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Cuomo: No pressure for immediate fracking decision
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that there are no immediate plans for a decision on whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in New York and that he expects lawsuits to follow the decision either way.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to issue a final determination on whether high-volume hydrofracking -- a natural-gas extraction technique that involves a mix of water, sand and chemicals injected into gas-rich shale formations -- can be done safely. There has been much speculation over when the decision would be announced.
During an interview on an Albany radio station Monday morning, Cuomo said he isn't going to pressure the state agency into making the decision by a certain date, such as the upcoming election day for the office of the president and the state Legislature or by the end of the year.
"When it's done, and when they're prepared — that's when we'll announce the decision," he told WDJG.
"And, remember, the announcing of the decision is not going to be the conclusion," he continued. "I promise you, there will be lawsuits, whatever the decision is. So the day right after the decision, there will be another press conference that says, now we're going to step two, which is a series of legal challenges and political challenges, and we're going to try to get federal legislation and state legislation.
"It's going to be an ongoing situation for a long, long time," he said.


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Andre Drummond exploded with Christmas cheer off the bench last night with 11 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks in just 21 minutes. Holy night! Come they played him, pa rum pum pum pum. Aaan-dre Druuum-moond, pa rum pum pum pum. Rebounds and blocks he bring, pa rum pum pum pum. To help your fantasy team, pa rum pum pum pum. Rum pum pum pum. La la la la….Anyway, are you still upset you missed out on the Larry Sanders sweepstakes? Andre Drummond could be the next big thing. Over his past six games, Drummond is averaging 11.6 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game. Andre still isn't getting enough minutes to be a real fantasy force, but after a game like last night its hard to believe coach Lawrence Frank won't give his minutes a bump. If you're one of the millions of children with "Rebounds" and "Blocks" on their Christmas list, Andre Drummond could be worth the flier for his upside alone. A pick up fit for a king, pa rum pum pum pum! Rum pum pum pum. This song is dumb!
Here's what else happened Friday night in fantasy basketball (yuletide edition):
Luol Deng – 29 pts, 13 reb. Deng was doing his theng last night before leaving with a shoulder injury. He returned and shouldn't miss a beat, he'll continue to play 60+ minutes a night.
Marco Belinelli – 22 pts, 7 reb, 2 stl in 45 minutes. The Bulls handed the Knicks just their second home loss of the season and the Champagne Cocktail was a big reason why. He's available in over 30% of yahoo leagues and is averaging 16 pts, 3.3 rebs, 1.5 ast, 1.5 stl and 1.3 3pm. He also made 11-12 free throws! Fantasy Pro Tip* that will help your free throw percentage!
Kirk Hinrich – 16 pts, 9 reb, 8 ast, 1 stl, 4 3pm in 38 minutes. Third game back from knee injury and what a game! I don't think I've seen Hinrich play so well since Kansas.
Larry Sanders – 17 pts, 20 reb, 3 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk. 18 defensive rebounds versus the floundering Celtics who apparently were so sick of rebounds they just gave them all to Sanders. Have you ever been so on about someone/something from the start that you feel like a jerk just mentioning him/it? It's kinda like that. #humblebrag
Jeff Green – 14 pts, 3 reb, 4 stl, 2 ast, 2 blk in 28 minutes. Pretty little line. If you could count on any consistency from Green I'd recommend him–but you can't, so I won't.
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute – 20 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast. Blast you, your highness! If you keep performing well I'll continue to have to type your name! Prince Mbah a Moute has his games, and played 40 minutes last night. But I need to see more before I recommended him outside of deeper leagues.
Shawn Marion – 37 minutes, 14 points, 11 rebounds, 2 ast, 3 blk. I am a sucker for, Marion. I know he's old, and shoots funny, and plays for a terrible team, but Santa be damned if he doesn't know how to contribute to a fantasy team! Worth the own as long as the Matrix is playing 35+ minutes a night. Also, he knows kung fu.
Anthony Davis – 18 pts, 11 reb, 1 blk. Consider your buy low window closed.
Austin Rivers – 7 pts, 5 reb, 2 ast. Continues to start despite being just awful. It's a Christmas miracle!
Gerald Green – 14 pts, 2 3pm. Green has gotten more than enough playing time but hasn't really produced statistically. He left the game last night with a sprained ankle. Lance Stephenson looks see a minutes bump and was on last night with 16 pts, 7 ast, 2 reb, 2 stl (7-8 FG). He's worth keeping an eye on.
Tyler Zeller – 12 pts, 7 rebs in 35 minutes. His second start of the season after scoring 20 pts on Wednesday. As long as Anderson Varejao is out, Old Zeller is worth a look while he's starting for Cleveland.
Tristan Thompson – 12 pts, 13 reb, 2 blk. Now two straight dub-dubs with Varejao out. Varejao hoards rebounds, so much like Zeller, take advantage of Thompson while Anderson's on the shelf.
J.R. Smith – 26 pts, 10 reb, 2 ast. And that, my friends, is Dallas.
Nikola Vucevic – 16 pts, 12 reb, 2 blk, (8-12 FG). Nikola is still unowned in about a third of Yahoo leagues, but with Glen Davis sidelined he should be owned everywhere. Gustavo Ayon is also benefiting in Big Baby's absence and had a double double of his own off the bench (12 pts, 13 rebs).
Jrue Holiday – 11 pts, 7 ast, 4 reb. Returned from injury last night. I don't know about Jrue, but the Sixers were really hurting without him.
Jason Richardson – 17 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk. No one was happier than J-Rich to see Holiday back in the line up. Dishing dimes, taking names, etc., etc.
Amir Johnson – 10 pts, 7 reb, 2 blk in 35 minutes off the bench. Ed Davis got the start and put up an eerily identical line of 10 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk. I am pretty sure they are the same person, but regardless there are stats to be had here. I prefer Johnson slightly over Davis but if you close your eyes and pick one up, in a week you probably won't know the difference.
Gerald Henderson – 23 pts, 4 reb, 5 ast, 1 blk. It's kind of shocking that Henderson is owned in less than 40% of yahoo leagues. Admit it, it's because he's on the Bobcats isn't it? Fair enough.
Stephan Curry – 27 pts, 8 ast, 3 reb, 2 blk, 8 3pm. EIGHT THREES! It's another Christmas miracle!
Bismack Biyombo – 12 pts, 14 reb, 2 blk. If you need blocks/rebounds you could do worse than the Bismack-daddy.
Kawhi Leonard – 8 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk and 1 3pm in 20 minutes off the bench. His first game back from injury K-Leo wasted no time filling up the stat sheet in limited minutes. Yes, you should pick him up.
Matt Barnes – 13 pts, 5 reb, 3 blk. Barnes has been especially hot (a Barnes burner!) during the Clippers streak, and is averaging 13.8 pts, 4.3 rebs, 1.8 ast, and 1.5 blk over the past seven days. Matt can do it all, none of it particularly well, but he's worth owning while he's hot.
Chris Paul – 24 pts, 5 reb, 13 ast, 5 stl. Oh, I see what you did there…you are good at basketball.
Jason Thompson – 10 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast, 2 blk. Ugh. Oh Kings. You know a team is bad when it makes you physically ill just talking about them. Only Jimmer (16 pts) and Isaiah Thomas (12 pts) scored more than Thompson. Yes, Jimmer Fredette. Do you know any other Jimmers? DeMarcus Cousins (9 pts, 5 rebs) got benched halfway through this game for being a punk, but what else is new. Meanwhile, Aaron Brooks (6 pts, 2 ast) is probably playing the worst basketball of anyone in the league right now, got completely owned by CP3, and is holding the youth movement back in Sacramento. Talk about needing a Christmas miracle. The Kings. Are. Terrible.
Happy holidays! Join us next Saturday for another Friday recap, as fantasy basketball continues next week, all week long!

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Jay-Z and his wife, Beyonce, will compete in three categories at the 2010 BET Awards.
They're both nominated for video of the year, best collaboration and viewers' choice. Jay-Z received two nominations in the video of the year category, which includes newcomers B.o.B and Melanie Fiona.
Jay-Z is the top contender with five nominations; he's also up for best male hip-hop artist. Beyonce, Fiona and Alicia Keys, who follow with four nods each, are all up for best R&B female artist. R&B crooner Trey Songz also received four nominations.
