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City Manager Michael V. O'Brien is asking the City Council to include the former Notre Dame des Canadiens Church property off Salem Square in the "priority development site" boundary for the City Square redevelopment project.
Mr. O'Brien said the designation will help accelerate the development's progress.
Timothy J. McGourthy, the city's chief development officer, said the designation allows for a more "development-friendly" environment, by establishing a 180-day time line for municipal permitting decisions.
He said similar designations have been given to two other development sites in the city — Gateway Park and South Worcester Industrial Park.
He added that the projects now under way within the CitySquare project site have benefited greatly from the expedited permitting process.
CitySquare II Development Co. LLC purchased Notre Dame des Canadiens Church two years ago, and is currently incorporating the parcel into the overall redevelopment master plan for CitySquare.
In addition, the City Council has amended the District Improvement Financing boundary for the CitySquare project to include the church.
But since the priority development site designation was initially given to CitySquare, Mr. McGourthy said, the project has undergone some crucial changes, including the acquisition of the church, thus necessitating an amendment to the site's boundary.
"The incorporation of the former Notre Dame des Canadiens Church property into the (priority development site) will not only allow for continuity in this project but leverage additional marketing resources for this unique building, attract investors for the parcel, and allow development to progress as rapidly as possible," Mr. McGourthy wrote.
"The parcel's inclusion is necessary to strategically address the development of CitySquare in a holistic manner," he added.
Mr. O'Brien's recommendation is going before the City Council Tuesday night. He is asking the council to refer it to its Economic Development Committee for a hearing.
The twin-spired church at Salem Square was constructed in 1929, and served the city's French Canadian population for some eight decades. The Diocese of Worcester sold the church to CitySquare II Development Co. for $875,000 in 2010, and the church closed in October of that year.
While the developers have no plans at this time for reuse of the historic church building, they have said they intend to make every effort to identify a potential suitable reuse so it can be preserved.
While preservation of the church is also a high priority of many city councilors, some have said that discussions about the future of the church may also have to include the option of razing it, because finding a suitable reuse may simply not prove feasible.


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Governor McGreevey Comes Out; Steps Down
Holy Cannoli, Batman! Your blogstress could barely believe her ears, listening to the governor of her home state come out, at the age of 46, on national television (video here).
No, James McGreevey is not the first politician to admit to being gay when the wolf was at the door (with some sort of seedy evidence, no doubt, of a same-sex tryst). But it's a first for Jersey, where your cybertix knows from personal experience that ethnic queers generally marry members of the opposite sex in order to stay members in good standing of the quaint, foul-mouthed, family-centric, corrupt, congested, multi-cultural culture that has spawned such fantastic figures as Queen Latifah, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few.
Now, your blogstress never was a big fan of McGreevey's, though she did appreciate his support for Jersey's domestic parnership bill. You see, she spent much of her adult life in the county of her birth--Hudson County (pronounced 'Uds'n Counny)--and came to have a certain affection for the Hudson County Democratic machine. (Even dated a guy who was one of the machine's better machinists--see what I mean?)
When McGreevey came into office, he didn't forget that the Hudson County boys weren't too keen on him earlier in his career--even though they did help him win the governor's mansion--so he put them all out of business when they finally won back the majority in the legislature, and replaced them will his fellas from the Middlesex County. (Full disclosure: your écrivane spent the first half of her idyllic childhood in Middlesex County.)
So, like, after spending those eight Whitman years in the minority wilderness, your cybertrix's ex-boyfriend winds up pushed out of government just as his side wins. I mean, that'd piss anybody off, right?
But tonight, watching the governor discuss, up front, his "confusion" about issues concerning his "identity", your blogstress sat clutching her heart. When he spoke of his marriage being founded on love and respect, she believed him. Hers had been, too. When he wondered aloud whether, at 46, it was too late for him to come clean, she recalled her realization, at last, at the age of 42, that she was not a straight girl.
In reality, more than a a realization, it was a sense of resignation to a fate she never wanted that drove your blogstress. But for her to get there, she had to leave New Jersey, which was not anything she had ever really wanted to do. Now that he has gotten there, one suspects that Gov. McGreevey may leave our besmirched but beloved homeland, as well, but likely to attend to greener pastures.
For as moving as the governor's confession was, it was a brilliant move, as well. If there was ever a moment to be a gay politician--a gay anything, for that matter--it's now. By stepping out in front of the news, McGreevey becomes a de facto spokesman for a thriving movement. We haven't heard the last of him; of that there's no doubt.

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The violence erupted after deposed Wafd leader Nomaan Gomaa occupied the party headquarters and supporters of the new leaders tried to gain entry.
Eight people were reported to have been shot and 15 others injured, and the building was set on fire.
Mr Gomaa, 71, and six of his supporters were detained by police.
Doctors said three of the people shot were in a serious condition, Reuters news agency reported.
It added that police said those shot included journalists and party workers who were in the building when Mr Gomaa arrived at about 0800 local time (0600 GMT).
The fire in the building was brought under control.
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Mr Gomaa, who came a distant third in last year's presidential elections, was deposed in January by a group he says are rebels.
He argues he is still Wafd leader, but since he was removed, the party has elected Mustafa al-Tawil as its president.
Mr Gomaa's former deputy, Mahmoud Abaza, was made party chairman.
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New technology being developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Sunnybrook Research Institute is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier.
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Young people between the ages of 15 and 30 living with a chronic illness are three times more likely to attempt suicide than their healthy peers, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.
The study found that chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes and Crohn's disease increase a young person's odds of suicidal thoughts by 28 per cent and plans to die by suicide by 134 per cent. Having a chronic condition increases the odds of a suicide attempt by 363 per cent.
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo are creating a prototype of a virtual assistant to help people living with Alzheimer's disease. It will prompt them to complete day-to-day tasks by taking the person's personality and current state of mind into consideration.
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After about a week of using it, this is what I think about this Soy Cleanser:
Consistency: Good. It's smooth, it doesn't have any exfoliating beads, and it doesn't make any foam but it does get the job done.
Smells: Not great. Ok, let's get our olfactory sensors in line here. I'm a girl that likes the scent of coconut and musk, and hates patchouli and peppermint. You might be the opposite which means you might love the way this cleanser smells. I think it smells odd, almost like an old, stuffy room. But that's just me. In any case, it didn't smell so bad that I couldn't use it, and fortunately, the smell doesn't linger once you rinse it off.
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The Seahawks – excited for next year. Russell Wilson only had 1/3 of the snaps during the preseason and showed tremendous growth through this season. With a full off season and preseason to prepare, (and nobody prepares like he does) I'm confident he'll not experience the dreaded "Sophmore Slump."
The Sonics – hopefull they will be back in Seattle this Fall. Former NBA star and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is doing his best to keep the team in Sacto, but I suspect the deal is done.
The Mariners – fearing another season of mediocrity. I hope not, but I'm not seeing anything that leads me to believe any different.
Manti T'eo – I don't care. Really, I don't. And I'm tired of this story being all over the news. Time to move on.
Lance Armstrong – see 'Manti T'eo.'
ZED – can't get enough of their new album, due for release May 21st.
Eric Czar – hasn't posted a new video to Youtube in quite some time. He tells me he just finished a 'Mellow piece' on his new Ibanez ATK305 and will be posting it soon!
