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WASHINGTON — As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there's an agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff," it will almost certainly contain large tax increases mostly or entirely on the wealthy. President Obama defines them as couples with more than $250,000 of income and singles with $200,000 or more. The open questions are which taxes would go up, by how much and with what effect.
Let's try to make sense of the numbers.
The president wants $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade. To provide perspective: In the unsuccessful 2011 budget negotiations, House Speaker John Boehner reportedly supported a deal with $800 billion of tax increases. So the president — flush with victory for a second term — has doubled his demand over Boehner's previous best offer. This could be a huge obstacle to agreement.
But Obama can claim that this has been his position all along. The White House included the $1.6 trillion figure in its 2013 budget submission, though the figure didn't receive much attention. According to Donald Marron, head of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC), the administration would raise the $1.6 trillion as follows:
The top individual tax rates would rise from their present 33 percent and 35 percent to 36 percent and 39.6 percent for those over Obama's income thresholds. The 10-year revenue gain: $442 billion.
Tax deductions would be trimmed. They would be phased out for the very rich and would provide no more than a 28 percent write-off for others in high tax brackets. Revenue gain: $707 billion.
Tax rates on dividends from stocks would rise from today's 15 percent to the rates on wages (up to 39.6 percent). Revenue gain: $206 billion. (Ownership of stocks is heavily concentrated among richer Americans.)
Rates on capital gains — profits from sales of assets such as stocks — would rise from 15 percent to 20 percent. Revenue gain: $36 billion.
The personal exemption for the wealthiest taxpayers would be phased out. Revenue gain: $42 billion.
The estate tax would be restored to its 2009 level. At present, there's an exemption from taxes for estates up to $5.1 million, and the tax rate on the remainder is 35 percent. In 2009, the exemption was only $3.5 million, and the tax rate was 45 percent. Revenue gain: $119 billion.
As intended, the rich bear the burden of these increases.
The top 1 percent, with incomes beginning at $597,000, would pay an average $72,000 in higher taxes, representing a 5.1 percent decline in their after-tax income, the TPC has estimated. The wealthiest 0.1 percent (included in the top 1 percent), with a minimum income of $2.9 million, would pay an extra $403,000, a 6.6 percent drop in their after-tax income, says the TPC. The richest 95th to 99th percent of taxpayers (income threshold: $252,000) would pay an average of $5,765 more.
Though significant, these increases would roughly restore the tax burden on the rich to where it was before the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, other TPC estimates suggest. The top rate was then 39.6 percent, the rate on capital gains was 20 percent and the estate tax was higher than now. Possibly altering this conclusion are tax increases on the wealthy — the same income definitions — passed as part of Obamacare. The tax on wage and salary earnings was raised 0.9 percentage points; on capital gains and dividends, it was increased 3.8 percentage points.
"With state income taxes, top marginal rates will now be approaching 50," says Marron. "This creates an incentive for the wealthy to spend more time with their lawyers and accountants to change how they structure their activities [to minimize taxes]."
To reduce this, many economists favor limiting tax breaks to keep rates low. Republicans have been more open to this approach, because (they argue) lower rates might mitigate the adverse effects of higher tax burdens on the economy. Individuals would still have incentives to work hard; they'd keep a higher percentage of any increase in earnings. Similarly, small businesses — which often pay taxes at personal income rates — would have incentives to hire.
The TPC estimated that limiting taxpayers' itemized deductions — including mortgage interest payments, charitable contributions, and state and local taxes — to $17,000 could raise $1.7 trillion over a decade. Marron points out, however, that some resulting tax increases would fall on those below Obama's $200,000/$250,000 threshold.
There's plenty left for negotiation.
Robert J. Samuelson is a Washington Post columnist.

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K. Česonytė's paintings - it is variations of expressionist painting: thrilling stroke, energetic brush strokes, expressive paint textures, with which she is often like "molding" shapes, objects, elements of landscape. According to genre, her creative range is quite traditional. Dominate landscapes, artist has painted a series of still-lifes, many urban images, one another generalized portrait. However, other aspects of K. Česonytė paintings brings her closer not so much with classical modernist art, as far as with modern mediated images of life. "My tools - computer and virtual space", she says. Painting images to the artist's paintings comes not from reality, but from virtual, or secondary reality. However, for creative artist it is just springboard or start signal, which release imagination and hand. Usually in her works intertwine secondary reality or casual motive and creators imagination - art critic Kristina Stančienė.


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Chopping Words
July 3, 2012
A simple word game starts with a word and repeatedly removes a single letter from the word, forming a new word, until there are no letters left. The act of removing a letter is called chopping and the resulting list of words is a chopping chain. For instance:
planet → plane → plan → pan → an → a
Your task is to write a program that takes a word and returns a list of all possible chopping chains that can be formed from the word, given a suitable dictionary. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
8 Responses to "Chopping Words"
July 3, 2012 at 10:27 AM
[…] today's Programming Praxis exercise, our goal is to reduce a word one letter at a time, where each step […]
July 3, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Not terribly pretty, but it does the job. I end up with more chopping chains than the above, only because of my using
#!/usr/bin/env python from itertools import permutations def tails(xs): return (xs[i:] for i in xrange(len(xs))) def chain(word): r = range(len(word)) return set(tuple(''.join(word[i] for i in set(r).intersection(ix)) for ix in t) for t in map(tails, permutations(r))) def chop(word, dict_set): return filter(lambda cs: all(c in dict_set for c in cs), chain(word)) if __name__ == "__main__": from pprint import pprint with open("/usr/share/dict/words") as f: dict_set = set(line.strip() for line in f) pprint(chop("planet", dict_set))
July 5, 2012 at 4:55 AM
Builds a tree of possible chops, then "flattens" it to obtain a list of all possible paths from root to nodes.
This would of course benefit a lot from memoization, since we're doing again and again the same chops recursively.
import qualified Data.List as L import qualified Data.Map as M data ChopTree = Node String [ChopTree] deriving Show dict = "/usr/share/dict/words" rems :: [Char] -> [[Char]] rems [] = [] rems (x:[]) = [""] rems (x:xs) = xs:(map (x:) (rems xs)) tree2list :: ChopTree -> [[String]] tree2list t = aux t [] where aux (Node w []) l = map reverse [w:l] aux (Node w ll) l = concatMap (\v->aux v (w:l)) ll chop :: [Char] -> IO ChopTree chop = chop' dict where chop' :: FilePath -> [Char] -> IO ChopTree chop' dic word = do dic' <- readFile dic >>= (\f -> return $ M.fromList (map (\x->(x,True)) (words f))) return $ chop'' dic' word chop'' :: M.Map [Char] a -> [Char] -> ChopTree chop'' dic word = let subW = rems word in let validSubW = filter (flip M.member dic) subW in Node word (L.map (chop'' dic) validSubW)
July 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM
'chain()' returns a generator that returns each chain, one at a time.
from itertools import combinations, ifilter with open("/python27/12dicts/2of12inf.txt", "rt") as f: wordlist = set(w.strip().lower() for w in f) wordlist.update('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz') def chain(word, dictionary): is_word = dictionary.__contains__ join = ''.join def aux(wds, wlen): if wlen == 1: yield wds else: for wd in ifilter(is_word, map(join, combinations(wds[-1], wlen - 1))): for wlist in aux(wds + [wd], wlen - 1 ): yield wlist return aux([word], len(word)) for wlist in chain('planet', wordlist): print wlist
July 7, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Use a tree to map all the words in dictionary
October 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM
[…] One more challenge from Programming Praxis' Word Games today (there are only a few left!). This time we have the challenge of cutting off bits of words, one letter at a time, such that each step is still a word. […]
October 15, 2012 at 11:11 PM
Here's my solution in Racket: Chopping Words
I went a step beyond what the problem strictly asked and returned a nested tree-like structure with all possible chains of chopped words. Using the recursive solution that I was, it really wasn't much harder than just returning a single solution and it still runs rather quickly.
Here's a sample run for
> (chopping-words dict "PLANET") '("PLANET" ("PLANE" ("PLAN" ("PAN" ("PA" ("A")) ("AN" ("A")))) ("PANE" ("PAN" ("PA" ("A")) ("AN" ("A"))))) ("PLANT" ("PLAN" ("PAN" ("PA" ("A")) ("AN" ("A")))) ("PLAT" ("PAT" ("PA" ("A")) ("AT" ("A")))) ("PANT" ("PAN" ("PA" ("A")) ("AN" ("A"))) ("PAT" ("PA" ("A")) ("AT" ("A"))) ("ANT" ("AN" ("A")) ("AT" ("A"))))))


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The feminist outrage over the treatment of Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch is a bit underwhelming. If the sexist
and vulgar comments were directed toward a liberal female and not a tea party
candidate, bras would be burning on the state house lawn and juvenile chants
would deafen the ears. Feminist
groups only care about the equitable and professional treatment of women
if the lady in question is a union-loving politician in sensible shoes.
The femme-a-gogues, as political analyst Michelle Malkin so cleverly calls feminist leaders on her website, have been exceptionally
quiet while sexually explicit and crude comments have been hurled at Kleefisch by a series of progressive radio hosts. There is no
logical reason why the defense of harassed women stops when the target happens
to believe in small government and fiscal responsibility.
According to Malkin's blog, Wisconsin radio host John Sylvester accused
Kleefisch of performing fellatio on Milwaukee talk-show hosts during a recent
broadcast. There were no sign-waving protestor in front of the radio building,
or boycotts of his program.


