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I'm a real fan of blowing things up and starting over. The words I hate, even more than "and that loss eliminates the Cleveland Indians from postseason contention" are "we've always done it this way."
That's why I'm a big fan of In the Loop, MPR's new program that believes in taking a different look at things, and involving people in our vast audience in storytelling. It's not that I'm against pointyheads and serious sobering discussion, a longtime staple of public radio, of course. It's just that I think it's OK to consider weighty issues in different ways, ways in which I don't feel a sense of despair afterwards.
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you.
So it's cool that The Loop this month — and just in the nick of time if you ask me — swooped in and took on the sacred cow: politics. Now a disclaimer: Jeff Horwich and Sanden Totten — the big Loop dudes — asked Mike Mulcahy and me to share our thoughts on what a different approach might look like. They then had the good sense not to use my cockamamie ideas.
Which is good, since they weren't any better than this lineup:
Tom Scheck's look at "trackers"
There was more in this week's show than I got around to posting, but the Loop doesn't really have a completely functioning Web site yet.
You can hear the show tonight at 9 or download an mp3 version on their current page, however.


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Imagine a scientist gently swabs your left nostril with a Q-tip and finds that your nose contains hundreds of species of bacteria. That in itself is no surprise; each of us is home to some 100 trillion microbes. But then she makes an interesting discovery: in your nose is a previously unknown species that produces a powerful new antibiotic. Her university licenses it to a pharmaceutical company; it hits the market and earns hundreds of millions of dollars. Do you deserve a cut of the profits?
It is a tricky question, because it defies our traditional notions of property and justice. You were not born with the germ in your nose; at some point in your life, it infected you. On the other hand, that microbe may be able to grow and reproduce only in a human nose. You provided it with an essential shelter. And its antibiotics may help keep you healthy, by killing disease-causing germs that attempt to invade your nose.
Welcome to the confusing new frontier of ethics: our inner ecosystem. In recent years, scientists have discovered remarkable complexity and power in the microbes that live inside us. We depend on this so-called microbiome for our well-being: it helps break down our food, synthesize vitamins and shield against disease-causing germs.
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Well as befitting our 25th anniversary we decided to take the ride of potential death!!!!
we went on Safari with a mad driver named Dennis (the menance!). He drove like Satan!
Jamaica is fantastic, the weather is very warm but overcast. Starting early morning we traversed up the mountain through tropical forest namely Fern Valley and Murphy Hill. Mick Jagger has a summer home on this mountain range - very nice too!
At the half way mark we had a break to enjoy some tropical fresh fruits and of course some """"cough medicine""""" name rum punch - in a plastic water carrier.....definitely suspect... it was found to be 105% proof and definitely no naked flames were allowed anywhere near
After travelling back with Dennis the Menace we decided on a quick shower and change and out for shopping - this was quickly done inorder to sample a little rum!!! Gerry was extremely tired after a seemingly small (vlarge) plantation rum mix..he slept for 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and was still feeling the affects of it a couple of hours later!!!!
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I have a 1O month old male norwegian forest cat,he tends to enjoy kneeding my throw pillows on the couch,an purrs and it seems to arouse him where he goes through spurts of "masturbation" while hes kneeding..h does this often and Im not sure what to do about it.I feel its becaue I have not gotten him neutered yet..but I dont want to embarrasse him and make him feel bad about it,so I try to ignore it,And he goes everyday meowing for hours a around the house.and Iam trying to follow what my local vet said as per her instructions to not let him outside because hes not neutered.also he is consistantly clawing at my walls,doorways,cabinitry and mirrors.its very annoying..what could I do to stop this behaviour?
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First of all, a cat is not capable of being "embarrassed" What he is doing is undesirable and should be discouraged. It is normal for cats to kneed on pillows or blankets or even their human's lap when content and comfortable. It is not normal for them to become "aroused" by the behavior. But the simple solution is that your cat needs to be neutered before the behavior escalates to marking and peeing all over your house. There is nothing else that you can do to stop him except to schedule his neutering as soon as possible. For the clawing, you need to keep his claws trimmed and provide him with a cat tree or other proper place to claw. Cats need to stretch and sharpen their claws and can be taught to do it properly. When you see him clawing a wall, etc, scold him and redirect him to the cat tree. You can also ask your vet about "soft paws" which are plastic caps that they glue on the claws to prevent them from doing any damage.
Allie answered on 1/25/12. Helpful? / 0
Unless you are a professional breeder who plans to breed this cat, or send him out to stud, you need to get him neutered as soon as you can. When an intact male or female cat is being controlled by ancient mating instincts and hormones, I've seen them claw and chew their way through walls to get out. If he does get out, you may never see him again. Having him neutered stops too many behaviors and health risks to list here. It's not a magical cure-all, but can definitely alleviate the behaviors you have written about. Realistically, embarrassment is not something that domestic animals display unless we assign that emotion to them by giving them human characteristics. Your cat also will not "hold it against" you if you have him desexed. You will be keeping him healthier by removing the threat of male cancer. You have no chance of stopping this behavior until you have him desexed, and the longer you wait and the more sexually mature he becomes, the longer it will take.
Izadore (Izzie) answered on 1/25/12. Helpful? / 0
Have him neutered NOW, please. Neutering is a cheap and simple surgery. There is no good reason for letting a cat go unsexed, unless you are a breeder and prepared to deal with vicious spray odors and the like. My neutered boys like to knead and yes, they have the occasional erection. This is not due to an incomplete surgery, but to instinct. Do get over your icky poo response to feline sexuality. As to whether or not removal of the testes prevents cancer, more than one vet has opined that cats without testicles are unlikely to get testicular cancer. Worry about future health problems is less of an issue at this point than is the worry that your kitty could spray or escape. Have him neutered.
Harvard answered on 1/25/12. Helpful? / 0
The most simple answer would be to have him neutered. I think that would stop most of this behavior. Desexing a cat helps them to live longer & live a more happier life.
