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- Product Types and Company Names
Product availability may vary by location and funding type and is subject to change. The legal entity insuring or administering any group product will vary depending on the group's location, the number of employees and the types of plans or products being offered.
The following chart shows the product types available and the Cigna companies that insure or administer these products in Florida:
Florida Group Product Types Cigna Company Name(s)
- HMO Open Access*
- POS (In-Network benefits)*
- POS Open Access (In-Network benefits)*
Cigna HealthCare of Florida, Inc.
- Voluntary, Limited Benefit Plans
- POS (Out-of-Network benefits)
- POS Open Access (Out-of-Network benefits)
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)**
- Open Access Plus (OAP)
- Network and Network Open Access**
- Network POS and Network Open Access POS
- Indemnity
- Cigna Choice Fund®
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company or Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- All self-funded medical plans, including Cigna Consumer Advantage® plans
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- Cigna Dental Care (DHMO)
Cigna Dental Health of Florida, Inc.***
- Cigna Traditional (Dental Indemnity)
- Cigna Dental PPO
- Cigna Dental Care® Value Plans
- CignaFlex Advantage®
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company or Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- All self-funded dental plans
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- Cigna Vision Plans (available as riders with a Cigna Health Benefit Plan)
Same company as Health Benefit Plan
- Cigna Vision PPO
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company or Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- Cigna Managed Pharmacy Plans (available as riders with a Cigna Health Benefit Plan)
Same company as Health Benefit Plan
- Term Life Insurance
Life Insurance Company of North America
- Group Universal Life Insurance
Connecticut GeneralLife Insurance Company
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
Life Insurance Company of North America
- Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
Life Insurance Company of North America
- Stop-Loss Insurance
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company or Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Cigna Behavioral Health, Inc.
- Cigna Onsite Health®
Cigna Onsite Health, L.L.C.
- Cigna Home Delivery PharmacySM
Tel-Drug, Inc. and Tel-Drug of Pennsylvania, L.L.C.
- Healthy Rewards®
- CignaPlus Savings®
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company or Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
*The Cigna HealthCare of Florida, Inc. service area is comprised of the following counties: Brevard, Broward, Clay, Dade, Duval, Hillsborough, Lake (only zip codes 34711, 34714, 34715, 34755), Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Seminole and Volusia (only zips 32713, 32725, 32738).
**In Florida, these lock-in products are only available for sale to customers sitused in the following counties: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Flagler, Hendry, Hernando, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Marion, Martin, Nassau, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Sarasota, Seminole, St. John's, St. Lucie, Sumter, Union, and Volusia.
***Cigna Dental Health of Florida, Inc. is a Prepaid Limited Health Services Organization licensed under Chapter 636, Florida Statutes.
If you are offered a Cigna plan through your employer and would like a better understanding of the benefit plan(s) offered to you, look for general descriptions in our Products and Services section.
- Health Related and Non-Insured Services
Cigna health benefit plans provide access to preventive care, health education and other forms of health related programs. Through our local and national wellness programs, customers can receive information and support that can help them learn how to stay fit and enjoy healthier lives. We encourage our customers to take advantage of these important wellness programs.
Current programs include:
- Cigna HealthCare Healthy Rewards. This program offers discounts on health and wellness programs and services. There are no added membership fees for the Healthy Rewards discount program. Cigna HealthCare customers and their covered family members are already qualified. Examples of services available through the program include discounts on products and services from health clubs, weight management systems, Lasik vision correction and magazine subscriptions. Please contact Customers Services using the number on your ID card to learn which Healthy Rewards programs are available in Florida.
- Cigna HealthCare 24-hour Health Information LineSM. We have a toll-free telephone line staffed with trained nurses who can answer questions, help direct members to the nearest Cigna HealthCare participating provider and help process urgent care referrals when necessary. Additionally, through this toll-free number, callers can access a Health Information Library of audio tapes on more than 1,000 various health conditions and topics.
- Cigna Well Aware for Better Health® offers help for these chronic conditions:
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Low back pain
- Depression
- Weight complications
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Targeted conditions*
- access to a personal, experienced registered nurse to call for guidance and support
- educational material about your condition
- self-care information
- reminders of important tests and exams
- informational newsletters
- Cigna HealthCare Healthy Babies® program. This program encourages prenatal care and provides important information and resources for parents-to-be. We supply valuable education materials from the March of Dimes® including Mama Magazine and other brochures about pregnancy. One of the many ways we emphasize early and regular access to proper prenatal care is by eliminating copayments for OB office visits after the initial visit.
- Provider Performance Outcome and Financial Data Disclosures
Customers are encouraged to view Florida provider performance outcome and financial data that will be posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration's Health Information website:
For more information, please call or write us at:
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Office hours:
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Telephone: 1.813.637.1200
Fax: 1. 813.637.1223
- Local Contacts
General Offices:
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Office hours:
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Telephone: 1.813.637.1200
Fax: 1.813.637.1223
Customer Inquiries:
Nationwide Customer Services Telephone Number: 1.800.832.3211
(Please note: this number may be different for your employer group. Please check your Cigna HealthCare ID card for the correct Customer Services telephone number.)
Login to myCigna to order Cigna HealthCare ID cards, check claim status, verify coverage and change your PCP.
Employer, Broker and Provider Inquiries – please telephone 1.813.637.1200 and follow applicable prompts.
Telephone: 1.800.832.3211
Fax: 1.813.288.7195
PLEASE NOTE: This information is provided as a convenience for our customers and Web section guests. Cigna companies assume no responsibility for the consequences arising out of using this service or the information it contains.
- General Information
Please note that the products and services described on Cigna's websites may not be applicable to you or available to you under your employer's plan. Please refer to your plan documents for information that is applicable to your specific plan.
If you are offered a Cigna plan through your employer and are a plan member or customer, or planning to become a plan member or customer, we recommend reading any disclosure that's applicable to you so that you can become more familiar with your plan and any state-specific mandates. If you are considering becoming a plan member or customer and have questions about your plan coverage, please contact your employer.
While reviewing the information on this page, it's important to note:
- The disclosures provided here are general and your plan documents may contain additional disclosures which are required by your state and/or specific to your plan. The disclosures in your plan documents take precedence.
- Certain mandates may only apply to certain plan types.
- State mandates may not apply to employer-funded (or self-funded) plans. Please contact your employer if you need to know whether your plan is self-funded and whether any state mandates apply to your plan.
- Exclusions and Limitations
All plans have exclusions, limitations, reduction of benefits and terms under which the policy may be continued in force or discontinued. Rates may vary based upon the plan design selected and employee demographics. Cigna reserves the right to change the premium rates. For a complete list of both covered and not covered services under your plan or policy, including benefits required by your state, see your evidence of coverage, insurance certificate or summary plan description.
- Discount Programs
CignaPlus Savings
- CignaPlus Savings is a dental discount program that provides customers access to discounted fees, pursuant to schedules negotiated by Cigna Dental with participating providers, which customers are responsible for paying in full, directly to participating providers. Although all participating providers go through a credentialing process to assure that they are appropriately licensed and qualified, Cigna Dental does not otherwise guarantee nor is it responsible for the quality of any services or products purchased by customers. Customers have the right to cancel within thirty (30) calendar days of enrolling in the program. For more information, please call or write the company:
Cigna Dental
Attn: Operations
1571 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, Suite 140
Sunrise, FL 33323
Telephone: 1.877.521.0244
Healthy Rewards
- This program offers discounts on health and wellness programs and services. If your Cigna plan includes coverage for any of these services, this program is in addition to, not instead of, your plan benefits. Healthy Rewards programs are separate from your medical benefits. A discount program is NOT insurance, and the customer must pay the entire discounted charge.
- CignaPlus Savings is a dental discount program that provides customers access to discounted fees, pursuant to schedules negotiated by Cigna Dental with participating providers, which customers are responsible for paying in full, directly to participating providers. Although all participating providers go through a credentialing process to assure that they are appropriately licensed and qualified, Cigna Dental does not otherwise guarantee nor is it responsible for the quality of any services or products purchased by customers. Customers have the right to cancel within thirty (30) calendar days of enrolling in the program. For more information, please call or write the company:
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Plan Option
HRAs can only be chosen together with certain plan types. Your HRA is self-funded by your employer, who is solely responsible for contributing the funds used to pay benefits under your plan using the funds in your HRA. You are not required to make any contribution to the HRA account, either pursuant to a salary deduction election or otherwise under a Section 125 cafeteria plan (except that contributions are required from those under COBRA continuation coverage). You may not enroll under this option if you are considered self-employed (including partners and more-than-2% shareholders in a subchapter S corporation).
- Health Savings Account (HSA) Pre-enrollment Statements
WARNING: You cannot open an HSA if, in addition to coverage under an HSA-qualified High Deductible Health Plan ("HDHP"), you are also covered under a Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or an HRA or any other health coverage that is not a HDHP.
If you have elected to enroll in a HSA plan, you expressed your interest in opening a Health Savings Account with JPMorgan Chase Bank (Mellon Trust of New England, N.A. for GWH-Cigna Customers), an HSA service provider, or any other successor HSA service provider (hereafter "the HSA Service Provider"). The HSA Service Provider will contact you and provide you with an HSA enrollment form, a signature card, a request for information for any Customer Identification Program compliance and other related materials necessary to open an HSA account with the HSA Service Provider. In order to open an HSA with the HSA Service Provider, you must:
- In a timely manner, complete, sign and submit all the forms required by the HSA Service Provider; and
- Be found to meet all of the requirements prescribed by the HSA Service Provider.
