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Joann Medeiros is a retired San Francisco native on a fixed income. She is a volunteer and program participant at the Hosanna Celebration pantry in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco. We met her at the pantry when she was working and she kindly shared her story with us.
Volunteering is my way of giving back. I volunteer at the Hosanna Celebration Pantry, but I also get groceries too. It's wonderful here. I know so many people and it makes me feel good to help, to recognize the faces and talk to people, to give people food who need it. I understand what that's like because I need the help, too.
I have lived my whole life in San Francisco — I'm a real San Franciscan, born and bred. About eighteen years ago, after working as a janitor and an in-home caretaker, I retired. At that time I was making $7.49 an hour. Now I'm living on an even more fixed income and it's not always easy.
I've been helping at Hosanna for the last four years and right now my job is to hand people their produce. I wake up every morning and I feel good knowing that I'm helping people because of my work here at the pantry.
Each week I take home a bag of groceries from the pantry and stretch it to last the whole week. To make it last, I'll buy a whole chicken, put it in a pot, then add the veggies I get here and make a stew. Stews are a good way to eat well for days.
The food I receive from the pantry helps me get by, helps me keep my budget on track. It's not easy living on a fixed income in San Francisco, but I'm working to make it work. Every once in a while I can even treat myself to an afternoon matinee at the senior price of $6.50, but that's a very big splurge. When I can, it certainly is a nice treat.
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WNF 2014 - Munich
Theme: sustain:ability
2014 marked the 10th anniversary of the World Nutrition Forum, a premier industry event sponsored by BIOMIN.
Back in the late-90s, Erich Erber had a vision of creating a distinguished event for the feed and livestock industry, where leading professionals, scientists and decision-makers would gather to brain-storm and exchange ideas and strategic prospects on the future. This ambitious vision took off in 2004 with the debut for the World Nutrition Forum in Salzburg.
WNF 2010 - Salzburg
Theme: "The sound of nutrition"
Change is the only constant and management is key to coping with the relentless change. As the Forum heads to Salzburg for the second time, topics focused on the new dynamics shaped by increased biofuels production and improved animal welfare, to name a few. NutriEconomics® is introduced for the first time, in recognition of the need to consider performance in the context of nutrition, economics and the environment.
WNF 2006 - Vienna
Theme: "The future of animal nutrition"
Consumer perceptions of "ethical" animal production especially in Europe, the continued rise in Asian consumption, and how new ingredients such as DDGS are introducing new complexities in feed formulations, were the hot topics discussed in Vienna. Participants also got to experience the thrills of the famous Vienna Ball in the elegant Vienna Opera House as part of the Forum's social program.
WNF 2012 - Singapore
Theme: "People – Performance – Profit – Planet"
The Forum heads out of Europe and into the dynamic Asian city-state, Singapore. The 4P theme reflects the strong business ethos that is the heart of the host city, as well the forward-looking strategy businesses everywhere would do well to adopt. Thought-provoking discussions on disease resistances, climate change and a breakthrough in fumonisin counteraction were presented at a venue filled with food, fun and a lot of warm sunshine.
WNF 2008 - Maryhofen, Tyrol
Theme: "Achieving peak performance"
Held in the alpine region of Tyrol, the Forum's theme reflected both the rugged peaks of the Austrian Alps as well as the ever-pressing concern of animal producers—how to attain the best possible performance in the most efficient way. The key message: Performance is more than growth and reproduction, and includes the challenges of legislation, consumer sentiment, economics and the environment.
WNF 2004 - Salzburg
Theme: "The future of nutrition"
Participants gathered from all over Europe, Asia and the Americas in Salzburg brought with them unique local expertise in a global dialogue centered on quality issues in feed, the natural way in modern animal nutrition and regional trends. The Forum debuted against a backdrop of a new virulent strain of avian influenza (H5N1) in Asia, a region that was also experiencing the fastest growth in consumption and income.

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SteveInfinity necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 306 diseños de 96 diseñadores freelance.
This logo is for a new collection of companies under the name of Infinity Group.
We would like the text of the logo to be bold and sans-serif and would like an icon as well. We envision some sort of infinity symbol but reworked and possibly abstract. We invite your creativity!
(1) Infinity Group, (2) Infinity Real Estate
The Infinity Group is a collection of business units each operating under their own brand name (Infinity Real Estate, Infinity Lifestyle and Infinity Investments) and collectively known as Infinity Group.
We'll need an extensible logo (and icon) that will allow us to:
1) Use the icon independently of the logo text
2) Continue adding business units and modify the base logo to allow for the new brand name of each unit.
- Icon (may be abstract) indicating infinity or infiniteness. Vanishing points are also acceptable. We invite creativity in creating the icon portion of the logo. Of course, we are a business services company engaged in the investment industry so a certain base level of conservativeness in the design is expected.
- Sans serif fonts
- 2 Color maximum
- Ideally, the logo will be compatible with foil stamping
- We like 2 line text portions of the logo with the first line being "INFINITY" in a bigger, bolder font and the second line being "GROUP" or "REAL ESTATE" or any other business unit name in a smaller, thinner, possibly more letter-spaced font.
- Colorwise, we're open to many ideas but thus far we've used black, blue and silver. Power colors, baby.
- No thin, weak looking infinity symbols used in the icon
- Nothing grunge based or otherwise distressed
- Nothing that sucks. :)
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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The free tutorial and pattern from One Tree Mushroom Download Pattern Here
If you would like to make a Pirate Doll here's what you'll need:
* polyester batting
* a small square (approximately 18″x18″) of black felt
* a small square (approximately 12″x12″) of brown felt
* 1/4 of a yard of cotton peach, or brown colored flannel for the body and arms
* a small remnant of silver pleather for the hook and buckles
* a fat quarter of stripe fabric for the top (I used Sarah Jane's navy stripe)
* a fat quarter of fabric or colored felt for the pants (I used Sarah Jane's grey anchor)
* a small remnant of colored felt for the belt (I used a really pretty orange/red felt that I thrifted)
* a small remnant of a contrasting fabric for the pocket (I used Sarah Jane's navy anchor)
* small pieces of white, red and pink felt for the Jolly Roger, eye, cheeks, and mouth
* a small piece of red polka dot or red gingham for the nose
* a small piece of wool-like fabric for the hair and mustache
* a small brown or colored button (I like to use the same color as the child's eye)
1. Using my template cut out all the pieces, lay them down flat and piece them together.
2. Sew on the pocket, shirt, and Jolly Roger.
3. Cut a piece of the cotton flannel for the back of the head. Sew the hat, hair, and shirt onto the head.
4. Cut a piece of the cotton flannel the same width of the shirt for the face. Sew the hat and shirt onto the face. With the zig zag stitch (keep the stitches very close together) sew on the white part of the eye. Sew the x for the missing eye. Hand stitch the button onto the eye.
5. Sew the buckle onto the belt and the boot. Sew the belt onto the front and back of the doll, in-between the shirt and shorts. Attach the boot and peg leg to the pants on the front and back. Make sure they line up properly.
6. Sew on the cheeks, nose, mustache, and the eye patch (sew only the top part of the eye patch so that you can lift it and see the missing eye). With brown thread (or whatever color you use for the hair) hand sew the chest hair.
7. With the wrong sides together sew the hook and stuff it using a chop stick. Sew the stump onto the cotton flannel hand, leaving a 1′ space for the hook. Hand stitch a black anchor on the forearm. Sew the arms and sleeves right sides together.
8. Turn the arms right side out and stuff the batting in tightly (you might want to use the end of a wooden spoon to pack it down). Hand stitch the hook into the black stump.
9. Pin the two sides right side together and sew leaving openings for the arms and the top of the hat. Turn inside out.
10. Stuff the pirate doll. Hand stitch the hat closed. Hand stitch the arms into the openings of the body and you're done!


