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The company's recent results suggest a slowdown in firms leaving the ancient OS behind and upgrading to new systems. Why won't they update?
Microsoft has made a handful of new, free experimental productivity apps for Windows Phone and Android available for download from its Garage incubator.
The PC says that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
One of Jide's founders says Android tablets are "terrible" for doing work, so the company created a productivity-based tablet with 11.6-inch screen, detachable keyboard cover, and the Remix OS, which adds Windows-like features to Android.
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By Preston GrallaPublished by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006198/)Windows XP can be a great tool, but it...
Yes, you still can trick Microsoft into giving you security updates for Windows XP. No, it's not a good idea. You are not protected.
Netmarketshare seems to have continued its rebalancing act, and today's numbers show Windows XP plunging again while Windows 8/8.1 continues its newfound success
PC sales are declining - despite the end-of-XP support bump - while Mac sales were up 18 percent in Q2 and 21 percent in Q3 of 2014. Why isn't the Mac declining along with Windows PCs?
Use of Windows XP fell dramatically last month, while use of Windows 8.1 grew dramatically, according to Net Applications' numbers published at Netmarketshare.com. Is this a fact, an erroneous blip, or a historical correction? You decide…
Microsoft made a mistake by extending XP Extended Support. Extending Win7 Mainstream Support some time past the intro of Windows 10 would be different.
Cheaper notebooks are getting PCs selling again after a long lull.
A new report shows how Windows XP is figuring strongly in one ongoing large-scale botnet operation that's predominantly targeting US banks.
The capital of Piedmont has been lured to open source with the prospect of doing away with licences and delaying the refresh cycle.
Despite reaching end-of-support this year, Windows XP remains in second place behind Windows 8 and WIndows 8.1.
UPDATED. Google is consciously using their influence to push certificate authorities to advance security standards soon. Would you believe the problem is Windows XP SP2?
XP might be out of date but that doesn't mean it isn't still being used by many organisations. But research suggests another big deadline could be missed by some.
Microsoft withdrew support for Windows XP in April. That's been the cue for some in the developer community to work on new service packs for the elderly operating system.
The consensus says that Windows XP has boosted corporate PC sales and acted as a performance enhancing drug. There's an argument that enterprises may keep refreshing PCs because the installed base is ancient.
Do you care if your employer is running Windows 7 without patches in 2020?
Microsoft is going to do more than reintroduce a Start menu as part of its plan to make Windows 9, a k a 'Threshold,' more appealing to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users.

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The Commission on Cancer of the American Cancer Society has recently granted a "Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation" to Community Medical Centers, which includes Community Regional Medical Center, Clovis Community Medical Center, Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital and the California Cancer Center.
Since 2006, Business Street Media Group Heroes in Healthcare Awards have recognized extraordinary individuals in the Valley health care community who have made personal sacrifices to help so many others in the region.
This year four of the seven award recipients are affiliated with Community Medical Centers and were honored at the annual Heroes in Healthcare Awards Ceremony at the Bankers Ballroom in Fresno on Nov. 3.
Medical Imaging/Radiology & Lab – We house the region's first 128-Slice CT scanner which performs detailed cardiac imaging of a beating heart, reducing the need for heart-slowing beta-blocker drugs and offering the lowest possible radiation exposure and twice as fast heart images. This state-of-the-art CT scanner includes the widest bore and highest weight limit for the table to better accommodate our bariatric patients.
ABC affiliate KFSN 30 reports on the Clovis Community Medical Center expansion, which began in 2008.Back to Videos
The $300 million expansion of Clovis Community Medical Center was the topic at the Economic Development Corporation's Business Expansion and Retention (BEAR breakfast) in 2010.Back to Videos
The Clovis Community Medical Center expansion began in 2008 with the renovation and expansion of the Marjorie E. Radin Breast Care Center, a new endoscopy center, four new operating rooms and additional room for the only Level 3 (highest level) fertility center between Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Our neurodiagnostic team is made up of specialty trained and certified technicians who measure electrical activity within the brain and nervous system with highly advanced equipment. These measurements are recorded and reviewed by your neurologist, and the results are shared with your primary care or referring physician.
