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Is There a Statute of Limitations on Coronavirus Medical Malpractice?
In the months and years to come, there will likely be many reviews and recriminations of how governments, healthcare systems, and communities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since civil litigation has been more or less put on hold in the state of New York during the current crisis, many people may be wondering whether they might run afoul of the statute of limitations applicable to malpractice cases if they are forced to wait too long to file suit.
Answering this question is complicated for several reasons. On the one hand, recent litigation has tolled the statute of limitations for malpractice that occurred prior to March 20th, 2020. On the other hand, asking whether you need to file suit by a certain date may be the wrong question to ask—the better question may be whether you will be able to file suit for coronavirus medical malpractice at all.
Tolls to the Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations
In response to the early stages of the pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 202 on March 7th, 2020 to declare a state of emergency in New York because of the coronavirus outbreak. An addendum to this order signed on March 20th, Executive Order 202.8, tolled the statutes of limitations for all civil cases until April 19th, and subsequent orders extended this deadline to August 5th.
When a statutory filing period is "tolled," that means that no time that passes during the tolled period counts towards the filing deadline to which a statute of limitations applies. In other words, anyone who had a cause of action accrue prior to March 20th, 2020 will have at least an extra 139 days—the amount of time between March 20th and August 5th of 2020—to file their claim.
The Problem with Coronavirus Medical Malpractice Claims
Under normal circumstances, any cause of action for medical malpractice that accrued between March 20th and August 5th would also have its statute of limitations tolled based on the same logic.
However, this will likely not be the case in New York because of another legislative action on April 3rd. On this date, a new state budget was passed with a clause added that granted immunity to medical workers and nursing home staff responding to the COVID-19 pandemic—a clause which superseded all prior executive orders related to the coronavirus emergency. Because of this immunity clause, virtually every healthcare provider in the state of New York will be completely immune from malpractice liability for any action taken during the crisis, except in cases involving gross negligence or overtly criminal behavior.
This measure has been controversial among many state legislators and legal professionals, and it remains unclear whether it will continue to be enforceable in the months and years to come. If you would like to explore your options for filing a coronavirus medical malpractice claim, you should speak with an attorney as soon as possible about this constantly evolving situation.


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A site specific installation for the exhibition Höhenrausch at the OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz (Austria).
The plastic bags are selectively inflated and deflated in controlled rhythms, creating wavelike animations across the wall. Although each bag is mounted in a stationary position, the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively movements. Forms appear from the net-like matrix and disappear back into the surface. In this way shapes and the boundaries of the installation itself start to dissolve.


Pasadena, Texas – The Texas Chiropractic College Board of Regents is pleased to announce a nation-wide search to identify and hire the 14th President in TCC's 106 years, and invites applications and recommendations for the Presidency.
A delegation of board members has been named to the presidential search committee, led by Dr. Monte Blue, TCC Board Chairman.
The Board of regents have chosen specific characteristics and qualifications for TCC's future president as well as outlined the application process to make it as streamlined as possible. To view the presidential search website, visit www.txchiro.edu/search. Applications and supporting documents are due by April 4, 2014 but the position will remain open until filled.
After 10 years as president, Dr. Richard G. Brassard is announcing his retirement from Texas Chiropractic College, effective Sept. 1, 2013.


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For example, in evaluating Michael Kors (KORS) above, there are 481 funds that have a position in KORS as of the most recent reporting period. That's an increase of 153 funds from this time last year. This should give you added conviction that there is growing institutional interest in the stock.
The percent of shares held and the percent of fund assets gives you a basic idea of whether these funds are accumulating a new position. For example, Fidelity Magellan Fund doesn't likely consider a position in KORS of 0.03% of assets a full position. If KORS were to go up tenfold it wouldn't affect the fund's performance. Although we cannot know for sure, it seems likely that in this scenario, the Magellan manager is building a position in KORS. He might eventually want to take that position to 4—5% of fund assets, and his steady buying of this stock will be an important factor in any potential price appreciation.


Radiation Blue's combined experience includes Hitman: Blood Money, Spec Ops: The Line and The Settlers series.
Genesis Alpha One, the incoming survival-FPS-roguelike from Radiation Blue and Team 17, poses a familiar scenario: Earth has declared war on itself, humankind is in peril, and thus it's up to a select few to travel space in a bid to relocate and ultimately save our beleaguered race. The difference here is, Genesis Alpha One asks you to base-build and actually grow new human life at the same time.
"Humankind's last chance to save our species...", reads a message within the trailer below. "Is to create new ones."
Said to be set sometime in the "near future", Earth in Genesis Alpha One has been ravaged by conflict, whereby corrupt regimes and unregulated global capitalism has left the planet on its backside. "Societies are collapsing," we're told, which is where the Genesis programme comes in.
"As the Captain of a Genesis starship, you journey into uncharted space on the ultimate mission," so says publisher Team 17. "Build and manage a space vessel, farm resources, deal with terrifying alien infestations, clone creatures and explore a vast, randomly generated universe.
"Your goal: Find new homes for humanity's DNA and save the species from extinction."
In practice, that sees you battling aliens in a randomly-generated world; building, managing and customising your own starship; harvesting resources from your new surrounds; and cloning and creating new lifeforms to bolster your crew.


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What telescope should I give a child?
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Boy van de Beek (born 13 November 1993) is a Dutch football player who plays for De Treffers.

Club career
He made his professional debut in the Eerste Divisie for Achilles '29 on 7 August 2015 in a game against Jong Ajax.

