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466 Note by Mr S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London, of Conversation with Mr J. G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Winant came to lunch with me at the Flat. We had a quite long, most useful and interesting talk.
I took him very closely down the lines of the attached Memorandum, stressing strongly the dangers of a head-on collision after the war unless we did some careful thinking now.
I told him in some detail of my discussions with Greenwood [1] and Hudson [2], and indicated that I thought it might be possible to get to the point of the British Government undertaking a survey of the possibilities of reorientating agriculture in this country to meet the increased demands that would be made upon it for protective [sic] foods if the policy of a minimum nutritional standard were adopted. I pointed out that while this would be useful it would be very much more useful if the U.S.A. were undertaking a similar survey at the same time. I stressed to him that I was sure that a policy of this sort would make a great appeal to the President [3] because it would mean the realisation of his dreams with regard to the 'forgotten man'.
Winant cordially agreed with this and was generally receptive to everything I had been saying.
I told him that one difficulty in opening the matter up with the U.S.A. was the feeling that it was so essential upon concentrating [sic] upon convincing the President and the U.S.A. of the urgency of providing full help in the war that it would be dangerous to raise any other issue at the present time. I told him that I had found that this was the attitude of both Greenwood and my own Prime Minister. [4] I also told him that I profoundly disagreed with both and that it seemed to me they were unappreciative of the real greatness of the President. I told him I was sure that so far from detracting from the President's determination to aid the Democracies it would strengthen it, if he had the picture of a practical policy in his mind that was going to help to realise all that he stood for once peace was achieved.
Winant also agreed with this estimate of the President's reactions.
We went over every aspect in considerable detail and we can I think take it that our ideas are well sold to Winant.
The matter was left on the basis that I would further pursue my efforts with the United Kingdom Government and in the consideration as to how this could best be done, the name of Attlee [5] cropped up.
The Ambassador has a very considerable regard for Attlee and strongly urged that I should press my views on him. He said that the trouble with Attlee was his lack of force but he thought something might be accomplished if I kept driving at him.
Just at the end of the conversation we touched on the war position and the problem of the defence of the United Kingdom against invasion, but decided we had better postpone discussion until a further meeting.
1 U.K. Minister without Portfolio. See Bruce's note of the conversation, dated 13 May, on file AA: M100, May 1941.
2 U.K. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. See Bruce's note of the conversation, dated 15 May, on file AA: M100, May 1941.
3 Franklin D. Roosevelt.
4 R. G. Menzies.
5 U.K. Lord Privy Seal.
Enclosure Memorandum
1 May 1941
1. The world's future must depend upon continued collaboration between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and the Dominions. Given this all is possible. On this basis we can attach to ourselves the countries of Western Europe. We can restore world peace and then maintain it. We shall be able to increase world prosperity' 2. To secure such collaboration, we shall need to see that our respective countries look in the same direction. This must be the case in the political, the economic and the social fields.
3. Unfortunately unless we take definite steps to modify tendencies, there are the possibilities of a head-on clash of apparent short term interests between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and the Dominions.
The tendencies can be summarised as follows:-
In the United Kingdom after the war taxation will be high and most of the United Kingdom's external investments will have been realised. This would mean, on the accepted basis of Whitehall thinking, that the country will have to face short commons over a prolonged period. This would mean reduced imports from all sources.
In the U.S.A. agriculture will have been reoriented on an export basis, industrialists will be longing for expanded external markets, the U.S.A. will hold the great bulk of the world's gold and will desire the maximum possible world trade.
The Dominions will look for the re-establishment of their Ottawa position in British Empire markets but will have become more industrialised and hence will find it more difficult to secure adequate markets for their agricultural products.
If these tendencies are allowed to develop, they point to a series of head-on collisions with political consequences of the most unhappy nature.
4. It should be possible to reorient the economic outlook of all our countries along lines which would lead to real and permanent co-operation. To do so it will be necessary to give practical expression to the third of President Roosevelt's four freedoms, i.e. 'the freedom from want' and to expand slightly what he means by it.
5. This might be done by the President defining 'freedom from want' as meaning that in all the advanced countries Government economic policy should be directed to securing such social conditions as should secure to every child born in these countries equal opportunities for a healthy life of average duration. (To- day in both the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. the expectation of life of a child born in the poverty stricken classes is far lower than in the well-to-do.) To achieve this elementary form of social justice, it would be necessary to secure to all classes adequate food at prices within their purchasing power, reasonable housing and clothing. These objectives would demand an expansive economic system and would allow of full co-operation between the nations.
Everything can be accomplished under an expansive system whereas almost all policies are too difficult if recession in economic activity is dominant.
If, in addition to definite undertakings to secure social justice within our own borders, the U.S.A. and Empire countries would announce their determination to assist other countries to secure similar ends, the effect on the world would be very great.
6. Action by the President down the lines indicated should- (a) Strengthen the Allies' hands in the war of ideas by adding to the concept of freedom that of economic welfare and social justice. This might possibly have profound effects upon the peoples of Europe.
