Online Free Full movies on your desktop or laptop computer as long as your machine has a DVD-ROM drive or burner. Windows Media Player is a multimedia program included with Windows operating systems that allows you to play DVDs. The Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 8 / 10 Or System Operation Other Media Center Edition includes Windows Media Center, Download which is advanced home entertainment software. It plays Download Movie online free and provides full access to the Free DVD 1080PX Or 720PX Full HD. menu and features, it's time for you to sit back, relax, grab a can or cola or some snacks, and get the very feel of Hollywood, BollyWood, Boxffice or other in your own room. favorite Movies destination. The Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) is a source of industry information for insiders as well as film reviews, showtimes and movie trailers for the general public. Check their website for a list of current showings with descriptions. If you're feeling particularly daring, you can even use their little-known advanced search feature. There, you can search their complete catalog of past and present movies by plot, filming locations and even quotes. You can even find fun facts and trivia about your favorite actors, such as their zodiac sign, birthplace, birthday and awards and nominations.


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Debate continues on line between property rights and freedom of information
- August 31, 2012
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The United States usually likes to wear the white hat when humanitarian concerns are at issue, but this summer it was cast in the unwanted role of bad guy when it shot down a treaty that has been billed as a boon for the blind.
The treaty, which was being negotiated in Geneva under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization, would have required copyrighted material to be made available for conversion to a format accessible to the visually impaired, many of whom live in Third World poverty. American publishers, however, maintained the treaty would set a precedent for infringement of property rights. The U.S. government sided with that position and refused to be a signatory to the treaty.
That decision, like the whole debate about property rights versus freedom of information and the public interest, immediately was framed in ideological terms, with one disabilities advocate calling the perpetuation of the blind's lack of access to copyrighted materials a "book famine."
It is "the property maximalists versus the Utopians," says Christopher Sprigman, a professor of intellectual property and antitrust law at the University of Virginia. And, he adds, "It's an unproductive battle."
How unproductive was demonstrated on Capitol Hill earlier this year. A Senate bill, Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), proposed giving the U.S. government and copyright holders new legal weapons to battle websites — especially foreign ones — that infringe on legitimate property. A House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), would have allowed the United States to go after advertising networks, payment organizations, search engines and service providers that did business with infringing sites. SOPA was cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-6th District), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet. "We have got to find new ways to cut off the money and cut off the access to these criminal sites," he told the Roanoke Times earlier this year.
Sprigman's "property maximalists" supported the legislation. They included organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America and Major League Baseball and companies such as Nike, Nintendo, and Pfizer, all of which have products that are popular targets for pirates and counterfeiters.
"Utopian" opponents to the bills included Facebook, eBay, and AOL, which cited concerns about censorship. "Copyright and IP [intellectual property laws] are one method for monetizing creativity," says Parker Higgins, an activist with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, "but they shouldn't prop up one method at the expense of freedom of speech."
On Jan. 18, Google and Wikipedia and about 7,000 other anti-SOPA websites went dark in protest of the bill. Google also collected millions of anti-SOPA signatures and organized boycotts of companies that backed the legislation.
The upshot? PIPA and SOPA went nowhere, and the debate rages on.
Of course, many U.S. laws already are on the books to protect intellectual property against both "piracy," which means making an exact copy of a protected product or service, and "infringement," which is an attempt to pass off a copy of a protected property as genuine. Jonathan Hudis, a partner in the trademark and copyright group of the Alexandria law firm of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, explains that patent laws protect inventions, trademark laws protect services and products, copyright laws protect authorship, and trade secret laws protect business advantages.
The problem is that since the digital revolution, theft has become so easy, Hudis says. Once upon a time, a pirate would have to make a physical copy of a movie or a music album. Now, a pirate can have an unauthorized digital copy for sale around the world in seconds. According to Steven Tepp of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, rogue websites that feature illegal products receive 53 billion visits a year and cause $135 billion in economic hardship for legitimate businesses.
Hudis characterizes "the PayPals, Visas, and MasterCards of the world" as "enablers of foreign infringements." The tabled bills, he says, would have been an attempt to "turn off the financial engine so no profit would be left."
But Arlington-based Rosetta Stone is not waiting for Congress to act. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond recently agreed to hear the language-learning company's previously rejected trademark-infringement suit against Google. Rosetta Stone, which also has operations in Harrisonburg (part of Goodlatte's district), says that Google sells its trademarked phrases, including "Rosetta Stone" and "language library," to companies that illegally copy or infringe upon its software. When Google consumers search on those trademarked words, links to rogue sites come up. In June, Google filed a motion in federal court in Alexandria to have the complaint dismissed.
Michael Wu, general counsel and corporate secretary for Rosetta Stone, says that rogue sites, primarily based in China, Russia and Southeast Asia, mimic the look of the legitimate site, making it tough for consumers to distinguish the genuine from the fake. The prices of the knockoff products also are high enough to "be within reason," he says. A tipoff on the illegitimacy of one site? Wu says the message on its home page said, "Welcom." Another tipoff, even though the logo, the packaging and even the product manuals can be almost identical to the real thing, is that all genuine Rosetta Stone products are made in Virginia.