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"True Sentinels," New Era, Mar. 1987, 4
The Message:
True Sentinels
What a thrill it is to belong to this church. It is exciting, fulfilling and glorious beyond description. In May we look forward to the commemoration of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. Can you imagine what would happen if the world believed what we know to be true?
The appearance of John the Baptist to the Prophet Joseph Smith is one of the most significant events in all the history of the world. Imagine these two young men, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, kneeling in prayer near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. If the world actually believed that John the Baptist had appeared to Joseph and Oliver, it would be forever changed. Consider how that knowledge would change the world. Every honest person of any religion would praise God, weep great tears, and embrace the restored gospel. Every knee would bow and every tongue would confess that Jesus is the Christ and that he has restored his church in this day.
John the Baptist, by the laying on of hands, with authority and power bestowed the Aaronic Priesthood upon these two special young men.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have the experience of the ministering of angels? Think of the sensations that must have pervaded the souls of these young men as holy hands were laid upon their heads, each in turn being endowed with authority. The words of John the Baptist have resounded through the last 150 years. On May 15, 1829, John the Baptist declared in blessing:
"Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in righteousness" (D&C 13).
Since that time the Aaronic Priesthood ranks have swelled to 809,000 (as of April 1986). Imagine that number of men and boys endowed with the same priesthood power which Joseph and Oliver received from John the Baptist. Even Joseph, at that stage of his life, would hardly have dared to believe that blessings would flow from him and Oliver to this great number and millions more yet unborn.
It is a marvelous blessing to hold the Aaronic Priesthood. Consider these statements by prophets and Apostles. President Wilford Woodruff said:
"I went out as a priest [on my mission], and my companion as an elder, and we traveled thousands of miles, and had many things manifested to us. I desire to impress upon you the fact that it does not make any difference whether a man is a priest or an apostle, if he magnifies his calling. A priest holds the key of the ministering of angels. Never in my life, as an apostle, as a seventy, or as an elder, have I ever had more the protection of the Lord than while holding the office as a priest. The Lord revealed to me by visions, by revelations, and by the Holy Spirit, many things that lay before me" (G. Homer Durham, comp., The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946, pp. 298, 300).
Elder James E. Talmage, who authored Jesus the Christ, stated:
"I was called and ordained one Sunday morning, … and that afternoon was placed as a sentinel at the door of the house in which the Saints had met for worship. As soon as I had been ordained, a feeling came to me such as I have never been able to fully describe. It seemed scarcely possible, that I, a little boy, could be so honored of God as to be called to the priesthood. I had read of the sons of Aaron and Levi who were chosen for the sacred labors of the Lesser Priesthood, but that I should be called to do part of the service that had been required of them was more than my little mind could grasp. I was both frightened and happy. Then, when I was placed on duty at the door, I forgot that I was but [a] … lad; I felt strong in the thought that I belonged to the Lord, and that he would assist me in whatever was required of me. I could not resist the conviction that other sentinels, stronger by far than I, stood by me though invisible to human eyes.
"The effect of my ordination to the deaconship entered into all the affairs of my boyish life. I am afraid that sometimes I forgot what I was, but I have ever been thankful that ofttimes I did remember, and the recollection always served to make me better. When at play on the school grounds, and perhaps tempted to take unfair advantage in the game, when in the midst of a dispute with a playmate, I would remember, and the thought would be as effective as though spoken aloud—'I am a deacon; and it is not right that a deacon should act in this way.' On examination days, when it seemed easy for me to copy some other boys' work or to 'crib' from the book, I would remember again,—'I am a deacon, and must be honest and true.' When I saw other boys cheating in play or in school, I would say in my mind, 'It would be more wicked for me to do that than it is for them because I am a deacon'" (Incidents from the Lives of Our Church Leaders: Course of Studyfor the Quorums of the Priesthood: Deacons, 1914, pp. 135–36).
And President Spencer W. Kimball shared the following in a conference talk to the priesthood of the Church:
"I remember when I was a deacon. (It has been a long time ago, however.) I thought it was a great honor to be a deacon. My father was always considerate of my responsibilities and always permitted me to take the buggy and horse to gather fast offerings. My responsibility included that part of the town in which I lived, but it was quite a long walk to the homes, and a sack of flour or a bottle of fruit or vegetables or bread became quite heavy as it accumulated. So the buggy was very comfortable and functional. We have changed to cash in later days, but it was commodities in my day. It was a very great honor to do this service for my Heavenly Father; and though times have changed, when money is given generally instead of commodities, it is still a great honor to perform this service.
"I am a deacon. I am always proud that I am a deacon. When I see the Apostles march up to the stand in a solemn assembly to bless the sacrament, and others of the General Authorities step up to the sacrament tables to get the bread and the water and humbly pass it to all the people in the assembly and then return their emptied receptacles, I am very proud that I am a deacon, and a teacher, and priest.
"In our special meetings in the temple, when the Brethren of the General Authorities come up to the sacrament table to bless, then pass, the sacrament, then my heart beats more audibly again and I am grateful that I hold the Aaronic Priesthood and have the privilege of taking care of the sacrament.
"Then I remember it was Jesus Christ himself who broke the bread and blessed it and passed it to his Apostles. Then I am proud that I can do likewise" (Ensign, May 1975, p. 79).
The restoration of this great priesthood gives those who hold it more authority to perform ordinances in the kingdom of God than all the leaders of other religious or secular groups. Imagine young men having authority and power to exceed that of kings, presidents, and rulers of nations. And every young man who has been ordained has that authority and the potential blessing of the ministering of angels.
Commemoration Preparation
It is no small thing that this church commemorates the restoration of the priesthood. Over the years I have witnessed the commemoration in numerous ways. Many stakes have successful track-and-field meets, usually held the Saturday before the Sunday nearest May 15th.
From the track meet the young men return home, change clothes, and go to the chapel for a banquet where priesthood leaders and guest speakers discuss the power of the holy Aaronic Priesthood. Here, additional young men may be honored for outstanding achievements in a quorum, ward, stake, or school. Special music has been prepared, again with young men participating in groups or possibly performing solos.
Some wards and stakes hold sunrise services where men and boys gather together on a temple lawn, at an historical site, in a beautiful canyon, or in a chapel. Every Aaronic Priesthood bearer and prospective priesthood bearer is invited, provided with transportation, and encouraged to participate. The activities of the Prophet Joseph and Oliver prior to the restoration are recounted in talks. Other subjects such as missionary preparation, purity, charity, service, and priesthood power might be discussed.
Occasionally stakes invite young women to commemorate the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood as they also have an extremely important role. Young women and young Aaronic Priesthood brethren, both dressed in their Sunday best, are a beautiful sight.
Sometimes cottage meetings are held to talk about the Aaronic Priesthood. Generally the bishop leads out, followed by a well-organized program with lovely refreshments in a special setting.
Outings for fathers and sons have been traditional and are always successful. They are better when each ward cooks all the meals together—a cooperative effort produces more camaraderie. Consider gathering around the campfire singing priesthood hymns, having Aaronic Priesthood young men prepared with talks and a guest speaker or member of the bishopric assigned to talk about the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. Imagine a father with his arms around his sons as they walk off toward their tents, sharing tender feelings about the priesthood, reminiscing about quorum activities.
Other possible events include sports days, beach parties, quorum hikes, visits to Church historical sites, swimming and diving meets, priesthood encampments, courts of honor, work parties and service projects.
Service projects, especially, provide significant activities—men and boys working side by side in a widow's yard; participating in an activation program; visiting a care center, hospital, or state training school. Service is the very core of the Aaronic Priesthood. The priesthood bestowed upon us is for us to use to bless others.
Every activity listed above should be tied to a priesthood purpose such as strengthening testimony, activating those not attending, or preparing for missions.
As we commemorate the Aaronic Priesthood's restoration on this marvelous day, May 15th, we give thanks to God for his gentle and tender mercies. Only a few of all the souls who have ever walked the earth have held the priesthood. You are numbered among the elect, the chosen, the ordained of God.
In May, join with us as we commemorate the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood in a special fireside originating from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, where a clarion call will be issued to all Aaronic Priesthood holders. The June 1987 New Era will contain talks from that fireside and articles about the Aaronic Priesthood.
The commemoration of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood is a most significant event. Make it very, very special in your life.