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Of Stories, Character, and Beliefs
Posted by David Foster on 20th March 2015 (All posts by David Foster)
Here I will link several posts that I see as related. At the moment I don't have time to tie them together in a coherent way, so will just put them out there in a somewhat disconnected fashion in the hope of sparking some good discussion.
I would like to see a study of decision-making based on how much fiction one consumes. My hypothesis is that consumers of fiction will draw their "experience" in part from fiction and it will warp their understanding of what is practical or possible in the real world…I think exposure to fiction makes you less grounded in the real world (subconsciously) and more likely to make decisions the way the captain of the Enterprise would have done it, for example.
This is a quite different view of the role and value of fiction from the one expressed in an article I summarized in my post Fiction and Empathy:
In one experiment, researcher Keith Oatley and colleagues assessed the reading habits of 94 adults, separating fiction from nonfiction. They also tested the subjects on measures of emotion perception (being able to discern a person's emotional state from a photo of only the eyes) and social cognition (being able to draw conclusions about the relationships among people based on video clips.) This study showed a "strong" interconnection between fiction reading and social skills, especially between fiction reading and the emotion-perception factor. This correlation, of course, does not by itself demonstrate the direction of causality. Another study involved assigning 303 adults to read either a short story or an essay from the New Yorker and following up with tests of analytical and social reasoning. Those who read the story tended to do better on the social reasoning test than those who read the nonfiction essay.
Dr Oatley has referred to fiction as "the mind's flight simulator."
And here is an argument that reading fiction will make you a better investor:
Unlike historical accounts, through well-drawn characters it is possible to absorb the world through another perspective, an immensely valuable skill for investors looking for ideas (or trouble). A memory bank of fictional characters will also help when the market "hive mind" pushes prices in unexpected directions, answering the question "what kind of person buys here?" The primary lesson of fiction is learning "this is how people act", when they're scared, confident, happy, determined or demoralized. Not how I would act, or how I think they should act, but how the combination of different experiences and different patterns of cognition lead to aggregate outcomes. Empathy.
In her post the message and the story , SF writer Sarah Hoyt offers some thoughts on how novels can influence the worldviews of their readers:
But part of it is that I doubt the effectiveness of overt messages in stories. I don't scruple to say I was raised by Heinlein, nor that I wasn't the only one. The man might have had no biological kids, but he has sons and daughters all over the world, including me.
But then we have to look at how he raised me. Remember I came at Heinlein through (mostly) the later books because most of the Juveniles (Door Into Summer and Have Spacesuit Will Travel excepted) were either not translated to Portuguese or no longer available when I came along. And yet, what I took from his books was not the obvious messages: "Though art God" or the bedhopping or multiple marriages as the natural way to live. (Oh, for a while, but that was the spirit of the times, too, being the late seventies.) What I took from the books were not so much the messages as "the way to be."
By creating characters that were tough, questioning, strong, and, most of all, useful, he made me want to be that way. I took as my model (being touched in the upper works) the broken caryatid, not just for characters but for what a human being should be, lifting whatever the burden without complaining.
Now, it takes a certain type of personality to teach at that level. I've seen it in some teachers, too, who, regardless of whether they teach you history or English, really give you a model you aspire to being. The left, being daft, thinks this has to do with the character/teacher looking like you. They think only black people can model to black children. This is part of their insanity with "there must be so many characters of tan per book." And also with promoting incompetent teachers to positions of power, because they have a certain ancestry or skin color.
But it doesn't work that way. It's more subtle. It's more about being who you are in such a strong and convincing way and making the characteristics you have or approve of so admirable that people want to follow them. Which is what Heinlein did.
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David Gray & Amos Lee at Ravinia
A winning indie-pop/singer-songwriter double bill featuring David Gray and Amos Lee perform at Ravinia. Gray released his most recent effort, 'Mutineers,' in 2014 and Lee is known to Buffalo-area music fans via his opening slots for Bob Dylan & His Band. Don't miss this great night of music.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Presents Brahms First Piano Concerto at Ravinia
James Conlon, music director of the CSO and Jorge Federico Osorio on piano performs Brahms First Piano Concerto. Enjoy music from Brahms and Zemlinksy under the stars at Ravinia. Tickets: $50/25, Lawn: $10
CITY:Highland Park
Diana Krall at Ravinia
Diana Jean Krall is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide. Come out for a great night of music under the stars at Ravinia. Tickets: $95/85 & Lawn: $38 in advance and $43 the day of the show.
