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Theresa Andersson LIVE @ Louisiana Music Factory JazzFest 2007
CDs Available At Links Below: www.louisianamusicfactory.com Louisiana Music Factory Jazz Fest In-Stores 2007 Listen to her new songs!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Martin Simpson – Louisiana 1927
Guitarist Martin Simpson performs "Louisiana 1927" at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.
This concert was one in a five-part series of slide guitar performances presented in conjunction with the Museum's special exhibition, "The Magic & Mystery of Slide Guitar."
Duration : 0:6:24
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Anders Osborne with Stanton Moore Trio @ Louisiana Music Factory JazzFest 2010 Revisited
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Louisiana Music Factory JazzFest 2010
Anders Osborne – guitar, vocal
Stanton Moore – drums
Will Bernard – guitar
Robert Walter – organ
Duration : 0:6:45
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Sound-Off Live — Louisiana Ice Gators
Way back in 1996, ice hockey was a PHENOMENON in Louisiana. The Louisiana Ice Gators (out of Lafayette) were drawing more than 12,000 fans per game, easily the tops in all of minor league hockey, and even beating some NHL teams.
During the first season of Sound-Off Live (a Lake Charles sports call-in show running on local cable), we took a road trip to one of the games and had a great time.
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Louisiana Bayou – Dave Matthews Band – Mile High Music Fest
Encore: Louisiana Bayou live at the Mile High Music Festival. Commerce City, Colorado – 7/20/2008
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Theresa Andersson @ Louisiana Music Factory JazzFest 2010
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April 29, 2010
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Study of Panitumumab Given First With Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin (CAPOX) and Then With Capecitabine and Radiation of the Pelvis for Treatment of Patients With Rectal Cancers That May or May Not Have Spread Beyond the Rectum
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
(Protocol closed based on new (and as yet unpublished) information from a phase II clinical trial.)
NSABP Foundation Inc
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First received: June 27, 2006
Last updated: December 21, 2007
Last verified: December 2007
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Panitumumab is a monoclonal antibody. It works by attaching to a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor found on normal and cancer cells. When panitumumab attaches, it blocks another protein called epidermal growth factor (EGF) from attaching to the cell. This is important because, when EGF is blocked, a cell's growth slows down or stops. Panitumumab may also help radiation therapy work. Also because panitumumab is a fully-human antibody, it may be less toxic than other monoclonal antibodies made to block the EGF receptor. Chemotherapy, such as capecitabine and oxaliplatin, works to kill cancer cells directly. Capecitabine given during radiation helps radiation therapy work better. This study is being done to learn how rectal cancer tumors that are not removed surgically respond to treatment with panitumumab and chemotherapy given before radiation therapy begins followed by treatment with panitumumab and capecitabine given with radiation therapy.
|Rectal Cancer Neoplasm Metastasis
|Drug: Panitumumab with capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) followed by Drug: Panitumumab with capecitabine and radiation
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Panitumumab in Combination With Chemoradiotherapy for Unresectable or Locally Recurrent Adenocarcinoma of the Rectum With or Without Metastatic Disease
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Drug Information available for: Oxaliplatin Capecitabine PanitumumabU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of patients with clinical complete response rate in tumor in the pelvis at 4 to 6 weeks after completion of radiation therapy
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of patients with pathologic complete response rate of the primary rectal tumor and resected regional lymph nodes(tissue removed at the time of surgery)
- Percentage of patients whose surgical evaluation following therapy indicates candidacy for resection
- Percentage of patients who have progressive disease in the pelvis from the time of study entry to 2 years
- The toxicity of panitumumab in combination with chemotherapy and in combination with chemoradiotherapy
|Study Start Date:
|June 2006
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2007
Colorectal cancers express EGF and/or EGFR mRNA in 66% of primary tumors, 44% of adjacent mucosa, and up to 62% of positive lymph nodes. Patients enrolled in NSABP FR-1 will begin therapy with the anti-EGFR antibody panitumumab--which has shown single-agent activity in colorectal cancer patients--in combination with CAPOX, an effective treatment for patients with advanced colorectal cancer, with the convenience of using an oral fluoropyrimidine (capecitabine.) The intent with this first phase is to expose distant metastases to the agents early and to shrink the tumor before giving radiation therapy. After chemotherapy, radiotherapy with capecitabine and panitumumab will be given to destroy the primary tumor. Panitumumab is added to the radiochemotherapy regimen because data showed positive results when another anti-EGFR antibody was added to radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer. This approach aims to improve neoadjuvant combined modality therapy for rectal cancer; it should provide effective therapy for eligible patients and valuable information about clinical tumor response rates and treatment tolerability, which, if favorable, may be used to develop future Phase III trials.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pathologic diagnosis of rectal cancer (adenocarcinoma)
Must have rectal cancer that is:
- locally advanced and considered not to be curable by surgery
- recurrent (if it was treated before by surgical removal of the tumor)
- present along with small-volume metastasis
- Evidence of adequate organ function (such as liver, kidneys, etc.)
