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OAKLAND, Calif. – Coco Crisp hit a game-ending sacrifice fly to go with his leadoff homer in the first, and the Oakland Athletics rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Tuesday night.
The A's got singles from Chris Carter and Brandon Hicks before pinch-hitter Brandon Moss' tying single against Alfredo Aceves (0-6). Then Crisp delivered his third career walkoff RBI and Oakland's first game-ending sacrifice fly since Dan Johnson had one May 15, 2007, against Kansas City.
Jerry Blevins (2-0) worked 1 2-3 innings for the victory. The Red Sox squandered a scoring chance in the top of the ninth with two base running blunders, including Ryan Kalish's caught stealing trying for third.
Jon Lester pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning but had nothing to show for it.
Lester matched his season high with nine strikeouts, allowing Crisp's leadoff homer in the first before finding his groove. The left-hander allowed only that run and three more hits in his impressive 107-pitch day.
Crisp's homer on the third pitch of the night from Lester gave the A's longballs in 14 straight games. The 14 straight games with a home run is the longest streak since the 2004 team did so from April 27-May 12. Oakland went 17 consecutive games with a homer from April 12-May 1, 2002.
Crisp's shot stayed just fair of the left-field foul pole for his sixth career leadoff home run and second this year. He also had one last Wednesday at Seattle.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia tied it with his two-out solo drive in the second. The Red Sox went ahead in the fourth when Oakland first baseman Carter tried to backhand Saltalamacchia's grounder and it bounced off his body for an error, allowing David Ortiz to score from third.
Lester allowed Jonny Gomes' two-out single in the first then retired the next 12 Oakland batters in order before Kurt Suzuki's single with two out in the fifth. Lester sure looked sharp despite his 4.53 ERA coming in against the A's that was his fourth-worst mark against an American League opponent.
The A's put runners on second and third with one out in the eighth against Vicente Padilla to bring up top hitter Josh Reddick, who was intentionally walked to load the bases as fans booed. Yoenis Cespedes and Gomes each struck out swinging, and Padilla pumped his fist as he hopped off the mound.
But Boston couldn't hold it — or add on. Along with the caught stealing, Boston's Nick Punto popped into a double play in the ninth trying to bunt.
Bartolo Colon came off the disabled list to pitch for the first time since lasting only two innings June 17 against San Diego because of a strained right oblique muscle.
Colon allowed two runs — one earned — and five hits in six innings, struck out three and walked one. Bob Melvin kept Colon on a shorter leash than usual as a precaution while he works his way back to full strength from the injury. Still, the right-hander threw 87 pitches, 55 for strikes.
The game stopped briefly in the bottom of the third when home plate umpire Brian O'Nora received drops in his left eye from Oakland assistant athletic trainer Walt Horn.
Notes: The Red Sox changed Wednesday starter to Aaron Cook (2-1). ... Boston placed RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka on the 15-day disabled list with a stiff neck, a day after he allowed five runs in one-plus inning and failed to retire a batter in the second inning. ... The Red Sox recalled INF Mauro Gomez from Triple-A Pawtucket for a second big league stint this season. ... The DL remains a possibility for Red Sox 3B Will Middlebrooks (left hamstring). Middlebrooks was able to touch his toes Monday without any spasm or grabbing, which manager Bobby Valentine called "one of those hamstring telltale signs." ... Boston reached a contract termination settlement with pitcher Bobby Jenks and granted his unconditional release. ... The A's designated for assignment LHP Brian Fuentes, the demoted closer, to clear room for Colon's return. ... A's starter Brandon McCarthy's auction and autograph session — with hard work from wife, Amanda — to help the Colorado wildfire victims raised $10,066. ... The game drew a sellout crowd of 35,067.


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Handmade was a 6 minute short created in 2007, by Cisma aka Denis Kamioka (who also directed the Black Thin King animation a couple posts below). I don't know how I missed this one, it is incredible! I would love to see a full length with this style. The best part is it was co-written by Herbert Baglione!
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by Matt Zwolinski
We should probably start by thanking Cato Unbound, and thanking Roderick, David, and Alexander for the roles they have played in facilitating this conversation. It has been exciting, exhausting, inspiring, and bewildering. And it has given John and me a tremendous amount of food for thought as we continue to work on our book.
It is worth re-emphasizing, perhaps, that the book John and I are writing is a historical one. In it, we are not trying to defend a particular conception of social justice as the most philosophically defensible standard, or the most "truly libertarian" one. We are simply trying to trace the ideas as they have developed through the libertarian intellectual tradition. We have our own views, of course, on the substantive philosophical questions. But our goal in our book, and in our essays here, was neither to articulate nor to defend those views.
Still, like Jason Brennan, we are somewhat puzzled by David's puzzlement regarding what we mean by the term "social justice." At the very least, the broad meaning of the concept ought to be clear by now: social justice is a moral standard by which the institutions of a society can be evaluated on the basis of how well they serve the interests of the poor and least advantaged. This broad concept can be fleshed out in a number of different ways by different particular conceptions of social justice. And a full conception would say, among other things, what counts as "advantage" (Wealth? Primary goods? Utility?), what the scope of social justice is (The nation? Humankind? All sentient beings?), how this standard of moral evaluation fits alongside others (nobody – not even Rawls – believes that the fate of the poor is the only important criterion for judging the morality of a society's institutions), and so on. Again, we have not attempted to articulate or defend such a conception here. But it is not as though bleeding heart libertarians have been silent on this issue. For several serious scholarly treatments, see John's book here, or this essay by Jason Brennan and John Tomasi. And see also the numerous blog posts from Jason (here, here, and here), Kevin Vallier (here and here) and me (here, here, here and here).
Our historical thesis is not that earlier classical liberals endorsed any particular conception of social justice. Indeed, we do not even claim that they were explicitly and self-consciously committed to even the broad concept of social justice. But they did, over and over again, suggest that they saw the fate of the working poor as an important element in assessing the justice of liberal institutions. We think that this is an important element of libertarian thought that, at the very least, receded into the background in the twentieth century with figures like Mises, Rand, and Rothbard. And we think that it is beginning to move to the fore again with the neoclassical liberal movement.
Libertarianism as an Overlapping Consensus
So when I wrote in my last essay that there is considerable overlap between utilitarians, Rawlsians, and natural rights theorists regarding concern for the poor, I wasn't trying to dodge David's questions, as he has suggested elsewhere (here and here). Rather, to borrow some terminology from Alexander, I was trying to make the point that there was a good deal of consensus among the classical liberals regarding the principle that special concern for the poor was warranted, even if there was a great deal of disagreement regarding the proper justification of that principle. A utilitarian might think that we should be especially concerned for the poor because of considerations of diminishing marginal utility, or because the poor are the ones who tend to suffer the most from legal restrictions on the market like . For a Rawlsian, or for a certain type of natural rights theorist, the justification for special concern for the poor will be less contingent some ways. Even a Nozickian or a Rothbardian will feel some attraction to this principle when considering certain cases of historical injustice. Their justifications will differ. But at least for a very broad range of cases, these varying justifications will converge on the same guiding principle: that in assessing the justice of public policy, the needs of the poor and least advantaged have a special priority.