Rosetta Stone is not a large company, Wu says. It has about 1,800 employees, but it has to employ three full-time investigators just to monitor and scan for illegal sites. If Google and other search engines would only "do the right thing and self-police," he says, "that would go a long way."
But Sprigman doubts that more policing, whether voluntary or enforced, is the ultimate answer. "The idea that IP law will prevent all copying is absurd," he says. More controversial, however, is his theory that the protection of intellectual property is not necessary in all fields of endeavor. In a soon-to-be-released book, "The Knockoff Economy," he and co-author Kal Raustiala , a UCLA law professor, argue that imitation sometimes can increase innovation rather than threaten it.
The fashion industry, for example, is rife with fake designer duds, but cheap copies of haute couture actually have added to the cachet and popularity of the genuine products of top designers, the professors say. Football, cuisine, and the financial sector are other sectors that they cite as arenas in which imitation and innovation comfortably coexist.
And even when they coexist uncomfortably, as in the music business, Sprigman believes that may not be a bad thing. Yes, music labels are feeling the pain of having lost control over the dissemination of their copyrighted material, but where once the music business was dominated by "a few mega stars and a lot of broke nobodies," he says, "now many more artists have a chance to carve out a living."
Obviously, Sprigman's laissez-faire approach falls into a gray area in a landscape of black and white in which even the blind become political footballs. But until more nuanced views are admitted to the discussion of intellectual property rights, expect to see more litigation than legislation dominating the headlines.


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It's been 4 years now since I shared on my blog the perilous substance known as Killer Crack Peanut Butter Fudge. I've been strong and resisted the temptation to make it for quite a while now, but I've gotten some terrific comments from readers who have. My favorite was this:
This is the fudge my husband rebukes, the way any good evangelical man rebukes sin, fearing and secretly lusting after it. He literally carries plates of this stuff to the neighbors so that it will not dwell under his roof, or on his waist. And yet I keep making it. The making AND the rebuking; a weird holiday tradition now.
Yes, I am all about holiday traditions and keeping it festive for my readers. With that goal in mind, I present to you my latest concoction, Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Crack. This is the evil cousin of the Killer Crack Peanut Butter Fudge. It's pretty simple to make, and yet it's irresistible. And once you've tried it, you are helpless; you simply must go back for more. And more. And....well, you get the picture.
I've made it three times now. The first time was just playing around with the idea, the second time was refining it and the third time was because the second pan went so fast I didn't take any pictures! And the third pan has been cut up and put into containers to be given away because I don't want my family to be in such a carb coma that they can't open presents on Christmas. But I'd better get those containers out the door quickly, or else certain unnamed family members might "accidentally" happen to pry open a container (even if it's already in a sealed box ready to be mailed) and "accidentally" fall face first into it. Not pointing fingers or naming names. I don't want to spoil Christmas. I'm just saying it's a possibility.
If you're looking for the ultimate last minute gift, the perfect hostess present, or just a decadent treat for your co-workers or yourself, this is it. Go buy some pretzels, cream, and chocolate and in a couple of hours (you can wait for the chocolate to set up, can't you?) you can be in serious salty-sweet heaven.
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8 oz. pretzels
1 cup heavy cream
5 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup water
1-1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1 lb. good milk chocolate, chopped
Sea salt (Fleur de Sel or Maldon Sea Salt are good choices)
1- Line a jelly roll pan (10-1/2 x 15-1/2-inches) with parchment paper and butter the paper. (Mine is a seasoned stoneware pan, so I skipped the parchment paper.)
2- Spread the pretzels in an even layer in the pan. Break up a few pretzels to fill in gaps as needed.
3- In a small saucepan combine the cream, butter, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat and remove from the heat. Set it aside.
4- In a large saucepan combine the water, sugar, and corn syrup. Stir gently just to combine. Be careful to not splash the sugar crystals up onto the sides of the pan. Cover the pan and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. The steam from the simmering will help to wash any errant sugar crystals from the sides of the pan.
5- When the sugar is dissolved, remove the lid from the pan. Continue simmering until the liquid turns a golden caramel color. If your liquid is getting dark in one area and not in another, DO NOT STIR. You can pick up the pan and gently shake it side to side the even out the color.
6- When the liquid is golden caramel color, add the cream mixture and stir. The mixture will bubble up, so be careful. Simmer and stir with a clean wooden spoon until a candy thermometer in the mixture reaches 248 deg. F, approximately 15 min.
7- Pour the caramel over the pretzels evenly.
8- After the caramel has set, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. For a prettier presentation, you can temper the chocolate. (I was attempting to temper the chocolate, but got distracted, so it didn't go well, hence the artistic swirliness of the chocolate. If that happens to you, don't worry. People will think you went to an extra effort to get those swirls, so if they compliment you, just say thank you.)
9 - Spread the melted chocolate evenly over the caramel layer.
10- Sprinkle sea salt sparsely over the top of the chocolate layer.
11- When the chocolate has set up but not hardened, use a pizza cutter or a knife to cut it into squares.


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Oakland officer videotapes his killing of suspect
OAKLAND Now there are questions about letting him see it
In a Bay Area first, a fatal shooting by police in East Oakland was captured on video - not by a bystander with a camcorder or a smart phone but by the officer himself, who wore a city-issued camera on his chest.