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do a takeoff on (someone or something)
To parody someone or something. In our skit, we did a takeoff on the principal's daily announcements and had everyone cracking up.
do a takeoff on someone or something
to perform a parody on someone or something. The comedian did a takeoff on the president, and everyone thought it was terribly funny.


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It's that time of year - to reward someone for doing something for others.
StayClassy has opened nominations for the 3rd Annual CLASSY Awards to be held Saturday, Sept. 17 in San Diego.
From now until June 19, you can nominate a charity or volunteer for going above and beyond in giving back to the community.
Past honorees include San Diego-based Invisible Children, San Francisco-based The Offices of Letters and Light and St. Baldrick's Foundation of Los Angeles. Complete list of 2010's winners
"The stories behind everyday charitable achievements often go untold," StayCLassy CEO Scot Chisholm said in a news release. "The success of the CLASSY Awards has given us a national platform to let America know about amazing contributions across the country."
Once nominated, each entry must receive 100 Facebook "likes" before June 28 to qualify for the next round of the competition.
See complete rules here.
Thousands in cash and prizes will be presented to the honorees at the group's red-carpet awards event in September.
NBC Local Media joins Qualcomm, Bridgepoint Education, Huffington Post Impact, Guidestar.org, Legalzoom, HandsOn Network and Young Nonprofit Professionals Network as an official partner of the StayClassy Awards.


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UH President David McClain announces Centennial Scholarship initiativeUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Interim Assoc. Vice President for Student Affairs
KAHULUI, Hawaiʻi — High-achieving Hawaiʻi students will have greater motivation to stay at home to attend a University of Hawaiʻi campus under a new "Centennial Scholars" program announced today by UH President David McClain.
The University is celebrating its centennial starting this spring and continuing through the 2007-08 school year.
The program will apply to students entering the University starting with the fall of 2007. All ten campuses of the University of Hawaiʻi system will provide a scholarship of $1,000 per year to Hawaiʻi residents who graduate from a Hawaiʻi high school with an unweighted 3.8 grade point average (GPA) or 1800 on the three-part SAT Reasoning Test (or the ACT equivalent) and are admitted as freshmen as full-time students. Students who graduate from high school in May 2007 or later are eligible for the scholarship.
Students will continue to receive the grant for up to four years on a baccalaureate campus and up to two years on a community college campus as long as they maintain a 3.0 GPA every year. Community college recipients who transfer to a baccalaureate campus and who maintain a 3.0 GPA are eligible to continue to receive the scholarship at the baccalaureate campus.
"The Centennial Scholars program provides an incentive for academically talented high school graduates to come to UH," said McClain. "We celebrate their achievement, as we celebrate the University's centennial."
In addition, the Mānoa campus will create the "Chancellor's Centennial Scholarship" which will give Hawaiʻi students who have both a 3.8 GPA and 1800 on the three-part SAT an additional $1,000 per year. The Hilo campus already has a competitive "Chancellor's Scholarship" which awards approximately 15 Hawaiʻi students a scholarship that covers full tuition and fees. Factors in the Hilo Chancellor's Scholarship, in addition to academic scholarship, include leadership, experience and potential, community service, and financial need.
The Centennial Scholars program also complements the existing Regents and Presidential Scholarships, which award full tuition, $4,000 annually, and a $2,000 academic travel grant to 30 outstanding Hawaiʻi students based on academic accomplishment, merit or creative achievement, co-curricular or community service, and leadership.
In recent years, approximately 1,000 students in the state of Hawaiʻi had qualifying GPAs for the Centennial Scholarship, while over 1,300 had qualifying SAT scores. Allowing for significant overlap between the two groups, potential value of the scholarships would be well above $1 million in the first year if all those eligible came to UH. When fully implemented in four years, the scholarship will represent a potential commitment of as much as $5 million annually to Hawaiʻi's high performing high school graduates.
The Centennial Scholarship will be awarded to all academically qualified students without regard to financial need. All Hawaiʻi resident students who have financial need will still be eligible for federal and University financial aid as well as the State of Hawaiʻi B Plus Scholarship.
The University already currently awards more than $16 million in need-based and non-need-based institutional financial assistance. It will increase this assistance annually over the next six years in the form of need-based Opportunity Grants and non-need based Achievement Scholarships, International Student Scholarships, and Pacific Islanders Scholarships. In addition, the University awards scholarships from donations raised by the UH Foundation in the amount of approximately $5 million annually.


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Instead of doing the traditional TILT this week, I figured I'd point you in the direction of the one place on the web where I've started automatically (and instantaneously, thanks to their awesome bookmarklet) sharing all the fun pics and pieces I come across during my daily travels on the world wide interwebs. It's also home to any random pics I take with my iPhone while actually out and about in the real world (yes, sometimes I do leave my desk). It's full of fun images that catch my eye, and it's become my own little specially styled sanctuary on the web, full of pretty things that inspire and engage me. In other words, it's where I put all sorts of things I love all week long, not just the ones I'm loving on any given Thursday.
So, without further ado, please to enjoy…(drumroll please)…my Tumblr.


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ANAHEIM >> Collin Cowgill homered and also stole home as the Angels beat the Seattle Mariners 6-5 Saturday night.
Rookie Grant Green hit a three-run double to help Jerome Williams win his fourth straight start.
The Angels won for the 21st time in 28 games. Earlier in the day, they were officially eliminated from postseason contention.
After starting the year with big expectations, boosted by the winter signing of former MVP Josh Hamilton, the injury-plagued Angels didn't spend one day atop the AL West after winning their season opener at Cincinnati.
The Angels have been no fewer than nine games out of first place since the All-Star break. This is their fourth straight year without a postseason berth, after winning five division titles.
Cowgill walked and scored in the second inning and hit a solo homer in the fourth.
Cowgill tripled to open the seventh. He then broke for the plate as Andrew Romine squared around to try a suicide-squeeze bunt, and scored when Joe Saunders' pitch sailed to the backstop.
Williams (9-10) allowed one run, five hits and five walks in 5 2/3 innings. He left after No. 9 hitter Henry Blanco snapped an 0-for-32 drought with a bloop single.
Ernesto Frieri got three outs for his 36th save in 40 attempts despite giving up Raul Ibanez's 300th career homer and 29th this season.
Saunders (11-16) tied the Astros' Lucas Harrell and the Cubs' Edwin Jackson for the most losses in the majors.
Saunders gave up six runs and six hits over seven innings and tied a career best with nine strikeouts.


