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McAfee Fixes Buggy Antivirus Update, Resolves Errors
McAfee has fixed the buggy update that disabled the security software for many home and enterprise users over the weekend.
Users who received the latest updates for McAfee's consumer and enterprise versions of its antivirus software last Friday found themselves unable to access the Internet or encountering errors within the application, according to messages posted on McAfee's community forums. Many home users were unable to access the McAfee Security Center console, preventing from running anything within the software program. Enterprise users encountered errors with the On-Access Scanner.
Enterprise users had to wait till Monday for VSE 8.8 Hotfix 793640, which contained the full DAT 6809 update, according to a McAfee knowledge base article. However, the hotfix was 100 MB in size, making deployment a challenge for administrators overseeing a large number of affected machines.
"Deployment can cause high bandwidth usage in large environments," McAfee recommended. The support document also suggested deploying the hotfix in stages rather than to all systems at once.
McAfee released a smaller version of the hotfix, VSE 8.9 Hotfix 793781, late Tuesday evening. While the smaller hotfix has a smaller initial footprint and addresses most of the issues, "remediated systems will require a full DAT update as soon as possible," according to the advisory.
Unprotected Systems
Some administrators were concerned that users could get infected while OAS was disabled and spread throughout the network. "The issue is well over 24 hours old now, and it's been 'officially' confirmed for nearly 24. That's a very long time to have AV [antivirus] in a faulty state," a user named mjmurra wrote on the forum boards.
The hotfix does not force a reboot, but the company recommended all systems be restarted after installing the fixes in order to validate the latest update. "This has predominantly affected our servers and rebooting them isn't an option," harris_s posted on the forums.
Buggy Updates Are a Trend
This isn't the first time a security vendor had a faulty update. McAfee alone has had three bad DAT updates in recent years, including the April update for its email gateway security products that caused the systems to crash and display message scan failures. McAfee is not alone, as a problem update was behind the Microsoft's Security Essentials scanner attempt to flag google.com as malware. Just last month, Symantec released an update for its Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 that caused many users running Windows XP to see the blue screen of death. Symantec rolled back the signatures a few days later.
"Since these events are becoming a worrying trend, should we implement test procedures inside our organizations as we do with other updates like the ones deployed by Microsoft with Windows Update?" wrote Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez, of the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center.
Many enterprises have the IT administrator test out all the patches, such as the ones released by Microsoft for Patch Tuesday, Oracle's Critical Patch Updates, and Adobe's security updates, to ensure there are no conflicts. After thorough testing, the IT department deploys the fixes to the rest of the organization.
"Implementing a faulty update has a high risk to the organization and its solution consumes considerable time and substantial resources," Pelaez wrote.
Commenters on the Internet Storm Center blog told Pelaez that testing antivirus updates would significantly expand the time period users are not being protected from the latest threats. "I don't know about other organizations, but we barely even have the time and resources for testing tons of OS and application patches before rolling them out. Who'd have time to do this for every rollout of a new DAT file?" a commenter named Brent wrote.
Considering that antivirus tools are already reactive, delaying the updates even further "would make antivirus tools even less effective than they currently are," Brent wrote.
Home Users
The fix for home users was available on Sunday. The latest DAT 6809 fixed the issues introduced with the faulty updates DAT 6807 and 6808. McAfee confirmed the issues on Sunday and posted suggested mitigations while downloading the lateset DAT 6809 update.
Users who lost Internet connectivity were encouraged to uninstall McAfee, reboot the computer, and download the latest version from the Website and installing it. This is a big concern, as it leaves users unprotected the entire time while they are trying to fix the problem.
Users encountering errors within the application were encouraged to update to DAT 6809. If the errors continued, users should uninstall the program with McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool and then re-install the latest version, according to the technical document posted Sunday.


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Peabody police
Nov. 19: Police took a report of theft of gas from a motor vehicle.
Nov. 20: Police will be filing a case of criminal damage to property for damage to city street signs at Peabody and Ninth streets. Officers responded to a child custody exchange. The case has been documented and will be placed on file with local law enforcement.
Nov. 21: Police took a report of a telephone scam. Police provided assistance to a probation officer for a probation home visit.
Thursday: Officers responded to a situation with a juvenile out of control. The investigation was completed and a child-in-need-of-care case will be filed with the county attorney.
Sunday: Officers responded to a domestic situation at 706 North Elm; the case will be documented for municipal court. Officers took a report of sexual assault involving juveniles; the case is under investigation.
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Tristan Williams of the Happy Hustlers 4-H club has always loved animals and plans on becoming a vet someday. It was because of this love, especially for horses, that inspired her to become involved in 4-H and more recently to win a statewide competition.
"Just for fun," Tristan entered a statewide logo-design contest for the Kansas 4-H Horse Panorama in Manhattan, and won first place.
Besides receiving a first place ribbon, Tristan's logo will also be featured on the cover of the 4-H Horse Show Program at the Kansas State Fair.
Tristan's mother, Sheila, said Tristan was shocked when she won.
"Some were so good that it would have been very hard to choose just one if I were the judge," Tristan said.
The contest was open to all 4-H horse project members ages 9 to 18. Contestants had to submit an original hand drawn design in black and white. This was the first time Tristan had entered a logo.
Her logo consisted of a horse jumping over a brick wall with the caption "Not even fences can come between friends." It took her about a week to complete, Sheila Williams said.
The idea came from a commercial Tristan saw that featured Clydesdale horses.
Tristan took an interest in horses after her dad, the late Doug Williams, passed.
"It was a way to help ease her grief," Sheila Williams said.
At first Tristan participated in the horseless horse program, and began working with Deana Olsen and her miniature horses.
"She used Olsen's horses so she could show horses but kept dreaming of her own horse," Sheila Williams said. "Her prayers were answered when she received a miniature horse, Mira, in October of 2012."
Mira had been rescued from her previous owners after they failed to properly care for her, but since miniature horses are not meant to be ridden, Tristan was still dreaming of owning one she could ride and show.
Last fall Tristan's dream came true when she received a horse, Smokey, from a family friend. With the help of her grandma, Wanda Williams, and uncle, Jeff Williams, a corral and building were built for Smokey.
"They became fast friends, and Tristan spends as much time as she can at the farm working with her horses," Sheila Williams said.
Tristan also participates in foods and rabbit programs, is a member of National Honor Society and Marion Elementary School, is in the band, and is a member of Aulne United Methodist Church and praise band.
Happy Hustlers member Larry Zieammermann received grand champion for his demonstration titled "Equine First Aid" in the intermediate division. Fellow member Cara Martin placed third in the senior division with a talk on Native American Horsemanship. All three also competed in an open quiz bowl and Hippology contests at the panorama.


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ucim wrote:The WHOLE scenario is that you seem to think that advertisers have rights to me and my machine, and I don't.Tyndmyr wrote:The WHOLE scenario is the problem, not merely the money.
Look, leaving aside the Brave thing for now, your perception of rights is fucked up. If you hate how ad-ridden a particular site is, you can just...not go there. You don't have a right to their content. Them putting ads on their own site is not a violation of your rights. Just don't request their shit, if you don't want it.
Your rights extend to your shit. Someone messes with your computer, that's unethical. They do not extend to requiring the entire goddamned internet behave the way you petulantly demand.
Edit: This sounds a bit harsher than I intended, but I'm growing rather tired with your constant misrepresentation of options, ignoring all the conversation that came before. What, precisely, do you not have the right to do, in your world? What are the limits on YOU?