Oakland police officials will not say what the footage from Sept. 25 depicts, citing an ongoing investigation. But the fact that the shooting was captured at all illustrates a profound change in law enforcement, with officers increasingly strapping on cameras along with their guns, radios and handcuffs.
The incident is already raising thorny questions, principally this: When an officer films his own killing of a suspect, should that officer be allowed to review the footage before making a statement to investigators?
Then there's this: In the weeks and months ahead, will the video be made available to the public or the media?
The shooting happened shortly before 5 p.m. on the 9900 block of Cherry Street. Police officials said the trouble began when two officers, who have not been identified, pulled over a car for an unspecified violation, only to watch the passenger flee on foot.
One officer caught the suspect, who had a gun and drugs, and shot him during a struggle, police said. The department has refused to identify the man, and the Alameda County coroner will not give his name without police permission.
At some point, the officer had turned on the camera, which is about the size of a pager and was clipped to his chest, by sliding down a lens cover.
"The officer was threatened with a loaded gun. He feared for his life," said the officer's attorney, Terry Leoni, who has not seen the footage. She said the officer's partner did not witness the shooting.
As in all officer-involved shootings in Oakland, this one is being investigated by city homicide detectives, internal affairs investigators and the district attorney's office. But the case quickly proved to be unusual.
Barred from viewing
After the shooting, neither the officer nor his partner was allowed to view the footage from the camera before speaking to investigators, said sources familiar with the matter.
That led to a dispute, the sources said, over whether the department followed policies adopted after the city bought 350 wearable cameras late last year from Vievu of Seattle for $540,000.
Oakland patrol officers who were given cameras are expected to record all of their stops and arrests. In typical situations, they are allowed to watch their footage, but only after filing an initial report, said Officer Johnna Watson, a department spokeswoman.
The policy does not specifically say what should happen after an officer-involved shooting, Watson said. However, she said, officials ultimately decided the officers in the Sept. 25 shooting should have been able to view the video first.
"This is the most serious situation you can face in law enforcement," Watson said. "Why would we want to give cameras to our officers and then tell them we're not going to let you see what you've just done?
"This is not a tool to work against us," she said, "but a tool to help us, to bring clarity to what happened in a situation." She added, "You can't change the facts of a video."
Opposing access
Police watchdogs were surprised to hear of Oakland's position - that the officers should have been allowed to view the video first - saying it seemed to violate basic investigatory principals.
John Burris, an Oakland attorney who specializes in police misconduct cases and supports use of the body cameras, said officers who shoot suspects should not have access to such a video.
"Absolutely not," Burris said. "I think it's contrary to the importance of the video. If you view the video beforehand, you have an opportunity to change your story to match the video."
Michael Risher, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney in San Francisco, said, "In any investigation, it is not a good practice to show a tape to a witness before an interview. ... I think any police officer will tell you that."
Viewing the tape
Such a viewing not only gives a witness a chance to fabricate, Risher said, but also "creates a substantial chance that the witness will disregard, or simply fail to report, things that don't show up on the tape. Seeing the tape affects their memory."
The debate, while unique, is not without precedent. In some cities, police unions have negotiated for officers to be given the right to review evidence, including surveillance footage and dispatch logs, before making a statement about a shooting.
Leoni, the Oakland officer's attorney, declined to discuss the dispute. But she said that, in general, "it's hard to have a hard-and-fast rule in terms of these videos. Every situation and every officer is very different."
Shootings are "always a very emotional thing for the officers," Leoni said. "At times, some officers are better able to deal with that than others, and better able to recall the events."
Risher said that the video is unquestionably a public record, but that police may claim an exemption that protects records that are part of an active investigation. The privacy interests of the dead man's family may also be a factor, he said, if the footage is graphic.
Providing evidence
Vievu says more than 1,100 agencies across the country are using its chest cameras. The devices are used to record incidents such as traffic stops, sobriety tests, arrests and interviews, and do not allow officers to view or erase footage while in the field.
Police commanders in Bay Area cities that have bought the cameras - including Brentwood, Campbell and Union City - say the devices gather valuable evidence while providing a video record that can clear an officer if misconduct allegations arise.
Police watchdogs also like the cameras as a tool for accountability, but say departments must adopt strict policies governing when officers should turn on the cameras, how footage must be stored, and who has access to it.
Heidi Traverso, director of business development at Vievu, said the Oakland police shooting is the second known to have been recorded by a chest camera.
In June, an officer in Page, Ariz., had his Vievu camera rolling when he fatally shot a 50-year-old domestic violence suspect during a struggle. The officer was cleared of wrongdoing.
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The financially troubled Edgar Allan Poe House got a lifeline from the city of Baltimore this week, raising hope that the now-closed historic site can be saved. The city agreed to pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to develop a plan for the home/museum to become a self-sufficient tourist attraction.
The Baltimore Sun's Chris Kaltenbach wrote: "The overriding idea is to turn the Poe House into a draw that will not only see increased attendance, which has fluctuated between 3,000 and 5,000 annually, but also make Baltimore a destination for Poe enthusiasts. It also envisions an annual operating budget of between $200,000 and $300,000 — substantially more than the $85,000 the city had been spending annually on the Poe House.
