2016-01 Shinnyo Podcast Divine Protection and Luck – 2016-01 Shinnyo Podcast Divine Protection and Luck A Heap of Good Fortune For Some Bullets and Bracelets Against the Bad and Wicked Being Fed to Death The Lesser Trodden Path Subscribe to this Podcast (RSS) or iTunes or via Flipboard Ever noticed when some people seem to live a charmed life? Not referring to being … Continue reading 2016-01 Shinnyo Podcast Divine Protection and Luck → http://ow.ly/3aL2jt
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2016-01 Shinnyo Podcast Divine Protection and Luck
2016-01 Shinnyo Podcast Divine Protection and Luck
- A Heap of Good Fortune For Some
- Bullets and Bracelets Against the Bad and Wicked
- Being Fed to Death
- The Lesser Trodden Path
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Ever noticed when some people seem to live a charmed life? Not referring to being lucky, or fortunate success-wise, but more towards how some people haven’t had a lot of bad things happen to them. Accidents are few and far between, or never broken a bone, or became really ill. Some are winning every contest they enter, and seem to go through life with an ever-present ray of sunshine falling upon them, never casting a shadow.
Every accident I’ve ever had came from my own action or inaction. I was either unaware of my surroundings because of distraction or focus on something else, or thought I could do something that would get me there faster or presumed someone else was responsible for an action (whether avoiding me because I was there, or was otherwise responsible for predicting what I was about to do.)
I’ve driven always as though I’m invisible, because for all practical purposes, people have the most accidents when something predicted doesn’t happen (the person isn’t supposed to be there; the fan I tripped on wasn’t supposed to in my path; the food I’m eating wasn’t supposed to be spoiled, though it tasted oddly metallic, etc.)
One of the puzzling observations I’ve made has to do with how some people have many people in their lives that are in some way negatively influential, or critical, or even just chronically unhappy with life. While I don’t have any definitive idea where that comes from, I know that for myself, those kinds of people simply aren’t naturally attracted to me. I do encounter plenty of people who have ideas for improvement, or ways to do things better or more effectively in my daily life, but none who see the world as impossible to solve, or are faced with challenges beyond their capacity to cope. Much of that could be attributed to my belief that I can’t really do anything in someone else’s life other than show a different way of handling things. But it’s ultimately still their choice to make a difference for themselves. Whether that forms its own kind of invisible force-field against being surrounded by naysayers and prophets of doom, is up to pure speculation, but it is what it is.
Many years ago, I subscribed to the concept of rescuer mentality, developing sort of a Pygmalion attitude about relationships, which in turn attracted many people of similar belief. You became attractive both to those seeking refuge from circumstance and wanting a hand-up to a better life, as well as those who sought to rescue those in need. By itself this would seem to be an amicable relationship, seeing that those wanting support are matched with those seeking to provide it. But I think you can also see the co-dependency aspect of this situation – how the hungry never learn to satiate their own hunger, and the providers never fulfill the illusion of creating independence. Instead of a symbiotic relationship of mutual support, it becomes a parasitic relationship with each party needing the other to continue unfulfilled, lest the relationship (and the emotional satisfaction derived from it) collapse. The tensions of the need becomes the energy fueling the connections.
To this very day, I still find an innate sense of wanting to rescue, but with a realization that people are not stray dogs and cats, you do what you can to provide an example of self-sufficiency and ability, and do your best to embrace whatever life deals you. There’s a subtle but real difference between when one of those stray animals wanders into your life, looking for solace, versus the ones you go out and trap and domesticate. Similarly, you can be a great teacher and inspire people to learn, or just talk a lot about great things, and never pay attention that your audience isn’t really listening or learning.
While it makes no sense to try and draw direct relationships between bad luck and how one behaves in life, it may be worth noticing that the little rumbles and ripples from broken promises, and living a life of incongruity is often accompanied with a certain over-abundance of misfortune and misfeasance. Or if screaming at the top of your lungs that life isn’t fair and the world needs to treat you better hasn’t worked, maybe it’s time to instead invite a few faeries of good fortune and the leprechauns of luck into your life by trying the nicer road. Bad times are challenging, but not a curse, and at the time you encounter them, you do have the muster to overcome them. But if you insist on encouraging the worst by spouting your bravado, I’m pretty sure it will prove to be an entertaining event at the very least. Enjoy the lesser trodden path of life; it often comes filled with surprises and unforeseen opportunities.
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DataGuard and OEM 12c OMS DB Failover Configuration
# When Oracle DataGuard high-availability for the OMS database is configured using the OEM DataGuard Administration Wizard, and fast-start failover is configured, fail-overs automatically rename the standby as primary, and vice-versa and establish the change-over in roles. While this accomplishes the database staying online and available on the secondary host (or all other databases in the DG group), the Enterprise Manager OMS must be told how to connect to it – preferably transparently.