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Almost twelve years ago my beloved president George Bush wanted to save me from terrorists who sought to rape my wife and daughters and then to blow up my house. I was told that unless American troops invaded Iraq and destroyed Weapons Of Mass destruction they soon would fall on my head. I was told the FBI and dozens of other agencies including Homeland Security had to possess the right to check on which books I checked out of the library in order to preserve the freedom of America. Frankly, I was rather pleased to learn that what I read was important to all Americans.
Now, the liberal defender or American values, one, Barack Obama, informs me that he had to know which phone calls I made or received. Frankly, I did not realize when receiving phone calls about a cruise that the FBI, the NSC, the CIA or Homeland Security just HAD to know my cruise destination in order to preserve freedom in this nation. OK, let me make clear that I will not, under any conditions, take any trip anywhere without first informing the American government of my destination. I also intend to contact al-Qeada to make clear they know my destination. Perhaps, the FBI and al-Qaeda could coordinate their actions regarding me.


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Asset management companies namely Reliance Asset Management, HDFC Asset Management and Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, have successfully led the investor awareness programme so far in the current financial year, according to data available with the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).
Reliance Asset Management have had 61,792 participants in its awareness programme, while HDFC and Kotak had 34,888 and 20,556 respectively.
The mutual funds association, which has recently got down to compile data on the investor awareness programme (IAP), revealed that 80% of these programmes are being conducted in B-15 cities in the top 15 towns of the country, categorised as B-15.
However, with AMCs, which are looking to increase their penetration and go beyond the B-15, would now have to take the initiative even in the smaller towns.
"Financial awareness is key to informed investing and we see it as a stepping stone to financial security. And, a large part of our awareness initiatives are aimed at encouraging investors in semi-urban and rural areas to participate in the India growth story," said Sundeep Sikka, CEO, Reliance Capital Asset Management, which had overall two lakh participants in the awareness programmes.
However, industry sources said AMCs would be under pressure. "The AMCs will now have to conduct such programmes even in smaller towns, where level of awareness is even lower," an official source told HT.


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Christina Johnson, a police officer for Olmsted Township who was fired for crawling into a stranger's car while highly intoxicated and then passing out, will have the chance to convince a jury that she suffered discrimination.
Johnson was off duty during the episode, but was wearing her uniform sweater. The township asked for her resignation for violating the department's standards of conduct, which allow for discipline up to "termination if public image is severely damaged."
Johnson resigned, but later sued, claiming that male officers had committed more serious misconduct without being terminated.
One officer had received a one-day suspension for drinking while driving a city vehicle, resulting in damage to city property. Another officer had been accused of being under the influence of alcohol while driving a car with weapons in the trunk. The officer allegedly drove the car into a tree and abandoned it in a park. The department investigated these incidents but found no wrongdoing.
A court hearing pretrial motions in Johnson's case allowed the suit to proceed to trial. The court found that while the department's discipline was in line with its written policies, Johnson raised legitimate questions as to whether it was applying its policies evenly.
Note: In deciding discrimination cases, courts consider not only whether your actions are fair and follow policies, but also whether you're applying them equally to all employees.
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Children's National provides a wide range of clinical services and specialties dedicated to improving children's health.
The AIDS epidemic still claims an estimated 2 million lives each year, of which about 270,000 are children. The Washington, DC area leads the nation with one of the highest infection rates. Children's National clinicians and staff play an important role in the treatment of those with the disease, and in changing the way our community thinks about HIV/AIDS by clearing up misconceptions and discouraging stigma and discrimination.
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Currently the bulk of fingerprint data in operational is captured, processed and stored at 500 ppi using the WSQ compressed digital format. With the transition to 1000 ppi, some systems will unavoidably contain an overlap between 500 ppi and 1000 ppi operational pathways. This overlap may be a result of legacy infrastructure limitations, or some other financial or logistical reason. Additionally, there will still be a need to compare newly collected 1000 ppi images against legacy 500 ppi images, for both one‐to‐one and one‐to‐many scenarios. To create a bridge between legacy and modern data there needs to be a pathway for interoperability of legacy and modern data on equal footing by converting one of the images to the same resolution as the other. Downsampling of the higher resolution 1000 ppi imagery to 500 ppi provides this pathway. The study compares several computational methods for downsampling of modern fingerprint images from 1000 ppi to 500 ppi. These treatments include pixel averaging, decimation, transcoding directly from the JPEG2000 codestream, Gaussian filtering and spectral truncation. Fidelity of downsampled 1000 ppi images relative to corresponding prints scanned natively at 500 ppi is evaluated via scoring by expert fingerprint examiners, an automated machine matcher, RMS differences and correlation of spectra. Gaussian low‐pass filtering (σ = 0.8475, r = 4) combined with decimation emerged as the optimal downsampling strategy with respect to image fidelity when gauged by several different ranking strategies. Transcode methods involving selective decoding of JPEG2000 images so as to discard the highest resolution decomposition level yielded 500 ppi images that were not of optimal quality but were processed at considerably higher speed due to greater computational efficiency of such transcode algorithms making these methods attractive in a tradeoff between image fidelity vs. sheer computational throughput.
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As the needs for data preservation continually evolve, new standards for storing that data online and in other digital formats continues to evolve with those needs. The largest problem with digital data storage lies with the recovery of that data and its translation into a human readable format. Any information stored in an unsupported format is effectively lost without means of retrieval and interpretation.
Future efforts to preserve information online will need to conform to a number of standards, including hardware access, platform dependence, and copyright ownership. The last is the most important, as copyright law applies to the information storage formats as well as to the information itself. In order to preserve information in any kind of format, the preservationist requires the legal right to access and reproduce that information. Since digital information is stored in lines of computer code subject to interpretation by other code, any preservation effort must reproduce the information retrieval program as well as the information. For example, a PDF document is useless without the software to read the file.
The next step up the chain is the operating system that runs the information retrieval software. Just as the information is useless without software to read and display that information, any interpretive software is useless without a compatible operating system on which it may run. Increasing options exist for platform independent software, allowing a given program to run on many different operating systems. One popular example is the Java language, which functions across multiple operating systems
Finally, all of the software and data must have hardware capable of physically reading, executing, and displaying the final product. As technology develops, hardware standards change at the same pace as its companion software. Both hardware and software must be developed simultaneously to ensure an unbroken chain of information.