Other multiple nominees include Rihanna, Maxwell, Drake and Fabolous.
Queen Latifah will host the awards show, which airs live on June 27 from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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Jay-Z and his wife, Beyonce, will compete in three categories at the 2010 BET Awards.
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*1014: Stanley's Cup*
Moderator: Big-Will
Kaschmidt wrote:i couldnt stop laughing at the little kids falling down on the ice all the time.
Does that make me a bad person?
I love kids but found it funny. But when the Red Wings beat the kids for no reason... kinda mean. But still pretty funny
I think only those who can understand SP doesn't need to be hilarious throughout the whole episode and can make meaningful and honest episodes... get this one and think it was a good episode. I dunno, it bothers me when people say this one is the worst. Ike having sex with his teacher is a lot more messed up I think than a kid dying from cancer simply because, the latter is more realistic.
I ship: Stan/Cartman <3
Stan: MMOOMM!!
Sharon: What is it honey? (gasp!) My baby's killed again!
Haa, I love that line.
Re: *1014: Stanley's Cup*
Kyle,Stan, Kenny/Mysterion.
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I'm agreeing on something in EP, but it is too BAD!
The ending make me extremely mad when feels lose, and then the winners are failing. Because I see there're beating kid is NOT FUNNY AT ALL. It means "Player should play with the rules?"
About poor Stan. Stan Marsh is my most favorite character. When I watch South Park, I'm Often feels likes Stan. Any episodes about Stan, He usually gets anything badly things.
After this episode ends, I surely to say
"Bad things happen to Stan again!"
I want to find the best of (only) Stan episode, but I think maybe no chances to find. No matter how good or bad things happen to him, I still love Stan Marsh.
This episode is making me more serious. I NEVER watch this episode again.
Sorry for my mistake grammars.
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Young starter Sean Marcum summed the situation of getting run support up nicely after last night's game --"It's huge. You've got a little bit more room for error. If you do miss a spot, they can't hit a six-run homer to tie the game. It's nice to have that comfort."
Time for Gibby to stop f-ing around with the lineup. Whatever it was last night worked. Period. Leave that scab alone!


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With smartphone's taking the majority share in mobile phone usage in America this year, it's easy to see that the future of Web is mobile. No one can afford to ignore it.
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Givat Shmuel, Israel – November 20, 2013 – Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ: CIMT) announced today that Mr. Bill Gibbs, Cimatron's President North America, will be presenting at the LD Micro 6th Annual Conference. The three-day event will host 235 micro-cap companies at the Luxe Sunset Bel Air in Los Angeles, California.
The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 at 9am PST / 12pm EST.
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The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes milling, wire EDM, turn, mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
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Refreshments are available. This is a fun interactive activity.
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Exclusive residential building lot with views and easy access to the new Echo Lake State Park. Only 2.5 miles from the main marina serving the lake. Less than a mile away from downtown Coalville offering shopping, banking, public schools, restaurants, library, health clinic, Summit County Courthouse, Fair Grounds & City Park. The lot is served with public utilities & municipal services including natural gas, power, water, sewer, high-speed internet & secondary irrigation water. Rails-to-trail is located across street which offers unlimited hiking & biking opportunities with over 25 miles of public trail from Echo Lake State Park to Park City. Over 1/2 mile of internal sidewalk pathways. Spectacular mountain views to the North & South. 30 minutes to Park City Historic Main Street & 45 minutes to downtown Salt Lake City. Come enjoy the rural small-town charm, abundant recreational opportunities & country lifestyle.
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The Exploratory Research Space, ERS for short, promotes and funds interdisciplinary research projects and provides a platform for scientists to join forces and develop highly innovative, challenging research ideas that involve a higher risk than conventional ventures.
We facilitate dialog and exchange between the disciplines and support researchers with seminars, workshops, and continuing education opportunities. ERS is targeted both at experienced scientists and early-career researchers.
Offers within ERS are:
- The ERS Forum to help you find and develop your research idea that is at a very early and open stage yet.
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- IRS – International Research Space to create a supportive research infrastructure in order to promote internationalization.
How Do We Understand Interdisciplinarity at ERS?
Interdisciplinarity, as understood by the Exploratory Research Space at RWTH Aachen University, combines approaches, insights or methods of different academic disciplines to pursue a task that is of common scientific interest and requires a joint research strategy with contributions from all partners.
That means that the disciplines should not only exchange results. The applied methods and techniques should rather be shared between the partners and preferably broaden the respective disciplinary portfolio. In contrast to multidisciplinarity, where different aspects can stand next to each other, interdisciplinarity imperatively merges the different aspects into one activity.
To further differentiate, in our understanding transdisciplinarity is an integrative research that combines scientific and practical knowledge to solve societal challenges.
ERS defines disciplines as different if they belong to different faculties and each have a particular approach to the respective research topic.
Since January 19, there hasn't been a week that I have not told someone about the "Internet Medicine – Medicine in the Year 2045" event. For me, it brought a wealth of new ideas. I ask myself, what will my discipline look like in 2045, and how can teach our students so they will be well prepared for it? Thanks so much for hosting this valuable event – I wish we had more of such events!
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ESSAY- Lit-ville: I am my books, and my books are me
Whoa, check out these titles: Sodome et Gomorrhe by Marcel Proust, Verlaine's Oeuvres Poetiques, And all those books about philosophy and linguistics.
Whose bookshelves are these? Somebody really smart must live here.
Oh, wait, those are my books, on my bookshelves. Apart from dusting them, which I'm doing today, those books haven't seen any action in decades.
Every time I've considered thinning the ranks, I hesitate over certain books, these among them.
Why do I hold onto these books? They make me feel greedy, like Scrooge McDuck sitting on all those full-to-bursting bags with the dollar signs on them. What's the point of holding onto a book that nobody's reading?
If the truth be told, I'm hoping that visitors to my house will peruse my bookshelves and come away impressed with my exquisite sensibilities.
In reality, the visitors to my house are nearly always people who are related to me, and it's too late– they already know who I really am.
They know that I pretty much forgot the entire French language after I collected my bachelor's degree in the subject, and they correctly suspect that I never made it all the way through any of those philosophy books.
Standing back, I size up the titles from afar. To clear off that shelf of French books would be painful, like tearing out a section of my brain– the part that still remembers squirming uncomfortably on a wooden bench in a creaky old hall in the Sorbonne, enduring lectures on the 19th century French novel from a professor we'd nicknamed "Fishface."
I like that adventurous young woman I used to be. I savor that expansive time of my life, when every little drama– whether it was humiliation, heartache, or being caught in the rain– seemed downright cinematic, because it was set against the backdrop of Paris.
For decades I have harbored the conceit that my bookshelves are me, writ large, on display. In truth, they are who I would like to be, who I used to be. They are a museum. A collection of fossils.
Surely, there's someone out there, beyond my dusty shelves, who would love to have a copy of Le Rouge et le Noir written in Stendahl's native tongue– someone who would open it up and read it.
After all, books, like money, are meant to circulate. When you sit on your collection of greenbacks, or hardbacks, what good are they to anyone?
Must get rid of them. Must start over. Display all my new-agey books on the power of intention, the Conversations with God books, the Suzanne Somers how-not-to-look-old books.
Then again, I don't think I'm ready to toss back the veils from those areas of my mind to visiting shelf peepers. Is my obsession with health and youth and immortality ready to be writ large upon my shelves?
Oh, my head hurts. I'll have to take a break from this arduous dusting. I need counseling. I need someone to reassure me that removing these books from my life is not the same as excising memories from my brain.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe I'll need to refer to them. What if someone asks me to recite one of Verlaine's poems, or seeks my counsel regarding the finer points of Kant's categorical imperative? What if I need to explain the great English vowel shift to somebody?
Oh, right: I could just google any of those things.
Ah, but what if the apocalypse comes? Answer me that! No computers, no electricity– my bookshelves would be a repository for great hunks of Western civilization.
Time to get back to work. And time to admit that I'm not someone who reads such books as these– I'm merely someone who dusts them.
Free Union resident Janis Jaquith writes essays for NPR stations too.
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Black Twitter Erupts At USA Today's Best Man "Race Themed" Headline
Race Matters: USA Today Under Heavy Fire For Calling "The Best Man Holiday" A "Race-Themed" Film
2013 has been racist as HELL…SMH
USA Today Slammed For "Race Themed" Headline About "The Best Man Holiday
Via ChicagoTribune
USA Today set off a social media storm Sunday with a headline on its box-office story that many found racially insensitive.