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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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From Multicore-Scalable Data Structures to Multicore-Scalable Memory ManagementZeit: Thu 19.3.2015, 17:15, 60 Minuten
Ort: S3-055, Science Park 3
ZusammenfassungWe review a variety of concurrent data structures, designed by us and others, and analyze their performance and scalability on recent multicore servers. We then show how to use some of the best-performing and most-scalable data structures in the design and implementation of a new memory allocator that outperforms and outscales existing allocators while using less memory.
This is joint work with Martin Aigner, Andreas Haas, Michael Lippautz, and Ana Sokolova.
VortragenderChristoph Kirsch is Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Salzburg, Austria. He received his Dr.Ing. degree from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1999 while at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley. He later returned to Berkeley as Visiting Scholar (2008-2013) and Visiting Professor (2014) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as part of a collaborative research effort in Cyber-Physical Systems. His most recent research interests are in concurrent data structures, memory management, and so-called spatial programming. Dr. Kirsch co-invented embedded programming languages and systems such as Giotto, HTL, and the Embedded Machine, and more recently co-designed high-performance, multicore-scalable concurrent data structures and memory management systems. He co-founded the International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), served as ACM SIGBED chair from 2011 until 2013, and is currently ACM TODAES associate editor.
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Cluster-Randomized Trials
Northwestern University, with a grant from the National Center for Education Research (NCER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is providing support for the 2019 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials.
Workshop Dates
July 8–18, 2019
Workshop Location
The Training Institute will be held at the Hilton Orrington Hotel in Evanston. The Hilton Orrington is located on Orrington Avenue, between Church and Clark Street, in the town of Evanston, just north of Chicago.
The Summer Training Institute's aim is to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. The course sessions will provide intensive training on planning, implementing, and analyzing data for cluster-randomized trials. Principal Investigator Larry Hedges, PhD, will lead the workshop.


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There are always more good images to restore than time to restore them. A friend is collaborating on the Haitian restoration and the Indonesian restoration is nearly finished. Today's post looks at a different part of the Indonesian portrait where the challenge looks difficult and is actually even harder than it seems. Here's what we're dealing with:
Healing brushes work by sampling one area of an image and performing a complex mathematical operation to blend data from that region with a different area. If you think of this intuitively, the way to heal a scratch that goes from a light section of fabric to a dark section of fabric is to choose a source region that has similar light and dark areas. One by one those scratches start to disappear.


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Problem: You Can't Open NRW Files
You might've double-clicked on the file, to be greeted with the "Choose a program to open the file" message. In some cases, you might be able to open the file, but the contents may seem garbled and that's because it was written to be opened in a specific program. Of course, you can't open a NRW file with just any software. Not to worry - we have you covered!
Step 1: Find Out Which Software Uses NRW Files
Opening your NRW file starts with understanding which software uses a NRW extension. In many cases, different types of software may use the same file extensions, also known as file associations.
Nero WMA CD-ROM Compilation and Nikon RAW Image are the most popular software packages that use NRW files. Therefore, your best bet would be to download one of these software packages and use one of them to open your file.
Zipped files tend to require special handling and may require password access. Contact the file owner or the person who gave you the file for the password and unzip the file before attempting to open the contents.
Step 2: Learning More About NRW "File Type"
If you can't download Nero WMA CD-ROM Compilation or Nikon RAW Image software, or if neither of them work to open your NRW file, you may be able to use the file type as a clue to finding out how you can open it. Using a Windows PC, you can right-click and navigate to "Properties" and then to "Type of file". On a Mac, select "More info" and "Kind".
Most likely, you will find that NRW files are considered Raster Image Files. Because many programs packages utilize Raster Image Files, you might be able to find a program on your computer that handles those types of files.
If that still does not work, you may have to contact the associated software developer to find out how to open it. Unless you know the specific developer, you could contact one of these developers for assistance.
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It started simply enough. Drew Bennett, an engineer at SEOMoz, used some of his artistic talents last week to recreate a Space Invader on the company's windows constructed entirely of multi-colored Post-it Notes.
The alien creature got the creative juices flowing on Pine Street. And it wasn't long before other nearby tech companies — within spitting distance of SEOMoz's fourth floor office — were adding their own Post-it creatures to their windows.
Soon Post-It Note characters like Super Mario and Pac-Man were appearing on the windows of companies such as Fugazo, Ingeniux and Verdiem.
We haven't seen this level of geeky pride and competitiveness since the great Post-it Note wars of mid-March in downtown Bellevue.
But the geeks behind these creations appear to be doing so in good fun, with some of the creators even grabbing drinks together at happy hours at local pubs. (Organized, of course, via Post-It Note).
"It's been fun getting to know the other companies through our shared love for 8-bit pixel art," says Jamie Steven, vice president of marketing at SEOMoz and an active participant in the Post-It Note creations.
Software engineers and designers can get lost in their smartphones and computers, so reaching out to the windows with something as low-tech as a Post-It Note could keep some of these folks grounded in the real world.
And what about the lost productivity?
After all, don't some of these folks have real jobs to do? SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin offered this tongue-in-cheek response when asked that question:
"Moz doesn't run a 19th century factory; we're trying to build an exceptional software startup in 2011," says Fishkin. "That means putting our best talent to work applying colored post-its to windows, having the occasional nerf gun skirmish and investing in copious sugar-based snack delivery vehicles."
Ah, how could you not love life at a startup?
Follow-up: New phase in Seattle Post-It Wars: It's on like … Angry Birds