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Rabbi Yonassan Gershom's continuing mission: to find a publisher for "Jewish Themes in 'Star Trek' (Where No Rabbi Has Gone Before!)" His goal: to use the mother of all sci-fi franchises to teach people about Judaism.
Though Reform rabbi Andrew Bossov and Methodist reverend Karen Onesti may have their theological differences, they can now claim at least one vital bond. Bossov, 47, successfully received one of Onesti's kidneys during an urgent January 23 organ transplant at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Both patients are now back in their hometown of Mount Laurel, N.J., recovering.
Whether you are a devotee of basketball coach Bob Knight, a native Indianan or even a historian of the Midwest, nobody today quite knows the origin of the word "hoosier." But a few Jewish a cappella singers at Indiana University have provided their own meaning — and landed a White House holiday gig along the way.
The canvases lining Ted Meyer's studio seem too small for their contents. The jumbled skeletons they depict, upside-down and askew, resemble boxes full of bones dug up by an archaeologist and haphazardly stowed away for later scrutiny.
In a recent telephone survey, researchers presented the following set of symptoms to hundreds of hematologists and oncologists from around the world: A 42-year-old man has complaints of chronic fatigue and bone pain, while suffering from a low blood-platelet count and an enlarged liver and spleen.
"Absolutely marvelous news in the world of vodka!" read a press release issued by the Orthodox Union late last month.
Magician and stunt artist David Blaine has executed many seemingly impossible feats - burying himself alive for a week, settling into a glass chamber dangling above the River Thames in London, huddling in an ice locker for some 60 hours - but his newest challenge may be too much even for him. This past Tuesday morning, Blaine arrived in Israel, a place where danger is no mere illusion.
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is known for many things: classic casual apparel, fresh-faced half-naked models, and gorgeously photographed catalogs combining those two elements. But, for the past year, Abercrombie has been selling something that doesn't have a price tag: tolerance.
In the first passage of a grade-school primer called "The Little Midrash Says," Moses assembles the Children of Israel one last time before his death to make a speech, because he knows he will not survive their trek to the promised land. "I will repeat the Torah and mitzvos to them, and I will make sure they learn them well," he decides — and then he repeats the Torah and the Commandments so many times that it takes him 36 days to finish his speech.


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KINGSTON, N.Y. -- The Hudson River Maritime Museum at the city's Rondout Creek waterfront kicks off this weekend's official opening for the season with a gala preview party on Friday.
The museum, at 50 Rondout Landing, opens its doors to the public for the 2012 season at 11 a.m. Saturday.
"The preview opening ... gives museum members and friends a chance to gather in the museum's galleries and review the accomplishments of staff, board (members) and volunteers over the past six months we have been closed," said Lana Chassman, a museum spokeswoman.
"As we open to the public for the ... season on Saturday, I must say that the museum has never looked better," Chassman added.
The museum will remain open until Nov. 4. Its hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.
And beginning June 6, the museum will be open until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays for "those who want to "rendezvous on the Rondout, enjoy dinner, take a creekside stroll and visit the museum and gift shop," according to a museum press release.
An exhibit at the museum called "The Face of Work Today in the Hudson Valley," sponsored by Ulster Savings Bank, is a continuation of an exhibit last year at the museum with the addition of "thought-provoking themes and images of work spanning into the 21st century," the release states.
Another featured exhibit, called "The Tugs," takes advantage of some of the museum's archival boat models and photographs depicting the tug industry.
A third exhibit, "Fishing the Hudson," includes fishing equipment, archival photographs and information about the declining shad population.
Museum officials say visitors to the museum also will notice several cosmetic changes: new windows and carpeting, as well as freshly painted walls in the gift shop.
Outside the building, docks on the Rondout Creek have been reinstalled, window boxes have flowers growing in them, and the courtyard garden has been freshly pruned and mulched by volunteers.
The museum's 2012 season will feature lectures, events and other offerings.� For more information, go to www.hrmm.org or call (845) 338-0071.


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Athletes of the Week
Posted March 07, 2014
Yasmeen Afifi
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The junior center helped the Gators win twice in the CCS Division IV basketball playoffs with 12 points, 14 rebounds and 12 blocks against Pacific Grove plus 19 points, nine boards and one block against Mercy-SF.
Cadence Lee
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The senior overcame illness and went undefeated in five matches while winning the 106-pound division at the CIF State Girls Wrestling Championships, winning three matches by pin to capture her second state title.
Tierna DavidsonSacred Heart Prep soccer
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Intel Z87 Motherboard Overclocking
If you've read some of my previous Z87 motherboard reviews, these clock and voltage figures will look very familiar, and reinforce my opinion that I'm limited by the 4770L rather than the motherboard.
Now, normally I'm a fan of manual overclocking, since it remains superior to any automated method for getting the last bit of performance out of your system. However, I found manual overclocking to be much more difficult to do on this motherboard than I have on third-party motherboards, where a CPU voltage boost and an increased multiplier are generally the work of a minute or so, followed by stability testing. With the DZ87KLT-75K, the same process required tweaking many more, sometimes obscure, settings.
Above is the main "performance" screen, which is where you'll wind up if you plan to overclock this board. Intel tries to show the relationship among the various clocks and voltages with arrows and lines, but the visual impression remains confusing.
Depending on which pane/subpane you click on on the left side of the screen, the right side will change to show you settings and options for that item. Sometimes the item on the left you selected is highlighted; sometimes it's not. Sometimes there are weird default values. For example, see the "Input Voltage" section at the top right? In this shot it's 1.8 volts, but the default value this screen shows is zero volts. I still haven't figured that one out yet.
The inconsistencies continue: after setting the overclock parameters, returning to the main screen shows the correct 4.4GHz clock speed, but the quick clock speed adjustment slider is slammed all the way to the left.
Again, zero values for the default settings in the BIOS. This is what you will see if you reset the BIOS to its defaults, then go into the "Performance" section to start overclocking. The correct voltage values will instantly appear if you touch the sliders, but the initial zero settings can be quite confusing.