"'Holiday' Nearly Beat 'Thor' as Race-Themed Films Soar" was the original headline that the publication put up online and sent out on Twitter. Universal's romantic comedy sequel from writer-director Malcolm D. Lee did surprisingly well with $30.5 million this weekend, as it debuted against the Marvel superhero sequel, which took in $38.4 million.
When that headline drew a blast of complaints, it was soon changed to "'Holiday' Nearly Beats 'Thor' as Ethnically Diverse Films Soar." The original tweet was deleted, too.
Most of the complaints struck a similar chord.
USA Today tried to pour water on the fire by changing the title, but the damage was already done.
The story also made mention of the box-office success of "Fruitvale Station" and "The Butler," two films that also had predominantly African American casts.
Even after the headline was switched, it was still catching heat.
"Changing it from 'race-themed' to 'diverse' doesn't make it any less stupid," tweeted Michelle Tran.
A call to a USA Today seeking comment wasn't immediately returned, but the messages seemed to be hitting home. The headline was changed a second time.
Ultimately, it read: "Best Man Holiday' Nearly Beats Mighty 'Thor.'"
Tsk, tsk, tsk, USA Today. Aside from the title, the most incendiary part of the article was the tone of shocked that a film with a majority black cast could actually be profitable.
Via USAToday
But the story of the weekend was Holiday, a sequel that arrived 14 years after the original, sported a budget of just $17 million and was marketed specifically to African-American women. Holiday collected $30.6 million, more than twice what many analysts projected.
Other films with predominantly black casts have been hot sellers at the turnstiles this year. Fruitvale Station, the $900,000 real-life drama about a black Bay Area man shot to death by transit officers, has done $16 million. And Lee Daniels' The Butler, the $30 million true story of a black White House butler, was the box-office surprise of summer at $115 million.
Per usual, race-themed Twitter went HAM upon reading the headline. Flip it to read some of the best.
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Liberty City Trade Union
The Liberty City Trade Union (LCTU) is the union exerted on Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and that is not mentioned in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Advance. This group gets to have more importance in the year 1998, when led by Jane Hopper, they go on strike to bribe mayor of Liberty City for profit.
Union Leaders
- Jane Hopper
Jane Hopper is the principal leader of the union. She is corrupt and only wants to bribe the mayor and politicians to increase wages substantially.
- Others
There are also three other unknown union leaders, who were featured in the mission Frighteners.
The strikers are workers or workers on strike. Under orders of Jane Hopper, they are protesting and blocking at the entrances of the following:
- Portland Harbor or Portland Docks.
- Harwood Ferry Terminal (Portland)
- Shoreside Lift Bridge (Staunton Island, bridge entrance)
If the player go's past the picket lines at any of these places, the strikers attack the player with Baseball Bats and Molotov Cocktails.
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Welcome to Buzz - the first in a buzzing new range of quiz shows where you and your friends are the contestants! Featuring 5000 individually prepared music questions - with over 1000 music clips spanning six decades of music - Buzz is the ultimate test of musical knowledge.
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Trac macros are plugins to extend the Trac engine with custom 'functions' written in Python. A macro inserts dynamic HTML data in any context supporting WikiFormatting.
Another kind of macros are WikiProcessors. They typically deal with alternate markup formats and representation of larger blocks of information (like source code highlighting).
Using Macros
Macro calls are enclosed in two square brackets. Like Python functions, macros can also have arguments, a comma separated list within parentheses.
Getting Detailed Help
The list of available macros and the full help can be obtained using the MacroList macro, as seen below.
A brief list can be obtained via [[MacroList(*)]] or [[?]].
Detailed help on a specific macro can be obtained by passing it as an argument to MacroList, e.g. [[MacroList(MacroList)]], or, more conveniently, by appending a question mark to the macro's name, like in [[MacroList?]].
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Embed an image in wiki-formatted text.
The first argument is the file …
Available Macros
Note that the following list will only contain the macro documentation if you've not enabled
-OO optimizations, or not set the
PythonOptimize option for mod_python.
Display a wiki page on how to use boxes.
Display a wiki page on how to use icons.
Display a wiki page on how to use attentional phrases.
A macro to display list of posts and extracts outside (or inside) the Blog module - most commonly Wiki pages.
All arguments are optional:
Available named arguments:
recent=- max. number of posts
category=- a category
author=- an author
period=- time period of the format YYYY/MM
heading=- a heading for the list
format=- type of display (see below for details)
max_size=- max. number of characters to render for each post
meta=- use
=offto hide date, author and categories (default 'on')
Example showing some available named arguments:
[[BlogList(recent=5, max_size=250, period=2007/12, author=osimons, format=float, heading=Some Trac Posts)]]
The arguments for criteria are 'AND'-based, so the above example will render at most 5 posts by 'osimons' in December 2007.
There is no heading unless specified.
Without restriction on recent number of posts, it will use the number currently active in the Blog module as default for 'float' and 'full' rendering, but for rendering of 'inline' list it will render all found as default unless restricted. Additionally for 'float' and 'full' it will truncate content if it is larger than a max_size (if set).
format= keyword argument supports rendering these formats:
|Renders an unordered list in the normal text flow (default).
|A floating box out on the side of the page with slightly more detail.
|Full rendering like on period, category and author listings inside blog.
The arguments can appear in any order.
Posts are rendered sorted by newest first for all modes.
Write repository change log to output.
The ChangeLog macro writes a log of the last changes of a repository at a given path. Following variants are possible to use:
1. [[ChangeLog([reponame:]path)]] 2. [[ChangeLog([reponame:]path@rev)]] 3. [[ChangeLog([reponame:]path@rev, limit)]] 4. [[ChangeLog([reponame:]path@from-to)]] 5. [[ChangeLog([reponame:]path, limit, rev)]]
- Default repository is used if reponame is left out. To show the last
five changes of the default repository:
[[ChangeLog(/)]]To show the last five changes of the trunk folder in a named repo:
- The ending revision can be set.
To show the last five changes up to revision 99:
- The limit can be set by an optional parameter. To show the last
10 changes, up to revision 99:
[[ChangeLog(otherrepo:/trunk@99, 10)]]
- A range of revisions can be logged.
[[ChangeLog(otherrepo:/trunk@90-99)]]To lists all changes:
[[ChangeLog(otherrepo:/trunk@1-HEAD)]]HEAD can be left out:
- For backwards compatibility, revision can be stated as a third
[[ChangeLog(otherrepo:/trunk, 10, 99)]]
limit and rev may be keyword arguments.
[[ChangeLog(otherrepo:/trunk, limit=10, rev=99)]]
Decorate text with colors.
[[Color(text, fg/bg/size)]]
textis the text to decorate. Enter a leading and/or trailing space character to surround the text with a decorated space.
fg/bg/sizedefines the foreground and background colors, and a font size. All parameters are optional and separated by slash character (
Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet in hexadecimal format
(a hex triplet; e.g.
#000 or
#000000 for black); they may
also be specified according to their common English names (e.g.
red, green, blue etc.). See
here for details.
[[Color(Large red on yellow, red/yellow/150%)]] [[Color(Red on yellow, red/yellow)]] [[Color(Yellow background, /yellow)]] [[Color(Large red, #f00/2em)]] [[Color(Large on yellow, /yellow/20px)]] [[Color(Text, can, have, commas, /yellow)]] [[Color( Surrounding space is also decorated , white/red)]]
To set the foreground color for a larger block, the processor variant can be used (background color and font size may not display as expected due to the mechanisms of cascading style sheets, be advised and use the color parameter only):
{{{#!Color color=green ... }}}
Macro produces html code for embedding flash content from certain service, by it's 'key' and content id. It also can embed simple SWF by it's URL.
Syntax and examples:
[[Embed(youtube=emYqURahUKI)]] [[Embed(vimeo=3840952,w=400,h=300)]] [[Embed(swf=http://media.nadprof.org/flash/rudy/flowers/flowers.swf,w=500,h=400)]] [[Embed(flv=video.flv,purl=/jwplayer.swf,w=500,h=400)]]
Available keys:
- youtube: video from YouTube http://youtube.com
- vimeo: video from Vimeo http://vimeo.com
- swf: SWF by URL
- flv: insert JW player with flv file (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/)
Optional parameters:
- w and h: width and height of embedded flash object
Shows a named icon that can be in line with text.
