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Internationalized resource identifier
The internationalized resource identifier (IRI) was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2005 as a new internet standard to extend upon the existing uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme.[1] The new standard was published in RFC 3987.
While URIs are limited to a subset of the ASCII character set, IRIs may contain characters from the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646), including Chinese or Japanese kanji, Korean, Cyrillic characters, and so forth. It is defined by RFC 3987.
IRI extend upon URIs by using the Universal Character Set whereas URIs were limited to the ASCII with far fewer characters. IRIs may be represented by a sequence of octets but by definition is defined as a sequence of characters because IRIs can be spoken or written by hand.[2]
IRIs are mapped to URIs to retain backwards-compatibility with systems that do not support the new format.[2]
For applications and protocols that do not allow direct consumption of IRIs, the IRI should first be converted to Unicode using canonical composition normalization (NFC), if not already in Unicode format.
All non-ASCII code points in the IRI should next be encoded as UTF-8, and the resulting bytes percent-encoded, to produce a valid URI.[example needed]
ASCII code points that are invalid URI characters may be encoded the same way, depending on implementation.[2]
This conversion is easily reversible; by definition, converting an IRI to an URI and back again will yield an IRI that is semantically equivalent to the original IRI, even though it may differ in exact representation.[3]
Some protocols may impose further transformations; e.g. Punycode for DNS labels.
There are reasons to see URIs displayed in different languages; mostly, it makes it easier for users who are unfamiliar with the Latin (A-Z) alphabet. Assuming that it isn't too difficult for anyone to replicate arbitrary Unicode on their keyboards, this can make the URI system more accessible.[4]
Mixing IRIs and ASCII URIs can make it much easier to do phishing attacks that trick someone into believing they are on a site they really are not on. For example, one can replace the "a" in
with an internationalized look-alike "a" character, and point that IRI to a malicious site. This is known as an IDN homograph attack.
While a URI does not provide people with a way to specify Web resources using their own alphabets, an IRI does not make clear how Web resources can be accessed with keyboards that are not capable of generating the requisite internationalized characters. This does mean that IRIs are now handled in a way very similar to many other software which might require the use of variant Input method when dealing with texts in various languages.
See also[edit]
- IDN (Internationalized Domain Name)
- Semantic Web
- Punycode
- XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier)
- ^ Gangemi, Aldo; Presutti, Valentina (2006). "The bourne identity of a web resource" (PDF). Proceedings of Identity Reference and the Web Workshop (IRW). Laboratory for Applied Ontology (Roma, Italy: National Research Council (ISTC-CNR)): 3.
Notice that IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifier) [11] are supposed to replace URIs in next future.
- ^ a b c Duerst, M. (2005). "RFC 3987". Network Working Group (Internet Engineering Task Force). Standards Track. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ Hendler, Hrsg. Dieter Fensel; Hrsg. John Domingue; Hrsg. James A. (2010). Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (1. Aufl. ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag GmbH. ISBN 978-3-540-92912-3. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ Clark, Kendall (2003-05-07). "Internationalizing the URI". O'Reilly Media, Inc. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
External links[edit]
- W3C Internationalization Activity
- RFC 3987 : Proposed Standard of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
- IANA List of Registered URI Schemes


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Hey guys, I added a PCI NIC onto my FreeNAS8.2Beta3 (FreeBSD 8.2) box. I configured the onboard NIC to use DHCP, it (re0) has an ip of 192.168.1.4, and I also assosiate a second IP to the onboard NIC, 192.168.1.30 (jail IP). I configured the PCI NIC to use DHCP, it (em0) has an IP of 192.168.1.12. I have both NICs connected to an unmanaged switch. Everything seems to work perfectly and I can ping both NICs just fine. The problems comes in when I use my PCI NIC for NFS or iscsi, I can usually connect to NFS or iscsi for a few seconds / minutes on the 192.168.1.12 address but it always stops responding. At which point I can't ping 192.168.1.12 from anywhere on my network (except from being ssh'ed into the box using the 192.168.1.4 IP). I don't see anything in syslog (using FreeNAS console). A local ifconfig makes it seem like the interface is still working perfectly fine. I can get the interface to work again using ifconfig em0 down and ifconfig em0 up but using iscsi or NFS makes the IP unreachable once again. iscsi and NFS work perfectly ok using my 192.168.1.4 IP. Not sure if it's the card's fault (link below), the switch's fault, or if I configured something wrongly. Thanks for the help! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106121
It is not clear which version of FreeNAS you are using and how jail is executed whether you are using pf/ipfw or anything. Maybe you need to compile VIMAGE for epair, just guess in the kernel. This may also require some ipfw adjustments, I guess. What you can do is you can pop in any livecd (I suggest any lightweight linux like puppy) with the WAN connected to the new card and try to figure out if that is working (the novice way). Else, you can post your NIC card status here in command line.