(b) Give to the peoples of the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and the Dominions a further incentive to the successful prosecution of the war.
(c) Provide the essential basis for first Empire-U.S.A.
collaboration in reconstruction and, secondly, a basis on which other countries would desire to join us.
7. In putting these general ideas before the President, it might be emphasised:-
(a) that the achievement of these aims is physically practicable but requires some revolutionary thinking.
(b) that unless we (i.e. Empire-U.S.A.) do some of this thinking jointly, we may find ourselves poles apart, and (c) that should the President decide to elaborate his conception of 'freedom from want' along these lines, he could rely upon enthusiastic support from the Dominions and from the great mass of opinion in the United Kingdom.
8. It would not be necessary for the President to make any commitments as to the methods which would be needed to achieve the objective set out in No. 5 above. What is needed is the examination of the agricultural, commercial policy and health factors involved. This could be jointly undertaken by a small body of well qualified persons drawn from the U.S.A. and the British Empire.
It would therefore be sufficient if the President, at this stage, proposed the joint examination of the national and international action required to translate the general objective into terms of practical policies. [1]
1 This memorandum was probably prepared either by Bruce or by his economic adviser, F. L. McDougall.


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— jaguarsinsider (@jaguarsinsider) October 21, 2012
The three of you watching the Raiders and Jags right now already know this, but I'm assuming most people are tuned into the hype fest that is New England and New York – insufferable the lot of them.
Jones-Drew injured his ankle on only his second carry of the game. At first glance it was thought MJD was getting it taped but the Jags training staff was keeping his leg elevated.
Rashad Jennings – who already has a touchdown in this game – will get the bulk of the workload today. Hopefully MJD's injury isn't serious.
UPDATE: After the game, head coach Mike Mularkey said the boot worn by Jones-Drew was only precautionary, but he wasn't able to offer a timetable for his starting running back's likely absence. MJD owners should put their waiver claim in on Jennings now after removing their collective heads from the freezer. He's currently available in 80 percent of Yahoo leagues, and 86 percent of ESPN leagues.


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Hey, Blizzard's going F2P too! How's the competition?
Blizzard is Blizzard. They have Hearthstone, we have our own card game, World of Tanks Generals, so we'll see how that goes in the long run. As for Heroes of the Storm, the MOBA segment isn't intersecting with our market.
Single-player games don't affect us. Any big release with GTA V and Diablo III, some of our players, about five percent of them, start playing them for one to two weeks. After that game's done, [our stats are back on track]. When Riot Games have their League of Legends special events, it's for different people. We have older audiences who love military and strategy-type titles. The only thing that affected us is the World Cup in 2010 when Germany played. While that match was going on, we had a 50 percent drop that went up after it concluded. To us, football is a bigger rival than any other game.
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PS4 and Xbox One World of Tanks/Planes/Warship title, maybe?
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Druids who say they are " low dps" and don't offer to tank, yet willing to spend 5g on an epic mount, should perhaps consider a better place to spend the gold... how about gear that will make you do more dps if cat form is your only willing spec? What's the use of crappy dps getting to the instance 280% faster?
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Back in Central Park, Thirlby has managed to get lost. She's trying to find the exact spot where she and her Wackness costar Josh Peck (of Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh fame) filmed their first kiss, one of the film's pivotal moments. Finally, she finds the rock slab where she and Peck smoked (faux) pot and made out under the branches while nearby real kids toked actual ganja. Set in early-'90s New York and accompanied by a booming classic hip-hop soundtrack, The Wackness (costarring Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man) is a stylish coming-of-age story in which Thirlby plays a cooler-than-cool high school temptress who's the object of drug dealer Peck's affection. In addition to lots of funny, naturalistic banter, the pair share a series of painfully awkward deflowering scenes something Thirlby also depicts in Snow Angels and New York, I Love You. ''I actually was being interviewed once and the interviewer was like, 'So is that going to be your new thing: taking people's virginity?' At the time I was, like, totally offended. And then I realized, Oh my God. That's kind of it exactly.''
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The sun's going down in the park, but Thirlby is having too much fun people-watching to head home.''I love the summertime,'' she says. ''It's what Josh says at the beginning of The Wackness: 'With all the ladies and their sho' skirts and their breastesses.''' Finally, she's ready to leave, but as she walks toward Fifth Avenue something catches her eye. ''It's Alice,'' she says, referring to a fountain sculpture inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Thirlby is delighted by the discovery, perhaps because she, too, is a young girl about to embark on wonderful adventures by falling down the rabbit hole.


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The Eos will be equipped as a fully optioned car, and it'll have a fully optioned price, just south of $30,000. But if VW wants this car to find its customary audience among drivers who know more about style than anyone else in the automotive marketplace, the company will have to realize that these people are expert consumers of brand-name goods who expect durability, quality, and reliability as part of such a pricey package. Quality continues to be VW's biggest challenge, and the choice of an assembly plant in Portugal for the Eos suggests there might be some challenges ahead for this car. Fortunately, Wolfgang Bernhard, the VW division's president, has staked his reputation on a 50 percent reduction in warranty costs for the VW line in the near future, so the outlook for improved quality seems bright.