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It's time for Easter decorating this weekend, I hope! Here are a couple of pictures from a couple of years ago. One of the best things about blogging is that you can go back and see images from other years. I totally forgot about that cute garden bunny. Wonder where he is? He might hop back inside again this year.
-------------------------The bunnies are running wild in the house this year. Even this little old garden bunny is inside. I think he has been somewhere on the porch for couple of years, although he was an outside bunny once upon a time. He is sitting beside a reindeer moss ball in a slightly tarnished bowl. Together they are perched atop a beautiful antique Italian vellum book from 3 Fine Grains.
Thanks for the nice comments on the last post, but I deleted the whole thing due to an overactive spamming party over the weekend. Thank goodness blogger has that spam filter now. I've included the same picture below that was in that post. An open shelf cupboard with drawers in the kitchen. It won't be there forever since open shelves are too much work to keep clean for me.
This coming week I'll add a few more pictures of Easter decorating around the house.
Thank you for stopping by!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a Great Weekend
See Y'All Soon~
See Y'All Soon~


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At a time when everyone is sniffing around for big, game-changing initiatives (a bullet train! a new space rocket!), Pete Peterson, who heads Pepperdine University's Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership, offers a thoughtful new essay in City Journal on the dangers of megaprojects.
He also notes that there are ways, through forms of deliberative and participatory democracy, to let citizens have a greater say in these megaprojects. The full essay is here.


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View the timeline of other love stories at the end of the article.
Sent by Heather Jensen
The word love really cannot be put into words. The love inside someone's heart for another can only be described using other loving gesture descriptors such as "loyal," "caring" and "understanding," amongst others. The feeling of "love" is shown through the caring interaction between two, and should be unconditional. Reciprocation of love can include a vast number of exchanged emotions, such as a caring glance saying, "I will always be here for you; good days or bad."
I can still see your beautiful, droopy, sparkling brown eyes looking into mine, expressing love, dedication, loyalty and even protection. I still remember your expressions of happiness that you showered upon our family. For all of the positive personality attributes you shared with my two daughters and me, the three of us will never forget you. In fact, we never said, "goodbye." We still let go a bouquet of brown, black and white balloons to say, "Happy Birthday" to you in heaven in front of the house we used to live in.
It has been almost five years since you passed over "The Rainbow Bridge." The tears we cry, and we do still cry, happen every time we start talking about you. Your comical physique of tri-colored fur on a too long of a body, paired with extremely short crooked legs, was the gift of lightheartedness that you gave us. Your long brown velvet ears, often dripping wet with water and mud, were simply your gift to reminding us that no one is perfect. Your big, droopy brown eyes with long eyelashes provided us with a lesson to look compassionately towards others.
Our tears still trickle down our cheeks when we remember the time that we spent together. We walked to the park together, hid from you in a pink plastic princess tent while you tried to get inside, and watched you grow fat from your "relationship" with the baby when she used to eat in her highchair. You always lay on your back, eager to have us rub your belly. There wasn't a time that we were apart, beginning the day we drove four hours in a rickety 1973 VW Bug to pick you up, until the day you passed away. You were part of our family. You were our beloved family dog, and a very special companion.
We have a journal and a photo album that we look through to remember your "special-ness." One of the highlights is a note that we saved from the Larimer Humane Society: "Found at large, appears to be a very large Basset Hound, returned to backyard and secured latch on fence."
The dispatcher obviously enjoyed seeing a ginormous Basset Hound because you didn't get a ticket and I didn't get a fine! If the fence blew open, you simply walked around to the front yard to sit on the porch and wait until we returned home. You also waited to greet the mailman. The mailman will probably remember you when he sees your picture because you even protected us from receiving mail!
Our memories have evolved mostly into feelings that we have for you. The "love" feeling we felt in our hearts from having you in our lives. We had to make the very, very painful decision to have you put to sleep when you became terminally ill. The three of us were right there with you and you were right there with us. You lay with your belly up on the living room floor, just as you always had before, and we rubbed it as always. This time, you slowly grew peaceful and out of pain. My two daughters both claim that they saw your soul go up to heaven. The pictures that the girls drew of your soul floating upward and away remain in your memory books. I, on the other hand, still haven't worked on journal entries that your veterinarian gave me to help heal from your loss. Every time that I open the book to complete the task, I cannot stop sobbing. This Valentine's Day, I remember you and honor you by filling out the most important journal entry that was given to me. The journal entry is to write you a letter expressing how I feel about you.
Happy Valentine's Day, Chippy, and here is some mail, especially for you.


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The New Google Favicon
A Curvier, Sleeker, and New Favicon for Google:
I woke up this morning to a new Google Favicon.
Those of you who don't remember, here's the old one:
Search Engine Roundtable, because they are always on top of the news, beat me to the punch this morning. Check out Barry's comments about the new Google Favicon. Personally, I have to agree that the old favicon seems to have much more stature; the new one, while I noticed right away (only because I live on the web) feels like it could blend in and get lost. It's doesn't have nearly the "ummph" the old "G" used to have.
Something strange, which I did notice, is that the Internet Explorer (I use Version 7) starts off with the old favicon, while Mozilla Firefox started off with the new favicon. Just a note of interest.
News Update on the New Favicon And Why Google Felt They Had to Change It:
From an official Google Spokesperson:
"We recognized there was a need for a Google icon that would better work across multiple applications including web, mobile and client applications. We felt the small 'g' had many of the characteristics that best represent our brand: it's simple, playful, and unique. We will be looking to improve and enhance this icon as we move forward."


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Read about EECS faculty member Collin Stultz, featured in the MIT News Office, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, article by Anne Trafton, photos by Scott Brauer. "Double duty. As a computational biologist and physician, Stultz's unique approach to diseases could lead to new treatments." Indeed, Professor Stultz incorporates his dedication to teaching with this double career. Read the full article posted below.
When Collin Stultz was 4 years old, his Jamaican parents moved their family to Brooklyn, N.Y., in search of a better life. The Stultzes wanted their children to achieve the American dream — which, to them, meant becoming a doctor or lawyer.
Stultz's academic strength was mathematics: He won numerous awards for his talent, each of which his mother proudly saved. "My mother to this day has a folder that she keeps with any award that I won. If you went to her today, she'd take it out and dust it off and show it to you," says Stultz, 44, now an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and an associate professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Stultz is also a cardiologist who has appointments at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Hospital.
Though his parents had little formal education, they were wise and knowledgeable, Stultz says. They worked hard to give their four children the chance for a good education, eventually buying a small apartment building in Brooklyn. "They made life better for themselves," Stultz says. "They grew up poor, and they never left the mindset of being poor. They wanted to make sure that things were different for me."
At MIT, where he recently earned tenure, Stultz studies the physical structure of proteins involved in diseases such as Alzheimer's. His research interests reflect his desire to help other people.
"Our investigations always start with a disease, like atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's," Stultz says. "What do we know about those diseases? We can break them down into the fundamental proteins and biomolecules that are involved, and then we study those and try to get insight into disease processes."
Discovering new paths
Stultz, the youngest sibling in his family, skipped ninth grade and entered Harvard University at 17. There, he was drawn to a field called mathematical logic, and recursion theory in particular. While math was Stultz's favorite pursuit, he also fulfilled the premedical requirements — and, believing that he could help more people as a doctor than a mathematician, ultimately enrolled at Harvard Medical School.
"I hated my first two years in med school because it was all about memorization," Stultz says. He decided to take a year off to work in the lab of computational biologist Temple Smith at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Smith put him to work using a mathematical technique known as Hidden Markov modeling to try to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequences.
"During that year, I decided this was something I really wanted to do more of," Stultz says. He applied to Harvard's PhD program in biophysics, where he worked with physical chemist Martin Karplus. After finishing his PhD, he returned to complete his last two years of medical school, then did an internship and residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
After another three years' training in cardiovascular medicine, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with MIT biomedical engineer Elazer Edelman, Stultz applied for a faculty opening in HST and MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He got the job, despite having no formal training in electrical engineering or computer science.
"I am an oddball,"" Stultz says. "That's actually one of the interesting things about the EECS department. You can take two people in the same department, and you can put them together and they speak two completely different languages. In my view, that's a strength of the department."
'Really hard problems'
Stultz's current research has two major branches. One, done in collaboration with John Guttag, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, uses electrocardiograms to develop algorithms that predict which heart-attack patients are most likely to survive. His other work uses computer simulations to study the structure of proteins such as collagen and the Tau protein that forms plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
"The unifying theme of our work is that we're interested in really hard problems that you cannot solve just by looking at experimental results alone,"" Stultz says. "If it's difficult, if it's not something that you can easily design an experiment to get answers to, that's something that we're interested in."
The best part of his job, Stultz says, is working with his students and postdocs. "I like them to challenge me about things they don't understand or things they don't agree with," he says. "I love the scientific colloquy. Or to use a stronger word, I love the scientific battle — where you and someone else sit down and talk about an issue, maybe have a disagreement about it, but are persuaded by the data and come to some conclusion, or learn something. … That's the stuff that keeps me coming to work."
When not in his lab or seeing patients, Stultz is an avid and unapologetic New York Yankees fan who often goes to Fenway Park dressed in Yankees paraphernalia. Luckily for him, "every time I've been to Fenway Park and seen the Yankees and Red Sox, the Yankees have lost. That's the only reason I've been able to make it home alive," he laughs.