-Here's a link if the related thread I made in the FreeNAS forum, I just assumed it was OS agnostic enough to ask here / you guys might have better ability to help me debug it. http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?7006-Second-NIC-keeps-locking-up&p=27245#post27245 FreeNAS version 8.2Beta3 (forgot to say 64bit), based on FreeBSD 8.2. I believe jail is executed with service jail start (freenas doesn't do everything in init), I'll test with the jail off and confirm if PCI interface still hangs. (Jail is an alias of the onboard interface, the one I'm not having troubles with). Neither pf or ipfw is running tell me if you wanted more info Code:$ifconfig em0 em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:0e:04:b7:8c:e0 inet 192.168.1.12 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active I'll also try running with only the PCI interface and see if this works as expected, Thanks.
I already replied earlier but it needs to be approved. Code:$pciconf -lv em0@pci0:6:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x13768086 chip=0x107c8086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) rev 5 (82541PI)' class = network subclass = ethernet I deleted the configuration of my onboard (re0) nic, told my DHCP server to give out 192.168.1.4 to my PCI NIC (em0). Unplugged the ethernet from my onboard NIC. Rebooted. Once again everything works as expected, my PCI NIC is assigned 192.168.1.4, I can ping it. But if I use the IP for anything (including SSH) it suddenly becomes no longer reachable. Have to plug a monitor/keyboard in to restart the interface. Using the monitor/keyboard I can't even ping my router from my box once the IP stops responding. This leads me to assume it's not something I configured weird, but something wrong with this NIC and my version of FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD8.2). This conclusion doesn't seem probable to me because it's a widely used Intel NIC but I don't know what else it could be. Any ways to debug this thing would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I found someone with the same chip and same issue (Nick Rogers) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/054451.html He also continues to ask for help in this thread though neither seem to have a resolution http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/em-4-ALTQ-broken-td3934794.html#a3934807 I turned off TSO and TXCSUM as they suggested in the first thread but it doesn't change the result. Interestingly they claim it worked in FreeBSD 7.2, my goal is to have this work in FreeBSD 8.3 (kernel FreeNAS will soon be based on).
I have the exact same issues. Using NFS in my case, locks up the interface. The only thing to do is an ifconfig down and ifconfig up. However, I believe it is not related to just one driver or one NIC. I tried both Realtek (re) and Intel (em). Both have the same problem. The solution for me is to lower the rsize/wsize but that gives me crappy performance. See my post here: http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?7111-NIC-keeps-locking-up
Mind giving the output of pciconf -lv? I just want to check to see if you have the same chip as I. I believe it is only the chip I have, and possibly one other, that have the hanging problem.
Well, you have a different chip than me. It's weird you're getting similar behavior for different types of interfaces. Not sure what to do from here, I heard the Intel driver from FreeBSD 7 should work so I may compile that and test it one of these days.
I believe a set of tunables and sysctls has 'fixed' this. Or perhaps it's acting like a work-around. Nonetheless, I do not experience this problem currently. I will post the list of tunables and sysctls that I use later today. As soon as I can figure out where these are stored in file on FreeBSD/FreeNAS.
Below is what fixed the issue for me on freenas 8.2 beta4 with intel NIC: this is from http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?1171-Intel-82576-Jumbo-frames-issue-(Supermicro-X8DTH-6F)-with-fix login as root and type enter the following commands: mount -uw / echo kern.ipc.nmbclusters=\"131072\" >> /boot/loader.conf echo hw.igb.num_queues=\"4\" >> /boot/loader.conf sync ; reboot


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Now I think I understand the question. Well, I''m not sure how much chain should be on the mooring. I''m sure someone on here knows better than me. The pull being straight down isn''t a problem, it just means your boat isn''t putting any strain on the mooring system. The mooring mushroom or whatever depends on its weight and being buried in the mud for its holding power. It is not like a typical anchor, such as a Danforth, where you need a shallow angle pull to keep it dug in. Even if it were an anchor, the fact that the chain is dropping straight down means there is no strain on the system so there would be no danger of breaking out. I don''t know if I''ve even come close to addressing your questions!