- Must be able to swallow tablets
- Able to perform an adequate level of physical activity
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of rectal cancer other than adenocarcinoma
- Patients who are candidates for surgical removal of metastatic and/or locally advanced disease
- Patients who have received previous treatments for the current cancer
- Chronic liver disease or recurrent viral hepatitis
- Any previous pelvic radiation therapy and/or any previous chemotherapy with oxaliplatin or epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors
- Central nervous system metastases
- Active inflammatory bowel disease
- Current clinically significant abnormal peripheral nerve disease
- Active heart disease, including blocked blood vessels, recent heart attack, history of congestive heart failure, or abnormal heart beat
- Pregnancy or breast feeding
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00346099
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00346099
Sponsors and Collaborators
NSABP Foundation Inc
|Principal Investigator:
|Norman Wolmark, MD
|National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Foundation, Inc.
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Keywords provided by NSABP Foundation Inc:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Norman Wolmark, MD, NSABP Foundation, Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00346099 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 27, 2006
|Last Updated:
|December 21, 2007
Keywords provided by NSABP Foundation Inc:
rectal cancer
colorectal cancer
combined modality therapy
combined pelvic radiation therapy
Rectal cancer with or without metastasis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasm Metastasis
Rectal Neoplasms
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Setting was nice. Food left something to be desired. Nice atmosphere for a grou...
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St Simons Island, GA, United States
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The venue was beautiful and was perfect for our island wedding. Please note that ...
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Winter Storm Loses Steam, but Still Threatens Coast
The nor'easter, which dumped nearly a foot of snow on Chicago and prompted voluntary evacuations in some Sandy-damaged communities in New York and New Jersey, could still cause flooding in low lying areas in the region as it moves into New England.
The storm is still expected to bring a wintry mix of rain, wind and snow to the area – about an inch in New York City. As much as 3 inches could fall by Friday morning, while parts of Northern New Jersey can see as much as 4 inches by tomorrow.
In Connecticut, the storm is expected to bring as much as 7 inches of snow. The shoreline is under a coastal flood advisory, with high tides expected to be 2 to 3 feet above normal, according to the National Weather Service.
Pounding surf broke through a temporary dune in the Jersey shore town of Mantoloking and sent floodwaters onto the highway. Low-lying areas along the New Jersey coastline reported rising waters by Wednesday afternoon. A flood advisory remains in effect until 9 a.m. Friday.
"We've gotten several reports of coastal flooding along our entire coastline. Winds have gusted over 50 mph in some spots, even a few wind gusts over 60 mph as well," said National Weather Service meteorologist Mitchell Gaines. "So our coastal communities have had a rough day."
In New Jersey, Long Beach Township officials asked residents of the Holgate and Brant Beach neighborhoods to evacuate. Brick, Toms River, Manasquan and Brielle have also asked for voluntary evacuations from their towns.
The storm was expected to bring heavy rain that was to turn to snow around 8 p.m. Wednesday in the New York metro area, but the precipitation failed to materialize overnight.
New York City Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said Wednesday snow plows and salt spreaders were standing by if needed.
"That's when we'll probably have a full force ready on the salt spreaders to address the roadways at that time," Doherty said.
On Long Island, communities recovering from Sandy could see more flooding.
Joey Picca, also a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said strong winds could bring water levels about three to four feet above where they would be normally.
"With the breaking waves on top of it … New York City could face some issues with coastal flooding," Picca said.
Picca said there might be some isolated pockets with power outage issues, but widespread damage to tree limbs and power lines is not expected.