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Memorable Scripture: The King has the last word.
Adonijah is the younger brother of Absalom and as King David grew old, he assumed he would become king.
The day came when he publicly proclaimed it and had a following.
But the king has the last word and David made Solomon, the son of Bathsheba, king.
Adonijah thought his path was the logical one and, had he continued, it would probably cost him his life. He did back off.
Many people have their own thoughts and belief in God, religion, salvation, and eternal life. Much of what I've heard others say has no basis in God's word. One individual actually told me that he and God would sit down, have a beer, and talk everything over and that everything would end up okay for him.
You cannot dictate to God your thoughts and ideas on salvation.
The King has the last word!
The King gave His word to us so we can know what is expected.
The King has the last word.
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Joseph M. Flanders
Goodhue County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 12 years experience
(612) 424-0398	1212 Minnesota St. W.
Cannon Falls, MN 55009
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Estate Planning
University of North Dakota School of Law
A Dakota County, Minnesota lawyer focusing on probate, estate planning, Wills, Trusts, family law, business law, and litigation.
Sonja M. Nyberg
Hennepin County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 9 years experience
(952) 955-8009	2626 East 82nd Street
Family, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Hamline University School of Law
After graduating law school in 2010, Sonja secured a judicial clerkship in Hennepin County Family Court. She worked on high asset divorce cases with complex financial matters as well as high conflict custody disputes. Sonja learned firsthand how judicial officers decide cases and what makes a family law attorney effective inside and outside of the courtroom. After clerking, Sonja worked for a large, national law firm where she gained a tremendous amount of experience. Sonja is empathetic, detailed, and aggressive when necessary.
Alex De Marco
Ramsey County, MN Family Law Attorney with 13 years experience
(651) 503-8394	6 West 5th Street
Suite 700G
Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota School of Law
Alex De Marco is an experienced criminal defense lawyer who has represented clients charged with everything from traffic offenses to murder. Adult felony cases are his specialty, particularly assault and drug cases, and he handles them for affordable fees. He has experience in Child Protection and termination of parental rights cases. He has also handled hundreds of juvenile delinquency cases. He remains active in local politics and public advocacy. A devoted athlete, he has competed nationally in Strongman. Alex is a big personality who balances professionalism with a down to earth edginess that endures him to his...
Matthew Majeski
Washington County, MN Family Law Attorney with 11 years experience
(651) 207-6162	8530 Eagle Point Boulevard
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Free ConsultationFamily and Divorce
William Mitchell College of Law
Hello, my name is Matt Majeski. I founded and own Majeski Law, LLC. I work exclusively on divorce and other family law issues.
I serve across Minnesota, however a majority of my clients live in the following five county area: Washington, Dakota, Anoka, Ramsey, and Chisago.
Please check out my website at www.majeskilaw.com for more information that may be helpful for you. I'm happy to give a free phone consultation to determine if I can help you with your family issue, and give you an up-front price estimate.
Lisa Watson Cyr
Dakota County, MN Family Law Attorney with 21 years experience
(651) 288-2844	7825 - 3rd Street N.
Lisa Watson Cyr has devoted her practice to the area of Divorce and Family Law since being admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1998. Her experience and depth of knowledge ensure that her clients receive the highest quality of representation in dealing with all aspects of family law matters including divorce, custody, parenting time, child support, marital and non-marital property, alimony, and paternity. She is an effective negotiator and skilled litigator, always keeping the best interests of her clients as her sole focus. Although Lisa believes her clients are best served by a negotiated settlement and strives to settle matters...
Andrew Merrill Ayers
Hennepin County, MN Family Law Attorney with 17 years experience
(612) 294-6982	6800 France Avenue South
Family, Business, Collections and Estate Planning
Before starting my own law firm, I worked for law firms in New York City. I represented people and businesses in lawsuits in court. Other clients needed help with transactions for themselves or their businesses. Some of my favorite clients were young families and small business owners and working with them inspired me to start my own law firm in 2011.
Starting my own business helped me understand the challenges and opportunities that confront business owners at all stages of their entrepreneurial journeys. I was immediately amazed at the creative and innovative ways that these businesses worked with their customers. We...
Mary Hahn
Rice County, MN Family Law Attorney with 26 years experience
(507) 645-9358	311 Water Street South
Northfield, MN 55057
Family, Business, Construction and Divorce
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Civil Litigation, General Business, Contract Disputes, Appeals, Family Law, Employment Law, Construction Law
Mary Hahn has honed her skills in the courtroom over the last 25 years, specializing in civil litigation and appellate law, in particular multi-party business litigation, construction law, business contract disputes and divorce proceedings.
She practices in State District Courts and in Federal Court. She has substantial appellate law experience. She serves as the firm's primary practitioner at the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION
Prior to moving to Northfield in 2000, Hahn practiced law at the Atlanta construction law firm of Shapiro, Fussel, Wedge, Smotherman, Martin & Price.
Hahn...
Jeffrey Robert Arrigoni
Washington County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 36 years experience
(651) 738-1400	1811 Weir Drive, Suite 160
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Jeff has been a lawyer for 34 years, practicing family law exclusively for 28 years. For the first six years of his career he was a staff attorney at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. He has handled hundreds of cases and has the experience dealing with substantial marital estates in the millions and has tried and litigated many cases, including lengthy custody matters. He is also a trained mediator and ADR neutral on the Minnesota State Roster and is a FENE and SENE neutral in Ramsey County, Anoka County, Washington County, Scott County, Carver County, Pine County, Chisago County, Isanti...
Thomas Tuft
Ramsey County, MN Family Law Lawyer
(651) 771-0050	2109 County Road D E
Family, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Thomas Tuft, a native of the East Side of Saint Paul, is a shareholder at Tuft, Lach, Jerabek & O'Connell, PLLC practicing in all areas of family law, including complex divorce, child support, paternity, and child custody. He is a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral, a Social Early Neutral Evaluator (SENE) and a Financial Early Neutral Evaluator (FENE). He has been named among the list of Minnesota SuperLawyers® since 2002 and has been named one of the Top 40 Family Law SuperLawyers in Minnesota since 2004. He has been named to the list of Top 100 Superlawyers® in Minnesota and the...
Trygve Egge
(651) 481-9581	3750 Lexington Av N, Suite 309
Lexington Office Center
Shoreview, MN 55126
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Estate Planning and Real Estate
I have a great deal of experience with court matters, but I am now concentrating more of my time on Wills and Probate. I have been an arbitrator of Minnesota No Fault Auto Accident Claims. I graduated from Hopkins (MN) High School in 1967; St. Olaf College, Northfield MN in 1971 (BA History and Asian Studies) and William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline Law School) in 1975 (JD), working days and attending classes at night through a four year program. I am married and have two adult children.
Karl Kruger
Olmsted County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 15 years experience
(507) 280-0100	Barrister Hall
9 1st Street NW
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Business and Divorce
Born and raised in Southeastern Minnesota, Karl has years of experience in general practice. He advises clients on a wide range of legal subjects including commercial and criminal law with special emphasis on family and bankruptcy law. His experience includes a focus on consumer bankruptcy proceedings for businesses and individuals wishing to alleviate the burden of unmanageable debt, as well as non-bankruptcy debt workouts. He has represented numerous individuals and business concerns guiding them from commencement of their bankruptcy case to their discharge, and other post-discharge issues. Karl also has focuses much of his practice on family law, including marital dissolutions, paternity,...
Eric C Nelson
(800) 323-9436	250 Marquette Ave, Suite 540
Eric graduated magna cum laude from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN in 1990. In 1994 he received a Doctorate of Law (JD) degree from the University of Minnesota. Following that, he spent the next two years as a judicial clerk for the distinguished Honorable Lois J. Lang, Judge of District Court, with a workload that primarily involved the drafting of divorce decrees, orders, and legal memoranda on a host of issues pertaining to divorce, child custody, child support, visitation, spousal maintenance, distribution of marital and non-marital property, valuation of property, domestic abuse and harassment, and the like....
Kelly Lawton Rogosheske
(651) 225-9165	1100 West 7th Street
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Estate Planning
Gerald O. Williams
(651) 332-7650	652 Bielenberg Drive, Suite 202
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Jerry has devoted himself exclusively to the practice of divorce and family law in Minnesota since 1993. He practices in all areas of family law including divorce, custody, child support, paternity, grandparents' rights, mediation, appeals, and same sex cases. Jerry is particularly experienced in representing clients in interstate and international divorce and child custody, and frequently advises other attorneys on these issues. Jerry's practice includes collaborative law and alternative dispute resolution. He is the author of the first Minnesota divorce and family law blog in the state, a recurring author for the Minnesota Association for Justice Magazine, and...
Stacey Keenan
(651) 252-7238	2109 County Road D East
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Elder
Howard University School of Law
John T Burns Jr
Dakota County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 27 years experience
(952) 898-6834	14300 Nicollet Ct
Free ConsultationFamily, Appeals and Divorce
John grew up in Bloomington, MN and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1985. He attended Mankato State University on a football scholarship before attending Indiana University School of Law and receiving his JD with honors in 1992. He moved his office to Burnsville, MN in 1994 and has remained in the same location for over 20 years. At Burns Law Office our practice is limited to family law matters such as divorce/separation, child custody, child support, father's rights, alimony/spousal maintenance, prenuptials and related matters. John is one of the most respected and experienced attorneys in...
Julie Oney
Dakota County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 6 years experience
(612) 432-1707	3345 Lexington Ave S #203B
Julie is a founding member of Oney + Kim, PLLC, where she empowers each client to take an active role in making legal decisions that will affect his or her future. Her approach is to be strong, knowledgeable, and readily available to advocate for each client.
Julie has experience both in and out of the courtroom where she effectively advocates for clients dealing with divorce, custody/parenting time, third party custody, adoption, support/maintenance, and domestic violence.
One client described working with Julie as follows: "Ms. Oney handled my divorce. I would describe Julie as friendly, knowledgeable of legal matters, and an excellent...
Adam Blahnik
Scott County, MN Family Law Attorney with 14 years experience
(952) 447-4424	4617 Colorado Street SE
Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Adam Blahnik is a Minnesota divorce attorney and law partner at Blahnik, Prchal & Stoll PLLC, a law firm based out of Prior Lake, Minnesota (in Scott County). Adam practices in all areas of family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance, property division, prenuptial agreements, paternity, Orders for Protection (OFP) and Harassment Restraining Orders (HRO). Adam also practices in tribal court, and frequently represents clients at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) and Prairie Island Tribal Court.
Adam received his juris doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in 2005, and was admitted to practice...
Cindy Perusse
Hennepin County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 26 years experience
(952) 921-5878	Suite 1500
Family, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
I have practiced family law my entire 24-year career as a litigator and a mediator. I am licensed in Minnesota, California and Colorado. After spending time in courts in 3 states, nothing surprises me anymore. I enjoy being an advocate for my clients and guiding them successfully through the legal process be it a divorce, child custody, spousal maintenance or property matters.
I received my Bachelors degree from UCLA, and my law degree from Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell-Hamline School of Law). I attended advanced training in litigation skills through the ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute held at...