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Welcome Logistics Exploration & Discovery Introduction Cook (British) Pérouse (French) Vancouver (British) Kotzebue (Russian) Litke (Russian) U.S. Exploring/Wilkes Expedition (American) Overland Expeditions & Early Pioneers Introduction Henry J. Warre Paul Kane John Mix Stanley James Gilchrist Swan Sarah Cheney Willoughby Emerging 20th Century Introduction Cities from a Bird's-Eye-View Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Research Resources Bibliography Endnotes Special Collections Division |
Emerging 20th Century "Work of local artists occupies a large part of the space given over to the exhibition of paintings and craftsmanship at the [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific] exposition, and to those who do not keep informed on the progress that is being made along such lines in the city, the display is a great surprise. It compares favorably with those from other parts of the country and is receiving warm praise." [50] Introduction[51] Within the bookend decades around the turn of the twentieth-century, the visual arts became an established part of Pacific Northwest culture. Artists were living and working here. Wealthy Seattleites, whose money came from banking, law, timber, and railroads, began collecting European, Asian, and some American painting, prints, and sculpture. Arts-minded individuals were forming organizations to exhibit art, some of which was loaned and shown expressly for the purpose of enhancing the cultural sophistication of the community, and some of which was exhibited to sell and to offer arts instruction. Early local magazines, including The Westerner and The Week-End, covered the arts and highlighted the visual arts: local female artists were featured in The Westerner; and European, Eastern United States, and a bit of local visual arts events and artists discussed in The Week-End. Art was presented to the broader community through the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition's exhibitions of international, national and local artists; and graphic-intense keepsake souvenirs could be purchased. At the Exposition, there was a bit of beauty for everyone, part and parcel of the City Beautiful movements sweeping the county. In this twenty-year time period, the expansion of railroad service to the Puget Sound region (Northern Pacific Railroad to Tacoma in 1885 and Great Northern Railroad to Seattle in 1893) and the discovery of gold in Alaska/Yukon,1896, [52] resulted in a tremendous population boom. The influx of people into this region brought artists (and people whose children would become artists), arts patrons, arts appreciators, writers about art, and arts educators. It was, as described by Martha Kingsbury, Art Historian of the Pacific Northwest and professor emerita of the University of Washington, "a growing pocket of civilization." [53] The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition served as a culmination of the exploration and discovery of the Pacific Northwest. It was a grand celebration of the region's geography, industry, people, and culture. It managed to place Seattle within the nation (with United States government exhibits), yet set itself apart with its unique, picturesque scenery (which was wildly marketed in the exhibitions promotional materials) and its role as the gateway to Alaska and to the Orient. The physical exploration and discovery of the Pacific Northwest was complete, but the expansion and development of the greater Seattle and Puget Sound region was still in its infancy. Growing cities and towns in the Pacific Northwest were reproduced in the nationally popular art form, bird's-eye-view maps. Merging factual information with an imaginative bird's-eye perspective allowed artists to document city layout and notable landmarks in a succinct way. Widely distributed and affordable, thanks to lithography (a map cost around $3 to $10 to purchase) the maps are visually delightful and excellent sources of information about urban development. Along with a collection of rare bird's-eye-view maps of Northwest towns and cities and material relating to the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition, Special Collections holds a tremendous depth of historical material relating to the development of the visual arts in this time period, 1890 to 1910. There are monographs, exhibit catalogs, personal papers and organizational records, but there are also uncataloged materials located in the Pamphlet Files--articles about, or obituaries of, artists and arts patrons--that provide a depth and texture for understanding this period's visual culture. There were a great number of artists working in Seattle at this time under radically different circumstances. Some of them were, or are, better known than others and some female artists have been brought to the forefront through the efforts of Museum of History and Industry and the Martin-Zambito Gallery. Helpful Reference Books and Periodicals The week-end. 1906. Seattle: Every Saturday Pub. Co. [1906-1910]. Special Collections has 51 bound volumes of the Week-End Magazine and the Town Crier magazine, spanning years 1906-1933. The title of The Week-End changed to Town Crier in September 1910. The Week-End, according to its title page, was a weekly journal devoted to society, club life, art, music, literature, and the stage. The west shore. 1875. Portland, Or. : [L. Samuel, 1875-1891]. The West Shore magazine (1875-Mar. 1891) was continued by The Illustrated West Shore weekly magazine, which survived only long enough to make 5 issues. Several bird's-eye-views of Pacific Northwest cities and towns were printed in this periodical. Westerner; an interpretation of the west. 1905. [Seattle, The Westerner]. This monthly magazine, covering 1905 to 1912, is a rich source of information about the first decade of the twentieth-century in Seattle. The early issues have a section entitled "Western Women" that highlighted artists such as Harriet Foster Beecher and Ella Shepard Bush. Later in 1909 and 1910, writer and publisher (she was the first woman to run a publishing house), Alice Harriman contributed her thoughts about art in a section titled, "Western Art and Literature." Some early Seattle art collectors, like Horace C. Henry, are profiled in this magazine, although their interest in art is never mentioned. Di Biase, Linda Popp. 1984. Culture at "The end of the line": the arts in Seattle, 1914-1983. Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Los Angeles. This thesis provides a historical overview of theater, music, and the visual arts starting in 1914. Di Biase does provide some information that is relevant prior to that date. Kovinick, Phil, and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. 1998. An encyclopedia of women artists of the American West. American studies series. Austin: University of Texas Press. With a foreword by William H. Goetzmann. Reps, John William. 1984. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. This 570-page volume includes in-depth information about the creation and distribution of birds eye views, biographies of artists, and a comprehensive catalog. Sharylen, Maria. 1993. Artists of the Pacific Northwest: a biographical dictionary, 1600s-1970. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Trip, Dode, and Sherburne F. Cook. 1992. Washington State art and artists, 1850-1950. Olympia, WA: Sherburne Antiques and Fine Art. Library of Congress Subject Heading Searches
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Thank you to the north country communities, families, and friends who supported our Great Strides Walk and Cystic Fibrosis research in the past.