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Totem Talk: Enhancement buffs and debuffs in Mists of Pandaria
is now a female dwarf shaman with pigtails who raids as all three specs on a regular basis. He kept the same transmog set, though.
I'm doing my best not to be excited for Mists of Pandaria yet. This is partly because we've not even seen a hint of the beta starting yet and thus have a few more months of patch 4.3 to play before MoP comes out. This is also partly due to the fact that my new guild just started heroic Spine of Deathwing attempts, and I'm not sure I'm ever going to look forward to anything ever again. Ever.
Even though I'll never be excited for anything ever again, Blizzard has released some juicy new MoP information over the past two weeks, and a good chunk of it pertains to enhancement shaman. If you still have the ability to be excited for things, this something you want to read. If you're also progressing on heroic Spine of Deathwing, you probably still want to read this ... if only to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Like, "wearing down" that was discussed in the previous baby sleep tip, "swinging down" is another good strategy to help your baby sleep.
"Swinging down" is a proven method where you swing your baby in a wind-up or battery powered swing to get them to become sleepy or even fall asleep. If you have a baby that will be soothed by swinging, the mechanical substitute of your own arms can be a welcome relief for you (and for your baby, who probably senses your tiredness and tension if you're frustrated). For some babies, it is simply too difficult to relax in the arms of a familiar caretaker like Mom or Dad because they associate this person with fun playtime, and not sleep. If you have a baby like this, investing in a swing might be a true lifesaver.
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I have a baby who will only sleep for long periods of time in her swing. What should I do? I try moving her from the swing to the crib, but she wakes up. Any suggestions?
Darcy, I'm not sure that there's a great solution to this unfortunately. Baby swings are not made to be places of long-term sleep for your baby since you really shouldn't leave them in the swing unattended. So, unless you want to watch your baby all the time in the swing, as much as you might want to (and believe me, the idea has crossed my mind) you can't just leave them in the swing and let them sleep while you do something else.
I guess I would suggest just doing your best to make the transfer from swing to crib as smoothly as possible, or give up on using the swing if you can't make the transfer well. Many babies will settle in the swing and almost fall asleep, but then the parent can easily transfer them to the crib. For your baby, this might not be the case… Not all babies are alike so if this is the case, you have to look for something else that will do the trick.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need other ideas.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'll try what you suggested and let you know how it goes.
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- December 14, 2012 - 08:32
I didn't mean literally to let the dog go without food or water in the winter, I have a dog that I treat like my child so I would never do that. Anyways, what I meant was were are sooo many other options to let that dog have a chance at a good life then do what that excuse of a person done to that poor dog.
- Newfie
- December 13, 2012 - 23:34
@ NF If he had opened the door and let the dog go free do you think it would have been more humane with no food and the cold winter weather coming on? Right on, Jeremiah!!!
- December 13, 2012 - 14:05
JEREMIAH::!! I,LL BET my dog wares better underware than udo. no fur coats in California,, my dog wares a crown an diamonds painted toenails and smells gud
- December 13, 2012 - 10:25
I hope this horrible, selfish man does major time for what he done to this poor animal, anyone who thinks otherwise should get their head checked!! Why this man couldn't have just opened the door and let the dog go free or bring the dog to the SPCA for a chance at a better life is beyond me.
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- December 13, 2012 - 09:46
How foolish are we becoming a'tall, a'tall. Get a grip, folks. Monkeys wearing fur coats (plus their own), people buying suits for dogs and cats, spending mega $$$ on vets, children have almost disappeared!!!! My oh my.


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Caltrans says it now expects Highway 1 near Alder Creek to remain closed for at least four to six more weeks.
That portion of the roadway was shut down earlier this week after a rockslide in the area. Caltrans says its officials met with the California Coastal Commission and the Monterey National Marine Sanctuary Friday and developed a plan to clear that section of the roadway with minimal impact to the environment.
Caltrans says it has a contractor set up to be in charge of clearing that portion of Highway 1. The company will be getting its equipment ready to begin removing debris early next week.
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Exactly five years after I first drove the Acura RDX, I find that it is not aging well. The turbocharged engine delivers decent power, but it's not linear in its delivery, and the five-speed automatic is a dated device. The ride-and-handling balance is ho-hum, and the suspension crashes over bumps. The steering is dead on-center. There's a distinct lack of a "premium" feeling to the RDX, especially when compared with the newer entries in this segment like the Volvo XC60, the Audi Q5, the Mercedes-Benz GLK, and the BMW X3. Heck, there are small crossovers from non-premium brands that feel more of-a-piece than the RDX does, like the Chevy Equinox, the Hyundai Santa Fe, and the Volkswagen Tiguan. The RDX is definitely overdue for a re-do.