"'For years, Baltimore has celebrated its connection with Edgar Allan Poe in many ways, and the Poe House played an important role," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement. "This agreement will set the Poe House on a new course toward self-sufficiency and growth as one of Baltimore's premier cultural attractions.'
"The plan calls for B&O officials to spend a year working with members of the newly formed nonprofit Poe Baltimore. It envisions an expanded website, logo, promotional brochures and orientation videos, as well as some joint operation of the two West Baltimore museums.
"After a year, Poe Baltimore would assume full responsibility for operating and funding the house. The house closed Friday after 33 years of being operated by the city. Poe Baltimore and city officials have said they hope to have the house ready for a spring reopening."
According to the Poe Society of Baltimore, late in 1832 or early in 1833, Maria Clemm moved from East Baltimore to the countryside, and her household included her mother, daughter Virginia Eliza Clemm and nephew Edgar Allan Poe. In late 1835, he moved to Richmond to edit the Southern Literary Messenger.
As the rescue plan moves forward, Baltimore's Center Stage is staging "The Completely Fictional, Utterly True, Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe," this month. Here's how the theater describes the show:"Hometown favorite Bruce Nelson stars in this tale of the morbid life and mysterious final days of Baltimore's treasured emblem of oddness, E.A. Poe. By turns a madcap vaudeville and a touching examination of artistic aspiration, this new script playfully and poignantly adds up the sum of a life lived."


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AMAZING Time-Lapse Video Shows Woman's TWO-YEAR Weight Loss
Losing weight can be one of the most difficult things to do.
New Zealander Simone Anderson, 24, has just done that and has decided to share her two-year journey online.
It starts with the video showing Simone on August 29, 2014, where she weighed 169kg to the result of 77kg.
Anderson has been very open about her journey, including any surgery she underwent.
On her Facebook page, she talks about several surgeries which she had, which were to remove the loose skin on her stomach.
She says ''I have always struggled with my weight and have often resorted to easy fix diets where I would lose a lot of weight, but as quickly as I lost it I would gain it back and more…making this a public journey will aid so much in motivating me and keeping me accountable for my actions.
Week 96 Update From 169kg (372 pounds) to 77kg (169 pounds) - a total loss of 92kg (202 pounds) - I'm 181cm tall (5"11). For the who are seeing my journey for the first time this is over the course of just over one year and eight months, I began my journey on August 29th 2014 then had Gastric Sleeve Surgery on October 29th 2014 - I have completely changed my lifestyle, diet and exercise. I am forty one weeks post opp abdominoplasty, bra line backlift, breast lift & augmentation by @drrepta_plasticsurgery (so basically most of my lose skin has been removed apart from that on my upper thighs and bottom). For those that will ask workout gear is from @ipanemagirlnz and shoes are @nikewomen
I don't have a specific diet plan or one way of eating… I eat all types of food and try and mix it up so I don't get bored. I don't eat junk food, and I try and stay away from too much-processed sugar. The rest is just common sense everything in moderation etc.''
Regarding exercise, she says there are two hours a day which includes ''three sports; netball, basketball and water polo. I do classes at the gym... have one personal training session each week as well a boot camp once a week.''
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January 8, 2014
Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, recognizes individuals, organizations, and agencies that have made a difference in recovering abducted children and protecting children from exploitation. The awardees are recognized at the annual National Missing Children's Day ceremony in Washington, DC. Nominations are being accepted for the 2014 Law Enforcement, Citizen, Child Protection, and Attorney General's Special Commendation awards. Nomination forms are available on each category's Web page.
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A user "Marketing Services" (firstname.lastname@example.com) was added to a list permission about 4 weeks ago. The department decided to change the name to "Marketing Support" and AD was updated (3 weeks ago). Now I go back to the same list and delete the "Marketing Services" and do a user search for "marketing" or email@example.com and it still showing the old name "Marketing Services" and "Marketing Support" does not show up in the list. By the way, this account is never imported into user profile db.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Satirist Stephen Colbert has begun a campaign to be named successor to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who is retiring from the Senate to lead the Heritage Foundation.
During Thursday's edition of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," Colbert announced his efforts to get South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, to name him to fill DeMint's unexpired term in January.
On his Twitter page, Colbert -- who grew up in Charleston, S.C. -- urged followers to "tweet @nikkihaley & tell her why I belong in the US Senate. For one, I wouldn't just block legislation, I'd body-check it! #SenatorColbert."
Another post read: "Nation! Tell @nikkihaley why I should take over for Jim DeMint! #SenatorColbert Could our Better Tomorrow be... Tomorrow?," a play on his now-closed super PAC "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow."
Haley responded on her Twitter page, saying, "Stephen, thank you for your interest in South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat."
Posters on the SenatorColbert Twitter page urged Haley to appoint the comedian and author as DeMint's successor.
"I mean, things can't get any worse than they already are," one poster said. "Besides, this might be hilarious."
U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., made a successful transition from comedy to Congress, albeit in a more conventional fashion. The former "Saturday Night Live" writer and bestselling author challenged Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and won the seat after Coleman lost a lengthy court challenge over the results.


