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Siebel Analytics Installation and Configuration Guide > NQSConfig.ini File Reference > Parameter and Syntax Descriptions >
Parameters in the Security Section
The security parameters specify default values for the Siebel Analytics Server security features. For more information about security, see the chapter on security in Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide.
Specifies the values users and groups are assigned when they are initially created. Valid values are NONE and READ. The default value is READ.
Specifies whether the Siebel Analytics Server uses Windows NT operating system authentication to authenticate the Siebel Analytics Server users. Valid values are YES and NO.
Specifies the type of authentication the Siebel Analytics Server uses to authenticate the Siebel Analytics Server users. Valid values are NQS, DATABASE, and BYPASS_NQS. The default authentication mechanism is NQS.
- If you select NQS, then the authentication is done by the Siebel Analytics Server. Note, however, that for Siebel Analytics applications, the Siebel Analytics Server in turn can be set up to authenticate using Microsoft ADSI, an LDAP server, or a database.
- If you select DATABASE, specify the database name in the Physical Layer of the repository to be used for database authentication. The first connection pool for this database is used for authentication. When the user logs into the Siebel Analytics Server, the submitted logon name and password is used to connect to the database. If this connection succeeds, the user is considered to be successfully authenticated.
- If you select BYPASS_NQS, users are authenticated against the database to which their queries are sent, using the submitted username and password. For example, if a user runs a query tool against the Siebel Analytics Server with the username of "Test" and a password of "Test," this username and password are used to connect to the underlying database server. If this represents a valid user to the underlying database server, the user is considered authenticated. The user's privileges are enforced by the underlying database server based upon the username used to log in, as appropriate.
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Ned, What Are You Doing?
Using the Sherrif's insider password that somehow still works on my computer, I browsed Buster's blog this morning and encountered this:
What is the purpose of such a move? We have solid 3B's both in Wilson Betemit and Andy LaRoche who may be in the majors before June. We also signed Rudy Seanez for the bullpen and a Korean player. I don't mind those moves because they give depth to our weak bullpen. But Tatis?? COME ON!! I think the team should really go after what they need and acquire a legitimate power threat for the middle of the lineup because you cannot rely on Kent and Nomar with their ages and injury history. You also have to figure that Luis and Juan will combine for less than 20 HR's. Sorry, but I just had to vent to someone and Lioninoil is the only one i could find. Hopefully Ethier will pick up some of the slack, or else the team will have to rely even more on their pitching and it could be a repeat of the 2003 season.


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i would swim in that lake!
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I teach middle school Social Studies. Learning about South American geography is the runaway favorite lesson of the year because middle schoolers love to say "Titicaca." Of course, I also love to say it.
Mike on May 2, 2008
A lake on the border of Peru.
Guest on December 2, 2008
A lake on the border of Peru and Bolivia.
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my parents live there. we pronounce it the right way. lake te-tee-cho-cho. it was named after one of my great great grand pas and you are being very dissrespectful. i wish you not to speak of it like it like some perverted joke!
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The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has an old and rich history because humans have inhabited this area since the Paleolithic. Today, the Altai region is home to numerous Turkic-speaking ethnic groups, which have been divided into northern and southern clusters based on linguistic, cultural, and anthropological traits. To untangle Altaian genetic histories, we analyzed mtDNA and Y chromosome variation in northern and southern Altaian populations. All mtDNAs were assayed by PCR-RFLP analysis and control region sequencing, and the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome was scored for more than 100 biallelic markers and 17 Y-STRs. Based on these data, we noted differences in the origin and population history of Altaian ethnic groups, with northern Altaians appearing more like Yeniseian, Ugric, and Samoyedic speakers to the north, and southern Altaians having greater affinities to other Turkic speaking populations of southern Siberia and Central Asia. Moreover, high-resolution analysis of Y chromosome haplogroup Q has allowed us to reshape the phylogeny of this branch, making connections between populations of the New World and Old World more apparent and demonstrating that southern Altaians and Native Americans share a recent common ancestor. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929711005490
Or pretty good ones (see Saxons everywhere).
or in the case of the English, found a way to reproduce asexually.
I know I'm derailing the thread, but why all the English bashing?


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I have run out of reports in Dota 2.
It's a problem you run into every now and again because you only get a limited number per week. They're used to flag things like verbal abuse and bad conduct in other players.
The Dota 2 community is, speaking from my experience, a fairly positive environment. Some people are encouraging, friendly or offer advice, most keep to themselves, and a handful of others are offensive and awful. However, after the first time I hit the report cap and found myself unable to flag up some truly reprehensible behaviour from someone on my own team because I'd already reported something more minor, I started to view reports as a more valuable commodity.
From that point onwards it was a case of "Is this douchecanoe swearing and capslocking from another corner of the internet worthy of my report?" and "What if an even bigger jackass arrives in the next match?"
But there are a few words which send my mind in the direction of the report button quicker than others. One of them is the word "rape". It's a word which gets used thankfully rarely (or at least it's been rare to my experience of Dota 2) but when it does it tends to be in mockery of another player when they've just had their ass handed to them in-game and I find that horrible and offensive. Whether I go on to report the incident comes down to context but any mention of "rape" means a report is instantly on the agenda.
Rape is one of the most disempowering crimes imaginable. It's a horrific violation and an act of violence which trades on one person having power over another. It's also underreported, hugely traumatic and comes with a hefty dose of social stigma. The disempowering nature of the crime is, I think, why I hate hearing the word thrown casually into conversation. I want the word itself to retain power and meaning. I want "rape" to mean something truly terrible and not get reappropriated for something irksome or trivial.
Those who have experienced sexual assault already have a gauntlet of disbelief and trivialisation to run as they deal with what has happened. It's part of the reason rape is underreported. "Rape" as a casual term of insult mirrors that same attitude.
I feel like the report button with its tiny text box for a brief explanation allows me to actually do something about the problem when it angers me, no matter how tiny. It's not as good as discussing the problem calmly and directly, but in the middle of a heated game, calm and direct discussion isn't always possible.
Keeping the power of the word "rape", despite the fact it can then be used as part of a nasty threat somewhere like Twitter, is a massively important part of improving how we deal with rape as a society. I want there to be as little excuse as possible for people to dismiss rape and rape threats, to trivialise them, to back away from them and to keep them unreported.