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The 10-and-under Newport-Mesa Waves boys' soccer team recently won the Silver South division of the Coast Soccer League and went undefeated in its age group.
Coached by Chris Klein (a former Los Angeles Galaxy star player), the boys have spent the last eight months training together in preparation for their unbeaten season of 10-0-2.
With an explosive offense and an iron-strong defense the team finished the season scoring 49 goals and only allowing 11 goals. The Waves allowed fewer goals scored by their opponents than any of the other U10 boys' team in the entire Silver division, which includes teams from down South, the Inland Empire, and as far north as Santa Barbara.
The season started with the Waves winning the South Bay Force Showcase Tournament in Torrance after beating the El Segundo Gunners in the championship, 2-0, in an exciting overtime win.
During the tournament they got the chance to compete against some of the best U10 teams from OC, LA, and Ventura Counties. Their season culminated with a dominating win on Nov. 20 of 6-3 over AC Brea, the only other undefeated team in the division prior to the weekend. The team is now gearing up and training for an exciting League Cup Tournament which will begin in December.
They will then begin training to move on to compete in the State Cup in February to challenge themselves in competition against the best U10 club soccer teams in all of California.
The U10 Wave players include: Alec Gekchyan, Denzel Barrientos, Adrian Hong, Carson Klein, Alex Xhurape, Nic Sullivan, Sam Neglia, Cameron Harper, David Adelsberg, Bryce Lehner, Mason Ressler and Kieran Sidebotham.
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CdM takes second
Coach Chris Dunk's Plus boys' U-11 soccer team finished the fall season in second place among 19 teams in the countywide Plus League.
The team won its final six games of the season by a combined score of 24-2.
Once the team got comfortable playing together they were unstoppable. The team scored 41 goals on the season. The offense was lead by forwards Max Dunk, Sallar Tahbaz, Zack Karro, Jack Elliot and midfielders Niko Urban, Cameron Kayl, Joshua Means and Jackson Niedermeyer.
The group put constant pressure on every opposing team's defense. The defense led the league with fewest goals allowed with eight in 12 games. Outstanding efforts all season were turned in by defenders Matt Katz, Ryan Aleman, Kyle Pham, Dayne Parsons and Grayson Breeland.
The anchor of the defense was the play of goalie Shawn Nielsen. Nielsen proved to be the best goalie in the league by his play all season.
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Hoops team shines
The TH Hoops 11U team had a spectacular weekend by capturing back-to-back championships with an impressive 11-0 finish in the combined tournaments.
Six of the 11 games were played Oct. 12-13.
TH Hoops started their road to victory when they entered Big City Sports fall league, where they went 5-0 landing them a spot in the title game against the Fullerton Coyotes.
They defeated the Coyotes, 40-32, to claim their first title of the weekend.
TH Hoops also played in the SGV tournament winning four games in a row, defeating their opponents by an average of 15 points per game.
The highlight of the weekend was the championship game against the Las Vegas Dream Team. This game was no walk in the park for TH Hoops, as they found themselves in a 17-point deficit at halftime.
With determination and passion, TH Hoops was able to regain momentum and upset the LV Dream Team, 50-42.
These championships could not have been accomplished without the collective efforts of Max Goffman, Joe Ruiz, Anthony Hall, Ethan Lacher, Chase Hall, Katie Fitzgerald, Nikyle Gould, Brandon Figueroa, Blair Allhusen, Josh Cheadle and Tarik Aliyazicioglu.
Their show of great sportsmanship, hard work, perseverance as well as a great defensive mindset propelled them to two championships.
TH Hoops was led by Coach Erol Aliyazicioglu.
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CdM is perfect
The Corona del Mar seventh-graders went 7-0 to win the Coastal Athletic League girls' basketball title. CdM beat rival Ensign, 41-15, in the title game.
The CdM team included Amanda Cooper, Katherine Mulvaney, Kennedy Mulvaney, Emma St. Geme, Lanni Barrie, Cailyn Coburn, Lisa Hamilton, Haley Hopkins, Brittany Lamm, Abigail Peterson, Emma Scott, Erika Wall, Faith Wosoughkia, Venice Andrews, Syd Cage, Shelby Guerena and Madeleine Gifford.
Dave Scott coached the team.
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CdM repeats
The Corona del Mar Middle School eighth-grade girls' basketball team finished the Coastal Athletic League undefeated two years in a row beating TeWinkle, 37-18, in the title game.
The Corona del Mar championship team included: Val Hunter, Krista Anderson, Ally Rosenblum, Kelly Tam, Melody Yoo, Kate Hunter, Natalia Bruening and Carly Michaels. Mark Decker coached the team.
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Beckhoff Automation's CX5000 Embedded PC
The new CX5000 has Intel Atom technology and up to 1.6 GHz of processing power. It has a magnesium housing, making it lightweight, and improves its mechanical stability and resistance to EMC. The DIN rail-mountable PAC has a fanless design with a maximum power loss of 12.5 Watts. Just 3.9 x 3.9 x 3.6 in. (100 x 100 x 91mm), CX5000 also is exceptionally compact.


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Both AT&T and Verizon have signaled this year that they'd be offering shared data plans, which can share data across multiple devices. Now Verizon is the first out of the gate with its Share Everything plan, which bundles voice, data and text messages.
But because of the way phone-line charges are separate from data fees, many Verizon customers will end up paying more if they switch. New customers will not have a choice – the old plans are being dropped and replaced by the Share Everything packages starting June 28. Existing customers can keep their current plans.
Here's how it works:
• You'll pay a basic monthly line access charge per device. A smartphone costs $40; a feature phone, $30; MiFis, data sticks and broadband-equipped notebooks pay $20. Tablets are just $10.
• On top of that, you'll pay a single monthly fee for shared data, which varies based on how much data your devices need. The minimum is $50 for a single gigabyte, but you can pay as much as $100 for 10 GB. The sweet spot for most folks will likely be $60/2 GB, $70/4 GB or $80/6 GB. Up to 10 devices can share one pool of data.
• Verizon no longer charges separate tiers for voice minutes or text messages. Those are covered by the line access charge, and both are considered unlimited.
• Verizon also will no longer charge a separate fee for tethering.
• Data overages vary based on the device. For example, if you go over your limit on a plan that includes at least one smartphone, tablet, MiFi or data stick, it will cost $15 per gigabyte. On a plan that only has feature phones, it's $15 for every 300 megabytes over.
Verizon has a table that compares the various plans, and you can find more detail here.
As you can see, this can get pricey, but depending on how you structure your package, it could save money.
If you've got a smartphone, the minimum you'll pay is $90. That's more than the minimum under current plans, which is $70 for a smartphone using 2 GB of data and 450 voice minutes. Then again, that lesser figure doesn't include text messages. Throw in unlimited SMS, and you're now up to $90.
In my household, where we have four iPhones and one feature phone, we'd pay
$150 $190 just for line access charges. We'd probably need the 4-GB data plan, which adds $70, for a total of $220 $260. Our monthly cell bill on AT&T is about $300, so we'd save money if we jumped to this. However, two of us have unlimited data plans with AT&T, and we'd have to give those up – though with the company's throttling policy, "unlimited" is actually limited to about 3 GB.
One aspect that's not detailed in Verizon's announcement: the fate of its unlimited data plans. Last month, Verizon said it would end grandfathered, unlimited data plans with the advent of shared data. That will happen as customers move to LTE-based smartphones.
AT&T is expected to move to this kind of plan later this summer. It will be interesting to see how Ma Bell 2.0 competes.
How would your family fare under these new plans?
Update: It turns out that there is a way you can keep your unlimited plan with an LTE phone after June 28. As this FAQ from the Associated Press notes, you can pay the full, unsubsidized price for a new smartphone and hold onto the unlimited plan:
Q: What if I have an "unlimited data" plan? Can I keep it?
A: Yes, you can. But -and there's a big "but" here- Verizon will no longer let you move the plan to a new phone after June 28, unless you pay the full, unsubsidized price for it. For most smartphones that will add hundreds of dollars to the price. A subsidized Verizon iPhone 4S costs $200. The price you'll pay if you keep your unlimited plan: $650. (Verizon stopped signing up new customer for unlimited a year ago)


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In this section you can listen to fun chants to hear how we use grammar. You can also play games and print activities to help you understand. Have fun saying tongue twisters in English. Saying tongue twisters can be difficult at first, so don't worry if you can't do kids training bra very well to begin with.
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We have lots of great colouring pages for you to have fun practising English vocabulary. There are pictures for many different topics including people, places and different times of the year. Download and print, then read and colour. In this section there are craft activities for you to print. Try and speak in English while you are making them. We have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children. Make your own comic strip and send it to your friends.