Mr. Kimball G Orwoll
(507) 281-0077	400 South Broadway
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce and Domestic Violence
I am a Rochester native with over 30 years of experience practicing family law in the Olmsted County and Southeast Minnesota area. I was admitted to practice in 1980. In addition to representing clients in all of the counties in Minnesota's Third Judicial District, I have represented clients in Goodhue, Blue Earth, and Faribault counties located in the First and Fifth Judicial Districts. I am a graduate of St. Olaf College and Hamline University School of Law. I have taken particular interest in advocating for the best interest of children. I am a volunteer Guardian...
Kristen Bullock
(651) 270-6484	332 Minnesota Street, Suite W1272
Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Criminal Defense and Divorce
Mr Ayodele Mayowa Ojo
(651) 204-6470	Suite 201
Family, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Immigration
William Mitchell College of Law and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Mr Ayodele M. Ojo first obtained his Law Degree in Nigeria, practicing in Nigeria under the legal system similar to the British legal system. . He then attended William Mitchell Law School in Minnesota and was licensed in the State in 2004 . He specializes in assisting low income Defendants and the less privileged who may not ordinarily have access to legal representation . He is compassionate and zealous in his representation . His diverse experiences,cultural , linguistic orientation is an advantage when he works with immigrants who may need a trustworthy representative that explains their...
Geri Napuck
(612) 746-4162	5775 Wayzata Blvd
St. Louis Park , MN 55416
Minneapolis family law attorney Geri Napuck delievers personalized representation to the Twin Cities. She practices exclusively in the area of family law and has extensive experience representing clients in divorces, child custody issues, parenting issues, property division, spousal maintenance, post-divorce matters, paternity and most recently has added pet mediations to her list of mediation services.
Kevin Leiran
(651) 379-3007	155 South Wabasha Street
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Business and Estate Planning
Kevin Leiran is a skilled, aggressive attorney practicing in the areas of Bankruptcy, civil litigation, probate and estate planning. Call Kevin today for quote.
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Robert Douglas Kane Jr
(612) 701-7767	1795 Carnelian Lane
Family, Business, Criminal Defense and Employment
Hamline Univ School of Law
Rob Kane's practice consists primarily of counseling and representing individual and business clients on matters involving general business law, government relations, employment law, and contracts. He has over seven years of experience practicing law. He works with established businesses as well as entrepreneurs and growing businesses to assist with their legal requirements. He prides himself on understanding your business needs and responding promptly, efficiently and effectively. Rob can assist you right from the beginning, when you are deciding on a business form (corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or another business entity), as well as during business growth. He can negotiate...
Taylor Jordan
Ramsey County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 2 years experience
(657) 772-3446	905 Parkway Drive
Taylor practices in the area of family law, and she is also a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral. Prior to becoming an attorney, Taylor spent two years as a law clerk and investigator at McCullough & Associates, P.A., before graduating from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association.
Taylor grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and later attended school at Colorado State University where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Communications and Political Science. Always a Midwesterner, Taylor moved closer to home after graduation and attended law school at Mitchell Hamline School...
Courtney J. Schneider
Hennepin County, MN Family Law Attorney with 9 years experience
(763) 259-3655	5201 Eden Avenue
As a family law attorney, my primary focus is to support clients through the legal process so they may transition into the next chapter of their lives. Prior to representing clients, I worked as judicial law clerk in Hennepin County Family Court. Working side-by-side with judges, I gained an immense understanding of family court procedure, and how judges decide cases. I translate that experience to my practice every day, assisting clients in making the best decisions for their families. I have experience representing clients in all aspects of family law cases, including divorce proceeding, child custody and support matters,...
Ryan S McLaughlin
Dakota County, MN Family Law Attorney with 7 years experience
(320) 318-0430	153 4th Ave South
South Saint Paul, MN 55075
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Estate Planning and Probate
University of Wyoming College of Law and Carleton College
Hello! My name is Ryan McLaughlin and I'm the founding attorney at McLaughlin Law. I focus primarily on Family Law and Estate Planning. In addition to a J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law, I have extensive training as a therapist, which has proven invaluable in my work as a divorce mediator.
McLaughlin Law a next-generation law office: flat-fee, mobile, and client-centric. Flat fee means that, from wills to custom contracts to divorce representation, you can see all of my prices in advance. No surprises or hourly-rates that keep accumulating without results. Mobile means that in lieu of...
Bruce Cameron
Olmsted County, MN Family Law Attorney with 11 years experience
(507) 206-4976	3240 East River Road NE
Free ConsultationFamily and Estate Planning
Ignatius Udeani
Hennepin County, MN Family Law Attorney
(952) 373-8416	7850 Metro Pkwy
Family, Criminal Defense and Immigration
Udeani Law Office is a legal firm devoted to helping Minneapolis residents with their various matters relating to criminal defense, family law, and immigration law. The team recognizes that these can be some of the most complex legal fields to work through, which is why every client is treated with respect and honesty. No two cases are alike, and when you retain the firms representation, you can be confident that you will be working with an attorney who is genuinely passionate about helping you obtain your goals. You'll never be left in the dark about the status of your case,...
Kathleen E. Rusler O'Connor
(952) 529-1961	1500 McAndrews Road West
Kathleen's Family Law Practice focuses on guiding clients through the legal maze. Kathleen uses her 25 years of experience to explain the legal system and help you determine the best options for you to move through the legal system.
Jennifer M Macaulay
Ramsey County, MN Family Law Lawyer with 18 years experience
(651) 231-1237	649 Grand Avenue
Family, Appeals, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Matthew J Gilbert
(612) 564-3622	2801 Cliff Rd. E., Suite 200
Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Employment
In 2012 and 2015, Minnesota Super Lawyers recognized Matt as a "Rising Star," which is an honor that less than three percent of Minnesota's young attorneys earn. In 2014, the National Trial Lawyers recognized Matt as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer for his exemplary leadership, reputation, influence, stature and profile as civil trial lawyer.
Jay Tentinger
(952) 953-3330	15000 Garrett Avenue
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Jay has been a licensed attorney since 1980. He began his career as a public defender before transitioning into insurance defense work where he gained valuable experience and knowledge of the insurance industry and insurance practices. After founding Tentinger Law Firm in 1997, Jay practiced in family law as well as continuing his insurance defense work. Today, Jay focuses his time to working with small businesses and their litigation needs. Jay is a member of the Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska State Bar Associations and a no-fault arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He is admitted to practice before the...
Mary P. Mooney
(612) 721-6749	3148 38th Avenue South
Family, Divorce, Estate Planning and Juvenile
Many times in life each of us come to a crossroads or encounter an issue in which we need to get legal advice on how best to proceed forward. At such times it is important to obtain guidance from someone who can act like a beacon in a possible sea of doubt or confusion. Mooney Law Office is committed to providing you with top notch legal representation. Mooney Law Office has represented hundreds of clients over the years in the ten county metropolitan area as well as out-state Minnesota. Every client is approached with a focus on integrity, advocacy and understanding....
Julie Wilcox
(651) 895-2945	4940 W 77th
Julie Wilcox founded Blue Owl Law because she wants to do good work for good people. She wants to listen. To give answers, and ideas. To guide strong people through tough situations. And because she has powerful personal experience within estate planning and family law and wants to use those experiences to help and connect with others.
Kristin Huston
I have 17 years of experience, and have been practicing in the area of family law since 2004. I have represented hundreds of clients (mothers, fathers, wives and husbands) in complex and simple divorce actions, custody/parenting time actions, child support proceedings, grandparent visitation actions, and a myriad of other family law actions. I am a zealous advocate for my clients, but I also provide my clients with knowledgeable legal advice about their options so that my client can make an informed decision about how he or she wants to proceed. I do my best to resolve my cases outside of...
Jennifer L. Thompson
(763) 310-7477	8500 Normandale Lake Blvd.
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Estate Planning
Jennifer has represented private individuals as well as county agencies in family matters, child protection, and civil commitment litigation since 2014. As a certified student attorney at William Mitchell College of Law, she represented parents whose children had been removed from the home under circumstances such as chemical dependency and medical neglect. At the same time, she volunteered as a guardian ad litem (Court Appointed Special Advocate) in child protection cases in Hennepin County.
Beginning in 2015, Jennifer clerked in a private practice family law firm and, after graduating early from law school and passing the Bar exam in...
Jill Poppe Mackenzie
(651) 815-4103	855 Village Center Drive
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Jill utilizes an innovative approach to family law - she see a divorce as a "family reorganization" and she encourages her clients to adhere to the following guiding principles: 1.	A happy family in two houses is better than a miserable family in one house. 2.	A divorce terminates a marriage, but a divorce does not terminate a family. 3.	Conflict damages children. 4.	A divorce is not to be started lightly - it impacts multiple generations. 5.	All divorces cause losses. 6.	We all experience a predictable pattern of emotions in response to losses. 7.	You choose to make your life better. 8.	Revenge against the other party does not make your life better. 9.	Life's challenges...
Bruce N. Crawford
(612) 216-3510	222 South 9th Street
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce and Landlord Tenant
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Crawford Law Office is committed to providing skilled and effective legal representation in divorce and other family law and civil litigation matters throughout the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area. At Crawford Law Office we employ exceptional legal expertise with common sense in our work. We offer our clients the advice and counsel they need in order to make informed decisions about their legal matters while making every effort to cost-effectively resolve their case. We understand that each client we represent faces a unique situation and with that in mind we...
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Where Is Stacy's Mom From the Fountain of Wayne's Video Now?
There was only one video that sizzled September 2003, and that was Fountains of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom." The power pop one-hit wonder could be credited to the titular star of the vid, Stacy's mom herself.
Whether you're feeling nostalgic or still very much in love with the song, you may be wondering where is Stacy's mom now? Is she still getting massages by the pool and stirring the fantasies of suburban tweens? Hardly.
MUST SEE: You Won't Believe What the Astronaut from 'Oops I Did It Again' Is Up To!
Watch the video below to see what Stacy's mom, model and actress Rachel Hunter, is up to today.
Of course the vintage music video still remains an immortal classic. In it, a gangly barely pubescent boy fawns over his classmate's leggy mother while ignoring the adorably amateur advances of poor Stacy. There's a series of scams he tries out to get closer to his crush: lounging in the pool while Stacy wastes her time doing handstands, mowing the lawn and crashing into a bird house, watching music videos on the couch but really keeping a side-eye on Stacy's mom's cleavage. He's so distracted he ends up in a series of mishaps that culminates in a Fast Times at Ridgemont High moment that's still deeply cringeworthy. Ah, the passion of youth.
But there's no denying that Hunter, a former supermodel who has graced the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue twice, really brought her A-game in her red string bikini. And after all these years it looks as though she's still making a show of being painfully beautiful.
Stacy must be seething with rage. We guess the only question left is, what ever happened to Fountains of Wayne?
Want to find out just what Hunter is up to today? Watch our video to learn all about Stacy's mom… and you won't believe who Stacy's dad is!