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The next ESL Blog Carnival will be hosted by Eva Buyuksimkesyan (@evab2001 on Twitter) in her wonderful blog "A Journey in TEFL", and it will have as a theme Warmers and Fillers for the First Day of Class, since most teachers are starting a new academic term/year soon.
I shared some activities I did on my first classes for the term that I have just started on a recent post ("A Post About Firsts"), but there are so many other activities I have used over the many years I've been teaching, I decided I should share some of those in another post. 🙂 So here we are!
1) The Profile:
You start this activity by asking the students what does the word profile mean. They may come up with many definitions or just one of them. If they don't come up with both, the teacher can elicit or explain – it depends a lot on the students' language level. I find 2 of them essential for this activity.
The first essential definitions is: "An outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)". The second is: "Biographical sketch" , or information about a person, to give an idea of the person's personality and life.
After the 2 definitions have been shared, the teacher explains they will do their profiles – in more than one way. The teacher should then proceed to model what students will be expected to do. Get a big piece of blank paper (I usually use A3-sized white paper), stick it to a wall and give a volunteer student a marker. The teacher should place her face on the paper sideways and ask the student with the marker to use it to outline the teacher's profile on the paper. The profiles always look funny!
Give each student a big piece of paper and a colored marker and have them pair up and outline each other's profiles. When you have all the papers with profiles (including the teacher's!) stuck to the walls around the classroom, tell students they should write questions on everybody else's papers, around the outlined profile. These questions can be just short ones (such as School? or Hobbies?) or complete questions – it's up to the teacher to decide. Personally I like the short ones, because it gives more space for the student to elaborate on the topic/question). I usually play some background music at this point too, to set a cheerful, happy vibe. The students then go around the classroom, writing questions on all the papers but their own.
After all the profile papers have been filled with questions, the teacher should once again serve as a model, take her own paper down and use it to talk about herself by answering the questions written in it. The, ask the students to take their papers down and introduce themselves.
I find this activity to be fun and allow students to ask whatever they would like to know about the teacher and their classmates. It also works for both groups of students who haven't studied together before and groups who have been together for some time – they can ask things they don't know about each other. As a follow-up the teacher can ask students to use the profile paper as basis for a written bio.
2) Getting to Know Each Other With Candy:
Before the class starts, the teacher should have a bowl of candy somewhere of easy access to the students. It's important that the candy come in different colors – at least 4. I usually use M&Ms for this, leaving a stack of plastic cups (the ones normally used for coffee) next to the bowl and a spoon in the bowl. As the students starts coming into the classroom, the teacher tells them to treat themselves to the bowl, but to wait before they eat – the students should take as much candy as they want, but should wait for the teacher's permission before eating them.
After everybody has taken some candy and sat down, the teacher should then put up a poster with the color/information equivalence. Each color of candy (or each type of candy) corresponds to one type of information. For instance, the equivalence can be something like:
- Green: Something about my educational background
- Red: Something about my family
- Blue: Something about my likes and dislikes
- Yellow: Something about my objectives & future plans
Then the students should take turns and say something about themselves for each piece of candy they have taken, according to the color they have. There is a variation of this activity using a roll of toilet paper, where students take as much as they want and they have to give one piece of information about themselves for each piece of toilet paper they have.
3) Fill in The (Funny) Blanks
Before the lesson, the teacher should prepare a poster (or word document if a projector is available) with a little bio about her. But the text should be funny – important, key information should be substituted by crazy things. Here's an example:
My name is Cecilia, and I am 104 years old. I have 2 bunnies: Gabriela is 10 and Felipe is 6. I have been teaching juggling for 35 years. In my free time I like jumping off airplanes and jumping around on one foot. I don't like eating books but I love eating butterflies. (…)
Then ask students to get together with another student (or pair them up if you prefer) and tell them they should discuss and decide which bits from the bio are not true and come up with what they think are the correct words to substitute them with.
After a few minutes the teacher asks students to share what they think and gradually give them the correct information about herself.
These are some of the first day activities I have used – and still do. I hope you enjoyed them! And as usual I'd love to hear any feedback if you use them or adapt them.
Wishing everyone great first classes and a wonderful new term! 🙂


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Win a Trip to See Dream Theater Live in Boston!
Dream Theater have been churning out their unique brand of progressive metal for more than 25 years, and their live shows are truly not to be missed! As part of their upcoming North American tour, the band has one special gig coming up on their schedule in Boston and you could be there! The group will play at the Boston Opera House at the invite of the esteemed Berklee College of Music and Loudwire, Noisecreep and Ultimate Classic Rock are giving you the chance to catch the show.
The performance takes place March 25 and will be a homecoming for the band, as founding members John Petrucci and John Myung attended the Berklee College of Music. In addition, drummer Mike Mangini, who joined the band in 2010, was also a faculty member at the college.
During the performance, the group will be joined by the Berklee World Strings and the Berklee Concert Choir, adding a more distinct dramatic element to the performance. The band intends on recording the performance for a special release at a later date.
As for the contest, one Grand Prize Winner and their guest will receive a trip to Boston to catch the show. The trip will consist of the flight for two, hotel accommodations for two nights (March 24 & 25), two tickets to the show and two meet-and-greet passes.
For those in the area, tickets are also available for this special event at this location, but for those outside of the Boston area, this contest is a perfect way to check out one of rock's greatest live bands in a truly unique setting.
Dream Theater are promoting their self-titled 2013 album, which is available at iTunes. The Boston show is part of an extensive North American trek that runs through the end of April. Dates and ticket links can be found here.
To enter the contest, please use the form above to provide your details. Please note that this contest is only open to residents of the 48 contiguous United States and the District of Columbia. The contest ends Monday, March 10, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck! See the official rules here.
Dream Theater 2014 North American Tour Dates:
3/20/14 — Toronto, Ontario — Massey Hall
3/21/14 — Montreal, Quebec — Bell Center
3/25/14 — Boston, Mass. — Opera House
3/27/14 — Upper Darby, Pa. — Tower Theatre
3/28/14 — New York, N.Y. — Hammerstein Ballroom
4/1/14 — Washington, D.C. — Lincoln Theater
4/2/14 — Pittsburgh, Pa. — The Palace
4/4/14 — Detroit, Mich. — Fillmore
4/5/14 — Chicago, Ill. — Chicago Theatre
4/6/14 — Milwaukee, Wis. — Pabst Theater
4/8/14 — Minneapolis, Minn. — Burnsville Performing Arts Center
4/9/14 — Kansas City, Mo. — Uptown Theater
4/10/14 — Denver, Colo. — Paramount
4/12/14 — Vancouver, British Columbia — Queen Elizabeth Theatre
4/15/14 — Salem, Ore. — Elsinore Theatre
4/17/14 — San Francisco, Calif. — The Warfield
4/18/14 — Riverside, Calif. — Fox PAC
4/19/14 — Los Angeles, Calif. — The Orpheum
4/23/14 — Mexico City, Mexico — Arena Ciudad De Mexico
4/25/14 — Monterrey, Mexico — Arena Monterrey
4/26/14 — Guadalajara, Mexico — Auditorio Telmex