HD TV – I'm still like a kid with a new toy. Blu-Ray movies in HD are a trip! Most recent movie was Avatar, which was very enjoyable. Amazing special effects.
Real Estate – Mom's house is on the market, but no nibbles yet. Another showing today according to our agent.
Weather – had enough of it. Come on Spring!
Work – business is improving, slowly but surely. Quality accounts take time, but it's hard to be patient. Persistence, persistence…
My yard – needs attention. A lot of it. See 'Weather.'
Main Bathroom – finally finished, time to tackle the master bath.
Quality Sleep – not familiar enough with it to comment.
State of the Union – recent Youtube surfing of George Carlin clips have led to some genuinely funny discoveries, and some that just make me hope he's wrong about our country. However, I fear there's more truth to this rant than not. (Caution, strong language).
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I agree.
If Mom's house is priced right it'll sell.
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Dr. Michael is the editor of Extremism in America, "a sweeping overview and assessment of the various brands of bigotry, prejudice, zealotry, dogmatism, and partisanship found in the United States, including the extreme right, the antiglobalization movement, Black Nationalism, Chicano separatism, militant Islam, Jewish extremism, eco-extremism, the radical antiabortion movement, and extremist terrorism. This is our first Campus Author Series event for the 2013-14 academic year."
April 1, 2:30 pm: Susan Deer Cloud poetry reading
Susan Deer Cloud is a renowned poet of Blackfoot, Mohawk and Seneca heritage. She is reading at WSU at the Ely Library on Tuesday, April 1st at 2:30pm.
Susan Deer Cloud earned her B.A. from Binghamton University and MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. In addition to publishing poetry and stories in numerous journals and anthologies, Deer Cloud has authored five books of poetry: The Broken Hoop (1988), In the Moon When the Deer Lose Their Horns (1993), The Last Ceremony (2007), Car Stealer (2010), and Braiding Starlight (2010). Among Deer Cloud's numerous awards and recognitions are a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Literature Grant, Prairie Schooner's Readers' Choice Award, the Native American Wordcraft Circle Editor's Award for Confluence, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and two first-prize awards in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Competition.
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So you started dating a guy at 15 and thought that was it. You were both virgins and had no idea what you were doing and aside from a few stories from friends and some back issues of Cosmo, you have had to figure out everything on your own. And when virgins are teaching virgins about sex, well, that is pretty much the blind leading the blind, isn't it? You may be able to please your long-time ex to no end. But guess what? The other 3 billion males in the world are not him, and therefore will act differently. So, as a service to you, this person I am not related to and have no semblance of a sexual attraction to, I will present you with a semi-detailed and HIGHLY generalized guide to the wide array of things that have gone on to countless others between the ages of 15 and 21.
There is one running theme you will notice in this and it is that GUYS LOVE A GIRL WHO MAKES THE FIRST MOVE! The kind who don't are generally the type who like to dominate their woman, and therefore would be 100% incompatible with you anyway. Because you are such a docile little flower. You see a guy you like, you get along, ask him out. Guys will almost always say yes, at least to you, because a date is step one on the road to the promised land. If you were ugly I would not give you this advice, but I don't know too many guys who would turn you down unless they are gay. And even then, look at Sean.
Many men have what is known as a 3-date rule. This means if they are not getting some sort of sexual affection by date three, you should not expect an invitation for date four. Guys who do this are not assholes, by the way. Men see sexual attention as confirmation that you like them. Just be prepared that if Captain Willie or whatever he has decided to name it had not made an appearance by the third date, your man may not make an appearance for the fourth. Am I telling you to be a slut? Of course not. Just don't make a man wait too long or he may think he is being used or that you are not interested..
Let him pay for date 1. I HATE spending money on women, but if a girl insists on paying for her half on Date 1, that tells me she is not interested. If you don't want to feel like you owe him something, buy the first round of drinks if you go out later. If you aren't interested, though, you may want to pay for your half so he gets the clue.
Don't be afraid to call/text a guy and tell him you had a great time the next day (this is ESPECIALLY important after the first time you have sex). I have never gotten one of these messages and not busted out with a huge smile. Seriously, it makes me happy when someone does that. But, you know, one call is enough.
Not that I think you would ever do it, but sex on the first date is dicey. Guys who want to date you if you f- on the first date are just as messed up as girls who f- on the first date. Date three is really the best time, or two weeks in. Seem a bit fast for you? Well, unfortunately this is how it works with a lot of guys. Not all. But the ones who will "wait until you're ready" are either A) Full of shit B) Pussies, which may be what an assertive type like you needs or C) Banging a lot of other girls so he'll be calling up Amber over in the Tri-Delt house after he drops you off.


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Ask A Scientist: Add Patterns to Kindergarten Common Core Math?
This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here.
The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of the most contentious in education circles. Bethany Rittle-Johnson is a professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee who studies early math, specifically the importance of teaching young children about patterns. Patterns were mostly left out of the common-core math standards in the early grades (kindergarten and 1st grade) due to a lack of evidence that they helped children understand later math concepts. Rittle-Johnson's research on what children take away form learning repeating patterns, however, along with the research of several others that has come out since the standards were written, suggests that patterns should be added back in.
We spoke with Rittle-Johnson at length about both her work with patterns and the more wide-ranging question of what math should look like for preschool students. Should students use objects, called manipulatives, to practice addition? At what point should they begin to learn symbols? Is counting important? How do students figure out math rules?
Our conversation was so engaging, that it's being published on Early Years in two parts. The first part, which ran on February 17, covered best practices for early math classes. We left that conversation just as we were about to discuss the importance of learning repeating patterns. Here's the rest of our conversation, edited for length and clarity:
Which brings us into your research on patterns, right?
Yes, I've been looking at this research on kids thinking about repeating patterns.
Like A, B, C, A, B, C?
That's right. There are also these things called growing patterns like two, four, six, eight. Growing patterns [are something] that kids deal with at an older age. But you can't really deal with growing patterns until you have good number skills in place.
Repeating patterns are very accessible to young children though, and kids love patterns. And preschool teachers love patterns. But there's big concerns that how kids usually deal with patterns isn't very mathematical because we show them red, blue, red, blue and we ask them what comes next and people say "Well, what are you really paying attention to to do that? You just kind of get a little rhythm. You just match the first item or something." It wasn't clear how mathematically relevant it was.
Would you say that those concerns were part of what led to patterns being taken out of the kindergarten common-core math standards?
There was a National Mathematics Advisory Panel that came out with a report in 2008 that was commissioned by the president to look at what math knowledge was important for kids. [The panel] really focused on algebraic competency in high school because being good in algebra seems to be related to getting into college, completing college, earning more money, [etc.]. And so people got worried. What can we do to help kids be better prepared for and more successful in algebra in high school? And so that's what this National Math Advisory Panel did.
At the time there was no evidence linking repeating pattern knowledge to later math outcomes, and mathematicians were worried. They were like, "What's mathematical about that?"
Also, five out of the six highest-achieving countries out of the world do not pay attention to repeating patterns in the early grades.
Based on that [the National Math Advisory Panel] said that patterns should receive a lot less attention in the curriculum. As far as I can tell, that's why the Common Core State Standards dropped it.