However, if your employer has not selected JPMorgan Chase Bank (Mellon Trust of New England, N.A. for GWH-Cigna Customers) as the HSA service provider, you may open the HSA with an HSA custodian/trustee that is either arranged by your employer or that you personally select. You must agree to complete necessary forms and meet the requirements set forth by the HSA custodian/trustee pertaining to the establishment and operation of your HSA.
With respect to an HSA opened pursuant to this arrangement, the HSA trustee/custodian will be solely responsible for all HSA services, transactions and activities related thereto. Neither your employer nor Cigna is responsible for any aspects of the HSA services, administration and operation.
Prior to enrollment, you must certify that you have enrolled or plan to enroll under a HDHP and are not covered under any other health coverage that is not a HDHP.
- Cigna Mobile
While accessing Cigna.com or myCigna.com remotely through Cigna Mobile, standard mobile phone carrier and data usage charges will apply. Cigna's mobile web solution is available to any current Cigna customer who has been provided user access to myCigna.com, which includes the personalized Health Care Provider (HCP) directory, contact info, and prescription drug price quote tool (if your plan includes prescription drug coverage through Cigna). Cigna's mobile HCP directory is also available at www.Cigna.com. The listing of a HCP in the mobile directories available at myCigna.com and Cigna.com does not guarantee that the services rendered by that professional are covered under your specific medical plan. Check your official plan documents, or call the number listed on your ID card, for information about the services covered under your plan benefits. Cigna Mobile currently is not available for GWH-Cigna Customers.
- Reimbursement for Out-of-Network Services
Many of the group health insurance policies and employee health benefit plans that Cigna administers cover expenses incurred for services from health care professionals or facilities who do not participate in the Cigna health care professional network. Those policies and plans include Maximum Reimbursable Charge ("MRC") provisions that may limit the amount of an out-of-network charge that will be considered by Cigna in calculating reimbursement. The plan sponsor (your employer or other organization) may choose one of the following MRC provisions:
Under this option, a database compiled by Ingenix, Inc., a subsidiary of United Healthcare, is used to determine the billed charges made by health care professionals or facilities in the same geographic area for the same procedure codes using data. The maximum reimbursable amount is then determined by applying a percentile (typically the 70th or 80th percentile) of billed charges, based upon the Ingenix data. For example, if the plan sponsor has selected the 80th percentile, then any portion of a charge that is in excess of the 80th percentile of charges billed for the particular service in the same relative geographic area (as determined using the Ingenix data) will not be considered in determining reimbursement and the patient will be fully responsible for such excess.
As a result of a recent settlement agreement between United Healthcare and the New York Attorney General, the database used by Ingenix to compile the billed-charge data for the health insurance industry will be turned over to an independent non-profit company, FAIR Health, Inc.
Cigna will begin using data compiled by FAIR Health, Inc. to calculate MRC amounts as applicable to any Cigna administered plans (a) commencing April 1, 2011 for dental procedures and services and (b) commencing July 1, 2011 for medical, surgical and anesthesia procedures and services.
This option uses a schedule of charges established using a methodology similar to that used by Medicare to determine allowable fees for services within a geographic market or at a particular facility. The schedule amount is then multiplied by a percentage (110%, 150% or 200%) selected by the plan sponsor to produce the MRC.
In the limited situations where a Medicare-based amount is not available (e.g., a certain type of health care professional or procedure is not covered by Medicare or charges relate to covered services for which Medicare has not established a reimbursement rate), the MRC is determined based on the lesser of:
- the health care professional or facilities' normal charge for a similar service or supply; or
- the MRC I methodology based on the 80th percentile of billed charges.
There is no MRC with respect to services for which there is not enough charge data in a geographic area to determine a MRC charge.
Average Contracted Rate ("ACR")
Under this option, the MRC is determined based on the lesser of:
- the health care professional or facilities' normal charge for a similar service or supply; or
- the Average Contracted Rate - i.e., the average percentage discount applied to all claims in a geographic area paid by Cigna during a recent 6 month period for the same or similar service/supply provided by health care professionals or facilities participating in the Cigna network. The ACR is updated by Cigna on a semiannual basis. The geographic area used by Cigna is either a Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) or an area within governmental boundaries (e.g. state, county, zip code).
In some cases, the ACR amount will not be used and the MRC is determined based on the lesser of:
- the health care professional or facilities' normal charge for a similar service or supply; or
- the MRC I methodology based on the 80th percentile of billed charges.
Whether the MRC I, MRC II or ACR methodology is used, the patient is responsible for all charges over the MRC amount, as well as any applicable deductible and coinsurance amounts for charges that do not exceed the MRC. The claim is also subject to all other exclusions and limitations in the applicable benefit plan.
If you are enrolled in a Cigna-administered plan, you and your authorized representatives can find the MRC for a particular procedure and geographic location by calling the 800 number on your ID card.
If you use a health care professional who is not in the Cigna network, be sure to check your plan documents to make sure that your plan covers out-of-network services. If you have a Flexible Spending Account, you may be able to use that money for out-of-network services.
- Disclosure of Financial Arrangements
Compensation to Third Parties
Compensation is paid to third party brokers and insurance sales people for placing a Client's ("Client" refers to employers or other groups sponsoring a health benefit plan) insurance coverage and/or plan administration contract with Cigna. This compensation is typically in the form of a percentage of premiums collected in the case of insurance policies, or a fixed, per-employee per-month rate (in the case of self-funded plans).
Additional compensation may be paid to brokers and insurance sales people based on persistency or other non-case-specific factors, sometimes referred to as "contingent commissions." This additional compensation is not part of the regular commissions.
Reports are sent to its employer policyholders and contract-holders regarding the commission and contingent commissions paid to brokers or insurance sales people for their use in preparing their Annual Return and report (Form 5500) where required under federal law (ERISA). Upon request, we will also disclose how the Client may receive more information directly from the broker or sales person regarding compensation arrangements.
- Primary Source of Revenue
The primary compensation received with respect to insurance policies is the policyholder paid insurance premium. The primary source of revenue in connection with administrative services contracts is the service fees paid by the self-insured plan sponsor and/or the plan.
- Other Revenue Sources
We negotiate for additional revenue from some third party vendors. We negotiate the additional revenue as part of the overall structure of each vendor agreement. The nature of negotiated contracts with vendors is that they are generally based on the aggregation of all business related to the contract and are not Client-specific.
Cigna retains this additional revenue for its sole and exclusive use, applying it in part to the overall cost of maintaining Client programs and other business expenses. The aggregate revenue generated from the third party vendors, including programs designed to generate cost savings for the Client, allows Cigna to cover the cost of client programs and other business expenses and to offer lower premiums and administrative fees to its Clients.
Cigna may offer programs and services where a third party vendor supplies all or part of the program or services. The claim amount charged to the Client for the program or services includes both an amount to cover the vendor fees and an amount for Cigna's related and other expenses. The disease management program is an example of a vendor program where the Client may be charged more than the amount charged by the vendor for the program.
Another example can be found in the rates for pharmacy benefits negotiated with a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). The rates charged to a Client are typically expressed as a percentage discount from average wholesale price. Cigna may offer lower discounts to the Client than the discounts that Cigna is offered by the PBM. Cigna may obtain or retain all or a portion of drug manufacturer revenue that it receives from the PBM or directly from the drug manufacturer. This revenue may be based on factors including membership volume, volume of drug usage or placement of a drug on the formulary. Cigna's drug formulary changes occasionally based on clinical efficacy, net drug cost and market share considerations. Customer reimbursements will differ depending on where the drug falls in the formulary. Changes to the formulary can impact the revenue paid by drug manufacturers to Cigna or the PBM.
Cigna may also receive transition fees when it changes third party vendors. These fees are paid to Cigna by the vendor to cover implementation and related expenses such as staffing or administrative changes that Cigna incurs during the transition. Cigna may receive marketing fees or commissions from vendors for placing the business with the vendor. These may be calculated on a per-member per-month (PMPM) basis, flat rate, or on a percentage basis. Cigna may receive other compensation from its third party vendors. For example, Cigna may receive payment for the development and installation of special computer systems or programs necessary for Cigna to deliver a particular service to its Clients.
Cigna may receive performance guarantee payments if a vendor does not meet performance targets.
Cigna uses a specialized vendor to negotiate discounts for large out-of-network (OON) claims. When a large out of network claim is received, the vendor will negotiate with the provider to obtain a lower rate, or discount, to the charges. The amount for the claim charged to our Client will reflect the discounted charges and an administrative fee will be charged for providing the savings program. Similar savings programs are in place for secondary networks and to audit large, complex hospital claims.
When a third party should have been responsible for the claims incurred by a customer (as a result of an automobile accident, for example), after paying the claim, Cigna may try to obtain reimbursement from the third party source. Cigna currently pursues reimbursement using a specialized subrogation vendor. For successful efforts, a percentage of the recovery is retained by Cigna. Additionally, Cigna has priority right to reimbursement of any stop loss payments. Any excess is credited to the Client.
In most situations, Cigna processes claims directly and the claim amount collected by Cigna from the Client equals the amount paid to the provider. Where a third party manages a particular type of medical service, a portion of the claim amount paid to the third party may in turn be paid to Cigna by the third party to cover Cigna's costs of administration and other business costs. A Customer's coinsurance, deductible and lifetime maximum are calculated based on the entire claim amount including the portion retained by Cigna to cover costs.
Certain Cigna companies directly provide or arrange for the provision of covered heath care services including, but not limited to Cigna Behavioral Health, Inc. Their charges for providing or arranging for these services are reimbursed as claims.
- Clinical Claims Review Program
In an effort to assure that high dollar claims are correctly billed and paid in accordance with industry and other applicable standards, we have extended our claims review program to include a review of select facility claims for billing and coding errors. This program is now available for all self-funded customers. Effective December 1, 2009, the Clinical Claims Review (CCR) program will be treated as a savings initiative pursuant to the Savings Initiative provision of your administrative services agreement and we will be retaining the specified fee for the savings realized.