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ZZ Top at Ravinia
Come out with some friends and a picnic and enjoy the great music of ZZ Top and Blackberry Smoke under the stars at Ravinia. Tickets: $90/80, Lawn: $38 in advance and $43 the day of the show.
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Joseph Moog at Ravinia
Join Joseph Moog in an evening of great classical music. Enjoy pieces from Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, Friedman and Godowsky. Tickets are $10.
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Simone Porter at Ravinia
Come out for a night of beautiful classic music with Simone Porter on the violin. This emerging artist has impassioned energy, musical integrity, and vibrant sound. Tickets are $10.
CITY:Highland Park
The Burger Board
Locally owned. Burger, fries, shakes and ice cream.
A Prairie Home Companion Live Broadcast at Ravinia
A Prairie Home Companion is heard by 4 million listeners each week on more than 600 public radio stations, and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East. Don't miss this live broadcast of this one-of-a-kind show. Reserved seat tickets 65/35 and lawn seats are $10.
CITY:Highland Park
Brian Wilson & Rodriguez at Ravinia
Beach Boys mastermind and veteran solo artist Brian Wilson with opening act Rodriguez is sure to be a great night of music under the stars at Ravinia. Bring some friends and a picnic and enjoy the evening. Tickets are $75/65 and lawn seats are $33 in advance and $38 the day of the show.
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Jeffrey Kahane at Ravinia
Jeffrey Kahane is an American classical music pianist and conductor, playing a night Bach's 'Goldberg' variations. Come out and enjoy a show under the stars at Ravinia.
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Steve Miller Band at Ravinia
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band best known for a string of (mainly) mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier acid rock albums. Don't miss this great show. Tickets: $85/75 Lawn: $38 in advance and $43 the day of the show.
CITY:Highland Park
Aretha Franklin at Ravinia
Aretha Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling female artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Don't miss the Queen of Soul in the special night of music. Tickets: $95/85 and Lawn $43 in advance and $48 the day of the show.
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Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton at Ravinia
Join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra along with conductor Ted Sperling and the Lakeside Singers as they perform music from the films of Tim Burton. Selections from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks, Big Fish, Batman, Batman Returns and much more. This performance will include a big video screen on the lawn.
CITY:Highland Park
Chicago Symphony Orchestra With Conductor James Conlon at Ravinia
Join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Conlon and Garrick Ohlsson on piano for an evening of great Mozart and Mahler music under the stars at Ravinia.
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Crossroads Bicycles
Used bicycle sales, service and repair of all bicycle models, complete tune-ups, accessories and supplies. Open: Monday thru Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm
NEEDTOBREATHE Presents Tour de Compadres at Ravinia
Don't miss this great night of music featuring 4 bands. Enjoy performances from Needtobreathe, Colony House, Switchfoot and Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors. Tickets: $65/55, Lawn: $33 in advance and $38 the day of the show.
CITY:Highland Park
An Evening With Santana at Ravinia
Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He will be performing 2 nights. Reserved seat tickets are $100/$120 and lawn seats are $38 in advance and $43 the day of performance.
CITY:Highland Park
Sybarite5 at Ravinia
From the moment their bows hit the strings, this quintet of talented, diverse musicians takes the audience on an exciting ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules. From Mozart to Radiohead, Sybarite5's eclectic repertoire and dynamic performance style is turning heads throughout the music world.
CITY:Highland Park
Tin Fish
Renowned for fresh seafood and oysters as well as aged steaks. A much respected wine list and bar deep in aged spirits.
CITY:Tinley Park
Jelly Rags and Monk at Ravinia
Join the Turtle Island Quartet and Cyrus Chestnut on piano for Jelly Rags and Monk. The program is Jelly Rags and Monk's 30th anniversary celebration. This is part of the BGH $10 series.
CITY:Highland Park
Los Rancheros
Locally owned Mexican restaurant.