[[Icon(name, size)]]
nameis the name of the icon. When
namecontains a pattern character (
?), a 2-column preview of matching icons is presented, which should mainly be used for finding and selecting an icon during wiki page editing in side-by-side mode (however, no more than 32 icons are presented to prevent exhaustive network traffic.)
sizeis optionally one of
largeor an abbreviation thereof (defaults
ShowIcons for static presentation of available icons.
Smileys like
:-) are automatically rendered as icons. Use
ShowSmileys to se all available smileys.
Following wiki markup is equivalent to using this macro:
(|name, size|)
Embed an image in wiki-formatted text.
The first argument is the file specification. The file specification may reference attachments in three ways:
module:id:file, where module can be either wiki or ticket, to refer to the attachment named file of the specified wiki page or ticket.
id:file: same as above, but id is either a ticket shorthand or a Wiki page name.
fileto refer to a local attachment named 'file'. This only works from within that wiki page or a ticket.
The file specification may also refer to:
- repository files, using the
source:filesyntax (
source:file@revworks also).
- files, using direct URLs:
/filefor a project-relative,
//filefor a server-relative, or
http://server/filefor absolute location. An InterWiki prefix may be used.
- embedded data using the
dataURL scheme, provided the URL is enclosed in quotes.
The remaining arguments are optional and allow configuring the attributes
and style of the rendered
<img> element:
- digits and unit are interpreted as the size (ex. 120px, 25%) for the image
middleare interpreted as the alignment for the image (alternatively, the first three can be specified using
align=...and the last three using
link=some TracLinks...replaces the link to the image source by the one specified using a TracLinks. If no value is specified, the link is simply removed.
inlinespecifies that the content generated be an inline XHTML element. By default, inline content is not generated, therefore images won't be rendered in section headings and other one-line content.
nolinkmeans without link to image source (deprecated, use
key=valuestyle are interpreted as HTML attributes or CSS style indications for the image. Valid keys are:
- align, valign, border, width, height, alt, title, longdesc, class, margin, margin-(left,right,top,bottom), id and usemap
margin, and
margin-* can only be a single number (units are pixels).
marginis superseded by
centerwhich uses auto margins
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with image width size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link to source [[Image(photo.jpg, align=right)]] # aligned by attribute
You can use an image from a wiki page, ticket or other module.
[[Image(OtherPage:foo.bmp)]] # from a wiki page [[Image(base/sub:bar.bmp)]] # from hierarchical wiki page [[Image(#3:baz.bmp)]] # from another ticket [[Image(ticket:36:boo.jpg)]] # from another ticket (long form) [[Image(source:/img/bee.jpg)]] # from the repository [[Image(htdocs:foo/bar.png)]] # from project htdocs dir [[Image(shared:foo/bar.png)]] # from shared htdocs dir (since 1.0.2)
Adapted from the Image.py macro created by Shun-ichi Goto <gotoh@…>
A macro to include other resources in wiki pages.
More documentation to follow.
Provide a list of known InterTrac prefixes.
Provide a description list for the known InterWiki prefixes.
List all known mime-types which can be used as WikiProcessors.
Can be given an optional argument which is interpreted as mime-type filter.
Show most recently voted resources.
List tagged resources.
- format
- result list presentation; supported values:
comma-separated inline list of "linked-description"
" * linked-id description (tags)" list
table… (see corresponding column option too)
shortor other value
bulleted list of "linked-description"
- cols
- columns for 'table' format using a "|"-separated list of column names (order matters); supported columns: realm, id, description, tags
- exclude
- exclude tagged resources that match a name in the colon-separated list of resource ids, accepts shell-style patterns
See tags documentation for the query syntax.
Display a list of all installed Wiki macros, including documentation if available.
Optionally, the name of a specific macro can be provided as an argument. In that case, only the documentation for that macro will be rendered.
Note that this macro will not be able to display the documentation of
macros if the
PythonOptimize option is enabled for mod_python!
Display a structural outline of the current wiki page, each item in the outline being a link to the corresponding heading.
This macro accepts four optional parameters:
- The first is a number or range that allows configuring the minimum and maximum level of headings that should be included in the outline. For example, specifying "1" here will result in only the top-level headings being included in the outline. Specifying "2-3" will make the outline include all headings of level 2 and 3, as a nested list. The default is to include all heading levels.
- The second parameter can be used to specify a custom title (the default is no title).
- The third parameter selects the style of the outline. This can be
pullout(the latter being the default). The
inlinestyle renders the outline as normal part of the content, while
pulloutcauses the outline to be rendered in a box that is by default floated to the right side of the other content.
- The fourth parameter specifies whether the outline is numbered or not.
It can be either
unnumbered(the former being the default). This parameter only has an effect in
List all pages that have recently been modified, ordered by the time they were last modified.
This macro accepts two ordered arguments and a named argument. The named argument can be placed in any position within the argument list.
The first parameter is a prefix string: if provided, only pages with names that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this parameter is omitted, all pages are included in the list.
The second parameter is the maximum number of pages to include in the list.
group parameter determines how the list is presented:
- The pages are presented in bulleted lists that are grouped by date (default).
- The pages are presented in a single bulleted list.
Tip: if you only want to specify a maximum number of entries and
don't want to filter by prefix, specify an empty first parameter,
Lists all topics, that have been recently active, grouping them by the day they were lastly active. Accepts two parameters: First one is a forum ID. If provided, only topics in that forum are included in the resulting list. Otherwise topics from all forums are listed. Second parameter is a number. I. e. specifying 5 will result in only the five most recently active topics to be included in the list.
Renders in a table the list of HTML entities. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
Renders in a table a list of available icons. No more than 96 icons are displayed to prevent exhaustive network traffic.
[[ShowIcons(cols, name-pattern, size, header, limit)]]
colsis optionally the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
name-patternselects which icons to list (use
sizeis optionally one of
largeor an abbreviation thereof (defaults
headeris optionally one of
noheaderor an abbreviation thereof (header is displayed by default)
limitspecifies an optional upper limit of number of displayed icons (however, no more than 96 will be displayed).
The last three optional parameters (
header and
limit) can be stated in any order.
[[ShowIcons(smile*)]] # all small icons matching smile* [[ShowIcons(4, smile*)]] # four columns [[ShowIcons(smile*, 10)]] # limit to 10 icons [[ShowIcons(smile*, 10, nohead)]] # no header [[ShowIcons(smile*, m)]] # medium-size
Renders in a table the list of known phrases that are highlighted to catch attention.
Comment: Any delimiter
():<> adjacent to a phrase will not be
presented. This makes it possible to naturally write
for example, but view the phrase highlighted without the colon
:) which would not look natural. Prefixing a phrase with
prevents it from being highlighted.
Renders in a table the list of available smileys. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
Comment: Prefixing a character sequence with
! prevents it
from being interpreted as a smiley.
Renders in a table the list of known symbols. Optional argument is the number of columns in the table (defaults 3).
Display a list of all installed notification subscribers, including documentation if available.
Optionally, the name of a specific subscriber can be provided as an argument. In that case, only the documentation for that subscriber will be rendered.
Note that this macro will not be able to display the documentation of
subscribers if the
PythonOptimize option is enabled for mod_python!
Generate a table of contents for the current page or a set of pages.
If no arguments are given, a table of contents is generated for the current page, with the top-level title stripped:
To generate a table of contents for a set of pages, simply pass them as comma separated arguments to the TOC macro, e.g. as in
[[TOC(TracGuide, TracInstall, TracUpgrade, TracIni, TracAdmin, TracBackup, TracLogging, TracPermissions, TracWiki, WikiFormatting, TracBrowser, TracRoadmap, TracChangeset, TracTickets, TracReports, TracQuery, TracTimeline, TracRss, TracNotification)]]
A wildcard
* can be used to fetch a sorted list of all pages starting with
the preceding pagename stub:
[[TOC(Trac*, WikiFormatting, WikiMacros)]]
The following control arguments change the default behaviour of the TOC macro:
|Override the default heading of "Table of Contents"
|Suppress display of the heading.
|Display headings of subsequent pages to a maximum depth of <n>.
|Display TOC inline rather than as a side-bar.
|Only display the page name and title of each page in the wiki section.
|Only display the page name and title of each page, similar to TitleIndex.
|Supress display of page title.
|Display TOC sorted in reversed order. (Since 22.214.171.124)
titleindex argument, an empty pagelist will evaluate to all pages:
[[TOC(titleindex, notitle, heading=All pages)]]
sectionindex argument allows a title index to be generated for all
pages in a given section of the wiki. A section is defined by wiki page
name, using
/ as a section level delimiter (like directories in a file
system). Giving
/ or
* as the page name produces the same result as
titleindex (title of all pages). If a page name ends with a
/, only
children of this page will be processed. Otherwise, the page given in the
argument is also included, if it exists. For
sectionindex argument, an
empty pagelist will evaluate to all page below the same parent as the
current page:
[[TOC(sectionindex, notitle, heading=This section pages)]]
Display a tag cloud.