# DataGuard OMS Registration
# Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g: How to Configure the OMS Connect String when Repository is in a Dataguard setup (Doc ID 1328768.1)
# OEMPR11 is our primary DB SID/Service Name
# OEMPR11_DGMGRL is our alias for the fail-over service (pointing to all DG instances)
SQLPLUS as SYS:
SQL> exec DBMS_SERVICE.CREATE_SERVICE (service_name => ‘OEMPR11_DGMGRL’,network_name => ‘OEMPR11_DGMGRL’,aq_ha_notifications => true,failover_method => ‘BASIC’,failover_type => ‘SELECT’,failover_retries => 180,failover_delay => 1);
SQL> exec dbms_service.start_service(‘OEMPR11_DGMGRL’);
# Verify operation:
$> lsnrctl services # Should see the new OEMPR11_DGMGRL service listed
# Create a Database Trigger so that the service can be stopped when the Database role becomes standby and started only when the Database role is Primary:
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER manage_OCIservice after startup on database
DECLARE
role VARCHAR(30);
BEGIN
SELECT DATABASE_ROLE INTO role FROM V$DATABASE;
IF role = ‘PRIMARY’ THEN
DBMS_SERVICE.START_SERVICE(‘OEMPR11_DGMGRL’);
ELSE
DBMS_SERVICE.STOP_SERVICE(‘OEMPR11_DGMGRL’);
END IF;
END;
# Re-configure the OMS (All MT hosts) to have the connection string as:
$> cd <OMS_HOME>/bin
# Following is a single-line command (basically an entire JDBC style connect string)
$> ./emctl config oms -store_repos_details -repos_conndesc ‘(DESCRIPTION=(FAILOVER=ON)(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<primaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1522))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<secondaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=OEMPR11_DGMGRL))(FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=select)(METHOD=basic)))’ -repos_user sysman
# Example output
$> ./emctl config oms <…> TYPE=select)(METHOD=basic)))’ -repos_user sysman <
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 5
Copyright (c) 1996, 2015 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Enter Repository User’s Password :
Successfully updated datasources and stored repository details in Credential Store.
If there are multiple OMSs in this environment, run this store_repos_details command on all of them.
And finally, restart all the OMSs using ’emctl stop oms -all’ and ’emctl start oms’.
It is also necessary to restart the BI Publisher Managed Server.
# Add the tnsnames.ora entry (all DB hosts at minimum)
OEMPR11_DGMGRL=
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS_LIST=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<primaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1522))
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<secondaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1521))
)
(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=OEMPR11_DGMGRL))
(FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=select)(METHOD=basic))
)
# Testing connectivity:
$> sqlplus sysman/$SYSMAN_PW@'(DESCRIPTION=(FAILOVER=ON)(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<primaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1522))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<secondaryDBHostnameFQDN>)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=OEMPR11_DGMGRL))(FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=select)(METHOD=basic)))’
# Test the Failover Service:
# Connect to the Database from sqlplus using SYSMAN user via the new service created above:
$> sqlplus sysman/$SYSMAN_PW@OEMPR11_DGMGRL
# Execute these queries to verify the Database name and service names:
SQL> select db_unique_name from v$database;
DB_UNIQUE_NAME
——————-
OEMPR11
SQL> show parameter service_names
NAME TYPE VALUE
————- ——- ————————————
service_names string OEMPR11, OEMPR11_DGMGRL
# Re-start the OMS once so that the connection string change is saved:
cd <OMS_HOME>/bin
./emctl stop oms -all #on AdminServer MT
./emctl stop oms #other MTs
./emctl start oms
Something New from Dove – A Dry Spray?
Courtesy of the try and review site Influenster a couple new interesting ideas showed up in the mail this weekend.
Since these new products do not contain alcohol or water, they spray on but evaporate immediately on-contact.
The 48-hour claim probably was under conditions of not actually washing anything off (regardless of the petroleum distallates used – see the ingredient list below); for practical purposes, this is a non-powder based D/AP product that as long as you shake well before using, doesn’t have a residue, and works relatively invisably (long-term effects of spraying butane on yourself, or the environmental impacts still to be determined.)
The inventors are still at it.
Ingredients as listed:
Butane, Hydrofluorocarbon 152A, Cyclopentasiloxane, Isobutane, Ppg-14 Butyl Ether, Helianthus Annus Seed Oil, Disteardimonium Hectorite, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Fragrance, Propane, Bht, Octyldodecanol, Propylene Carbonate, Dimethiconol, Tocopheryl Acetate
Thoughts from James H. Lui 
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