Even setting aside some of the user interface niggles, overclocking this board was a lot of work. I had to specifically set ring clock and voltage settings, independently of the CPU clock and voltage settings, in order to achieve a stable overclock. Now, granted that Haswell's integrated ring voltage regulator is a new feature, and I wouldn't complain about this had this been the first Z87 motherboard I'd looked at, but I didn't have to do this on any of the three other Z87 motherboards I've looked at in the past few weeks. Perhaps the other motherboards adjust these parameters automatically? I don't know, but I do know they were a lot easier to overclock. Without the 17-page overclocking guide Intel provided on their press site, I wouldn't have had much luck.
I'll give my final thoughts and conclusion on this motherboard in the next section.


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By Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY
ANAHEIM, Calif. For years the Los Angeles Angels have driven opponents batty with a small-ball attack that features lots of base stealing, hitting-and-running and taking the extra base at every chance.
Such death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts tactics were on display again Friday night in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.
GAME REPORT: Angels 4, Red Sox 1
ALDS MATCHUP: Angels-Red Sox (Angels lead 2-0)
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But the Boston Red Sox found out the definition of small-ball also extends to some of the Angels' pint-sized infielders, who played a big role in a 4-1 victory that put Los Angeles on the verge of knocking off its playoff nemesis and advancing to the AL Championship Series.
Second baseman Maicer Izturis and shortstop Erick Aybar delivered clutch RBI hits in a pivotal seventh-inning rally against ace Josh Beckett, and Jered Weaver pitched 7 1/3 innings of two-hit ball as the Angels took a 2-0 lead in the series.
Since the current playoff format was implemented in 1995, teams going up 2-0 in the Division Series have won it 31 of 35 times.
"We have to keep putting the pressure on," Angels center fielder Torii Hunter said. "You have to kick somebody when they're down, because if we were down 2-0, trust me, they would kick us too."
After losing nine of 10 games in three previous ALDS encounters with the Red Sox since 2004, the Angels get two chances to close out the series at Fenway Park and, at worst, would host a Game 5 at Angel Stadium.
"I feel good about our club because we're playing better baseball than I think a lot of people have seen us play before in the playoffs," said manager Mike Scioscia, whose club had gone 5-15 in the postseason since winning the 2002 World Series.
The Angels had snapped a five-game home losing streak in the playoffs the night before, and then went about making sure they preserved their homefield advantage by defeating Beckett, who had won his previous six postseason decisions.
He and Weaver were engaged in a 1-1 duel through six innings, until the Angels broke through in an unlikely fashion.
Cleanup hitter Vladimir Guerrero, typically a free swinger, worked a five-pitch walk off Beckett to lead off the seventh, getting the Angels dugout pumped.
"We were jumping up and down like he hit a homer," Hunter said. "Vladdy was taking pitches, working the count. We're going like, 'What the heck is going on?'"
Howie Kendrick pinch-ran for Guerrero and stole second one out later. After Juan Rivera grounded out to third, up stepped the 5-foot-8 Izturis, just the right man for the occasion.
Really. Not only is Izturis a .327 career hitter with runners in scoring position, but he came in with a .370 mark (10-for-27) off Beckett.
Izturis jumped on a Beckett curveball and stroked it to center for a tiebreaking single.
"I was trying to hit the ball up the middle because in my first two times up I was trying to pull too much," Izturis said, "so I had to make an adjustment."
After Mike Napoli was hit by a pitch, Aybar belted a two-run triple over center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury's head, giving the Angels a comfortable lead.
Weaver and the bullpen took care of the rest. Just like John Lackey the night before, Weaver pitched the longest playoff outing of his career, shutting down Boston's potent attack with an assortment of pinpoint fastballs and changeups.
"Fastball command was huge, and being able to put some off-speed pitches in for strikes on fastball counts was big," Weaver said.
The fourth-year right-hander, who won a career-high 16 games this season, allowed his only two hits in the fourth, when Ellsbury led off with a triple and scored on a Victor Martinez single. The run snapped a stretch of 20 consecutive scoreless innings for the Red Sox, dating back to last year's ALCS.
Cleanup hitter Kevin Youkilis said the Red Sox have been putting some good swings on the ball with nothing to show for it, but also gave credit to the L.A. pitchers. Boston is hitting .131 with only two extra-base hits in the series.
"(Weaver) manipulates the ball," Youkilis said. "He threw a lot more changeups probably than usual. He's one of those guys that hits the corners, and he pitched well tonight."
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st: Testing Equality of Coefficients from two regressions
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st: Testing Equality of Coefficients from two regressions
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:53:01 +0300
Dear Statalisters,
I have the following problem but couldnt solved it quite sometime. I have a
panel data set consists of 30 countries and 17 years. I have performed
several tests (such as Hausman test, Breush-Pagan test, autocorrelation
test, and and heteroskedasticity test) that indicate XTGLS is correct
procedure in my case. But I have realized that XTGLS postestimation can not
produce e(RSS) which is necessary to test (Chow's F test) the equality of
coefficients across two different groups (in my case: developed and
developing countries). XTGLS postestimation can produce e(b) and e(V) which
can be used to calculate the WALD test,asymtotically very similar to Chow's
test. Something like that:
W = (RB-r)'(R*V*R')(Rb-r)
The problem is how I can create a restriction matrix "R" when I try to
compare the sets of all coefficients from two regressions.
The model I am estimating is:
xtgls LIIT LAVGDP LDIFGDP LAVGDPP LDIFGDPP LDIST LMFDIOUT LEXCH, panels
(hetero) corr(ar1) igls force
I tried to use xtreg,re procedure to calculate Chow test as follows:
xtreg LIIT LAVGDP LDIFGDP LAVGDPP LDIFGDPP LDIST LMFDIOUT LEXCH if
core==1,fe vce(robust)
est store core
gen residualcore=e(rss)
gen ncore=e(N)
xtreg LIIT LAVGDP LDIFGDP LAVGDPP LDIFGDPP LDIST LMFDIOUT LEXCH if
periphery==1,fe vce(robust)
est store periphery
gen residualperiphery=e(rss)
gen nperiphery=e(N)
xtreg LIIT LAVGDP LDIFGDP LAVGDPP LDIFGDPP LDIST LMFDIOUT LEXCH,fe vce
est store total
gen residualtotal=e(rss)
gen k=7
gen F1=residualtotal-(residualcore+residualperiphery)/k
gen F2=(residualcore+residualperiphery)/((ncore+nperiphery-2)*k)
But this procedure is not correct when you have autocorrelation and
heteroskedasticity problem. Can I use REG procedure to calculate FGLS with
panel data? If I can, then I can easily compare coefficients using SUEST.