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Decitabine (DAC) w/ or w/o Valproic Acid (VPA) in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
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The goal of this clinical research study is to find out if decitabine, given with or without valproic acid, can help to control AML or MDS. The safety of both treatments will also be studied.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Myelodysplastic Syndrome Acute Myelogenous Leukemia |
Drug: Decitabine Drug: Valproic Acid |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Phase II Randomized Study of Low-Dose Decitabine (5-AZA-2'-Deoxycytidine) With or Without Valproic Acid in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia -"SPORE" |
- Response rates to decitabine with or without valproic acid in MDS and AML. [ Time Frame: 1 Year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Participant Response Durations/Length of Survival [ Time Frame: 1 Year or to disease progression ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 150 |
Study Start Date: | December 2006 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Experimental: Decitabine
Decitabine 20 mg/m^2 intravenous (IV) over 1 hour daily for 5 days.
Drug: Decitabine
20 mg/m^2 IV over 1 hour daily for 5 days.
Other Name: Dacogen
Experimental: Decitabine + Valproic Acid
Decitabine 20 mg/m^2 intravenous (IV) over 1 hour daily for 5 days. Valproic Acid 50 mg/kg orally daily for 7 days.
Drug: Decitabine
20 mg/m^2 IV over 1 hour daily for 5 days.
Other Name: Dacogen
Drug: Valproic Acid
50 mg/kg orally daily for 7 days
Detailed Description:
Decitabine and valproic acid are both designed to cause changes in different groups of proteins that are attached to DNA (the genetic material of cells), which may cause cancer cells to die. Researchers want to see if a combination of valproic acid with decitabine can help improve disease response as well as how long responses last in treating MDS and AML.
If you are found to be eligible to take part in this study, you will be randomly assigned (as in the toss of a coin) to 1 of 2 groups. Participants in one group will receive decitabine. Participants in the other group will receive decitabine and valproic acid. You will have an equal chance of being assigned to either group at first. After 20 participants are enrolled in each group, you will have a greater chance of being assigned to the group that is showing better results.
Participants in both groups will receive decitabine on Day 1 through a central venous catheter (CVC) in a vein over 1 hour each day for 5 days. A central venous catheter is a sterile flexible tube that will be placed into a large vein while you are under local anesthesia. Your doctor will explain this procedure to you in more detail, and you will be required to sign a separate consent form for this procedure. Participants who are assigned to also get valproic acid will take the drug by mouth on Days 1-7 (7 days in a row).
On Day 0 (the day before treatment begins) or on Day 1, you will have a physical exam, including measurement of your vital signs. Blood (about 2 teaspoons) will be drawn on or about Days 0 or 1, 5, and 10 (if your routine blood tests were found to be abnormal) to learn the status of the disease.
Routine blood draws (about 4 teaspoons) will be done 1-2 times weekly for the first cycle and then every 2-4 weeks in further cycles. You will have another bone marrow aspiration to check disease response to treatment, and then you will have one every 1-3 cycles. One (1) cycle of treatment is 4-8 weeks long.
You may remain on this study as long as you are benefitting or up to 2 years after you first achieve a complete response. Your dose level may be decreased depending on the side effects you may experience. However, if the disease gets worse or you experience any intolerable side effects, you will be taken off this study.
This is an investigational study. Decitabine is FDA approved and commercially available for the treatment of MDS. Valproic acid is FDA approved and commercially available for the treatment of seizure disorders. Up to 150 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at MD Anderson.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with MDS and > 5% blasts or IPSS risk intermediate or high; patients with CMML; patients with AML who are age 60 or older. No prior intensive chemotherapy or high-dose ara-C (> 1g/m2). No prior azacytidine for 3 cycles or more or prior decitabine for 2 cycles or more. Prior biologic therapies, targeted therapies, or single agent chemotherapy allowed.Patients must have been off chemotherapy for 2 weeks prior to entering this study and recovered from the toxic effects of that therapy, unless there is evidence of rapidly progressive disease.
- Continued from #1: Hydroxyurea is permitted for control of counts prior to treatment. Procrit, GCSF are allowed before therapy. Procrit, GCSF or other growth factors are permitted on therapy. Use of hydroxyurea with rapidly proliferative disease is allowed for the first two weeks on therapy.
- Performance 0-2 (ECOG). Adequate liver function (bilirubin of < 2mg/dl) and renal function (creatinine < 2mg/dl). Adequate cardiac functions (NYHA cardiac III-IV excluded). ALT < 2.5x institutional upper limit of normal.
- Signed informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Nursing and pregnant females. Patients of childbearing potential should practice effective methods of contraception. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
- Active and uncontrolled infections.
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Known ornithine transcarbamylase disorder.