Patterning is not there at all in kindergarten right?
Yeah, that's right. If you look at the math practices in the common core it says look for and make use of structure. [Math practices in the Common Core Standards are lists of skills children should use to help them achieve the standards.] There's some reference to looking at these kind of patterning ideas in that mathematical practice, but it's easily missed. Teachers I talk to don't get that from it at all, and they're saying, "They're taking patterning away from us." This is just anecdotal, but I've heard this anecdote from several people.
I've heard it in my reporting too, which is why I was interested in your research.
I want to be always really clear that I agree that the common core should be evidence-based, and when they were writing the standards there wasn't really evidence out there. But in the last eight years or so I think there's a lot of really nice evidence coming out showing that patterning, even these basic repeating patterns, really are useful and helpful in supporting kids' mathematical thinking. And so I think that is something that we should add back in.
So what is the evidence that repeating patterns are useful?
So there's one study by Marina Papic, [a professor at the Macquarie University] in Australia. She did a preschool patterning intervention that does this sophisticated kind of patterning. She found that a year later when these kids have entered kindergarten their numeracy knowledge was better than the kids who hadn't been in this patterning intervention. Of course, their repeating pattern knowledge was better, but then a year later their numeracy knowledge and their growing pattern knowledge was better too.
Is that maybe because they had practice with simple patterns so the idea of a more complex pattern was an easier leap?
It's this idea of getting kids to make use of and look for structure. You are trying to think about "What's the rule? What's going on here? What's happening?" Looking for rules and regularities and figuring out things that are happening—that's what most of math is.
The practice of thinking about repeating patterns helps kids look for patterns in numbers and look for patterns in other things. And so they're starting with shapes because blocks and colors are what's most easy for a 4-year-old to do. It gets them looking for those patterns and thinking about rules, and that's what they need to do to learn a bunch of other math.
And then there's more evidence that [George Mason University professors] Julie Kidd, and Robert Pasnak [discovered]. They did work in the U.S. with these 1st graders who were struggling with patterning. Their classroom teachers worked in small groups doing patterning with them or they did a variety of other things like reading activities or math activities that were pretty varied. At the end of the school year the kids who did the patterning activities did better in math achievement on a standardized math test, than most of the other kids. They were better or equal to the kids who did the math work, and they were definitely better than the kids who did the reading work.
It sounds like the thing that is most clear then about working with repeating patterns at a young age is that it helps children understand the idea that there is structure and there might be a rule governing the pattern and therefore their brain starts to figure out "Oh, I should be looking for rules. I should be looking for patterns." And then that continues to be helpful throughout their math learning.
That's what we think is going on.
And there's more evidence for that than you knew there was before.
Yes. These studies came out in 2011, 2014, so it's really new. And the things those studies share is they didn't do the really simple patterning work that preschool teachers oftentimes do, which is like what comes next or just like red/blue/red/blue/red/blue and now can you copy it?
Can you give me an example of what they did do in the studies?
My favorite example is we asked kids to come up with the same kinds of patterns, but using new materials. So if I show you red/blue/blue/red/blue/blue, now I give you shapes and triangles and I ask you to make the same kind of pattern using circles and triangles.
So now you have to do circle/triangle/triangle/circle/triangle/triangle?
Yes. And so the idea is kids can succeed at easier tasks by matching. They can do it in a simple way that we're not sure is really pushing them to think about rules and regulations.
When you do this activity where you [tell kids], "Okay, do the same kind of pattern," then kids have to think about it. I've found in my own work that from the beginning of the preschool year to the end of the preschool year, kids got a lot better at that, even though their teachers were doing a lot of patterning but not a lot of that more sophisticated patterning. So I think it's very accessible to 4-year-olds, and [the studies I mentioned] used this more-sophisticated stuff that's pushing kids to think about rules. You have to really pay attention to the rule and the structure and do something with it.
Also, I don't think you can do that with 3-year-olds. I mean, I'm sure there's a 3-year-old out there, but in general, you first have to get easier tasks.
You're saying they need to progress to the more difficult ones to really have an impact.
By the time they're 4, they're ready for that. Now, we haven't actually any evidence before they're 4, but I think this would be rough going if I was doing this with kids who hadn't really seen patterns and hadn't really talked about patterns. Like when I say, "Look at the pattern," no kid has ever said to me, "What do you mean?"
It's clear, when I survey the teachers I work with, they report doing 10 patterning activities a week on average. Now, of course, preschool teachers aren't directly affected by the Common Core State Standards, but I think it's going to push down.
BONUS: Read Rittle-Johnson's presentations on her and her team's research findings.
If you could give just one thing that parents or preschool teachers could do with their young children at home—we'll talk about 4-year-olds—that would help them be ready for kindergarten and 1st grade math, what would it be?
I'm going to encourage them to do this pattern abstraction. Make a pattern with one set of materials and ask kids to make the same kind of pattern, but using new materials so that they have to really be thinking about that rule. I think it's going to really help. There are other things that help too, but this is something that most parents and teachers have never thought about.
Oh, and have you heard about Bedtime Math?
Hmm, no.
It's [an app] by this mom who's also a Ph.D. in biochemistry or something. Essentially in addition to reading a story at night, it's a math problem for your kids to do at night.
The idea is doing this informal thing just gets kids thinking about math. There's a really nice study that just came out by Susan Levine in Science, that shows doing this bedtime math project with math-anxious parents reduced the anxiety of the parent and the anxiety of the kids. Because I think the idea is that you realize math isn't this scary thing off in school, right? It's just this real-world problem-solving thing I do all the time.
Just this little puzzle we're going to do together.
Exactly. I think it's a really important idea, especially for math-anxious parents.
Photo: Child works on the types of patterns Rittle-Johnson studies. Courtesy Bethany Rittle-Johnson.


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From left, "The Housemaid - 2010" cast Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo, Youn Yuh-jung, Jeon Do-yeon and director Im Sang-soo pose during a press screening held at the COEX Megabox Multiplex theater in Seoul, South Korea on May 3, 2010. [Park Sung-ki/Asia Economic Daily]
Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon, her co-stars in "The Housemaid - 2010" and director Im Sang-soo have left for the Cannes Film Festival.
The four, who departed Thursday morning, will be arriving at Cannes in the afternoon (France time) and staying at the luxurious Hotel Martinez -- courtesy of the organizing committee for the director and lead actors in films invited to the "In Competition" category.
Actress Seo Woo will be unable to attend the event having to fulfill the shooting schedule for her current hit KBS TV series "Sister of Cinderella".
The premiere screening of "The Housemaid - 2010" is scheduled for today afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. (local time), while the official gala screening will be held the following day at 10:30 a.m. Interviews with the local press and other red carpet events are to be carried out on Friday.
"Director Im Sang-soo and Jeon Do-yeon are receiving many interview requests from media outlets on site", an official related to "The Housemaid - 2010" told Asia Economic Daily.
Considered one of the most formidable actresses in Korea, Jeon gained international recognition three years ago when she was named best actress at Cannes for her lead role in the film "Secret Sunshine", directed by Lee Chang-dong.
As Jeon returns to the film fest for the first time since her 2007 win, her former director Lee also got invited back this year for his new movie "Poetry", also in competition.