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Why I never believed in Vision 20:2020
by Odilim Enwegbara8 min readMay 4, 2013Add comment
I never believed in the so-called vision 20:2020 for the reason that it wasn't originally ours; and that was why having Yar'Adua's seven point agenda anchored on the vision for me was simply mere political rhetoric. So, from the onset, I knew it was a daydream that was neither based on a realizable comprehensive economic plan, nor on some properly coordinated implementation plan. I knew from onset that this is another big joke sold to big jokers who call themselves leaders. Shouldn't the way we are going about the so-called vision enough to make us worrisome how those responsible for policy formulation and implementation are yet to grasp with the complexity of the country's daunting development problems?
My single reason is that placing Nigeria among the world's top 20 largest economies by 2020 should mean having Nigeria's 2020 GDP above $900 billion from about $230 then and $275 billion in 2012; that is, from 41st today to at least 20th, including beating countries like South Africa current 29th down to Poland currently 20th. Take electricity generation. How could that happen when Nigeria with a population of about 170 million simply generates not more than 4,500MW whereas South Africa with a population of 50 million, generates 40MW?
How could it happen if the major driver of the economy continues to be oil? Maybe we expect our output of about 2.5 million barrels daily would make us join this club 20. Should joining this so-called club 20 be possible, I believe it would have been much easier earlier than by 2020 for the simple reason that as we march to 2020, more countries not only join the oil producing club but also produce more oil than we do, making the realization of our 20:2020 dream more and more unrealizable. But how possible is this when 70 per cent of our budget is spent on recurrent while meager 30 per cent spent on capital, minus bribe and system inefficiencies? Can such a prodigal consumer nation, a nation with one of the lowest savings-investment rates in the world become prosperous, when such prosperity comes with aggressively investing in the future? Or how do we want to realize such a dream without making Nigeria one of the world's top 20 investment friendly countries; without overhauling our legal system and tax regime to first and foremost encourage local investors who should make the country attractive to foreign investors?
But if we should argue that after all most great things start as a joke, then, it means that we have to by now become real with the way we conceive and promote economic development. It means we should have come up with some far-reaching strategies about how to be growing the economy year-in-year-out at rate not less than 15 per cent because that is the only way to make our dream of turning our $275 billion GDP into about $1,000 billion by 2020 because without growing our GDP to above $1,000 billion, the 20:2020 dream would end up another daydream. We should agree that becoming one of 20 largest economies of the world by 2020 will require investing not less than $75 billion annually in the economy, which unfortunately is far more than our annual revenues from oil. Because sacrifice is not in our culture, it's why we believe in foreigners to do the sacrificing on our behalf by coming to invest their hard earned money in Nigeria while we continue with our prodigal lifestyle.
How do we expect drastic change in Nigeria without changing the way we have always done things? That is why I argue that to successfully confront the odds to development we need to become creative and unconventional in our approach. Since every development is unique, so unique should our solutions be, staring with abandoning our current development paradigm seen only from the prisms of western textbooks. That is why before thinking about becoming one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020, we should first think about how to break away from our present entitlement mentality. Let us begin to believe in ourselves, let us be ready to take the enormous risk and boldness involved, and above all let us once be willing to confront our problems head-on without looking for some foreign hands, foreigners, who ironically, are more interest in freezing our development efforts than helping us.
Moving from the 41st to 2oth on the world's GDP chart with seven years is an ambitious dream that will require all hands on deck. It will require CBN to abandon its current blind fighting of inflation at all costs, a monetarist policy that besides drying up money in circulation in ways that slows down real economic growth and job creation, also forces investors not to invest in the real sector of the economy but in the financial sector, leading to premature economic financialization and deindustrialization. That is why the 2007 CBN Act should be repealed so to broaden its legislative oversight. It is a mistake of immense proportion that we made by prematurely joining WTO into 1995, and still are making by postponing the revocation of our WTO membership, which has not only caused us unprecedented deindustrialization but also unheard-of millions jobs annually exported the same countries that we import goods from.
The most plausible way this ambitious dream can happen is by dealing with our current high infrastructure deficit head-on, particularly drastically increasing our 4,500MW to not less than 100,000MW by 2020. This should happen because power sector being so critical and so strategic to every economy's industrialization, is the game-changer for Nigeria's industrialization and diversification. But there's no way this can happen with power privatization, because as every modern economy's game-changer, it can never be left in some private hands, let alone in foreign hands. That is why as sweet as this neo-liberal economic team would want to market privatization to us, it should be recognized as a plot to undermine Nigeria's ultimate economic rise. If anyone should say that I am exaggerating, let that person show me that developed economy, including the US, Japan, the UK, France, Germany, China, India, Brazil, etc. that has left its power sector solely in private. Or would the recent rise of China, India, and Brazil have been successful without their governments massively investing power?
Fixing our power problem alone should make millions of our small businesses and entrepreneurs get to work and be able to compete with their foreign peers around the world, especially if that comes with access to cheap venture capital financing as well as walling off foreign dumpers from displacing our infant industries.
If every great economy has to borrow massively during their takeoff, why should borrowing to transform our economy be a capital sin? Besides internal savings, would the recent rise of China and India have happened without massively borrowing from whoever was ready to lend them? No amount of borrowings that are productively spent should be considered to be recklessly bequeathing debt to the next generations, since what're being bequeathed to the future generations are superior infrastructure, unprecedented economic growth, as well as prosperous and harmonious society?
The most plausible way putting the present power problem behind us is to seek sovereign loans from countries like China, using the country's oil reserves as strategic collateral. Three billion barrels out of our 42 billion barrels of oil, used as strategic collateral to borrow about $300bn which should be repaid after 25 years, should be recognized as the best decision ever to be made by any Nigerian president in an effort to fix our power problem. The reasons for insisting on China are obvious. Not only because China remains today the world's most solvent economy with about $3.7 trillion in foreign reserves, but also because as the world's number one power producer, generating 1,140,000MW (against America's 1,041,000MW), China has the engineering clout to help us quickly move from 4,300MW into 100,00MW within five years.
Odilim Enwegbara
Enwegbara is currently on a 12-month sabbatical in the US, where he is writing a book.
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Over the past few years, more homeowners in our community have entrusted Repower to invest in solar than any other solar provider. We take this responsibility — helping homeowners evaluate solar, engineer and install the system, and monitor its production — seriously, and we are proud of the more than 8,000 Repower panels in our community.
No two solar systems are the same, and no two roofs are analogous; RepowerYolo solar systems range in size from eight panels on a duplex in North Davis to 60 panels atop a horse corral in the country. The below gallery highlights a selection of Repower solar systems, residing in every conceivable configuration and roof type: From ground-mount systems in the country to rooftop arrays on composition, wood shake, flat tile, "S" tile, foam, TPO and metal roof structures.