Any help wilp be appreaciated,
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Apart from such hits like 'Beverly Hills", 'Buddy Holly" and 'Pork and Beans", the band also launched into an awesome version of the song 'Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus. This song brought forth a mixed reaction from the crowd; they were amazed as well as puzzled. They were also amused and sang their hearts out for this popular number that featured in the Jason Biggs -Meena Suvari movie Loser.
Weezer lead vocalist Rivers Cuomo proved to be a fantastic worth for money as far as frontmen are concerned. His stage antics were something to die for and he pranced as well as threw himself onstage with a lot of energy and even kicked a football around; he also did climb over the sustaining fences in order to sing for his captive audience.
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Tips for scribing L shaped countertop
I've scribed smaller straight sections of countertop without any real issues, but I've never attempted an L shaped top. Is there any trick to getting this right?
Do I scribe each wall section inpendently, then install the miter bolts and fit the countertop? It seems if I did this that I would run the risk of not having a tight corner at the back of the miter adjacent the wall.
Put both pieces together first and then scribe? If that's the case, do I do the side the needs most material removed first then scribe the other side?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Assemble them first, then avarage out the error, You can always take off a little more but if you go to far it's shot.
I use strips of 1/4" plywood and a hot melt glue gun to join the pieces, and brace them. No corner will be exactly 90deg, so join them for the best fit on both walls and mark with your compass. Sand, plane or trim as needed for a perfect fit and transfer that to your top.
Sometimes I'll take a piece of cardboard or a piece of luan to cut a template to the wall.
First take a quick check for square, (cabinet corner and wall). If it is way off the pattern may work better. I was taught to assemble the top, set it on the cabinets longest side parallel with face of cabinets, back to wherever it touches. Scribe and fit this side, (I used to use a belt sander with a coarse belt, belt running from the finish side of the formica toward the plywood side to prevent chipping or lifting the veneer). put it in place then scribe the second side. If you do both at once no point on your scribe will end up directly opposite where you scribed from. They will both move laterally slightly unless you do one at a time. On a wall it shouldn't vary enough to be noticeable, and the shorted one should have the least variation. It is easy to do any touch ups with the sander. I have scribed a formica counter top to a granite block wall and a brick wall once.
I make it easy for myself by using cabinet top height saw horses so I can slide the top into place for scribing and then slide it out for trimming. I always work alone so I have to be creative.
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Q 4 ric- old primer
Ric- this has come up several times and nobody has given a satisfactory answer.. And you're just the guy!
IT IS SAID ( sounds important..!) that a primer should be topped within the 30 day cure time.
But if it's ok to put a latex on latex without priming years after , why wouldn't it be just as fine to paint over an acrylic primer anytime?
As IT IS SAID, and for best results, primers (all types) should be top coated within X amount of days or weeks after application...The reason an oil base (alkyd) must be top coated within a specific time period has to do with the curing mechanisms of alkyds. Alkyds never really finish curing. They will continually get harder, more brittle and more impermeable (less permeable?) over time. Once the time has past that the solvents of an alkyd topcoat may no longer permeate the alkyd prime application (say 30 days or so), there will be no mechanical bond between the 2 coatings...without a mechanical bond, alkyds will ultimately lose adhesion - between coats.
So, change the scenario just a little...If you were to topcoat an aged alkyd primer with an acrylic, chances are you'd have better success since acrylics don't necessarily have to have penetration to adhere. So the chances then must be better that an acrylic will adhere to a primer that has been applied longer than X number of days or weeks...right? Um...no, not really 'cause the other really annoying attribute of alkyds are their propensity to chalk...And as good as acrylics will adhere to slick surfaces, they won't adhere to chalk - loose or semi-bound.
Of course I'm speaking very generally here and haven't differentiated between wood primers & finishes or metal primers & finishes - but all statements are primarily directed to exterior applications - these caveats may not be as much an issue for interior apps...
Now, your question has to do with an acrylic (or latex) primer and acrylic (or latex) topcoat. Acrylics cure differently than alkyds, and that cure time is pretty finite...in other words, there comes a time (usually 2 weeks to 45 days) that an acrylic finish will reach it's maximum hardness - then will harden no more. And typically, acrylics (primers or finishes) won't chalk. So, based on those truths, there really shouldn't be any reason an acrylic primer, that has been allowed to weather the elements for an entire cycle of season changes, couldn't be successfully painted with an acrylic topcoat...right? Again...um... not necessarily. Possibly...probably...it certainly would have a better chance of success than either of the other scenarios involving alkyd primers - but as I've mentioned in other posts, there are a bunches of acrylic resins available to manufacturers - and each performs differently. An acrylic primer (rust inhibiting metal primer - or - stain blocking exterior wood primer) most probably is not the same resin as is in the acrylic house paint or acrylic rust inhibitive enamel...The acrylic resins used in primers must not dry as hard as the resins in finishes...they must remain "softer" to conform to the surface being primed - these resins won't actually penetrate like an alkyd, but they will "settle" to kind of encapsulate the microscopic surface irregularities of the substrate necessary to prevent (or retard) rust (oxidation) on metal, or bind loose residual chalk or fiber and limit, or restrict, vapor transmission on wood...Because of the way all acrylics cure - once they reach the point they can do these things, that's as hard as they will get.
Since the resins in acrylic primers remain "gummy" in comparison to finishes, if left to weather through a cycle of season changes means these resins will soften in the warmer months (more so than finishes) - and thicken, or congeal, in cooler months (again, more so than finishes). As they soften, they will attract dirt, dust, pollen, bird poop, or any other of a myriad of pollutants and incorporate them into the film - as they thicken, they drive these new foreign solids deep into the film. Then the process starts all over again as temps warm up...