Mid-August Meltdown
Sprint : 1/4 mile swim, 13 mile bike, 3.1 mile run. Out and back on the bike and run. A few rolling hills on the bike, but the run is completely flat. Fast course on Lake Sara! $100 Cash Prize to Overall Male and Female. $75 Cash Prize to 2nd Overall Male and Female. $50 Cash Prize to 3rd Overall Male and Female
Kite Fly
All ages are welcome to come and create a kite and enjoy a day of fun! Concessions will be available to purchase for a picnic lunch with your friends and family!
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Family Camp Out
Enjoy a summer night camping under the stars. Scavenger hung, a late night campfire, hot dog and S'Mores roast is included. Must bring own tent, sleeping bag and camping equipment.
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If you are looking for a way to beat the winter blues, look no further than right here in Marshall County! We hope that you will help us in welcoming the 2nd annual Culver Winter Festival and North American Ice Fishing Circuit (NAIFC) Tournament.
Sledding, ice skating, ice sculpture demonstrations, even an Ice Camp for kids are some of the activities that you will be able to participate in during the Winter Fest! The Ice Camp for kids will be help on February 14, 2015 from 1-3 p.m. at the Culver Fire Station. This is an opportunity to experience in-class and on-ice fishing tutorials delivered by experienced, DNR certified NAIFC Pro-Staff instructors. Although this Ice Camp is geared towards kids, all family members are encouraged to attend regardless of age!
For those of you who love the cold the Culver Beard Club is hosting its 2nd annual PolarPlunge on Lake Maxinkuckee! A Polar Plunge is a group of people or individuals that jump into freezing cold water…for fun! The Polar Plunge will take place immediately following the weigh-in of the NAIFC Ice Fishing Tournament, around 2 p.m. on February 15, 2015.
The NAIFC Culver Qualifying Tournament is open to the first 150 two-person teams that enter. NAIFC tournaments operate much like a Bassmaster or FLW event. Fishing boundaries are set: teams drill their own holes, portable fish shelters are allowed, and walking, ATVs, and snowmobiles are the modes of transportation. The tournament's fishing hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Sunday February 15th and the fish species will be Bluegill and Perch.
This will be a fantastic, fun event over the Valentine's Day weekend so for those couples out there, enjoy a fun Winter Fest and stop in and see what the local shops and restaurants are offering for Valentine's Day! A little bit of fun added into your love day! We hope to see many of you out there! Have fun and be safe! Until next time…


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Secure pages (https) overtaking search results
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Two part question ...
1) Has anyone else observed an increasing number of results showing up as secure (httpS) pages instead of non-secure?
2) Of all of the types of duplicate content issues Google could need to try and identify and subsequently take action on, shouldn't they be able to tell that a page is an exact copy just in a secure version? (and ignore it) Errors in coding and design aside, this is by far the dumbest Google issue I've had to deal with.
I've only really began to take notice of #1 because I've been dealing with issues related to #2 in the last few weeks, so I'm unsure if the secure results have been there all along.
Is it possible that Google's push for secure searches has led them to look for and overvalue httpS pages on a site?
Our issue appears to stem from relative links within secure areas of the website, allowing bots to begin crawling a copy of all pages, just in secure form.
As a result, most pages previously ranking high on page two have been replaced by other options (related pages, child pages, etc.) farther down on pages 2-3. These option B's, if you want to call them that, are pages that are still being cached as non-secure.
The occasional page does still rank in the same or similar spot even though it is know cached as the secure version.
We are attempting to remedy the issue by offering a secure version of robots.txt, with some success in what has been recrawled so far.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Similar experiences?
Msg#: 4653343 posted
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At least since mid 2013 Google has been looking for https versions of http pages. Also many webmasters don't seem to realize their webhost may have a secret domain path to their site as well. Typically some acronym of the website domain tied to the webhosts domain; like "MyWebSiteAcronym.example.com".
I have found that Google has "triple indexed" hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of sites, indexing identical pages as http, https, and acronym.example.com all showing in Google's index, even though the pages are clearly identical in overall content.
I have found simply using the rel=canonical mechanism will flush all of the duplicate pages out of Google's index. It will take a month or two.