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In October of 1998, Ray Pugsley continued his improvement towards the elite distance runners in the U.S. by running 49:12 to finish second in the Army 10 Miler. It was the longest race that the 5K specialist had ever run in racing flats. During the next few weeks Ray experienced heel pain his first steps in the morning and pain during the start of runs that seemed to go away after he warmed up. When he described his symptoms to a fellow runner, she replied that it sounded like plantar fasciitis. Pugsley continued to have symptoms intermittently for the next eight months, but it didn't prevent him from finishing third at the USATF Cross Country Club Nationals, or from running 13:51 for 5K on the track. Finally, however, at the USATF Track Championships he suffered the uncommon injury of rupturing his plantar fascia.
Sources and Symptoms
Plantar fasciitis is one of the more common running related injuries. It is an acute inflammation of the band of tissue that supports the arch. Plantar is medical nomenclature for the bottom of the foot, and the plantar fascia is a rope-like band of tissue with almost no elastic properties that stretches along the bottom of the foot. If the arch is over-stressed the fascia will not stretch, instead it will pull away from the attachment site at the calcaneus (heel bone) where the arch meets the heel. The classic symptoms of this injury are more pain with the first steps in the morning and when you first stand after sitting for an extended period of time, or at the beginning of a run. During the initial stages the pain subsides after warming up but in the chronic cases the pain can progress beyond the initial steps of a run to a constant ache or sharp pain. One common misconception is that a bone spur in the heel causes the pain. A spur may be noted on an x-ray, but plantar fasciitis is strictly a soft tissue inflammation.
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One of the more common causes of plantar fasciitis is tight calf muscles. If there is not enough motion in the ankle joint due to a lack of flexibility then there will be extra strain on the fascia which may lead to this injury. Foot type and how the foot functions can also play a significant role in this injury. The two extreme foot types—flat feet and high arched feet—are most commonly implicated in fasciitis. Improper training shoe selection along with extended wear in racing flats or spikes can also lead to the initial onset of symptoms, as was the case with Pugsley.
Treatment Techniques
Treating the cause of the injury, along with the symptoms, is the key to curing this malady. If there is a lack of flexibility in the gastroc-soleus (the two calf muscles which combine to form the Achilles tendon) complex then the most important aspect of treatment centers on stretching both muscle groups three times a day. The calves should be stretched both with the knee locked and knee bent. Knee locked isolates the gastroc muscles and knee bent isolates the soleus muscle. Hold each stretch for 30 seconds, relax for a few seconds and repeat the stretch five times, three different times during the day. In some cases tight hamstring muscles may play a part, therefore stretching this muscle group is also a good idea.
In chronic cases people may benefit from the use of a night splint. It is a device worn on the foot and leg that holds the foot in a stretched position while you sleep. The best night splints are adjustable to provide a better stretch as muscle flexibility improves.
Ice plays an important part in the treatment of most injuries. It will help to reduce the inflammation to the area, which in turn can reduce the pain. One excellent way to ice the bottom of the foot is to freeze a water bottle and roll your foot over it for at least fifteen minutes per day, preferably at the end of the day.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen or aspirin and cortisone injections can very effectively reduce inflammation but should be used judiciously. Long term use of NSAIDs can lead to a stomach ulceration, although the newer class of these drugs known as Cox II inhibitors are reportedly safer in this regard. One cortisone injection in the plantar fascial area is typically very safe, but more than one injection in the same area over a short period of time may lead to weakening of the tissue. Ray Pugsley received one injection into his plantar fascial area, but it is doubtful in my opinion that this led to his rupture. He competes at a very high level and was doing his track workouts in spikes, in addition to racing in them, and that was probably the main factor leading to his rupture.
In chronic cases, physical therapy to reduce the inflammation with modalities and exercises to strengthen the foot muscles can help cure the injury. Massage to the area to break up scar tissue and restore the suppleness of the fascia can also be added to the treatment in chronic non-healing cases. Self-massage can effectively be accomplished by rolling your foot over a tennis ball. When the pain level is lower you can progress to rolling over a golf ball. I advise my patients to put the golf ball in the freezer next to the water bottle between treatments.
Taping the foot to support the fascia and reduce the traction forces that are causing the inflammation is another excellent treatment tool. If the foot feels better when it is taped then this helps to confirm the diagnosis of plantar fasciitis. Click here for a series of photographs and step-by-step instructions of this taping technique. Over the counter arch supports can also help to reduce the stress on the fascia.
Custom orthotic devices can be a very effective treatment if there is a biomechanical abnormality or with an extreme foot type. Your local sports medicine Podiatrist can perform a complete examination including a gait exam to determine if these inserts are necessary. (For a referral you can call the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine at (800) 438-3355 or visit their website at www.aapsm.org). Custom devices can be made out of all different materials and combinations including plastic, graphite, cork, EVA and Spenco, with equal effectiveness. The most reliable method for fabricating the devices is through the use of plaster casting while the patient is sitting or lying down.
A new treatment that has received mixed reviews is the use of a device called an Ossatron. It delivers a treatment called extra-corporeal shock wave therapy. The treatment has been used in Europe with a reported 60% improvement after one treatment. The drawbacks of this treatment are limited availability and lack of insurance coverage for a procedure that may cost up to $1,000. It should be noted that there are no long term follow up studies on the use of the Ossatron.
If It Doesn't Go Away
Over 95% of the time plantar fasciitis improves or resolves with conservative therapy. If the symptoms are not improving then there may be something else causing the pain such as a stress fracture, nerve pain, or bursitis. In these cases further testing including an MRI, bone scan, or CT scan should be considered. In the event that plantar fasciitis is a confirmed diagnosis and pain is still present after a year or so of conservative treatment only then should surgery be considered.
Surgery involves cutting the inside half or two-thirds of the fascia away from the attachment into the calcaneus. Your surgeon may elect to perform this through a larger open incision or through the use of a scope known as Endoscopic Plantar Fasciotomy or EPF. Either way the success rates appear to be similar. Your plantar fascial symptoms should be relieved but pain may arise in other parts of the foot as a result of the disruption of the main supporting structure of the arch. The good news about rupturing your fascia is that you have performed your own surgery. After his plantar facia rupture, Ray Pugsley was able to return to racing but it was a long road back due to complications.
If you do have to resort to surgery make sure your surgeon is a Podiatrist board certified in foot surgery or an Orthopedist that completed foot surgery fellowship training, and make sure you seek a second opinion.
Dr. Brian W. Fullem is a sports medicine Podiatrist in Newtown, CT. He is captain of the Bucknell Alumni Distance team that won three of the last four Hood to Coast Relays. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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The following information is from www.nhs.uk. To find out more, click here.In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of several techniques available to help people with fertility problems have a baby.
During IVF, an egg is removed from the woman's ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory.
The fertilised egg, called an embryo, is then returned to the woman's womb to grow and develop.
It can be carried out using your eggs and your partner's sperm, or eggs and sperm from donors.
Who can have IVF?
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidelines make recommendations about who should have access to IVF treatment on the NHS in England and Wales.
These guidelines recommended that IVF should be offered to women under the age of 43 who have been trying to get pregnant through regular unprotected sex for 2 years, or who have had 12 cycles of artificial insemination.
However, the final decision about who can have NHS-funded IVF in England is made by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), and their criteria may be stricter than those recommended by NICE.
If you're not eligible for NHS treatment, or you decide to pay for IVF, you can have treatment at a private clinic. Costs vary, but 1 cycle of treatment may cost up to £5,000 or more.
Read more about the availability of IVF.
Speaking to your GP about IVF
If you're having trouble getting pregnant, you should start by speaking to your GP. They can advise on how to improve your chances of having a baby.
If these measures don't work, your GP can refer you to a fertility specialist for a treatment such as IVF.
Read more about getting started with IVF.
What happens during IVF
IVF involves 6 main stages:
- suppressing your natural cycle – the menstrual cycle is suppressed with medication
- boosting your egg supply – medication is used to encourage the ovaries to produce more eggs than usual
- monitoring your progress and maturing your eggs – an ultrasound scan is carried out to check the development of the eggs, and medication is used to help them mature
- collecting the eggs – a needle is inserted into the ovaries, via the vagina, to remove the eggs
- fertilising the eggs – the eggs are mixed with the sperm for a few days to allow them to be fertilised
- transferring the embryo(s) – 1 or 2 fertilised eggs (embryos) are placed into the womb
Once the embryo(s) has been transferred into your womb, you'll need to wait 2 weeks before taking a pregnancy test to see if the treatment has worked.
Read more about what happens during IVF.Chances of success
The success rate of IVF depends on the age of the woman undergoing treatment, as well as the cause of the infertility (if it's known).
Younger women are more likely to have a successful pregnancy. IVF isn't usually recommended for women over the age of 42 because the chances of a successful pregnancy are thought to be too low.
Between 2014 and 2016 the percentage of IVF treatments that resulted in a live birth was:
- 29% for women under 35
- 23% for women aged 35 to 37
- 15% for women aged 38 to 39
- 9% for women aged 40 to 42
- 3% for women aged 43 to 44
- 2% for women aged over 44
These figures are for women using their own eggs and their partner's sperm, using the per embryo transferred measure.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority (HFEA) has more information on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), including the latest success rates.
Maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding alcohol, smoking and caffeine during treatment may improve your chances of having a baby with IVF.
Patients registered with a GP practice in Bracknell, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead or Slough
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Patient registered with a GP practice in North East Hampshire
Patients registered with a GP practice in North East Hampshire fall under a policy established by the Hampshire Primary Care Trust.
Treatment must begin before the patient's 35th birthday
One IVF cycle is funded, meaning:
- One fresh cycle, and;
- One subsequent frozen cycle, using stored embryos, if the fresh cycle fails
You can view the policy on the Individual Funding Request website here.Search for assisted conception
Patients registered with a GP practice in Farnham
The referral must be made before the patient's 40th birthday.
Treatment must begin within six months of the patient's 40th birthday.
Two IVF cycles are funded, meaning:
- Two fresh cycles, and;
- Two subsequent frozen cycles, using stored embryos, if the fresh cycles fail.
You can view the policy on the Individual Funding Request website here.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The crisis in Crimea is a crime against humanity, but it's also a crime against history. In their haste to explain these events, to score political points and perhaps even to shape our response, politicians and pundits have used spurious historical comparisons.
They say Vladimir Putin is like Hitler. They say Russia's annexation of Crimea is the first shot in a new Cold War. They are wrong.
Instead of thinking about what the future might bring, the pundits and politicians are fighting the last war, and the war before that. This isn't like the opening maneuvers of World War II, and it's not like the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union that prevailed for nearly 50 years.
Putin is certainly no Adolf Hitler; if anything, he's more like Benito Mussolini, who also liked to invade small, defenseless nations.
The heightened tensions between the West and Russia aren't like the Cold War, which was an epic global battle between two roughly equal forces over which of two diametrically opposing ideologies would prevail.
In the current conflict, we have a weakened Russia that is no match politically, economically or militarily for the West. Instead of championing a worldwide Communist movement that promises to liberate billions of people from the shackles of capitalism, we have a Russia that stands mostly for Russian nationalism and imperialism. Who, besides Russians, can get behind that?
Russia may have a few allies in this world, but it has no followers.
That's not to say that Russia isn't dangerous. No one should underestimate the aggressive nature of a cornered bear, especially one armed with nuclear weapons. But Russia is cornered, and its ambitions have been scaled back from global domination to just being the toughest guy in the rundown backwater once known as the Soviet Union.
While Putin's Russia is much weaker than Brezhnev's Soviet Union was, the West has gotten stronger. Capitalism and democracy have advanced steadily eastward toward the Russian heartland. The Baltic republics, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and several Balkan states have joined NATO. No one doubts that the United States would fight to protect its NATO allies, even the ones behind the former Iron Curtain.
In the 1970s, NATO and the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact had rough parity in conventional military power. But now, NATO spends 11 times more on its military than Russia does. Russia's aging military is only a shadow of what the Soviet Union commanded during the Cold War.
Putin may be an opportunistic thug, but he's no Hitler, who had the most powerful military in the world to back up his aggression in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Putin is more like Mussolini. Hitler attacked all the great powers of his day: France, Britain, and Russia. He declared war on the United States.
And Mussolini? He attacked Albania, Libya and Ethiopia, just as Putin has attacked those major powers: Georgia, Chechnya and Crimea.
Mussolini strutted around like the heavyweight champion of the world, just like Putin. Putin is more likely to end up hanging from lamppost than down in a bunker chewing on cyanide.
The Ukraine crisis is real. It threatens the peace and stability of the region. It threatens the economy of Europe and Russia. But it is not a global conflict that will last two generations.
It's not World War II or the Cold War. And all the nostalgia the pundits and politicians have for those days won't make it so.
Also read these MarketWatch stories:
6 economic consequences of a new cold war
Why stocks rallied in face of new cold war
Cold War-style standoff to cause shivers this week in Europe