"The Housemaid - 2010", co-starring actor Lee Jung-jae and veteran actress Youn Yuh-jung, is a story about a young maid who comes to work for a wealthy couple and starts having an affair with the husband.
The film, a modern adaptation of an old Korean classic, opens in Korea today.
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Good news for Old Town's A Red Orchid Theatre: tickets for their current production Mistakes Were Made (our review here), by Craig Wright, have been selling like hot cakes – so much so that they've added an extra Wednesday night performance for all of October. Be sure to check it out before it closes on October 31st. Mistakes Were Made stars Michael Shannon, and is directed by Dexter Bullard. (h/t Chris Jones)
Check out the interview with Chicago Shakes artistic director (and founder) Barbara Gaines regarding her direction of the company's current production, Richard III. Well worth the read.
The Daily Beast has posted a rave review of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, which played last year to positive reviews at Steppenwolf. An excerpt:
Letts and his cast can breathe deeply today. While a far less ambitious play than August, with its three-story set and sprawling cast, Superior Donuts is no less successful for what it aims to be: a tender, funny, and often tragic valentine to Letts' Chicago in a time of intense cultural change. Fans of August won't find that play's heavy, gut-wrenching revelations here, but Donuts was always intended to be a smaller, lighter effort, as delightful and sweet as a doughnut itself. The play, which Letts began writing even before August, earned positive reviews when it first opened in Chicago with the same cast in July 2008, and after a year of Letts' tweaks and rewrites, it may be even better….
Read the entire review here.
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Rumors are circulating that Broadway hottie, openly gay and successful actor Cheyenne Jackson, will allegedly be joining the cast in a semi or possibly a completely permanent capacity.
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Webster is an exciting young cricketer from Trinidad & Tobago who made his first-class debut in the recently concluded 2016-17 four-day regional competition. He made a first-class hundred in his second match against Barbados and also claimed two wickets in his two matches.
Speaking of Webster's selection for the rest of the tournament Robin Singh, coach of the Tridents, said: "While it is sad that we lost the services of Raymon for this year's event we are delighted to see him getting a place in the West Indies squad for the prestigious tour of England.
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Most systems today need to handle the user authentication. That means, the password entered during user registration must be stored in the system for later comparison.
It is obvious that the passwords must not be stored in plain-text form. In that case, if an attacker succeeded in getting access to the database, where these passwords are stored (e.g. using SQL Injection), he would obtain the whole list of user names with their corresponding passwords. Then it is very simple for him to impersonate a valid user.
However, to check, if the password entered by the user is correct, we do not need the original password. It is enough to have a suitable information, which uniquely identifies it and can be easily computed from each password entering the system.
Such information is the password hash. Hash algorithm is a one-way function, generating a fixed-length string from the inputs (in this case from the given password) with no possibility to derive these inputs back from the computed string. Another property of a cryptographic hash function is that change of one input bit leads to change of many bits in the resulting hash. When the hash function is collision-free, we can assume that the identical hashes imply the identical inputs, from which these hashes are computed.
So instead of the password itself, only its hash will be stored in the system. Every time a user tries to login to the system, hash of the password entered is computed and compared to the stored one.
However, cryptographic hash functions such as MD5 or SHA are not appropriate. The purpose of these functions is calculation of digest of large amount of data to ensure its integrity. This digest needs to be computed in as short time as possible, and thus these hash functions are designed to be fast. This property is, however, not desirable for password hashing.
As an example take the MD5 function. One 2.13GHz core is able to compute cca 6 million MD5 hashes per second using Cain & Abel tool. Trying every single possible 8 character long lowercase alphanumeric password then takes approximately 130 hours. And that is only one core. Modern computers use more of them, for example with six such cores a password can be cracked in less than a day. Furthermore, we can definitely assume that an attacker has much better equipment.
In order to prevent an attacker from trying millions of hashes per second, we need to use a slow cryptographic hash function for password hashing. Several hash functions were specifically designed for this purpose. These functions include: PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt.
These hash functions are not only slow, they also come up with work factor parameters defining how expensive the hash computation will be. Although the scrypt function is the youngest one (designed in 2009), it has an advantage over the older ones – it not only defines the CPU cost, but also the memory requirements. That is why scrypt is recommended function for password storage and this article talks mainly about it.
Scrypt uses following work factor parameters:
These parameters allow to set the memory needed and time it takes to compute one hash. The approximate memory usage for a single hash generation can be computed from the parameters using the following formula:
memory = N · 2 · r · 64
The time, on the other hand, is platform-dependent. The graph below shows dependency of time needed for single hash computation on the work factor parameters N and r. The parallelization parameter is set to 1 in all cases. The values in the graph were measured using CryptSharp, the C# implementation of scrypt function, on Windows Server 2012 with four 2.2GHz cores.
It is needed to specify the computation time as a compromise between the usability and security provided. For example, if we have a system with only one login at a time and high security is needed, we set the parameters to make computation take cca one second. However, in case of many parallel logins this time needs to be set to only few milliseconds.
We can take the above example of password hash cracking. Using scrypt function (CryptSharp implementation) with parameters N=210, r=4 and p=1, hashing of one password takes approximately 10ms, i.e. this 2.2GHz core is able to compute 100 hashes per second. Then computation of all possible 8 character long lowercase alphanumeric passwords takes 895 years.
Imagine an attacker, who obtained the list of user names and corresponding password hashes. There are now three goals he can have:
In the first option the attacker has a password hash and wants to find the corresponding password it was computed from. He can use brute force or dictionary attack, i.e. try many possible inputs to the hashing function and compare the results with the obtained password hash.
An effective method for trying so many hashes is usage of lookup tables. The general idea is to pre-compute hashes of possible passwords and store them in a lookup table data structure (or Rainbow tables for lower memory requirements). Comparison of these pre-computed values with given hash is much faster than hash computation.
The second option is simpler. The only thing needed is to compute hashes of possible inputs and compare each result with all password hashes in the obtained list. Sooner or later the attacker will hit some match.
For cracking a longer list of hashes the attacker does not need to crack one password at a time, he will instead compare each computed hash with all hashes from the list. This way cracking of a hashes list takes approximately the same time as cracking only one specific password.
The above attacks work because each password is hashed the same way, the same password always results in the same hash. The simplest way of preventing against this is salting. That means, a random string (salt) is generated for each password and used together with it to create a hash.
It is needed to ensure uniqueness of the salts, thus they really need to be randomly generated. Any random number generator can be used, however, cryptographically secure RNGs, such as RNGCryptoServiceProvider in C# or SecureRandom in Java, are recommended.
The salt is a non-secret value, it needs to be stored together with the password hash to ensure its availability to the hash function. Thus, if someone gets access to the hashes, he automatically gets also all the salts. However, the salt power is not in its secrecy, but in randomness.
With different salt, same passwords result in different hashes. Pre-computed hash attack is infeasible due to a large additional memory requirements – an attacker needs to store pre-computed hashes for each possible salt.
Cracking password of any user is reduced to cracking password of a specific one, since the salt for each user password is different.
Also cracking of a larger list of hashes is more complicated with different salt for each password, the attacker has no other choice than cracking one password at a time.