- Patients requiring continuous valproic acid treatment for the control of seizure disorders.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00414310
United States, Texas | |
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 |
Principal Investigator: | Hagop Kantarjian, MD | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Additional Information:
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00414310 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2006-0686, NCI-2012-01396 |
Study First Received: | December 19, 2006 |
Last Updated: | April 24, 2014 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Decitabine Dacogen 5-AZA Valproic Acid |
Myelodysplastic Syndrome Acute Myelogenous Leukemia MDS AML |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia Leukemia, Myeloid Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Myelodysplastic Syndromes Preleukemia Syndrome Bone Marrow Diseases Disease Hematologic Diseases Neoplasms Neoplasms by Histologic Type Pathologic Processes Precancerous Conditions Decitabine Valproic Acid |
Anticonvulsants Antimanic Agents Antimetabolites Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic Antineoplastic Agents Central Nervous System Agents Central Nervous System Depressants Enzyme Inhibitors GABA Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Neurotransmitter Agents Pharmacologic Actions Physiological Effects of Drugs Psychotropic Drugs Therapeutic Uses |
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Third base has become an increasingly difficult position to fill properly. As an example, Juan Uribe has earned the biggest contract at the position this off-season, recieving $15 million over two years from the Dodgers. As a result, the Cubs may end up having to give their starting third base job to Luis Valbuena, Carrie Muskat of MLB.com suggests.
Valbuena has a career .654 OPS but posted a .708 mark in 2013 along with 12 home runs in 391 trips to the plate. He got the lion's share of the playing time at the position last season. The Cubs' other option is Mike Olt but he struggled with Triple-A Iowa after coming over to the Cubs from the Rangers in the Matt Garza trade.
- nysportsrule - Dec 29, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Well at least my mets have that position locked up.
- nymets4ever - Dec 30, 2013 at 8:26 AM
Word. Looking at some of the dreck that teams around the league are running out there at 3B, it's nice to know we have a future Hall of Famer locked up at the hot corner for years to come…
- oldschoolnflman - Dec 30, 2013 at 3:14 AM
Mike Olt…time to sink or swim? Or is it too early?
- jeffbbf - Dec 30, 2013 at 10:33 AM
whoever it is, seems like just a placeholder for Kris Bryant. Personally, I'd hope for Olt. Maybe he does something worthwhile so he could be traded for a pitcher. Hopefully, just one more crappy year, one more top draft pick, before the kids start helping out
- delusionalcubsfan - Dec 30, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Agreed! Any Cubs fan who's paying attention knows that whoever is at 3rd base in 2014 is just a placeholder for Bryant, who's raking at every level and looking like he's maybe only a season away from holding down the hot corner for a long time. Olt will get a chance to win the job but we won't count on it. I was not happy about Valbuena being the starting 3rd baseman last season but he actually did alright. Pretty good defense and acceptable OBP. He even put up a higher WAR than Aramis Ramirez, Eric Chavez and A-Rod did in 2013! Probably just a backup on a playoff team but for the Cubs in 2014, he'll do.
- sleepyirv - Dec 31, 2013 at 9:30 PM
Valbunea was a great short-term solution for the hot corner. Emphasis on short-term. There are a lot of other options in the organization with the goal to probably move Valbunea to 2nd at some point.
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Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and surface mining. Exclude "Rail Car Repairers" (49-3043) and "Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists" (49-3031).
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Aleddra LED Tube Lamp Brightens up Auburn SuperMall with 50% Less Energy
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RENTON, Wash., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleddra LED Lighting, a business unit of Lightel Technologies, Inc., today announces that its energy-efficient ELED T8 tubes helps Auburn SuperMall, Auburn, WA reduce lighting energy consumption by 52%. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130618/PH33673-a )
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The owners of the Auburn SuperMall (Auburn, WA) are very conscientious of energy consumption and implemented a lighting retrofit upgrade four years ago to cut energy consumption. During recent events, the mall management team learned of Aleddra's LED tube lamp that not only would reduce energy consumption but would also increase lighting levels, something desired by the mall security staff. Facial recognition by security cameras with current lighting was next to impossible. But with the Aleddra LED T8, facial recognition was greatly enhanced. This further validated the decision to use the Aleddra LED T8 to reduce the mall's overall carbon footprint.
"The SuperMall owner is very pleased with the 52.6% energy saving achieved through the Aleddra LED T8 tubes accompanied with occupancy sensors," said Brett Hammond, the project supervisor of LED Solutions Northwest, a division of SeaTac Electric. "We were also very lucky that most of the fixtures used non-shunted tombstones, thus allowing us to install Aleddra's single ended LED T8 for the project. The lighting levels produced by the LED T8 are so incredible that in some of the service areas and utility areas, we were able to replace two of the 28W fluorescent tubes with just one 18W LED tube. Puget Sound Energy approved a rebate that covered nearly half of the material cost."
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Disney will be releasing a special entitled "The Story of Frozen: Making An Animated Disney Classic" on ABC next month. The one-hour special will delve into the Walt Disney Animation Studios and see the work of the creative team that produced the blockbuster film as well as appearances by voice-stars Kristin Bell and Idina Menzel and what the next steps will be in the "frozen" universe. Additionally, ABC/Disney will provide a preview of "Frozen" characters Anna, Elsa and Kristoff on the ABC show "Once Upon A Time" and conclude with a sneak peek at the upcoming Disney movie "Big Hero 6".