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06/28/2016 New setting-up of the SOMTP dealer in Normandy
SOMTP, dealer of the Liebherr earthmoving division, has opened new premises in Normandy on Friday 3rd June, with the presence of several representatives of Liebherr, as well as more than 100 customers, who stem from the earthmoving, the quarries, the demolition and the construction and public works sectors.
The new SOMTP establishment stretches on a total area of 9 987m², of which the offices represent 336 m² and the workshop 495m². The strategic localization at the heart of its activity sector enables to guarantee, in the supply and in the service, the flexibility and the reactivity. The proximity with the customers of the Eure, Seine Maritime and Oise departments is ensured through the new setting-up.
In partnership with Liebherr for years, SOMTP distributes Liebherr machines of the whole earthmoving division. Through this cooperation, Liebherr and SOMTP benefit from the Know-How of each for a common development. After the opening of the new establishment, SOMTP has strengthened its confidence in the cooperation with Liebherr and takes a positive look at a common future.
Several Liebherr earthmoving machines were displayed during the event: the L566 X Power wheel loader, the LH 24 M material handling machine, the A 910 Compact and the A 914 Compact wheeled excavators, the PR 726 crawler tractor and the R 918 crawler excavator.


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Frontier Airlines catapulted from the No. 5 spot last year to the top spot in Airfarewatchdog.com's 2013 airline rankings, which may come as a surprise to many, especially considering the carrier's tumultuous year of change.
Top Airlines for Overall Performance:
Virgin America
US Airways
The annual ranking is based on five performance areas: canceled flights, on-time arrivals, mishandled bags, denied boardings and customer satisfaction.
The Denver-based carrier shined in low rates of canceled flight and mishandled bags as well as good on-time arrival rates. However, of the ten major U.S. carriers analyzed, the airline ranked second to last for its rate of denied boardings.
Airfarewatchdog, a company and website that tracks cheap airfares, used the following weighted system for its ranking:
Customer service – 40 percent Canceled flights – 20 percent On-Time arrivals – 20 percent Mishandled bags – 15 percent Denied boardings – 5 percent
Frontier customers endured some excruciating growing pains this year as the carrier began transitioning from a low-cost carrier to an ultra-low-cost carrier — a new business model that strips down the cost of a plane ticket and then allows passengers to tack on non-essential services for a fee. But from a performance standpoint, Airfarewatchdog found that the carrier has been largely successful in this process.
"Frontier has done a great job in improving the basics—on-time performance, completing flights, and delivering bags on time. Plus, they have very aggressive fare sales, especially combined with their frequent promo code offers," said Airfarewatchdog's president George Hobica, in a statement. "Just be sure to book flights on FlyFrontier.com in order to get the best fares and avoid certain fees."
The individual category breakdown can be found on the price-monitoring company's blog.
For more news on the airline industry, follow Staff Writer Brian Sumers on his blog, L.A. Airspace.