The way these pollutants have been "churned" into the primer film, it's near impossible to clean, thoroughly enough, to ensure that the foundation is "free of all dust, dirt, grease or foreign matter that may inhibit the adhesion of subsequently applied coatings..." or in other words, paintable.
Obviously, what I've described is an absolute worst case scenario. This most likely would not happen in 9 out 10 jobs...But in that 1 job out of 10 - whatta mess to try to clean up and redo.
I don't know if that answers your question (quite frankly, I think I've forgotten what it was anyway)...Again, keep in mind that all things mentioned tonight is scenarios and hypotheticals and worse case conditions.
wow :laughing: :thumbsup:
Thanks ric! Uda man!
As you hinted- in interiors, (which is what i do almost exclusively) the pollutants would not be so much of an issue ( maybe in a kit.). So if i ran into a primed door for instance that had been sitting unfinished as long as it was clean it could be topped without repriming.
Again, in the earlier post, I described an absolute worst case scenario in an exterior exposure...for interior, I think the most tell-tale sign that a long-ago applied primer may not be "paintable" without significant prep, would be the feel of the product...A soft, gummy feel - always dirty and never (re)hardening due to excessive heat and/or humidity, repeated cleanings with emollient containing cleaners (such as dishwashing liquids), or excessive handling (near light switches, etc.). But, as extreme as that example is, I'm pretty certain you'd visually recognize that as an area in need of special attention prior to painting...
Put another way, there is no reason, based on composition or the curing dynamic, that an application of a conventional acrylic finish paint, following standard surface prep procedures, wouldn't adhere & perform properly, over a long-ago applied acrylic primer that has been subjected to typical exposure (not those described above) and common wear & tear.
I'd say you're good to go...
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Kabul, Dec. 30 (ANI): Afghan and foreign officials have warned that the inauguration of a new Parliament in the next few weeks could worsen ethnic tensions and instability in Afghanistan and drive an important part of President Hamid Karzai's political base into the arms of the insurgency.
Parliament elections were held in September, the results of which were vigorously disputed for three months, pushing the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
Now, several Afghan officials and losing candidates have warned that the seating of the new Parliament could fuel the insurgency and even an ethnic strife that might lead to civil war.
"Step by step Pashtuns will say we are not represented, the government does not care about us, our people are not in government, and step by step they will join the enemy," the New York Times quoted Jamil Karzai, a former member of Parliament and cousin of the president, as saying.
He is among a group of some 80 losing candidates who are challenging the results.
President Karzai has stayed aloof from the dispute, but according to his chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, has been responsive to the complaints of some candidates of "fraud, misconduct and miscounting," as well as the greater concern of widening ethnic divisions.
Karzai has sent the complainants to his attorney general, who has already passed their case to the Supreme Court.
"We trust the Supreme Court will be responsive to their complaints," Daudzai said.
But few believe the Supreme Court can deliver satisfaction at this late hour.
A number of losing candidates are also blaming the president for allowing a decline in Pashtun influence, and warn that there is little hope for Afghanistan to achieve peace and security without incorporating the Pashtuns, who make up about 46 percent of the population, and have traditionally ruled the country. They also form most of the ranks of the Taliban.
The Pashtuns have lost at least 26 seats in the new Parliament - dropping from 120 to 94 in the 249-seat lower house.
"It is difficult for Karzai, and for NATO, too. For the country it is not good," said one senior government official. (ANI)


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Music mogul Simon Cowell admits his baby son Eric has made him more creative in his work.
The 54-year-old X Factor boss confessed that slowing down on the business front is the last thing on his mind.
Cowell said: ''I'm not going to calm down with work! I've got the bug again and I just want to get things going with The X Factor.
''I'm excited about work again, which is a great feeling. Eric has been a big part of that. Having a child gives you perspective and it sparks new ideas and creativity.''
Cowell further admitted that he hasn't been losing any sleep since the birth of his son in February, adding: ''I'm coping really well. We've got a great baby nurse.
"Eric is a sweetheart and he's no trouble at all. He's not been keeping me up at night. He's honestly been as good as gold. I feel more relaxed since becoming a father. He's definitely relaxed me.''


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Oh Harry, you heartbreaker! The One Direction hottie has been on two dates with the reality beauty-turned-model, and the budding romance has left Taylor 'really, really hurt', a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
Taylor Swift is furious over Harry Styles' dates with Kendall Jenner. But before you accuse her of being a drama queen, let us remind you that the British boy-bander has been leading Taylor on for months! Read on for all our EXCLUSIVE details.
Taylor Swift: Why Harry Styles Dating Kendall Jenner Is A 'Huge Blow'
After receiving lots of sexy text messages Taylor broke down and started talking to Harry again last month, so we're not surprised that she was "Red" with rage when he flew into LA and focused all his attention on Kendall.
Our source tells us:
Taylor still has feelings for Harry and he's been totally leading her on. She expected him to be chasing her down when he came to LA a few weeks ago and instead he went after Kendall Jenner, it was a huge blow for Taylor. She and Harry were talking before he came to LA, he didn't make plans with her but he really made it seem like he was all about her so it really, really hurt her when he took Kendall out instead. That's why she iced him at the AMAs. … Taylor doesn't get why Harry would pick Kendall over her, especially because he's always made fun of the Kardashians. Taylor's not a mean girl but she can be catty at times and this drama with Harry is not bringing out the best in her.
Yikes! That doesn't sound like the Taylor we know and love. Maybe it's time to forget about Harry for good!
Kendall Jenner 'Really Likes' Harry Styles
It sure won't be music to Taylor's ears, but it seems Kendall and Harry are more than just a hook-up. After meeting up with Kendall's father, Bruce Jenner, for a "morning chat," on Nov. 25, Harry took Kendall out for a romantic lunch date at West Hollywood's SoHo House.
Could Harry and Kendall make their relationship work? When Harry was asked if he was dating the model, he teased us by saying, "No." But after a short pause he added, "I guess."