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I had a feeling that post would Pope me. Let's see, a decree:
OR a hobby or endeavor you would like to take up in the future.
Or something you used to do, but you don't anymore.
When I was young I was a voracious reader. Somehow in college I lost the habit. I got it back for a while some years after college, but now I hardly ever read. It really bothers me, but I always seem to have too much work to do. I really should do something about that.
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Hi folks,
I've searched tabs for the following songs:
1/ Messin with a kid- Rory Gallegher
2/Highway to hell-AC/DC
Ok, fine I got them. But wait?????So many tab sites have them and when I downloaded these tabs from few sites there seem to me abit of discrepency in the notes represented in some of them and "I do not trust at all" a few versions either.
So how do I go about solving which one to use?? And how do I know which one is really the "right" version and which one is not??
What should I be looking for in a tab for true authenticity?? For example, some have barlines and some haven't??
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The Windows Azure Service Bus and the Access Control Service (ACS) are good friends – buddies, indeed.
Almost all official Windows Azure Service Bus-related demos use a shared secret approach to authenticate directly against ACS (although it actually is not an identity provider), get back a token and then send that token over to the Service Bus. This magic usually happens all under the covers when using the WCF bindings.
All in all, this is not really what we need and seek for in real projects.
We need the ability to have users or groups (or: identities with certain claims) authenticate against identity providers that are already in place. This IdP needs to be federated with the Access Control Service which then in turn spits out a token the Service Bus can understand.
Wouldn't it be nice to authenticate via username/password (for real end users) or via certificates (for server/services entities)?
Let's see how we can get this working by using our thinktecture IdentityServer. For the purpose of this blog post I am using our demo IdSrv instance at https://identity.thinktecture.com/idsrv.
The first thing to do is to register IdSrv as an identity provider for the respective Service Bus ACS namespace. Each SB namespace has a so called buddy namespace in ACS. The buddy namespace for christianweyer is christianweyer-sb. You can get to it by clicking the Access Control Service button in the Service Bus portal like here:
In the ACS portal for the SB buddy namespace we can then add a new identity provider.
thinktecture IdentityServer does support various endpoints and protocols, but for this scenario we are going to add IdSrv as a WS-Federation-compliant IdP to ACS. At the end we will be requesting SAML token from IdSrv.
The easiest way to add it to ACS is to use the service metadata from https://identity.thinktecture.com/idsrv/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
Note: Make sure that the checkbox is ticked for the ServiceBus relying party at the bottom of the page.
Next, we need to add new claims rules for the new IdP.
Let's create a new rule group.
I am calling the new group IdSrv SB users. In that group I want to add at least one rule which says that a user called Bob is allowed to open endpoints on my Service Bus namespace.
In order to make our goal, we say that when an incoming claim of (standard) type name contains a value Bob then we are going to emit a new claim of type net.windows.servicebus.action with the Listen value. This is the claim the Service Bus can understand.
Simple and powerful.
We could now just add a couple more rules here for other users or even X.509 client certificates.
Before we can leave the ACS configuration alone we need to enable the newly created rule group on the ServiceBus relying party:
… and last but not least I have to add a new relying party configuration in Identity Server for my SB buddy namespace with its related WRAP endpoint:
For using the external IdP in my WCF-based Service Bus applications I wrote a very small and simpler helper class with extension methods for the TransportClientEndpointBehavior. It connects to the STS/IdP requesting a SAML token which is then used as the credential for the Service Bus.
using System; using System.IdentityModel.Tokens; using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates; using System.ServiceModel; using System.ServiceModel.Security; using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust; using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.Bindings; using Microsoft.ServiceBus; namespace ServiceBus.Authentication { public static class TransportClientEndpointBehaviorExtensions { public static string GetSamlTokenForUsername( this TransportClientEndpointBehavior behavior, string issuerUrl, string serviceNamespace, string username, string password) { var trustChannelFactory = new WSTrustChannelFactory( new UserNameWSTrustBinding(SecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential), new EndpointAddress(new Uri(issuerUrl))); trustChannelFactory.TrustVersion = TrustVersion.WSTrust13; trustChannelFactory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = username; trustChannelFactory.Credentials.UserName.Password = password; try { var tokenString = RequestToken(serviceNamespace, trustChannelFactory); trustChannelFactory.Close(); return tokenString; } catch (Exception ex) { trustChannelFactory.Abort(); throw; } } public static string GetSamlTokenForCertificate( this TransportClientEndpointBehavior behavior, string issuerUrl, string serviceNamespace, string certificateThumbprint) { var trustChannelFactory = new WSTrustChannelFactory( new CertificateWSTrustBinding(SecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential), new EndpointAddress(new Uri(issuerUrl))); trustChannelFactory.TrustVersion = TrustVersion.WSTrust13; trustChannelFactory.Credentials.ClientCertificate.SetCertificate( StoreLocation.CurrentUser, StoreName.My, X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, certificateThumbprint); try { var tokenString = RequestToken(serviceNamespace, trustChannelFactory); trustChannelFactory.Close(); return tokenString; } catch (Exception ex) { trustChannelFactory.Abort(); throw; } } private static string RequestToken(string serviceNamespace, WSTrustChannelFactory trustChannelFactory) { var rst = new RequestSecurityToken(WSTrust13Constants.RequestTypes.Issue, WSTrust13Constants.KeyTypes.Bearer); rst.AppliesTo = new EndpointAddress( String.Format("https://{0}-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net/WRAPv0.9/", serviceNamespace)); rst.TokenType = Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityTokenTypes.Saml2TokenProfile11; var channel = (WSTrustChannel)trustChannelFactory.CreateChannel(); var token = channel.Issue(rst) as GenericXmlSecurityToken; var tokenString = token.TokenXml.OuterXml; return tokenString; } } }
Following is a sample usage of the above class.
static void Main(string[] args) { var serviceNamespace = "christianweyer"; var usernameIssuerUrl = "https://identity.thinktecture.com/idsrv/issue/wstrust/mixed/username"; var host = new ServiceHost(typeof(EchoService)); var a = ServiceBusEnvironment.CreateServiceUri( "https", serviceNamespace, "echo"); var b = new WebHttpRelayBinding(); b.Security.RelayClientAuthenticationType = RelayClientAuthenticationType.None; // for demo only! var c = typeof(IEchoService); var authN = new TransportClientEndpointBehavior(); var samlToken = authN.GetSamlTokenForUsername( usernameIssuerUrl, serviceNamespace, "bob", "......."); authN.TokenProvider = TokenProvider.CreateSamlTokenProvider(samlToken); var ep = host.AddServiceEndpoint(c, b, a); ep.Behaviors.Add(authN); ep.Behaviors.Add(new WebHttpBehavior()); host.Open(); Console.WriteLine("Service running..."); host.Description.Endpoints.ToList() .ForEach(enp => Console.WriteLine(enp.Address)); Console.ReadLine(); host.Close(); }
And the running service in action (super spectacular!)
Hope this helps!