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The mess of upgrading Solutions to SharePoint 2010
by mysticslayer on Oct.03, 2010, under Programming, SharePoint 2010, Software, Visual Studio 2010
The first of all is, when you go to a customer for a simple upgrade to SharePoint 2010 isn't going to be easy. Why, well Rick Taylor is one of the masters of upgrading to SharePoint 2010, and now I know why he is preaching about all the mess you going to have with upgrading to SharePoint 2010.
A simple thought about upgrading isn't going to be, why? Every customer has custom solutions, changed css's or anything of that stuff, but it's going to be worse. When you have Site Definitions, what is not the best practice of course it is going to be alot worse. All kinds of developers are writing and developing nice Site Definitions but when you are at the stage you want to upgrade these developers kan start all over again. Yes, because they put everything in a solution. Every complete customized lists, document libraries and blogs.
Wow, well if you are an architect or a business manager and you hear about Site Definitions and you're upgrading to SharePoint 2010. You can think twice, and even need to save some money to hire a developer that can write all the site definitions again which are not best practice off course. Yes, why I am writing this blog, because I just started to upgrade some solution that is written if all the above mess. Customized blog pages, document libraries, lists, etc. Yes we make features and we make site definitions and we put them all in one bucket called a WSP and hopefully it will work under SharePoint 2010, because you'll never know.
MOSS 2007 / MSS 2010 virtualization problems.
by mysticslayer on Jan.20, 2010, under Virtualization
In the last couple of years I installed alot of different farms for SPS2003, MOSS 2007 and yet I started with the installation of MSS 2010.
Most organizations started using Virtualization software like VMWare ESX of other virtualization software. As far as I know I had to most problems with MOSS 2007 on virtual boxes. The most problems where database servers or badly configured boxes.
When you're using SQL Server or other database server you'll will see that when they are bad configured your farm is performing very very bad. Why?
One of the biggest reasons is that when you're running a database direct on a Virtual Hard Drive it will not perform as well. Why? Mostly the vhd's are using the same LUN on a SAN or physical disk. The best option here is to use pass-through disk to a LUN on a SAN.
Second when you're running a DB server on a Virtual Box and you allocate shared memory and shared CPU's it will also cost performance. This is also for MOSS or SP2010. You should use one-on-one CPU. So if you need 4 virtual CPU's you'll also need 4 cores and not sockets. For another example check your NUMA(Non Uniform Memory Access).
If you have a virtualbox with 8 cores and 32 GB of memory then your NUMA is 4 GB. So you can maximum allocate 4 GB of memory to a virtual server. If you allocate more memory it can cost your performance.
If your using VLAN's and you have multiple Virtual Switches ensure that your MOSS or SP2010 environment is using the same Virtual Switch. If the latency is higher then 1ms your performance will drop. MOSS and SP2010 will only have a good performance with a very low latency.
Also if you're running an AD server and this server is also running poorly your SharePoint environment will also perform poorly. SharePoint authenticates alot.
Most hardware performance issues are written above. Look at it when you're making SharePoint environment virtualized. 80% of the problems are the DB server of the Indexing Server of your SharePoint environment.
how to exclude paths in your #sharepoint farm
by mysticslayer on Jul.03, 2009, under blog
Allright let's get started. Because a normal SharePoint farm will not allow you to request pages with logged in on your website. This is because MOSS will intercept every page you will ask even when you are using an Web Application. In WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 you had to the possibility to exclude certain paths from being captured by SPS or WSS.
Well in SharePoint 2007 you can't make an exclusion in Central Administration, but you can do it by manual. How to do this is easy or not, but it's possible. You can't access pages directly in a Web Application, but you can create a Virtual Directory. Still when you access this virtual directory, SharePoint won't allow you to access this virtual directory.
Now we have to do it another way. Let's modify the web.config of your Web Application.
this is probably how your
<remove verb="GET,HEAD,POST" path="*" />
<add verb="GET,HEAD,POST" path="*" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpHandler, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<add verb="OPTIONS,PROPFIND,PUT,LOCK,UNLOCK,MOVE,COPY,GETLIB,PROPPATCH,MKCOL,DELETE,(GETSOURCE),(HEADSOURCE),(POSTSOURCE)" path="*" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpHandler, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<add verb="*" path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
modify it to this:
<!– <remove verb="GET,HEAD,POST" path="*" />
<add verb="*" path="*.aspx" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory, System.Web, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
<add path="trace.axd" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TraceHandler" validate="True" />
<add path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader" validate="True" />
<add verb="GET,HEAD,POST" path="*" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpHandler, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<add verb="OPTIONS,PROPFIND,PUT,LOCK,UNLOCK,MOVE,COPY,GETLIB,PROPPATCH,MKCOL,DELETE,(GETSOURCE),(HEADSOURCE),(POSTSOURCE)" path="*" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpHandler, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<add verb="*" path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
Change the trust level:
<trust level="Full" originUrl="" />
Ensure that your virtual directory has it's own web.config. Without an own web.config it will inherit from your web.config in your website (of course your web.config of your web application).
MOSS 2007 with something else
by mysticslayer on Jun.25, 2009, under blog
The situation is following.
I have a page located in the /_Layouts/ dir. This page is the CustomLogin page and validates two ways. The first way is by a post to a security validation with a token.
<form name="LoginForm" action="<% =requestURL %>" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" id="LoginForm">
When we hit the submit button it should post data to this validation server and returns data formatted in the header.
The problem is that the posted data is not submitted, because for someone reason MOSS blocks it.
This validation server has it's own SSL certificate and the MOSS site has it's own SSL certificate.
https doesn't redirect to http in document library MOSS 2007
by mysticslayer on Dec.30, 2008, under MOSS
For a company I work for we have an different kind of situation regards the SharePoint site. We have a DMZ with all the webservers we need. We also got a small MOSS 2007 farm where the company hosts his two SharePoint sites. Both sites are on the same farm and on the intranet it works perfectly.
On of these sites is hosted normally on the http port, and the other on is hosted as an extranet application on the https port. The site hosted on the public http port is good, and doesn't show any problems.
The certificate for the private site is at the reverse proxy server, although it is also a kind of firewall. We used the technet documentation for implementation (link). We did use the Alternative Access Mappings and we did redirect our https port(proxy) to the http port(Site farm).
Everything works perfectly, except for the Document Library. Normal documents can be opened without any problems, but when you want to access a folder in the document library we got a permission denied error from the proxy server. Why you may ask? Well the document library has folders and show all http:// instead of https://. So it redirects from an secure site into a insecure site were the port is blocked on the DNS.
So we maybe thought that this was related to the firewall instead of SharePoint, well forget that. The problem resists in the Document Library and nothing else. Now we contact Microsoft for this issue, but the problem is that Microsoft has only helpdesk people with knowledge of SharePoint or ISA Server. Microsoft helpdesk wants to relate the problem to the firewall instead of their own product, and I can't blame them, because it's their product. Well I'm not happy at all with this, because we won't change anything in the firewall. We tried everything there is needed to work.
The company were I work for doesn't have this problem to Exchange Server 2003, and this is the same kind of product, and they have the exact same rules and same implementation… Probably this a bug (or feature) and they can't solve it… maybe later on…
Well I will keep you informed… when I have a solution my blog will keep you informed about it…
My SharePoint-Sites doesn't update
by mysticslayer on Jan.30, 2008, under MOSS
I discovered a problem with the My SharePoint-Sites. Someone at the company I work for discovered that he had alot of sites in his SharePoint-Sites webpart at his My Site. So that shouldn't be a problem I thought. Well it was…
I deleted a subsite of our company intranet, because we decided that the site needed his own dns and database, because it was growing to large. After two weeks we found out that the SharePoint-Sites didn't update and when we hitted on of these sites we got an error. So, I thought it was maybe a My Site related issue. I deleted his My Site, because it didn't have alot of information on and added his My Site to new.
Still the same problems came forward, so I decided to hit google.com for it. Well maybe I didn't seek good enough, but maybe it was related to the search engine. So I decided to reset all the crawled content. After an hour I checked back on the My Site, but still the same problem exists.
Allright, so I decided to look in the help of the stsadm utility. Things that could help I sought on google.com. Well after a couple of searches I found out the following command:
stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 0
In the ssp database you have the table 'sitesynch' and holds the information for all synchronized information over your SharePoint sites and My Sites. This article mentioned also that sometimes the synchronization table isn't sychronized. Well after an hour I checked back at the My Site and saw that the SharePoint-Sites didn't appear anymore.
The job related to this is the â œProfile Synchronizationâ timer job


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Drake and his Hollywood p.r. firm ID have reportedly parted ways after the rapper was bumped from a recent Rolling Stone cover for late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. But Page Six has learned it was just the latest behind-the-scenes drama between the artist and his reps.
Insiders say the "Started From the Bottom" performer also had a beef with Hollywood agency ICM Partners and another of his former p.r. firms, The Chamber Group.
Billboard on Friday reported Drake and ID split after he ranted on Twitter over losing a Rolling Stone cover to Hoffman after his tragic death: "I'm done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That's the only way my message gets across accurately."
But we hear that was the last straw for ID, as well, after Drake hadn't shown up for several other magazine shoots and TV appearances the firm had arranged, leaving editors and execs grousing about Drake's management team, composed of cronies from his hometown of Toronto who call themselves "October's Very Own."
"It's a shame that someone with so much talent is surrounded by kids who are burning bridges left and right," a source told us.
ID also reps Alicia Keys and Ben Stiller.
We also hear Drake had an ugly split with another firm, The Chamber Group, after he got into a screaming match with a female publicist and ordered her out an elevator they were riding in at New York's London/NYC Hotel.
The rapper had left ICM in late 2011 to join WME after he grew frustrated that the firm only brought him roles in urban movies, sources said, as opposed to mainstream films. But we hear ICM got Drake a role in the Richard Gere Wall Street thriller "Arbitrage" and that he committed, then backed out after signing a contract.
Drake's rep Oliver El-Khatib didn't get back to us. ID took the high road and issued the statement: "Drake is an incredibly talented artist, and we're proud of our results for [his new album] 'Nothing Was the Same' and Would You Like a Tour? We wish him the best."