Joe DeMatio, Deputy Editor
The Acura RDX is a decent-looking compact crossover -- from the B-pillar back. Unfortunately, its nose just seems all out of proportion for its size. I didn't mind the same front-end treatment on the MDX because that vehicle has the size and heft to carry it off, but it just doesn't fit on the smaller RDX.
The most notable feature on this vehicle is the turbocharged four-cylinder engine. In a straight line it delivers power almost instantaneously, but it produces an inordinate amount of torque steer when you accelerate from a stop. As others have noted, it might have been less noticeable if our test vehicle was equipped with all-wheel drive. If I were thinking about buying an RDX, I'd make sure to get one with the SH-AWD system.
Amy Skogstrom, Managing Editor
Wow. Are you guys serious? I just love the interior of the RDX -- the great spacious feeling delivered by the low cowl, the cheerfulness and clarity of the instrument cluster, and the exceptional execution of the center-stack controls. The buttons and rotary dials have the look and feel of premium home-audio equipment. I want to keep changing radio stations just to touch the buttons.
Agreed, though, that the cabin -- especially the back seat -- feels old school. Plenty of room, though.
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I'm sure we've all gotten the email before. You know what I'm talking about, the spam email that you actually happened to read. You know, the one with tons of random home remedy tips in it that you think,
"Huh…I should remember this…."
Yes, that one. Well, I thought it was about time to go ahead and post it for you so you don't have to worry about remembering it any more! I have no idea where it came from, who wrote it, or even who sent it to me.
the ideas are great and, as it says, worth considering! So here it is for you
P.S…see round 2 of amazing random tips HERE.
- Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
- Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
- Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
- Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
- To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
- For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
- Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic, and at the end of the recipe if you want a stronger taste of garlic.
- Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummy! '
- Reheat Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.
- Easy Deviled Eggs: Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
- Expanding Frosting: When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
- Reheating refrigerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
- Newspaper weeds away: Plant your plants in the ground, work the nutrients in your soil. Then wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch, and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
- Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
- No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
- To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it. (Wonder if this works with rabbits? Sure gonna give it a try)
- Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
- Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip to eliminate static cling. It works! Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and … Ta DA! … Static is gone.
- Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water when cooking. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient (peanut butter, for example) and watch how easily it comes right out.
- De-fog your windshield: Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
- Re-opening envelopes: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Voila! It unseals easily.
- Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
- Goodbye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
- Get Rid of Ants with cornmeal. Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
- Wash your dryer filter: The heating unit went out on my dryer. The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material and the hot water just sat on top of the mesh; didn't go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free, and smell good. You know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box? Apparently that stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is what causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long!
Random, but helpful, right?! Be sure to check out my other "You're Welcome" Wednesday tips HERE.
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System.InvalidOperationException : Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).error CS0012: The type 'System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.
I have tried applying the Attribute [XmlInclude(typeof(INotifyPropertyChanged))] with no luck.
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Public Interface ICustomerDC Function Save(ByVal obj As Custs) As Custs End Interface
'This is where I want to talk to database(haven't implemented yet in this code)<br/> Public Class CustomerDC Inherits MarshalByRefObject Implements Interfaces.ICustomerDC Public Function Save(ByVal obj As In
Hi, i have little knowledge on javascript but i need to use this code get from somewhere for a jquery to work.
I face this "Jscript runtime error: Object does not support property or method" whenever im trying to run this page.
In my experience, im get this error msg 9 out of 10 times i use javascript in my system.
Im using Microsoft Visual web developer 2008, i wonder if this is related to my problem, i not sure there is anything i need to add as reference or update anything.
But anyway, in short, i just couldn't use javascript code when using this development tool because of this sort of error.
Anyway, it happen that last time i tried use the same type of jquery code in another project and it seems to work well without an error.
But now when im try to use it again in this recent project i created, it come out with this error and i have no idea how to solve it even look through google and this forum.
It doesn't really seems like its the code problem itself although im not sure, because any javascript code just couldn't work.
So below is my code that i need to use.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" src=&quo
I am trying to figure a way to SSO with ASP.NET membership and role model.
I can implement custom membership provider which consume web services hosting on a server.
With encryption of data. No problem.
But my question is, If I sign on a website with my provider, got my identity object on that application,
could I pass it to another website on another domain which use the same provider and by doing so, do not need to login again?
If this is possible, I am going to implement this solution. Please tell me what's your take on this.
ÃÂ Hi.
I want to create object in 1.aspx, and then send it to 2.aspx. This methods are bad, because:
1)Send object with url, like this:
This is not confidential.
Session["field1"] = "12345"; // set Object foo = Session["field1"]; // get
Could someone please tell me what is wrong with my syntax here? I'd be much appreciative.
objCmd = New SQLCommand("SELECT CASE WHEN objDR('Item') = 'Enter Bill of Lading' then enterbol " _
& "WHEN objDR('Item') = 'Bill of Lading History' THEN bolhistory " _
& "WHEN objDR('Item') = 'Request Transfer' or objDR('Item') = 'View Transfer in Progress' THEN transfers " _
& "END from plantGroups where plantgroupid=@plantgroupid", objConn)
I have a problem I can't figure out.