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Here's Brian Ingerson's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant application.
Name: Ingy döt Net
Email: [email protected]
Project Title: Port PyYAML to Perl
Amount Requested: $3000
Synopsis: >
PyYAML is a pure Python implementation of the YAML 1.1
specification(2). It is considered the highest quality YAML
implementation to date. It has an excellent API (including streaming
SAX-like support), a comprehensive test suite, full unicode support,
very good tagging/type support, follows the spec precisely and is
written in a style that makes it easy to port. It has already been
ported to pure Ruby(3), and is considered by the YAML community to be
the standard reference implementation. It would greatly benefit both
the YAML and Perl communities to port this code to a Perl module.
Benefits to the Perl Community: |
* A solid, dependable pure Perl implementation of YAML
* Ability to share YAML reliably with Ruby and Python
* A streaming interface as well as the Dump/Load API
* Full support for YAML implicit types
* More control for how YAML objects get serialized
* Better error messages
YAML is currently used for many important Perl projects such as SVK,
Plagger(5), Catalyst(6), Jifty(7) and Kwiki(8) to name a few. It is used
to store CPAN metadata(9). Currently most of these use cases are small
and simple config files.
YAML was designed to scale to much more elaborate use cases. For
instance, the Perl 6(10) community, where it is used as a kind of Perl
6 bytecode(11) to transport a Pugs AST from Haskell to Perl 6, to Perl
5 and back.
For YAML to be used as a solid platform for flawless data transport, it
needs rock solid implementations. This project will deliver that.
Deliverables: |
* Port all the classes of PyYAML to Perl
* Port all of the PyYAML tests and make them pass
* Write full documentation for all the classes and the API
* Release this module as YAML.pm, replacing the legacy code
Relevant History: >
The YAML serialization project was started in May 2001 with the intent
of bringing a simple yet complete, plain text, human friendly data
serialization language to all programming languages. It was designed
with an information module that very closely follows the Perl data
model of potentially tagged (blessed) scalars, arrays and hashes with
potentially cyclic references. This makes it an excellent choice for
languages like Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP.
The language took several years to design, has a very complete
specification document and has had two major versions, 1.0 and 1.1.
The YAML language specification 1.1 has been fairly stable for over a
year and a half now.
In late 2001, Brian Ingerson wrote the original YAML.pm(12) Perl
implementation. This is still the primary implementation used by the
Perl world today. Although it is generally useful it has many
problems. Its parser is very incomplete. It parses a subset of YAML
1.0. It generally can parse what it emits, but there are bugs in that
regard too. Its type resolution is severely lacking. The code is
rather poorly written, and lacks significantly in its test suite.
In early 2002, Brian talked coworker Steve Howell into writing an
implementation for Python. Dubbed PyYaml, it was indeed written, but
was generally considered even worse than the YAML.pm. For years,
Python has had very lacking YAML support.
Later in 2002, Why The Lucky Stiff began writing a Ruby
implementation. The Ruby community rallied behind him, and YAML
started showing up all over the place in Ruby projects. In 2003, Why
decided to write a C implementation called Syck(13), aka libsyck. This
library was written following the YAML 1.0 spec. It was amazingly
fast, and was soon ported to Python, PHP and OCaml. Syck became the
YAML codebase that is distributed the Ruby itself.
In 2004, the YAML spec went through some significant change, and was
thus dubbed YAML 1.1. While the basic syntax remained the same, the
tagging system and directive declaration was revamped.
In early 2006, Audrey Tang ported Syck to Perl as YAML::Syck(14). The
code is very fast and offers improvement over YAML.pm, but it too has
many problems. It is still YAML 1.0, with its own set of bugs. It
doesn't produce good error messages. It ocassionally segfaults. This
is almost entirely the fault of libsyck, not YAML::Syck. It also lacks
most of the advanced features of YAML.pm, which allow more control of
how objects get serialized.
In Spring of 2006, Kirill Simonov, began a project code named PyYAML
3000. It later simply took on the name PyYAML, replacing the old code
base. This new Python code followed the spec in every way, and even
exposed a few bugs in the spec. It was intended from the start to be a
reference implementation, and is currently considered the best
implementation available.
Also in Spring of 2006, Ola Bini ported PyYAML to Ruby, giving Ruby
the same benefits that Python was now enjoying. This left Perl as the
language with the worst YAML support. A sad thing.
In June 2006, Kirill Simonov was awarded a Google Summer of Code grant(15)
to write a C implementation of YAML tools and bind them to Python.
This code will eventually become libyaml, and will be bound to many
languages, including Perl.
NOTE: My proposal does not include porting libyaml (which doesn't even
exist yet) to Perl. Although when it is ready, I will likely
distribute a binding of it with YAML.pm.
Project Details: >
Most users of YAML and YAML.pm are only aware of the simple Dump/Load
interface, but in reality there is a stack of processing that happens.
PyYAML gives programming access to each of those layers of the YAML
The Dump stack looks like this:
* Dumper
* Representer
* Serializer
* Emitter
The Load stack looks like this:
* Loader
* Constructor
* Composer
* Parser
* Scanner
PyYAML has classes for all these processes. These classes will be
ported as accurately as possible to Perl while taking defacto standard
Perl coding styles into account.
The resulting module distribution will have no dependency
modules/distributions if possible. It will likely use Test::Base for
testing, but will be packaged using the Module::Install method that
does not require Test::Base to be installed.
The current YAML.pm has a YAML::Node generic node class that is used
as a meta object under certain circumstances, to acheive certain goals
such as customized serialization. The new project will attempt to make
this, and other details like this, backwards compatible with the
current YAML.pm.
This work is intended to be done in the open and will have a
publically readable Subversion repository(17), a Trac, a mailing
list(18) and an irc channel(19).
Project Schedule: >
This project should take me a month or two. I can begin working on it
Bio: >
Ingy döt Net is a prolific Perl module author and one of the three
people who designed the YAML serialization language. He wrote the
original YAML.pm, which has served the community fairly well, but is
severely lacking in many ways. Ingy is intimately aware of both the
serialization needs of Perl and of the multilayered architecture of a
properly written YAML implementation.
Note: I realize this proposal seemingly contradicts what I once said in
my use.perl.org journal(20), but... what the heck!
- 1) http://pyyaml.org/
- 2) http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.html
- 3) http://rbyaml.rubyforge.org/
- 4) http://svk.elixus.org/
- 5) http://plagger.org/trac
- 6) http://www.catalystframework.org/
- 7) http://www.jifty.org/view/HomePage
- 8) http://search.cpan.org/dist/Kwiki/
- 9) http://search.cpan.org/src/INGY/YAML-0.62/META.yml
- 10) http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
- 11) http://perlsoc2006.blogspot.com/2006/06/progress-marches-on.html
- 12) http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML/
- 13) http://whytheluckystiff.net/syck/
- 14) http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML-Syck/
- 15) http://code.google.com/soc/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=75A3CBE3EC4B3DB2
- 16) http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.html#id859109
- 17) http://svn.kwiki.org/
- 18) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core
- 19) irc://irc.freenode.net/#yaml
- 20) http://use.perl.org/~ingy/journal/