You must provide the canonical path even for the webhost's secret domain name for your site( if there is one ).
You will probably find your Webmaster tools, Google Index, Index status, Advanced, "ever crawled" statistic has taken a big jump.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
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Can someone show me an example of where an https:// page has
content to its http:// counterpart?
Msg#: 4653343 posted
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I guess that's part of my frustration ... they can properly ignore scraped content all over the place, but somehow exact copies on my own site under a secure designation causes me to drop in rankings?
The only differences between the two versions are 1) one is secure and 2) the non-secure version has much more authority (links, age, etc.).
There's no reason other than it being a "secure" page for it to outrank/replace the non-secure version (in the cases where it does), and no logical reason at all for Google to not realize the unintentional duplicate on the same domain.
I guess you could call it an alternate version of the www vs non-www canonical issue some sites face, but's somewhat different.
Rather than use canonicals, we're going with a change to the htaccess file to reroute visits to the secure port to robots_ssl.txt file disallowing all, while leaving other visits alone.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
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Errors in coding and design aside, this is by far the dumbest Google issue I've had to deal with.
So if I understand this correctly, your organization made a coding mistake, but it's Google's fault for crawling and indexing it the way it was configured?
Sorry, you lose me on this one.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
7:16 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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Not looking for a guilty party on either end, or a scapegoat, just looking for logical explanations.
If thought about it terms of duplicate/scraped content anywhere else on the web where Google has enough common sense to know the original source, drop the others, and not change anything in SERPS, this doesn't make a single bit of sense.
And the fact that the site has always been configured this way (10+ years), but somehow only now this pops up? To me, that speaks to recent emphasis on secure searching.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
7:36 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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If thought about it terms of duplicate/scraped content anywhere else on the web where Google has enough common sense to know the original source, drop the others, and not change anything in SERPS, this doesn't make a single bit of sense.
It makes sense to me, because I for one do not want Google making those kinds of decisions on how to pick up my content (any more than they already do) No, I prefer not to make Google think (more than they already do) and if I make some mistakes and they pick them up too - my bad.
Who knows why they got it now - maybe you never noticed before, or maybe someone linked to some of your erroneous https content, or maybe they expanded their crawl budget for your site, or maybe as you say they're looking for secure content.
But I don't find it odd in the least that they found it and indexed it.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
7:40 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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There is almost certainly a rise in HTTPS sites, ever since last year when it was discovered the US NSA was scraping content which might prove detrimental to a site's customers (eg medication, shopping searches). HTTPS is harder to decode than HTTP by quite a long way.
The downside is that, according to at least one authority, there is more danger of an HTTPS site being retained by NSA until such time as they can decode the encryption.
It is likely that other governments are working to the same end: scraping everyone's browsing.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
8:16 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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Also, SSL certificates have gotten a ton cheaper; don't overlook that aspect. Recently ran across someone who had one just because GoDaddy included it with his hosting package - he didn't *need* it, but it was thrown in so why not.
(Of course, it wasn't configured correctly and gunked the site up and I had try to fix it, but that's beside the point)
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Msg#: 4653343 posted
9:26 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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The https/http confusion is a canonicalization issue, and in my experience, once it gets out into the wild, it must be taken care of with mod rewrite.
Here's a discussion that covers many of the basics, including likely causes...
Cross-site canonical meta tag questions
IMO, robots.txt is not the way to approach this problem.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
9:46 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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For starters, we experimented with including manual canonical elements on a few targeted pages. The https versions of those slowly began to disappear, and our rankings returned.
Continuing from that idea, but in a way that can be applied site-wide, we are now doing a combination of both mod rewrite and robots.txt:
Adding a /robots_ssl.txt file to the site with the following:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
and including this command in our .htaccess file:
1 RewriteEngine on
2 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
3 RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L]
Results are promising so far, although it's too early to tell for the site as a whole.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
10:20 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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shouldn't they be able to tell that a page is an exact copy
They should, but they can't. This applies pretty universally, not just to http vs. https.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
10:43 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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But yet they do with regularity, otherwise almost every site would have duplicate content issues.
There are certainly cases where they fail to do so -- plenty of threads out there about scraper sites outranking primary sources, etc. -- but I would think of all the instances where it would be easiest to do so ... ?