Show a tag cloud for all tags on resources matching query.
- caseless_sort
- Whether the tag cloud should be sorted case-sensitive.
- mincount
- Optional integer threshold to hide tags with smaller count.
See tags documentation for the query syntax.
Insert an alphabetic list of all wiki pages into the output.
Accepts a prefix string as parameter: if provided, only pages with names
that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this
parameter is omitted, all pages are listed. If the prefix is specified,
a second argument of value
hideprefix can be given as well, in order
to remove that prefix from the output.
The prefix string supports the standard relative-path notation when
using the macro in a wiki page. A prefix string starting with
will be relative to the current page, and parent pages can be
specified using
Several named parameters can be specified:
format=compact: The pages are displayed as comma-separated links.
format=group: The list of pages will be structured in groups according to common prefix. This format also supports a
min=nargument, where
nis the minimal number of pages for a group.
format=hierarchy: The list of pages will be structured according to the page name path hierarchy. This format also supports a
min=nargument, where higher
nflatten the display hierarchy
depth=n: limit the depth of the pages to list. If set to 0, only toplevel pages will be shown, if set to 1, only immediate children pages will be shown, etc. If not set, or set to -1, all pages in the hierarchy will be shown.
include=page1:page*2: include only pages that match an item in the colon-separated list of pages. If the list is empty, or if no
includeargument is given, include all pages.
exclude=page1:page*2: exclude pages that match an item in the colon- separated list of pages.
include and
exclude lists accept shell-style patterns.
Show listing of voted resources ordered by total score.
Display help for trac-admin commands.
[[TracAdminHelp]] # all commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki)]] # all wiki commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki export)]] # the "wiki export" command [[TracAdminHelp(upgrade)]] # the upgrade command
Display a table of content for the Trac guide.
This macro shows a quick and dirty way to make a table-of-contents for the Help/Guide. The table of contents will contain the Trac* and WikiFormatting pages, and can't be customized. See the TocMacro for a more customizable table of contents.
Produce documentation for the Trac configuration file.
Typically, this will be used in the TracIni page. The macro accepts two ordered arguments and two named arguments.
The ordered arguments are a configuration section filter, and a configuration option name filter: only the configuration options whose section and name start with the filters are output.
The named arguments can be specified:
- section
- a glob-style filtering on the section names
- option
- a glob-style filtering on the option names
Macro to show the translated pages list.
Simply calling that macro in a page adds a menu linking to all available translations of a page.
A language page (usually TracLanguages) must provide the language codes as a table with following entries:
||<language code>||<language name>||<english name>||<description>||
The description contains the text displayed above language links in that language
(usually a variant of 'Other languages').
A table title line starting with
||= is not parsed.
The Macro accepts arguments as well:
- revision≤num> to specify the version of the base page when last translated, a negative revision indicates that a page needs updating in the status overview table
- outdated≤text> mark the page as outdated with given comment
- silent don't output empty chapter for show options when nothing is shown
- showoutdated to show all pages, where revision does not match base revision
- showmissing to show all pages, where translation is missing
- showproblems to show all pages which have problems
- showuntranslated to show all untranslated pages
- showstatus to show one big status table
- lang≤code> to restrict output of show outdated, status or missing to a specific language
- label_outdated label to display when using the showoutdated option
Displays content of a discussion topic. Unless argument passed, it tries to find the topic with the same name as the current wiki page. If a name is passed, displays that topic.
Macro displays how many times was wiki page displayed.
This macro accepts up to tree parameters. First parameter is wiki page name which visit count you want to display. If no parameters specified current page visit count is displayed. Second parameter determines if displaying of macro should update specified page visit count. Accepted values of this parameter are: True, False, true, false, 1, 0. Default value is true. Third parameter specifies number of digits for visit count display. If its value is 0 then visit count is displayed as simple text. Default value is 4.
[[VisitCounter(WikiStart)]] [[VisitCounter(WikiStart, True)]] [[VisitCounter(WikiStart, True, 3)]]
Show listing of most recent votes for a resource.
View wiki text in a box.
{{{#!box type align=... width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[box(wiki text, type=..., align=..., width=...)]]
typeis an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. When
typeis set, the box is decorated with an icon (except for
news) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red)
highlight (yellow)
elaborate (blue)
news (green)
normal (white)
typemay be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
alignis optionally one of
center. The
rboxmacro is an alias for
widthis optional and sets the width of the box (defaults
autoexcept for right aligned boxes which defaults a fixed width).
widthshould be set when
align=centerfor proper results.
{{{#!box warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[box(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
style parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the
newsbox and
imagebox macros (processors).
Present a centered box suitable for one image.
{{{#!imagebox wiki text }}}
This box is typically used together with the
Image macro:
{{{#!imagebox [[Image(file)]] Caption }}}
Note that the
size parameter of the
Image macro may not
behave as expected when using relative sizes (
The following parameters are also accepted:
align— One of
width— Set the width of the box (defaults
autoexcept for right aligned boxes which defaults a fixed width).
style— Custom styling of the box.
See also the
rbox and
newsbox macros (processors).
View a left-aligned box. (This is a shorthand for
box align=left)
{{{#!lbox type width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[lbox(wiki text, type=..., width=...)]]
typeis an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. When
typeis set, the box is decorated with an icon (except for
news) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red)
highlight (yellow)
elaborate (blue)
news (green)
normal (white)
typemay be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
widthis optional and sets the width of the box (defaults a fixed width). Use
width=autofor an automatically sized box.
{{{#!lbox warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[lbox(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
style parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the
newsbox and
imagebox macros (processors).
Present a news box to the right. (This is a shorthand for
rbox news)
{{{#!newsbox wiki text }}}
The following parameters are also accepted:
width— Set the width of the box (defaults a fixed width).
style— Custom styling of the box.
See also the
rbox and
imagebox macros (processors).
(Comment: This box corresponds to the well-known
NewsFlash macro.)
View a right-aligned box. (This is a shorthand for
box align=right)
{{{#!rbox type width=... wiki text }}}
or preferably when content is short:
[[rbox(wiki text, type=..., width=...)]]
typeis an optional flag, or parameter, to call for attention depending on type of matter. When
typeis set, the box is decorated with an icon (except for
news) and colored, depending on what urgency the type represents:
Urgency (box color) type warn (red)
highlight (yellow)
elaborate (blue)
news (green)
normal (white)
typemay be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique for one of the keywords above.
widthis optional and sets the width of the box (defaults a fixed width). Use
width=autofor an automatically sized box.
{{{#!rbox warn = Warning Beware of the bugs }}} [[rbox(Beware of the bugs, type=warn)]]
style parameter is also accepted, to allow for custom
styling of the box. See also the
newsbox and
imagebox macros (processors).
Macros from around the world
The Trac Hacks site provides a wide collection of macros and other Trac plugins contributed by the Trac community. If you're looking for new macros, or have written one that you'd like to share with the world, please don't hesitate to visit that site.
Developing Custom Macros
Macros, like Trac itself, are written in the Python programming language and are developed as part of TracPlugins.
For more information about developing macros, see the development resources on the main project site.
Here are 2 simple examples showing how to create a Macro with Trac 0.11.
Also, have a look at Timestamp.py for an example that shows the difference between old style and new style macros and at the macros/README which provides a little more insight about the transition.