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Add your favorite cities to the Weather Bar to quickly switch to the three-day forecast for up to five cities. Forecasts are available for cities worldwide.
Next to the location name, click the down arrow, and then click Add location.
In the search box, type a city, and then click or press Enter. You can also enter a ZIP or Postal Code.
If multiple cities match your search, click the city you want.
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I recently had the need to move the MSDTC for a cluster to a new SAN drive. It's a quite simple thing to do, but you can't redirect the MSDTC resource to a new drive. Let's just walk through the basic steps.
The first thing you need to do is get the new drive added to the cluster and put into the proper group. If the drive is being presented from a SAN and you have multiple paths to that SAN, then you will need to setup whatever multi-pathing software you have. If you're not sure, then an easy test is to open Window Disk Management and see how many new drives are there. If there are more drives there than you are supposed to have, then you need to setup your multi-pathing. Once you get that setup and reboot, you should now see the correct number of drives. If you are on a cluster, you need to do this on each node in the cluster.
Now that your drives are correctly presented to the OS, it's time to bring them online and format them. You can do this from the node in the cluster that your services are currently running on and you only have to do this on that one node. Right click the drive in Windows Disk Management and select online. Now that the drive is online you need to right click it again and select initialize. Finally you need to format it by right clicking the drive and selecting New Simple Volume. Walk through the wizard giving it a drive letter and formatting it with a label. Don't worry about what drive letter you assign as we can change that later.
You are now ready to add the drive to the cluster. Open the Cluster Manager MMC, expand the cluster, and select storage in the left hand pane. In the right hand pane you will see all of your cluster groups with their assigned storage below the group. Select Add Disk in the actions pane and select the disk to add. You will now see a group called Available Storage where you will find your new drive. Right click the drive to which you plan to move the MSDTC, go to more options, and select Move this resource to another service or application. You want to select your MSDTC group.
At this point everything is now setup and ready for the move. Unfortunately you can't simply change the MSDTC resource object to point to a new drive. You have to delete the resource and create a new one. In Cluster Manager, expand your MSDTC group, right click the MSDTC resource and select Delete. In the actions pane on the right, click Add Resource and under More Resources select Add Distributed Transaction Coordinator. Do not bring the resource online yet as we need to define its dependencies. Double click the resource and go to the dependencies tab. Here you need to make it dependent on both the network name and the new cluster disk you just added. Click OK and bring the resource online. You have now successfully moved your cluster MSDTC to another drive, but let's verify it. Open Windows explorer and view the new drive. You should now see a folder called MSDTC, which verifies the move.
The last thing you want to do is some clean up. Go back into Cluster Manager and select the Storage node in the left hand pane. Under your MSDTC group, right click the old MSDTC disk and select Remove. This will remove the old storage drive from the cluster group and put it back into the available storage group.
If you want to reuse the old drive letter (Typically M:\), then right click the old drive under the Available Storage group and select Change Drive Letter. Now you can right click the old drive and select delete, which will remove it from the Available Storage group in Cluster Manager. In order to assign your new drive to the previously used drive letter, simply right click it in Cluster Manager and select Change Drive Letter. The old drive letter will now be available, so simply select it. After changing the drive letter you now need to restart the MSDTC group.
More Information – If you are moving your cluster MSDTC drive you might want to check out the following posts:
How to move cluster Quorum drive
How to move the Master database
How to move the Model database
How to move the TempDB database


text: 07 Oct 2013 08:00 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today announced the launch of direct flights to Los Angeles, California. The expansion of its US operation will see the airline commence non-stop daily flights between its Abu Dhabi home-base (AUH) and Los Angeles (LAX) from June 1, 2014, subject to regulatory approvals.The Californian city will be Etihad Airways' fourth US destination, joining Chicago, New York and Washington D.C, and will see the airline provide 28 return flights each week between the UAE and US.The announcement was made by James Hogan, Etihad Airways' President and Chief Executive Officerin Los Angeles today, Monday, October 7.Mr Hogan said: "We are delighted to add Los Angeles, a major US and global destination with a significant metropolitan population and growing economy, to the Etihad Airways' network in 2014. This expansion will see Etihad Airways offer air travelers daily flights, from our Abu Dhabi hub, to four destinations across the US."The new service will increase Etihad Airways' operations in the US market by 33 percent and cater for growing leisure and business traffic demands in Los Angeles, as well as the considerable catchment area of the city.Los Angeles, one of the world's most iconic, popular, and multicultural destinations with a metropolitan population area of more than 18 million people, is the second largest in the US. It is classified as a 'global city' with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine and research. Mr Hogan added: "The expansion of the US network also will be of considerable benefit to the growing commercial and culturalties between the US and UAE, with trade between the two countries set to increase beyond the current annual level of USD 22.5 billion*."The new service will also offer maximum connectivity, via Abu Dhabi, with 25 Etihad Airways destinations across the Middle East region and Indian Subcontinent, 12 of which are in India, catering for the demand from Los Angeles' diverse and multicultural population."Etihad Airways, four times voted World's Leading Airline**, will deploy a three cabin ultra-long range Boeing 777-200LR on the Los Angeles operation.It will be configured to carry 237 guests, with 8 Diamond First Class suites, 40 Pearl Business Class flatbed seats, and 189 Coral Economy Class seats.Flight EY171 will depart daily from Abu Dhabi at 8.45am and arrive in Los Angeles at 2.15pm the same day. The return flight, EY170, will the depart Los Angeles at 4.15pm and arrive in Abu Dhabi at 7.35pm the following day.Etihad Airways' superior levels of service, hospitality and product have been popular with US air travelers since it launched flights to its first US destination, New York, in 2006.The airline has carried nearly two million passengers between Abu Dhabi and its destinations in the US in the last seven years, with 2013 passenger volumes expected to increase by 30 per cent over passengers carried in 2012.The airline's Diamond First Class has its own in-flight Chef; Pearl Business Class offers a specially trained Food and Beverage Manager; and families across all three cabins enjoy the benefits of the recently introduced Flying Nanny.Etihad Airways and American Airlines have had an extensive code share agreement in place since September 2009.Etihad Airways places its EY code on American flights through its current gateways of Chicago, New York and Washington DC to more than 70 US cities. The new operation to Los Angeles will strengthen further the reach and depth in the US.American places its AA code on all Etihad Airways flights between the US and UAE and this will also take place on the new Los Angeles service. Bize Ulaşın Tam anlamıyla uluslararası bir havayolu olarak, gerçekten küresel bir faaliyet ağına sahibiz. En yakın Etihad ofisi ile nasıl iletişim kuracağınızı öğrenin. İletişim bilgilerini görüntüleyin Geri bildirim Bize yorum, tebrik veya şikayetlerinizi göndermek ya da soru sormak isterseniz, lütfen buraya tıklayın Bizi Beğenin Facebook sayfamızı ziyaret edin! Bizi İzleyin YouTube kanalımızı ziyaret edin Bizi Takip Edin Etihad Havayolları | Etihad Kampanyaları | Etihad Yardım | Etihad Ödülleri