I've been trying to add a listbox with multi select enabled as a parameter to my select statement in sqldatasource.
So i created a function like this :
string strItemTypes = ""; foreach (ListItem li in lbItemType.Items) { if (li.Selected) { strItemTypes += "," + li.Value; } } strItemTypes = strItemTypes.Substring(1);
which gives me the selected items like this for example : "1,2,3"...Then I've been trying to add it to my sql select statement :
SELECT tblOfficesItems.idOfficesItems, tblStockItems.Name, tblStockItems.Description, tblStockItemTypes.TypeItem, tblStockItems.Notes FROM tblOfficesItems INNER JOIN tblStockItems ON tblOfficesItems.fkItem = tblStockItems.idItem INNER JOIN tblStockItemTypes ON tblStockItems.fkTypeItem = tblStockItemTypes.idTypeItem WHERE tblStockItems.fkTypeItem IN ( @fkTypeItems )
using a hiddenfield with a controlparameter of type=objectbut it just don't seem to work, seems like the data just won't bind or something and I don't get any errors so I'm confused!!
then i tried this :
SELECT tblOfficesItems.idOfficesItems, tblStockItems.Name
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CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Chicago chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC/Chicago) announces the 2013 IABC/Chicago Bronze Quill Awards competition. The competition is open to all Chicago-area business communicators who completed a significant communication project in 2012 that embodies excellence in communication management, communication skills or creative communication practice. Entrants do not need to be members of IABC. The deadline for submission is February 24, 2013.
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Leslie Messina enters the third softball season for Kilgore College after nine years at Texarkana College. In Coach Messina's eight years as head coach and one year as assistant coach in Texarkana, the Bulldogs won five conference championships, two regional championships, and the team's first two appearances at the NJCAA National Tournament.
During her career at TC, Coach Messina has coached 10 All-Americans, 14 NFCA All-Midwest Region honorees, four Region XIV Players of the Year and 30 All-Region selections. The 2007 season proved to be the most successful in Bulldog Softball history which include a repeat as Region XIV East Conference Champions, Region XIV Champions and a top-10 finish at the NJCAA National Tournament. Coach Messina was also selected the Region XIV Coach of the Year and the National Fastpitch Coaches Assosciation NJCAA Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year. In May 2012, Texarkana College eliminated the athletics program due to financial problems after the softball team won Region XIV East Conference title and was name the Region XIV Coaching Staff of the Year.
Coach Messina was a catcher and designated hitter for the University of Evansville (Indiana) Purple Aces. While in Evansville, she worked for two years as a hitting and catching instructor for Diamond Sports Academy. After graduating cum laude in 1999 with majors in exercise science and sports medicine, she earned her master's degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in coaching from Georgia Southern University. While she was at GSU, she served on the coaching staffs of the university's Division I softball team and nationally ranked Division II Armstrong Atlantic State University. She designed Armstrong Atlantic's weight training program and coached catchers and outfielders. During her tenure at Armstrong, the Pirates had the highest fielding percentage in the nation and finished the year at No. 21 in the Division II polls.
Coach Messina brings other distinctive credentials to her position with the Rangers. She has earned the National Fastpitch Coaches Association designation of One-Star Master Coach. Since 1999, she has been certified as a strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Kristen Breaux enters her second season as assistant coach for the Rangers. She grew up in Port Arthur and graduated from Hamshire-Fannett High School in 2005. After high school, she played softball on scholarship for Temple College from 2005-07 and Lon Morris from 2007-08. After college, she was an assistant coach at Lon Morris from 2008-11 and was Lon Morris' head coach from 2011-12.
In 2010, she graduated from UT Tyler with a Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology. From 2012-13, she was an assistant coach for Brownsboro ISD where she coached volleyball, basketball and softball. In 2012, she earned a Master's Degree in Sports Management from Southwestern Okahoma State University.


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I have to say that the Andrea Klarin Knack photo series is probably my favorite series thus far, as it provides a great example of what it means to embrace the color blocking trend in this year's fashion. Although it takes this colorful style technique to new, rainbow-rific levels, this photo shoot is grounded, thanks to the model's impervious mood and poses.
I especially like how the Andrea Klarin Knack photo series is not afraid of embracing hues in other areas of the shoot other than in the vibrant clothes. The backdrop is just as playfully dramatic, making it look like the model has been caught in the grasp of the Aurora Borealis.
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Whoa—we've seen footwear design competitions before, but none with a purse this large: Alabama-based Power Force Apparel is offering $25,000, mass production of your design, and a trip to NYC for whomever wins their "Design the 'You' Shoe" design competition. With all of the sneaker sketches populating Coroflot, we couldn't not post news of this one.