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Atlanta has never been nice to the Mets. The Braves are out of it again, but they are in position to make things rough for the boys. They have not mailed it in. Instead, they seem to be hanging around for the sole purpose of making things rough on the Mets.
They took two of three last week at Shea, so there better not be any sense of complacency. After Washington, you'd think there wouldn't be any.
There have been a lot of games with the Braves that just gnaw at your memories. Which one still burns in your gut the most?
The Kenny Rogers game? You can have your choice of Armando Benitez meltdowns. Consider it therapy before the weekend. Which Braves games just stays with you.


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This is a reproduction, not a photocopy, of an original Supermax YCM-16VS Milling Machine Instructions and Parts Manual. This manual contains general safety instructions, operation instructions, adjustments, maintenance, lubrication, and a complete set of exploded view part diagrams with descriptions.
I have collected this information for many years and have found the information they contain to be priceless in using and setting up the machines properly. I believe this manual will be a valuable resource of knowledge that will provide a lot of helpful information that is often hard to find. My manuals are not photocopies. I maintain a high standard of quality in my reproductions. Most of the manuals I reproduce look better than their originals. I have professionally digitally edited every page, and removed stains, wrinkles and handwriting. All of the manuals are printed on thick white paper to withstand shop wear and tear.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The government of Qatar is seeking to procure Patriot anti-missile missile systems from the United States under a Foreign Military Sales deal.
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in its notification to Congress, said the Patriot package requested would be worth an estimated $9.9 billion.
The Patriot request comes on the heels of Qatar recently asking Washington for two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile systems at a cost of $6.5 billion.
DSCA said the Patriot package would include 11 Patriot Configuration-3 Modernized Fire Units; 11 AN/MPQ-65 radar sets; 11 AN/MSQ-132 engagement control systems, 30 antenna mast groups; 44 M902 launching stations, 246 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-TBM with canisters; two Patriot MIM-104E GEM-T test missiles, 768 Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles with canisters; and 10 PAC-3 test missiles with canisters.
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The Elder Scrolls Online Trailer: The War in Cyrodiil has a Release Date
Bethesda has finally announced the release date for The Elder Scrolls Online, accompanying the news with a new gameplay video.
The announcement was made on the Beth Blog, where the dev informed us the massively multiplayer online role-playing game will first see release worldwide for PC and Mac players on April 4, 2014. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One fans will have to wait until June 2014.
There's an extended message from The Elder Scrolls Online Game Directory Matt Firor on the game's official site, thanking everyone who's had a role in the game, as well as the fans. Firor also explains the need for a staggered rollout and tells beta hopefuls that he hopes they get a chance to play in the coming weeks before launch.
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DIR-3 Kyc
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DIR-3 form is a newly introduced form, whereby all Individual who is holding DIN is required to file his /her details in eForm DIR-3 KYC every year on or before April 30 every year. However, for the current year, DIR-3 KYC is required to be filed on or before September 15, 2018. Filing of DIR-3 KYC would be mandatory for Disqualified Directors also.
Later the same can be activated only through paying Rs.5000/- penalty. Hereafter every year before 30th April every DIN holder is required to file this form to maintain their DIN active.
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- PAN for Identity Proof.
- Aadhar Card for Address Proof (Provided mobile number must be updated with UIDAI).
- Latest passport size Photograph.
- Personal Mobile Number and E-mail ID of director for the purpose of OTP Verification.
- DSC (Digital Signature Certificate of the director) which must be registered on MCA Portal.
- Passport is mandatory in case of foreign national only.
Every director who has been allotted DIN on or before 31st March, 2018 and whose DIN is in "approved "status are required to file DIR-3-KYC on or before 31st August, 2018. Even the disqualified directors shall complete this KYC compliance.
This DIR-3-KYC should be certified by a practicing Chartered Accountant or company Secretary or Cost & Management Accountant
This KYC e-form shall be digitally signed by the director himself. Any other director of the company is not allowed to sign the e-form on behalf of the director whose KYC is being done.
Company details required:
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Director details required:
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-   1. Aadhar Card of each director
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After expiry of the due date by which the KYC form is to be filed, MCA will mark all approved DINs (allotted on or before 31st March 2018) against which DIR-3 KYC form has not been filed as 'Deactivated' with reason as 'Non-filing of DIR-3 KYC'.
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Today we are going to cover deploying secured WebSocket applications on Glassfish and access to these services using WebSocket Client API.
WebSocket server application setup
Our server endpoint might look as simple as this:
@ServerEndpoint("/echo") public class EchoEndpoint { @OnMessage public String echo(String message) { return message + " (from your server)"; } }
Everything else must be configured on container level.
We can start with enabling SSL, which will require web.xml to be added to your project. For starters, it might look as following:
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"> <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Protected resource</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> <http-method>GET</http-method> </web-resource-collection> <!-- https --> <user-data-constraint> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint> </web-app>
This is minimal web.xml for this task – web-resource-collection just defines URL pattern and HTTP method(s) we want to put a constraint on and user-data-constraint defines that constraint, which is in our case transport-guarantee. More information about these properties and security settings for web application can be found in Oracle Java EE 7 Tutorial.
I have some simple webpage attached as well, so I can test my endpoint right away. You can find it (along with complete project) in Tyrus workspace: [webpage] [whole project].
After deploying this application to Glassfish Application Server, you should be able to hit it using your favorite browser. URL where my application resides is https://localhost:8181/sample-echo-https/ (may be different, depends on other configuration). My browser warns me about untrusted certificate (I use what freshly built Glassfish provides – self signed certificates) and after adding an exception for this site, I can see my webpage and I am able to securely connect to wss://localhost:8181/sample-echo-https/echo.
WebSocket client
Already mentioned demo application also contains test client, but execution of this is skipped for normal build. Reason for this is that Glassfish uses these self-signed "random" untrusted certificates and you are (in most cases) not able to connect to these services without any additional settings.
Creating test WebSocket client is actually quite similar to server side, only difference is that you have to somewhere create client container and invoke connect with some additional info. Java API for WebSocket allows you to use annotated and programmatic way to construct endpoints. Server side shows the annotated case, so let's see how the programmatic approach will look.
final WebSocketContainer client = ContainerProvider.getWebSocketContainer(); client.connectToServer(new Endpoint() { @Override public void onOpen(Session session, EndpointConfig EndpointConfig) { try { // register message handler - will just print out the // received message on standard output. session.addMessageHandler(new MessageHandler.Whole<String>() { @Override public void onMessage(String message) { System.out.println("### Received: " + message); } }); // send a message session.getBasicRemote().sendText("Do or do not, there is no try."); } catch (IOException e) { // do nothing } } }, ClientEndpointConfig.Builder.create().build(), URI.create("wss://localhost:8181/sample-echo-https/echo"));
This client should work with some secured endpoint with valid certificated signed by some trusted certificate authority (you can try that with wss://echo.websocket.org). Accessing our Glassfish instance will require some additional settings. You can tell Java which certificated you trust by adding -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore property (and few others in case you are using linked sample).
Complete command line when you are testing your service might need to look somewhat like:
mvn clean test -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=$AS_MAIN/domains/domain1/config/cacerts.jks\ -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit -Dtyrus.test.host=localhost\ -DskipTests=false
Where AS_MAIN points to your Glassfish instance.
Note: you might need to setup keyStore and trustStore per client instead of per JVM; there is a way how to do it, but it is Tyrus proprietary feature: http://tyrus.java.net/documentation/1.2.1/user-guide.html#d0e1128.
And that's it! Now nobody is able to "hear" what you are sending to or receiving from your WebSocket endpoint.
There is always room for improvement, so the next step you might want to take is introduce some authentication mechanism (like HTTP Basic or Digest). This topic is more about container configuration so I'm not going to go into details, but there is one thing worth mentioning: to access services which require authorization, you might need to put this additional information to HTTP headers of first (Upgrade) request (there is not (yet) any direct support even for these fundamental mechanisms, user need to register Configurator and add headers in beforeRequest method invocation). I filed related feature request as TYRUS-228; feel free to comment/vote if you need this functionality.