Msg#: 4653343 posted
11:17 pm on Mar 12, 2014
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Yep, our site started showing HTTPS URLs a couple weeks ago. We're ecomm, so we need it for checkout, but the whole site was available under HTTPS. It could cause errors due to unsecured elements, though, so we had to fix it.
A redirect from HTTPS to HTTP and the canonical tag cleared up the issue.
Msg#: 4653343 posted
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Personally speaking (as a programmer), it does seem like a simple problem to solve:-
http:// + mydomainname.com/mypage.html
https:// + mydomainname.com/mypage.html
...if they have the same content, because they have identical URLs after the protocol definition (http or https), treat them as the same page - therefore the page with the most authority is the canonical page - no need to index the other page.
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:05 PM
I'm stumped and this is a first for me.
I need a present for someone that I last saw when he was 2. He's now 25 and has due to various circumstances rejoined the family. He always was family but no one saw him after that age when he was moved to another country and was on opposite sides of the globe.
I'm not going into what is a long, convoluted and heartbreaking story. Suffice so say, he's now back in NZ, all grown up and I need a present.
So, what I do I buy for a 25 year old young man, who I know next to nothing about? No budget.
I've looked at his Facebook page and that gives me no clues. Typically young 20ish male stuff IYKWIM.
Family in NZ also are not being helpful in this regard so I turn to EB.
What do you think? I'm thinking go lateral but my brain is not working today.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:10 PM
I know it's not that personal, but what about a voucher of some sort? Everyone needs to buy clothes, most shopping centres will sell vouchers for the whole centre so whether he wants clothes, booze or video games or whatever he can choose what he likes. It's hard to get something personal and touching if you really don't have that much to go on. In cases like these I aim for practicality. Ie, I would always appreciate something I could use.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:15 PM
Thank you Una for the ideas and you're right - practical is probably the way to go. I do know that he has just moved into his own flat but I don't know what he has in the way of furniture, goods etc.
I want to somehow though, make amends for all the lost years and I don't know how to do that. (and edited to say, logically I know I can't do that).
I also want to wring my brother's neck but I can't do that either and it would be pointless in any case.
Edited by Foogle, 08 December 2012 - 04:17 PM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:16 PM
movie vouchers.
If you're in NZ, why not one of the many experience vouchers? Bungee jumping etc?
Itunes card.
Gift vouchers for a music /dvd/stereo store(JB HiFi if you have it?)
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:21 PM
Hmmmmm, ok. The flat thing is good to know. Would it be appropriate to offer to take him shopping for (i don't know) homewares or furniture (depending on your budget). That way, you could spend some time with him helping him get settled and buy him something useful at the same time? May make it more personal?
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:31 PM
QUOTE (Unatheowl @ 08/12/2012, 05:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hmmmmm, ok. The flat thing is good to know. Would it be appropriate to offer to take him shopping for (i don't know) homewares or furniture (depending on your budget). That way, you could spend some time with him helping him get settled and buy him something useful at the same time? May make it more personal?
See I'm not sure Una. It doesn't seem right to me that after all this time to descend if you like from Australia (He doesn't know me, he doesn't remember me - we have talked on the phone though since he has been back in NZ) and say 'let's go shopping'. That would be weird wouldn't it?
But by the same token, gift vouchers and say clothing and stuff seems impersonal.
I dunno...
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:35 PM
I recently posted a vaguely similar thread about not being sure what to buy a 20 year old family member I haven't seen for a few years. I got him a Swiss Army knife. I like the idea of it because it is practical and he is newly independent so it should be useful, but it also seems like a classic 'manly' rite of passage type gift that he will be able to keep forever IYKWIM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:36 PM
QUOTE (Foogle @ 08/12/2012, 05:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
See I'm not sure Una. It doesn't seem right to me that after all this time to descend if you like from Australia (He doesn't know me, he doesn't remember me - we have talked on the phone though since he has been back in NZ) and say 'let's go shopping'. That would be weird wouldn't it?
But by the same token, gift vouchers and say clothing and stuff seems impersonal.
I dunno...