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Telltale's The Wolf Among Us Has a Release Date
The wait for Telltale's next episodic adventure game will be over sooner than we thought. The Wolf Among Us is slated to arrive on all platforms this week.
Telltale broke the news on IGN, where it was revealed The Wolf Among Us - Episode 1: Faith would arrive on Oct. 11 for the Xbox 360, PC and Mac. The PlayStation 3 version is expected to follow just a few days later, but doesn't have an exact time just yet.
Based on the Vertigo comic Fables, The Wolf Among Us puts players in the role of Bigby Wolf. The story in Telltale's game takes place before the comic book begins, which makes it easily accessible to newcomers, though longtime fans of the Bill Willingham-penned story something to be excited about as The Wolf Among Us will cover territory never before seen in the monthly book.
This first episode will cost $4.99, though a season pass will be offered for $14.99, which gives access to episodes 2-5 at a discounted price. Telltale hasn't given specifics on the release dates for the remainder of The Wolf Among Us, but if the developer sticks to its Walking Dead release plan, you can expect about one episode a month for the next five months.


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Drivers in a Hurry.
Drivers may feel your commercial vehicle is preventing them from getting where they want to goon time. Such drivers may pass you without a safe
gap in the oncoming traffic
, cutting too close in front of you. Drivers entering the road may pull in front of you in order to
avoid being stuck behind you
, causing you to brake. Be aware of this and watch for drivers who are in a hurry.
Impaired Drivers.
who are sleepy
have had too much to drink
are on drugs
, or who are ill are hazards. Some clues to these drivers are Weaving across the road or drifting from one side to another. Leaving the road (dropping
right wheels onto the shoulder
, or bumping across a curb in a turn. Stopping at the wrong time (stopping
at a green light
, or waiting for too long at a stop. Open window in cold weather. Speeding up or slowing down suddenly, driving too fast or too slow. Be alert for drunk drivers and sleepy drivers late at night.
Table of contents
Who needs a commercial driver license?
Commercial learner permit (clp)
Farm-related service industry (frsi) waiver
General requirements
Commercial driver license (cdl)
Safety inspection
Texas drivers applying fora
Others applying fora commercial driver license
Are the tests difficult?
Section 1 introduction
Figure 1.1 note:
School bust test
What sections should you study?
Interstate non-excepted
Intrastate non-excepted
Section 1 - introduction
The irp registrant and the ifta licensee may
Figure 1 – individual vehicle mileage & fuel record (example)
Vehicle inspection.
Section 2 – driving safely
Figure 2.1suspension system defects.
Exhaust system defects.
Approaching the vehicle.
Step 2: check engine compartment
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Look at the gauges
Check condition of controls.
Left front side
Step 6: check signal lights
Step 7: start the engine and check
Test service brake stopping action
Safety inspection.
Back slowly.
Knowing when to shift up.
Basic procedures for shifting down
Before starting down a hill.
Subsections 2.2 and 2.3
Importance of looking far enough ahead.
Look for traffic.
Mirror adjustment.
Check your vehicle.
Lane changes.
Stopping on the road
Don't direct traffic.
When it's hard to see.
Reaction distance
The effect of vehicle weight on stopping
Just after rain begins
Figure 2.12 2.7.2 – space behind
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Staying centered in a lane.
Strong winds.
Seeing hazards lets you be prepared.
Learning to see hazards.
Work zones.
Foreign objects.
Off ramps/on ramps.
Delivery trucks can present a hazard.
Pedestrians and bicyclists can also be
Slow drivers.
Driver body movement as a clue.
Subsections 2.7 and 2.8
Subsections 2.9 and 2.10
Fatigue and lack of alertness.
Warning signs of fatigue
Maintaining alertness while driving
Poor lighting.
Drunk drivers.
Other lights.
Avoid blinding others.
Use high beams when you can.
Wipers and washers.
Lights and reflectors.
Radiator shutters and winterfront.
Slippery surfaces.
Adjust space to conditions.
Engine oil.
Engine belts.
Go slowly enough to prevent overheating.
Passive crossings.
Advance warning signs.
Cross-buck signs.
Don't rely on signals.
Subsections 2.15 and 2.16
Keep both hands on the steering wheel.
Where to steer.
Leaving the road.
Returning to the road.
Controlled braking.
Find an escape route.
Respond to tire failure.
Check the tires.
Abs won't allow you to drive faster
Abs won't change the way you normally
Figure 2.19
Follow safe procedures.
Pull off the road.
Extinguish the fire.
Class/type of fires
Figure 2.21 section 2 – driving safely
How alcohol works.
What determines
How alcohol affects driving.
What is a drink
Effects of increasing
To communicate the risk.
Figure 2.24 2.23.3 – lists of regulated products
Subsections 2.22 and 2.23
Figure 3.2 section 3 - transporting cargo safely
Section 3 test your knowledge
Section 3 - transporting cargo safely
Figure 4.1 4.2.2 – forbidden hazardous materials
Section 4 - transporting passengers safely
The most common bus accidents.
Stop at drawbridges.
Section 4 test your knowledge
Figure 5.1 section 5 – air brakes
S-cam brakes.
Figure 5.2 wedge brakes.
Modulating control valves.
Figure 5.3 5.1.16 – antilock braking systems (abs)
Section 5 – air brakes
Check brake drums
Test low pressure warning signal.