In order to increase security even more, we can use another randomly generated string – pepper. In comparison to the salt, pepper needs to be kept secret as it is used as an HMAC key. HMAC is a one-way algorithm based on hash function generating fixed-length string from the input message and a secret key, which in our case is generated pepper.
Since pepper is a secret key, it needs to be generated using a cryptographically secure random number generator, such as RNGCryptoServiceProvider.
public static byte[] GeneratePepper() { byte[] pepper = new byte[32]; RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider(); rng.GetBytes(pepper); return pepper; }
When generated, the pepper must be stored separately in a configuration file with restricted access.
Although an attacker had enough resources to be able to crack the hash function, he would still need this secret value for obtaining the user password. And with pepper randomly generated for each system instance, if one instance is compromised, other remain secure.
The overall hashing of the password with both salt and pepper looks as follows:
scrypt ( Base64 ( HMAC ( 'SHA256', password, pepper ) ), salt, workFactors )
And the C# implementation of this scheme using CryptSharp library:
public byte[] HashPassword(String password, byte[] pepper, byte[] salt) { if (salt == null) { Console.WriteLine("Password hash not created - salt is null."); return null; } String encodedHmac = HmacBase64(password, pepper); return CryptSharp.Utility.SCrypt.ComputeDerivedKey(Encoding.UTF8. GetBytes(encodedHmac), salt, n, r, p, null, HASH_LENGTH); } private static string HmacBase64(string password, byte[] pepper) { if (pepper == null) { Console.WriteLine("Password hash not created - pepper is null."); return null; } HMACSHA256 hmac = new HMACSHA256(pepper); hmac.Initialize(); byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password); byte[] rawHmac = hmac.ComputeHash(buffer); return System.Convert.ToBase64String(rawHmac); }
User passwords must never be stored as plain text, always compute its hash using a slow cryptographic hash function. To each password generate random salt and use this value together with the password for hash computation. For higher level of security generate random secret pepper for each system instance.
Of course, security of the user password depends on the password itself. An attacker could still try frequently used passwords such as "123456", however, with secure storage we can protect him from trying too many of them and from obtaining the strong ones.
Probably every programmer knows switch-case keywords. They are often used to convert data, e.g. some string from another (sub)system to your
enum. While working with those, I found two patterns I call best practices.
The first one uses return outright. Its code is short and elegant:
transformGender(String gender) { switch(gender) { case "M": return Gender.MALE; case "F": return Gender.FEMALE; case "I": return Gender.INTERSEX; default: return Gender.UNKNOWN; } }
However, some might argue it doesn't follow the single-exit pattern. If you happen to add e.g. logging, it makes it complicated. Since copy-pasting code would make it a direct opposite of what you were trying to do there, a different pattern should be used. I found one:
transformGender(String gender) { final Gender result; switch(gender) { case "M": result = Gender.MALE; break; case "F": result = Gender.FEMALE; break; case "I": result = Gender.INTERSEX; break; default: result = Gender.UNKNOWN; } return result; }
Obviously, the price for single exit is a longer code (breaks, storing the value). However, it still keeps one advantage of the previous pattern (the basic Java tutorial doesn't teach it): You can be sure your result is not modified, thanks to
final keyword. If you fail to write the value exactly once, a compiler error warns you instantly. Also, it makes it hard to write messy code with preset value and no default branch.
I was curious if the pattern can be used in C#, but it seems it can't. The keyword
final has no equivalent in C#, with
readonly not really working in the same manner. Where
readonly states that it can only be written in constructor or declaration,
final means that the field or variable can only be written once.
Qt Installer Framework is a quite new framework which is currently still in development. The current version contains set of tools and utilities to create installers. The most significant feature is that the framework itself is multiplatform, it supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Great feature of QT Installer Framework is that it can download the required files from the server. That means it is not required to provide files with the installer. It works with the so called "repositories". Thanks to this it is also able to update the files without having to download the installer again, because it creates maintenance tool which can update or uninstall the files. However the documentation is not perfect, it is missing a lot of details.
The framework is an open source project. It is built on top of the Qt (it requires static built of Qt).
Whole installer creation process starts with creating the required folder structure.
There are two main folders. The config and the packages folder.
The config folder contains the installer configuration file (config.xml) and images used in the installer. There are various things that can be configured – Supported Configuration Settings. This is the example what the configuration file could look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Installer> <Name>YSoft SafeQ Mac Client</Name> <Version>4.3.0</Version> <Title>YSoft SafeQ Mac Client Installer</Title> <Publisher>Y Soft</Publisher> <ProductUrl>http://www.ysoft.com</ProductUrl> <TargetDir>@HomeDir@/YSoft</TargetDir> <AllowSpaceInPath>true</AllowSpaceInPath> <InstallerApplicationIcon>ysoft_96</InstallerApplicationIcon> <InstallerWindowIcon>ysoft_96_32x32</InstallerWindowIcon> <Watermark>modern-wizard.bmp</Watermark> <WizardStyle>Aero</WizardStyle> </Installer>
The second folder is the package folder. It contains all components that will be installed by the installer. Every component consists of two folders, the data and the meta folder.
The data folder contains all the files that will be installed on the target machine. Installer archives all data to the 7z format and extracts it on installation.
The meta folder contains configuration file(package.xml) for the component and the installation script that will be called when the component is loaded.
This is the example file of component configuration file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Package> <DisplayName>CUPS Backend</DisplayName> <Description>CUPS Backend</Description> <Version>4.3.0</Version> <ReleaseDate>2015-01-23</ReleaseDate> <Default>true</Default> <Script>installscript.js</Script> <ForcedInstallation>true</ForcedInstallation> <RequiresAdminRights>true</RequiresAdminRights> </Package>
and here is the full list of possible configuration values – Summary of Package Information File Settings.
The next file is the installation script file (installscript.js). The script is called when the installer is executed and the component is loaded. The script can add new installer wizard pages, prompt user for custom path for the component etc. This is example of a script that extracts component to the /tmp folder and moves it to the Application. Then it adds new item (log out checkbox) to the final page of the installer (the page items or pages have to be designed in Qt designer).
function Component(){ //Connect signals to functions component.loaded.connect(this, componentLoaded); installer.finishButtonClicked.connect(this, finishClicked); } Component.prototype.createOperationsForArchive = function(archive){ //Extract and move .app file component.addOperation("Extract", archive, "/tmp"); component.addElevatedOperation("Execute","mv", "/tmp/YSoft\ SafeQ\ Client.app", "/Applications", "UNDOEXECUTE", "rm", "-rf", "/Applications/YSoft\ SafeQ\ Client.app"); } componentLoaded = function(){ //If this is installer load checkbox from .ui file if(installer.isInstaller()){ installer.addWizardPageItem(component, "LogOutCheckBoxForm", QInstaller.InstallationFinished); } } finishClicked = function(){ if(!component.installed) return; //If the installation was succesful, let the user log out if(installer.isInstaller() && installer.status == QInstaller.Success){ var isLogOutChecked = component.userInterface("LogOutCheckBoxForm").LogOut.checked; if (isLogOutChecked) { //Todo - logout } } }
Here is the documentation for the Component scripting.
The installer is created by executing the Qt Installer tool
binarycreator -c config/config.xml -p packages installer
-p is path to the packages folder and
-c is path to the config.xml file. The last part is the name of the installer.