In carefully constructed hypothetical scenarios of the sort David has been pressing us on, these different justifications will lead their adherents to come to different conclusions regarding the justice of certain institutional structures. And it is a philosophically worthwhile enterprise to trace these differences out, and to try to come to some conclusion regarding which principle, ultimately, we regard as most defensible.
But libertarians who focus too narrowly on this philosophical project risk losing sight of a tremendously important fact: in the real world, there is a tremendous degree of overlap among the various justificatory approaches, such that libertarians can agree on principles for diagnosing injustice and for making significant progress toward remedying it without settling disagreements about the deep justification of those principles. We agree with Alexander that part of the reason for classical liberalism's success as a political philosophy is that its principles ring true from a number of different philosophical perspectives. We believe the same is true of social justice, as we have broadly defined it here. Just as individuals with different moral, religious, and metaphysical views can and do converge on principles that support individual liberty, private property, and free markets, so too can and do they converge on a principle that gives special priority to the claims of the poor and disadvantaged in assessing the justice of social institutions. This ability to serve as a point of convergence, we believe, is a sign of and a source of the strength of libertarian theory, and so too of the principle of social justice.
Absolutism Again
In an earlier essay, we claimed that 20th century libertarians like Rand, Rothbard, and Mises embraced property rights in an absolutist and monistic way, and that this is part of what distinguishes them from their predecessors in the classical liberal tradition, and also part of what accounts for their rejection of social justice. Roderick has, in his several essays, given us some reason to believe that the difference between our "Unholy Trinity" and the earlier classical liberals is not quite as sharp and clear as we may have made it out to be. And for this we can only thank him. Undoubtedly we did state our case too strongly in our original essay. And refinements of the sort that Roderick's thoughtful comments have provided us with were exactly what we were hoping to get out of this conversation. We continue to believe that there is an important difference between the postwar libertarians and the earlier classical liberals, and that the characterization we provided goes a good way toward explaining this difference, but simple and clean generalizations are no doubt too much to hope for in doing intellectual history.
But Roderick also questions the very cogency of the concept of absolutism we employ. Is the concept meant to be a comparative one? How does calling a right absolute differ from specifying the objects to which the right applies? And aren't all rights absolute anyways, since that is what it means to call something a right?
Roderick's first two questions raise important points. Absoluteness does, as we suggested earlier, seem to be something that comes in degrees. To call a right absolute is to say that it trumps other moral considerations. But almost nobody thinks that rights trump all other considerations. My right to free speech means that I get to publish what I want on the internet even if it annoys or offends you. But if for some reason the fate of some thousands of innocent people hinged on censoring me, presumably most of us would think we were morally justified in doing so. So, for most of us, rights are absolute only over a certain range of circumstances or competing situations. And rights can be more or less absolute depending on how expansively that range is specified.
Now, classical liberals have long (and correctly) noted that there is a point to having property rights that are relatively absolute. Maybe, in theory, bread should belong to whoever is hungriest. As David Hume wrote,
'Twere better, no doubt, that every one were possess'd of what is most suitable to him, and proper for his use: But besides, that this relation of fitness may be common to several at once, 'tis liable to so many controversies, and men are so partial and passionate in judging of these controversies, that such a loose and uncertain rule wou'd be absolutely incompatible with the peace of human society. The convention concerning the stability of possession is enter'd into, in order to cut off all occasions of discord and contention; and this end wou'd never be attain'd, were we allow'd to apply this rule differently in every particular case, according to every particular utility, which might be discover'd in such an application.
David Schmidtz makes essentially the same point in more contemporary language:
property rights are like traffic lights. Traffic lights move traffic not so much by turning green as by turning red. Without traffic lights, we all in effect have a green light, and the result is gridlock. By contrast, a system where we in turn face red and green lights is a system that keeps us moving. It forces us to stop from time to time, but we all gain in terms of our ability to get where we want to go, because we develop mutual expectations that enable us to get where we want to go, uneventfully. Red lights can frustrate, but the game they create for us is positive-sum. We all get where we are going more quickly, more safely, and more predictably, in virtue of knowing what to expect from each other.
Traffic lights don't serve their purpose if people believe that they are entitled to drive through them whenever they've got somewhere important to go. But we can all easily think of cases where someone really would be justified in driving through a red light. A certain degree of absoluteness in property rights can thus serve morally important goals. But there is no deep moral or conceptual fact impelling us to be property rights absolutists in the most thoroughgoing sort of way. Rights entail duties, and duties specify very strong reasons for action. But we need not understand them as specifying all-things-considered reasons for action. Sometimes rights will conflict, and we will have to decide which to respect and which to infringe. And sometimes even non-rights-based moral considerations will be weighty enough to warrant violating a right. It would be comforting if we could specify a formula that told us under exactly what circumstances we were justified in doing so. But neither we nor, I suspect, our interlocutors in this dialogue have any such formula that is not prone to counterexample.
Simple Rules for a Complex World
Libertarians sometimes worry that by allowing concern for the poor to play an important role in their theory of justice they are opening the floodgate that will inevitably let loose the tide of socialism. And this worry is not without reason. A commitment to social justice does not logically entail a commitment to expansive government action, but public sentiment and public policy are rarely guided by strict rules of logical entailment. A well-meaning and philosophically rigorous conception of social justice can and likely will be transformed into something unrecognizable and indefensible by the politicians, bureaucrats, and lawyers charged with interpreting and enforcing it.
But this is not a good reason for libertarians to reject the idea of social justice. We do not, after all, believe that socialism really would serve the interests of the poor and disadvantaged better than capitalism. Why, then, should we cede to the socialists the title of the poor's defenders?
If our best philosophical, economic, and political reasoning suggests that concern for the poor is best served by placing stringent checks on the power of government to consciously attempt to advance the interests of the poor, then that is the policy required by a commitment to social justice. A moral value that cannot be directly pursued by public policy is nevertheless a moral value. And we do no credit to libertarianism as a philosophical doctrine by denying that it is. There may be good reasons to have our public policies guided by simple rules, but there is no good reason to expect the morality that underlies those rules to be equally simple.
The greatest minds of the classical liberal tradition— the Smiths, the Humes, the Hayeks—advocated simple rules for the governance of society, but did so while demonstrating remarkable sensitivity to the complexity of our moral and empirical world. In so doing, of course, they faced an enormously difficult challenge. It is no small feat to demonstrate how a severely limited government could possibly be adequately responsive to the unlimited complexities of our moral and economic lives. But there is no shortcut to this challenge. If morality is complex, then libertarian moralists must embrace that complexity and show why their system best accommodates it. And if, as so many thinkers from so many diverse perspectives have concluded, part of our complex set of moral duties includes an obligation to arrange social institutions in a way that serves the interests of the poor and disadvantaged, then libertarians should (and have!) embrace(d) that too. It is a challenge. But it is also an opportunity. And, if we are being philosophically responsible, it is our only option.


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Pronunciation: lod-stah(r) • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A guiding star, a star that shows the way, particularly Polaris, the North Star. 2. A guiding light, a principle by which we may set our course in life.
Notes: The trick in using this word is to avoid confusing lode "way, path, course, channel" with load, though nothing of any great importance hangs on it. Most dictionaries accept both spellings and, in fact, both words derive from the same source (see Word History).
In Play: Most often we use today's word in reference to a guiding principle: "'Doing well by doing good' has been and will continue to be the lodestar of this organization as long as Mr. Grace is president." We can have personal lodestars, too: "Minding my own business has been the lodestar that has gotten me safely this far in life."