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Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, a primary school that teaches through the Manx language, celebrated its tenth anniversary in late June this year.
Manx is the traditional Gaelic language of the Isle of Man but it had been on a steady decline since the late 19th century, with the last native speaker of Manx, Ned Maddrell, dying in 1974. Since then, however, there have been a number of serious efforts to revive the language, including the establishment of Bunscoil Ghaelgagh. With the school roll having grown from just nine students to sixty nine in ten years; it is evident that many parents on the Isle of Man consider the preservation of the Gaelic language to be a goal of significant cultural importance.
Manx is considered by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be a "critically endangered" language, and is one of ten languages in the British Isles described as "vulnerable" or "endangered" by the organisation.
Despite strong efforts made to preserve languages such as Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh as living languages, many have struggled to stem the decline in the number of native speakers as a percentage of the population and the increasing dominance of English.
Efforts to revive Manx as a spoken tongue have succeeded in bucking this trend, however, as recent census figures suggest that an increasing number of residents of the Isle of Man (about 2.2% of the population) are claiming some knowledge of the language; an achievement helped, in no small part, by initiatives such as Bunscoil Ghaelgagh.
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WELCOME!Contacts for the Northwest Montana Wetland Management District – Lake County Units:
Contact: Refuge Manager
Phone: 406/644-2211
Fax: 406/644-2661
Address: National Bison Range
58355 Bison Range Road
Moiese, MT 59824
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com for the Northwest Montana Wetland Management District – Flathead County Units:
Refuge Manager at Lost Trail NWR
Fax: 406/858-2218
The Northwest Montana Wetland Management District, established in 1970, is located throughout Lake Counties in northwestern Montana. The Wetland District consists of 9 Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA) and the Conservation Easement Program. Also within this boundary, and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are the National Bison Range and the Ninepipe and Pablo National Wildlife Refuges.
Lake County WPAs and Conservation Easements are located from 3 to 9 miles north and northwest of the National Bison Range.
Establishing Purpose:
Lands were acquired for migratory bird use subject to all provisions of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715-715r), except the inviolate sanctuary provisions due to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718).
Lake County WPAs:
Duck Haven - 719 acres
Herak - 80 acres
Anderson - 163 acres
Kickinghorse - 169 acres
Montgomery - 80 acres
Johnson 80 - 80 acres
Sandsmark - 400 acres
Crow - 1,549 acres
Ereaux - 28 acres
Conservation Easements:
Lake County - 6,300 acres
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- Located in the Flathead and Mission Valley
floor consisting of intermountain grasslands interspersed with wetlands in
high densities.
- The 100,000 year Wisconsin glaciation carved
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valley floor.
- Flathead WPA consists of 7 miles of lake
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waterfowl species such as Canada geese, mallards, redheads, pintails, American
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- The upland area supports ringB
necked pheasants and gray partridge and is nesting habitat for savannah
sparrows, meadowlarks and song sparrows.
- One of the WPAs supports a peregrine falcon
hacking tower which has had a nesting pair of birds for the past ten years.
Young falcons are regularly fledged from this nest.
- These areas support high nesting
concentrations of short-eared owls and northern harriers, plus are important
wintering areas for rough-legged hawks, red-tailed hawks, and northern
- Shorebirds use the WPAs during migration and
for nesting. These include killdeer, American avocet, black-necked stilts,
Wilson= s phalaropes and yellowlegs.
- Smaller mammals include muskrat, striped skunk, mink, badgers, meadow voles and porcupines.
- All WPAs are smaller tracts of wetlands and
uplands purchased with funds from the sale of Federal Duck Stamps under the
Small Wetlands Acquisition Program.
- Units that contain habitat for waterfowl are
purchased from willing sellers when money and acreage are available. Units are
sometimes expanded as opportunities arise.
- Dates of initial purchase:
Lake County WPAs:
Duck Haven - March, 1988
Herak - November, 1975
Ereaux - 1998
Kickinghorse - February, 1991
Montgomery - November, 1974
Sandsmark - October, 1975
Crow - December, 1989
Johnson 80 - December, 1989
Anderson - February, 1991
Conservation Easements: Lake County - 1994 - ongoing
- Lake County units are managed by National
Bison Range personnel and units in Flathead County are managed by an Assistant
Refuge Manager stationed at Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge.
- Conservation easements are tracts of land where ownership remain with fee title owner, but the rights to subdivide or develop the tract are purchased by the Service with Land and Water Conservation Funds and Migratory Bird monies.
Cultural Resources
- The WPAs are open to public hunting of
waterfowl and upland in game birds accordance with applicable Federal, State
and Tribal regulations.
- Fishing and trapping are allowed in
accordance with applicable State and Tribal regulations.< Nature observation and wildlife photography
are encouraged.
- Smith Lake WPA is listed as a Watchable
Wildlife Site in the Montana Wildlife Viewing Guide. It is considered an
excellent viewing site for waterfowl and shorebirds.
- WPAs in Flathead County are closed to all public access from March 1 to July 15 to reduce disturbance to nesting birds.
Other Uses
- Farming, haying and grazing are allowed on the WPAs under Special-Use Permits.


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Expertise: Ambiguous Genitalia, Bladder Exstrophy, Major Urologic Birth Defects, Pediatric Urology, Urologic Surgery, Urology
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Dr. John P. Gearhart is a professor of pediatrics and urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and serves as Director of Pediatric Urology at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. His clinical and surgical interests focus on the evaluation and treatment of children born with major congenital birth defects, bladder exstrophy, disorders of sexual development and childhood urinary cancers.
Dr. Gearhart received his M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1975. After an internship in surgery and residencies in surgery and urology at the Medical College of Georgia, he completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at Alder Hey Children's Hospital of the University of Liverpool School of Medicine in 1981.
Following two years as a urologist at St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, he completed a second fellowship in pediatric urology at Johns Hopkins in 1985 and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty thereafter as an associate professor of pediatric urology.
Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Gearhart has been lauded as a pioneer in pediatric urology and reconstructive genitourinary surgery. He has published extensively and has received numerous awards and guest lectureships. He is a member of several national and international professional organizations and is a founding member of the Society of Reconstructive Genitourinary Surgeons.
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- MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine (1975)
- Medical College of Georgia - Augusta University / General Surgery (1977)
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- Alder Hey Children's Hospital / Pediatric Urology (1981)
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- American Board of Urology / Urology (1982)
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Research Summary
Dr. Gearhart's clinical and surgical research interests focus largely on the evaluation and treatment of the bladder muscle, nerve supply, and collagen content of the extrophied bladder. He also oversees long-term follow up studies of patients with disorders of sexual development. Additionally, he studies and implements new techniques to evaluate and treat children with childhood kidney tumors, and to reconstruct the bladders of children who have undergone previous failed bladder exstrophy closures.
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- Invited guest lecturer, World Congress of Pediatric Surgery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007
- 1st Charles J. Devine Memorial Lecture, at American Urological Association, Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons Meeting, 2007
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- Mater's Lecture in Pediatric Urology, AAP Annual Meeting, 2003
- Lavengood Memorial Lectureship, Cornell University School of Medicine, 2003
- Special Consultant on Pediatric Surgery/Urology, National Health Service, London, England, 2002
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- Invited Guest Lecturer, Society of Pediatric Urology, 1992
- Invited Guest Lecturer, Society of Pediatric Urology, 1997
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- Anglo-American Visiting Professor Teaching Scholarship and Medal, Royal Society of Medicine, 1995
- Pediatric Poster Session Winner, American Urological Association, 1989
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text: Igniting a passion for science is a central element of the STEAM initiative. The new Arkansas K-4 Science Standards were implemented in the 2016-2017 school year. The new standards are based on the latest research on science education and are challenging teachers to make important shifts in teaching practices. Students are challenged as well. We feel strongly that science should be less about memorizing facts and formulas and instead, focusing on fostering the practices and skills that are essential to career scientists. In addition, the new standards integrate engineering, too. The Project Lead The Way (PLTW) curriculum was selected for its focus on integrating science content within engineering focused learning. Sequoyah Elementary is currently in it's second year of PLTW implementation. Students receive hands-on engaging science instruction in the classroom, and in science lab weekly. Computer Science is another area of emphasis. Through innovative approaches, students explore beginner computer programming skills. The goal of our science instruction is for students to develop the scientific literacy and skills required for the 21st century.


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Sometimes when high-end designers team up with a lower priced retail giant, the quality sometimes doesn't live up to their regular collection's standards. But that isn't the case with Georgina Chapman of Marchesa's line Pearl for the brand.
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The bass line on Pour Some Sugar On Me is pretty simple. I'm gonna have to dumby down to play that one. The band seems to be heading in the wrong direction. If it does not turn around and head back to "Bluesville" I'm gonna have to find something else. Some of my fans have asked me what I am doing. They tell me they enjoyed me when I was doing them powerhouse blues and I tell them that's still my favorite. Delemma's, delemma's. I got wind that my old group is thinking of getting back together. I emailed the guitar player and mentioned that I would like to put the band back in service but just for recording purposes.
I got to thinking that hooking back up with an ex-band might be like hooking back up with an ex-wife. Hooking up with any one of my ex's does not sound appealing. When the old band broke up I had waited for two months for these dudes to decide if we were gonna continue and even then they were not ready. What is ya' all's take on this. I'm gonna see if any offer comes across the email but I'm sort of leary of going back. I have the feeling I should move forwards, always.