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- 2 Getting Started
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- 4 System Administration
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This handbook has only just been started. It's currently a rather bare outline. Please edit it and make it better! Look at the FreeBSD Handbook as a style guide.
Most sections should be a summary, with a link to the main article on the subject.
Getting Started
Arch linux is a lightweight and flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. There are official packages optimized for the i686 and x86-64 architectures. There is also a community-operated package repository. See the pages in this category
Installing Arch Linux
The full install guide is here and the install CDs are available here. If you would like a more detailed installation guide, please see the Beginners' Guide.
Linux Basics
A few basics on the file system and command line, for people starting Unix/Linux with Arch.
How to change directory:
cd /name/of/directory
cd /etc/pacman.d
How to make a directory:
mkdir /path/to/new/directory
mkdir /home/archuser/newfolder
How to remove an empty directory:
rmdir /path/to/empty/directory
How to remove a directory and all its content:
rm -r /path/to/directory
How to list files in a directory:
All files: (except hidden files)
All files: (including hidden files)
ls -a
All files, hidden files and their properties:
ls -la
Files with the .avi file extension only:
ls *.avi
How to move a file:
mv /path/to/old/file.ext /path/to/new/file.ext
mv /home/archuser/compressed.zip /home/archuser/myfiles/compressed2.zip
How to copy a file:
cp /path/to/file.txt /path/to/copied/file.txt
How to remove a file:
rm /path/to/file.txt
rm /home/archuser/file.txt
How to show the contents of a file:
cat /path/to/file.txt
How to make a file executable:
chmod +x /path/to/script.sh
How to (search the entire filesystem for) a file called euwfh.avi
cd /
find -name euwfh.avi
How to mount a partition:
mount /dev/sdX1 /media/mountpoint
mount /dev/sda1 /media/folder
How to show how much space is left/used on (all mounted) partitions:
df -h
How to show all running processes:
ps -A
How to stop an annoying process called "EvilTrojan":
killall EvilTrojan
How to show an unintelligible manual for a program "ultracompressor"
man ultracompressor
Installing, removing, updating and managing software: pacman
See pacman.
Graphical Desktop Environments
Template:Graphical user interface overview
Common Tasks
Desktop Applications
Web browsers, office suites, etc.
Video players, music jukeboxes, photo management, how to get codecs.
CUPS installation and configuration, finding drivers.
System Administration
Configuration and Tuning
Systemd is used for most administrative tasks.
Users and Basic Account Management
Creating and managing users with command-line utilities.
Users are created with
useradd. See Users and Groups for more information.
Network Configuration
How networks are set up in Arch.
Mail, web, SSH server installation and configuration.


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Murphy moves Mets past Yankees in opener of Subway Series
Flushing, NY – Daniel Murphy's eighth-inning base hit gave the New York Mets their first lead and Bobby Parnell made it stand up in the ninth to secure a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees in the opener of their Subway Series at Citi Field.
Murphy, robbed of a two-run homer earlier in the contest, plated the go-ahead run with a two-out single to center.
"I was thinking I would get another chance," Murphy said. "I was hoping I would get another chance."
David Wright tied the contest an inning earlier with a solo homer and also tripled in the Mets' second straight win.
A pitching duel between Mets starter Jonathon Niese and the Yankees' Phil Hughes was ultimately decided by the bullpen.
David Robertson (3-1) nearly escaped the jam in the eighth inning when Robinson Cano threw out Mike Baxter at the plate for the second out, but then served up Murphy's single in the following at-bat.
Brandon Lyon (2-2) relieved Niese after a seven-inning performance to toss a scoreless eighth. Parnell worked around a one-out walk to notch his eighth save.
Brett Gardner tripled, scored the Yankees only run -- despite the team recording nine hits -- and brought back Murphy's shot over the wall in the sixth.
Hughes was dealing through his first six innings and had retired 10 of his last 11, but Wright threw a wrench into his excellent start with a leadoff homer in the seventh.
"It's tough, he's not a guy who's easy to strikeout," said Hughes of Wright. "You have to make a quality pitch."
Hughes allowed just four hits and struck out six, but with his pitch count at 101, the Yankees went to Robertson to start the eighth.
Baxter lined a one-out ground-rule double to put the go-ahead run on, and after pinch-hitter Jordany Valdespin walked, both runners moved up on a passed ball.
Ruben Tejada grounded one toward Cano and the second baseman fired home to catcher Chris Stewart, who tagged a streaking Baxter just before he could touch the plate. Murphy, though, came through to put the Mets in front.
Both pitchers were cruising along, with neither team posting a run through the first five innings. However, the Yankees made the first dent in the sixth by taking advantage of some shaky Mets defense.
Lucas Duda made the mistake of diving for a ball clearly out of his reach on the speedy Gardner's shallow pop into left. The ball snuck past the left fielder and Gardner raced into third with a triple. Jayson Nix then lofted a base hit into right for a 1-0 Yankees lead.
Niese had two of the first three Mets' hits, reaching with a single in sixth. Murphy looked to put them in front when he sent a blast into left, but Gardner backed up on the track, reached up and snagged the ball from going over the wall.
Game Notes
The team's will play the last of two games at Citi Field on Tuesday before moving to Yankee Stadium for another two-game set ... The Yankees hit into three double plays ... Nix had two hits ... Niese struck out four and allowed eight hits ... Duda went 0-for-4 to end a 10-game hitting streak ... Yankees third baseman David Adams went 1-for-4. He has a hit in 10 of 11 games since being recalled from the minors.