The brief is pretty broad, seeking designs for "an original athletic men's or women's shoe, innovative, and unique, unlike any other design that is out there right now." And your drawing skills better be up to snuff because you get to submit one, just one, piece of paper.
Second and third prizes aren't too shabby either, with purses of $15,000 and $10,000, plus the same trip to NYC, to attend the 2012 Fashion Footwear Association of New York convention.
The competition opened yesterday, and you've got just over two weeks—until Friday, May 4th—to get your submission in. Contest rules are here, and the entry form is here. (Apologies to our global readership, this one's U.S.-resident only.)


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A dream that generally individuals harbour is to have their own particular home. On the other hand, this dream is given the ax more often than not since a more monetary and plan cordial choice is consumed, for example flats. And, after its all said and done, a dream is a dream and nothing can take its place, unless it is something better. Generally individuals assume that simply since villas are costly when contrasted with flats, it isn't the right alternative for them. When bouncing to any conclusions like these it might be best to examine what villas have on offer and how one can profit from them.
Structure and luxuries
To start with, the premier thing that one should take a gander at is the structure and the luxuries furnished. Regarding a villa, the name itself raises a mental picture of something extravagant and gigantic. Inasmuch as, an even might inspire a picture where the surface region is little in the meantime it is agreeable and comfy. On thinking about the two choices, the villa might be bigger and one can have their own particular enclosure, numerous washrooms, a swimming pool, situated kitchen and bigger rooms. These are a couple of luxuries that aren't dependably conceivable regarding flats.
Individual space
A different viewpoint that ought to be taken a gander at is individual space. Living in a villa, which is encompassed by fenced dividers unmistakably describes your space and makes a limit. This is correct regardless of the possibility that you are existing in a private complex. Nonetheless, regarding even living, there is a feeling of offering, where you might need to open your front entryway and take a gander at your neighbours entryway. In this way, it could be said that a villa might give home managers more security when contrasted with an even.
There are various flat buildings where they have arrangements. Anyway, this most likely does not take the spot of a villa rentals. This is on the grounds that flats have a limited measure of surface territory, that too generally it is an imparted region. For this excuse for why, it might be all the more challenging to have an extensive enclosure. Conversely, when you are existing in a villa, this won't be a stress since you might be in a position to take an approach what you need to do with the space you have. Furthermore, various residence buildings don't permit pets which make it challenging yet villas represent no such issues.
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Different angles that you might as well take a gander at
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Over the years, Olitski has relentlessly experimented, creating work in a huge variety of formalist abstract styles, but nothing represents as much of an aesthetic departure as these new works at Sandy Carson, which are crudely yet luxuriously executed landscapes and seascapes. Despite such a radical change in direction, the new pieces do bear some relationship to his classic work. The backgrounds are handled like color fields, as usual, but on top, Olitski places recognizable objects, especially trees and sailboats -- and that's not usual.
I first saw Olitskis of this type last year in a show at the Singer Gallery of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture. Then, as now, they reminded me of the style of the visionary nineteenth-century American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose awkward and expressive works were a source for the kind of modernist abstraction that made Olitski famous a generation ago.
Olitski, who is 83, divides his time between homes in Florida and New Hampshire and a studio warehouse in Vermont. William Biety, director of the Sandy Carson Gallery, met the artist in Florida in the 1980s and has remained in contact with him. So when Biety decided to do this show, he was able to visit the Vermont studio and select the pieces he wanted to include.
Jules Olitski
Through August 18, Sandy Carson Gallery, 760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585
The exhibit is installed in the front gallery and starts off with a very traditional-looking painting, "Once Upon a Time in Tavernier," done in pastel on rag paper earlier this year. The composition, with its big, gnarly tree up front and sailboats in the middle, resembles a stage. The clouds reinforce this impression because they appear to be a proscenium. In the most abstract of Olitski's works, the composition runs side to side and top to bottom, with no defining framework within the picture, as in the extremely Ryder-ish "Green Sea Passage," which depicts a sailboat, done in black and white, placed in the middle of a field of alternating grays and greens. "Green Sea Passage" is from 2001, making it one of the oldest pieces in the exhibit.
At first the paintings in Jules Olitski struck me as primitive, even childlike, but the longer I looked at them, the more elegant they became. Maybe even sophisticated.
Speaking of sophisticated contemporary art based on the landscape, the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, have resurrected "Over the River," their plan unveiled in 1992 to cover a portion of the Arkansas River in Southern Colorado with canvas panels stretched between the two banks.
Christo became famous in the 1960s for his epic conceptual installations, of which "Over the River" is the latest example. Earlier this year he did his most popular piece ever, "The Gates," in New York's Central Park. This installation of freestanding lintels with pieces of fabric hanging from the cross-members, arranged along a labyrinth of existing park paths, attracted tens of thousands of visitors, who spent nearly $100 million while in the Big Apple.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were in Colorado last week to describe their proposal to the locals and to get the red tape rolling with regard to county, state and federal permits. The pair would like to pull off "Over the River" in 2008, which sounds like a long time in the future; considering the scope of the project, however, it's actually more like the day after tomorrow. To meet this deadline, the various bureaucrats involved will have to expedite the process, though that seems unlikely. But at least the couple has experience with Colorado rules, having installed "Valley Curtain" across Rifle Gap in 1972.