Word History: Today's Good Word is an old derivative from the ancestor of lead "to guide, direct, show the way", the same source as load. The original meaning of lode is "road, way", a path that leads somewhere. It also turns up in other words and phrases like lodestone "magnetic iron", a substance that leads pieces of steel toward it. The phrase the mother lode, referring to a major vein of some valuable metal, also relies on the sense of something long and narrow leading somewhere. Back in the 16th century a lodesman was a guide or boat pilot, again, a kind of leader. (Today we thank Mark Bailey, a lodestar and Grand Panjandrum of the Alpha Agora, for furnishing the lead to this exceptionally Good Word.)
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The Washington Post has the full text of the outline of the bipartisan group of Senators' proposal to provide sweeping reform to the nation's immigration system.
The key bullet point in the plan is a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. — which has often been referred to as "amnesty" in many circles. The plan also would provide new measures of border security, form stricter checks on immigrants with visas, and create programs to aid businesses in confirming the legal status of their employees.
But the bipartisan plan has hitches and conditions as to how undocumented immigrants would gain citizenship.
Here are the key points on the path to citizenship:
- The Senators write that citizenship is "contingent upon our success in securing our borders and addressing visa overstays."
- There will be no path to citizenship until border security is further fortified. The Senators write that it will be necessary to provide border security with "the latest technology, infrastructure, and personnel needed to prevent, detect, and apprehend every unauthorized entrant." This includes "unmanned aerial vehicles and surveillance equipment."
- There will be the formation of an "entry-exit system" that will ensure monitoring of all people in the U.S. on temporary visas.
- A commission will be formed consisting of governors, attorneys general, and community leaders in Southwest border states to "monitor the progress of securing our border."
- Current undocumented immigrants will have to register with the government and complete a background check and settle "their debt to society by paying a fine and back taxes." Undocumented immigrants who do not pass a background check would be subject to deportation.
- The bottom line, the Senators write: "We will demonstrate our commitment to securing our borders and combating visa overstays by requiring our proposed enforcement measures be complete before any immigrant on probationary status can earn a green card."
- Once green cards are potentially issued, these immigrants would go to the "back of the line" of prospective lawful permanent residence. They would also have to pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United States, and current employment, "among other requirements."
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Assessed values are based on market activity within a given area or neighborhood. Market activity (sales data) is used to establish fair market value. The fair market value of a property is defined as the price most people would pay for the property on the open market. Generally, the following steps are used in determining a property's fair market value:
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The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors established the tax rate. The real estate tax rate is established each year after two separate public hearings have been held by the County Board of Supervisors - one hearing on the tax rate and one hearing on the budget. The 2023 tax rate is $.91 per $100 of assessed value.
Real estate taxes are calculated by multiplying the property's assessed value by the current tax rate. For example, if the tax rate is $0.91 per $100 of assessed value and the property is assessed at $100,000, you multiply $100,000 by .0091, which gives you an annual tax of $910.
Annual Real Estate Assessments are effective January 1st of each year.
On or before February 1st of each year, assessment notices are mailed to all property owners. At that time, if a property owner has a question about their assessment, they can contact or visit the Assessor's Office. Staff is available to answer questions about the assessment and will make available information relating to the assessed value.
Generally speaking, no. However, repairs that materially enhance the value of the property or repairs that recapture a loss in value that previously resulted in a lower assessment will most likely result in an increased assessment.
The assessed values of buildings that have been affected by such damages are adjusted through an exoneration procedure. That is, if a house burns down on February 20th, the assessment would be adjusted as of February 20th.
The most frequent cause for a change in property value is a change in the market. A shortage of houses in a desirable neighborhood may send prices soaring, while in a recession, homes may stay on the market for a longer time with some homes actually selling for less than anticipated. In good economic times, inflation alone may cause an increase in property values.
Property assessments are reviewed every year, but assessments are not necessarily changed every year.
The assessment ratio is the relationship between a property's assessed value and the property's selling price. This relationship is expressed as a ratio (a percentage). The assessment ratio is calculated by dividing the property's assessed value by the property's selling price.
For example, if a property is assessed at $95,000 and sold for $100,000, you divide $95,000 by $100,000 and this gives you an assessment ratio of 95%.
The State Code mandates, "... annual assessments... shall be made at 100% of fair market value" This state law was adopted in Chesterfield County effective January 1, 1977. The State Department of Taxation conducts an audit of Chesterfield's assessments annually to monitor the County's assessment to sales ratio.
Property records are available on the Internet and at the Assessor's Office.
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On Christmas Eve, Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych finally appointed a new government after the parliamentary elections on October 28. Essentially, this government consists of only two oligarchic clans, the Yanukovych family and Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man. It appears even less likely than the previous government to govern, to ease Ukraine's international isolation, and to improve Ukraine's financial situation.
This delay of almost two months indicates his problem in appointing a new government. Moreover, two of the 23 cabinet posts were left vacant. Yet, rather than reaching out, Yanukovych has further narrowed his already so slim power base.
The government formation can best be explained in terms of clan competition. The Yanukovych family clan made a significant gain from five to nine cabinet members out of a total of 21, but the big winner was Rinat Akhmetov, who jumped from two to six ministers. Everyone else was marginalized.
Two loyalists of gas trader Dmytro Firtash stayed in the government, but they were kicked upstairs as deputy prime ministers (former Minister of Energy Yuri Boiko and former Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko), while three relatively independent loyalists of Yanukovych stayed on (Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych, and Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk).
Before the October elections it was widely rumored by the young friends of businessman Oleksandr Yanukovych, the president's older son, that they would take over the government. Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Serhiy Arbuzov would become prime minister and Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko would become presidential chief of staff, but neither of them achieved what they wanted.
Admittedly, Arbuzov became first deputy prime minister, which is naturally interpreted as him being the crown prince. But the two most recent first deputy prime ministers (Andriy Klyuev and Valery Khoroshkovskiy) lost out from that senior but ultimately powerless position. Zakharchenko stayed interior minister. Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov and Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhniuk also retained their jobs, while former Minister of Ecology Eduard Stavitskiy advanced to minister of energy and Aleksandr Klimenko, head of the state tax administration was promoted on his post to become Minister of Revenues and Duties. Thus Yanukovych keeps his control over finance and agriculture, while expanding into energy. Similarly, Yanuovych keeps direct control over the Interior Ministry, the Defense Ministry, even if he switched minister of defense, and the security services. He also appointed his loyalists to foreign minister, Leonid Kozhara (who like Hryshchenko is a career diplomat), and Olena Lukash as his minister of the Cabinet administration.
The big change was the reinforcement of Akhmetov's representation in the cabinet. Previously, he had only two loyalists in the cabinet, deputy prime ministers Borys Kolesnikov and Raisa Bohatyreva. Kolesnikov departs, while Bohatyreva stays as minister of health.
But Akhmetov's people march into the government taking over five economic posts. Dnepropetrovsk Governor Oleksandr Vilkul took Kolesnikov's job as deputy prime minister for infrastructure. His deputy Hennadiy Temnyk became minister of regional development, housing, and utilities. Akhmetov's former CEO Ihor Prasolov became economic and trade minister, and the head of the state railways Volodymyr Kozak became infrastructure minister. Finally, Natalia Korolevska, who headed a fake opposition party in the elections that failed, became social policy minister.