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There's been a lot of talk about pop boy band One Direction's Harry Styles ever since the alleged romance between Styles and Taylor Swift allegedly came to an alleged end. Still, Styles has fans everywhere. And one of them is the 11-year-old daughter of reigning The X Factor champion Tate Stevens. During a Q&A session right after his big $5 million win, a reporter asked him if he had a chance to meet the English-Irish band, which had come in third place on the show's British version in 2010. "I sure did. They're great guys and, in fact, my daughter is a huge Harry fan," Stevens said. "She got to meet him and get her picture taken with him, and she was so excited." And say what you will about Styles (and the songs Swift may write about him some day, like maybe "Wrong Direction"), but with that backstage photo op, he set a good example for Stevens, who will soon be the one fans are clamoring to meet.


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Murder-for-hire plot included Justin Bieber as target
Albuquerque men face charges in plot
Police in New Mexico are reportedly investigating an alleged macabre plot to kill Canadian pop star Justin Bieber.
The alleged plot involves Mark Staake and Tanner Ruane, who investigators said went to Vermont to kill two people, whose identities were not released.
Investigators said Staake and Ruane were caught before they could commit the crimes. Had they been successful, New Mexico State Police said the pair also planned to kill a bodyguard.
"Obviously we're going to take any plot seriously," said New Mexico State Police Lt. Robert McDonald. "We've attempted to contact Justin Bieber's management crews."
The Canadian singer's management, asked to comment on the reports, released a statement saying only that they take "every precaution to protect and insure the safety of Justin and his fans."
Bieber is also the obsession of a convicted killer, Dana Martin, 41, who is serving two life sentences in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Las Cruces.
Police said Martin is so infatuated with the teen star that he has a tattoo of Bieber on his leg.
Because Bieber hadn't returned Martin's fan letters, investigators said Martin recruited Staake and Ruane to drive to New York and kill the pop star.
Documents showed it was part of a larger murder-for-hire plot, in which the pair were to castrate two men in Vermont on behalf of Martin.
Authorities said Staake and Martin became friends in prison.
The documents do not explicitly say how the two planned to kill Bieber and the bodyguard, but the documents revealed the men had handheld garden pruners with them to carry out the castrations.
A family friend, Jeanette Cromer, said she has known Ruane and Staake for years.
"Are you serious? Oh my gosh," she responded.
She cried when she learned of the plot. She said she knew Staake was bad news, but didn't believe he would turn to homicide.
"I didn't know Tanner was capable of anything like that. I know the stars have a problem, but you don't think about someone you know being involved in this," Cromer said.


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The Rockefeller Foundation's President Dr. Judith Rodin announced the 16 winners of the Foundation's 2012 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund competition – and with it nearly $3 million in grants to support local New York City art and artists. Each of these 16 New York City-based organizations will receive a two-year grant of up to $250,000, underscoring the Foundation's commitment to artistic expression and innovation, and bolstering the vital economic engine that the creative sector brings to New York. This year's winners were selected from nearly 400 diverse projects.
Winners include Fourth Arts Block in partnership with The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design to transform East 4th Street Cultural District into a sustainable city block, using the arts as a tool for engagement and as the means to share lessons learned with the rest of NYC
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This weekend the Crimson visited Bethpage State Park Golf Course for St. Johns annual McLaughlin Invitational. The tournament attracted great competition from around the country, most notably Texas Christian University and West Florida. Harvard would tee it up with the other seventeen teams to play 36 holes on Friday followed by a final 18 on Saturday.
After the first eighteen holes, the Crimson saw themselves in a tie for third place. Sophomore Theodore Lederhausen and freshman Akash Mirchandani led the team in scoring with a pair of even par 70s. Seiji Liu '14 was close behind with a 71 and Mark Pollak '12 shot 74 to give the team a total of 5-over par 285. Tony Grillo '12 came in with a 75 – a score that was thrown out as the highest of the five. The morning round showed that low scores were ripe for the taking, as West Florida had an individual post 5-under 65.
The morning wind subsided during the afternoon. As a result, most teams saw their scores drop. Unfortunately for the Crimson, their score rose. Harvard posted an 8-over par 288 to put themselves in a tie for seventh. Captain Grillo improved seven shots from his morning score, posting an afternoon 68 that featured a hole-in-one on the seventh hole. Lederhausen continued his solid play by posting a 72. Pollak (73) and Mirchandani (75) also came in with counting scores for the Crimson. Liu struggled through the second round, finishing with a 76.
The Crimson appeared to be on their way to posting a solid score in the third round with strong scores through the first 16 holes. Unfortunately late round hiccups yielded another 288. Pollak and Mirchandani finished with a 70 and 71 respectively. Grillo posted 72, while Lederhausen and Liu both finished with 75. The +21 total placed the crimson in eighth place, besting fellow Ivy League teams Columbia and Princeton, but falling to Dartmouth by four shots.
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I'm pleased to see that "Calvary" is mostly getting good reviews, though it also has received a few negative reviews that are rather peculiar. The criticisms of the film usually say something to the effect that the townspeople are strange and extreme, hard to believe, hovering in a zone near comedy, and that this made for a discordant experience.
What is not immediately realized by people, including many critics, is that much of the movie is about demon possession. Now if your entire frame of reference for demon possession is Hollywood movies, you won't recognize this. But if your frame of reference actually includes something like, oh I dunno, the BIBLE, then you can't miss it. It's the most obvious thing in the world. Everyone in the town is tormented, and they see in this priest a living rebuke. They see in him the enemy with whom they are compelled to engage.
The priest is enacting some of the tribulations of Jesus, from the point that Jesus entered Jerusalem. It's the spectacle of goodness encountering the worst of humanity. It's supposed to be extreme. It's supposed to be bizarre. That's pretty much the whole idea.