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Q: Windows Defender for Antivirus - Customize Text Notification Config Manager and client alerts
We like to change the wording in the notifications for Windows Defender for Antivirus.
Not sure this is possible.
First area - Client, Change the wording on the local machine pop-up notification for Virus & Threat protection - Threat found notification. Can this be done?

Second Area - ConfigManager, Change the wording in the alert Subject line. Currently it has the following for example: "Configuration Manager Malware Detected Alert: Office Malware detection"
The "Office Malware Detection" is the Name of the alert but I like to customize it more.
Also add additional info in the body of the alert.
Is any of this possible or Microsoft decided there information is good enough?
Thank you to anyone that has any thoughts on this.

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1. Steam the potatoes on medium heat for about 15 minutes. You should be able to pierce through the potato with skewers or fork if it's cooked. Leave to cool in room temperature.
2. Steam the frozen mix vegetables for about 10 minutes. Drain the mix vegetables.
4. Serve either warm or left it in fridge till cool.


You have probably heard this term more than once in your business or nonprofit. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is an easily understood measure of what a customer is worth to a business. Simply, it answers the question of, how much will a given customer spend with us over the life of our relationship? It can be measured both online and in real life, and it applies to both business-to-consumer and business-to-business settings.
If you know CLV, and you know the cost to acquire a customer, you can make individual and aggregate calculations that tell you the return on investment (ROI) for lead generation marketing and the selling activities of your business (or donor acquisition for your nonprofit).
Quantity measures of CLV, however, leave out the considerable value of the quality of relationships you forge with your customers. A complete view, one supported with the communication you maintain with your customer base, should find additional ways to measure CLV, so you and your colleagues can go by more than the numbers. There should be a relationship between the dollar-value of a relationship, and what that customer can do for you that cannot be measured on your bottom line.
The value that can be ascribed to your relationship with a top customer may be as much philosophical as financial. Increasing utilization, and upselling and cross-selling will get you more payments, but as you near the top of that curve, how do you continue to increase value from the customers who buy from you regularly and presumably are happy with you?
To turn existing customers into your biggest advocates or brand "fans," consider how they behave today. Where are they on the spectrum of customer to fandom?
After they've purchased what they can, how else can they bring value to your business?
Customers with highest dollar-value CLV may help you by completing surveys or participating in focus groups. Especially in B2B commerce, you may build deeper relationships and flatter them by asking them to serve on customer panels to give you feedback on a single initiative or as a regular participant in a customer advisory council. In B2C, best customers can become leaders in online communities – they will take them over, nurture them, and make them stronger. They will post material on your behalf, defend you, sing your praises, and they will write your good Yelp reviews or wherever else it might be appropriate for them to weigh in and demonstrate that they know your brand, like your brand, and trust your brand.
A true fan trusts your brand implicitly. These are the customers who are most likely to forgive you any "bugs" or foibles if you stumble with Version 1.0 of your new product. If they feel your value as a company, they'll be your early-market buyers and defenders when you come out with something new, trusting that you will recover and course-correct in no time.
Perhaps the magic of human connection (how we at 3C Comms like to view marketing) really can be articulated, tested, reproduced, and scaled down to a singular formula with a simple mathematical algorithm. But the foundation, as with any type of sales enablement or attempt to influence decision-making, must begin with building a relationship. That truth is timeless. We believe the following truths are as well.
"At the start of the 2000's, digital video recorders were brand new to the market, and looked like minor miracles to those of us used to swapping out VHS tapes or rewritable CD's to record favorite television shows. The old way was clunky, risked recording the latest episode of CSI or Survivor over Grandpa Frank's 75th birthday if you weren't careful.
"I researched the market and discovered TiVo. And to get the most out of my brand-new DVR I found an online community of fans who traded tips, tricks, and hacks. All business at first, we eventually shared info on favorite shows to record, and then went way beyond TV to share news of trips, family, work, food – life.
"In Silicon Valley, where I was living at the time, there was a strong TiVo community – lots of engineers and tech-happy business types – and we decided that we needed to get together in real life just for fun. We planned a weekend picnic, and because one member of the group had worked on a project to bring audio-visual equipment into children's hospitals, we made it a fundraiser to purchase TiVo DVR's for their a/v rooms.
"While each of us may have purchased one or two TiVo units for our homes, we amplified the new technology and its strongest brand by becoming its strongest advocates, actually purchasing additional units to give away, and by raising awareness of the TiVo brand by exposing hundreds of families to it, from medical and support staff to the families of children undergoing treatment. What's that kind of PR like for a brand?
"Now sometimes when I watch a favorite show I like to sip a Scotch Whisky, neat if you please. Over the years I've bought more Laphroaig Scotch Whisky than any other brand, by a wide margin. I love its strong peaty taste and the near-medicinal aroma, and I like how they treat me as a fan.
"With each bottle, Laphroaig includes an offer to become a Friend of Laphroaig, claiming a square foot of the peat bogs of Scotland's Islay region that give the whisky its distinctive flavor. It's an endearing fiction, but I now "own" a tiny piece of the distillery's land. Someday, when I make a pilgrimage to the distillery, they will give me a map to find my plot, loan me a pair of Wellington boots so I can slosh through the bog to see it, and a "wee dram" to carry with me so that I can drink to my little piece of land while I am visiting it.
"Here in the States, they also offer invitation-only tastings and Scotch-themed adventures. I've attended a few of them over the last 5 to 7 years – from a fishing trip to a "kilt walk (no pictures, sorry!). I get to try new expressions from the distillery before anyone else, or I get to try things here in the States that are generally only for sale in international markets. It's a way of introducing them to us to get a sense of whether fans of the brand will like them or not, and perhaps the outcome will be that the distillery and its spirited alchemists introduce them to the US market.
"Find me walking the dogs on a gray and drizzly Seattle day, and you have a good chance of finding me in one of my Laphroaig hats or a scarf I've received at these events. I've convinced bar owners to keep it on their shelves, encouraged other Scotch fans to try it and made a few 'conversions,' and I've purchased bottles not just for my home but as gifts for friends. My CLV to Laphroaig goes well beyond my own purchases.
"And now you may decide to give it a try. Neat, rocks, or poured from a Wellington boot, I'm a fan for life."
If you're interested in exploring the non-financial aspect of Customer Lifetime Value in more detail or want to learn how 3C can help amplify those metrics with professional communication services, drop us a line!


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Boeing Braces for Union Vote at South Carolina Plant
By Rhonda Smith
Feb. 14, 2017, 12:16 AM
Representation election result of organizing campaign begun in 2015
'A union is not in the best interest of our teammates,' Boeing says
Workers in North Charleston, S.C., vote Feb. 15
Boeing Co. production workers in South Carolina are slated to vote Feb. 15 on whether they want union representation at a plant in North Charleston.
There's a lot at stake in this election for the world's largest aerospace company as well as the 600,000-member International Association of Machinists and the 3,075 workers who will be affected by the outcome, sources told Bloomberg BNA Feb. 13.
"South Carolina is an uphill climb for the union," said Michael H. LeRoy, a professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's School of Labor and Employment Relations and College of Law.
The Palmetto State's...


Copying Quote lines/products can be helpful when a customer would like to re-order the same products or if you need to sell a similar group of products to a different customer.
You can copy Quote lines at two stages within the quotation process. Firstly, you can copy Quote lines when you create the Quote record or alternatively you can copy Quote lines after you have created the Quote record. This article will explain how to copy Quote lines in both scenarios.
Within the new Quote record screen there is a field called Based On, which can be used to copy Quote lines from existing Quotes and select template Quotes to copy Quote lines from. For more information on template Quotes take a look at our Template Quotes article.
To search for the Quote that you wish to copy Quote lines from, click on the Search option within the Based On drop-down.
This will open the Copy Lines window, to select the Quote that you wish to copy click on the pencil icon shown in the screenshot below.
You will then be able to search for the required Quote using the Quote ID or description, in the example below we searched by Quote ID. Once you have found the required Quote that you wish to copy the Quote lines from, click the 'Select' button.
You will then be presented with all the products featured on the selected Quote record. By default all products will be selected however if there are any that are no longer required you can deselect them. In addition, by default the 'Recalculate Pricing & Discounts' option will be ticked, this is particularly important if you're copying from an old Quote as prices may of changed.
Once happy with the selected product click Confirm. You will then be taken back to the New Quote Record screen where you can check other details about the Quote and finally click 'Create' once ready. Your new Quote will then be created with the previously selected products.
If you've already created your Quote record but still need to copy Quote lines from another Quote, don't worry as we can still do this via the further options menu. By clicking on the Further Options menu (three dots) in the top right-hand corner you can choose to Copy Lines.
By clicking the Copy Lines option you will be taken to the same Copy Lines window that we saw earlier and can repeat the process via the pencil icon.
Finally, you have one final option when trying to copy lines from one Quote to another, this option is very similar to your typical copy and paste functionality. To get started find the Quote that you wish to copy the lines/products from using the global search.
Once you have the Quote open, click on the further options menu (three dots) featured in the top right-hand corner of the Products section.
Within the drop down menu select the Copy Rows option. You will then be asked to choose the products that you wish to copy. After selecting the required products click the Copy button.
Once fully copied a confirmation message will pop-up as shown below.
Next you will need to either create or find your new Quote that you wish to paste the copied lines/products to. After you have created or opened your Quote, click on the further options menu again but instead select the Paste Rows option.
You will then be asked to confirm the correct products have been copied. If happy with your selection click 'Import Products' and the products will be added to your Quote record.