This government formation does not bode well for the president. It faces three big tasks: to govern, to break Ukraine's foreign isolation, and to salvage the country from a vulnerable financial situation. There is little reason to believe that it can solve any of these three tasks.
First, this is a government of only two oligarchic clans, the Yanukovych family and Akhmetov. It could have reached out to three other clans—Klyuev, Firtash, and the Communist Party, whose support Yanukovych needs for a parliamentary majority.
To judge from the government formation, Klyuev and the Communists have obtained nothing, while the Firtash faction remains in marginal posts.
Former heavyweight ministers with a standing of their own have departed, seemingly at their own will: Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko, Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko, and Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloha.
At present, Yanukovych's Regions Party has only 208 seats out of 450 in the parliament. With this government formation he has not broadened but narrowed his power base. The questions are whether he will be able to hold a majority in parliament and whether this government can govern.
Second, there is no reason to believe that this government will have any greater success in breaking its isolation in foreign policy.
The European Union will continue to demand that Yanukovych release former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, and this seems to be what the president is least keen on doing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin demands that Ukraine join the Customs Union for any significant cooperation, but the main loser from the Customs Union, which would block a free trade agreement with the European Union, is Akhmetov.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will demand not only substantial gas price increases and a freer foreign exchange policy, which Arbuzov has opposed more than anybody else. It does not help that hardly anybody but Gryshchenko and Kozhara speak English in the new government, fewer than in the old government with internationally respected personalities such as Poroshenko and Khoroshkovskiy. Thus, this government is likely to dig itself into an even deeper international hole than the previous one.
Finally, this government is unlikely to do anything to improve Ukraine's financial situation. The possibly most harmful policy pursued has been the draft law on a foreign exchange tax of first 15 percent and later 10 percent that Arbuzov pushed so hard. Fortunately, Azarov has so far blocked it.
Arbuzov has also severely aggravated Ukraine's already excessive currency regulation and maintained an overvalued exchange rate of the hryvnia so that everybody expects a devaluation of at least 10 percent in 2013, but it can become much more because the currency market has been drained by the regulatory policies of the National Bank. If steel and coal prices continue to be low, Ukraine can face a serious financial crisis, essentially caused by incompetent economic policy.
This government formation is quite perplexing. With its narrow base and limited competence, it is likely to weaken the president's standing both in the parliament and in Ukrainian politics at large. Has Yanukovych overestimated the strength of his hand, or have other political forces concluded that they had better stay away from him and his government? Regardless which is the case, this government appointment is a sign of the increasing weakness of the Yanukovych presidency.


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Instructors evaluate skaters near the end of the session and give you a report card that indicates which level to register for the next session. Mastery skills for each class level can be found at learntoskateusa.com.
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Children in 1st Grade and older with or without skate experience should start in Basic 1 and progress through all six levels.
Complete the registration and your name will be added to the wait list. This process can be completed for multiple classes. We do our best to accommodate as many skaters as possible.
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They are available for $5 per rental. We have figure skates in youth sizes 8 through adult size 11. Hockey skates are available in youth sizes 3 through adult size 14. Skates are for use on the premises only.
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Testo della canzone Spanish Harlem Incident di Bob Dylan
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem
Cannot hold you to its heat.
Your temperature's too hot for taming,
Your flaming feet burn up the street.
I am homeless, come and take me
Into reach of your rattling drums.
Let me know, babe, about my fortune
Down along my restless palms.
Gypsy gal, you got me swallowed.
I have fallen far beneath
Your pearly eyes, so fast an' slashing,
An' your flashing diamond teeth.
The night is pitch black, come an' make my
Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
Let me know, babe, I got to know, babe,
If it's you my lifelines trace.
I been wond'rin' all about me
Ever since I seen you there.
On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding,
I know I'm 'round you but I don't know where.
You have slayed me, you have made me,
I got to laugh halfways off my heels.
I got to know, babe, will I be touching you
So I can tell if I'm really real


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Car bomb, clashes kill over 30 in Syria
A Free Syrian Army fighter stands atop of a tank after firing towards what the FSA said were locations controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the eastern Hama countryside October 16. The picture was taken October 16. Photo: Reuters
Syrian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus on Saturday and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing clashes, a monitoring group said.
The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 15 rebels and at least 16 soldiers were killed.
The British-based Observatory said the checkpoint explosion, near the suburbs of Mleiha and Jaramana, was detonated by a suicide bomber from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
Nusra supporters on Twitter, however, said the bomber had intended to blow himself up in the car, but instead got out before setting off the explosives inside.
They said rebel forces had captured the checkpoint hit by the car bomb and were battling to take a second one nearby.
Syrian state television reported the blast but gave no death toll, saying only that several people had been killed or wounded in a "terrorist bombing".
The Observatory, which has a network of activists across Syria, said Syrian fighter jets retaliated by striking nearby opposition-held areas such as Mleiha.
Video uploaded by activists showed a huge column of smoke billowing up from the scene, and the sound of fighter jets streaking overhead could be heard.
Rebels also fired rockets into Jaramana, a suburb held by the government, according to the Observatory. It said the air force carried out four strikes on adjacent rebel-held districts.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's 2-1/2-year-old conflict, which began with popular protests against President Bashar al-Assad before degenerating into civil war.
The war has pitched most of the country into violence along sectarian and ethnic lines.
In the northern province of Hassaka, a rebel suicide bomber blew himself up at a base belonging to Kurdish militants, killing at least one Kurdish fighter, the Observatory said. Kurdish groups have been fighting for autonomy from both the rebels and the army.
In Damascus, activists said Syrian forces also tried to storm the suburb of Mouadamiya, which the army has blockaded for months, leading to a rising death toll from hunger and malnutrition.
The army had advanced, but had yet to enter the suburb, said Qusair Zakariya, an activist there.
"Our rebels are fighting hard to repel the regime ... We've been doing our best to try to evacuate civilians from the western front of the town because they're now exposed to shelling and tank fire," he said, speaking by Skype over audible bursts of rocket fire.
Like most rebel enclaves in the suburbs that ring Damascus, Mouadamiya has been under an army-imposed siege for months, causing a particularly acute shortage of food and supplies.
Doctors in the town have reported an increasing number of deaths from malnutrition, especially among children.
The United States condemned the siege on Friday, saying the Assad government had only allowed a limited number of civilians to escape from Mouadamiya and that it must allow food, water and medicine to reach those still inside.
"We also warn the regime ... not to use limited evacuations of civilians as an excuse to attack those residents who remain behind," it said. "The regime's deliberate prevention of the delivery of life-saving humanitarian supplies to thousands of civilians is unconscionable."
The World Health Organization said on Saturday that two suspected cases of polio had been detected in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, the first appearance of the incurable viral disease in Syria in 14 years.
Western powers have mostly backed opposition forces trying to end four decades of Assad family rule, but have hesitated to supply military aid to the rebels, fearing the rising influence of al Qaeda.
Russia and Iran have supported Assad unstintingly.
International efforts to stop the bloodshed in Syria have stuttered for months, but Russia and the United States are now planning to hold peace talks in Geneva next month.
The deeply divided opposition remains reluctant to attend, however, and Assad's government has already said it will not consider any deal that requires the president to step down.