This is the look of the final installer on Mac OS X:
Recently we received access to a third-party Java web service offering us some awesome features we wished to implement into our .NET client application. We were provided with a WSDL web service specification and some schema definition files. We simply generated C# proxy classes and started to play with all those new awesome features. After a while we noticed that some of the provided methods are missing in our proxy class. We were sniffing around and found following comment in the proxy class:
// CODEGEN: The operation binding 'AwesomeMethod' from namespace 'http://awesome.namespace/wsdl' was ignored. Missing soap:body input binding.
<wsdl:input name="AwesomeMethodInput">
<soap:body use="literal" part="awesomeMethod"/>
<mime:content part="uploadFile" type="application/octet-stream"/>
var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=utf-8";
request.Method = "POST";
request.Timeout = timeout;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(stream))
request.Headers.Add("SoapAction", @"""awesome.namespace#AwesomeMethod""");
As you can see, the action name consists of method namespace with method name, both delimited by hash. The specification must be wraped in quotation marks otherwise the request will not be performed.
2) Construct a SOAP request according to specification and append it to POST body according to your WSDL specification:
var requestString = @"<? xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope"">
If you want to upload a file to a remote SOAP web service, you have to send its content as a part of multipart MIME message. There are many multipart content types which can be used; probably the most common is multipart/form-data used for sending data from web-forms. In our case, the request had to be sent as multipart/related content according to the specification, therefore in the following we will focus on construction of such requests.
First of all, you have to specify appropriate content type and boundary in your request header. The boundary is essential part of every multipart content type, it is any string which delimits single parts of the message and denotes end of the message. The header should be specified as following:
request.ContentType = @"multipart/related; boundary=some_boundary; charset=utf-8; type=text/xml; start=""<first-part>""";
At first you can see specification of our content type followed by definition of boundary (quotation marks must not be used, no white spaces are allowed). Attribute start defines the first part of the message itself through its Content-ID; for multipart/related content type, this attribute must be specified and wrapped in quotation marks. So, if you have the header specified, the message construction with uploaded file is quite simple. You just have to compose following request message and set it as your request body:
--some_boundary Content-ID: <first-part> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 <?xml version='1.0'?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <message-content/> </soap:Envelope> --some_boundary Content-ID: <second-part> Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ...@a!+s1dw32w16qw...your-binary-file…s+61... --some_boundary--
The specification is quite strict, therefore the request must be constructed exactly as you see it in the example. I mean, boundaries must be prefixed with a double-dash. The footer of whole message must be in suffixed with another double-dash, each header must be on a new line, headers and content itself must be delimited with CRLF constant and so on.
Note that Content-Transfer-Encoding header specifies how the uploaded file will be transferred – for example you can specify binary, base64, utf-8, etc.. This value might depend on specification of your web service. It also determines the way how you will treat content of uploaded file before you attach it to the request body. For example, in case of base64 transfer encoding you have to encode whole file into base64. If you set transfer encoding to binary, you should use BinaryWriter instead of StreamWriter for uploading request body data into your request stream otherwise the uploaded file might be corrupted in your request.


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Catalog Data Solutions Launches First CAD Model Search Engine for PTC© Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire
San Jose, CA, January 16, 2008 - Catalog Data Solutions Inc. (CDS), a leading provider of online product selection tools for industrial suppliers, today announced the launch of the 3DModelSpace for Pro/ENGINEER. 3DModelSpace is the first CAD Model Search Engine for Pro/ENGINEER linking directly to manufacturers and distributors web pages that offer 3D CAD models.
3DModelSpace is built into Pro/ENGINEER, providing direct access to hundreds of thousands of 3D CAD models.
3DModelSpace provides vertical search specific to manufactured parts and deep links directly to appropriate parts on manufacturers and distributors web sites. The 3DModelSpace search engine includes direct links to six Pro/LIBRARYACCESS Catalogs complete with CAD downloads for Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/ENGINEER Student Edition. 3DModelSpace for Pro/ENGINEER will continue to grow with new content.
"Engineers search online for manufactured part content more than ever before," said Michael Campbell, senior vice president,
Product Management, PTC. "With 3DModelSpace embedded within Pro/ENGINEER, designers can search across manufacturers and go directly to specific parts of interest that have downloadable CAD models. The result is that they can focus on designing and innovating new products instead of spending time and effort modeling parts they don't manufacture."
Within our long term partnership with PTC we are delighted to make www.3DModelSpace.comavailable from within Pro/ENGINEER, said John Major, CEO of Catalog Data Solutions. With more than 90% of engineering designers now searching for parts online, the 3DModelSpace site is the perfect place to search and be assured of finding a 3D CAD model.
About Catalog Data Solutions (CDS)
Founded in 2005 with headquarters in San Jose, CA, Catalog Data Solutions enables industrial suppliers products to get found and selected online. CDS hosted solutions include CDS ModelServer, CDS Catalog, CDS Spare Parts Catalog, CDS Configurator and CDS Services to build CAD models and customize the software to suit your customers needs. For more information, visitwww.catalogdatasolutions.com.


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What a difference a fortnight makes! Having seen off the storm Aileen, whose appearance halted our planned trip on the 13th, once again we packed up and readied ourselves for our field study at (and in ) The River Granta, Hildersham.
At times we basked in sunlight and conditions were ideal for Year 4 as they spent the day exploring the wonders of this local river, ……….immersing ourselves in the 'theory' that Year 4 had been learning about back at school.
Groups rotated in set tasks which were designed to further develop the children's understanding of rivers. Conducting tree surveys, looking at the profile of the river bank and taking measurements, discovering the ox-bow lake as well as some sweeping meanders and getting to grips with the wonderful world of silt was all part of their day of learning.
The children enjoyed a picnic lunch and made origami boats which they sailed or sunk down a shallow stretch of the river to the bridge and ford which marked the finish line.
We were pleased to hear of the diminishing population of American crayfish (non-native crayfish that damages our local waters) and enjoyed finding evidence of a local otter population, no doubt doing the stealing work of devouring the American crayfish!
A very successful day, full of learning and memories, in a beautiful and unspoilt setting.


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I am so proud of my recent mixed wrestling films. The sound and quality are now to standard I am very happy with, it's been a learning process, a very fun one. My grandad taught me how to take a photo when I was a child, he got me a camera. I knew how to frame my subject and how to appreciate colour and lighting, and how to use it. I got into independent film and world cinema around twelve years old, I learnt about cinematography. I appreciate it.
I do my shoots all by myself, from planning, shooting, editing and selling (well, Clips4Sale obviously partly sell my clips, technically). I had a few issues along the way: sound interference (when the microphone lead was slightly touching, bumping against the camera as I moved around my wrestlers), lighting issues (either too bright or too dark, that sort of thing), once I forgot to turn the mic on and an epic film was shot without sound. I was gutted but so gutted that I would NEVER make that mistake again! My latest films are awesome. And not just the quality.