Macro without arguments
To test the following code, you should saved it in a
timestamp_sample.py file located in the TracEnvironment's
plugins/ directory.
from datetime import datetime # Note: since Trac 0.11, datetime objects are used internally from genshi.builder import tag from trac.util.datefmt import format_datetime, utc from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class TimeStampMacro(WikiMacroBase): """Inserts the current time (in seconds) into the wiki page.""" revision = "$Rev$" url = "$URL$" def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, text): t = datetime.now(utc) return tag.b(format_datetime(t, '%c'))
Macro with arguments
To test the following code, you should saved it in a
helloworld_sample.py file located in the TracEnvironment's
plugins/ directory.
from genshi.core import Markup from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class HelloWorldMacro(WikiMacroBase): """Simple HelloWorld macro. Note that the name of the class is meaningful: - it must end with "Macro" - what comes before "Macro" ends up being the macro name The documentation of the class (i.e. what you're reading) will become the documentation of the macro, as shown by the !MacroList macro (usually used in the WikiMacros page). """ revision = "$Rev$" url = "$URL$" def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, text, args): """Return some output that will be displayed in the Wiki content. `name` is the actual name of the macro (no surprise, here it'll be `'HelloWorld'`), `text` is the text enclosed in parenthesis at the call of the macro. Note that if there are ''no'' parenthesis (like in, e.g. [[HelloWorld]]), then `text` is `None`. `args` are the arguments passed when HelloWorld is called using a `#!HelloWorld` code block. """ return 'Hello World, text = %s, args = %s' % \ (Markup.escape(text), Markup.escape(repr(args)))
Note that
expand_macro optionally takes a 4th parameter
args. When the macro is called as a WikiProcessor, it's also possible to pass
key=value processor parameters. If given, those are stored in a dictionary and passed in this extra
args parameter. On the contrary, when called as a macro,
args is
None. (since 0.12).
For example, when writing:
{{{#!HelloWorld style="polite" <Hello World!> }}} {{{#!HelloWorld <Hello World!> }}} [[HelloWorld(<Hello World!>)]]
One should get:
Hello World, text = <Hello World!> , args = {'style': u'polite'} Hello World, text = <Hello World!> , args = {} Hello World, text = <Hello World!> , args = None
Note that the return value of
expand_macro is not HTML escaped. Depending on the expected result, you should escape it by yourself (using
return Markup.escape(result)) or, if this is indeed HTML, wrap it in a Markup object (
return Markup(result)) with
Markup coming from Genshi, (
from genshi.core import Markup).
You can also recursively use a wiki Formatter (
from trac.wiki import Formatter) to process the
text as wiki markup, for example by doing:
from genshi.core import Markup from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase from trac.wiki import Formatter import StringIO class HelloWorldMacro(WikiMacroBase): def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, text, args): text = "whatever '''wiki''' markup you want, even containing other macros" # Convert Wiki markup to HTML, new style out = StringIO.StringIO() Formatter(self.env, formatter.context).format(text, out) return Markup(out.getvalue())


text:
We provide a full range of services in Eau Claire for patients who need implanted pacemakers, defibrillators or biventricular devices.
Services include:
Our cardiologists and surgeons have been implanting heart rhythm devices for about 40 years, implanting more than 3,000 various devices.
The goal for any heart rhythm device is to help patients improve their quality of life. Follow-up appointments are made easier with the phone- or web-based technology that allows patients' devices to be monitored by their physician.
Electrophysiology (EP) is a specialized field of cardiology focusing on diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disturbances. During an EP study, electrodes are guided through blood vessels to your heart and used to test the function of your heart's electrical system. This can identify whether you currently have or may develop heart rhythm problems.
An EP procedure called an ablation can correct heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias). Ablation typically uses catheters — long, flexible tubes inserted through a vein in your groin and threaded to your heart — to correct structural problems in your heart that cause an arrhythmia.
We are the only organization to offer electrophysiology in west-central Wisconsin.
For more information or an appointment in Eau Claire, contact our Cardiac Center at 715-838-6320 or at 1-888-838-4777, ext. 8-6320 (toll-free).


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Publication Archive
This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years:
cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues.
cepPolicyBrief: Concise 4-page reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including a brief summary and economic and legal assessments.
cepInput: Impulse to current discussions of EU policies.
cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
The EU patent is a third option flanking the national and the European patent and providing EU-wide patent protection. At the same time, a European patents court system is to be established. The aim of the EU patent is to provide applicants with an easier and cheaper EU-wide patent protection. With a court for European patents and EU patents, the solving of legal disputes on patent granting and patent infringements is to be more consistent and calculable as it avoids parallel proceedings before national courts.
Vertical agreements are entered into by companies operating in the production or distribution chain at different levels. Such agreements are generally prohibited, however, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides for exemptions from the general prohibition. The Commission decides whether or not an exemption is given. In its Block Exemption Regulation in the Motor Vehicle Sector (EC) No. 1400/2002 and its Guidelines, the Commission is presenting the conditions according to which an agreement is deemed in line with competition law. Said Regulation will expire on 31 May 2010. At the end of last December the Commission has submitted a follow-up Draft Regulation and Draft Guidelines.
Under horizontal agreements, undertakings co-operate as competitors at the same level in the value-added chain. The Guidelines are intended to make it easier for undertakings to assess themselves whether or not their intended horizontal agreements infringe the ban on cartels of Art. 101(1) TFEU and whether an exemption applies. They contain general and agreement-specific explanations of the assessment of horizontal agreements for goods and services. The revised version contains also contains explanations on "information exchange" between undertakings which are relevant in terms of competition law.
The Commission intends to restrict the maximum repayable amount of EU deposit guarantee schemes to € 100,000 in future. Deposit guarantee schemes are being obliged to mutually grant loans.
In the middle of the financial crisis the Council and the European Parliament decided to increase the minimum coverage level to Euro 50,000 and – by the end of 2010 – up to 100,000. Issues such as the EU-wide harmonisation of the financing of deposit guarantee schemes and the establishment of a European deposit guarantee scheme were postponed to 2010.
The latest plans face substantial opposition. Several national parliaments intend to file a subsidiarity complaint, a procedure newly introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, in order to force the Commission to reassess the Proposal.
Pursuant to the Waste Framework Directive, the Commission is obliged to evaluate the management of bio-waste and, where necessary, to make proposals for action. According to the Commission, the existing EU waste legislation is adequate, but poorly implemented in several Member States. To this end, such Member States are to receive EU subsidies. Moreover, the Commission assesses whether or not minimum requirements for the management of bio-waste and quality standards for compost and digestate from bio-waste should be set.
The EU is to be entitled to monitor and avoid "macroeconomic imbalances" in and between Member States. Furthermore, it is to be entitled to carry out a "thematic surveillance" in order to ensure that Member States comply with the "Europe 2020 targets". A reform of the Stability and Growth Pact is to safeguard that Member States consolidate their state budgets sufficiently. In addition, the EU is to be entitled to coordinate the economic policies in Member States. To this end, a "European Semester" is to be established.
In its Green Paper "Adequate, sustainable and safe European pension systems", published on 7 July 2010, the Commission addresses all the challenges that pay-as-you-go and funded pension schemes are facing. With regard to the pay-as-you-go – usually public – systems, the Commission sees urgent need for action in order to tackle demographic change. Regarding funded systems, the Commission manly calls for EU-wide, harmonised regulation and supervision. The Commission's aim is to improve the sustainability and security of pension systems. Furthermore, the Commission is considering whether or not it should define "when" pension is adequate.
Since 2005 the framework of EU emission trading system (ETS) allows for certain stationary installations (e.g. for power and heat supply, for metal production and processing, for paper production and for the chemical industry) and, as of 2012, air traffic may emit greenhouse gases only if the operators possess the according allowances. Pursuant to the ETS Directive as of 2012 Member States must auction all allowances for aviation and as of 2013 for stationary installations which are not allocated free of charge. The submitted Regulation Draft affects the timing, administration and other aspects of auctioning of these greenhouse gas emission allowances.


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"The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. The 24-hour cable news channel was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International. As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households. Broadcast coverage of the U.S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well as carriage on cable and satellite providers throughout Canada. Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories. As of February 2015, CNN is available to approximately 96,289,000 cable, satellite and, telco television households (82.7% of households with at least one television set) in the United States." (Wikipedia)
Discovered and Reported by:
Jing Wang, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)
Vulnerability Description:
CNN has a cyber security bug problem. It cab be exploited by XSS (Cross Site Scripting) and Open Redirect (Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards) attacks.