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Staples, Inc. and Staples Foundation for Learning, Inc, a private foundation created by Staples, today announced charitable donations to 85 New England nonprofit organizations as part of its ongoing commitment to giving back to the communities where its customers and associates live and work.
Staples, Inc. and Staples Foundation for Learning, Inc, a private foundation created by Staples, today announced charitable donations to 85 New England nonprofit organizations as part of its ongoing commitment to giving back to the communities where its customers and associates live and work.
In a press release today, Staples said it will make a $50,000 contribution to Citizens Energy Corporation's Oil Heat Fund, which provides free heating oil to low-income and elderly households in Massachusetts through local community fuel assistance programs. Since 2004, Staples has donated a total of $155,000 to Citizens Energy.
In addition to awarding foundation grants, Staples, Inc. also supports local events held by Boston-based nonprofit organizations to celebrate and raise awareness of their work in the community. This spring, Staples donated more than $200,000 to support Boston nonprofit events for the following organizations: Boston Public Library Foundation; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston; Dress for Success; Facing History and Ourselves; Franciscan Hospital for Children; hopeFound; Inner City Scholarship Fund; John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; Junior Achievement of Boston; Mass Mentoring Partnership; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries; Museum of Fine Arts; Special Olympics of Massachusetts
Staples Foundation for Learning, Inc. has awarded grants totaling $168,500 to 69 nonprofit organizations throughout New England in support of local youth. For the fourth consecutive year, Staples invited associates in their Framingham headquarters to nominate their favorite organizations to receive funding from the foundation. These organizations provide youth with programs focused on academic achievement, job skills and diversity.
"Nonprofit organizations that support the growth and achievement of youth are critical to the future of New England," said Paul Capelli, vice president, Staples, Inc., in the company press release. "As a company headquartered in Massachusetts, Staples is committed to giving back to organizations in our own backyard that prepare local youth to be tomorrow's leaders."
Organizations receiving grants of $3,500 to $15,000 include:
· Artists for Humanity, Boston, MA --- $10,000 to Youth Run Arts Micro-Enterprise, which enables youth to gain artistic and job skills through the production of sculptures and design projects.
· Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, MA --- $15,000 to Young Leaders, which helps
youth gain leadership, community service and job skills.
· Cradles to Crayons, Quincy, MA --- $10,000 to Ready for School, which provides homeless and needy children with basic school supplies.
· Horizons for Homeless Children, Boston, MA --- $10,000 to Community Children's Centers, which provides homeless children and their parents with support services.
· Junior Achievement of Eastern Massachusetts, Boston, MA --- $10,000 to After-School Financial Literacy Education, which teaches disadvantaged youth about entrepreneurship and financial management.
· Sudbury Valley Trustees, Sudbury, MA --- $10,000 to the Youth Conservation Steward Program, which enables youth to develop their leadership, academic and environmental stewardship skills.
· Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, Williamstown, MA --- $3,500 to an environmental program that provides elementary students with instruction on wildlife, ecology and natural landscapes.
In addition, each of the following organizations has received a $1,500 donation:
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As mentioned in this post, I was waiting for Foundation Beyond Belief to put up a crisis response page. If you were thinking of making an aid donation, go here to help victims of the Oklahoma tornado.
I've seen some reluctance to donate because Oklahoma's senators, Coburn and Inhofe, are fucking selfish scumbags. Don't let that hold you back — the children who were killed or hurt or made homeless didn't vote for them, so just think of them when you dig into your pockets.
(Also, apparently my very general link from last night led to about $3000 in donations — you can do better now that you've got a specific focus!)


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Small markets finding success in NBA playoffs
The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder are locked in a rousing series with some of the biggest stars in the sport, some of the most raucous crowds in the league and television ratings that are nearing record highs.
The only thing small about these Western Conference finals are the markets that are hosting them.
Game by heart-pounding game, the Spurs and the Thunder are proving that the NBA cannot only survive, but flourish, even when power franchises like the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls have been eliminated.
Kevin Durant and the young guns from Oklahoma City have won two straight to even the series against Tim Duncan and the old-guard Spurs, with Game 5 set for Monday night in San Antonio.
For fans that felt alienated after LeBron James and Chris Bosh left Cleveland and Toronto to sign in Miami and Carmelo Anthony forced a trade from Denver to New York, seeing two franchises capture national attention despite being located in television markets that rank behind Greenville, S.C., is a welcome change.
"We want to get to the place where that question isn't asked," Commissioner David Stern said at a news conference last week. "And for us to mean it and you to believe it. Because no one asks it when you see Green Bay, New Orleans and Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl."
The ability of small-market teams to compete with the big boys was one of the central fronts in the bitter labor dispute that cost the league 16 games, and the new collective bargaining agreement was crafted to level the playing field for everyone from Sacramento to New York and all stops in between.
Charles Barkley may like to make fun of Oklahoma City and San Antonio for not being the most cosmopolitan of locales, but all eyes are on them right now. Through the first four games, ratings for the Western Conference finals on TNT are up 7 percent compared with the 2011 series on ESPN in which Dallas beat the Thunder. TNT says it is on pace for the second-highest rated playoffs in its 28 years of broadcasting the games.
They're seeing Russell Westbrook and Tony Parker breaking ankles on the perimeter, Duncan and Serge Ibaka rattling teeth on screens, Durant and Manu Ginobili drilling impossible shots off one leg while falling to the ground. And both fan bases provide great theater by shaking the walls with full-throated howling in hopes of willing the only show in town one step closer to a title.
"In those cities, that's all they've got," Spurs forward Boris Diaw said. "They're really rooting for this team. You can feel the whole city vibrating and living the playoffs like the players do."
So who needs the Black Mamba when you have the Durantula?
Who is missing deep dish in Wrigleyville when they have Tex-Mex on the River Walk?
And Jack Nicholson may be courtside in Los Angeles, but Lil' Wayne can't even get his hands on a ticket in Oklahoma City.
"It's great for the NBA," said TNT analyst Steve Kerr, who has seen it from all angles as a broadcaster, an executive and a player in markets big (Chicago) and small (San Antonio). "Sometimes people watch because it's the Lakers or the Celtics or the Bulls, big-market traditional teams.
"This is more just about great basketball. It's good for the league to have a system where teams in smaller markets can succeed if they run a strong operation and maybe get a little lucky."
For years, San Antonio has been somewhat of an anomaly, the one small-market team to break through and wrestle a title -- or four -- away from cash cows like the Lakers, Celtics, Bulls and Mavericks.
Now the Spurs seem to have some company. The Thunder are full of All-Star caliber players who are 24 years old or younger and poised to dominate the West for the foreseeable future.
The Memphis Grizzlies and Indiana Pacers have each made compelling runs in the playoffs over the last two years and teams like Utah and Minnesota have assembled promising young cores.
"I think it's a healthy thing to be able to be a small market like San Antonio or Oklahoma City and do well," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "It bodes well for the league. Everything is not always a big-market deal. It's kind of fun to spread it around, that's for sure.
"But the small markets have to be pretty fortunate in other ways to make that happen, and both Oke City and San Antonio have had pretty good fortune in helping them get to this point."
True, the Spurs got lucky when they won the lottery in 1997 and landed Duncan, and Durant fell into the Thunder's lap during the franchise's final season in Seattle when Portland chose Greg Oden No. 1.
But both franchises have done a superb job of surrounding those superstars with top-flight talent. The Thunder nailed draft picks with Westbrook, Ibaka and James Harden, and GM Sam Presti's acquisition of Kendrick Perkins from Boston last year gave the young team the veteran toughness it needed.
The Spurs hit on low draft picks with Parker and Ginobili, acquired Kawhi Leonard in a draft-night deal and have gotten more out of Diaw and Stephen Jackson than most other teams could.
"I think we look at it as who we are," Spurs GM R.C. Buford said. "If somebody wants to be in front of the bright lights and the glitz, then that's probably not San Antonio. And so, those players probably aren't going to be looking to us, but I don't think that we'd be looking there, as well."
In the coming seasons, the new CBA will make it even tougher for the big-market teams to out-muscle the little guys. Greater revenue sharing and a more punitive luxury tax system are already influencing personnel decisions.
But the problems weren't all wiped away with a few signatures in December. The Lakers and Knicks have revenues that dwarf those of Minnesota and Milwaukee thanks to larger television contracts, bigger sponsorship deals and higher ticket sales. The big cities are also more attractive destinations for players.
"It's still tough," Pacers President Larry Bird said when he was named executive of the year. "We don't drive revenues like the big-market teams. We can't go after $17 million dollar players. We've got to go a different way, and we've got to do it a piece at a time."
Then again, most players, including the impending free agents, are watching from home right now. And no matter where they live -- Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Houston -- you can bet they all wish they were in San Antonio on Monday night.
"It's helping me grow and that's what my goal was coming into this league was to always be focused and locked in on what I want to do as a player," Durant said of his adopted hometown. "And being here provides me the best environment to do it -- the players here, the coaches, the whole organization is first-class. It's perfect."