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A group representing pediatricians says disciplining students with out-of-school suspension or expulsion is counterproductive to school goals and should only be used on case by case basis.
The policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that pediatricians familiarize themselves with the policies of their local school districts, and advocate for prevention and alternative strategies.
'The adverse effect of out-of-school suspension and expulsion on the student can be profound,' the experts write in the journal Pediatrics on Monday.
'Data suggest that students who are involved in the juvenile justice system are likely to have been suspended or expelled. Further, students who experience out-of-school suspension and expulsion are as much as 10 times more likely to ultimately drop out of high school than are those who do not,' they add.
Kathy Cowan, director of communications for the National Association of School Psychologists in Bethesda, Maryland, said their organization largely supports the AAP's statements.
'Sometimes (out-of-school suspension and expulsion) are absolutely necessary, but they're not effective at improving behavior in general,' Cowan told Reuters Health.
The AAP says students who are punished with out-of-school suspension and expulsion may be left without supervision during the day and engage in more inappropriate behavior.
The experts also say out-of-school suspension and expulsion does not deal with possible underlying issues, such as drug abuse, racial tension, violence and bullying.
In addition to the costs incurred by the school district from disciplinary hearings and providing services for the child, the pediatricians say there is also a cost to society.
'A high-school dropout will earn $400,000 less over a lifetime than a high school graduate. The dropout will pay $60,000 less in taxes,' they write.
To prevent out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, the pediatricians suggest developing early interventions for preschool children, early identification of children who may have problems in school and clear codes of conduct.
Specifically, they recommend a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support program as a preventive, alternative, tool that teaches proper behavior on a school-wide level and that addresses problems with groups and individual students as well.
The AAP also called on Pediatricians to screen for and recognize behavioral problems in early childhood, to be in communication with the school's nurse or counselor, to be involved with special accommodations for certain students and to be appropriately compensated for their involvement.
Cowan said the AAP should be applauded for their efforts.
'Pediatricians are such an important voice on these issues, because parents trust the pediatricians and they're the ones seeing kids,' she said.
Dr. Jeffrey Lamont, the policy statement's lead author, did not respond to requests for comment.


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International Medieval Congress
The following conference sessions, panels, and business meetings involving digital subjects are being proposed for the 14th International Medieval Congress, which takes place in Leeds, July 10-13, 2006.
The theme of the 2006 conference is "Emotion and Gesture," although other topics are welcome. For further details, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html. Deadline for individual papers is August 31, 2005. Session proposals (with speakers) are due September 30, 2005.
When sessions have been finalised, this page will be brought to the attention of the conference organisers in an attempt to avoid conflicts between digital sessions at the conference.
- 31 August, 2005 — IMC Deadline for Individual Paper Submission
- 1 September, 2005 — Digital Medievalist Session Deadline for Paper Proposals
- 1 September, 2005 — REED Session Deadline for Paper Proposals
- 30 September, 2005 — IMC Deadline for Session Proposals
Proposed Sessions for 2006
Digital Medievalist Sessions
Codices Electronici: Digital Manuscript Libraries
This session brings together medievalists from Germany and Switzerland working on digital resources in the areas of manuscript studies, but especially in relation to digital libraries. The creation of online electronic surrogates for manuscripts offers many new and exciting possibilities for those in various fields such as codicology, plaeography, art history, and bibliography. However, the managing of the associated metadata, and the variation in quality and standards between libraries also causes problems. This session concentrates on the exemplary work of such projects as 'Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis' and 'Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Sangallenses'.
Texts, Databases, and Dictionaries
This session brings together medievalists who are looking at texts as databases and have particular insights into the text vs database debate which separates the methodologies of many digital medievalists. The papers highlight the benefits of thinking about our interaction with texts in new ways, not limiting ourselves to simple facsimiles based on print models but approaching the problems of manuscript study in new ways. This session contains papers on the creation of editions and resources, with a special concentration on Middle Dutch in two of the papers.
Records of Early English Drama Sessions
Digital REED
This session, organised on behalf of the Records of Early English Drama Project (REED), will concentrate on the use or possible uses of digital technology in the research into early drama records such as undertaken by the REED project. REED has long been involved with digital technology and has recently made all of their volumes freely available via the Internet Archive and uploaded a new research and educational web site. This session contains papers on the development and future of the REED Patrons and Performances website, as well as the use of technology to rediscover hidden records of early english drama.


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Find Hillsborough County Florida FDA offices, centers, labs and buildings of the US Food and Drug Administration. FDA offices provide information on food safety and recalls, drugs, pharmaceutical and medication approval, research, testing and regulation, medical devices, vaccines, cosmetics, tobacco products and regulatory science and consumer safety.
FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs Tampa 3550 Buschwood Park Drive Tampa FL 33618 813-915-7964
Hillsborough County FDA Offices are branch locations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major regulatory agency within the Department of Health and Human Services in Hillsborough County, FL. The FDA regulates a vast range of food and drug related products in order to protect Hillsborough County public health. The regulation of food is intended to ensure the safety of the Hillsborough County food supply. The regulation of drugs and medical products is intended to ensure their safety, efficacy, and security. The FDA also regulates tobacco products, cosmetics, and electronic products that emit radiation. In addition to regulatory efforts that protect public health, the FDA works to spur innovations that can increase food safety and make medicines and medical devices safer and more effective.You may contact the FDA for questions about:
The FDA oversees most of Hillsborough County's food supply, excluding meat, poultry, and egg products. The food program ensures that production methods comply with science-based standards in order to prevent food-borne illnesses and to protect against intentional contamination. The FDA also monitors animal feed and animal drugs for their potential impact on the safety of human food. Oversight also covers food labeling to ensure its accuracy and reliability. When problems or instances of non-compliance are detected as a result of event reporting, inspections, or sampling, the Hillsborough County FDA Office has the authority to issue product recalls and to take action against producers, including criminal action.Drug Approval
Before a drug may be sold in the U.S., the FDA must approve it. The FDA receives and evaluates drug test results from drug companies to ensure that drugs are safe and effective before they are approved for sale in Hillsborough County. As is the case with food products, the FDA also oversees the production of drugs and medical products.Hillsborough County Tobacco Regulation
The FDA's regulation of tobacco products is aimed at minimizing the sale and distribution of tobacco products to Hillsborough County children. The FDA monitors tobacco marketing and conducts inspections of Hillsborough County retailers to ensure compliance.Consumer Product Regulation
The reach of the Hillsborough County FDA's regulatory authority extends to vaccines and other biologics, cosmetics, and radiation emitting electronics. The federal agency employs roughly 13,000 people in four directorates organized around its core functions: Food Safety, Medical Products and Tobacco, Global Regulatory Operations and Policy.


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Mark Sanchez is done as a New York Jet.
The Jets have announced that Dr. James Andrews will perform season-ending shoulder surgery on Sanchez today. With the team fully committed to Geno Smith as its quarterback of the future, there is almost no chance of Sanchez returning to the Jets in 2014. His time with the Jets has come to an end.
"After over seven weeks of hard work and intense rehab, I've been advised by Dr. Andrews and other doctors that my shoulder injury clearly needs to be addressed surgically," Sanchez said in a statement. "The injury was recovering at an encouraging rate early on, and I avoided surgery as long as I could, but ultimately I was counseled by the doctors that they simply would have to repair my shoulder."
The fifth overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft, Sanchez was hailed as the franchise savior as the Jets went to the AFC Championship Game in each of his first two seasons. But Sanchez never improved as a passer and became the subject of intense criticism as his team struggled. Now Sanchez will rehab his shoulder and look to revive his career somewhere else next year.