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Nebraska self-reported NCAA violations early this month for imparting knowledge to their student-athletes. The school, contrary to NCAA guidelines, had provided scholarship athletes with the recommended books on their syllabi in addition to the required ones. Nebraska is now dealing with the repellent consequences.
The school faces a veritable pandemic of fancy book learnin'. The Cornhuskers lead the nation in CoSIDA Academic All Americans and Nebraska's football team, for the first time since the school began keeping records, had a cumulative GPA above 3.0.
Thankfully, this improper benefit was thwarted before Nebraska student-athletes began pursuing graduate degrees and becoming productive, informed members of society. This could, potentially, have escalated into students capitalizing on the lucrative used-novels market.
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The Cincinnati Reds didn't panic when they learned injured slugger Joey Votto would miss at least three weeks, nor did they when trailing by six runs in their latest contest. While teams like the Milwaukee Brewers who are chasing them in the NL Central may be looking to pounce on the Votto-less Reds, Brandon Phillips helped show there's still some pop in the lineup. First-place Cincinnati seeks its fifth win in seven meetings with Milwaukee when it hosts the opener of a three-game series Friday night. Votto was hitting .342 when he had surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee Tuesday. The Reds lost two of their first three games without Votto, scoring a combined eight runs, before falling behind 6-0 to Arizona on Thursday. Phillips, though, hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and a tying two-run double in the seventh, then scored the go-ahead run later in that inning as Cincinnati won 7-6. He's hitting .438 over his last eight. "Brandon can hit all over the order," manager Dusty Baker said. "He's the only guy we've got who can do that. This lets you know you can come back. It shows us what we can do without Joey. You've just got to keep doing what you can do." The Reds (52-40) have won four of the first six meetings with Milwaukee (44-47), which has won six of nine and is 7 12 games behind the division leaders. "Joey Votto is out for the next month - that completely changes the dynamic of the division," Ryan Braun told the Brewers' official website. "When one of the teams ahead of you loses its best player for a month, that changes everything. "There is no good reason to lose optimism when there are still all of these games left." Braun hopes to be back in the lineup for the series opener after sitting out Wednesday's 4-3 win over St. Louis due to a right groin strain. He's 6 for 14 with four extra-base hits over the past 2 12 seasons against Homer Bailey, who takes the mound for the Reds on Friday. Bailey (8-6, 3.93 ERA) has won three consecutive starts, posting a 1.99 ERA, after giving up one earned run in eight innings of a 4-2 victory over St. Louis on Sunday. The right-hander went into his last outing 1-4 with a 5.86 ERA at home, including giving up five runs in four innings of an 8-4 loss to the Brewers on June 27. Bailey also allowed six runs in 3 2-3 innings of an 8-3 defeat at Milwaukee on May 8, and he's 0-5 with a 6.50 ERA in 10 career starts versus the Brewers. Rickie Weeks is 11 for 21 with two homers against him but enters this contest batting .197. Milwaukee counters with Marco Estrada (0-3, 4.13), who has 29 strikeouts over his last three starts. He had 11 on Saturday, giving up three runs in 5 2-3 innings of a 6-4 loss to Pittsburgh. The right-hander did not get a decision in that game or June 26 against the Reds despite striking out a career-high 12, allowing three runs in six innings of a 4-3 loss. He's 1-2 with a 4.33 ERA in seven career appearances - three starts - versus Cincinnati. Phillips is 6 for 12 against him. Jay Bruce is 4 for 11 with three homers off Estrada but is in an 0-for-16 drought.
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Palliative Care for Non-cancer Patients
Julia M. Addington-Hall, Irene Higginson
Oxford University Press, 2001 - Medical - 292 pages
The specialty of palliative care has traditionally grown out of oncology and there has been little research into the needs of patients dying from causes other than cancer. Few non-cancer patients receive hospice in-patient, home care or day care although a good proportion of hospices say that their services are available to non-cancer patients. As a result, the importance of palliative care for non-cancer patients is now being increasingly recognized internationally, and in the UK a committee reporting to the Department of Health recommended that palliative care should be accessible to all patients who need such care. Palliative Care of the Non-cancer Patient considers the needs and experiences of patients dying from, for instance, stroke, heart disease or dementia by drawing on a range of disciplines and specialties in medicine. The provision of palliative care for patients dying from causes other than cancer raises a number of important questions for policy makers and purchasers. This book summarises what is known about the needs of and appropriate service provision for people dying of causes other than cancer and begins to set a research agenda.
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MyPatients provides referring primary care providers with secure access to their patients' information.
Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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Read the latest blog by a Boston Children's doctor, clinician or staff member.
There are many ways you can help children and their families get the care they need.
The fourth year externship program at Boston Children's Hospital provides AuD students an opportunity to experience audiology practice in a thriving pediatric medical institution. Students spend 11 months working alongside practicing audiologists as they assess and treat children at risk for or identified with hearing loss, many of whom are medically complicated. Students become adept at visual reinforcement, conditioned play, and traditional methods of audiometry, auditory evoked brainstem response testing, and additional components of pediatric audiology assessment and treatment.
The externship program is affiliated with the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program in Boston. The LEND program offers interdisciplinary training for students from many fields. Externs attend the program on Fridays from September to May. Course work focuses on interdisciplinary evaluations, Life Course perspective and public health, cultural competence, family-centered care and the medical home. The LEND experience culminates in a trip to the Disability Policy Seminar in Washington DC. It is also through our affiliation with LEND that we are able to offer to our externs a $8000 stipend and travel funding to the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention conference.
2014-2015 Audiology Externs at the 2015 EHDI Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
Boston Children's Hospital is a world-renowned pediatric tertiary care medical center and is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.
The Audiology Program at Boston Children's Hospital has mentored externs and fellows continuously since the early 1990s. Past externs are now working at other pediatric hospitals around the country, working for manufacturers, and obtained their PhD in Audiology/Hearing Science.
Audiology Externs at Boston Children's Hospital are also enrolled in the LEND Fellowship (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) at the Institute for Community Inclusion. This leadership training is typically one day per week (Fridays) from September to April and involves social policy and public health.
Our patients come from all walks-of-life, local as well as international, typically-developing children to very medically complex neonates.
Externs are provided with supervision by a range of experienced pediatric audiologists. All staff have either ASHA CCC-A or ABA Board Certification in Audiology in addition to the state license in audiology. Many staff have the ABA Pediatric Audiology Specialty Certificate, Cochlear Implant Specialty Certificate, or both. Supervision from an audiologist with the ASHA CCC-A is available but not guaranteed. While ASHA cannot require academic programs to send externs/students only to preceptors who have the ASHA CCC-A, some universities have interpreted the requirements of ASHA's Council for Academic Accreditation as such. Please check with your academic advisor for details about the specific requirements of your program.
Externs will be exposed to all aspects of pediatric audiological evaluation and case management during their 11 month experience. This will include all behavioral audiometry techniques and electrophysiology (including frequency-specific threshold estimation by ABR). Externs will participate in hearing aid fittings, FM system selection and participation in determining educational accommodations for children with hearing loss. Externs will participate in cochlear implant mapping and determining specific education accommodations in the Sound Outreach to Schools educational audiology service. Upon completion of training, the extern is expected to be competent in providing detailed assessment and audiologic case management of complex pediatric patients.
Applicants must meet requirements set forth by the Massachusetts state licensing law for qualifying for a Supervised Professional Practice. Upon selection, the extern must submit a Supervised Professional Practice plan with the state. Forms and rules and regulations for externs may be found at:
Under Applications and Forms, select Audiologists Application For Licensure and scroll to the final pages where pertinent forms are found.
It is expected that externs will come with extensive pediatric audiology experience, and be facile with all behavioral pediatric test techniques and have experience conducting frequency-specific threshold ABR assessment on infants and young children.
Universities must have a training contract on file with Boston Children's Hospital. Upon being offered an externship, students should put the Director of Diagnostic Audiology in touch with an academic advisor to assure a training contract is either active or negotiated in advance of a May start.
The position announcement is posted on the internal website and at AAA HearCareers by September 1st.
Application Packet
Applicants must submit a complete packet to be considered for the externship. The packet must include the following:
The application packed should be mailed to:
Dr. Derek J. Stiles, PhD
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300 Longwood Ave, BCH 3129
Boston, MA 02115
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It is recommended that at least one of the letters of recommendation be from an audiologist who supervised a pediatric placement and can speak to your relative strengths in this area.
Application Timeline
At this time, the Audiology Program cannot provide travel support to applicants.
Boston Children's is so much more than a hospital—it's a community of researchers, clinicians, administrators, support staff, innovators, teachers, patients and families, all working together to make the impossible possible.