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Federal authorities are investigating threatening letters allegedly containing deadly ricin in Spokane, Washington, the FBI said Thursday.
The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are trying to find the source of the two letters, intercepted Tuesday during a screening procedure at a postal facility in Spokane, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich said.
"While we cannot offer further comment on this incident, we stress that law enforcement agencies will continue to assess and address the full spectrum of potential threats," she said.
The American Postal Workers Union was notified of the two suspicious letters by the Postal Service, the union said.
One letter was addressed to the Spokane Post Office and the other to a federal judge in Spokane, the union said. Both were postmarked May 14, the union said.
Postal Service management told employees they weren't at risk from handling the letters because the suspected substance was not in a form that could be inhaled or readily ingested, the union said. Preliminary lab tests showed the substance to be ricin, the union said.
The union is monitoring the situation, President Cliff Guffey said.
"Our members' safety is our primary concern," he said in a statement.
In an apparently unrelated case, ricin-tainted letters sent to President Obama and others touched off high anxieties in Washington and elsewhere last month.
James Everett Dutschke, 41, of Tupelo, Mississippi, has been charged with possession and use of a biological agent as a weapon in connection with those letters sent to Obama and others.
If inhaled, injected or ingested, less than a pinpoint of ricin can kill a person within 36 to 48 hours because of the failure of the respiratory and circulatory systems. There is no known antidote.


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Today Jesse Jackson comes to town to speak on behalf of Keith Ellison, the endorsed Democratic candidate for Minnesota's Fifth District congressional seat. In connection with the occasion, Minnesota Public Radio has posted Tom Sheck's report on Ellison's background: "Keith Ellison dogged by his past."
Chicago Tribune national correspondent Tim Jones covers the same territory: "Candidate finds past ties a real bind." Associated Press correspondent Patrick Condon also takes a look at Ellison in an article that hits the Washington Post: "Muslim Keith Ellison seeks House post."
Like Rochelle Olson and Mark Brunswick in their Star Tribune articles on Ellison's background, Scheck, Jones and Condon envelolp the subject in a cloud of unknowing. For a sense of what is omitted from these articles, see, for example, "Who is Keith Ellison? (2)," "Who is Keith Ellison? (9)" and "Who is Keith Ellison? (14)." Nevertheless, the story seems to have achieved lift-off.
In these three pieces, the single most pointed comment comes courtesy of state DFL Party chairman Brian Melendez (in the Tribune article):
Brian Melendez, the chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said he does not expect the controversy [regarding Ellison's background] to be an issue in the primary, but he does expect Republicans to "hang it around the necks" of Democrats.
Melendez is also responsible for the single most creative attempt to turn the difficulties raised by his candidate's indefensible public record to his own uses:
"There are people in this world who hear Muslim and think terrorist. They're bigots who wouldn't vote for Ellison anyway," Melendez said.
This past February in "Shut up, they explained," John noted Melendez's imputation of "Swift-boating" to soldiers expressing support for the war in Iraq. Ellison shows himself to be a student of Melendez (again in the Tribune article) in expanding the definition of "Swift-boating" to include those who provide unwelcome information about a candidate's public record:
[Ellison] characterized the attacks against him as being "swift-boated," in reference to the Vietnam War veterans who opposed Democratic Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
When the press gets around to asking the DFL candidates for governor (Mike Hatch) and Senator (Amy Klobuchar) whether they support Ellison, I anticipate that Melendez will describe the questions as a sign of Swift-boating bigotry.


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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sarita: Salaciously Sagacious
We're nearing the end of our journey through the players of Survivor: Redemption Island and thank god for that cuz I'm sick of getting up before 3.
Alright, so today we meet Sarita White. Sarita is a 36 year old Visual Effects Producer from that mysterious casting state of California. Sarita likes to live, laugh, love and says one of her favorite hobbies is lying about in various stages of repose. As that sounds vaguely Jane Austenian to me, I can respect that.
Sarita also describes herself as "sagacious". As I'm a master wordsmith, I'll assume that's a typo and insist she meant "salacious". Let's watch her video, shall we?
Bitch lied! She's nothing like Jane Austen! Jane Austen would never talk about pooping in an outhouse. She'd merely gesture languidly is the general area of the outdoors and then go back to needlepointing a tablecloth. Also, I'm pretty sure this Sarita chick is nuttier than a fruitcake. She's got that wild unkempt look in both her eyes and her hair. I don't give her very long. Her tribe will tire of her quickly.
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- JenniferFebruary 12, 2011 at 1:13 PM
I stopped watching at 'mongolian urn'. I had no clue what the fuck she was talking about.ReplyDelete
- DiabolicalFebruary 13, 2011 at 12:06 AM
Bitch actually thinks that her mothers pregnancy with her was something akin to Moses and the promised land. That's what you get when your mum does too much LSD while she's pregnant. Fucking hippies.ReplyDelete
She does however pick the villain twist like a snotty nose. I hear LSD flashbacks can trigger psychic abilities.
- TritchTratchFebruary 13, 2011 at 5:17 AM
I think she meant a Mongolian ger... perhaps not. Weird chick.ReplyDelete
She's my choice for the very first week's Fantasy pick based on her weirdly skinny and overly-brown right leg in the picture.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM
yeah, it's a mongolian 'yurt'.ReplyDelete
(not that we care.)
'Controlling' will be here downfall. That's a particularly bad feature for females to have in this game. Guys can get away with it--partly because they may have physical attributes that make it worthwhile to keep them around, and partly because men are just culturally allowed to be controlling without being considered to as 'bitchy/crazy'.
I hope she tells more stories of her LSD-induced childhood memories. that would be fun!
ps--A foreign film plug for "Mongol". If you like those beautiful epic landscape type films, this one is pretty great! (And you'll see lots of yurts!)
- JenniferFebruary 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I found out 'sagacious' really IS a word. I too consider myself a bit of a wordsmith and had never heard that word but I came across it last night in a book. It means 'shrewd'.ReplyDelete
Who knew?!
LOL I knew it was a word. I was trying to be punny I guess.ReplyDelete
- JenniferFebruary 16, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Still showing my ignorance, what is a mongolian yurt?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Jennifer, a yurt is like a beefed-up tent...or a hut. Traditional yurts actually look like a hut, but work like a tent--as they're portable. There are companies that make pretty fancy (and big) yurts nowadays, so it's hard to say how rough she was livin' back in the day. (Pacific Yurts is probably the biggest manufacturer.)ReplyDelete
...On another note, I'm so excited to see what Ms. Lala will have to say about last night's epi!! I read Dimples' blog, but it was 'meh'...nothing like our fabulous wordsmith!
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM
"Yurt" is the Russian pronunciation, whereas "ger" and more accurately "gyer" or "gher" is the Mongolian pronunciation. I wonder why Sarita hasn't mentioned the huge white Victorian mansion she lived in during her teen years in the suburbs of Boston... Interesting....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 1:48 AM
From Roget's thesaurus:ReplyDelete
Definition: smart, judicious
Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted, clever, cool*, discerning, discriminating, far-sighted, foxy*, gnostic, heady, hip*, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, prudent, rational, sage, sapient, savvy*, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smooth, sophic, wise, witty
She's my choice for the very first week's Fantasy pick based on her weirdly skinny and overly-brown right leg in the picture.ReplyDelete


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We are preparing to invite testers for the Heart of the Swarm beta very soon! To be clear, this test will be for the multiplayer experience only. We will begin with a select group, including many players who assisted us in testing Patch 1.5, as well as some pro-gamers and press. Over time, we will add more and more testers into the mix.
If you are interested in participating in the beta test, please make sure you are opted in for beta testing. You can do this by clicking "Beta Profile Settings" under the Account Management section of your Battle.net account. Note that the opt-in doesn't guarantee entry, but gives you a chance at joining the beta test. Also, we'll be working with your favorite fansites and community personalities to give away more entries to the beta test, so keep an eye out for invites coming from the greater StarCraft community over the coming weeks.
We can't wait to get the public test started for Heart of the Swarm, and we look forward to collecting your feedback.
The Swarm is coming!
Please note: While the Heart of the Swarm Beta will be accessible in all regions, the languages supported for the Beta will only include the following: English, German, French, and Korean. Support for additional languages in the Beta may be added later.


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Re: Paste / Undo looses code (VS2010 Beta)
This one is killing me. At first I couldn't figure out how to reproduce this, but I think I've got it now. If you are coding along, P/p some code and then immediately 'u', it removes a ton of code...I think everything since you started editing the file.
Anyone else seeing this?