Tom Lisi and the Associated Press contributed reporting


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United States
A wide range of accommodation is available for Tough Guide readers. In early 2013 Congress budgeted for 33,400 detention spaces – the largest in the world. But the US also offers the traveller the ultimate get-away-from-it-all experience – solitary confinement. Some establishments withhold food to control detainees who can 'earn back a regular diet'. 1,2,3
STAR RATING: minus four stars
Sweden's 235 bed spaces were recently described as a 'prison with extra flavours'. Readers, this is IKEA chic, complete with 24-hour internet and fruit bowls. But you may still get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture registered concern over a lack of psychiatric care in a 2009 report. Give it a miss.
STAR RATING: minus one star
Ukraine offers an arresting pastiche of racism, corruption and violence. With 400 bed spaces and up to 12 months' detention, hospitality can be overdone. Take the riot police putting down a hunger strike in Lutsk detention centre in 2012, who threatened: 'We will kill you if you don't come to lunch.' UNHCR advises against travelling here.
STAR RATING: minus four stars
With authentic British irony, the country which brought you habeas corpus glories in indefinite detention for foreigners. With 4,500 bed spaces and 13 establishments you will get panoramic views of Oxford, Portsmouth and the hills of Sussex as your locked van speeds you from one prison to another. A sense of humour is essential.
STAR RATING: minus three stars
Tough Guide can't bring you total bed-space numbers. Even police stations are used to detain migrants. Tough Guide notes that a Greek court recently acquitted escaped migrants on the grounds that their stay in a Greek detention centre amounted to torture. The friendly greeting Yahsu! (Hi) may help when meeting the locals.4
STAR RATING: minus four stars
EU funding is increasing capacity. Arrest at the River Evros on the Greek/Turkish border means automatic detention by one or other country; a leaking boat or Greek police 'push back' may end your trip completely. Kumpaki, offering views on to the charming old centre, is your stop for short stays in Istanbul. Don't mention 'Gezi Park' to the guards.
STAR RATING: minus two stars
On your way along the West Coast of Africa, you will encounter Spanish-funded Nouadhibou – affectionately known as 'Guantanamito'. It houses those attempting the north passage into Spain or the Canaries. Don't miss the hair-raising, unforgettable experience of 'collective expulsions' back to Mali and Senegal.5
STAR RATING: minus three stars
Travelling with the kids? No problem. Children are detained along with adults. A (very) young Tough Guide researcher said, 'we had one toilet for 37 people'. Tough Guide readers are advised not to attempt escape; recapture often leads to a severe beating. The law allows for 10 years' detention.6
STAR RATING: minus five stars
Informal detention by regional militia – with little food and no healthcare – adds spice to the Libyan experience even for the jaded 'seen-it-all' traveller. In late 2013 UNHCR reported that the delightfully named Department for Combating Illegal Migration was in fact releasing illegally detained asylum seekers. Quick, don't miss out!
STAR RATING: minus five stars
Arrival (if you're lucky) by picturesque local boat from Indonesia results in mandatory detention. As of October 2013, 8,521 people were accommodated in this way. 'Offshore processing' is all the rage so don't count on seeing Sydney. If you land up on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, prepare for cramped conditions, stifling heat and humiliation.7,8
STAR RATING: minus four stars
'Sequestration Exposes Need to Eliminate th Immigration Detention Bed Quota'. National Immigrant Justice Center. ↩
Invisible Isolation, National Immigrant Justice Center, September 2012. ↩
'Barely Surviving, Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia', Human Rights Watch, 2013. ↩
Immigration Detention Statistics Summary, Australia Department of Immigration and Citizenship, October 2013. ↩
'This is breaking people – human rights violations at Australia's asylum-seeker processing centre on Manus island, Papua New Guinea. ↩
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WILLIAMSBURG, VA. -- The congressional committee charged with recommending a tax policy for the Internet met for the first time yesterday but quickly faced problems.
First, there was the issue of funding. Congress didn't give any money to the 19- member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, expecting it to seek donations instead. The commission needs about $1.7 million, and members yesterday worried how they could raise the money without tainting the commission's work.
"We don't want it to look like people are buying access, buying influence," said David Pottruck, president and co-CEO of Charles Schwab & Co.
The second problem concerned the unease that some members have about the commission itself.