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Made this easy to prepare recipe yesterday. Fell in love with the colors when I saw this recipe at Paty's Kitchen and decided to give it a try. I liked it. Thanks to Paty and Dapur Ipoek for sharing the recipe with us and allow me to do the same here. Thank you dear ladies...
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1 large egg
115g sugar
125g flour
1/2 teaspoon double action baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ovalette
75ml evaporated milk
a few drops of rose essence (i added)
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This appendix describes common problems that you might encounter when using Discoverer and explains how to solve them. It contains the following topics:
For information about troubleshooting Discoverer performance and scalability, see Section 10.3.13, "Troubleshooting Discoverer performance and scalability."
Appendix E, "Discoverer Viewer reports errors when exporting using Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0"
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Appendix E, "Configuring a SMTP Server for Discoverer Viewer"
Appendix E, "Problem With Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTTP 1.1 Protocol and Compressed Data"
Appendix E, "Error: Could Not Open Web Cache Connection (WWC-40019)"
Appendix E, "Opening an exported Web Query file in Microsoft Excel containing non-ASCII dynamic parameter values"
Appendix E, "List of values (LOV) is too long for a Discoverer portlet URL"
Appendix E, "Specifying a parameter by index value in Microsoft Excel does not work for Web Query file"
Appendix E, "Redirect conflicts with Oracle Single Sign-On and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)"
Appendix E, "Discoverer Desktop and Plus worksheet font size issue"
Appendix E, "Resource limit exception in Discoverer Portlet Provider"
When SSL is enabled for an Oracle BI Discoverer instance, icons and other graphics are not displayed properly in the Discoverer Viewer.
This problem occurs when the
WebLogic Plug-In Enabled property is not configured for the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Server and the Managed Server (WLS_DISCO). For more information about configuring the
WebLogic Plug-In Enabled property through the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, see the section "Servers: Configuration: General" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
When Discoverer Viewer users export data using Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0, a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer can lead to several errors being reported.
Note: Discoverer supports data exported Microsoft Excel 97 or later.
Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 is not configured correctly and displays an error message, for example:
Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet Site. The requested site is either unavailable or is not found. Try again later.
The error messages vary depending upon the application or mime type configured to open the extensions.
For example, if SSL is enabled in addition to Oracle Single Sign-On then you may receive an error such as:
Could not open 'https://:/discoverer/viewer/. For details see c:\path to temp directory \wecerr.txt
Clicking OK then gives the following error in Excel 'Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'https://:/discoverer/viewer'. There are several possible reasons:
The file name or path does not exist.
The file being opened is being used by another program. Close the document in the other program, and try again.
The name of the workbook that you are trying to save is the same as another document that is read-only. Try saving the document under another name.
This category of error is caused by an Internet Explorer bug, in which certain configurations involving a ReverseProxy such as Oracle Web Cache cause a problem during a redirected request (302). The Internet Explorer Host header contains the host header of the server you were redirected from rather than the host you were redirected to.
To resolve this problem, do the following:
On the middle-tier, open the mod_osso.conf file in a text editor (for more information about the location of the mod_osso.conf file, see Section A.1, "Discoverer file locations").
Replace any existing Discoverer Viewer URL protection with the following text:
Header unset Pragma
OssoSendCacheHeaders off
require valid-user
AuthType Basic
Save the mod_osso.conf file.
Restart the Oracle HTTP Server.
Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 displays an error message when Discoverer exports to Microsoft Excel format.
Specify the Discoverer middle tier as a trusted site in Microsoft Internet Explorer, by doing the following:
Select Tools | Internet Options from the Microsoft Internet Explorer menu bar to display the Internet Options dialog.
Display the Security tab.
Select the Trusted Sites icon and click the Sites button to display the Trusted sites dialog.
Enter the URL of the Discoverer middle tier in the format:
<host.domain> is the server name and domain on which the Oracle HTTP Server is installed
<port> is the port number (typically 7777 or 7778) on which Discoverer is installed
This section explains Discoverer's supported patch installation strategy and Oracle Applications certification strategy.
Oracle periodically certifies the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (for example, Applications 11i) with a specific patch-set or release version of Oracle BI Discoverer. This certification means that the version of Discoverer has been tested by Oracle Applications product teams against the workbooks and EULs that ship with their Oracle Applications modules (for example, Financials Intelligence). So a customer using an Oracle Applications 11i module that ships Discoverer content is now free to upgrade to the announced certified version and can typically install it in the ORACLE_HOMEs of existing application-tier server nodes of Oracle Applications 11i environments.
Oracle Applications 11i is certified against Discoverer Version 10.1.2.0.0, so that Discoverer content can be seamlessly integrated with the rest of the Oracle Applications suite. Oracle Applications continues to certify Discoverer patch-sets applicable to these releases.
Independent of this Oracle Applications certification process, Oracle BI Discoverer supports creation of custom workbooks and EULs against an Oracle Applications instance as a fully supported standalone feature. So, regardless of whether a given Discoverer patch-set or release has been Oracle Applications-certified, a customer is free to use any production release of Discoverer against their Oracle Applications instance to create custom workbooks and EULs through standalone use of Discoverer (that is, usage of Discoverer outside of an Oracle Applications module that utilizes Discoverer, such as Financials Intelligence). For example, customers can use Discoverer 10.1.2 against Oracle Applications 11i to develop their own custom workbooks and EUL in support of an enterprise-wide Business Intelligence solution even though this release has not been Oracle Applications-certified. Note that in this case, Discoverer must be installed outside of the middle-tier Oracle Homes provided with the Oracle Applications install. For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer.
Can an uncertified version of Discoverer be used with Release 11i? In general, system administrators are advised to install only Oracle Applications-certified Discoverer versions and patches in their Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i environments by using the standard Oracle Applications 11i workbooks and End User Layer content.
For more information, see the following My Oracle Support notes:
Note 313418.1: Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i
Note 373634.1: Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
There may be circumstances that make the installation of uncertified Discoverer patches necessary. Consult Oracle Support for guidance, based upon your specific circumstances.
Certification of Discoverer versions and patches with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i involves a coordinated testing effort across all Release 11i products that use Discoverer. Certifications are generally performed for production releases for Discoverer. Oracle does not generally certify small, individual emergency patches against Oracle E-Business Release 11i. Oracle's Discoverer support policy is to respond to bugs filed against both certified production patch releases and emergency patches.