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Opinion: Al Gore: The Climate Change Hack
Potomac Watch columnist Kim Strassel on how Al Gore has found gainful employment hyping up the threats of climate change. Photos: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Hopton Castle Events and What's On
Events in Hopton Castle and What's On in Hopton Castle
In Hopton Castle, Mortimer Country, there is a full programme of unique events through out the year. Each month of the year brings new rural activities and special events, from film screenings & live theatre in village halls, to rural country shows at villages like Hopton Castle
Church and parish events, provide a full programme of guided walks, village fetes all through this corner of Hopton Castle. And local history clubs, in Hopton Castle provide in depth talks about local life in days gone by and local historical celebrities.
All the pubs, and country inns in Hopton Castle, Mortimer Country take every opportunity to celebrate events during the year, such Christmas and New Year, Valentines day, Mothering Sunday and Easter with special menus or offers. Some pubs, like the Sun Inn in Leintwardine, take it one step further and celebrate local life with uniquely local flavour, with wassailing events, Banestre Tarleton day, St Georges Day and their Celebrated beer festival at August bank holiday.
Music plays a big part in local village events, there are regular 'Open mic' and music events at pubs in Hopton Castle. Don't miss the Hobson's Sea Shanty singers at Hopton Castle. Churches in Hopton Castle parish regularly host classical and jazz music concerts.
Cycling sportif or challenge events, walking festivals with guided walks, orienteering and car rallying events, all take place throughout the year in the beautiful countryside surrounding Hopton Castle. The big events are walking festivals in bishops Castle and Herefordshire, the Woodpecker Car Rally and the Epic cycles events.
Food festivals abound in this area, around Hopton Castle. Meet local food suppliers, taste the food, listen to talks & cookery demonstrations.
And of course, in this beautiful corner of North Herefordshire near Hopton Castle there is a choice of top quality holiday accommodation bed & breakfasts, hotels, inns, self catering holiday cottages and campsites for weekends, short breaks or longer stays. So plan your weekend around a special event
Mortimer Country is so close to Ludlow, that if you stay in Hopton Castle you can make the most of all the great events in Ludlow; Ludlow Food Festival isn May & September, Ludlow Arts Festival in June & July and the Medieval Christmas Fair in november.
Click on the RSS feed to keep up to date on the events in Hopton Castle, this list changes all the time.
Centrally situated for visiting Hopton Castle B&Bs are ideal for exploring this beautiful area.


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Lady Gaga Turned Down $1 Million Offer to Perform at Republican National Convention
Lady Gaga is doing well for herself financially, but there's always room to add another cool milli to her bank account, right? Wrong! Mama Monster turned down a $1 million offer to perform at the Republican National Convention last year.
The news that Gaga said, "Thanks but no thanks," to the Republicans became public knowledge thanks to a lawsuit filed by the American Action Network, a not for profit fundraising organization that sued the event organizer tasked with booking talent for the August convention.
Other artists and celebs were invited to attend, but Gaga's offer trumped them all. An additional $150,000 was tacked on as a donation to a domestic violence shelter, but Gaga stood firm and chose not to be a part of the festivities. Pitbull also rejected an offer to perform.
Perhaps if the party changed its stance on, we dunno, gay marriage, maybe, Gaga might have been more apt to tickle the ivories and sing 'Born This Way.'
Gaga's personal platform is decidedly at odds with that of the Republican political agenda. She is a huge advocate for gay rights, so it would seem odd that a talent booker would pursue such a liberal artist for a conservative-leaning party convention.
Gaga did perform at a private Obama event after his second inauguration and she also revealed last November that she did vote for the current president.
Watch the Lady Gaga 'Judas' Video


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This has been a year of big changes for me, most of them for the good. After three years of under and unemployment, I rejoined the workforce this September in a full-time job that, I'm happy to say, seems to be going quite well. While I miss the daily rural beauty of western Mass, I'm also deriving real (if surprising) pleasure from being back in a city. Plus friends and a weekly UMass Amherst teaching gig still draw me back on a regular basis.
My situation at this time last year was very different – as reflected in the title of last year's holiday post: Thanksgiving in Plan B Nation (or how to be grateful when you don't feel grateful). I had just started this blog – that post was its fifth – and was still having a hard time making sense of my life's trajectory. I'm doing what? I'm living where? All that work, all those credentials, and I've ended up here?
This year, I have no trouble tapping into gratitude: Work, friends, writing, home – all of it, right at the moment, feels pretty good, a testament to how suddenly life can turn around.
But along with these obvious reasons, I'm grateful for something more: I'm grateful both for what I have now and for what I didn't have then.
I'm grateful for how this time in the jobs wilderness forced me to expand my sense of who I am apart from my credentials.
I'm grateful for the ways it led me to become braver as a writer – to take risks that I likely wouldn't otherwise have taken.
I'm grateful for this blog and other writing opportunities – for the intellectual sustenance, support, and friendships, connections that I am taking with me into this next stage of life.
I'm grateful for having had a chance to move to the country and deepen my ties to a part of the world I love.
I'm grateful for the ways this stretch of life fostered greater compassion for millions of people struggling for reasons that are often largely (or entirely) beyond their control.
And most of all, I'm grateful for the fact that I can feel grateful – for the fact that I had the resources to navigate these challenges without being crushed by them. In that, I was very, very lucky. Many, of course, are not. As I look to the future in Plan B Nation, gratitude strikes me as an excellent foundation for thinking about how to change this.


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As seen in ...
The movie The Serpent and the Rainbow, the upcoming Resident Evil 5 video game.
What are they?
There are certain kinds of poisons that slow your bodily functions to the point that you'll be considered dead, even to a doctor (okay, maybe not to a good doctor). The poison from fugu (Japanese blowfish) can do this.
The victims can then be brought back under the effects of a drug like datura stramonium (or other chemicals called alkaloids) that leave them in a trance-like state with no memory, but still able to perform simple tasks like eating, sleeping, moaning and shambling around with their arms outstretched.
How it can result in zombies:
"Can?" How about "does."
This stuff has happened in Haiti; that's where the word "zombie" comes from. There are books about it, the most famous ones by Dr. Wade Davis (Passage of Darkness and The Serpent and the Rainbow). Yes, the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow was based on this guy's actual science stuff. How much of it was fact? Well, there was that one scene where they strapped the guy naked to a chair and drove a huge spike through his balls. We're hoping that part wasn't true.
What is definitely true is the story of Clairvius Narcisse. He was a Haitian guy who was declared dead by two doctors and buried in 1962. They found him wandering around the village 18 years later. It turned out the local voodoo priests had been using naturally occurring chemicals to basically zombify people and putting them to work on the sugar plantations (no, really).
So, the next time you're pouring a little packet of sugar into your coffee, remember that it may have been handled by a zombie at some point.
Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse:
On the one hand, it's already fucking happened! So that earns it some street cred right off the bat. But, even if some evil genius intentionally distributed alkaloid toxins to a population to turn them into a shambling, mindless horde, there is no way to make these zombies aggressive or cannabalistic.