"There has been a certain tension around this commission that has delayed our launch and has made it awkward for us," said commission member Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt.
Leavitt was referring to the commission's initial membership imbalance that gave an edge to business interests. It prompted a lawsuit from state and county officials. Congressional leaders ultimately resolved the problem, and the commission now has eight representatives from state and local government, eight from business and three from the federal government.
Despite that initial obstacle, commission members interviewed said they will approach their job with open minds. But it's also clear that they are beginning their work with sharply differing perspectives.
For instance, Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said he wants the commission to study how the inability of government to collect Internet taxes will affect "our ability to build schools, to build roads," he said. Kirk believes city services may suffer in the end.
But AT&T Corp. CEO and Chairman Michael Armstrong also made it clear that his company already faces a heavy tax burden.
"I think AT&T is an absolute expert in taxation," Armstrong said. "The U.S. has figured out more ways to tax telecommunications than just about any other industry. So I think I bring a depth of experience to this commission."
Some of the other businesses represented on the commission include Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc. and Gateway.
The commission was created following passage of the Internet Tax Freedom Act in 1998, creating a three-year moratorium on new Internet taxation.
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Former American Idol Contestant William Hung Now Works For Sheriff's Department
You remember William Hung, right? He was the American Idol contestant who rose to fame eight years ago with his unique and off-key rendition of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs". Just in case you've been under a rock, let's relive that magic.
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Ever wonder what Mr. Hung is up to these days? Well wonder no more. He's gainfully employed. Hung, now 29 years old, works with the Crime Analysis Program for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. RumorFix.com recently caught up with one-time singing star.
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Notice he didn't divulge how his dating life is going? I'm thinking he has a hot relationship going on. Just my hunch. Some Hollywood scarlet probably. Like Lindsey Lohan or Kim Kardashian! Or maybe Snooki?!
Oh, by the way, Hung has put out three albums to date. One disc even sold over 200,000 copies! We salute you Mr. "I-Milked-My-15-Minutes-Of-Fame-Into-a-Lucrative-County-Job"!


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I didn't enjoy this book as much as others by Sarah Dessen. The plot was slow and I found Colie's attitude annoying.
I absolutely loved this book. It accurately depicts how teenage years can be. Adding on the fact that she is in a town she doesn't remember with people who don't know who she is and she has issues with her body. You've got a recipe for disaster. But Sarah Dessen helps her navigate it beautifully.
keeping the moon was the first Sarah Dessen book I read and loved it and have now read almost all the Dessen books she is a #1 author for sure my favorite!!!
This book started off okay. I didn't finish it,but I will give it another try.
Colie is a fat girl stuck in a skinny girl's body. She lost the weight, she did everything she was supposed to do to shed the years of shame and insignificance but inside she still feels 2 feet tall and 200 lbs. Colie grew up with her free-spirited mom who never really had a hang on life, bills, her diet until one day Colie's mom discovers a gym where she can work out and starts to dramatically lose weight. Inspiring others, Colie's mom becomes an international superstar and weight loss celebrity and starts to travel the world teaching her art. Colie has lost the weight but now in her high school, her new nick name is SLUT. The mean girls at school like to torment Colie as much as they can and Colie is as insecure as a girl can be. Since her mom is traveling the world, performing her weight loss techniques on TV, Colie is thrust into a beach town with her aunt that she barely knows. Her aunt is extremely free-spirited, doesn't own a car, is over-weight and doesn't seem to mind it, and doesn't notice when people make fun of her for it. Colie doesn't know what to think of it but in a chance encounter at a local restaurant she is given a summer job as a waitress and starts to make friends and see that she can be accepted, she can beautiful and be herself.
This is a coming of age story about a young girl who discovers that she is not what the mean girls call her, she is a cool person who can let loose, be herself and make friends. She is not defined but other people's definitions of her.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Her aunt was a breath of fresh air and the friends Colie makes along the way were just what she needed.
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Fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself. But her summer with her aunt, her aunt's tenant Norman, and her friends at the Last Chance Diner teaches her some important lessons about friendship and learning to love yourself.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The government says 14 planes were stuck on the tarmac for over three hours in June. It was the second straight month that delays of three hours or more were in double digits since a rule went into effect threatening airlines with hefty fines for lengthy delays.
The Department of Transportation has yet to fine an airline for violating the rule.