Check rate of air pressure buildup.
Test air leakage rate.
Check air compressor governor cut-in and
Test parking brake.
Section 6 - combination vehicles
Figure 6.3 figure 6.4
Subsection 6.1
Emergency air-line.
Figure 6.6 section 6 - combination vehicles
Subsection 6.2
Figure 6.7 6.3.2 – braking with abs
Step 5. secure tractor
Step 8. supply air to trailer
Step 9. lock trailer brakes
Step 12. secure vehicle
Step 14. connect the electrical cord and check
Step 16. remove trailer wheel chocks
Step 3. chock trailer wheels
Step 5. disconnect airlines and electrical
Test tractor protection valve.
Test trailer emergency brakes.
Subsection 6.5
Section 7 - doubles and triples
Connect converter dolly to front trailer
Uncouple rear trailer
Uncouple triple-trailer rig
Coupling system areas
Double and triple trailers
Section 7 test your knowledge
Figure 8.1 8.2.1 – high center of gravity
Section 8 - tank vehicles
Section 9 - hazardous material
Transportation—who does what
Hazardous materials class
Examples of hazmat placards
The hazardous materials table.
Appendix b to 49 cfr 172.101 – list of marine
Special instructions:
Placard table 2
Figure 9.8 section 9 - hazardous material
Subsections 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3
No smoking.
Use closed cargo space.
Class 4 (flammable solids) and class 5
Class 8 (corrosive) materials.
Class 2 (compressed gases) including
Class 7 (radioactive) materials.
Do not load table
Figure 9.9 mixed loads.
Subsection 9.5
Emergencies 9.7.1 – emergency response guidebook
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Class 1 (explosives).
Class 7 (radioactive materials).
National response center
Figure 9.10 classes of hazardous materials
Figure 9.11 subsections 9.6 and 9.7
Radioactive separation
Division – a subdivision of a hazard class. epa
Gross weight or gross mass
Hazardous substance
Limited quantity
Outage or ullage
Proper shipping name
Section 10 – school buses
Additional procedures for students that must
Dropped or forgotten objects.
Handrail hang-ups.
Determine need to evacuate bus.
Mandatory evacuations.
Active crossings.
Figure 10.5
Figure 10.7 flashing red light signals.
Approaching the crossing
Crossing the track
Police officer at the crossing.
Containment or storage areas.
Power steering fluid
Oil pressure gauge
Lights/reflectors/reflector tape condition
Horn check that air horn and/or electric horn work. heater/defroster
Section 11 - vehicle inspection
Steering box/hoses
Shock absorbers
Hub oil seals/axle seals
Splash guards
Hitch release lever
Locking pins (fifth wheel)
Tongue storage area
Landing gear
Emergency exits
Level/air leaks
Remainder of vehicle
Outside vehicle observations (looks)
Final position
Figure 12.2: offset back/right
Section 13 – on-road driving
Special permits.
Two way roadway
Lighting and reflectors.
Divided highway
Implements of husbandry.
Dard vehicle size requirements
School buses, recreational vehicles, and others
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Days away from the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, it's not just the world's elite athletes vying for position. The country's increasingly stable economy is gaining the attention of Southeast Michigan's automotive industry.Rainer Jueckstock, co-CEO of Federal-Mogul Corp., said the Southfield-based brake and piston supplier believes Russia has a solid long-term future for suppliers.
Suppliers consider expansion, investment in Russia
Russia is "a rich country with oil and gas resources, which is growing its middle class," Jueckstock said. "It's the largest country in the world with the need for more roads; there's no doubt that Russia will develop."Automakers and suppliers are making efforts to expand in Russia, but with measured caution as political uncertainty and corruption continue to plague its budding economy. Federal-Mogul operates piston plants in Naberezhnye Chelny and Togliatti, and entered an agreement to acquire Dimitrovgrad-based supplier DZV Bearings Co. in December. It employs roughly 750 in Russia. The supplier also operates a sales and administration office and is opening a warehouse soon, Jueckstock said. Jueckstock's enthusiasm for the Russian market is backed by analyst expectations. The Russian automotive market is predicted to overtake Germany as the largest market in Europe by 2020, according to a 2013 study by Boston Consulting Group.The firm forecasts that Russia's auto market will grow by an average of 6 percent annually through 2020, reaching 4.4 million units in sales, up from 2.9 million in 2012. Small four-door sedans and sport-utility vehicles are the most popular choices for Russian buyers. However, the Russian economy sputtered in 2013, leading to a 6 percent drop in new vehicle sales, according to a recent report by the Association of European Businesses.
Rick Hanna, global automotive leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Detroit, said a major driver of U.S.-based supplier growth in Russia is incentives.The government said last month that it would offer $8 billion in subsidies through 2016 for research and development to boost its domestic industry, Reuters reported. Of the 2.9 million cars sold in Russia in 2012, nearly 2 million of them were imported. Even more dismal is the Russian supply base; only 25 percent of parts of Russian cars are produced inside the country, Automotive News Europe reported. That figure, however, is expected to rise to 30 percent to 35 percent in the next 18 to 24 months, BCG analyst Nikolaus Lang said in an interview with ANE. "A global trend is for automakers to build cars where they sell them, and Russia is no different," Hanna said. "The Russian government is providing incentives to get content built in Russia, which is attracting the supply base ... ." Bill Kozyra, chairman and CEO of Auburn Hills-based TI Automotive Inc., called Russia a long-term market, but customers are asking the fuel systems supplier to invest and expand in the country.