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These Smoky Elestial Quartz Points are absolutely magical—when we were with our crystal distributor, you could literally feel the high-vibrational energy before he revealed what was in the box to us. Elestial Quartz, sometimes referred to as skeletal quartz, has unusual shapes with many small terminations and grooves all over it—these elestials have been polished, but the grooves and terminations are still very visible. Elestial means "Crystal of the Angels," making these unique smoky quartz crystals extremely powerful spiritual tools.
Because of their high vibration, Elestial quartz is believed to only come into your life when it are meant to; when you are ready for the crystal. When they do come into your life, it will provide loving guidance from your spiritual realm. In Heather's opinion, these elestial crystals are the most advanced crystal technology that exists, as they are the record keepers of ancient times; they are POWERFUL healing crystals. The power of the elestial quartz metaphysical properties lies in the duality of grounding you while also uplifting you, directing energy towards the higher realms.
Elestial Quartz is the communicator between you and your higher self. The higher self is what guides our values and can tell if something will help or prevent us from aligning with our spiritual path and life purpose. Connecting with an elestial crystal helps you channel what you are spiritually ready to face and provides vibrations that support the development of those messages. As you continue to grow, elestials can shift to bring in new energy, evolving with us.
Smoky Elestial Quartz has all the same properties of Smoky Quartz, but elestial crystals have more emphasis on personal transformation. This type of healing crystal grows more rapidly than other quartz, which allows you to experience more rapid self-growth as well.
There is only one of these crystals - you will be receiving the one that is pictured. As part of our spiritual garage sale, this item is a special price, does not come with a description card and is final sale.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Rejouve is an innovative medical marketing & management company that markets plastic surgery & cosmetic surgery in a whole new way. Not only do we care about how a patient looks on the outside, we care about a patient's health on the inside.
Our comprehensive approach to youthful rejuvenation combines plastic/cosmetic surgery with an emphasis on slowing down and improving the aging process within. This is done with a proven anti-aging nutritional supplement pre-op and post-op.
Our participating plastic surgeons are all board certified plastic surgeons and are all over the US.
The look and feel needs to be gender neutral. Plastic surgery is mainly targeted to women, but our marketing program will be targeted to doctors, which are mainly male.
This logo also needs to be appealing enough to be used on a product label.
We are trying to stand out and we do not want to have the brand be like every plastic surgery company out there.
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We have attached a file with a color scheme, but we are not completely sold on the colors yet. So please feel free to pass on your design expertise and experience with colors.
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Romney foreign policy speech called vague
Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech Monday was filled with tough talk and slams of President Barack Obama's leadership — but little of the clarity Romney has vowed to bring to the Oval Office.
What the Republican nominee's campaign billed as a major foreign policy address didn't have much new in it and left some analysts unimpressed. The speech, they said, was much like Romney's previous swings at laying out a foreign policy: couched in broad ideology and big ambitions and lacking the specifics for how he'd bring any of them about
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( Also on POLITICO: Romney: Obama has made U.S. less safe)
Romney seemed eager to use the address to capitalize on the momentum he had from his strong debate performance and to reinforce the image of Obama as a feckless leader in over his head both abroad and at home. However, those looking for clear policy distinctions with the current White House were left wanting.
"There's absolutely nothing in this speech. This is a repackaging of language that has been a staple of Romney's campaign since he threw his hat in the ring," said James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations. "If Romney has a foreign policy strategy, he still has not told us what it is. The governor is very fond of saying hope is not a strategy, but that cuts both ways. He didn't answer two key questions: what he would do differently and why we should expect what he would do to work."
( See also: Romney's foreign policy speech (full text, video))
But one prominent foreign policy analyst, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, offered qualified praise of Romney for raising the profile of foreign policy issues and for creating a counterbalance to those urging that the U.S. pull back around the world.
"I like the tone of patience and engagement even if I may disagree on certain specific substantive matters," O'Hanlon said on Fox News just after Romney's speech. "What Gov. Romney has done is make it easier to debate on both sides in terms of what are the next steps we need to take as Americans."
Obama partisans panned Romney's 23-minute speech and his overall rhetoric on international affairs as lacking in substance and nuance.
( PHOTOS: Anti-U.S. protests in Middle East, North Africa)
"There's an awful lot of rhetoric and things, but when you get to the specifics, you just get the sense he doesn't know exactly what tools to use," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on a conference call organized by the Obama campaign. "I just find him very shallow….To those not totally into foreign policy, it sounds pretty good, but it's really full of platitudes."
Referring to the op-ed on foreign policy that Romney published last week in The Wall Street Journal, Albright added, "I am a professor. If one of my students turned that in, he'd get a 'C' because he gave absolutely no specifics."
Portions of Romney's speech seemed to reflect a divide in Republican circles between foreign policy experts who have aggressively promoted democracy as a way to advance American goals in the Middle East and others who believe the Arab Spring movement threatens to unleash forces that could be more hostile to the United States and to Israel than the authoritarian regimes.
"The Republican Party and the conservative movements are divided between these two frameworks of analysis and Romney's doesn't actually choose between them — which is not to say he's any worse than Obama," said Steve Rosen, a conservative former director of foreign policy for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "The defense of the West's agenda is not exactly the same as the Freedom Agenda. To some extent, the two things get confused."