Follow controlled configuration management strategies when working with uncertified emergency patches. In particular, do the following:
Always back up a known working environment before applying patches.
Always back up a known working environment at the certified patch level.
Always test patches thoroughly before applying them to production environments.
Only apply uncertified, emergency patches if is unfeasible to wait until the next production patch release is certified.
Oracle BI Discoverer reports a network exception during login.
One possible cause is that Oracle BI Discoverer cannot start.
Check that the Preferences component is up and running. To confirm that the Preferences component is up and running, use the Windows Task Manager and ensure that the Discoverer preferences command line utility
dis51pr is running.
You can also run the following
opmnctl command to find out the status of the preference server:
$ORACLE_INSTANCE/bin/opmnctl status
Tip: You can use the
checkdiscoverer utility to verify a Discoverer configuration and report on failures or anomalies. For more information about the checkdiscoverer utility, see Section 11.2, "What is the checkdiscoverer utility?"
Oracle BI Discoverer reports error ORA-12154: Could not resolve service name.
Oracle BI Discoverer cannot connect to the database alias specified by the connection details.
Ensure that:
the database alias is in the tnsnames.ora file on the middle tier
the database alias exists in the tnsnames.ora file on every machine that runs sessions
Tip: If you have SQL*Plus (or any other Oracle product) running on that machine, try connecting to the database with that product.
Oracle BI Discoverer does not start.
Oracle BI Discoverer does not work on an Internet browser with a pop-up blocker activated.
Turn off all the pop-up blockers on the client browser machine.
Oracle BI Discoverer does not start when using Netscape Navigator 4.x as a client browser.
The following are known issues when using Discoverer with Netscape 4.x:
it is not possible to filter the workbook list using non-ASCII characters when using Discoverer Viewer with Netscape 4.x
it is not possible to use non-ASCII parameters when using Discoverer Viewer with Netscape 4.x
it is not possible to create private connections using non-ASCII characters when using Discoverer with Netscape 4.x
browser window re-sizing is disabled when using Discoverer Plus with Netscape 4.x
Use a later version of Netscape Navigator.
A Discoverer Plus end user attempts to start Discoverer Plus over HTTP instead of HTTPS in an HTTPS environment.
Discoverer displays the following error message when an end user attempts to start Discoverer Plus using an HTTP URL:
Unable to connect to Oracle Discoverer Application Server. Attempt 1. RMI protocol over HTTPS transport: no response from web server at <url>.
Ensure that Discoverer end users use an HTTPS URL in an HTTPS environment. For more information, see Section 13.6.3, "About Discoverer Plus security and communication protocols".
Note: To deploy Discoverer Plus over HTTPS, you must select the Secure Tunneling security protocol in Oracle Fusion Middleware Control (Section 184.108.40.206, "How to set up Discoverer Plus to use the Secure Tunneling communication protocol").
Oracle BI Discoverer Plus becomes unstable when a workbook contains a large number of worksheets (for example, more than 20) that contain graphs, typically maximized in a separate browser window.
Oracle BI Discoverer Plus displays an out-of-memory error when running on a client browser machine.
Increase the JVM maximum heap memory size, as follows:
On the client browser machine, display the JVM control panel (for example, on a Windows machine, display the Control Panel, and double-click the Java Plug-in icon).
Display the Advanced tab.
In the Java Runtime Parameters field, enter the following text:
-Xmx<amount of memory>M
For example, to increase the maximum memory level to 256MB, enter -Xmx256M.
Click Apply.
Restart Discoverer Plus on the client browser machine.
Oracle BI Discoverer Plus Relational context sensitive help might not work on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator with Sun Java Plug-in if the proxy settings for the Sun Java Plug-in are not set correctly.
When an Oracle BI Discoverer Plus Relational end user clicks Help when using a dialog, Discoverer does not display the correct help page for that dialog. In addition, links in the help table of contents and index do not work.
Change the proxy settings for the Sun Java Plug-in, as follows:
On the client browser machine, display the dialog in which you specify proxy settings.
For example, in Microsoft Internet Explorer, from the Tools menu, choose Internet Options, Connections, LAN Settings, then Advanced to display the Proxy Settings dialog.
Ensure that the Exceptions field contains the following string:
Click OK to save the changes.
Start a new client browser session and start Oracle BI Discoverer Plus.
Discoverer Viewer includes an option to send a Discoverer worksheet in an e-mail message by selecting the Send as email link in the Actions list (see Figure E-1 ).
Figure E-1 The Send as email option in Discoverer Viewer
If you want to change the SMTP server used, you must configure the Discoverer middle tier to use a different SMTP server.
Discoverer Viewer is configured to use the wrong SMTP Server.
To configure the SMTP server for Discoverer Viewer:
Display Fusion Middleware Control (for more information, see Section 4.1.2, "How to start Fusion Middleware Control and display the Farm Home page").
Display the Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home page (for more information, see Section 4.1.3, "How to display the Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home page and Discoverer component Home pages").
In the Components area, select the Discoverer Viewer link in the Name column to display the Discoverer Viewer Home page.
Click Configure to display the Discoverer Viewer Configuration page.
In the Email region specify the SMTP server details.
Click Apply to save the details.
When Discoverer end users use the Send as email option to mail a worksheet, Discoverer Viewer uses the SMTP server that you specified.
Sometimes when using Microsoft Internet Explorer, the first 2048 bytes of data sent by a Web server using HTTP compression are lost. To find out more information about this problem, go to the following link:
The first 2048 bytes of data sent by a Web server using HTTP compression are lost.
Specify HTTP 1.0 on the client to disable HTTP compression, as follows:
Select Tools | Internet Options from the Microsoft Internet Explorer menu bar to display the Internet Options dialog.
Display the Advanced tab.
Clear both of the following check boxes (in the HTTP 1.1 settings category):
the Use HTTP 1.1 check box
the Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections check box
The following error message appears if you try to publish Discoverer portlets after you have associated an Oracle BI installation with an existing Oracle installation:
Error: Could Not Open Web Cache Connection (WWC-40019)
Discoverer cannot open an Oracle Web Cache connection when an end user tries to publish a Discoverer portlet.
Disable Oracle Web Cache for Oracle Portal content, as follows:
Log in to Oracle Portal as the Portal administrator (for example, with the user name Portal).
Display the Administer tab.
Display the Portal sub-tab.
Select the Global Settings link in the Services area.
Display the Cache tab.
Clear the Enable Web Cache for Caching Portal Content check box.
Ensure that the Host Name field is set correctly.
Note: If more than one Oracle Business Intelligence middle tier has been installed, the Host Name is updated with the most recent Oracle Business Intelligence installation. You might need to change the Host Name to that of a previous Oracle Business Intelligence installation.
Save the changes you have made by clicking Apply or OK.
You must set the encoding correctly in Microsoft Excel to correctly export Discoverer worksheets in Web Query (IQY) format containing non-ASCII dynamic parameter values.
Microsoft Excel users cannot correctly open a Discoverer worksheet exported in Web Query (IQY) format from Discoverer Plus Relational containing non-ASCII dynamic parameter values.
In Microsoft Excel, set the Excel encoding to UTF-8, as follows:
In Microsoft Excel, choose Options from the Tools menu to display the Options dialog.
Display the General tab.