What is your relationship to him? I wouldn't find it weird if my aunt/cousin/sister wanted to spend time with me after all these years. If going shopping feels weird how about just catching up for a coffee and a chat? perhaps you could find out that way the kinds of things he's interested in
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:39 PM
A leatherman multi-tool could be an idea
ETA so basically I agree with chickendrumstick
Edited by strawberrypie7, 08 December 2012 - 04:40 PM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:41 PM
He's my nephew Lyra. A long-lost one...
I don't have a lot of time in NZ - only a week between the 23rd and 30th.
chickendrumstick - I like that idea. I'm putting that on the list. Thank you.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:43 PM
Has he mentioned a particular sporting team he follows? I'm thinking rugby here given he's in NZ, but having lived o/s maybe he doesn't follow it?
If he does you could buy him some tickets to a game? Most young guys would like that and it's personal in the sense you're buying him tickets to watch 'his' team?
Or perhaps cricket tickets if he's into it? I think England are coming to play NZ in NZ early next year
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:46 PM
I would go the gift voucher and probably something non specific like a Westfield one that covers lots of different shops. I have never been to NZ so don't know if they have westfields or a similar type centre.
I know it seems a bit impersonal, but it gives him a wide variety of stores/items to pick something he wants. I wish my relatives would give gift vouchers instead of homewares etc that are completely not my style and I end up throwing out. My grandparents have always given every child/grandchild/great grandchild a cheque which I think is great. We can spend it on whatever we want or put it in savings which has always been most helpful!
Edited by blue4me, 08 December 2012 - 04:46 PM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:49 PM
This might seem like an odd suggestion but...an LED Lenser torch.
My DH, adult nephews and DS (15yrs) would all say the same. They all enjoy outdoors, camping and fishing so this, for them, is the perfect gift.
Edited by nayjay, 08 December 2012 - 04:51 PM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:50 PM
I think the swiss army knife idea is good or a Leatherman - a small practical tool for lifelong use!
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:51 PM
do u know if he likes games or sports? can get him a new game for his system or some sporting gear.
ummm....a model of his favourite car/bike
a digital photoframe for his house with pics of the family already on it
Posted 08 December 2012 - 04:58 PM
Thank you, I think I have it sorted.
I'll get him a Swiss-army/Leatherman (There is a dedicated knife shop in my local shopping centre that I think sells them) and I will have it engraved.
I also like the idea nayjay of the LED torch because I think he is also discovering the NZ great outdoors that is now on his door-step. Not sure but from various conversations I've had, and I'm guessing here, but I think he may quite like the idea of exploring the SI so that would be useful.
Thank you EB. Now just to actually meet him - he's a lot bigger than the cheeky 2 year old that I remember.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 05:16 PM
What about some photos of the time he missed with your family with a note of the event and the people?
Posted 08 December 2012 - 05:43 PM
QUOTE (1975ladybug @ 08/12/2012, 06:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What about some photos of the time he missed with your family with a note of the event and the people?
Yes - have been searching for these ladybug. I specifically remember a photo of him sitting on the couch at Mum's all smiles and laughter. We cannot find it. There has been over the intervening years a number of break-ups within the family and photos have been lost.
My sister and I a number of months ago, contacted various family members asking them to go through what they had but none have come to light.
We are still looking though.
ETA: Sorry I thought you meant pics with him in them of which we are still looking for.
Edited by Foogle, 08 December 2012 - 05:44 PM.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:05 PM
My default is a really good backpack picnic set.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:18 PM
QUOTE (LynnyP @ 08/12/2012, 07:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
My default is a really good backpack picnic set.
Exactly what my sister is buying him Lynn. He had made mention of it to her apparently.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:24 PM
Your sister is a woman of refinement Foogle.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:27 PM
QUOTE (LynnyP @ 08/12/2012, 07:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Your sister is a woman of refinement Foogle.
Indeed, passed down from the bigger sister Lynn.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:38 PM
not sure what your finances are.... how about a good quality camera so he can make his own family memories from here on in?
Or is that is too pricey.... how about you buy tickets to something on the South Island you could do together while you are there?