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Public Performance RightsAll films purchased in the Educational store include Public Performance Rights which allow for an institution to hold an exhibition of the film on its own grounds, to groups of no more than 50 people, and where no admission is charged.
Digital Site LicensesPurchasing a Digital Site License (DSL) allows a school, university or library to locally host and stream a film to their faculty and student body on a secure, password or IP-protected system for the life of the digital file. All films are delivered on high-quality 1080p MP4 files.
Digital Site Licenses can be purchased separately or with a DVD (see the Available Formats tab). Institutions purchasing a separate DSL license will automatically receive an email with a link to download the file.
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He's Very Special
He has been there through all your ups and lows of life. He has cheered you up when you thought it was the end of world, he celebrated with you all night long when you received your much awaited promotion at office, he calmed you down when you were pain, and the list of favours goes on. It was your husband who took care of you after you left your parent's house. But, while you were juggling between your professional and personal life, are you sure you did not miss out giving him the attention he deserves? If the answer is a yes, it's time for you to make up to him and live up to your marital vows. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Write Him a Love Letter
While you were in your courtship period, a love note was what both of you longed for. Re-live those moments and send him a love note. You can keep it inside the book he reads every night before going to sleep or just simply slip it into his lunch box. This will definitely take him on cloud 9. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Listen to Him
When you come home after long day at office, paying attention to anything else is a big task. Gradually, you stop listening to what he has to say about different things going on in his life. To make him feel special, you must pay heed to what opinion does he have on things. This will mean you respect his opinion and his views are equally important for you. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Thank Him
When you have been married for quite a while, it is natural to start taking each other for-granted. Although it happens involuntarily, it isn't the right thing to do. If he has done you a favour or at any point of time has made you feel special, never forget to thank him. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Prepare his Favourite Meal
Why wait for a birthday or an anniversary? Make an ordinary day special for him by cooking his favourite meal. This would be really special for him as this would come as a complete surprise to him. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Let him Take Over Television
If the fight over television remote is an everyday scene in your house too, treat this as an opportunity to make him feel loved. Give him the television remote and let him watch his favourite show while you sit beside him and enjoy it as much as he does. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Plan a Romantic Getaway
When you have an entire family to look after, you automatically run out of time to sit and spend it with your partner. So, vacation is what you need. Plan a romantic getaway for just the two of you and make it up for all the time you could not spend with him. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Spend Time with his Family
No matter how busy he has been with work, always remember that his parents mean a lot to him. It will leave him awestruck when he finds his parents come over for lunch and all of it will be planned by you. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Do what he Dislikes Doing
If your husband hates buying groceries, do it for him. Do whatever he does not like doing and it will give him immense happiness. Image courtesy: Getty Images
Call Over his Friends
Mostly all men are of this opinion that their wives do not like his friends crashing into the house for a party. Call over his friends and let him have a gala time with him. Once they are off, he will surely fall short of words to thank you. Image courtesy: Getty Images


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PHOENIX—An 8-year-old boy was driving his mother's car on a nighttime joyride with his 6-year-old sister when it crashed into a pole, fatally injuring the girl, police said Thursday.
The girl and her brother, who received minor injuries in the crash, were both in their pyjamas, said Sgt. Steve Martos.
The children's mother had put them to bed and then couldn't find them in their home a half-hour later, Martos said.
The frantic mother went door-to-door in the neighbourhood and called police to report her children may have been kidnapped. Meanwhile, the accident had occurred a short distance away.
"It's just an unfortunate tragedy," Martos said.
He said police had received calls about children driving a vehicle and the possible kidnapping.
Officers spotted the vehicle, but when they tried to pull it over, the driver veered to the right and collided with a pole, Martos said.
The mother ran to the scene "and was here when we discovered that it was her two children that were involved in this collision," Martos said.


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Teachers ready themselves by attending gun and active shooter training
Third-grade math and science teacher Kim Raney is getting a lesson in protecting her students.
"It's scary sometimes," Raney said. "We do our best to have security at our schools, but you never know what's going to happen, and it's better to be prepared than not prepared."
Tim Bulot owns Strategic Weapons Academy of Texas. He's a former police officer with nearly 30 years of law enforcement experience.
"This is the first time I've done anything like this," Bulot said. "Normally it's police officers, SWAT, and overseas contractors is who we train here."
Bulot said SWAT and police officers volunteered their time and expertise teaching firearms training, and active shooter protocol.
Jeremie Parker attended the training in honor of his niece, who died in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.
"Every day we think about her, and every day I think, 'What if,'" Parker said. "But I try to keep her spirit alive by living how she would want me to be."
Parker is a teacher and coach at a school in Tarrant County, who hopes he never has to use his training.
"I probably won't carry in the classroom if the district ever allows it," Parker said. "It's just one of those things to prepare and better train myself in understanding how to use a firearm."


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We've all seen the big spoofs of scifi classics. Family Guy just recreated Star Wars and the Simpsons' Prisoner tribute was perfection. But nobody salutes science fiction better than 30 Rock's sly one-liners, which just slip it in there.
We're madly in love with the writing on 30 Rock, mainly because each wickedly clever line is laced with loads of nerd-only humor. Sure, Big Bang Theory is cute and full of genre arguments and pop-culture showdowns, but I have much more respect for the show that can slip in a Star Trek/Boston Legal joke with out flinching. To show our appreciation, we've rounded up the best of the best 30 Rock geek moments — feel free to suggest your own.
The embrace of the genre way isn't a new thing for non-genre shows. Below I've collected a few moments from the leading contenders that also excel in dropping BSG riff after Rocky Horror joke. Please add on your favorites in the comments.
Veronica Mars
Veronica and friends really knew how to turn a phrase into a layered geek out dialogue session, here's just a taste of best.
The Big Bang Theory
The series is about nerds...so not really fair but they did really hash a lot of real life genre arguments.
The Office
Dwight represent!
How I Met Your Mother
We actually wrote an entire about this dillema, can you love someone that doesn't love Star Wars?
Additional reporting and gathering by Julia Carusillo.


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Welcome to digital-law-online.info, a web site created by Professor Lee A. Hollaar of the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Initially, this site provided supplementary material to Professor Hollaar's treatise "Legal Protection of Digital Information." It now contains an online version of that book and in the future will contain other online texts, as well as links to other sites useful in understanding law in the digital age.
Also available here are papers on intellectual property and computer law by Professor Hollaar.
This treatise by Professor Hollaar was published by BNA Books on November 26, 2002. The Second Edition is now available in print.
The following material is available online:
You can also search the treatise using the University of Utah search engine by clicking on this button:
The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) was established by Congress, and operated between 1975 and 1978 to determine how the Copyright Act of 1976 should address computers and copy machines. On July 31, 1978, it issued its Final Report, which is frequently cited, but not readily available.
It is now available both as a series of web pages and as PDF images of the original report. You can also find any section using this Table of Contents.
And we have a picture of the CONTU
commissioners and staff, taken at their last meeting.
|Bill Patry's treatise, "Copyright Law and Practice" (published by BNA Books in 1994, with a new edition coming out this year), is one of the most readable and comprehensive works on copyright law. BNA Books has given permission to include its excellent history of copyrights on this web site. You can find any section by using this Table of Contents.
This web site is hosted by the School of Computing at the University of Utah, and is subject to this disclaimer.
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A beautiful new video has been released that depicts a portion of the Old Testament account of Queen Esther, and the events that led to her great act of faith.
As you may recall, not knowing that his new wife Esther was a Jew, King Ahasuerus of Persia was persuaded to approve a decree that all persons of Jewish descent should be killed.
After receiving correspondence from her cousin [and adoptive father] Mordecai, Esther chose to enter the king's court without an invitation, despite the penalty of death, to plead for her people.
"…and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
I was initially disappointed this video did not show the "happy ending". Perhaps it is assumed viewers already know the end result? Or, to encourage us to go to the source, and read the story? However, I suspect the screenplay was specifically written to leave us holding our breath with Esther. It emphasizes the suspense, and causes us to ponder the significance of her leap of faith. After all, Esther did not know her decision would receive a positive outcome. In fact, she went to the King fully aware that the likely consequence would be death. Thus, the story of Esther becomes a timeless example to each of us to have the courage to stand up for what is right, even if it might cost us our reputation, friendships, a promotion, a job, or even placing our physical safety at risk. What challenges do you face today that require courage like Esther's? Will you have the courage to do what is right, and place the consequence in God's hands?
". . .although there have always been challenges in the world, many of those which you face are unique to this time. But you are some of our Heavenly Father's strongest children, and He has saved you to come to the earth "for such a time as this." With His help, you will have the courage to face whatever comes." – Thomas S. Monson, May You Have Courage, April 2009
- Book of Esther
- May You Have Courage Thomas S. Monson, Young Women Conference, April 2009
- Lessons From The Old Testament: Coming Of Age Kathleen H. Hughes, Ensign, Dec. 2006