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Baku. 12 March. REPORT.AZ/ "Bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Pakistan get stronger day by day. Our joint efforts on development of bilateral cooperation, our contribution to the peace and development at the international and regional levels will be even more dynamic in the next few years."
Report informs, Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain spoke after the ceremony of signing Azerbaijani-Pakistani agreements on March 11.
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Honorable Ministers, members of press, ladies and gentlemen!
I am very glad to be here today at the invitation of my brother, President Ilham Aliyev. We discussed our bilateral relations and expressed satisfaction with their level. We came to an agreement on measures to continue our sincere relations in the future. We also had a very useful and fruitful exchange of views on a number of regional and international issues of mutual interest.
Mr. President, the contribution of your father and great leader of the Azerbaijani people, the late President Heydar Aliyev to the development of Azerbaijan and his views regarding stimulation of relations between our countries are deeply admired by the Pakistani people. The policy of Azerbaijani government implemented under the leadership of my brother, President Ilham Aliyev is a strong indication of realization his genial father's views. Under your wise leadership, Azerbaijan has taken a worthy place in the international arena. Unprecedented progress of Azerbaijan in the last 10 years can serve as an example for many developing countries. Pakistan perceives the development and progress of Azerbaijan as our development and progress.
I also shared with my brother Ilham Aliyev my thoughts about a new historical stage of the Pakistani-Afghan relations, started by us and the intensification of multilateral dialogue on political issue, security, counter-terrorism, trade and economy. We work very closely with Azerbaijan in international forum related to reforms in the UN Security Council. We believe that this reform should be detailed and based on consensus. Membership in the UN should not be limited by close national interests.
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Mar 242010
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text: On Oct 18, 2005, at 8:12 PM, der Mouse wrote: > For access checks, I don't think the pathname is a right answer > either. > What do you need a pathname for? If it's a call involving a pathname > walk (such as open()), you have a pathname at hand; if not, you > have to > either have it saved or base your checks on the vnode itself, and in > the latter case a path to it is misleading because it introduces a > bunch of unrelated directories. I think it would be better to have > something like the fh*() family of syscalls for this purpose - or > perhaps a vnode filesystem, in which live vnodes appear as entries > in a > directory, since all you use the pathname for is as a handle on the > vnode. Opening directly by file handle using fhopen(2) has problems. Notably: In Unix, restricting the permissions of a common parent in the directory hierarchy effectively restricts the permissions underneath that common parent, because people can't traverse the common parent to get to the children. This is why fhopen(2) is restricted to super-user. To "fix" the issue, you would have to traverse back up the tree and check the access control on each parent. Of course, since files can be "enclosed" by more than one directory, to do this you need the file + an enclosing directory. Once you have the enclosing directory, it's easy to traverse back, since directories can have only one parent (".."). -- thorpej