According to E Hacker News on June 06, 2013, (@BreakTheSec) came across a diet spam campaign that leverages the open redirect vulnerability in one of the top News organization CNN.
After the attack, CNN takes measures to detect Open Redirect vulnerabilities. The measure is quite good during the tests. Almost no links are vulnerable to Open Redirect attack on CNN's website, now. It takes long time to find a new Open Redirect vulnerability that is un-patched on its website.
CNN.com was hacked by Open Redirect in 2013. While the XSS attacks happened in 2007.
"The tweet apparently shows cyber criminals managed to leverage the open redirect security flaw in the CNN to redirect twitter users to the Diet spam websites."
Figure from ehackingnews.com
At the same time, the cybercriminals have also leveraged a similar vulnerability in a Yahoo domain to trick users into thinking that the links point to a trusted website.
Yahoo Open Redirects Vulnerabilities:
CNN.com XSS hacked
Several other similar products 0-day vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. CNN has patched some of them. BugTraq is a full disclosure moderated mailing list for the *detailed* discussion and announcement of computer security vulnerabilities: what they are, how to exploit them, and how to fix them. The below things be posted to the Bugtraq list: (a) Information on computer or network related security vulnerabilities (UNIX, Windows NT, or any other). (b) Exploit programs, scripts or detailed processes about the above. (c) Patches, workarounds, fixes. (d) Announcements, advisories or warnings. (e) Ideas, future plans or current works dealing with computer/network security. (f) Information material regarding vendor contacts and procedures. (g) Individual experiences in dealing with above vendors or security organizations. (h) Incident advisories or informational reporting. (i) New or updated security tools. A large number of the fllowing web securities have been published here, Buffer overflow, HTTP Response Splitting (CRLF), CMD Injection, SQL injection, Phishing, Cross-site scripting, CSRF, Cyber-attack, Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards, Information Leakage, Denial of Service, File Inclusion, Weak Encryption, Privilege Escalation, Directory Traversal, HTML Injection, Spam. It also publishes suggestions, advisories, solutions details related to XSS and URL Redirection vulnerabilities and cyber intelligence recommendations.
(1) CNN (cnn.com) Travel-City Related Links XSS (cross site scripting) Web Security Bugs
Vulnerability Description:
The programming bug flaws occur at "/city/all" pages. All links under this URL are vulnerable to XSS attacks, e.g
XSS may allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between their browser and the server. Base on Acunetix, exploited XSS is commonly used to achieve the following malicious results
- Identity theft
- Accessing sensitive or restricted information
- Gaining free access to otherwise paid for content
- Spying on user's web browsing habits
- Altering browser functionality
- Public defamation of an individual or corporation
- Web application defacement
- Denial of Service attacks
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(2) CNN cnn.com ADS Open Redirect Web Security Bug
Vulnerability Description:
The programming code flaw occurs at "event.ng" page with "&Redirect" parameter, i.e.
From OWASP, an open redirect is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a user to the parameter value without any validation. This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks to get users to visit malicious sites without realizing it. This could allow a user to create a specially crafted URL, that if clicked, would redirect a victim from the intended legitimate web site to an arbitrary web site of the attacker's choosing. Such attacks are useful as the crafted URL initially appear to be a web page of a trusted site. This could be leveraged to direct an unsuspecting user to a web page containing attacks that target client side software such as a web browser or document rendering programs.
The vulnerabilities can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Microsoft IE (10.0.9200.16750) of Windows 8, Mozilla Firefox (34.0) & Google Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0 ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (64-bit) of Ubuntu (14.04),Apple Safari 6.1.6 of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.
(2.1) Use the following tests to illustrate the scenario painted above.
The redirected webpage address is "http://webcabinet.tumblr.com/". Suppose that this webpage is malicious.
Vulnerable URL:
Since CNN is well-known worldwide, this vulnerability can be used to do "Covert Redirect" attacks to other websites.
(2.1) Poc Video:
Those vulnerabilities were reported to CNN in early July by Contact from Here. But they are still not been patched yet.
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17 R's of Mobile Marketing Infographic
The 17 R's of Mobile Marketing
1) Review your web analytics to determine what percent of your visitors are using mobile devices to access your website. A simple way to check this is to use Google Analytics, which provides data on whether your visitors are coming in from a desktop or a mobile device. If you're a retail location, your mobile visits may account for up to 50% of your total traffic. If you're a traditional B2B company, your mobile visits may be closer to 15%. Either way, tracking mobile visits vs. desktop visits can give you insights into how your prospects are finding information about your products or services.
2) Relevant messages are a critical part of mobile marketing. A great way to keep them relevant is to ask people who opt-in for mobile marketing messages to indicate their interests when signing up. For example, if your company is taking part in a trade show, you might encourage people to sign up for a free giveaway by scanning a QR code at your booth. When they scan the code and opt-in, you can ask them to indicate their business interests, which will ensure that future messages to them stay relevant and meaningful.
3) Request feedback from your subscribers on how they perceive your mobile marketing campaigns. This can be done through regular email, or via a mobile survey subscribers can answer via their smartphone. If you're requesting feedback via smartphone, keep questions short and closed-ended. Questions like "Can you rate our customer service on a scale from 1 to 5?" are great. But open-ended questions such as "Can you explain your most recent customer service experience in the form below?" won't be thumb-friendly and should be avoided.
4) Recruit customers and prospects that are receptive to your mobile marketing campaigns. If your target market is between the ages of 14 and 45, the odds are they're smartphone-savvy and would be likely to connect via a mobile marketing campaign. But if your target market is under the age of 13 or over the age of 65, mobile marketing may not be your best option since mobile usage is lower for those segments.
5) Registering for your mobile marketing programs should be easy, so keep forms extremely short. Forms that are thumb-friendly will get better results than forms that are longer and more in-depth. As a side note, even if your forms are short, your privacy statement shouldn't be. Prospects and customers will want to know how their information is being used, so be sure to provide an easy way to read the fine print.
6) Rate the usefulness of your campaigns to your subscribers on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most helpful. By doing so, you'll be able to track the percentage of your campaigns that provide high value. Why is this important? When someone provides your business permission to reach them via their mobile device, they've given you a very personal invitation. (Think about how many people keep their mobile phones by their beds, and this will all make sense.) Therefore, your mobile marketing messages should provide something of genuine value. In other words, be sure to send them more 10s than you send them 1s.
7) Region or location-centric messages can be very valuable to your customers – particularly if the subscribers are encouraged to visit a location for a special promotion. SUBWAY sandwiches in the U.K., for example, sponsored an opt-in SMS campaign where customers received special offers via text when they walked by SUBWAY locations. Similar location-based campaigns have been run on the B2B side of the equation, most notably at trade shows where location-based banner ads were deployed to people participating in the event. When you deploy mobile marketing messages that acknowledge the recipient's specific location, you'll generate a higher conversion rate. Ultimately, that results in a better ROI.
8) Reminders about time-sensitive information or tasks are another great use of mobile marketing messages. Doctors and dentists are using SMS to send appointment reminders to patients. And TV networks have run mobile ads that allow people to set up reminders on their mobile calendars about program schedules.
9) Respect the frequency of mobile message use. One study by CTIA.org indicated that text messages are read within 4 minutes of receipt compared to 48 hours for an email message. Since people read some mobile messages immediately, the wear-out factor is higher than with other forms of marketing. Keep that in mind when deploying your mobile marketing messages – too many messages will result in a high unsubscribe rate.
10) Return important notifications to keep customers updated on the status of their engagement with your company. "Your order is being shipped" and "Here is your tracking number" are two helpful messages that customers would like to receive once they've opted in to receive messages from you via mobile. Always include a reminder that says, "Click here to opt-out of future messages like these." Providing that kind of flexibility builds trust with prospects and customers.
11) Respond to "Reply" texts quickly. Text messages from prospects and customers are just as important as a phone call or an email. Unfortunately, they're often overlooked or fall through the cracks. Be sure to have systems in place that prevent this from happening since there are very few things that will frustrate a customer as much as being ignored.
12) Record and document any issues or feedback concerns, then act on those concerns in a timely manner. Sometimes this may mean a change in the campaign strategy or it may simply mean a change in tactics. Either way, by keeping track of feedback and concerns, you'll be able to adjust your campaign and improve your results over time.