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If your children won the lottery or came in to a large amount of money would you expect them to give you money or pay some bills for you?
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Theo's closed many years ago, too many for me to remember, but this pizza I never forget. I only enjoyed this delicious pizza a few times, but it was so different and delicious, that when they closed, I knew I needed to try making this myself.
Delicious but Not really Theo's Submarine Sandwich Pizza
425 degree oven
1 pound of pizza crust dough (I am using the parsley and garlic dough found here, but Theo's used a plain dough)
1/2 c favorite pizza sauce
8-10 slices honey ham, deli style
12-14 slices dry salami
8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 large green pepper
1 large tomato
thinly sliced Peperoncini
On a cornmeal sprinkled surface press and pat dough out to about a 12 inch pizza size. I wanted to be able to slide the raw pizza onto the pizza stone heating up in the oven.
Cover with the sauce and get ready to layer on the flavor.
....and gently make sure the pizza crust has not begun to stick. Slide a large flat turner around the edge of the dough.
Take the cutting board to the oven, and slide the assembled pizza onto the hot stone baker. I did have to assist in the movement, but after a gentle nudge, the whole pie slide gently off the board and onto the stone.
Bake 20 minutes or until golden.
Remove from the oven, and let cool a minute (or 5 this stuff is hot!), slide back onto the cutting board. Add thinly sliced tomatoes and Pepperoni garnish. Cut and serve! Yum is all I can say.
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Why is free speech necessary for a free society? As Deirdre McCloskey, an economist, historian, and rhetorician, explains, persuasion is the only alternative to violence. A free society is a speaking, rather than violent, society.
The all-girl Russian punk band, which in February pulled its juvenile, blasphemous stunt on the ambon of one of Russian Orthodoxy's holiest places of worship, has generated an unending stream of twaddle from so many commentators who betray a deep, willfully ignorant grasp of Christianity and a perfectly secular mindset.
Commentator Dmitry Babich on the Voice of Russia observed that "the three female members of the group, who called the Patriarch 'a bitch' and 'the God's excrement' in the holiest of the holy (the altar of Russia's main Orthodox cathedral), were lionized by nearly all Western press."
Did the band members deserve two years in prison? No — a massive over reaction. But imagine if the girls had pulled their punk-stunt in the United States in, say, a mosque or a synagogue or a liberal church, and directed that kind of language at the minister or imam. How would the Western media have reacted? (Even so, they might have qualified for a National Endowment for the Arts grant).
Peter Hitchens points out in "Pussy Riot and Selective Outrage" that the exhibitionists who staged this little exercise in "protest" weren't just interested in free speech: (more…)
An update on my post about "Canada's Faltering Freedom" a few weeks ago: Common sense seems to have prevailed up north, as Canada's human rights commission dismissed a complaint against journalist Mark Steyn for comments made about Islam, while the same body cleared a Catholic magazine of wrongdoing for its comments about homosexuality.
Rightfully, religious leaders in Canada are not relaxing in the wake of these minor victories. Citing other abuses by provincial human rights panels, Calgary's Bishop Frederick Henry is leading a charge for reforming Alberta's—and the nation's—human rights commissions. Godspeed, bishop.
The problem is not unique to Canada, nor entirely absent from the US, but our neighbors to the north seem to be doing their best at the moment to lead the so-called free world in denying what Americans call the First Amendment rights (speech, religion, etc.). In fact, the Canadian government's quashing of the expression of opinion—executed through its "human rights commission"—is downright frightening. It is trite to describe this kind of thing as Orwellian, but that's what it is.
In Canada and elsewhere, the unpopular opinions most in danger of being declared verboten tend to revolve around two issues: Islam and homosexuality.
The case of Mark Steyn, in hot water for criticizing Islam, has gotten some press, because he's a well-known writer attached to powerful friends. See here and here.
This recent piece by David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen recounts some other cases, equally disturbing, which have gone less remarked.
In today's Wall Street Journal, Rep. Peter Hoekstra discusses the impending release of Fitna, a short film highly critical of Islam, by Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament. Hoekstra:
Radical jihadists are prepared to use violence against individuals to stop them from exercising their free speech rights. In some countries, converting a Muslim to another faith is a crime punishable by death. While Muslim clerics are free to preach and proselytize in the West, some Muslim nations severely restrict or forbid other faiths to do so. In addition, moderate Muslims around the world have been deemed apostates and enemies by radical jihadists.
Radical jihadists believe representative government is un-Islamic, and urge Muslims who live in democracies not to exercise their right to vote. The reason is not hard to understand: When given a choice, most Muslims reject the extreme approach to Islam. This was recently demonstrated in Iraq's Anbar Province, which went from an al-Qaeda stronghold to an area supporting the U.S.-led coalition. This happened because the populace came to intensely dislike the fanatical ways of the radicals, which included cutting off fingers of anyone caught smoking a cigarette, 4 p.m. curfews, beatings and beheadings. There also were forced marriages between foreign-born al Qaeda fighters and local Sunni women.