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Request for recipes that use Meyer lemon juice
Hi everyone,
I just got some Meyer lemons at Costco to use for homemade limoncello. I started two batches, each of which required 20 lemons. After I peeled the lemons, I juiced them, and so now I have the juice of 40 Meyer lemons in my fridge. It's probably about seven or eight cups (I put it in the leftover vodka bottles but didn't measure it).
What should I do with all this lemon juice?


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Working after a diagnosis of cancer: Why is it important and how can we support it?
Host: Linda Sharp, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
Date and time: Mon 06-Nov-2017, 14:00-16:00
Room: Room 2N
Cancer increases risk of unemployment; many cancer survivors who were working at diagnosis struggle to resume work post-treatment; and treatments can affect work ability. Returning survivors to their desired level of workforce participation is important for them, their families, employers and society, so effective interventions are urgently needed. The session will consider up-to-date evidence on: work outcomes post-cancer and what influences these; and available interventions and their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. It will discuss lessons from other settings/conditions which could inform progress in the UK.
Confirmed speakers:
Angela de Boer, Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands
Cathy Bradley, University of Colorado, USA
Fehmidah Munir, Loughborough University, UK


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By Jason Lee/AFP/Getty Images.
Alwaleed bought a massive number of shares in Citicorp (now Citigroup) in the 1990s to help bail out Citibank—and at one point these shares made up half of his wealth. He also owns stakes in News Corp.,Twitter, Motorola, Four Seasons, and Euro Disney. He's owned shares in Apple and AOL, though he is believed to have sold those in recent years. Alwaleed's net worth is staggering—as of 2015, the man was worth $26 billion. In 2015, Alwaleed pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity at an undisclosed time in the future, with the goal of promoting health and intercultural understanding, eradicating disease, and empowering women. Alwaleed has been outspoken about female emancipation in Saudi Arabia. He helped the first Saudi female pilot, Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi, get the certification she needed to fly commercial aircraft in the country, and said at her graduation that he is "in full support of Saudi ladies working in all fields."


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The No. 3 Boston University women's hockey team suffered a 3–0 loss Tuesday night against No. 5 Harvard University in the Beanpot consolation game at Matthews Arena.
BU's (18–5–3, 13–2–1 Hockey East) fourth-place finish in the tournament was the first in program history.
"It's disappointing," said BU coach Brian Durocher. "If you can identify things to talk about, work on and correct, it makes it a little more palpable."
Durocher said the team was not at all affected by its weekend off due to the snowstorm, which included a postponed game on Saturday against the University of New Hampshire.
"We had two good skates," Durocher said. "We had a day off. We had another good skate, and we threw in some scrimmage time."
The first period was scoreless, despite Harvard's (18–3–2) power-play advantage on four separate occasions. Durocher said it caused the Terriers to expend a lot of valuable energy early in the game.
But in the second period, the Crimson picked up speed. During BU's fifth penalty kill of the evening — after junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin was called for crosschecking — Harvard forward Lyndsey Fry scored her 12th goal of the season off of assists from forward Samantha Reber and defenseman Sarah Edney to give Harvard a 1–0 lead.
BU had difficulty regaining its composure after letting up the power-play goal, and less than 20 seconds later, Reber scored a goal of her own to put the Crimson ahead 2–0. Sophomore forward Hillary Crowe and Kelsey Tomatoski had assists on the play.
"Then, the one that's a little more frustrating is the second [goal]. We've got to button down the hatches," Durocher said. "We've got the right people there, and we let them come down and get a quick one right after."
Less than two minutes after Reber scored her goal, she passed the puck to Crowe, who beat junior goaltender Kerrin Sperry to give the Crimson a 3–0 lead with 15:57 into the second period. Their lead remained unchallenged for the rest of the game.
"The third one was, again, one with a little bit of luck — a good play — puck found the cage for the third one," Durocher said. "The second one, you've got to be a little more resilient, and you've got to be able to deal with adversity and not let the second one happen. It was just too much, too fast."
During the third period, despite the team's inability to score, the Terriers picked up their pace defensively, which may have been aided by a few line changes.
"Sometimes when you're struggling to score, you try to make a couple changes," Durocher said of his decision to mix up the lines. "It ignites a little bit of a different energy. It probably ignited a bit of a spark, but we also played a pretty diligent, thorough and focused period.
"You expect that when you haven't played very well, and we did a good job of that in the third period. We stayed on the puck and made it a competitive game."
With the NCAA tournament around the corner, Durocher said the consolation game was much more important than hometown bragging rights.
"I told them, 'Beanpot's over. It's not a consolation game. It's an NCAA PairWise huge game,'" Durocher said. "It could have solidified our situation — not mathematically — but it could have put us in a real good situation. We're probably going to wake up tomorrow and see that we're in a little bit of a funny location."
BU remains one game away from its 150th program win.
"The disappointment of not scoring goals — or the frustration — sometimes you can point to the goaltender, sometimes you can point to the team defense, and sometimes you point to a little of bad luck," Durocher said. "Maybe we've had all three of them in the last two games.
"I know law of averages are going to correct themselves with the kids we have that can score goals and that have scored goals, but you've got to find ways to get one in there or correct some things."
BU next meets the University of Vermont Saturday at Walter Brown Arena at 3 p.m.