13) Responsible campaigns and programs will encourage customers to look for the next notification. Design your campaigns to be brief yet tantalizing for your target groups. A successful mobile marketing campaign provides something of value with the promise of additional value for people who stay engaged. That's why mobile apps like Foursquare and SCVNGR often provide extra bonuses for people who "check in" more than once.
14) Referral campaigns can be a great way to gain new subscribers and customers. One way to do this is to run a mobile banner ad campaign that, when clicked, sends an email or text message to the mobile user's friends. By providing this "forward to a friend" feature, you'll get more bang for your buck and improve the ROI of your mobile marketing program.
15) Rely on good systems and software that not only deploy your mobile marketing messages reliably, but also measure and provide statistics about campaign performance. The old saying "Garbage in, garbage out" is as true in mobile as it is in other forms of marketing. The more reliable the data that goes in, the more reliable the results that come out.
16) Reality is that mobile marketing is new, and therefore not many companies have fully adopted a mobile marketing strategy for their business clients. While the vast majority of companies have plans to launch mobile marketing campaigns in 2012, up until recently, most companies didn't even have a plan in place. Have patience knowing that this is a growing segment – and the growth is definitely accelerating.
17) Rapid adaptation to new trends and techniques in mobile marketing must be incorporated into your plan's strategy. If a mobile campaign is not working, or if there is a better way to implement a program, don't be afraid to change your plans. Also, the world of mobile users often expect there to be frequent changes – so set routine changes and improvements as part of your strategy.
There are so many changes happening in mobile marketing today that it's hard to keep up, but that shouldn't discourage you from diving right in. The fact is, your consumers are using mobile almost every hour of every day, so shouldn't you use it, too? Let us know your thoughts on what's working for you in mobile marketing – the HubSpot community would love to learn from your experiences!
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CRUD Doesn't Have an 'S' in It: Managing Complex Searching in Rails
Location: D138-139 Level: Novice
If your application has complex, multi-column search and order requirements, very likely you have already "hit the wall" with what ActiveRecord can do for you. Complex searches are "off-rails", but what if you have to implement them anyway? The core Rails framework doesn't offer much help.
In this presentation, I will provide concrete examples and strategies for coping with complex searches in Rails. Specifically, the presentation will cover the following topics:
Managing complex joins, columns and "where constraints" across multiple actions and controllers.
Coping with "stateful" searches across multiple action pages with complex constraints that may change by one constraint at a time: How to manage the data relationship between session and params.
Ordering instead of constraining: sometimes an "order by" is better than a "where constraint". Particular attention will be paid to PostgreSQL's order by "expressions" capability but these idea can be applied to MySQL and elsewhere.
Marshalling searches: how to save searches and re-load them later. Versioning persistent searches will also be discussed.
Options for object-oriented SQL management: several tools exist for using Ruby to build SQL. These will be presented.
There will be time for audience questions and discussion.
Stephen Midgley
Steve is currently the founding CTO at a small internet real estate venture called Hutz.com. He also consults regularly with the California Department of Education on a project called Brokers of Expertise, which will use web systems to share and build the expertise of educators.
Previously, Steve served as a Program Manager for the Stupski Foundation for six years, where he designed and implemented various grants for technology in K-12 education.
From 1995 to 2001 Steve worked as Vice President of Engineering and Senior Software Architect for LoopNet Inc., a commercial real estate listing firm. He designed and built LoopNet's technology and web systems from its inception in 1995. He left the company in early 2001 to get involved with non-profit and philanthropic work. LoopNet remains a successful business and is currently listed on NASDAQ.
Steve is currently contributing to open source projects including writing a pure Ruby geocoding solution called GeoX, a simple Ruby image library called MojoMagick and integration testing Ara Howard's 'bj' queue.
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Visual WebGui is launching a new weekly online show geared to give the developer, IT, and web design communities the inside scoop on the Visual WebGui RIA platform.
Geeks on a Role, hosted by Visual WebGui creator Guy Peled and Eyal Albert, VWGs developer experience manager, will provide a platform for information and knowledge sharing for the Visual WebGui community by discussing the latest company news, product announcements, technology demos and general development topics. In addition, each week Geeks on a Role will choose questions sent in from the audience or posted on the Visual WebGui forums to provide on air answers and solutions.
Watch Geeks on a Role - Episode 1:
The first episode of Geeks on a Role discusses the new UI customization abilities in the release of Visual WebGui 6.4 Preview Version 1, and the current 6.3 version of the Visual WebGui Professional Studio. The episode also provides some background on the creation of Visual WebGui and the solution this RIA platform provides for the application development community. Beginning a weekly tradition, episode 1 also gives a voice to Visual WebGui community members seeking to have their technology questions answered on the show.


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Book ReviewHome Performance Diagnostics: The Guide to Advanced Testing
It (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) is superior to the larger book in two important ways. First, it is somewhat cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica. Second, it has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.
—"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Douglas Adams
If there were any book in my library that deserves that "Don't Panic" label, it would be the one book that describes every single test procedure a home performance auditor might ever expect to need. Of course, that book didn't exist, until now. Corbett Lunsford's Home Performance Diagnostics is the first book of its kind for the home performance industry. It sets a high bar for any future efforts. We are a profession that prides itself on measured data in place of opinions. This detailed, copiously illustrated, oversize book sets out how to do those important measurements the same way every time, to assure that your data is accurate and precise, and comparable from job to job or from operator to operator.
Lunsford sets out step-by-step, efficient, effective instructions on how to perform 36 different procedures to complete 23 different home performance tests. The procedures implement most brands of the various devices on the market. Methodical, clear descriptions and detailed, effective photos show crucial details; drilling locations, hose connections, and labels or device displays. Many procedures have an "interpretation" section to relate your data back to the real world of home performance. These interpretation notes include the relevant equations for using measurements in multiple contexts; how to convert CFM50 from your blower door to ACH50, ACHn, or ELA, calculating consumption by clocking either the gas or electric meter, and so on.
The level of detail is just about perfect. You will still need to read the manual for your particular manometer to make it work with your particular blower door. But Lunsford lays out how to use your hardware to get accurate, reproducible results from the dozen or so tests that every home needs during an energy audit worthy of the name; blower door, gas leak test, combustion analysis, and so on. There are eight or ten more tests, (temperature rise/drop, superheat/subcooling) that you keep in your back pocket, for complex or challenging homes.
Even the general design works well. The paper is tough and durable; this book is supposed to be taken into the attic or crawl space as you develop your technique and improve your measuring skill. There is significant white space, providing room for your own notes. Steps that carry a risk of fire, electrocution or general mayhem include a caution in red.
There are a few additions that could make this strong effort just about perfect. First of all, Home Performance Diagnostics is about testing single-family homes, perhaps a little too much so. There are a few tests (duct leakage and combustion spillage, especially) where mobile homes can (and sometimes should) be tested differently. An additional small note would be useful, either with a "mobile home" modification, or with an explicit note that this test procedure isn't the best for mobile homes.
Also, Home Performance Diagnostics does not point readers to more general training or certifications that would be useful to readers. One example; in eight pages, Lunsford also does the best job I can imagine in describing how to get useful information from an IR camera, except in a book solely about interpreting IR images. He includes numerous cautions about how easy it is to misinterpret IR images. Readers would be served well, however, if the book went one step further, and suggested a Level 1 thermography course.
Generally, Home Performance Diagnostics is a superb book that deserves a prominent place on any house geek's bookshelf. It is destined to be one of those "foundational" works for our profession, like the Builder's Guide's from EEBA. I don't think you need to be in a panic, but you ought to own this book. It can make you better and more efficient in the tasks that are central to our work.
Don Hynek is the Multifamily Weatherization Coordinator at the State of Wisconsin's Division of Energy Services.
You can purchase a copy of Home Performance Diagnostics: The Guide to Advanced Testing here.
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I've finally started work on it!
New button graphics, new (very ugly) UI, new sounds, new level and menu music! Also, working on the resource system and it's interaction with the UI and building system - the server manages resources, but still needs to tell the client to update its button state based on what you can afford to build.
Right now I'm working through my "rough sketch" of what I want to present so it's all still very early and it probably won't be ready to test for several months. In addition, I keep finding little typos in Part 1 as I work on Part 2. So anyway, I'll post a few screenshots later but keep in mind that the UI is really, really ugly.