The international envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said during a visit to Cairo on Saturday there would be no preconditions to attending the peace conference.


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138 New Beetle Species Discovered
Researchers Use Male Reproductive Genitalia to Differentiate Beetles
Last month, Michael Caterino and Alexey Tishechkin, both researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, officially identified 138 new beetle species living throughout Central and South America, taking the total number of species to nearly 200. Originally discovered more than 150 years ago by French entomologist Sylvain Auguste de Marseul, this group of histerid or "clown" beetles — possibly nicknamed for their flat legs, similar to clown shoes — previously included just 25 separate species, so their findings are significant both for showing the abundance of these beetles as well as revealing the potential biodiversity issues in tropical areas where they are found.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of "large-scale" study of beetle diversity involving more than 4,000 specimens from natural history museums all over the world. The clown beetles, which tend to prefer tropical climates, can occasionally be found in North America, though such instances are "scant," according to the research, which was published in the journal ZooKeys.
Caterino and Tishechkin gathered beetles in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina, where they mostly used "passive flight interception traps." Said Tisheckhin, "Being in the field in these amazing places is one of the most exciting parts of a study like this." Caterino noted that "While most of my work at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has focused on California beetles, I have also always had this more particular interest in clown beetles, and in fact I'm one of only about six researchers in the world actively working on this group."
Since the beetles are nearly identical externally, researchers had to rely on the analysis of the male genitalia of the beetles to accurately identify many of the new species. "Superficially, they don't look all that exciting," explained Caterino. "But once we started looking at them closely, we began to see subtle differences in body sculpturing, as well as in the male genitalia. Entomologists are somewhat notorious for their interest in genitalia," he admitted. "It's incredible how different the genitalia of species that are externally indistinguishable can be."
Clown beetles are best known for their use in forensic investigations, as they show up to eat on the maggots and other bugs that feed on dead bodies and can be used to determine time of death. But in nature, they also feed on small arthropods that live in areas with decaying vegetation and leaf litter, forest floor habitats that are often overlooked by science, so this discovery of new species helps shed more light on those ecosystems. "Clown beetles are not one of the most beloved families of beetles," said Caterino, "in part because most are very small and difficult to study, also in part because many of them occur in pretty nasty habitats, like decaying animals and dung."
"We all know that forests in the tropics are disappearing," said Caterino. "But we only have the faintest idea of how much biodiversity is disappearing with them. Studies like this are critical to seeing where the greatest diversity is and how to best protect it."


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Microsoft ups search engine bribe
Extends exercise in futility
As part of its ongoing effort to shrink the Google gap with shameless bribery, Microsoft is now offering 25 per cent off eBay purchases made by way of its Live Search engine.
Previously, Redmond's eBay cashback offer was around 10 per cent.
"Christmas presents to be purchased? Budget a bit tight? Microsoft Live Search has a solution for all the parents out there being harassed for big ticket items by our kids. Why not save up to 25% right now?" asks Live Search group product manager Kok Waii Wong from the official Live Search blog.
The bribe applies only to eBay "Buy-It-Now" offers, purchased via eBay's very own PayPal payment system. Your rebate can't top $200. And you must be in the US .
You'll notice that Microsoft has stopped short of the 35 per cent cashback offers it floated early in the program. It would appear that such offers have allowed clever eBayers to sell $630 for $714:
Paying cash for cash
In May, in a desperate bid to boost traffic, Microsoft began bribing people to use its third rate search engine. If you use Live Search ads to find and buy certain items, Microsoft will return a portion of the purchase price.
The payments come straight from Microsoft's product-selling advertisers, including eBay. So, if a partner like eBay posts an advertisement, the ad fee provides a cashback refund.
Microsoft has yet to respond to new inquiries about the eBay cash-for-cash scams. But a 25 per cent return reduces the profits available from such digital trickery.
The question is how long Microsoft is willing to continue bribing search engine users - whether they're scamming the system or not. It appears that bribes aren't working as well as Microsoft hoped. From June to July, according to comScore, Microsoft's search market share actually went south. ®


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Fri, 10 Apr
|Walthamstow Salvation Army
Professor George's Secret - Pop Up Escape Room (6pm)
Can you and up to 5 friends discover and protect Professor George's Secret?
Time & Location
10 Apr 2020, 18:00 – 19:30
Walthamstow Salvation Army, 434 Forest Rd, Walthamstow, London E17 4PY, UK
About the Event
Professor George made a major scientific discovery - and then disappeared! Someone needs to find it quickly, before it falls into the wrong hands...
Solve the clues using observation, logic and team work to tackle manual and mental puzzles. The game can be played at different levels, making it accessible for both experienced and first-time escape room players. It's family friendly, with a junior version, suitable for children aged 8 and above. (The standard version is suitable for 12 year +.)
Professor George's Secret is being run in aid of Worth Unlimited, a national charity working primarily with marginalised young people in areas of high deprivation, supporting them to discover their purpose; overcome obstacles; harness their passions and talents and live fulfilling lives, inspiring hope and bringing about change in their local communities.
Professor George's Secret
This is a group ticket. Maximum group size 6 players. Children under the age of 12 years must be accompanied by an adult.
£45.00+£1.13 service fee


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The Watercolor Stegosaurus Magnet Board combines style + function, adding the perfect amount of happiness to any room in your home.
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Greetings, and welcome back!
In your prayers, please continue to remember all those affected by the recent tornados in the Southeast, especially those who have been injured or killed.
Extreme weather affects people in so many ways and, in many cases, even those who are not physically harmed have lost everything.
This week, I released a statement on the situation that I want to share with you here.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of the southeastern United States, from Arkansas to Virginia, who have experienced the devastation caused by widespread tornados. Such loss and disruption of life is, for most of us, unimaginable. The challenges facing the people of those states are extraordinary. Catholics of the Archdiocese have been generous in responding to numerous natural disasters in recent years. It should be noted that the damage from those tornados occurred in many mission dioceses that do not enjoy the blessing of substantial financial resources. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will work with Catholic Charities USA to allocate the funds received based upon the humanitarian and institutional needs of each affected diocese."
I have authorized a voluntary second collection to assist tornado relief efforts the weekend of May 28 and 29. Money received from the collection will be sent to the USCCB, which will in turn coordinate relief with Catholic Charities USA.
If there is already has a second collection scheduled for that weekend, your parish may choose to accept donations directly over the next two weeks or make a donation directly from the parish.
I urge you to be generous in supporting our brothers and sisters who have suffered so greatly.
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Now, on to the events of my week.
This past Friday I attended the 22nd annual American Cardinals Dinner, which benefits the Catholic University of America scholarship funds.
This year's celebration was held at the Hyatt Regency in Scottsdale and was hosted by Bishop Thomas Olmsted, the bishop there.
We were so pleased to be joined by Cardinals Mahony, Egan, Rigali, George and DiNardo as well as Archbishop Vigneron of Detroit, the chairman of the CUA board of directors, the nuncio, Archbishop Sambi and many members of the CUA board.
Of course, it was the first Catholic University dinner attended by John Garvey, the president of Catholic University inaugurated this past January.
It was a very successful gathering, with almost 400 people in attendance.
Prior to the dinner, we joined Bishop Olmsted for Mass at nearby St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church.
Over the altar they have a very beautiful mosaics, which you can see in this photo.