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Security researcher Daniel Wood has found that the iOS version of the Starbucks app stores user credentials in clear text. He has decided to make his discovery public after failed attempts to report his findings to the company.
In a post on the Full Disclosure mailing list, Wood explained that usernames, email addresses and passwords are stored in clear text in a log file.
"Within session.clslog there are multiple instances of the storage of clear-text credentials that can be recovered and leveraged for unauthorized usage of a users account on the malicious users' own device or online at http://www.starbucks.com/account/signin," the expert noted.
"It contains the HTML of the mobile application page that performs the account login or account reset. session.clslog also contains the OAuth token (signed with HMAC-SHA1) and OAuth signature for the users account/device to the Starbucks service."
The expert says that the app's developers should employ output sanitization to ensure that the information is not stored in the log files in clear text.
The problem with this kind of vulnerability is that someone who has physical access to the device could steal the sensitive information. Considering that many people use the same password across multiple services, this could be highly problematic.
Furthermore, the app can be used to make purchases at Starbucks, which means that an attacker can also gain access to financial information.
IDG has contacted Starbucks representatives. They claim to have implemented some changes to protect users against such attacks. However, the company has refused to go into any details.
On the other hand, Wood says he has re-tested the latest version of the Starbucks iOS app and found that user credentials are still accessible in clear text. Furthermore, he has found that geolocation information is also available in one file.


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Obama justified his Libyan War by claiming that he was protecting the people of Benghazi. But when will Obama stand up for the Christians of Benghazi?
It's not clear what role Ansar Al-Sharia, the Islamist militia behind the Benghazi September 11 attack is playing in these outrages, but it has returned and is reasserting authority in the city.
Meanwhile a marketplace dispute between Coptic Christian and Muslim vendors resulted in mass arrests of the Christians on charges of proselytizing.
Security official Hussein Bin Hmeid declared, "We are a 100 percent Muslim country and this kind of action affects our national security."
Libya is not a 100 percent Muslim country and Benghazi even contains a cathedral, but the assertion is predictive. With enough ethnic cleansing and harassment, Libya can be made into a 100 percent Muslim country. Similar tactics have been used to purge Christian populations across the Middle East and it may be possible that those tactics are coming to Libya.
Gunmen attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests.
Libya's small Christian community has expressed fears over Islamist extremism as the government struggles to impose its authority over armed groups which have refused to lay down their weapons since the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
In December, an explosion at a building belonging to a Coptic church in Dafniya, close to the western city of Misrata, killed two Egyptian men and wounded two others.
The Libyan government, chock full of Islamists, isn't imposing its authority on the Islamist militias. In some cases it's working hand in glove with them.
The arrests of Christians combined with an attack on a church in Benghazi strongly suggest that a concerted effort is being made to drive Christians out of Benghazi.
Obama justified his Libyan War by claiming that he was protecting the people of Benghazi. But when will Obama stand up for the Christians of Benghazi?


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Sunday's Racing Podcast
We have a good Sunday in prospect and William Hill Radio's Stewart Beesley joins Mark Walton to look ahead to the action.
They look at four races, including Uttoxeter's Summer Cup and the Group One Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, with Stewart offering his selection in each.
Join Darren Owen, James Millman and Paddy Aspell on Racing Radio from 1.50pm.
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Cockcroft (1982)
1982 Cockcroft Report (complete)
The Cockcroft Report (1982)
Mathematics counts
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools under the Chairmanship of Dr WH Cockcroft
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1982
Notes on the text
In March 1978 Jim Callaghan's Labour government informed Parliament that it would 'establish an Inquiry to consider the teaching of mathematics in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, with particular regard to its effectiveness and intelligibility and to the match between the mathematical curriculum and the skills required in further education, employment and adult life generally'.
The 21 members of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools, under the Chairmanship of Dr WH Cockcroft (1923-1999), then Vice Chancellor of the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, met for the first time on 25 September 1978. They submitted their report to Keith Joseph, (Conservative) Secretary of State for Education and Science, and Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales, in November 1981.
The report online
The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online in a single web page.
The formatting of the text (bold, italics, centred etc) is a reasonably accurate representation of the printed version, but the pages presented here are not exact facsimiles of the original: the font (Times, Arial etc) and size of print - and therefore the number of words to a line and lines to a page - are determined by the settings you have chosen for your web browser. However, the page breaks are correct. In other words, if something is shown here as being on, say, page 103, you can be sure it appeared on page 103 in the original.
There is one exception to the above: many of the headings and all the footnotes in this report were printed in the left hand margin beside the paragraphs to which they referred. For this web version, I have incorporated the headings into the body of the text and placed the footnotes at the foot of the page. Where there was more than one footnote on a page I have used the traditional footnote symbols.
The page headers (chapter title on both left and right hand pages) have been omitted.
As you would expect in a report about mathematics, a number of fractions and other symbols appeared in the text. Since only simple fractions can be rendered in HTML, I have reproduced most of them as 1/16, 1/32 etc.
In the printed version, large numbers were shown thus: 319 246. I have rendered this as 319,246. Where a number is less than 10,000 I have omitted the comma (eg 9620) which is how the printed version displayed such numbers.
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text: I would like to talk about Structural Functionalism and Symbolic Interactionism and how both of these theories can be applied to Juvenile Delinquency. For instance, Structural Functionalism looks at behaviors and functions of institutions such as: family, school, religion and even government offices. Structural Functionalism also looks at what is functional and dysfunctional within a social problem therefore, they want to explain why things happen and they also look for who or what is to blame. For Example, the institutions in the case regarding juvenile delinquency would be the family, school, religion, juvenile justice facilities, and even the authorities such as the law, police, judges, case workers and etc. the functional aspect of juvenile delinquency would be that the juvenile justice facilities provide structure and stability which is something everybody needs they also help the kids to get back on the right track again. However, the dysfunctional aspects of juvenile delinquency is the family dynamic which includes broken homes or single parent families, parents who have to pay for food, electricity, gas, water, clothes in other words, parents who are working hard to get the basic neccessities and resources of life to provide for their kids and their families which is functional but yet at the same time has the potential to become a dysfunctional dynamic because then there's no time for structure and stability and kids commit truancy. Wanting to belong and be accepted can also be a functional aspect but that too also has the potential to become and serve a dyfunctional purpose because then there is peer pressure which also contributes to juvenile delinquency. Symbolic Interactionism looks for symbols and meanings within a social problem as well. For example, a Symbolic Interactionist might describe Juvenile Delinquents as "bad, good, innocent, guilty, frustrated, angry, threatening, intimidating, seeking attention, wanting a sense of belonging, seeking acceptance, looking for love, looking for advice and guidance, creative, talented, and artistic"