My wrestlers have been beyond impressive. I am quite overwhelmed with the amount of effort they have put in, for my store. So very chuffed. The fights with Minxy Li, Sativa and Blaze blew me away. I have had male friends within the scene show me clips of great mixed matches but I have to say, the ones I have recently filmed have been the best matches I have seen in the two (nearly) years I have been on the scene. I do not condone the sharing of films between male fans, but 'y'know, it's ok to share them with mixed wrestlers 'cos us wrestlers aren't the people who buy the films. So, basically I am very lucky to be able to get away with that without feeling bad!
I knew Minxy Li was a skilled fighter and utter firecracker but I didn't know she was THIS good, pulling out moves I had never even seen before! So dominant and in control, deadly serious, and I mean DEADLY. Blaze too has this animalistic style which I just found utterly enthralling, literally captivating. Sativa, well, I could write for another hour about her. I fell in love with Sativa the first time I saw her on the mats with a guy, her style is just BADASS, she is just AWESOME, the coolest attitude, the coolest mannerisms on the mats. I have watched Sativa's films several times because they just get me shouting at my PC screen in utter hyped excitement, just like the Pam Grier films of the 70's do! Come to think of it, our Minxy is a lot like Tura Satana in Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!
Being a producer has made me fall in love with the girls, when I film them, I am in awe with them. Being a producer has meant I get to see the girls in different ways; I get to see them really do their thing. I am also chuffed that they have all put in their all for me. The last two shoots were great and every single person who attended said they had such a good. This makes me so happy; they like working for me. I make the shoots as fun as possible so everyone goes away pumped and wanting to come back. It made me so happy when Sativa tole me she liked working with me more than anyone else on the scene!
I had four new guys to a shoot recently who have never wrestled, I vetted them so well prior to the shoot that they ALL did brilliantly, I clearly chose my guys well. They fought back, they put in their all, they were safe and considerate, and most importantly; they were enthusiastic. It shows in the films. A couple of them had years experience in judo and BJJ.
Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you look… http://clips4sale.com/109392
I appreciate all your support, you buying clips will help me give you bigger and better clips in the future, so I love you all for helping my dream come true. I am mainly concentrating on mixed wrestling, as you know, THAT'S MY THING; mixed matches is where my heart lays.
I love you all!


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This bronze Stable Relief is a beautiful wall hanging bronze sculpture – very unusual. The patination is stunning and would look quite remarkable in any home especially if you are fond of horses.
Just look how good it looks next to the clock – you will not see anything like this – a bronze wall hanging – pretty unique. I am very happy with how this piece has turned out
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text: If you think fusion food is a modern fad, you clearly haven't sampled the fine fare at Peranakan restaurants in Singapore. With a history dating back centuries, this intriguing blend of Chinese cuisine and spicy aromatic Malay cooking is now firmly mainstream, attracting foodies in search of exotic dining. So whether you've got a birthday coming up or if you're just hankering for some toothsome chow that's sure to set your tastebuds alight, check out Quandoo's guide to the finest Peranakan restaurants in Singapore.Show more


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Vista and Office will start 2007 collaboration wave
Microsoft's Vista achieved release candidate status on Friday. With Office right behind, Microsoft is getting closer to bringing collaboration to the enterprise.
With Vista finally making it to the release candidate milestone, and with Office closing in on the same status, the tsunami of client and server collaboration products expected from Microsoft next year seems a little more real.
Microsoft got September off to a good start late Friday by releasing Vista RC1 to its first round of beta testers, the Technical Adoption Program and TechBeta participants. Another broader set of customers will receive the bits on Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet on Tuesday.
Both Vista and Office are due out to business customers by the end of 2006 and to consumers in early 2007. A technical beta refresh of Office is due out in mid September, Microsoft said.
Earlier this week, Microsoft Vista pricing was listed at Amazon.com for customers who wanted to pre-order the upcoming desktop operating system. Microsoft has not officially confirmed the pricing. Office pricing has been listed at Microsoft.com since February.
For the past couple of years, Microsoft has recast Office 2007, not just as a productivity suite of software, but also as the centerpiece to its collaboration strategy. In addition, Office has become a brand name for a suite of servers as well as applications. Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, for example, are just two of the Office server products that will be offered to enterprises.
Collaboration technologies will be coming from Microsoft in waves next year, beginning with the release of Vista and Office. In June, Microsoft also described its unified communications roadmap, which included Communications Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007 with its unified messaging features, and Office Live Meeting. There is also a separate IP telephony initiative with Nortel Networks that was announced in July.
Among the most dramatic shifts will be with SharePoint Server because of its inherent architectural changes. This product will move from being a content delivery platform to an application delivery platform with business intelligence.
"People are either anxiously awaiting [SharePoint Server] or anxiously fearing it," said Michael Gotta, an analyst at Burton Group Inc. in Midvale, Utah. "There is a lot that is different."
Gotta said he constantly hears IT managers discussing the pros and cons of moving to Office SharePoint Server, vacillating between thinking that their SharePoint installations will pay off all the way to thinking that if they commit to SharePoint, they will be selling their souls to Microsoft.
All of the technological changes being put forth by Microsoft will take years to play out because of the changes required by each. "There will be Vista upgrades, Office client upgrades, maybe SharePoint on the back end," Gotta said. "But it's just too much to do at once. The most aggressive companies may install Office in 2007, but others will wait for service packs in 2008."


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A leading Czech manufacturer of industrial valves, a supplier of piping and accessories, provider of services and counselling.
The company has been operating on the market since 2000.
AV R&D is the leading Czech company in the development of mechanical engineering products. We provide services for the development, design, technical calculations, testing and measurement. We are supplier of special testing stands.
We´re purely Czech engineering company and we´ve been focused on the development and production of individual steel warehousing and transport systems. We´re flexible supplier of certified steel pallets for tires, containers, platforms etc.
BAEST Machines & Structures, a.s. is a Czech engineering company with a focus on medium to heavy engineering production, supplies for power engineering, heating, chemistry, petrochemistry, engineering, construction and ecology.
Supplier of spare parts for stone crushers and recycling crushers (jaws, blow bars and impact bars, cones, mantles).
Supplier of spare parts for tunnel boring machines and other mining technologies.
Supplier of spare parts for mining from water.
Family based company, which has been producing safes since 1995.
ELEKTROSVIT Svatoborice, a.s. is Czech manufacturer of electrical lighting units with over a hundred-year tradition.
The specialty of our production program is explosion-proof light fittings designed for fire and explosion risk (Ex) areas.
Producer of containers for waste management and other techniques: large-volume containers, aboveground and
semi-underground containers for selective collection, grit bins, underground and aboveground water tanks.
Export to all Europe.
Sale of metallurgical materiál, metal scrap collecting, ecological liquidation of car wrecks, Production of steel grating, bending of reinforcing steel, Production of atypical meshes, cutting of pipes and metal scheets using laser and plasma.
Development, design, manufacture, sale, repair and service of plastic injection tools


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In the last 35 years, obesity rates in the United States have more than doubled among adults and children aged two to 11, and quadrupled among adolescents. 71% of the U.S. population currently has obesity or is overweight, the highest rate in all high-income countries. The high prevalence among youth is particularly concerning. Children are becoming obese at a young age and experts warn that the current generation of young people may be the first to be more sick and die younger than their parents' generation. It is not surprising then, that obesity has been called a public health issue of monumental importance to the nation.