Read all of "Islam and Free Speech" here.
Via Slashdot, news comes today that Google's next shareholders meeting will feature a vote on a shareholder resolution to protect free speech and combat censorship by intrusive governments.
According to the proxy statement, Proposal Number 5 would require the recognition of "minimum standards," including, that "the company will use all legal means to resist demands for censorship. The company will only comply with such demands if required to do so through legally binding procedures," and that "the company will not engage in pro-active censorship."
Part of the basis cited for the proposal is the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declares that the "advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people."
One of the specific provisions of the declaration related to freedom of speech is Article 19: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
It's pretty clear that China's censorship practices, which include a so-called "great firewall," violate this provision.
I'm curious to see how this resolution fares and how the directors, especially considering that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has said that the company's cooperation with China "a net negative." External considerations might also be at play, given the potential for legislation like the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007 to regulate the activities of companies like Google.
According to The Church Report, a new resource has been released which offers churches guidelines for keeping their activities and functions within the letter of the law. As non-profit organizations, churches are held to the same standard as registered charities and cannot engage in certain forms of public speech.
A report by The Rutherford Institute, "The Rights of Churches and Political Involvement" (PDF), examines in detail what the restrictions are for churches. There are two main areas: "first, no substantial part of the organization's activities may consist of carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation; and second, the organization may not participate in political campaigning in opposition to, or on behalf of, any candidate for public office." For the purposes of this discussion, I'm going to focus on the former case rather than the latter, since I take it for granted that churches shouldn't be institutionally involved in campaigning for a specific candidate. For more on this second aspect of the law, see this post on the use of church directories by political parties, passed on by Joe Carter.
In its summary of the first type of restriction, the report states:
In short, only one reported court decision has found a religious organization in violation of section 501(c)(3) by engaging in "substantial" legislative activities. The IRS, however, refuses to abide by any precise standards, such as a percentage rule, to measure when "substantial" legislative activities have occurred. Hence, a church or religious organization seeking to acquire or maintain a tax-exempt status must be aware that there is always some risk that its attempt to influence legislation will prompt the IRS to pursue an audit and perhaps even revoke its tax-exempt status.
It goes on to say that "one risk adverse approach might be for a church to report pending legislation to church members, without proposing, supporting or opposing any legislation."
The bottom line seems to be this: "Tax exemptions for churches and religious organizations are a privilege and not a constitutional right. In fact, to acquire and maintain this privilege, churches and religious organizations may have to forsake heretofore protected constitutional rights under the First Amendment."
This means that if it is something that is germane to the proclamation of the gospel, a church must be willing to lose its tax-exempt status. The government could potentially use tax-free status as leverage to keep churches quiet about political activity. If the pastor and consistory feel that the issue is one of religious imperative, something like a status confessionis, the church must resist the temptation to impose restrictions on its own speech in the interest of maintaining a privileged position.
This clearly calls for prudence and wisdom on the part of the church leadership. I'm not suggesting that churches simply cast off their tax-exempt status on a whim. But when the issue comes down to one of keeping silent over clear moral evils or losing their special status, churches must choose the latter. Their ultimate allegiance must be to Christ and not Caesar.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the context of the enforcement of the Aryan clauses prohibiting pastors of Jewish heritage from ministry in the state churches, writes of the rare instance in which the church must "put a spoke in the wheel itself." In his essay, "The Church and the Jewish Question," he says, "Such action would be direct political action, and is only possible and desirable when the church sees the state fail in its function of creating law and order, i.e. when it sees the state unrestrainedly bring about too much or too little law and order. In both these cases it must see the existence of the state, and with it its own existence, threatened."
He continues to argue that "there would be too little law if any group of subjects were deprived of their rights, too much where the state intervened in the character of the church and its proclamation, e.g. in the forced exclusion of baptised Jews from our Christian congregations or in the prohibition of our mission to the Jews. Here the Christian church would find itself in statu confessionis and here the state would be in the act of negating itself. A state which includes within itself a terrorised church has lost its most faithful servant."
One such instance of the state making "too much law" and intervening "in the character of the church and its proclamation" would be the criminalization of certain types of speech as hateful or offensive.
The European press and the blogosphere have been full of stories over the last few days about the controversy started by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. There's enough material out there that readers of the Acton blog don't need a full run-down here. (See, for example, the Brussels Journal and Michelle Malkin.)
But since the issue concerns both religion and liberty, how can we not address it?
Yes, there is a right to free speech, which certainly includes the right to examine and criticize religious opinions and beliefs.
Christians are certainly used to having their beliefs examined publicly, if not caricatured and mocked, and there are several Christian groups who organize letter-writing campaigns and boycotts in response to those who cross the line of decency and respect.