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|p. ix
|p. xi
|Abbreviations and Symbols
|p. xiii
|Aims and Evidence
|p. 1
|Welcome to Dictionopolis!
|p. 3
|The human word-store
|Links in the Chain
|p. 18
|Assessing the evidence
|Programming Dumbella
|p. 32
|Modeling the mental lexicon
|Brainy Matters
|p. 42
|The physical underlay
|Basic Ingredients
|p. 51
|Slippery Customers
|p. 53
|Attempts to pin down the meaning of words
|Bad Birds and Better Birds
|p. 66
|Prototype theories
|Whispering Chambers of the Imagination
|p. 80
|Mental models
|The Primordial Atomic Globule Hunt
|p. 90
|The search for semantic primitives
|p. 99
|Semantic networks
|Close Companions
|p. 113
|Words which cling together
|Lexical All-sorts
|p. 119
|Parts of speech
|Verb Power
|p. 131
|The role of verbs
|Bits of Words
|p. 145
|The internal architecture of words
|Taking Care of the Sounds
|p. 157
|Dealing with the sound patterns
|p. 169
|Multiple Meanings
|p. 171
|The polysemy problem
|Interpreting Ice-cream Cones
|p. 182
|Metaphor and metonymy
|Globbering Mattresses
|p. 194
|Creating new words
|What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?
|p. 209
|How children learn the meaning of words
|Aggergog Miggers, Wips and Gucks
|p. 222
|How children cope with the sounds of words
|The Overall Picture
|p. 235
|Seeking and Finding
|p. 237
|Selecting words
|Organized Guesswork
|p. 248
|Recognizing words
|Odd Arrangements and Funny Solutions
|p. 261
|The organization pf the mental lexicon
|Last Word
|p. 267
|Final comments and future questions
|p. 270
|p. 292
|p. 327
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Explorer of the Seas...just back
I hate to be a spoiled sport but I think that the Explorer or the Seas has gone a little downhill in food and service.
I went on my first cruise in May 2002 on the Explorer of the Seas and thought it was fantastic. I just went on its May 1, 8-night Eastern Caribbean and I was a little disappointed in the service, food and cleanliness of the ship.
I found the service to be not as good as two year's ago. No one came around to offer coffee at the Windjammer in the morning. You had to go looking for spoons. The drink glasses are for 3-year olds, no more large glasses.
The staff hardly says hello to you. Our cabin attendant never came by to introduce herself and show us the cabin. I met her in the hallway and had to ask her her name.
Our cabin, balcony 7586 needed its rug shampooed and the couch was thread-worn. The bathroom was clean and in good working order.
Our dining room service was not great. A lot of mixed up orders, steak not cooked to our order. Lobster was a tad small. In the end though the food picked up by the end of the cruise. Service was a little better. I got the feeling that they didn't quite understand English that well and it became a problem.
I also found that the martinis were not great and every bartender made the same one differently.
One day I wanted a latte and the machine was broken. I went back the next day for one and we had to wait 10 minutes for it to boot up. When I finally got the lattee, it was cold and full of froth. Since I had taken it to my room before I drank it, I didnt' want to take it back. Its was the last one I bought.
Even the shows were the same as two year's ago, no change there. They were fabulous though and loved all over again.
Portofinos was okay, but I think the service there also changed since two year's ago.
Okay, enough of my bi%#*ing.
I hate to be one of those critics that compares cruises to cruises, but I just came off the Summit in December and I would go on that ship every year to the Caribbean in a heartbeat. Great service, friendly staff, great food, great martinis, nice room etc.....the most relaxing cruise I have every taken.
Since I'm limited on cruises and the price I can pay, I have to say RCL lost me as customer. I've moved over to Celebrity.
Re: Explorer of the Seas...just back
Cruz sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your time on explorer. I atleast I know what to expect and will not let {the one who rules} know. I don't wanna put her in that negative frame of mind prior to the cruise. As a husband there are times when not saying anything is better than creating feelings if you know what I mean.Well I guess it's time to order flowers for the room lol. Thanks again
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Don't fret, everyone has different experiences on the same ship! I also just got off Explorer and was on her 2 years ago as well. Explorer remains to be my all-time favorite ship. Our recent trip was every bit as awesome as two years ago. For us the food and service was even better now than 2 years ago! The ship remains to be stunningly beautiful. Yes, the shows were the same, but all ships keep the same shows for years and years. We still enjoyed seeing the shows! I have two more Voyager-class cruises scheduled. I LOVE THESE SHIPS!!!!!!
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I am very pleased to be here and I want to congratulate each of you on being chosen for a White House Fellowship. I will let you in on a little intra-office advice regarding my invitation to speak here today. When invitations arrive there is a sheet on which all pertinent information about the event is recorded in concise, "sound-bite" language. This sheet then serves to point out such logistical things as a possible conflict in my schedule as well as such sensitive things as events that provide important opportunities at which to appear. In the section headed "comments/special instructions on the sheet for today's invitation it said, "a good chance to meet with the upcoming 'best and brightest'. So let me say that I am indeed honored to be here with you.
And I want quickly to allay your fears about being victims of a "droning talk." I have been audience to many of them and my remarks will be very brief so that we can have a genuine dialogue and I intend to take away more than I have brought.
In fact, I hope that I adhere to the advice on speeches that the comedian George Jessel (whom you are all too young to remember) would often give. He said, "If you haven't struck oil in your first three minutes, stop boring!" So this may be even briefer than I intended.
Let me first say that the public policy arena, in which I am now a three-year novice, is a fascinating and wholly unique experience. I have learned things that I'm sure I could have not learned anywhere else. Some of these things I could have happily lived a long life not learning. Some of you may feel the same way.
I will limit my remarks to some over-arching comments which may provide a partial context for your time here in Washington. You might have heard or noticed that last week was National Science and Technology Week. If you didn't, we'll make sure you do hear of it next year. This is an annual event that has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation for over a decade. The theme of this year's event was Webs, Wires, and Waves: The Science and Technology of communications. The "three Ws" all represent ways to communicate and are all unique applications of science and technology.
The importance of this theme was made clear to me by a story I recently heard.
A person rushes into a TV repair shop, looking frantic and hassled, and breathlessly asks, "Can you replace the batteries in my TV remote control? It hasn't worked for three days." The repair clerk replies, "Certainly, I know how tough it is to watch TV without a remote." The customer then says, "That's not the problem. I just want to turn the darn thing off!"
In our society today, we know that many of us are invigorated by the advances occurring in science and technology in general, and more particularly in information technology. Many of our friends and neighbors--like the customer in the story--are intimidated by them. But, no one of us can deny the impact they are having on our lives--or the promise they hold for the future.
Just last week, I was able to catch up on some reading and came across the cover story from the March 31st issue of Business Week. It's entitled "The New Business Cycle," and it opens with this observation: "It used to be housing and autos. But the economic expansion of the 1990s has been fueled by the strong growth of the information technology industry."
Although many of us use terms like "post-cold war economy" and the "information age" with frequency and ease, we have not necessarily paid enough attention to the far reaching implications of their meaning. Or, indeed, if they are the right terms to use.
With that sense of change and dynamism, let me just throw out a few ideas that we can chew on together in the remaining time.
First, the end of the Cold War, just over seven years ago, was unpredicted. It did not even show up on the radar screens of foreign policy experts and political gurus. It caught the world by happy surprise. No one, however, had imagined or planned for a global landscape without the Free World/Soviet rivalry of the previous forty years.
Among other things, the end of this anomalous period in world history set an already complex world economy into a state of heightened transition. We are currently immersed in a somewhat volatile but also opportunistic period that will likely continue for quite some time. The new openness in the world political and economic arena has created a system "in flux" where different leaders, as well as different losers, can emerge.
For example, in the area of research and development, with which I have to grapple each day, the future is both exciting and confusing. Japan and South Korea, among others, are making strong investments in both a science and engineering workforce for the future and in R&D programs that they believe will pay of in high economic value. And the speed and determination with which China is moving in these same directions makes it perhaps the most formidable competitor for the future.
This is exciting in terms of human benefit and global progress. It is confusing in terms of trying to help position America to be a leader and not a loser in the future.
Second, this transition period is also characterized by an explosion in the form and function of "information technologies." The emerging economies of southeast Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan, have quickly grasped the value of these technologies as a critical driver for technological and manufacturing capability. They are heavily focused on educating so-called "information" engineers for this new direction.
Third, in order for America to compete in the wake of such focused competition, we need to be able to forge a "critical mass" of knowledge, skill, and infrastructure. It should include, but not be limited to, public and private schools, colleges and universities, industry and small business, government at all levels, and the talented personnel from each sector. It must be guided by a collective vision of where we need to go as a nation and a collaborative spirit of how we can get there.
In essence, we must recognize the need for collective effort, for collaborations where each partner has something to offer and each has something to learn.
We no longer live in an era where academe can provide an autonomous career, sheltered from society's needs and problems. We no longer live in a time when U.S. industry believes it has nothing to learn from other nations or other sectors, an attitude that persisted for too long. We no longer live in the luxury of succeeding on first-rate higher education and mediocre K-12 education. We no longer live in the industrial age when a modestly skilled assembly-line workforce could propel the nation.
And fourth, we can no longer expect public support in the form of a blank check and an undefined agenda for any idea, no matter how good it sounds.
My generation of engineers and scientists was among the first to flourish under the new and generous government support of R&D at the start of the Cold War. One might even label that first-time historical period of serious federal funding as a time of public innocence. Most funds were appropriated under the rubric of national security, and that was often the sole dictate for the research. Oh, how times have changed. Your generation of graduate student found a much leaner and more competitive environment.
Today, those providing the funds not only require more accountability from those who are asking, but there is increasing pressure to use scarce public funds solely for the support of public goals. Federal dollars will increasingly be viewed as a quantifiable investment.
Key to this issue is the realization by both the electorate and their policy makers that the 21st century will be dynamic, doggedly competitive, and dramatically more collaborative. That may, at first, sound like a contradiction in terms. But, if you think about it for a minute, it's not very different from the way families or siblings have to function in order to get along and also succeed individually.
And so as a nation, we will increasingly be partners in a growing number of initiatives with our most aggressive economic competitor nations. And, for the long-term, both developed and developing countries will have to work together to be shepherds of our planet habitat.
The vast shifts in global political alignment, economic expansion, and their accompanying social change are already creating "domino effect" in government, in industry, and even slowly in our universities. This is, I believe, just the beginning. And information technologies will provide a hastening catalyst.
We are living in the infancy of what scholars and song writers all term the "Information Age," despite the fact that there are no adequate definitions of what an information age means. We may, in fact, face an era quite different from the word "information" that we are using with impunity. The period before us is much more than computing power, digital transmission, global communication, multimedia integration, and the Next Generation Internet.
Information systems and learning tools are powerful but still somewhat enigmatic mechanisms. We know what they can do today, but we cannot actually imagine what they will enable us to do tomorrow.
We do know from the history of medical imaging systems, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and countless other technological marvels that they have enormous potential to transform all our lives.
Well I promised to talk for just a few minutes and perhaps this was a few minutes too long. To summarize, with the end of the Cold War we have entered a period of accelerated transition where pitfalls and possibilities abound. We must be astute observers and students of the shifting global landscape. We must agree on a collective vision and plot a path together to reach our goals. We will be overtaken if we think each sector can operate independently, as in the old days. We must be bold and experimental in developing and leading this yet undefined, and likely misnamed, information age. We must rekindle the optimism of the American pioneers and delight in the challenge of the journey. And we will especially need the insight and perspective of the "best and brightest" among us. Welcome aboard. We have much to learn from you.