It seems Harry has piqued Kendall's interest as well!
"She really likes him," a source close to Kendall told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "But their schedules rarely mesh, which is relationship poison."
Wow it sounds like Harry had two of the hottest girls in Hollywood hung up on him. Decisions, decision!
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US Development Policy Initiative
The US Development Policy Initiative (DPI), formerly the Rethinking US Development Policy initiative, seeks to broaden the US government's approach to development while strengthening existing foreign assistance tools. Its engagement with policymakers is backed by rigorous research and analysis of a full range of investment, trade, technology, and foreign assistance related issues.
The Trump Administration and Development: Read what CGD experts are saying about the new administration's actions and how it will affect US development policy.
Foreign Assistance Agency Briefs: A set of briefs five key US development agencies for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and others that work on these issues and agencies. Each brief outlines the agency's mission and role, structure, historical budget, programs, and mechanisms, for delivering foreign assistance.
US development policy is approaching a crossroads. The days of expanding US foreign assistance budgets are fading in the face of prolonged fiscal constraints. The US political environment also increasingly demands that aid demonstrate value, impact, and strategic relevance. Across the world, the need for development finance has changed even more dramatically. Many developing economies have boomed over the past decade, as has the availability of domestically mobilized resources and private capital. As a result, developing countries are focused more on attracting US investment, trade, and technology and less on traditional assistance. This is a sign of progress and success. At the same time, the United States will continue to rely upon foreign assistance tools to confront fragility in places such as Haiti, Pakistan, and parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
US development policies, priorities, and tools will need to shift to respond to this change. CGD's US Development Policy Initiative reflects this broader agenda while continuing the Center's tried and true monitoring of US foreign assistance programs and initiatives, such as the MCC, Power Africa, and the Foreign Assistance Dashboard.
Senior Fellow Scott Morris leads the US DPI initiative. Morris served as deputy assistant secretary for development finance and debt at the US Treasury Department. He also represented the US government in the G-20's Development Working Group and was the Treasury's "+1" on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Before his post at the US Treasury, Morris was a senior staff member on the Financial Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, where he was responsible for the Committee's international policy issues.
Follow @Morris_ScottA on Twitter.
Recent US administrations have sought to incorporate key principles of aid effectiveness into their foreign assistance architecture while proposing reforms to boost operational capacity. CGD regularly evaluates US efforts to implement these reforms and principles, which cut across agencies, sectors, and initiatives.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is the world's largest bilateral development agency. CGD's work focuses on strengthening USAID's position as a leading development agency by providing research and analysis on the agency's various development initiatives and operational reforms.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an independent US foreign assistance agency with a focused mission of reducing poverty through economic growth. MCC's model of assistance is predicated on key principles of aid effectiveness, including country ownership, transparency, and sustainable results. CGD provides regular analysis and research on the policies, operations, and effectiveness of the agency, along with ideas for innovation and adaptation.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is the US government's development finance institution. It is a leading agency in implementing President Obama's Power Africa Initiative and the Electrify Africa Act. CGD's work focuses on how OPIC can most effectively promote economic opportunity and growth.
US Treasury leads the Administration's engagement in multilateral development assistance, participates in bilateral policy dialogue with developing countries, and provides technical assistance related to public financial management in many developing countries. CGD's research focuses on how the United States can more effectively leverage its role in multilateral institutions and recommendations on how these institutions can adapt to an evolving development landscape.
As the lead agency on foreign affairs, the Department of State takes the lead in a number of areas of development policy, particularly at the nexus of development and democracy. State is also tightly linked to USAID and houses PEPFAR.
The US government often coordinates the work of various agencies through initiatives aimed at particular development challenges. CGD's work looks at the impact of these interagency initiatives by exploring their ability to deliver on development goals.


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The day was beautiful. The kittens were getting use to their new environment. Mama Sasha, proud of her little brood, watched from her perch. I was finishing some dishes, looking on to their fun. A surprise caused me to take action, along with Mama. Who knew I would happen upon such a surprise?
SOL: What Was That?July 7, 2015
Curious CrittersJune 25, 2014
Tammy Shultz and I present our top book picks of the year. I always have a difficult time narrowing my choices; there are many books to choose from. We do not necessarily choose the newest books (Donalyn Miller keeps me updated). We choose books that have appealed to our kids this past year. Curious Critter is a book I loved. It's funny and the kids react to the creatures talking to them. I had it on my slide show when I reviewed last year's books; I realized Tammy had shared it as her book last year. Makes sense. Great book!
Curious Critters is a nonfiction text with voice! I was drawn to the captivating descriptions and features of the creatures. David FitzSimmons illustrated the photographs on a white background, emphasizing the details of the critters. A website features the critters. Click here to see what's new.
His second book, Curious Critters Vol. 2, is available. When you click on the title, the link will allow you to preview a few pages. Fascinating!
View the YouTube video (1:20 second) book trailer. Your students will be intrigued!
Savorings for reading and in writing for Curious Critters:
- Point of View – the critter talks to the reader
- Voice – The goldfish says, "Let's play a game: I'll flip my fins and swim around in this aquarium, and you throw in some food. Sound good? Great?"
- Humor –
- Allitoration – decorating daisies
- Transitions – one creature will connect to the next
Why Are Animals Purple?November 4, 2013
Fall is here with all its brilliant colors. I'm amazed at the reds, yellows, oranges mixed with the changing greens and browns. Purple is not a color I often see here in Indiana, although I suspect it shows its shade as well. With the focus on colors, the book, Why Are Animals Purple?, intrigued me. This book is one of several in a series of animal colors by Melissa Stewart.
Purple animals? I thought. I am not sure if I have seen any animal dressed in purple until I turned to the first featured animal – Purple Martins. My dad had one in our yard and taught me about these helpful birds. Do you know they eat 1000 mosquitos daily? Around lake areas, these bird hotels sprinkle the skyline.
Eleven other animals are featured in her book. Key vocabulary, such as predators and attract, are in bold print, repeated distinctly throughout the entries. The photographs zoom in features and allow the reader to be up close and personal. Children will be drawn to this book and learn how color camoflages and defends each in nature.