They had a wonderful choir and music program there.
Bishop Olmsted gave a wonderful homily on the Catholic intellectual tradition , its importance in contemporary life and the important role Catholic University plays in society.
One of President Garvey's priorities is increasing student recruitment in the southwestern United States, particularly among Hispanic Catholics. So, the dinner being in Phoenix was a great opportunity to highlight that and we hope more young Catholics in Arizona and the whole region will look at Catholic University when considering their college choices.
Also at the dinner we had a chance to hear from Archbishop Sambi.
In fact, we are very pleased that we will be welcoming Archbishop Sambi to Boston this weekend. He will be in town Sunday to attend the annual gala for our Redemptoris Mater Seminary.
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On Sunday, I had Confirmations at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Salisbury.
This was my first visit to the parish since I arrived here in Boston.
The visit was a wonderful occasion, but it was particularly notable because their pastor of over 30 years, Father Thomas Morgan, died very suddenly on Friday. He was 81. He had retired in January for age and health reasons.
It was an important chance to recognize his ministry over many years in the parish and personally express to the parish community my condolences on the sudden loss of their former pastor.
Father Louis Palmieri is the pastor there now, as he graciously agreed to assume responsibilities for the parish in addition to his other assignment as pastor of Holy Name Parish in nearby Amesbury.
This year's Confirmation class at the parish consisted of about 30 students and the Mass was attended by a standing-room-only crowd.
It is always a great joy for me to be able to celebrate Confirmations in a parish, this moment when young people receive the great gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Sunday I was the main celebrant at the evening Mass at Boston University and had a wonderful visit with the students there.
They have two Masses on Sunday evenings — at 6 o'clock and then at 10 o'clock.
BU has one of the most vibrant campus ministries in the archdiocese.
We have been blessed for many, many years with the tremendous support of the administration at Boston University.
Sunday, as you know, was also Mother's Day, and we honored our spiritual mother, Mary, with a May crowning near the end of Mass. The students processed a statue of the Blessed Mother into the chapel where we had the crowning.
I was so happy to see their evangelization efforts in practice — through the countless numbers of students they serve. Some of these students may not have been fully engaged in the Church prior to coming to BU, but become more active through the campus ministry program.
As always, the BU Catholic community is very upbeat, energetic, and gives me great hope for the future of this archdiocese.
In addition to celebrating Mass with the students and having a chance to be present to them, the visit provided me the opportunity to publicly recognize the ministries of Sister Olga Yaqob and the Brotherhood of Hope at the campus. Both Sister Olga and the Brotherhood will be leaving BU this summer. Sister Olga will be discerning the founding of a new religious women's order in the archdiocese and the Brotherhood will be working on a new campus ministry effort focusing on colleges in the Fenway area.
Sister Olga
Sister Olga and the Brotherhood have been a wonderful presence at BU, and are well respected by the student community. We have been blessed by their presence and are grateful for all they have done there.
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On Monday, our Superintendent of Schools Mary Grassa O'Neill and I met with Jack and Fred Sheehan to thank them for their service to Catholic education.
Jack was an associate superintendent in our Catholic Schools Office before retiring in January. His brother, Fred, volunteers at St. Jerome School in Weymouth and is a very generous supporter of the school. Both Fred's and Jack's grandchildren attend the school, as well.
Fred was honored at a recent gala, but I was unable to join him for the occasion because I was out of town. So, I was happy to have this occasion to recognize both he and his brother for their service to our Catholic schools.
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Finally, I want to conclude this week mentioning a conference we have coming up here in Boston, the annual meeting of the National Catholic Council on Alcoholism and Related Drug Problems. The organization is affiliated with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and is dedicated to educating the public on drug and alcohol related issues and the role the Church can play in assisting others, as well as helping Catholics, including the clergy, religious and lay people, secure the right kind of treatments.
Their national conference will be held in Boston this year on July 11-13 and will explore how our Catholic spirituality can help people cope with addictions. Presentations will include the medical symptoms of addictions, how drug and alcohol addiction affects families, spirituality's role in coping and how to establish addiction programs within the parishes.
This is such an important issue these days, as so many people are dealing with the problems of drug and alcohol addiction. We are pleased to be able to welcome this group to Boston and we hope many local people will have a chance to benefit from the insight they provide.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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The first thing I like to do in the morning as I wake up is to read new emails in the Galaxy S. I refresh my Gmail account in the Gmail app, the mails show up, I read them and everything works smoothly.
However, when I get to work and open my Gmail account on the desktop, all the emails I had previously read show up as "unread". Why does this happen? I have Google account syncronization off, is this the reason? Doesn't this only affect the incoming email?


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Tacon 3650-12T Brushless Motor 2950KV for On-Road RC Car 96M26-Car-3650-2950
TACON. THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RC. Test Motor/ Tacon 2950KV brushless motor. http://www.hobbypartz.com/96m26-car-3650-2950.html Test vehicle/ Stock Traxxas Slash 2x4 Test ESC/ Mamba Max equipped with a Castle UBEC Test Batteries/ Traxxas 7cell 3300mah Nimh 7cell 5000mah Nimh Hobbypartz.com 3cell 4000mah Blue Lipos So I guess I will start with a quick Pro/Con. Pros/ 1. Price $25.00 for the motor 4 dollar shipping (fast shipping at that) 4 day's from California to North Carolina. Go Hobbypartz 2. Ease of use. Solder on the connectors to your esc, mount motor, set pinion, plug her in and off you go. 15mins if your packs are charged. 3. Allot less maintenance than Brushed motor, and more power. Cons/ 1.The motor wires from what I understand, are actually extensions of the actual coil from inside of the motor. So any damage to these could affect the motors ability to run properly if at all. 2. There's also a sizable hole where these wires exit the end of the motor, that could allow the entry of dust, and even some small pebbles in to the inside of the motor. Now I must say it has been very hot here lately. Each day I have tested this motor the temp was in the high 90s with the lowest day being 96. So with the extended run time it was hard to keep the motor temps low. Test run #1 Gearing/ 19/90 Runtime/ 29min Batt/ Blue lipo 3cell 4000mah Ending temps Motor / 165 ESC / 125 Batt/ 111 This gearing was a great medium gearing for the motor provided great torq and some decent top end. This is a very low KV motor and it shows, but the power off the Line is unmatched. Test run #2 Gearing/ 19/90 Runtime/ 30min at drop off (NIMH) 34mins when I stopped running it. Batt/ 7cell 5000mah Nimh Ending temps Motor/ 160 ESC/ 125 Batt/ 150 The drop in voltage showed, but the torq was still high and this would be more than enough for my sons to have fun with. Test run #3 Gearing/ 23/90 Runtime/ 24min at fall off 26min when I stopped Batt/ 7cell 5000mah NIMH Ending Temps Motor/165 ESC/ 111 Batt/ 143 Test run #4 Gearing/ 15/90 Runtime/ 38 min Batt/ Blue lipos 3cell 4000mah Ending temps Motor/ 170 Esc/ 110 Batt/ 113 This was by far the best gearing for my track. Tons of very usable torq unlike with my higher KV motors that seem to overwhelm the truck with a very zipy throttle this motor felt like it was letting me use the trigger finger without felling like I could only blip the throttle. I am very impressed with this motor and will be ordering some more for the rest of the stable. I mean for $25.00 bucks, well you just can't beat that. I recommend this motor for everyone. The guy on a budget that's tired of burning out comms, and brush's but think that brushless is to expensive. For the basher like my self that have multiple vehicles, and want to stop having to switch there systems between there trucks. And the seasoned racer who's looking for a motor to put all those practice hours on so there more expensive motors can rest up for the big race. It you were thinking about getting one do it. I would recommend a higher KV if you want to be able to keep up with the mamba and VXL guys in a drag race........ Me testing on my track. http://www.youtube.com/user/goastdoggg
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How to: Configure SharePoint Integration on Multiple Servers
New: 15 September 2007
This topic provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode in a multi-server deployment topology. This configuration is recommended if you have a large number of users accessing reports from a SharePoint site. The following illustration shows the components you must install.