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Introduction: Subwoofers in a Music-only Setting
Before turning to the review of the NHT subwoofer (review to be published next week) let me give you an overview of the merits of a subwoofer in a context restricted solely to music or restricted to music as part of a soundtrack.
We are faced with two questions: does the subwoofer go low enough; and, how loud must it play with inaudible distortion until it crosses-over to the main speakers.
The URL below provides an interactive presentation of the frequency range for standard acoustical instruments:
The lowest note for A concert piano is 27Hz, (nineteenth-century pipe organs went lower). An organ of Bach's time would not extend to 30Hz. Note that while it may sound very low, standard percussion instruments do not go very deep, although they are capable of producing significant sound pressure.
A floor-standing speaker (9″ to 10.5″ equivalent cone area) will have a -3dB anechoic response ranging from 40 – 60 Hz (add 5 -15 Hz or so for a bookshelf speaker with 6.5″ woofers). The 10% distortion point in an anechoic chamber for 100dB SPL RMS (1 meter) will also occur in this frequency range.
Note that you cannot directly compare the equivalent cone area of the speakers in the passive floor stander to an active subwoofer with the same sized driver. The subwoofer is designed to provide long voice coil excursion to achieve high SPL at low frequencies. The driver is also designed to deal with heat dispersion. By virtue of its design, the driver often does not work well above 100Hz or so. The active electronics in the subwoofer allow for special protection modes to prevent the driver from becoming damaged. Overdriving a passive subwoofer below its passband can damage the driver.
The Subwoofer in the Listening Room
In a room, the -3dB point will be extended via model pressure variations of the room and effects of speaker boundary interface where the direct sound of the speaker interacts with sound reflected from the walls. This is usually called room gain, although Tom Nousaine, the veteran writer on the subject, points out in private e-mails there is no "passive gain" and prefers to call this "preservation of sound pressure" (private conversation). Tom's site (www.nousaine.com) has numerous PDF downloads on subwoofers, among other interesting topics. As anyone familiar with in-room frequency response knows, it is anything but flat. A worthy set of graphs to illustrate the effect is available at:
The graphs isolate the room effects from the anechoic response of the speaker for different speaker and room placements. For the large room used in this test, there is an apparent preservation of sound pressure in the 35 – 50Hz range; this will not get the typical floor-stander flat to 27Hz. Smaller rooms offer more extension at lower frequencies for reasons best explained by Tom Nousaine:
The last article shows why the really small space of a car can produce so much SPL at the low end.
Room volume is not a criterion for picking a subwoofer, although some reviews have implied this. Our ears respond to sound pressure (the change in pressure referenced to the atmospheric pressure as a result of the sound wave propagating in space), not sound power. The acoustic intensity is the sound power per unit area. Acoustic intensity is found by squaring the rms pressure and dividing by the specific acoustic impedance. It can be seen that sound pressure in this acoustics equation acts like voltage in an electrical system. Sound power declines with area, but sound pressure declines with distance from the ear. The decline is 6dB with a doubling of distance between the speaker and the ear. In a small room, the speaker may be limited to 2 meters back, while a large room might allow a larger distance of 4 meters, especially for the case of movie room with multiple rows of sets. There is a 6dB reduction of sound power at that rear listening seat relative to the seat placement in the small room in this case. Pressure preservation does vary with room size as we saw in the data in the referenced websites.
The conclusion is the in-room response of a typical passive speaker will not be nearly flat at the desired 27Hz and it will not be possible to achieve 100dB SPL at 10% distortion at 1 meter at 27Hz. A subwoofer can provide added extension and dynamics for music scored with significant activity below 50Hz. The large-scale symphonies of Shostakovich are one example.
The complete set fills 11 CDs. The Haitink performance above is a well-recorded version of the symphonies at a bargain price. Just to cover the basic 20th century repertoire that calls for large orchestras easily requires a collection of more than 100 CDs.
Scores calling for 100 musicians will not have instruments playing in the frequency range a subwoofer is designed to reproduce across a whole movement, as evidenced if you unplug the main channels with a properly level-matched subwoofer active. Many adjust the subwoofer level control far higher than the appropriate level at which it should be set to hear all the money they spent on the subwoofer. If set correctly, one should never hear sound coming from the subwoofer with the crossover held below 80Hz (Toole Sound Reproduction section 13.3.8)
How Low Do We Need to Go?
The lowest frequency limits of standard and exotic extended range instruments (for example, contrabass flute) are shown at the following URL:
Some scores call for these instruments. The dominant instrument is the post 18th century organ with 32 foot pipes down to 16Hz. To hear the lowest sustained notes of the second movement of Saint-Saëns Organ symphony (No. 3) without significant attenuation, a subwoofer with more extension than what can typically be found in the sub $1000 price range is required The large SPLs produced by the giant organs also require a subwoofer with low distortion at these frequencies. The classic Munch recording is an excellent rendition with the organ well-reproduced in the second and final movements (RCA Living Stereo 61387). But, the Saint-Saëns is a rare example of a symphonic work with such a prominent organ part. Unless you listen to a significant amount of 19th and 20th century pieces for organ, the expense to get beyond 27Hz is hard to justify. As an example, only half this CD is the Organ Symphony. The CD also contains an exceptional rendition of Debussy's La Mer where the lowest notes are 27Hz and higher.
I do not define the cannon shots found in the score of the 1812 Overture as an exotic instrument. To reproduce these, please refer to another article by Tom Nousaine:
Issues with the Subjective Evaluation of a Subwoofer
In my opinion, everything that affects the sound of a subwoofer is fully characterized by its measurements. To paraphrase Peter Aczel a fast woofer is an oxymoron. If the subwoofer is not flat in the near-field you will hear it (see measurements section of the NHT B10d at SECRETS for more details). If they do not go as low as the material you want to play, you will hear it. If the woofer cannot achieve the SPL you want to reproduce at inaudible distortion levels, you will hear it.
Room effects are the most significant factor to impact the sound, not the subwoofer. This depends on the placement of the subwoofer and your seat (Toole Sound Reproduction Loudspeakers and Room Focal Press, 2008; chapters 12 and 13). For those with the Toole text, it is best to carefully review the sections on waterfall and other time-domain graphics. The text clearly indicates the parameters required to produce a plot with usable data is often not well understood (Section 13.5). Proper setup and interpretation of waterfall and similar plots are especially difficult to set up and interpret. Some measurement tools designed for consumer use make very nice looking plots but do not provide the user with the ability to set up the measurement correctly. When using such tools it is possible to convince oneself that large changes in the time domain can occur with no visible change in a properly setup frequency domain plot.
Frequency and time-domain response issues can be resolved at one's seat optimally or several seats sub-optimally with precise room EQ, provided the subwoofer is relatively flat and the deployment in the room is done thoughtfully. Room EQs that provide frequency plots on a PC come in handy to ensure the subwoofer is properly placed before the electronic correction is applied.
In difficult rooms, multiple subwoofers may be needed. Passive room absorbers can also assist, but these are large and expensive if they are to have any effect below 100Hz. Multiple subwoofers are especially useful when a flat frequency response over multiple seats is desired (Chapter 13.3 of the Toole text).
The Under-reported Issue When Adding a Subwoofer
By far, the most significant sonic issue for acoustic music when a subwoofer is deployed occurs around the crossover from the subwoofer to the main speaker. Adding a subwoofer to a system using a standard bass management system without a room EQ in the loop (sub and main channels) will degrade the flatness of the response in this critical area. At a minimum, the in-room transition band of the low-pass and high-pass filters should track the shape of a fourth-order Linkwitz–Riley filter to about 20dB down. With a 4th LR at 80Hz crossover, both speakers will be active between 60Hz and 110Hz (-10 dB points), a frequency range that is populated with a variety of common instruments playing throughout the score.
The standard bass management system provides only a second-order filter for the main speaker which will not even sum to flat even in an anechoic chamber. When the standard bass management system was developed (mid 90s) it was assumed the main channel speaker would roll off -12dB exactly below the crossover frequency to create the 4th order filter. This is never going to happen. Room EQs have to provide additional correction for the main speaker channel to have the correct transition and stop band associated with a 4th order high pass filter. Different main channel speakers will require a custom filter synthesized by the adaptive room equalizer. Once the EQ performs this function, the system is flat in an anechoic chamber, but this is only a small part of what the room EQ must do.
Without additional electronic equalization, the room effects (uneven sound pressure preservation) corrupt the shape of the low-pass and high-pass filter transition bands. In the graph below, the black curve shows the low-pass filter electrical response of the standard bass management systems applied to the full range input. The red curve is the room EQ filter's response in cascade with the LPF.
The in-room high-pass filter transition band of the main speaker is as critical as the in-room low-pass rolloff of the subwoofer. Only an advanced electronic room EQ in a Pre/Pro or AVR can provide the required fourth-order Linkwitz – Riley response at the listening seat for the main channel. Some subs have a room EQ function, but this is only half the problem, even if the EQ works well. Likewise, multiple subwoofer techniques may expend the optimal area for the low pass filters transition and stop band but we can have only one main speaker per channel. Note that even the best room EQ can generate the optimum main channel response in the crossover area for only one listening seat. Passive room treatment can help but it is expensive since it must be effective to 60Hz (-10dB point for the main channel with an 80Hz crossover).
The crossover frequency must also be under the user's control. The user must select a crossover point high enough that the subwoofer enters before the main channel speaker's distortion starts to increase. At the same time, the crossover should be as low as possible to prevent localization of the subwoofer. Some electronic room equalizers will not allow the crossover frequency to be adjusted. This reduces the size of the filter needed to create a smooth response in the crossover, which can allow for a less expensive DSP to be used. Since no room EQ system makes distortion measurements, the automatic selection is often wrong.
Smaller speakers, as would be found in a smaller room, require a higher crossover point which makes frequency response deviations in the crossover even more audible. Unfortunately, smaller rooms often reduce the ability to move the main speaker, subwoofer and listening seat to reduce room effect in 75Hz -135Hz (100Hz crossover) region before EQ. Making an inaudible join between subwoofer and satellite is thus more difficult than a larger room.
Higher order crossover networks can reduce the overlap, which is especially useful with small main channel speakers (5 inch woofer). The discontinued NHT Xd used an 8th order filter. For a 100Hz crossover, the interaction between the main channel and subwoofer would be between 86Hz and 115Hz, but even this small range is audible if an electronic room EQ is not deployed.
The stringent requirements outlined above apply to music reproduction, and may not be applicable to sound effects. Some lifestyle systems equipped with very small satellite speakers (roll-offs starting at 150Hz) and a subwoofer with a bandpass-like response peaking around 60Hz basically are designed to reproduce sound effects. With such a system, musical instruments almost disappear between 75 to 130Hz.
In summary, a subwoofer enables realistic reproduction of the fundamentals of certain musical instruments. The cost is system complexity, including the addition of an excellent room EQ to achieve frequency response flatness in the 60Hz – 135Hz range. If missing this mark for the fundamentals of a few notes at the lowest end of the scale is not of concern, then you may decide to forgo the complexity and cost of the subwoofer and room EQ for music reproduction. To achieve the full range and power of all acoustic instruments necessitates a subwoofer. The NHT B10d at SECRETS is a welcome adjunct to reaching this goal.


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Would Taxing the Super-Rich Raise Much Revenue?
Warren Buffett is on the warpath again about taxing the rich.
In op-ed in the New York Times, the man worth $45 billion says he and his mega-rich friends should be paying more in taxes.
"While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks," Buffett wrote. He added: "These and other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species."
Buffett proposes raising taxes on those making $1 million or more a year. He doesn't give a number, but says he would raise rates "on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains." For those making more than $10 million or more, there would be an even higher rate.
The Buffett Tax is similar to a plan forwarded by Nancy Pelosi and others last year. And it would certainly have support in the Democratic party, which is already heralding Buffett's op-ed as proof of the need to spread the wealth.
But would the Buffett Tax really help the country's finances?
Yes, but not as much you might think.
In 2008, there were 236,883 tax filers reporting income of $1 million or more. The Patriotic Millionaires, a group advocating the repeal of the Bush tax cuts on tax filers making $1 million or more a year, estimated that their plan would raise $500 billion to $600 billion over 10 years. That sounds like a lot.
But only $100 billion of that is projected savings from lower government debt costs. So the tax would actually raise $40 billion to $50 billion a year: equal to about 3% of the annual federal deficit.
Granted, it's something. And if you hiked the rates higher than the Clinton levels, and added another level for $10 million earners, it would be more.
As Erica Payne of the Patriotic Millionaires told me:
"There are two issues here. One is the actual dollar amount to meet our financial obligations. And the other is what is the fair way to allocate expenses across our society." She added that the millionaire-earners make more from "lazy money," i.e. capital gains and dividends. "They're not working for that money. They're sitting on the couch and having money come to them."
Millionaires who earned their money from starting and building companies would disagree, of course. And more wealth today comes from earned income than at any point in history.
But one thing is certain: While raising taxes on millionaires might be emotionally and politically satisfying for some, it would only begin to fill the nation's budget hole.
What do you think the rate should be for people making $1 million or more?