It is estimated that treating obesity alone costs the U.S. healthcare system between $147 billion and $210 billion each year. By 2025, the costs of treating diseases linked to obesity in the United States are likely to reach $555 billion. In 2016, more than 500,000 deaths in the United States were caused by, or contributed to, by one or more diet-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancers.
Food insecurity is defined as the inability to meet the food needs of all household members. Many people living in the United States are deeply affected by food insecurity. Almost one in eight people eats poor quality diets, with limited diversity or even suffers from overall reduced food intake at some time throughout the year. The prevalence of food insecurity varies by race and disproportionally impacts black and Hispanic communities.
In 2016, of the 15.6 million food insecure households in the United States, 9.4 million were able to avoid eating less by changing what they ate, rather than how much they ate or by utilizing a food aid program. However, 6.1 million households faced very low food security, resulting, at some times in the year, in the distribution of eating habits and a reduction of food intake.
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Current cancer treatments involving surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy target the vast majority of cancer cells, but they are only partially effective in eliminating the disease. Failure to eliminate cancer with conventional treatments can lead to recurrence, which usually kills patient. This often occurs when cancer cells develop resistance to cancer drugs or when cancer-initiating cells (cancer stem cells), unaffected by existing treatment procedures, are present. Here, we studied two drugs, salinomycin and apoptin, that exhibit great potential in the future of cancer treatment not only for restricting malignancy, but also in preventing tumor recurrence. Salinomycin is an antibiotic that was used in poultry farming that is now used clinically to target cancer stem cells, and apoptin is a chicken anemia virus-derived protein that is capable of detecting and killing transformed cells. In this study, we delved into the molecular mechanism of salinomycin action leading to cancer cell death. We showed that salinomycin induces autophagy in both cancer and normal primary cells. We further demonstrated that salinomycin promotes mitochondrial fission, thus increasing mitochondrial mass and mitochondria-specific autophagy, mitophagy. Salinomycin-induced cell death was both necrotic and apoptotic as determined by increased release of HMGB1 and caspase-3, -8 and -9 activation. We also found that stress responses of normal and cancer cells to salinomycin differ and this difference is aggravated by starvation conditions. We proposed that a combinational treatment with glucose starvation, or glucose analogues such as 2DG or 2FDG, might enhance the effects of salinomycin on cancer cells while protecting normal cells. We previously reported that apoptin interacts with BCRABL1, a protein that is expressed in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). We located a minimal region on the apoptin protein that triggers inhibition of downstream BCR-ABL1 signaling effects. This deca-peptide region was tested on patient samples and was shown to effectively kill cancer cells derived from patients, similar to the drug Imatinib. We further show that the apoptin decapeptide is cytotoxic to Imatinib-resistant patient-derived cancer cells. Thus, we identified a novel therapeutic targeting agent that can not only overcome drug resistance, but it can also induce cancer cell death without affecting normal cells.
The molecular mechanism of Salinomycin's toxicity is not fully understood. Various studies reported that Ca2 +, cytochrome c, and caspase activation play a role in Salinomycin-induced cytotoxicity. Furthermore, Salinomycin may target Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway to promote differentiation and thus elimination of cancer stem cells. In this study, we show a massive autophagic response to Salinomycin (substantially stronger than to commonly used autophagic inducer Rapamycin) in prostrate-, breast cancer cells, and to lesser degree in human normal dermal fibroblasts. Interestingly, autophagy induced by Salinomycin is a cell protective mechanism in all tested cancer cell lines. Furthermore, Salinomycin induces mitophagy, mitoptosis and increased mitochondrial membrane potential (∆Ψ) in a subpopulation of cells. Salinomycin strongly, and in time-dependent manner decreases cellular ATP level. Contrastingly, human normal dermal fibroblasts treated with Salinomycin show some initial decrease in mitochondrial mass, however they are largely resistant to Salinomycin-triggered ATP-depletion. Our data provide new insight into the molecular mechanism of preferential toxicity of Salinomycin towards cancer cells, and suggest possible clinical application of Salinomycin in combination with autophagy inhibitors (i.e. clinically-used Chloroquine). Furthermore, we discuss preferential Salinomycins toxicity in the context of Warburg effect.
Monitoring of autophagy is challenging because of its multiple steps and lack of single befitting technique for a complete mechanistic understanding, which makes the task complicated. Here, we evaluate the functionality of autophagy triggered by salinomycin (anti-cancer stem cell agent) using flow cytometry and advanced microscopy. We show that salinomycin does induce functional autophagy at lower concentrations and such a dose is cell type-dependent. For example, PC3 cells show active autophagic flux at 10μM concentration of salinomycin while murine embryonic fibroblasts already show an inhibition of flux at such doses. A higher concentration of salinomycin (i.e. 30μM) inhibits autophagic flux in both cell types. The data confirms our previous findings that salinomycin is an inducer of autophagy, whereas autophagic flux inhibition is a secondary response.
Salinomycin has been used as treatment for malignant tumors in a small number of humans, causing far less side effects than standard chemotherapy. Several studies show that Salinomycin targets cancer-initiating cells (cancer stem cells, or CSC) resistant to conventional therapies. Numerous studies show that Salinomycin not only reduces tumor volume, but also decreases tumor recurrence when used as an adjuvant to standard treatments. In this study we show that starvation triggered different stress responses in cancer cells and primary normal cells, which further improved the preferential targeting of cancer cells by Salinomycin. Our in vitro studies further demonstrate that the combined use of 2-Fluoro 2-deoxy D-glucose, or 2-deoxy D-glucose with Salinomycin is lethal in cancer cells while the use of Oxamate does not improve cell death-inducing properties of Salinomycin. Furthermore, we show that treatment of cancer cells with Salinomycin under starvation conditions not only increases the apoptotic caspase activity, but also diminishes the protective autophagy normally triggered by the treatment with Salinomycin alone. Thus, this study underlines the potential use of Salinomycin as a cancer treatment, possibly in combination with short-term starvation or starvation-mimicking pharmacologic intervention.
Majority of chronic myeloid leukemia patients experience an adequate therapeutic effect from imatinib however, 26-37% of patients discontinue imatinib therapy due to a suboptimal response or intolerance. Here we investigated derivatives of apoptin, a chicken anemia viral protein with selective toxicity towards cancer cells, which can be directed towards inhibiting multiple hyperactive kinases including BCR-ABL1. Our earlier studies revealed that a proline-rich segment of apoptin interacts with the SH3 domain of fusion protein BCR-ABL1 (p210) and acts as a negative regulator of BCR-ABL1 kinase and its downstream targets. In this study we show for the first time, the therapeutic potential of apoptin-derived decapeptide for the treatment of CML by establishing the minimal region of apoptin interaction domain with BCR-ABL1. We further show that the apoptin decapeptide is able to inhibit BCR-ABL1 down stream target c-Myc with a comparable efficacy to full-length apoptin and Imatinib. The synthetic apoptin is able to inhibit cell proliferation in murine (32Dp210), human cell line (K562), and ex vivo in both imatinib-resistant and imatinib sensitive CML patient samples. The apoptin based single or combination therapy may be an additional option in CML treatment and eventually be feasible as curative therapy.


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You are willing to invest resources in the growth of your business.
You are passionate about your business, it's goals, products and history.
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