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Lamb Of God release new album this July
Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Richmond, Virginia based heavy rock band Lamb of God will release their highly-anticipated seventh full-length album, VII: Sturm und Drang, this July.
Today, after weeks of hinting at fans about the imminent release, the band is unleashing a brand new track, Still Echoes, at Lamb of God. Get your first taste of new Lamb of God music since the band's 2012 Grammy-nominated release, Resolution, which debuted at #3 on the US Billboard Top 200, #1 on the US Top Hard Rock and Rock Album charts, and Top Tastemaker Albums charts, #2 on the Canadian albums chart, and #3 on the Australian albums chart.
This first single, Still Echoes, will be available via digital retailers and streaming services beginning Monday 18th May.
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe states, "The time has come to give the fans their first taste of the new Lamb of God album. This is a very, very dark, yet sonically highly varied, record. As it's always good to come out of the gate hard with a fast and aggressive one, we chose this track Still Echoes to kick it off. Enjoy/destroy."
VII: Sturm und Drang is once again produced and mixed by Josh Wilbur with engineering by Wilbur, Nick Rowe, and Kyle McAulay, and was recorded at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, CA and Suburban Soul Studios in Torrance, CA.
VII: Sturm und Drang, in various CD and vinyl editions and exclusive bundle versions is available for pre-order now from Lamb of God. Make sure to stay tuned for more VII: Sturm und Drang clips, tracks, and videos... coming soon...
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How often do you hear, "I sat down to write a blog post, and ended up with an eBook?" Probably not every week. But that's just what one of the the Oracle EBS Team Leads at Pythian has done. My colleague Subhajit has just published an eBook that covers the steps required to integrate Oracle Applications Release 12.1 with Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.6 and Oracle Access Manager 11.1.2.
At over 300 pages, this is a comprehensive guide to integrating 3 large and increasingly important pieces of the Oracle Applications technology stack, complete with screenshots and blow-by-blow examples of an actual configuration and deployment. No hand-waving theoretical stuff here; you get to watch the sandbox environment spring to life as you read! I'm still in the "browse the steps and download the software" phase, myself, but so far everything is clear and easy to follow. Subhajit has also offered up some troubleshooting tips for common issues encountered during deployment.
If you're an Apps DBA who's trying to get up to speed on the new look of identity management for E-Business Suite environments, you owe it to yourself to check out this eBook. Think of it as buying Subhajit a coffee (or a beer) in return for saving you the work of researching all those pre-requisites and puzzling out the various dependencies by yourself. This represents a serious jump-start to any effort to update your knowledge of E-Business Suite application server integration from the old 10gAS stack to the new 11g Fusion Middleware components.
Subhajit also promises more fun stuff in the near future, so stay tuned to his corner of the Pythian blog to see what's coming down the line! If you've been limping along on a barely-supported version of 10g SSO and OID to for your E-Business Suite identity management, his promised upgrade guide is sure to be of interest.
You can really help us justify resources for the OS X bundle if you email me letting me know you are a fan. Since Instant Client is a free download, it is tricky for us to know how widely it gets used.
Jump to OTN to download, but please remember to email Christopher as well, if you're interested in seeing the client for future releases.
After reviewing my blog post about running EBS OVM templates in VirtualBox, two of my teammates suggested that I work on something with potentially broader appeal. Their basic message was, "This is really cool for us EBS nerds, but what about the Core DBAs?"
So how does "11gR2 RAC in an hour" sound? In this post, I'll demonstrate how to deploy the pre-built Oracle VM templates to create a two-node 11gR2 RAC cluster in Oracle VirtualBox.
It's holiday season in many parts of the world, but it's not all parties and egg-nog. Caretakers of critical IT systems often have significant work to do as those systems roll over into a new year. In some cases, we're just monitoring to make sure nothing unusual happens. In other cases, however, we're making the unusual happen: running those batch jobs and backups that only fire once per year.
JInitiator, which is also, you guessed it, desupported in favor of the standard Sun JDK.
What's the big deal? After all, 11i is in Extended Support mode, so why should it matter if an installed Vision instance has technical components that are a bit long in the tooth? Extended Support or not, there are probably one or two (hah) 11i instances still stubbornly kicking around out there. Presumably those instances have been patched up at least a little bit. If you're installing an 11i Vision instance for educational purposes, it might help to have something that (hopefully) more closely matches the modern state of affairs.
Below are some of my notes from when I dragged my 11i Vision instance forward from 2005 to 2011. Well, sort of. It is still on 32-bit Linux (OEL 5.5 in this case) ;-). But the latest Developer 6i patch set has been applied, the database is at 11.2.0.2, Jinitiator's been replaced by JDK 6, and the AD tools are a bit more up-to-date. If you decide to use these notes, please understand that I intend them to be a rough guide, to save you some research time. I can't commit to detailed support of your effort. This is a reference, not a cookbook.
Note 316806.1: Oracle Applications Installation Update Notes, Release 11i (11.5.10.2) -- pay particular attention to the post-installation steps for relinking ASCP modules if you're using OEL/Redhat 5.4 and above. You may have already done this when installing Vision, but it's likely that a patch will overwrite adrelinknew.sh.
While you're reading, if you want to get a jump on downloading the patches listed in these documents, I've listed them below. Please validate that the patch numbers still match the documents; the Developer 6i patch document in particular are subject to relatively frequent updates.
Tying all those notes and patches together looks daunting, but it's not actually that bad. Here's a quick summary of what needs to happen. Make sure to reference the relevant notes for detail. Please recall that we're working on a Vision "playground" here; some of my suggestions for speeding things up may not be comfortable in production.
Start downloading all those fun patches! Here's a script to get you started, though you might need to make adjustments if patch requirements have changed.
Upgrade the database from version 9.2.0.6 to 9.2.0.8, per note 216550.1 to make the 11gR2 upgrade smoother. Doesn't take long, and while the scripts are running, you can work on the next five steps. Just do the database pieces (Section 2, steps 3-9 & 12 should be sufficient) for now.
Set s_discostatus=disabled in the context file to be picked up by the next Autoconfig run; this is 2011 for heaven's sake.
Install the JDK version 6 rpm as root.
Apply database patches (9776940,10149223, 10165223, and 10229719) to the 11gR2 ORACLE_HOME.
Bring the newly-patched 9.2.0.8 database up and apply the AD.I.7 patch set. Use the nocompileb option; you have a utlrp step coming later.
Adjust adrelinknew.sh script, per Note 316806.1.
To avoid an error during the next round of patches, make an adjustment to the IGW.IGW_AWARD_BUDGET_S sequence. This can also be fixed with a patch, but why go through the trouble of getting a password-protected patch for this exercise?
Apply the rest of the Apps patches (Merge them all. Yes, seriously). Again, use the nocompiledb option, and noautoconfig as well; the JDK step below will take care of that for you.
Perform the database upgrade per note 881505.1. There's a lot to do there; follow the note closely.
Find something else to do with your day; recompiling 140K invalid objects might take a while.