But the reaction of some Muslim groups has been much more violent and is intensifying. The cartoons of Mohammed that are causing all the uproar do not seem to me to be all that shocking, but it's clear that many Muslims are offended by any portayal of their prophet.
What's missing from this debate is some kind of normative standards for civil discourse, something which has been missing from the Western media for some time. The right to free speech is not absolute; recall Lord Acton's definition of the proper use of liberty, doing what one ought. And religious believers have a special obligation to treat others charitably, even and sometimes especially those who disagree with us.
Now, I am NOT arguing for any kind of government control of what is or is not decent or respectful, and I refuse to put these words in ironic "smart quotes" because I believe that decency and respect actually do exist. But a free and virtuous society definitely requires citizens and media who are able to regulate and restrain themselves. I personally find it hard to pick a side in this controversy. Sometimes the civil libertarians can be just as fanatical as the Islamists.


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Reduced expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type-1 alpha and growth-restricted in human preeclamptic placentas
UNSPECIFIED. (2003) Reduced expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type-1 alpha and growth-restricted in human preeclamptic placentas. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM, 88 (1). pp. 363-370. ISSN 0021-972X
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Placentally derived CRH seems to play a major role in the mechanisms controlling human pregnancy and parturition, via activation of specific receptors widespread in reproductive tissues. In the human placenta, CRH seems to modulate vasodilation, prostaglandin production, and ACTH secretion. It has also been suggested that CRH might act as a placental clock, determining the length of gestation. In addition, maternal plasma CRH concentrations are further elevated in pregnancies associated with abnormal placental function, such as preeclampsia and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR).
In this study, we sought to investigate the expression of CRH-R1alpha levels in placentas from women who have undergone normal deliveries (control group) and patients who have been diagnosed as having preeclampsia or IUGR. Results showed that placental CRH-R1alpha mRNA levels (as shown by quantitative RT-PCR) and protein levels (shown by Western blotting analysis) were significantly (P < 0.05) reduced in all of the complicated pregnancies. In contrast, levels of the angiotensin II receptor were elevated in preeclampsia and reduced in IUGR subjects, as shown by RT-PCR and Western blotting analysis. These findings might suggest that changes in receptor expression may contribute toward dysregulation of the dynamic balance controlling vascular resistance.
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Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM |
Publisher: | ENDOCRINE SOC |
Official Date: | January 2003 |
Volume: | 88 |
Number: | 1 |
Number of Pages: | 8 |
Page Range: | pp. 363-370 |
Identification Number: | 10.1210/jc.2002-020375 |
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OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, April 1st, By Appointment. One of the most notable landmark limestone townhouses on Sugar Hill is up for sale at an asking of $1.95 million. The 18-foot-wide, 2-family building at 722 St. Nicholas Avenue is up on the market and has reportedly over 5,000 square foot altogether. Current leases expire in the spring so this one can easily be converted into a one family if needed and the location is just right by the express trains on 145th Street. Check out more photos of the moderately renovated interior and get contact information at the owner's website for the house: LINKs
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It is a great idea to have a special section on gardens since the brownstone backyard in particular can be such an awkward space to make as glorious as the people in this post have made theirs. Perhaps also highlighting the greenspaces of Harlem, including the pocket gardens would also be worthwhile and might encourage more community engagement.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing, announced today the completion of the acquisition of Olympus' lab-based diagnostics business. This acquisition, first announced in February, extends Beckman Coulter's leadership position in Chemistry and Automation.
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Scott Garrett, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "The completion of this transaction adds considerable product depth and significantly expands our geographic reach and scale. We are confident that the combination of Olympus diagnostics with our business will provide many cross-selling opportunities -- the most compelling being promotion of Beckman Coulter's leading Immunoassay products to the loyal base of Olympus' chemistry customers.
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Chappell, Nick A. and Chen, Yongqin David and Suhaimi, Jadda and Bonell, Mike (2008) Climate regulation of humid tropical hydrology. In: Sustainable Hydrology for the 21st Century. Proc. 10th BHS National Hydrology Symposium, Exeter. British Hydrological Society, pp. 172-177. ISBN 1903741165
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The hydrology of humid tropical regions such as South-east Asia is strongly affected by climatic phenomena having important periodicities ranging from hours to decades. This papers describes how temporal climatic features influence canopy hydrology, runoff processes and water quality in the humid tropics. Emphasis is given to hydrologcal studies from South-east Asia, a region impacted by cyclonic, convective and stratiform rainfall, strong diurnal cycles in net radiation, and rainfall cycles resulting from monsoons and the El Nino - Southern Oscillation. Understanding how natural climate cycles affect hydrology is a necessary precursor to understanding how man-made climatic changes might influence tropical water resources.
Item Type: | Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > Q Science (General) |
Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre |
ID Code: | 40000 |
Deposited By: | Dr Nick A. Chappell |
Deposited On: | 06 Apr 2011 08:57 |
Refereed?: | No |
Published?: | Published |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2015 20:42 |
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URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/40000 |
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