June is one of the busiest travel months of the year, but in June 2010 there were only three delays of three hours or more.
Most delays this year were at Chicago O'Hare and Washington Dulles. The longest was an American Eagle flight from New York to St. Louis, stuck on the tarmac for four hours.
Overall, U.S. flights were on time more in June than a year earlier.


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While working with one of my bigger clients, I had the joy of having the responsibility of resolving issues in a production system which runs on ASP.NET MVC 2. Most of the issues were actually really easy to resolve and the team of developers were able to fix them and deploy to production without too many problems.
Unfortunately, as always, there was one problem in particular that had us scratching our heads and was causing some of us to lose sleep. All over the Internet there were posts of people describing similar symptoms yet none of them revealed a solid answer.
The purpose of this post is to document the issue and the resolution in it's entirety. It's in story form rather than reference form as I feel that this issue lends itself to that style.
The Issue
First of all, the percentage of users that were experiencing this problem was relatively low, less than 1 in every 400. This is low enough to indicate that we were going to have one hell of a time finding the issue.
So what was the issue?
The entry-point to the site was the sign-in page. This is the first page that the user sees. In short, users would sign in to the site and be presented with the landing page in the authenticated area of the site. As soon as they attempted to click on any link inside the authenticated area they were immediately sent back to the sign-in page.
The Investigation
After adding some more logging functionality to the application and talking to one of our users, we were able to see some really odd behaviour. The user would sign-in, again they were presented with their landing page. Before the user clicked on anything else, we could see that the system had recorded that the browser had already invoked the sign-off functionality.
Not good. Thankfully our logging was able to point the finger at a particular action on the site which was causing the user to be signed off. For business and security reasons, the sign-in page had some code that detected if the user was already signed in and, if so, would immediately sign them off. The main driver was to prevent users from thinking that they had signed off from the application and then walk away without realising that their session was still available.
This didn't make sense. The user was clearly not returning to the sign-in page, but for some reason the system thought they were and hence was signing them off.
Emulating this at the office was proving to be impossible. We weren't able to reproduce it in any of our environments, and according to our help desk, none of the users claimed to be using any tools, plug-ins or add-ins which may be interfering with their sessions.
We searched the usual haunts for answers, but none came up. A post here and there would get our hopes up, but we would eventually have them dashed after realising that the resolution mentioned was something that was already place. Some of the common suggestions are:
- Make sure that the machine key is the same across all sites in the web farm.
- Make sure that the IIS site identifier is the same across all sites in the web farm.
- Make sure that the cookie path was set to
/instead of having a sub-path like
- Make sure that the user's browser was accepting cookies.
While point 4 was indeed a problem for some users, it wasn't the golden bullet we were looking for.
We spun the wheels for a few days trying to come up with potential reasons why this could be the case. One of the developers suggested that it could be an issue with applications that operate as download accelerators. This application might scrape the screen when the user has signed in, and in an effort to pre-cache the next potential click it GETs each link that it finds on screen. It turns out that this wasn't, nor couldn't, be the issue: we were not including any links to the sign-on page anywhere in the authenticated area of the site.
The First Shot
We decided to take a shot in the dark and remove the functionality from the sign-in page which logs the users off. Instead, we present them with a notice which tells them that they are already signed-in. After deploying to production, our users were able to sign in! We were leaping for joy, though frustrated because we didn't know why this was a problem in the first place.
Our joy was short-lived. The application itself provides a series of wizards that the user can utilise to perform certain tasks. All of the users who had problems signing in were having unexpected errors shown when using the wizards. Something was still amiss.
We were at a loss. So we decided to call in the cavalry: our poor users.
The Site Visit
We got in contact with one user, a lady who had been completely unable to interact with the site since its release, and she graciously accepted our request to pay her a visit and allow us to witness the failure in action. This proved to be a very good move as you'll soon see.
After the initial meet and greet, I was given access to our client's network. At first, I wanted to plug my own personal laptop in to the network to see if I could reproduce the problem without having to touch the client's machine. It wasn't to be, as everything worked perfectly for me.
I requested access to the client's machine and fired up her browser of choice (Internet Explorer). As soon as I hit the site, I was presented with a dialog asking for a password. Here is what it looked like:
I had never seen this before, so I asked the client what it was. Her response:
Oh, that's the content advisor that my husband set up. We have that enabled on all our computers so that only me and my husband can get to certain websites.