Database CPU/PSU patching and Oracle Applications CPU patches. As an example of what you're looking for is Note 1315202.1: Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 11i and 12 Critical Patch Update Knowledge Document (July 2011). This is a quarterly "moving target," so that link will eventually be stale; check My Oracle Support for updates.
Oracle Applications Extended Support Baseline patches. If you want to be really, really up-to-date, visit Note 883202.1: Patch Requirements for Extended Support of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 .
Fall is my favorite time of year. In part, it's because of the weather where I grew up: muggy Pennsylvania summer and late-summer thunderstorms give way to crisp mornings, sometimes-warmish afternoons, and cool evenings. The air smells of wood smoke and dried leaves, and the colors of the sky and the trees are fantastic.
Autumn weather is a bit less epic where I live now, but there's another, non-weather-related reason that I like this time of year: for me, it's a time of new starts. I know springtime is supposed to be the time when everything's renewed, but for me it's all about fall. I was one of those insufferably nerdy kids who actually looked forward to the start of school, from grade 1 through university: new books, new courses, new people (okay, maybe that last one is a bit of a stretch ;-)). That carried through to my so-called adult life as well: A lot of the biggest and best changes in the last decade or two (with two very notable exceptions) have also taken place at this time of year, including the starts of many of my jobs.
Hey look, I'm getting to the point after only two paragraphs! New record! This fall, I'm making another transition: Starting today, I begin the "on-boarding" process at Pythian, as a member of one of their ERP teams. In a way, it feels as much like starting school as it does a new job. This move represents my biggest career challenge to date, and I look forward to learning a ton (and contributing a ton) in the company of a lot of smart, talented people. Since I'm going to be packing my brain full of new things over the next 3 weeks, I expect that the only blog activity here will be from pre-scheduled posts, drafts that I'd been putting off finishing until recently. Once I'm up to speed on the new system, you'll hopefully be hearing more from me on the Pythian blog!
Man, this is exciting. I sure hope the big kids don't shove me in a locker or something.
In my previous post, I demo'ed some simple scripts to make changes to E-Business Suite profile options, using the API provided by the FND_PROFILE package. This post will look at the FND_USER_PKG package (no relation to the "ABS brake system"). While my examples only reference user creation and responsibility assignment, it's really worth reviewing the contents of the rest of the package; there's lots of useful stuff in there.
Disclaimer time! Are you surprised? I hope you're not surprised. Am I really copying this section from the previous post? Yup, I am!
The example code presented in this series of blog posts uses APIs written by Oracle to manipulate data in the E-Business Suite database. This does NOT imply that the code in these posts is endorsed or supported by Oracle.
The examples in this series of blog posts are presented as demonstration code only, and are neither guaranteed to work in your environment, nor in all cases. Since my environments are not the same as yours, I cannot offer support in the event that this code does not work for you. You are encouraged to make whatever modifications are necessary to make these examples work for you.
The scripts used in these examples were developed and implemented in test and development environments, where change management rules are often more lax. Be sure to test thoroughly, and to consult your organization's change management procedures, before attempting to use this code in production.
Short form: There's data-changing code in these posts. Oracle won't support you if you use the code; I can't support you either. Before running this code in production without testing and approval, you should probably prepare a resumé and, optionally, schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist.
--Readability improvements.  First time for everything.
PROMPT CTRL-C might be a good idea if these are incorrect/reversed.
John, Please create an EBS account in the test environment for the new DBA, Devnul Larson. Just give him the same responsibilities that you have, for now.
CTRL-C might be a good idea if these are incorrect/reversed.
On second thought, just assign all of SYSADMIN's responsibilities to the new guy. BTW, why are you assigning all the new tickets to DEVNULL?
It's worth noting that this is a fairly primitive approach, particularly when it comes to the user creation piece (no LDAP integration, no association of user record with an HR person/party record, etc). The ebs_dupresp script also doesn't touch things like profile options, so it shouldn't be considered a "user clone" script. You could probably accomplish this work with FNDLOAD or a third-party tool like DataLoader, but I'd rather write SQL.
--N.B. Annoying security_group_id kludge. NULL=STANDARD, woohoo!
Please assign Application Developer and Oracle Diagnostics responsibilities to users SBERG, YWATSON, and WPARKER. SBERG will also need Functional Administrator. WPARKER will be rolling off the project at the end of the year, so please end-date his responsibilities accordingly. These changes are approved for both development environments and all three CRP instances.
The E-Business Suite APIs are not just the realm of developers and data migration specialists. There are a number of APIs, particularly in the FND module, that can make life a lot easier for Apps DBAs. In my next two (maybe three, if I'm feeling ambitious) posts, I'll provide some examples of how to use PL/SQL to perform tasks that normally require slogging around in the EBS Forms interface.
Disclaimer time! Are you surprised? I hope you're not surprised.
Now that I have all that out of the way, here are two basic examples demonstrating the use of FND_PROFILE. As with most PL/SQL code in the E-Business Suite database, FND_PROFILE is owned by the APPS schema. Browse through it, there's interesting stuff in there. Please note that the set_ebs_profile function referenced in these examples is my hackwork (defined in ebs_def_setprof.sql), not part of the Oracle-supplied API.
Autoconfig takes care of setting a lot of site-level profile options after cloning, but there may be a few instances when you need to change settings manually before releasing the instance to users. The following script is a template that I use, adding calls to set_ebs_profile as needed.
ACCEPT new_SID PROMPT "New SID (e.g. MYCLONE,NEWVIS, etc): "
ACCEPT new_color PROMPT "New Color Scheme (TEAL, RED, KHAKI, OLIVE, PURPLE, TITANIUM): "
ACCEPT env_type PROMPT "Instance type (e.g. Test, Dev, Sandbox): "
ACCEPT data_src PROMPT "Data source note (e.g. 'Prod clone, data as of DD-MON-YYYY'): "
The code that defines the procedure set_ebs_profile can be found below. I've purposely written the script to be plugged into anonymous PL/SQL blocks instead of creating a procedure, because deployment of custom code is not always permitted.
Notes: * Call as part of the declare section of an anon PL/SQL block.
RETURN; --Whoops. Here's your bucket, bail away.
Note that set_ebs_profile expects the internal name for a profile option, instead of the "user-readable" name you'd normally see in the Forms interface. It's useful to become familiar with a query similar to the following. Pay attention to the user_enabled_flag, or you might spend time wondering why your changes aren't sticking.
This is already making the rounds, but I figured I'd add my voice to the chorus, to maximize the likelihood that people find the information that they need.
If you're an ORACLENERD and a relatively early adopter of new versions of Mac OS X, you might notice that the 64-bit version of the OS X Instant Client does not work under OS X Lion. Attempts to use the 64-bit sqlplus binary and libraries result in a segmentation fault. Boo. The only known solutions for command-line sqlplus from Lion at the this point seem to be use the 32-bit client, or stay on Snow Leopard. We're still in the early days of general availability for Lion, so perhaps another solution will surface.
I suspect that this doesn't mean good things for the full-blown database install, but I haven't checked that out yet (and I don't know when/if I will; my native OS X install of 10g had been gathering dust for quite a while, and did not make the move to my new MBP).