Click Web Options to display the Web Options dialog.
Display the Encoding tab.
In the 'Save this document as' drop-down list, choose Unicode (UTF-8).
A list of values (LOV) might be greater than the URL limit.
When launching a list of values (LOV) from the worksheet/portlet provider parameter pages, if the total length of the current list of values in the text field is close to or greater than the URL length limit, the selected values may not work correctly when the LOV is launched.
Close the LOV window, empty the text field, and re-launch the LOV window to clear the selected values pane.
If you export a worksheet with a parameter value that uses the "let users choose value or index" option, Excel end users must enter a parameter value, not an index value.
No data is returned in a Microsoft Web Query (IQY) file after an end user specifies a parameter value using an index value.
The Microsoft Excel end user must specify a value for a parameter using an actual value (for example, East) instead of an index value (for example, 1).
Redirect conflicts sometimes occur when both Oracle Single Sign-On and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) are turned on, especially if a SSL site is not registered with the Oracle Single Sign-On server, but a non-SSL site is registered.
Redirect conflicts occur.
Do the following:
Register the SSL site with the Oracle Single Sign-On server using the
ossoreg.sh tool.
For information on registering a SSL site with the Oracle Single Sign-On server, follow the instructions in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Single Sign-On. See the section that is entitled "Configuring mod_osso with Virtual Hosts."
Modify the configuration file to point to the generated
osso-https.conf file.
When you use a Discoverer portlet or when you access Discoverer Viewer from a portlet using the Analyze button, you might encounter an error if a customization made in Discoverer Viewer is in conflict with some aspect of the source worksheet.
When you use a Discoverer portlet or when you access Discoverer Viewer from a portlet using the Analyze button, an error message is displayed: "The application encountered an invalid state. Oracle BI Discoverer Viewer was unable to find the necessary data for displaying the results of this event. Correct any errors and try again."
Either recreate the portlet based on the updated worksheet or revert the worksheet to its original state.
If Oracle Web Cache is enabled, graphs do not display in Discoverer Viewer unless Oracle Web Cache has been configured.
Graphs do not display in Discoverer Viewer.
Create a caching rule in Oracle Web Cache for the /discoverer/GraphBeanServlet/ URL (for more information, see Section 7.5.1, "How to create Discoverer caching rules").
If Discoverer Portlet Provider is not correctly registered in Oracle Portal, you might encounter errors when creating or editing Discoverer portlets.
You might encounter one or more of the following problems when using the Discoverer Portlet Provider wizard:
When you click Next on the Database Connections page, the wizard does not advance to the next page.
When you select the Edit Defaults link next to a portlet, then click Next, Oracle Portal displays the following error message:
An error occurred while handling the request in the controller.
Pages in the Edit Defaults wizard load twice.
In Oracle Portal, edit the Discoverer Portlet Provider registration settings and clear the Web provider in same cookie domain as the portal check box. For more information about how to edit or register Discoverer Portlet Provider, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Guide to Publishing Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlets.
Discoverer connections are available only when the Discoverer installation is associated with the Oracle Internet Directory and the Discoverer schemas.
The Discoverer connections page does not display connections and does not provide options to enable you to create private connections. End users can only connect directly using the Connect Directly fields.
Ensure that the Discoverer installation is associated with the Oracle Internet Directory and the Discoverer schemas. For more information, see Section 1.3, "About Oracle BI Discoverer installations."
For security reasons, in Oracle Business Intelligence release 10.1.2.1 (and later) you cannot specify a database password using a URL parameter.
Discoverer ignores a password specified on a URL with the pw= URL parameter, and the Discoverer end user is prompted for a database password.
If you use a private Discoverer connection, end users are always prompted at least once for a database password. You can also use the reuseConnection= URL parameter to reuse login details in the same browser session so that end users do not have to enter a database password repeatedly for the same private Discoverer connection.
For information about how to specify login information using a connection ID, see Section 12.3.2, "How to specify login information using a Discoverer connection". For more information about the reuseConnection URL parameter, see Section 12.7, "List of URL parameters common to Discoverer Plus and Viewer".
In Oracle Business Intelligence release 10.1.2.1 (and later) you can no longer customize Discoverer Viewer look and feel by directly editing XSL files on the middle tier.
You cannot find XSL files for Discoverer Viewer on the middle tier.
Use Oracle Fusion Middleware Control to customize the Discoverer Viewer look and feel (for more information, see Section 8.2, "Customizing Discoverer Viewer").
Worksheet font sizes can appear smaller in Discoverer Plus than they are in Discoverer Desktop.
When a worksheet is created using Discoverer Desktop, the font size is correct when the worksheet is viewed in Discoverer Desktop, but when the same worksheet is viewed in Discoverer Plus the font size appears to be smaller.
Add the following entry under the [Application] section in the pref.txt file, and apply the changes (for more information, see Section A.1, "Discoverer file locations"):
AdjustPlusFontSize = "true"
Discoverer Portlet Provider might throw an exception while processing requests.
Users might see the following error message when Discoverer Portlet Provider processes requests:
The following error occurred during the call to Web provider: BaseException is weblogic.common.resourcepool.ResourceLimitException: No resources currently available in pool <data_source> to allocate to applications, please increase the size of the pool and retry.
In the error message,
<data_source> is the name of the Weblogic JDBC data source created with the JNDI name
This exception occurs when the connection pool capacity (default: 1500) is not adequate.
Log in to the WebLogic Administration Console by using the following URL:
From the left navigation pane, select Services.
From the submenu, select JDBC and then Data Sources.
Select the data source with the JNDI name
jdbc/disco_portlet, by clicking the link in the Name column.
Select the Connection Pool tab under the Configuration tab group.
Increase the Maximum Capacity to a value that is appropriate to your Discoverer Portlet Provider usage.
Click Save.
This change takes effect immediately. It does not require Discoverer applications to be restarted.
For more information, see the WebLogic Administration Console Online Help.
Discoverer Portlet Provider might throw an exception while processing requests.
Users might see the following error message when Discoverer Portlet Provider processes requests:
Portlet data limits exceeded. Data shown may be incomplete.
This error occurs when the Discoverer worksheet query returns more rows than allowed by the Discoverer PortletProvider cache. The (default) maximum number of rows cached by Discoverer PortletProvider is 1000.
You can increase the Discoverer PortletProvider cache, by changing the
maxDataRows parameter in the
configuration.xml file, as shown in the following example:
<!-- Portlet Provider configuration. -->
<portlet logKey="disco.portlet.fatal" logLevel="error" pickerCompatibleVersions="10.1.2" maxDataRows="1500">
<enablePortlet status="true"/>
<sessionPool maxSessions="20" useCachedSession="true" maxSessionAgeHour="35" @ maxSessionInactivityPeriodMinute="17" maxRefreshWaitMinute="1" maxRefreshRetries="1" maxGenericParameters="10" maxNewSessionPerMinute="6" maxWaitNewSessionMinute="30" minRequestThreadPoolSize="20" peekSleepIntervalSec="2"/>
Publishing a query (that returns a large number of rows) to a portlet affects performance.


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