Before you begin installing components, be sure to do the following:
- Review the introduction to deployment configurations so that you are familiar with the components that you are about to install. For more information, click Deployment Configurations for Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode.
- Review the configuration overview topic for best practice recommendations on service account configuration and to learn more about the configuration steps. For more information, click Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 3.0 Integration.
- Review the hardware and software requirements that apply to all deployment scenarios that include Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode. For more information, click Requirements for Running Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode.
- Review the remaining items in this section to learn about additional requirements that apply to a standalone server configuration.
Server Requirements for a Multi-server Deployment
You must have at least two or three servers. Hosting the application databases on a third server used exclusively by the Database Engine is common technique for improving performance if you anticipate a relatively large number of users.
If you are using two servers, each one should have the following components:
- On one server, install SQL Server 2005 Server Pack 2 (SP2) Reporting Services and Database Engine. This server will be used to host the report server as well as the report server database and SharePoint application databases.
- On the second server, install the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 redistributable package, an instance of a SharePoint product or technology, and the Reporting Services Add-in. This server will be the primary server in the farm. Central Administration will be installed on this server. Users will access report server content from the site collection on this computer.
Account Requirements for a Multi-server Deployment
You must have a domain user account to connect the instance of the SharePoint product or technology to the SharePoint_config database. Server farms require that you use domain accounts for services and database connections. If possible, create a new account that can be used for just this application. Avoid using your own credentials or those of any user who will be accessing a SharePoint site as a regular user (you will get access denied errors).
You must create a SQL Server database login for the domain account. The login needs DBCreator permissions on the server.
You must configure the SharePoint application pool process account to run as a domain user.
You must configure the Report Server Web service and Windows service to run as domain user accounts.
For distributed server deployments where the report server, the SharePoint Web application, and the server databases are on three different computers, you can use default settings that include the default Web site and port assignments. If you install the SharePoint Web application and the report server on different computers, but you put the SharePoint databases on the report server computer, you will encounter connection errors unless you follow the guidelines about service account configuration described in the previous section. For more information, see How to: Configure Service Accounts (Reporting Services Configuration).
Administrator credentials are required to run all Setup programs, to grant permissions to be the primary site collection administration, and to grant database access when configuring report server integration.
Internet Information Services (IIS) Requirements for a Multi-server Deployment
Because the report server and the SharePoint application are on different IIS Web servers, you can use the default Web site and port 80 on each computer to access each server application. To minimize steps, the instructions assume you are using the default Web sites and port 80 for each, but you can use different ports and sites if you prefer.
Installation Order
You can install the component technologies in any order, but for best results you should install Reporting Services first and verify that you have a valid installation before you install the SharePoint product or technology.
The following list provides a summary of the deployment tasks:
- Install Reporting Services and Database Services. If you are installing server software on a production server or if you are using a three-server deployment configuration, plan on choosing the Install but do not configure the server option so that you can control when and how the report server is configured.
- Configure the report server, and verify you have a valid installation.
- Apply SQL Server 2005 SP2.
- Download and install the .NET Framework 3.0 redistributable package.
- Install Windows SharePoint Services or Office SharePoint Server 2007. Plan on choosing the Advanced installation option so that you can specify a remote database server during configuration.
- Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard and select the database server.
- Configure the site collection features in Central Administration and open the SharePoint site to verify you have a valid installation.
- Download and install the Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies.
- Configure the report server integration features in Central Administration.
To install Reporting Services and the Database Engine
- Install Reporting Services and the Database Engine on the same computer or on different computers. For more information, see How to: Install a Local Report Server and Remote Report Server Database.
After Setup is finished, configure the report server for native mode operation to verify that the installation succeeded. Doing so allows you to use Report Manager to verify the installation.
For instructions on how to start the Reporting Services Configuration tool and configure the report server for operation, see Reporting Services Configuration How-to Topics.
To apply SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
Download and install SQL Server 2005 SP2. For more information, see How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2005 Service Pack on the Microsoft Web site.
Apply SP2 to both Reporting Services and the instance of the Database Engine. If you install the Database Engine and Reporting Services on separate computers, be sure to apply SP2 to both installations.
To download and install .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package
On a different server that you will use for the instance of the SharePoint product or technology, download the .NET Framework 3.0 redistributable package from the Microsoft Download Center.
Run Setup. Setup runs in the background and might take a while to complete. To check its progress, click the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Installation icon in the notification area of the taskbar.
To install a SharePoint product or technology
Run Setup.exe from the installation media for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Enter the 25-character product key.
Accept the software license agreement.
Click Advanced.
- On Server Type, click Web Front End
- The Data Location tab specifies file location for search index files. On Data Location, use the default value or choose a computer that has excess disk space.
- Click Install Now.
Configure the SharePoint product or technology. The SharePoint Product and Technology Configuration Wizard should start after Setup is finished. If it does not, start it from Administrative Tools.
- Click Next on the Welcome screen.
- Click Yes to restart the services if required.
- On the Connect to a Server Farm page, click No, I want to create a new server farm, and then click Next.
- On the Specify Configuration Database Settings page, enter the database server name. If you installed the database engine as a default instance, the database server name is the computer name.
- In User Name and Password, type the credentials of a domain user account that has permission to log on to the computer, a SQL Server database login, and DBCreator permissions on the server. If possible, specify an account that is used only to run this application. Do not type the credentials of a user who will later access the SharePoint site; otherwise, that user might receive access denied errors later when accessing content on the site. Click Next.
- On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration page, click Next to accept all of the defaults. If you know that impersonation and delegation features are enabled for Windows Authentication in your domain, you can select Negotiate (Kerberos) instead. Otherwise, choose the default value and click Next.
- On Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, click Next to start the configuration using the settings you specified.
- Click Finish.
To configure the SharePoint Web application
Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. Follow the checklist in the Administrator's Tasks. For more information about each task, click the link Read the deployment steps and then open the Quick Start Guide. The tasks in the following steps are required.
Create a Web application:
- Click Create SharePoint Sites.
- Click Create new Web application.
- Select Create a new IIS web site (SharePoint - 80) using the default values. This includes using port 80, no host headers, default path, NTLM, and no Anonymous access. Be sure to specify the application pool process account. Choose a domain user account.
- Click OK.
Click Create Site Collection on the Application Created page.
- Enter a title.
- Use all default values. When specifying Primary Site Collection Administrator, specify an account that has local administrator permissions.
- Click OK.
Open a command prompt window and type iisrest /noforce.
Click the URL to verify the site.
(Optional) In Central Administration, enable diagnostic logging.