TI Automotive operates a plant in St. Petersburg that supplies systems to Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG."The fact that we currently have facilities in Russia has been advantageous, because some of our competitors do not." Kozyra said in an email to Crain's. "It's a market we are watching closely, as with the other BRIC nations." The BRIC nations are Brazil, Russia, India and China.Van Buren Township-based Visteon Corp. strengthened its position in Russia in October when it increased its stake to 69 percent from 49 percent in its interior electronics joint venture with Russia's Avtopribor. It made Visteon a majority shareholder in one of Russia's largest cockpit electronics suppliers, Automotive News Europe reported.Livonia-based safety system supplier TRW Automotive Inc. is also interested in the market, but reluctant to put on a full rush into Russia. "We have no reason not to support manufacturing in Russia," Peter Lake, TRW executive vice president of sales and business development, told Automotive News Europe. "It's just a question of time."Hanna said suppliers are capitalizing on Russia's skilled labor workforce and high education rates. But the industry is approaching the market with caution due to political unrest and a renowned history of corruption, said Betsy Meter, partner and automotive audit leader for KPMG LLP in Detroit."There's reluctance from the industry because of the way Russia does business, which is not like Western Europe or the U.S.," Meter said. "Most suppliers are at least looking at moving into Russia, but they want to invest wisely." Russia's recent and well-documented corruption scandal involved the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky, an attorney for British hedge fund manager Bill Browder. Russian officials arrested and detained Magnitsky in 2008 following his complaints about corruption between Moscow energy companies OAO Gazprom and Surgutneftegas and government officials as well as an alleged $230 million tax fraud ring. Magnitsky died after 358 days in prison. A United Nations human rights group later determined he was severely beaten moments before his death, the Washington Post reported in 2011. Transparency International, an organization that measures perceptions of corruption worldwide, ranked Russia 127th out of 177 countries on its Corruption Perception Index in 2013.However, the Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, is moving to thwart corruption, Hanna said. In 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Anti-Bribery Convention. The organization works to reduce corruption by promoting policies with international governments. "The question remains whether you can trust the Russian government and court system to protect your business, but confidence is growing," Hanna said. "Putin has been in power for some time and seems to be consolidating laws and working hard to address corruption to attract foreign investment." Dustin Walsh: (313) 446-6042, [email protected]. Twitter: @dustinpwalsh
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Investing in disaster risk reduction saves lives and livelihoods
While many factors determine the impact of an earthquake, the difference between the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile is stark. The Chilean earthquake was one of the ten most powerful earthquakes recorded in the last century . It released 500 times more energy than the earthquake that struck Haiti in January. Yet, less than 1,000 people are thought to have died in Chile, in comparison to the over 300,000 people who lost their lives in Haiti.
Despite the differences, both earthquakes show us how important it is to reduce the risk of disasters. At the World Food Programme, disaster risk reduction is an integral part of what we do. We focus on two main tasks: (i) strengthening the capacities of governments to prepare for, assess, and respond to hunger arising from disasters; and (ii) assisting communities to build resilience to shocks.
Key links
- Disaster Risk Reduction (WFP's policy)
- Being ready (WFP's Emergency preparedness work)
- Early warning system (WFP's approach in Central America)
- Lessons learned from earthquakes (Report by the Overseas Development Institute's Humanitarian Practice Network)
- "Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't" (AP article)
Six quakes
Chile has experienced at least 6 major earthquakes resulting in severe damage over the last 100 years, including the biggest earthquake every recorded. In 1960, an earthquake registering 9.5 on the Richter scale caused massive damage in Chile and sent a tsunami all the way to Japan. Since then, Chile has enforced strict building codes, reinforced its emergency preparedness systems, taught earthquake awareness in schools, and as a result has greatly reduced potential of earthquakes – a natural hazard – to become natural disasters.
In contrast, the last severe earthquake to strike Haiti occurred in 1887. As Professor Roger Bilham, one of the first seismologists to visit Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake points out, there is now a significant risk of a second major earthquake along the fault that runs through Haiti. Read article in Nature
Respond better
The prospect of a second major earthquake in the coming months, years, or decades, in Haiti should act as a call to all of us to help the people and government of Haiti ensure that both buildings and communities are more resilient when the next earthquake hits and that the government and its institutions better able to respond.
Professor Bilham also points out the growing risk of earthquakes in other cities around the world including Kathmandu, Tehran, and Istanbul. Combine these risks with the growing risk of more frequent and intense storms, droughts, floods, driven by climate change and investing in disaster risk reduction becomes an even more urgent and important priority for us all.
Richard Choularton, the author of this piece, is a Senior Policy Officer at WFP.