Content Advisor? Why had I never heard of this before? After literally years of building production websites, I had never once encountered this beast. Yet here it was in front of me on screen, like a smart-arse teenager giving me the bird, and according to the dates on some of the articles on the web it has been around for quite a few years.
I proceeded to sign in to the site and attempt to perform an action using the wizard. As expected, it failed miserably. I then asked the client to disable the Content Advisor to see if it made any difference.
It did. The site performed flawlessly.
The Resolution
So the Content Advisor was causing problems. But how? What was it doing behind the scenes that was preventing our users from getting the quality experience that we'd worked so hard to deliver?
Now that we had knowledge of the content advisor our queries to the Interwebs resulting in more revealing posts, such as one posted on Scott Hanselman's blog. Here are some key bits of information from that post:
... when Content Advisor is OFF, the interaction looks like this:
HTTP GET /somefile.aspx RESPONSE 200 HTTP GET /somethingelse.aspx (we did a javascript.open) RESPONSE 302 getthisfile.aspx HTTP GET getthisfile.aspx RESPONSE 200
But when Content Advisor is ON, we see this:
HTTP GET /somefile.aspx RESPONSE 200 HTTP GET /somethingelse.aspx (we did a javascript.open) HTTP GET / <== WTF? RESPONSE 200 <== WTF? RESPONSE 302 getthisfile.aspx HTTP GET getthisfile.aspx RESPONSE 200
When the Content Advisor is ON, Internet Explorer will request '/' from a site anytime a new window is opened.
As we can see from the above quote, the Content Advisor hits the root of the site on the user's behalf in an effort to scrape PICS information about the website.
According to the last point in the above quote, this will happen any time a new window is opened. Unfortunately for us, it goes deeper than that: the Content Advisor makes the browser perform a
GET request to
/ every single time an action is invoked if it can't find sufficient PICS information for the current URL.
Yes, it's shit, but that's the way it works.
So any users which have the Content Advisor turned on will actually be hitting the site twice for every GET action they perform. This explains why the users were being signed off! Our sign-off code was being executed behind the scenes without the users being aware of it.
But why was it causing unexpected errors when clients were using the wizard? To answer that, we need to know about a little feature of MVC called TempData.
For those who don't want to click the above link, TempData is a feature of ASP.NET MVC which allows information to be persisted across post-backs to the server. A classic example is when URI
/Foo gets invoked, and the action results in a redirect to
/Bar. But /Bar requires some data that got sent to
/Foo, so the
/Foo action stores that data in the TempData dictionary which allows
/Bar to get access to it during processing. It's a nifty feature and one that we use extensively.
The key piece of information to remember about TempData is that it only persists data across a single post-back. That means that if you post back to the server once, TempData is lost unless the target action explicitly requests for it to stick around.
This is the deal-breaker. If
/Bar assumes that TempData contains information from
/Foo when it fires up then
/Bar is going to break if the information is not there. Why would it not be there if a redirect happened? That's right, the *$%#ing Content Advisor!
It turns out that every time the Content Advisor hits the root of the site, TempData is cleared. This is obvious in hindsight because the root URI is an action just like any other anywhere in the whole site. That action gets invoked through the same means and comes with the same caveats ... including that of TempData getting cleared unless we ask it not to. So the chain of events looked like this:
- User invokes a wizard via a simple click.
- Request is set to the server for
/Foogets executed and stores information,
Baz, in TempData so that the next step in the wizard,
/Bar, can get access to it.
/Fooreturns page content to the user.
- The browser receives the page content from the
/Fooaction and the Content Advisor notices a lack of PICS information in the HTTP headers and META tags.
- The Content Advisor forces the browser to make a request to
/in an attempt to find the missing PICS information.
- The root site action is hit and it renders the sign-on page content.
- At the end of page content generation, the TempData dictionary notices that no requests have been made to retain any of the information across another call, and hence all of the TempData information is lost, including
- The user click's "Next" in the wizard, which causes the browser to invoke the
/Baraction on the server.
- The server invokes
/Barand the first thing it does is attempt to pull
Bazout of TempData.
Bazends up being null.
- Game over, Red Rover.