A 2 minute Youtube video about how Melissa Stewart got her ideas from nature for two of her books.
Savorings in reading and for writing for Why Are Animals Purple?:
- Vocabulary
- Thematic Map – at the back of the book, a map represents where each animal can be found
- Question Lead
- Personifies the Color Message – It says, "Stay away. This is my home."
- Links to websites and other book references for further research
Animals in WinterJanuary 6, 2012
Tanja Askani provides a home for injured animals. I blogged about her book, A Friend Like You. Her brilliant photographs are breath-taking. As I researched Tanja, I came across some brilliant videos of animals in winter.
To introduce animals in the elements and bring the wild to your classroom, view Tanja's YouTube video.
After visiting Florida over Christmas break, we were met with beautiful snow. Although the snow is beautiful, I much prefer warm sunshine. I was reminded of the book, Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Samms II and Jean Stoick. With a smile, enjoy the winter season.
ElephantsJanuary 24, 2009
My daughter loves elephants. She collects different stuffed animals and reads about them. When I found the book, Elephant's Story, I began to think of Eliz. Harriet Blackford is a zoologist and has created a delightful nonfiction narrative to create background knowledge of the elephant. she introduces the African savanna elephant and their family behavior. The reader is introduced to the central character, a baby elephant. Manja Stojic catches the reader's attention with her paintings.
Harriet Blackford creates scenes that children will connect with. Feelings are inferred, such as being scared. "The bank is high and she cannot see her mother. For the first time in her life, she is alone. Elephant squeals with fright." elephant also feels a sense of belonging and safety with her mother and herd. "Elephant's mother strokes her baby all over to help her feel safe again."
Savorings for reading and in writing for Elephant's Story:
- Background knowledge of the elephant
- Connections – elephant's behavior and children's behavior
- Inference
- Informational text at the end
- Animal characteristics – "Elephant is born on the vast African savanna, a tiny wrinkly baby with big floppy ears and a most extraordinary nose."


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mecosta was a 19th-century Potawatomi chief. His name in the Potawatomi language was Mkozdé, meaning "Having a Bear's Foot" but the name was recorded in English to mean "Big Bear."[1]
Mecosta was born near what is today Big Rapids, Michigan. Mecosta County, Michigan is named for him.[2]
Mecosta is best known as a signer of the Treaty of Logansport (7 Stat. 501) on April 22, 1836, which ceded lands reserved in the Treaty of Tippecanoe, and began the removal of Mecosta's band of Potawatomi from Indiana to lands west of the Mississippi River.
The following places in Michigan are directly or indirectly named for the chief:
- Lake Mecosta in Mecosta County, Michigan
- Mecosta, Michigan
- Mecosta County, Michigan
- Mecosta Township, Michigan
- ^ Mecosta County, Clarke Historical Library
- ^ Mecosta County, Michigan, InfoMI
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Film & Discussion: Blue Gold
Life on this planet is not possible without water. Yet, all across the globe, people are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting limited supplies of fresh water as population and technology grows. Rampant over-development of agriculture, housing, and industry increases the demands for fresh water, often well beyond the finite local supplies, ultimately resulting in desertification. The documentary, "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," explores the causes, crisis, and solution.
It will be shown free of charge.
The screening will be followed with a discussion.


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The Rapid Editorial Interface (REI) eXtension is a SDL Tridion 2011 .NET event system, which creates a Page for every new Component created and publishes that Page to a configured (staging) Target. It will also update an index Page adding the newly created Component on that and re-publishing it (also to the configured staging Target).
The Templates used for Page and Component Presentations are configurable through a metadata Schema on the Folder in which the Component is created. This is also how you can enable this functionality per Folder of your Content Management System.
The REI eXtension is configured by Folder metadata, for this you need to create a Metadata Schema defining the following properties:
The (xsd) definition of the Metadata Schema is provided in the download, with this you can created the Schema by pasting it in the source tab of a newly created Metadata Schema.
The Schema fields are defined as text fields so they can contain the URI of the item, so simplify adding this information you can add a Custom URL link to the Schema field which points to an Item Selector. For this you can use the Item Selector Custom URL eXtension which you can find under the 2011 eXtensions.
The Rapid Editorial Interface event system works as follows when you create a Component in a Folder that contains the REI Folder Configuration Metadata Schema. The event is triggered, when the Component is saved and checked in.
If the Component isn't newly created and it's already used on a Page, steps 2, 3 and 4 will be skipped and the Component will be published (re-publishing all Pages it is used on).
The REI eXtension comes with full source as a Microsoft Visual Studio solution which you can directly compile into an assembly (you can use the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express edition). To install the event system you need to place the assembly on the SDL Tridion Content Manager server and register it as described in the following steps.
Start with shutting down the following services on your Content Manager server:
Compile the solution to a .NET assembly and store on your Content Manager server
Open the configuration file called Tridion.ContentManager.config, located in the config/ subfolder of the Content Manager root location (typically C:\Program Files\Tridion\), in a plain-text or XML editor. Find the extensions element in this file. If the element is empty (that is, if it reads <extensions/>), replace it with <extensions></extensions>. Then add a line of the following format:
<add assemblyFileName="C:\path\to\RapidEditorialInterface.dll" />
If the element was empty, the fragment should now read:
<add assemblyFileName="C:\path\to\RapidEditorialInterface.dll" />
Save and close Tridion.ContentManager.config
Restart the services you stopped
You can now use your Content Manager as you normally do.
To Configure a Folder to execute the event system when you create a Component in it, you need to add the REI Folder Configuration Metadata Schema to it and fill in its properties with the desired values. After that, when creating/saving a Component (using the configured Schema) in this Folder, a Page will be created and the configured index Page will be updated and both will be published to the configured Target.
Please note: This event system is intended for an Editorial model where the Editor has the ability to create Pages himself and is allowed to publish them. The event system will run under the Authorization of the user creating the Component and thus the user will need sufficient rights for the event system to perform these actions.
As a Community Development Consultant, Bart is the evangelist of all SDL Tridion products. Bart used to be a consultant and trainer at SDL Tridion, supporting both partners and customers with their implementations.
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