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Welcome to The Verge! Featuring interactive elements such as game stations, pool table and a new karaoke lounge, this is the perfect place to kick back, relax and spend an exciting day with your family and friends. Offering the latest video game consoles including the popular Xbox 360, Kinect, Playstation 4 and Nintendo Wii along with an extensive list of popular songs, enjoy our endless entertainment options right at the hotel!
Private, cozy and upscale featuring an excellent surround sound system and a wide-ranging playlist of popular songs in different languages, our all –new Karaoke Lounge is the ideal venue for intimate celebrations, relaxed get-togethers and small parties. Don't miss this chance to exercise your singing talents and belt out old classics or your personal favourites as you croon away to your heart's content. A food and drink menu featuring delicious snacks, light bites and premium drinks is also available.
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Celtic Knot Jacquard woven scarf in a luxurious soft blend of Chenille and Pure New Wool.
Dimensions: 34 x 200 cms Including Fringes
Composition: 67% Chenille/33% Pure New Wool
An authentic Scottish product exclusively designed and woven by Calzeat of Scotland.
Two of the most iconic images of Scotland are the Scots Pine Tree and the Majestic Stag.
We have combined these classic images along with Celtic knotwork to create a really beautiful Scottish design.
The Scots Pine once covered much of the Scottish Highlands and is the only naturally occuring native pine tree in Scotland. Red deer can be found throughout Scotland with the male stag growing antlers each year for the rutting season, which can reach 115cm (45") in length and weigh up to 5kg (11 lbs).
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Bruins: Surgery for McQuaid, Kelly 'better'
With an extra day to prepare for the next game in their best-of-7 series against the Canadiens, the Bruins – with the exception of a few players who came to TD Garden to fulfill media obligations, plus those who didn't play on Saturday -- got to take Sunday off. The B's have a practice scheduled for Monday morning at the Garden, and will then depart for Games 3 (Tuesday) and 4 (Thursday) in Montreal.
Noteworthy, however, was a two-sentence statement from general manager Peter Chiarelli regarding surgery for injured defenseman Adam McQuaid, and a response from coach Claude Julien's meeting with reporters about injured winger Chris Kelly.
- McQuaid hasn't played since Jan. 19, when he injured the same quad muscle in his left leg for the third time. He was seen Saturday using crutches, and shortly after Julien was asked about that on Sunday, the team issued the following statement from Chiarelli:
"McQuaid underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on Thursday, May 1 on his right ankle. His expected recovery time is eight weeks."
That puts McQuaid out until next season, although the quad injury might have done that anyway. He sustained that injury for the first time on Nov. 9, in a game against Toronto.
McQuaid had been skating with other injured Bruins as recently as their first-round series against Detroit. It's not known if he injured the ankle during that comeback attempt, or if it's somehow related to the quad injury.
- Julien, who has pretty much stopped discussing injuries since the end of the regular season, said this about Kelly, who has now been out for almost four weeks with a back injury sustained April 8 at Minnesota. He has not been seen on skates since then.
"Every day's a better day for him. That's basically all I can tell you."


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Valtellina vältāl-lē´nä [key], Alpine valley of the upper Adda River, c.75 mi (120 km) long, in Lombardy, N Italy, extending from Lake Como to the Stelvio Pass. The main towns are Sondrio and Tirano. The valley is a fertile agricultural region, known for its wine. With the adjoining counties of Bormio and Chiavenna, the Valtellina was seized (1512) from Milan by the Grisons, which subsequently ruled the district—its richest and most populous possession—as a subject territory. By the start of the Thirty Years War (1618–48), the stoutly Roman Catholic inhabitants of the Valtellina were ready for revolt against the Grisons, the majority of whose population was Protestant; in 1620 they rose and massacred their Protestant masters. These internal troubles quickly assumed European proportions, because the valley commanded the passages between Austria and the Grisons and Venice and Spanish-held Milan. The Valtellina became the pawn of the participants in the Thirty Years War and the victim of their complicated intrigues. The massacre of 1620 led to a series of military interventions by Spain, Austria, the pope, the Catholic party of the Grisons, France, and the Protestant majority of the Grisons (largely financed by Venice). The valley was sacked in turn by these armies and in 1627 passed under Spanish control; transportation of Spanish reinforcements through the Valtellina into Germany contributed to several victories by the imperial party, notably at Nördlingen (1634). When France fully entered the war on the Protestant side, a French army was again dispatched (1635) to the Valtellina. Henri de Rohan conquered the valley but failed to restore it to the full control of his Grisons allies. Incensed, the Grisons Protestants, led by the preacher-soldier George Jenatsch, secretly negotiated with the Catholic powers, who promised to restore the Valtellina to the Grisons if the French were expelled. However, Rohan, ill and weakly supported by the French government, had to evacuate the Grisons in 1637. By the Peace of Milan (1639) the Grisons fully recovered the Valtellina; it remained in the Grisons until 1797, when it was incorporated into the Cisalpine Republic. The Valtellina passed (1815) to the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom (held by Austria), and later it passed (1859) to Italy.
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Dear husband had requested for cakes to give away, he has no special requirement except must be delicious. Woa this is challenging if I am going to try on new recipe. I decided to bake this recipe since there are many positive review in the internet, sure won't go wrong since so many people had tested and given compliments.
I didn't expect the ganache filling to be still watery after the cake has cooled, I thought the filling will at least set a bit. Probably due to the substitution for heavy cream but I welcome this surprised outcome. When I "tear" the cupcake apart for photography, the ganache filling just ooze out, seducing me to give it a bite hahaha... I had to control myself so hard to wait after the photo taking, hmmmm.... such a satisfaction after a big bite lol.
Oh just in case you might think there is a typo error of using bread flour for this recipe. The answer is no, the recipe is calling for bread flour, this is to make the cupcakes sturdy but not tough to allow more chocolate to be added.
Recipe adapted from Qi Qi in the House with some modification, originally from Cook's Illustrated
2. Place chocolate and cocoa in medium bowl. Pour hot coffee over mixture and whisk until smooth. Set in the refrigerator to cool completely, about 20 mins or more.
3. Whisk flour, sugar, salt and baking soda together in a medium bowl, set aside.
4. Whisk oil, eggs, vinegar (or lemon juice) and vanilla extract and mix into step 2 and mix until smooth. Add flour mixture and whisk until smooth.
5. Divide batter evenly among muffin pans cups. Place one slightly rounded tsp ganache filling (I scooped almost 1 tbsp) on top of each cupcake.
6. Bake until cupcakes are set and just firm to touch, 17 to 19 mins (I baked mine for 15 mins).
The cake is soft, tender, moist without being too crumbly. This cake is so rich and chocolaty, the surprise ganache filling is making the cupcake marked perfect, this is definitely a chocoholic's dream. I even received compliments such as this is by far the most delicious chocolate cupcake, better than famous bakery stores etc.... I am going to make more to give away!


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placing the Trocar in its correct place is one of the most crucial procedures of laparoscopic surgery for your medical instruments. Many crutial issues have been reported as a result of incorrect placement of laparoscopic instruments. You need to make positively sure that you are placing the trocar correctly.
Their is so many different types of trocars on the marketplace, some of the most simple to use are the trocars with the safety mechanisms with robust blades. While simple handling is the same for most trocars, Its important to understand all the different functions of the different types.
Approaching laparoscopy, When pushing to see if the space can be entered you should view the area through another trocar to be positive that the space can be entered safely. Make sure the patient is free from abdominal wall vessels, darkened the room and view the area under transmitted light. Hold the trocar perpendicular to the abdominal wall. To prevent accidentally going in to deep, stretch your finger along the length of the trocar while at the same time using your other hand for support. twist and trun the trocar, while maintaining even force until the tip passes through the wall. When using your medical equipment try not to press to rough. Hard pressure may shrink the internal space, increasing the risk of hitting an organ and causing damage. When the tip of the trocar is inside the space try and swing it into a direction of open space and push further to avoid unnecessary injury. Locking the safety mechanism will help reduce risk. Some trocars do not have a lock mechanism on the safety. Make sure your really careful when inserting this device. A malacar trocar is the best for this operation. It keeps itself secure during the procedure.