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AROUND 200 nursery pupils and staff are being offered screening for tuberculosis after an employee tested positive for the disease.
NHS Lanarkshire has identified three cases of TB, all members of the same family.
One of them has been a patient in hospital and 119 patients who came into contact with the person are being offered guidance and advice, as are staff.
Another works at a nursery in Blantyre.
The 175 children and 28 staff there are being offered screening as a precautionary measure, in line with national guidance.
The health board said the three patients are all well and responding to treatment.
Dr Josephine Pravinkumar, Consultant in Public Health Medicine said: "Tuberculosis is a relatively uncommon infection in Scotland. It can be successfully treated with antibiotics. However, if not identified and treated, it can be serious.
"The risk of transfer of this infection to people who have been in contact with a case is low and the risk of people developing active TB disease is even lower.
"It is not easily passed from person to person, and even prolonged contact does not necessarily mean the infection would be contracted.
"However, in line with Scottish guidance, we are offering screening for close contacts as a precautionary measure.
"We are contacting all people who have had close contact with the cases of TB and are ensuring that all appropriate public health measures are taken."
NHS Lanarkshire identified the nursery worker and hospital patient through "contact tracing" after being notified of an initial case of TB.
The health board is not releasing the name of the hospital or nursery to protect the privacy of those involved.
Tuberculosis usually affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body.
Symptoms include a cough, loss of appetite, unexplained weight loss, fever/sweating, especially at night, tightness of the chest or chest pain.