One legitimate concern about "Over the River" is the environmental impact of both the piece itself, which will need to be anchored into the rock on either side of the river, as well as the many problems associated with thousands of people flocking to a natural environment. On the bright side, the Christo crew are pros, and are thus up to the job of minimizing the negative effects of the piece -- or at least repairing it afterward.
"Over the River" is likely to be Christo's last major work, and I can't wait to see it.


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Currently, a student is working on the micro-volume chemical mixing project. The intent is to produce a computer controlled mixing chamber that is capable of mixing extremely small volumes of chemicals in a mixing chamber that would be suitable for a classroom/educational environment. We are using a computer-controlled electronic circuit to select the chemicals and their appropriate volumes from a group of pre-loaded chemicals outside of the mixing chamber. The goal is to be able to mix chemicals in small volumes safely and accurately.
We have worked on an Artificial Leafhopper Project. Our research efforts involved a hardware/software solution using the National Instruments LabView data acquisition package. Determining the properties of a female's signal that a male might use to estimate distance requires the experimental manipulation and playback of the female signal. Manipulation of the temporal and frequency components of a signal is relatively straightforward, and the LabView Sound and Vibration Toolkit can be adapted to perform this task. However, in G. nigrifrons sustained male searching depends on precise signal exchanges between the male and female as he is searching. It is not sufficient to simply playback female signals to a male. What is needed to conduct robust experiments is to have the computer interact with a searching male. The software/hardware solution must have the capability to acquire, analyze, and trigger outputs signals in real time. The software must be programmed to recognize certain elements of a male's call and playback through the hardware a precisely timed female test signal. We have refined the state machine for triggering and playback.


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By Intern Courtney in Style on Dec 14, 2011
If you've got a design nerd in your life, you probably know that Pantone, the self-proclaimed "world-renowned authority on color," announces a "color of the year" annually. Essentially, the company predicts what color will be dominating home-goods, design, and cosmetic stores the following year. And "Tangerine Tango", a dramatic red-orange, will apparently be THE color of 2012--you should expect to see it on everything from throw pillows to nail polish. Spring collections by Tommy Hilfiger, Nanette Lepore, Charlotte Ronson, and Elie Tahari have already shown this obnoxious-yet-fun red-orange on the runway. Even Sephora is on board--Pantone is teaming up with the beauty titan to release a collection, due out in spring. Which means that, whether you like it or not, you'll likely be brainwashed into buying some Tangerine Tango lipstick by June of next year. Resistance is futile.
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"I asked myself, 'What would Socrates do?'" responded the young man who had refused to offer a violent response to confrontation. Before his involvement in a Clemente course, his reaction would not have been philosophical. The courses were begun by Earl Shorris as he searched for a way to end poverty.
A lifer in a women's prison first gave him insight into helping the poor — "teach them the moral life of downtown," she said. For 17 years, the courses have done just that around the world. Using the Socratic method of gentle questioning and dialogue to teach philosophy, history, literature and art appreciation to the poor has empowered more than 10,000 poor people.
The Western canon Shorris started with has been supplemented by immersion into the students' own languages and cultures, among them Aztec and Mayan, Native American and Alaskan. For many, this has been the first validation of who they really are, of their own nearly forgotten historic world. Shorris has often found the same concepts in other cultures as in the Western canon.
Elsewhere, he has chronicled the dimensions of teaching the humanities to the poor. Here, he writes of the men and women who teach and those who learn, including verbatim responses and teacher notes and evaluations.
The Clemente courses grew in part from the University of Chicago's "Great Books" course, which I enjoyed in 1943-44, taught by innovators Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler. Shorris, who attended the university at age 13 on full scholarship, based his courses on that experience. He died last year, but the courses go on all over the world.
"The Art of Freedom" is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of a worthwhile and working effort to lift the poor out of poverty.
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"THE ART OF FREEDOM: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor," by Earl Shorris. Norton. 402 pages. $27.95.


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A sneak peek at what might make the menu at Ace
Construction is under way at Ace, the eatery and ping-pong hall that Josh and Jen Wolkon, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos are building next to Steuben's, which the Wolkons and Selby also own (along with Vesta Dipping Grill). And though the partners are still a few months from unveiling what they've done with that old Storz Garage, the whole crew has been hard at work on the menu for months.Ace
For much of that time, Josh, Selby and Brandon have been traveling across the country doing research: The team settled on Asian fare as a culinary focus, and so they've been hitting dim sum joints, Korean fried chicken havens, Thai restaurants, wing stands, bao houses and more all over New York City and Portland. They're also gearing up for trips to Chicago and Thailand, with a stopover in San Francisco, where they'll eat, drink and garner ideas for additions and tweaks to the menu.