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Medical Practice Fired Employee Because of Her Crohn's Disease, Federal Agency Charged
BALTIMORE - A prominent Baltimore medical practice with over 1,000 employees violated federal law when it fired a medical practice representative instead of providing unpaid leave as an accommodation of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
The EEOC charges that Doneen King was unable to work for two weeks while undergoing medical treatment, including two emergency room visits and a hospitalization. On Jan. 7, 2010, King, a medical practice representative whose duties included answering phone calls and scheduling appointments, advised the medical practice that she had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease and she would be able to return to work the following Monday, Jan. 11. Instead of providing an additional day of unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation to her disability, the medical practice discharged her the next day.
University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc.'s lateness and attendance policy does not provide for exceptions or modifications to the attendance policy as a reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. The company's application of its lateness and attendance policy to King denied her leave as a reasonable accommodation, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the EEOC asserted in its lawsuit.
It is a violation of the ADA to fire someone on the basis of a disability. The ADA also requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation unless the employer can show it would be an undue hardship. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division, Civil Action No. 1:12-cv-02887-RDB, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. In its lawsuit, the EEOC seeks injunctive relief prohibiting the medical practice from discharging employees on the basis of a disability and from failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability, as well as lost wages, compensatory and punitive damages and other affirmative relief for King.
"The law is crystal-clear that employers must do the right thing and reasonably accommodate an employee's disability unless that would pose an undue hardship, which certainly would not have been the case here," said Spencer H. Lewis, Jr., district director of the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office. "The EEOC will take strong action to protect the rights of employees with disabilities when employers ignore their legal obligations."
EEOC Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence added, "It is shocking and ironic that a large medical practice refused to help an employee with a disability and failed to provide such a simple and inexpensive reasonable accommodation-an extra day of unpaid leave-as required by federal law."
According to its website, http://www.fpi.umaryland.edu, University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, Inc. (FPI) coordinates and supports the clinical activities of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and employs over 1,000 non-physician staff who support the clinical practices of the University of Maryland faculty.
The Philadelphia District Office of the EEOC oversees Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and parts of New Jersey and Ohio.
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|King, Keith - Iowa State University
|Peiffer, Gregory - Iowa State University
|Lauter, Nicholas
|Lin, Shun-fu - National Taiwan University
|Cianzio, Silvia - Iowa State University
|Shoemaker, Randy
Submitted to: Journal of Plant Nutrition
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/30/2011
Publication Date: 10/25/2013
Citation: King, K., Peiffer, G., Lauter, N.C., Lin, S., Cianzio, S., Shoemaker, R.C. 2013. Mapping of iron and zinc quantitative trait loci in soybean (glycine max (L.) Merr.) for association to iron deficiency chlorosis resistance. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 36(14):2132-2153.
Interpretive Summary: Although iron is the 4th most abundant mineral in the earth's crust it is a major limiting factor to plant growth. This is especially an issue in the upper Midwestern U.S. where soils are calcareous with a high pH. Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) causes many millions of dollars of lost production each year. Selecting cultivars that are tolerant to IDC is the best approach to crop improvement. However, selection is very difficult due to the strong influence of the environment and the genetic complexity of the trait. Breeders would greatly benefit from an easier indirect selection method. In this study the authors evaluated a soybean population for IDC, as well as iron and zinc accumulation in seed and leaves. They showed for the first time that regions of chromosomes containing genes affecting response to IDC are the same regions as those affecting iron accumulation in seed. This means that simply measuring iron concentration in seed may provide an indirect indication of the relative iron efficiency of a cultivar. This information is very useful to plant breeders trying to improve the iron efficiency of agronomic lines.
Technical Abstract: Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) is a nutritional disease of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) which when left unchecked can result in a severe yield penalty or even death in the most extreme cases. In order to curb these effects, resistance to the disease is needed. Breeding for resistance has been somewhat successful but no cultivar has complete resistance. Mineral content of the soybean could be an indicator of the ability of the plant to withstand the effects of IDC. Iron and zinc concentration was examined in soybean seed and leaves to be used as an estimator of mineral deficiency resistance in early growing stages of soybean, when symptoms are commonly observed. The progeny (F2:4) of the cross Anoka x A7, previously used to map Fe efficiency QTL, were analyzed to quantify Fe and Zn concentration for QTL mapping and determine if there was a relation to previously identified Fe efficiency quantitative trait loci QTL. Significant differences in Fe and Zn concentration were observed in the progeny population. The range for seed Fe concentration was 67.6 – 92.7 µg/g, and for seed Zn the range was 3.5 – 4.0 µg/g. One hundred-fifty SSR, RFLP, and BARCSOYSSR markers completed the linkage map used for (QTL) mapping of Fe and Zn concentrations. The QTL analysis in the combined data indentified one major QTL for seed Fe accumulation that mapped to chromosome 20 and explained 21.5 % of the variation. Three suggestive QTL were mapped to chromosomes 1 and 12 with chromosome 12 having two peaks. These QTL explained 10.6-12.7 % of the variation. No significant QTL for seed Zn concentration were indentified, however there were two suggestive QTL explaining 18.5 and 23.4 % of the phenotypic variation. The significant QTL for Fe concentration indentified was in the marker interval pa_515-1-Satt239. Marker pa_515-1 was previously used to map a Fe-efficiency QTL and thus provides the first evidence of a potential genetic link between Fe-efficiency and Fe accumulation in the soybean seed.