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Jake Heaps isn't going to be a Husky. Just as Jonathan Stewart and Taylor Mays and Steve Schilling and other big-time recruits didn't become Huskies.
It's OK. It's a 17-year-old kid choosing to go away from home to follow his college dreams, for whatever reason.
UW fans should certainly be discouraged that such a promising quarterback talent chose BYU over his hometown Dawgs, but there's no need to turn the Skyline High star into some kind of traitor.
The kid had a choice. He made it. Let's move on.
My only beef with Heaps is the way he turned Thursday's announcement into a dog-and-pony show with the press releases about "Expect the unexpected" and the need to promote his announcement through a public-relations firm and public gathering in Salt Lake City.
But that's largely the fault of the hounding hordes who built the kid up to something he's going to have trouble living up to in coming years. He was on KJR radio so often I thought they were going to give him his own show. Everyone wanted to hear his story and the teenager has remarkable poise and presentation for someone his age.
He seemed to relish the cat-and-mouse game of where he was going to wind up and that culminated with Thursday's gathering at Iggy's Sports Grill in Salt Lake City, a far cry from the low-key announcement by Jake Locker and others of similar talents and promise.
Heaps explains some of that in this story on espn.com, saying he wanted to gather as much publicity as possible for BYU. I think by simply signing with the Cougars he accomplished that goal, but I'm admittedly old school in these things.
I will say, however, that some at the University of Washington were wondering about Heap's public posturing even before he committed to BYU, so I'm not the only one who questions how much is too much with these things.
But concerning Heaps' ultimate decision, that's a personal choice that should not be held against him by anyone. It'll be interesting to see how the young man does in the future. As he told ESPN, this wasn't an easy call and these things aren't all black and white, or purple and gold.
"I grew up a Husky fan and I'll always be a Husky fan," Heaps said. "That's my hometown school and I know they're going to be great and Coach Sarkisian is going to do great things there.
"My only wish is the fans there will still see me as a local boy and will still pull for me no matter where I'm at. I expect them to be a little disappointed but I'm going to still root for the Huskies and hopefully they can do the same for me."
And now everyone should move on.


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Just before the midyear examinations came a crisis in the growth of their friendship.
midyear, with its burden of examinations, its feverish hopes and fears, came and went.
That means, he'll have to wait till the midyear Feasts, when the Convocation assembles, and he can get his constitution enacted.
The midyear Feasts approached; each time he returned to the city he found more excitement as preparations went on.
The students attended a ball given three weeks ago during the midyear recess.