Internet Law for Journalists, Bloggers, Students, Social Media Users … is as impressively succinct as its title is long. The book provides a tour through the expanding range of laws you need to consider when you publish online, illustrated with copious and simple examples, along with guidance for what you should do to avoid being added to the list.
The issues covered range from how traditional concerns such as defamation and contempt play out online, to increasingly important areas such as harassment, copyright, terms and conditions and protection of sources. Forthcoming legislation is highlighted and the book includes numerous examples of cases from the past year, particularly with regard to 'offensive' use of social media under the Communications Act.
Sourcing images from social media is covered both in terms of both copyright and privacy laws and guidance, and the strict legal context is complemented with how Ofcom and the Press Complaints Commission have handled similar issues.
Making the most of the ebook format, Thom provides plenty of links to more information online. This allows the book itself to focus on communicating the key points clearly and succinctly.
If I was to recommend one book on law for people publishing online, this would be it. Essential.
Two words: FREEDOM of SPEECH. People will say stupid things in their posts, live with it. Don't chase those. Chase the real criminals. Besides, when it comes to personal info – you decide what to post ans what not, right?


Plug and Play Office Space: An office is very much important for any business establishments to work from. All activities will be controlled from here and the office will be the face of your business which is visible to your customers. Hence, one should take personal care while selecting a space for office and turning the space into a lively place.
The concept of office has changed a lot in due course of time and many new ideas have been incorporated from the western world during globalisation. Plug and play office is one such concept which is adopted from the western hemisphere and is becoming more popular in India.
Business centres that are basically into providing necessary infrastructure for business will take hold of large building or a group of buildings and divide the same into smaller offices. All these offices will be furnished with well defined interiors with executive cabins, workstations, reception, lobby etc. electricity and sanitary fittings are also provided and the entire office will be air conditioned. In addition, high-speed internet connectivity will also be provided. All these facilities will be rented out to the clients and they no necessity to purchase either the space or the facilities.
This new concept is really helpful for small businesses and startups as they do not have to invest huge amount initially. Here are several other benefits of plug and play office spaces.
Initial investment for setting up of an office will be less and so also the running costs, as the rent and the utility charges of the business centre will be shared with other occupants.
Most of the business centres offering plug and play office for rent in Hyderabad or in any other cities are located at prime locations and hence the occupants can enjoy the advantages of having prime postal address for their office.
As there will be many offices belonging to different establishments in a single business centre, you will get a free entry into a vast business community by hiring a plug and play office space. This will help you to get new contacts and leads to improve your business. Besides, indulging in healthy discussions with other community members will help you to get a clear idea about the market which will help you in designing business strategies.
Business centre provide all necessary facilities in the premises and you will not have to run around for anything.
The business centres offering plug and play office space for rent will have a team of experts in different areas. By occupying the place in the business centre, you are entitled to get their service right from getting mandatory registrations from different departments to day to day problems related to your IT system for a reasonable price.


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"The Management of Grief" is a short story by Bharati Mukherjee. It was published in 1988 as a part of her collection entitled The Middleman and Other Stories. It also appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1989 and in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties.
"The Management of Grief" is narrated from the perspective of Shaila Bhave, a middle-aged Indian widow and an immigrant to Canada. She has recently lost her husband Vikram and her two sons Vinod and Mithun in a plane crash, thought to be the result of a Sikh terrorist attack. The story opens in Bhave's house in Toronto, now filled with her neighbors and fellow mourners. They have just heard about the plane crash; Bhave has been given Valium to manage her shock, and she feels numb but not calm. She tolerates her well-meaning neighbors and commiserates with her friend and neighbor Kusum, who has lost most of her family in the crash. Only her wayward daughter Pam is left, and Kusum is unable to hide her disappointment in having lost her better-behaved daughter.
Bhave is approached by Judith Templeton, a young Canadian government official, to act as a liaison and translator for her group of mourners. Templeton wants to aid the group in getting their affairs in order and moving on with their lives. She mistakes Bhave's composed demeanor, brought on by shock and Valium, for true composure, and tells Bhave that she has heard that she is a pillar of the community. Bhave reluctantly agrees to help Templeton, while reflecting that among her own community, her calm affect is not a mark of maturity, but of strangeness. The title of the story comes from Templeton's conception of "grief management"—her belief that grief proceeds in orderly stages, and that it is an emotion to be controlled rather than given in to.
Bhave and her group of mourners then fly to Ireland, where they must identify the remains of their families, as the plane crashed near the Irish coast. The remains of Bhave's own family have not yet been found. She visits the coast with Kusum and with Dr. Ranganathan, another mourner, who has also lost his entire family in the crash. Despite his loss, Dr. Ranganathan maintains an optimistic, pragmatic attitude. He suggests to Bhave that there is a possibility that some crash survivors may have been able to swim to safety, briefly filling Bhave with hope, as her sons were strong swimmers. Dr. Ranganathan later accompanies Bhave to an interview with a police officer, who believes that he may have identified her older son, Vinod. She does not recognize Vinod from the photograph he shows her, though there is a strong likelihood that his features have been so distorted by drowning that she does not want to recognize him.
This is just a preview. The entire section has 866 words. Click below to download the full study guide for The Management of Grief.


Flowers have been used in skincare for years, especially Rose that goes all the way back to Ancient Greece. This incredibly valuable flower has the ability to give your skin a glowing appearance among other things.
Our Gentle Rose Beautifying Face Exfoliant combines signature ingredients such as Rose and Vitamin B5. Rose in this product, aims to intensively hydrate your skin as well as soothing it. It also has incredible anti-oxidant properties to help lessen redness and the appearance of wrinkles.
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The Rose Radiance & Anti-Ageing Hyaluronic Eye Serum is an ultra gentle eye serum, designed with the delicate and sensitive skin around your eyes in mind. As it's the first area for show signs of ageing. Using Rose in this product, works to illuminate the area around your eyes as well as reducing puffiness.
1. Start by washing your face: you should always exfoliate on freshly cleaned skin.
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Hold our PH Balancing & Brightening Rose Infusion Day Mist 10 inches from your face, close your eyes and mist your face. Mists work better for your skin when they are applied before you apply your moisturiser, as it dampens and hydrates your skin. Using a mist under the moisturiser helps the skin better absorb the hydrating qualities of the moisturiser for a softer and smoother skin.


Although there are many monuments and statues that are overtly political, in that they commemorate events or people involved in national liberation struggles (whether that be against the Ottoman Empire or the Italian and German Fascists of World War Two) other aspects of Albanian life are also represented in various locations throughout the country. As Gjirokastra, in the Socialist period, had become the centre for periodic folklore festivals it's not surprising to find a frieze depicting traditional musicians and dancers located there.
This is easy to miss. It's on Rruga Gjin Zenebisi, just a couple of hundred metres further up the hill from the Partisan Memorial, on the left just before the road enters the main square (Sheshi Çerçiz Topulli) of the old town.
The artist is Ksenofon Krostaqi, who was also involved in the magnificent obelisk to education which is higher up in the Old Town. It was completed in 1983, the same year as the Monument to the Partisan. That year was the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of the town from the yoke of fascism and this prompted a certain amount of celebratory sculpture.
The frieze is composed of white blocks of lime stone and the carvings of the characters look in good condition. The stone is blackened around the edges (this is north facing and will be cold and damp for much of the year) and apart from a few missing blocks the memorial is intact.
It depicts eight different individuals, all in 'traditional' dress'. (Here I use the term 'traditional' in the sense of the sort of dress that was common before the influence of western fashion took hold in the early years of the 20th century. However, even during the National Liberation War against the fascists, from 1939-44, many people in the countryside would have been regularly wearing items of this style as can be seen, for example, on the Peze War Memorial.) I'm not an expert on Albanian dress, and all areas have their own variations, but I would assume that this is the style of dress typical, at some time in the past, of the Gjirokastra region.
In front of him (all the musicians are male) the player holds a defi (a large type of tambourine) high above his head. Next is a young man playing a surlja (an early type of clarinet) with the bell pointed up to the sky. The very end of the instrument is missing, indicating that – for whatever the reason – some of the top stones are missing. The final musician plays a lahuta (which derives its name from the lute), also know as a saze in the south of the country. This is sometimes played with a bow but here he is strumming the strings. Such a small ensemble of players was quite common in Albania and we can see that being represented (with a slightly different combination of instruments) on the Durres War Memorial. All the men are wearing what looks like the traditional (almost all-Albania wide) xhakete (waistcoat) and tirq (long woollen trousers). On their heads they wear a qylafë, a high woollen hat which is typical of the south of the country.
The other four characters depicted are the dancers, two male and two female. They are in the combination of female, male, female, and finally male and are all facing in the same direction, that is towards the left hand edge of the sculpture. The first three are holding hands which are positioned at shoulder height. The final male is waving a handkerchief above his head in his right hand. There is obviously a missing block of stone here which means we can see the hand holding the handkerchief but not the whole article itself.
In Albania many of the dances take their name from the region where they originated or are popular but the way these four are dancing is very reminiscent of the Greek Tsamiko (or Zorba's dance, before he fell over drunk). That would make sense in Gjirokastra as the city is not that far from the border with Greece and influences have passed back and forth over the centuries. From my research both the men are wearing a fustanella (a skirt like garment) over a tirq with an ornate xhakete. The women are wearing what I think is the xhubleta, a long dress together with a long, free-flowing coat. All the dancers and the musicians are wearing opingas, the soft, fabric based shoes with the narrow point at the toe bent up into the air.
So why this monument here, on the road side in Gjirokastra?
After the liberation of the country from the Fascists in 1944 one of the many aims of the new people's government was to improve the intellectual and cultural life of the population. Illiteracy was almost universal so education was a priority. Along with that came a recognition of the preservation and promotion of the Albanian culture through which the people could express their identity.
Being a predominantly agricultural society traditional – that is pre-20th century – music, dance and dress were still very much part of people's lives. However, before 1945 there weren't any professional theatres whatsoever in the country. The Party sought to remedy that and by 1951 the number of public performances were four times greater than they had been in 1945.
The depopulation of the country in general and some of the smaller villages in particular would also have had an impact on the continuity of the tradition which is vital to maintain a thriving and vibrant culture. It will be interesting to see what happens in three weeks' time.
If you want more information on the up and coming event in May then click here. It's not ideal as it's in Albanian but you might be able to squeeze out the information you require.


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