To configure the report server for SharePoint integrated mode
Install and configure the Windows SharePoint Services object model on the report server computer. For instructions, see How to: Install a SharePoint Web Front-End on a Report Server Computer.
- A browser window will open to Central Administration on the primary server, allowing you to verify that the server farm configuration succeeded.
Configure the report server for integration:
Start the Reporting Services Configuration tool and connect to the report server instance. For instructions, see How to: Start Reporting Services Configuration.
In the navigation pane, click Windows Service Identity. Verify that it is using a domain user account. If it is not, configure it to use one.
In the navigation pane, click Web Service Identity.
For Report Server, click New.
In New Application Pool, enter a name.
Click Windows Account.
Enter a domain user account.
Click OK.
Click Apply.
In the navigation pane, click Database Setup.
If you are using a remote Database Engine instance, see How to: Create a Report Server Database for SharePoint Integrated Mode (Reporting Services Configuration) for more information.
In Server Mode, click Change.
Click Yes to confirm that you want to create a new report server database that supports SharePoint integrated mode operations.
In Database Name, type a name for the new database (for example, reportserverSharepointMode).
Verify that the check box Create a report server database in SharePoint integrated mode is selected.
Click OK to create the database.
Click Apply to automatically configure the remaining connection settings. You will be prompted to connect to the instance of the Database Engine to complete this step. Click OK to confirm the connection.
Configure the unattended execution account and any other settings you want to change. The values for the Report Server virtual directory should still be valid. However, Report Manager will no longer be accessible now that you have configured the report server to use a SharePoint integrated mode database (the tab for the Report Manager virtual directory should be grayed out).
To download and install the Reporting Services Add-in
Click Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies to go to the download page on the Microsoft Web site.
You must be a SharePoint Web farm administrator and Site Collection Administrator to install the Reporting Services Add-in.
Choose which language to install.
In Files to Download, click Download to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Reporting Services Add-in.
Click Save to save the file to a location on your computer.
Open Windows Explorer and browse to the folder where the file is located.
Double-click SharePointRS.msi to begin installation. For instructions, see How to: Install the Reporting Services Add-in.
Get the latest version of the readme file for the Reporting Services Add-in to review late-breaking changes and known issues. On the download page on the Microsoft Web site, in Files to Download, click Download to open the readme_rsaddin.htm file, and then save the file to your computer.
To configure server integration in Central Administration
Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
To complete the steps below, you must be a member of the SharePoint Farm Administrator group and a Site Collection administrator.
Click Application Management. You should see a new section named Reporting Services. This section has links to pages used to specify integration settings. If you do not see this section, you must activate the report server integration feature. For more information, see How to: Activate the Report Server Feature in SharePoint Central Administration.
At a minimum, you must set the report server URL, select an authentication mode, and grant report server access to the SharePoint databases. For more information, see How to: Configure the Report Server Integration Feature in SharePoint Central Administration.
Close Central Administration.
You will get an error if the Reporting Services services are running under built-in accounts. If you already configured the services to use domain user accounts, reset IIS and the Report Server Windows service to clear out old connection information (assuming there are existing connections in the current session). For more information about service account configuration, see Configuring Service Accounts and Passwords in Reporting Services.
Next Steps
Verify integration by starting the Reporting Services Configuration tool and opening the SharePoint Integration page to view server status. You should see a link that you can click to start SharePoint Central Administration.
You can also verify an installation by opening a browser window to the report server. The URL should be similar to http://example-server-name:8080/reportserver. This URL is to the proxy endpoint. After you add report server items to a SharePoint library, you can open a browser window to this URL to view items on the site.
Finally, you should be able to open the SharePoint Web application and upload reports and other documents to a SharePoint library.
After you install all of the components and configure the settings for connecting server components, you must assign permissions, add content types, and add report server items to a SharePoint library.
To finish the deployment tasks for server integration:
- Open the SharePoint Web application. By default, the URL is http://<your-server-name>.
- Set permissions to grant user access to the SharePoint site. Security is required, but if you want to inherit existing permissions, you do not have to set permissions on specific items. For more information, see Managing Permissions and Security for Report Server Items on a SharePoint Site or How to: Set Permissions for Report Server Items on a SharePoint Site.
- Add Reporting Services content types if you want to create new shared data sources, report models, and Report Builder reports. For more information, see How to: Add Report Server Content Types to a Library (SharePoint Integrated Mode).
- Create shared data sources to use with reports and models. For more information, see How to: Create and Manage Shared Data Sources (SharePoint Integrated Mode).
- Create shared schedules to use with subscriptions or unattended report processing. For more information, see How to: Create and Manage Shared Schedules (SharePoint Integrated Mode).
- Publish report definition files (.rdl), data source files (.rds), and report model files (.smdl) to a SharePoint library. You can also use the Upload command in a SharePoint library to upload .rdl and .smdl files, but not .rds files. Depending on your permissions, you can also create reports in Report Builder and save them to a library. If the reports include references to shared data sources or external files, you must update the references. For more information, see Deploying Reports, Models, and Shared Data Sources to a SharePoint Site and How to: Upload Documents to a SharePoint Library (SharePoint Integrated Mode).
When you upload reports, make sure that the data source properties for the report are correct. The data source must have a valid connection string to an external data source. The credential type must be valid for your network topology. Specifically, if Kerberos authentication is not enabled for your domain, you cannot use the Windows integrated security credential type. Instead, you should specify stored credentials. After you verify the data source properties are correct, you can click the report name to open the report. The report will open in the Report Viewer Web Part automatically.
If the report does not open, check permissions on the report and the data source properties that define a connection to the external data source. On a site or farm, SharePoint permissions are used to control access to reports, report models, shared data sources, and the Report Builder tool used to create ad hoc reports. If these items are not visible to users, you should verify that permissions are set correctly.
A report server that runs in SharePoint integrated mode cannot be managed through Report Manager or SQL Server Management Studio. For a complete list of supported and unsupported features, see Features Supported by Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode.
See Also
How to: Configure SharePoint Integration on a Standalone Server
Requirements for Running Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode
Deployment Configurations for Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode
Deployment Modes for Reporting Services
Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 3.0 Integration
Reporting Services and SharePoint Technology Integration
Configuring an Account for Unattended Report Processing
Configuring a Report Server for E-Mail Delivery
Other Resources
Installing SQL Server Reporting Services


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Freedom in Egypt, whatever it may eventually look like, isn't going to include the ability to speak negatively about Islam…
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.
The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever face the verdict. The charges were issued in September amid a wave of public outrage in Egypt over the amateur film, which was produced by an Egyptian-American Copt.
The low-budget "Innocence of Muslims," parts of which were made available online, portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and buffoon.
Egypt's official news agency said the court found the defendants guilty of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam, and spreading false information — charges that carry the death sentence.
There's nothing symbolic about the verdict, it is representative of what is to come. Egypt embraces Sharia law in its current constitution, and plans to continue to do so in its new constitution.


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text: Over the past week, Norway has been witness to some jaw-dropping light shows, the result of an M8.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection in a direction pointed toward Earth. Many Norwegians shared their photos of the northern lights — or "nordlys" in Norwegian — on Flickr, where we reached out to them for permission to republish them here, in the gallery above. Through Flickr, we can see halfway across the world, to the skies above Trondheim and across Norway.