And while they're back in Denver, Selby and Brandon have been playing with some of the items they'll eventually serve. Today, they treated a small group to a sampling of what they're working on.
So far, the chefs have drawn influence from many different parts of Asia -- just today, they tried out kimchee (a Korean staple), a Thai soup and crispy beef a la China. They're not going for authenticity so much as deliciousness, though they're certainly trying to preserve the flavors and essence of the cuisines they're showcasing.
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Religious Discrimination - What Supervisors Need to Know
Excerpts taken from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "Training and Technical Assistance Program 2002" and online at http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html Q & A: Religious Discrimination - What Practices Are Discriminatory? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It is illegal to discriminate in any aspect of employment, including:
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals because of their religion in hiring, firing, and other terms and conditions of employment. The Act also requires employers to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of an employee or prospective employee, unless to do so would create an undue hardship upon the employer. Common accommodations include:
An employer can claim undue hardship when accommodating an employee's religious practices if allowing such practices requires more than ordinary administrative costs. Undue hardship also may be shown if changing a bona fide seniority system to accommodate one employee's religious practices denies another employee the job or shift preference guaranteed by the seniority system. Mandatory "new age" training programs, designed to improve employee motivation, cooperation or productivity through meditation, yoga, biofeedback or other practices, may conflict with the non-discriminatory provisions of Title VII. Employers must accommodate any employee who gives notice that these programs are inconsistent with the employee's religious beliefs, whether or not the employer believes there is a religious basis for the employee's objection. Disparate Treatment in Hiring and Firing
Religious harassment While Title VII permits religious expression by employees, supervisors and managers, it prohibits religious harassment. Although religious harassment can take many forms, it frequently takes the form of coercion of employee participation or non-participation in religious activities; and verbally abusive conduct. Coercion of Religious Participation or Non-Participation A supervisor or manager may not, explicitly or implicitly, insist that an employee participate in religious activities or hold particular religious views as a condition of continued employment, promotion, preferred job assignments, or any other benefit or privilege of employment. Nor may a supervisor inisit that an employee not participate in religious activities outside the workplace or not hold particular religious views. Such conduct would constitute religious harassment in violation of Title VII. Abusive Conduct Title VII also protects employees from a religiously hostile work environment, whether created by a supervisor or co-workers. As is true in cases of sexual or racial harassment, whether a particular employee's work environment is "hostile" for purposes of religious discrimination depends on the totality of the circumstances, including the frequency and severity of the harassing conduct, whether the conduct is physically threatening or humiliating, and whether the conduct unreasonably interferes with the employee's work performance. The key question is whether, on balance, the harassing conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the employee's employment and create an abusive working environment, when judged both objectively (i.e., using the reasonable person standard) and subjectively (i.e., from the actual perspective of the affected individual). The repeated use of religiously derogatory language in an assaultive manner can constitute hostile environment religious harassment. A single incident, if sufficiently severe, could also constitute harassment. Also relevant to a determination of whether there is a hostile environment is whether those engaging in the harassing conduct are co-workers or supervisors, whether the employer knew or should have known of the harassing conduct, and the actions, if any, the employer took to prevent and/or stop the conduct. |


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''All tough guys are monotonous. Like playing cards with a deck that's all aces.'' So said Philip Marlowe, a tough guy if ever there was one, but also an often despondent, unforgivingly self-aware PI who caught nearly as many punches as he threw. The protagonist of Roger Hobbs' tense and tightly coiled debut thriller, Ghostman, on the other hand, is too good for his own good. While he may talk like Marlowe, he's more in the Jack Reacher mold: a near superhero with Kevlar confidence who dispenses tradecraft and expertise as if he were training the reader as his replacement. A ''ghostman,'' he's also a master of disguise and can slip in and out of identities as easily as a set of clothes. (He doesn't even have a real name anymore.) He can memorize a city's layout at a single glance, enumerate the best ways to torch a getaway car or case a bank vault, and take on multiple gun-wielding thugs in hand-to-hand combat. And, like Reacher, he has just stringent enough a moral code to prevent him from coming off as a heartless Terminator.
Hobbs' plotting is snare-drum tight the nameless hero is tasked with locating the federally marked loot of an Atlantic City robbery gone horribly awry and the story is layered with double crosses and wound up with an effective but eventually tiresome ticking-clock motif that gives a countdown at the end of every chapter. It's the metronome for Hobbs' impressive orchestration, but unfortunately there's only so much music you can make with one note. B


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23 If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. | 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." |
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you; and more shall be given unto you. | 24 "Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you--and even more. |
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath. | 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." |
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; | 26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. |
27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. | 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. |
28 The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. | 28 All by itself the soil produces grain--first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. |
29 But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come. | 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come." |
30 And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth? | 30 Again he said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? |
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth, | 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. |
32 yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof. | 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade." |
33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it; | 33 With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. |
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