Posted 08 December 2012 - 07:09 PM
QUOTE (Foogle @ 08/12/2012, 05:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
He's my nephew Lyra. A long-lost one...
sounds like my family! I didn't know my aunt for years and years. I've only just got in contact recently
good luck with everything
Posted 08 December 2012 - 09:29 PM
QUOTE (Foogle @ 08/12/2012, 06:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes - have been searching for these ladybug. I specifically remember a photo of him sitting on the couch at Mum's all smiles and laughter. We cannot find it. There has been over the intervening years a number of break-ups within the family and photos have been lost.
My sister and I a number of months ago, contacted various family members asking them to go through what they had but none have come to light.
We are still looking though.
ETA: Sorry I thought you meant pics with him in them of which we are still looking for.
That was my immediate thought too - a beautiful album with photos of who is who and what he missed basically. Maybe a simple family tree in the front - it must be confusing to remember who fits where if he has been away for 23 years.
I think your leatherman idea is good too - I remember my male friends being very proud of theirs round that age.
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Just cracked my first bottle of a version of this beer after only 5 days in the bottle (I couldn't wait!) and it is awesome! It is obviously and little under carbed but the taste is exctly what I was hoping for I only used 3lbs of frozen raspberries which I heated to 160 w/ 2 cups of water and added to the beer in the secondary for a week prior to bottling. Great raspberry taste that is not overpowering at all. Thanks for the idea/recipe!!
Hey, I figured I'd give this a go as my vacation beer.
The HBS was running dry so I took some creative liberties and got the following:
3.3 lbs light liquid malt extract
4lbs light dry malt extract
2 vials of wlp002 english ale yeast (ive heard they under attenuate, so i figured double pitch?)
1oz cascade
1oz styrian goldings (5.5%AA, this was as close as I could find)
12.8oz of 40L crystal
3oz of roasted barley
I guess what I'm asking is, am I ok? I've never substituted before on a recipe and I want to make sure this will turn out alright. I assume yes, but looking for a little confirmation on my reasoning.
Sanitizing everything now, have to pick up some water and another muslim bag (thought I had extras, of course not haha).
Oh, and has anyone done this with any other fruit? I ask because I currently have about 38 oz of frozen blueberries in my freezer.
Misinformation hurts my soul!
og was a bit high at 1.064, but it was a bit hot here yesterday.
did a full boil, and went with a combo of s-05 and a vial of wlp002.
tastes pretty damn good so far, bubbling away vigorously as we speak.
I'm a bit confused b/c the original recipe says add an additional 40 oz to secondary.
Does this mean that I add 40 oz at flameout and 40 oz in secondary?
Also, when I convert 6.5 lbs light dry extract to pale malt in Beersmith, I get an estimated og @ 75% efficiency of around 1.060 or something. I adjusted to get an Og of 1.054 like the orig recipe says. Has this happened to others?
Also, the Ibu's he has for the hops are all jacked up. I'm a bit confused about this recipe here.


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Hi Flavio,
thank you for your response. Please note that I do intend to appreciate the
sound design of ZooKeeper in my talk. ZooKeeper is not poorly _designed_!
However it is IMHO poorly _implemented_. And I also tried to excuse this by
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ZK has explored new areas and provided insights that others can build upon
The fact that many projects use ZK shows how important its service is and
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[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6047917/zookeeper-alternatives-cluster-
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Council on Black Minnesotans (COBM) Executive Director Ed McDonald disagreed, saying among many other things, "I think that what that would do for the councils is move it into partisan swings. Continue Reading →
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1. "Maintain the four councils, but clarify their primary purposes; require them to adopt strategic plans, develop policies and procedures, and work more substantively with state agencies; and encourage them to become more involved in the appointments process and better communicate with the public;
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Earlier this month, Minnesota's Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) released its annual audit of the four "minority councils" in Minnesota. These councils — identified by the OLA audit as the "Councils on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, Black Minnesotans, Chicano/Latino People, and Indian Affairs" — were created between 1963 and 1985 by the State of Minnesota. They are, also according to the audit, "primarily charged with advising policy makers and serving as a liaison to state government."
The audit report was somewhat critical of the councils. Following are conclusions from the audit of the councils:
• "Overall, there is little evidence that the state's four minority councils have been effective advisors or liaisons to state policy makers
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