There are quite a few issues that were highlighted as a result, but the key one is this: you can't assume that your users aren't using some form of Content Advisor which is hitting your server with unexpected requests. In our case, the resolution was simple. We just had to add a couple of lines to our root action:
public ActionResult SignOn()
// force the TempData dicionary to keep hold
// of the information it has in case this
// action is being hit by a Content Advisor.
// rest of the action code
// ...
return View(...);
The first question you might ask is: why didn't you just add PICS data to your site to prevent the Content Advisors from behaving that way? The short answer is that you can't guarantee that the Content Advisors will adhere to the "rules", especially given that there don't appear to be any.
PICS has already been replaced with POWDER. But POWDER doesn't appear to be used anywhere, and there's very little information around on it. Attempting to support all possible half-baked standards would result in serving up a great deal more content for the sake of a very small subset of users who actually use Content Advisors. It made much more sense to just persist TempData across one more call.
Bear in mind that while the Content Advisor is built-in to the Internet Options area in Windows, it's not specific to Internet Explorer. Both Chrome and Safari are affected by the Content Advisor if it is enabled!
So for anyone out there who is building, or has built, a public-facing website using ASP.NET MVC please bear this in mind. Keep an eye on your TempData usage, make sure that your root action persists your TempData if required, and avoid having that same action sign off your users. Better still, only use TempData for persisting data across redirects.
I hope this helps someone. Comments and feedback greatly appreciated.


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I had cellulaze on 1/11 on my outer thighs. Like most of us on here, I had been plagued by horrible cellulite since I was in my teens, even though I was very thin and even a competitive soccer player! Oh well, such is life.
Anyway, as soon as I heard about cellulaze, I was sold. I came onto to this site for months and months in order to help me decide whether I should go for it or not. Because this site helped me to decide, I thought it only fair that I should write a review detailing my situation.
As many have stated on here, the numbing is the worse part of the process. It is painful, although I wouldn't rate it more than a 4 on a scale of 1-10 (full disclosure: i had twins a year ago, and that was really painful, so my tolerance might be a bit higher than some others). During the procedure, there were a few times where I could feel a very painful burning. Not sure if I wasn't numbed enough or what, but that did hurt quite a lot (lke a 7) but the pain subsided within about a minute. The whole process took about 3 hours. One suggestion I would make - bring headphones! I listened to music the whole time and it really helped me to forget where I was and even doze off a few times (the 2 xanax and 1 tylenol/oxy didn't hurt either).
After it was done, I was strapped into my compression garmet and sent on my merry way. I had some drainage for the first day and a half. It was bad enough to soak through my dressings, compression garmet, sweatpants and 2 towels on my bed, but like I said, it ended after about a day.
One VERY important thing I want to share with you all - and I haven't seen this mentioned here before - is that you have to be VERY careful when you are taking off the conmpression garmet for the first time. I pulled it down the day after the procedure to change the dressings on my incisssions (they were soaked and i was worried about infection if I kept them like that). I got sooooooooooooooooooooooooo dizzy and felt horrible. I was totally disoriented and didn't know where I was, who my husband was, or even who I was. That then made me very scared and i think I had a full-on anxiety attack. I had a few leftover xanax that my husband gave me, and I was fine in about 10-15 minutes. I re-read my discharge instructions and saw that patients can suffer from extreme dizziness the first time they take off their compression garmets - probably from all the blood circulation. I had no idea that it would feel like that, but want to warn everyone to make sure someone is with you with first time you take off (or even lower) your compression garments to watch out for you. Had my husband not been there, I am positive I would have fallen and/or passed out. Yikes!
Right now, I am pretty bruised, but wouldn't say I am in any pain. I actually walked about 2 miles yesterday and was fine, and have been chasing my 1 y/o twins around the house since the morning after the procedure. I am def a bit sore, but nothing too bad at all.
I go back to the doctor on Friday for a follow-up. I will try to post some pictures then. Fingers crossed that I will have smooth outer thighs in a few months!
Hoping to Finally Say Goodbye to my Outer Thigh Dimples! (Procedure Done on 1/11)
I had cellulaze on 1/11 on my outer thighs. Like...
I had cellulaze on 1/11 on my outer thighs. Like most of us on here, I had been plagued by horrible cellulite since I was in my teens, even though I was very thin and even a competitive soccer player! Oh well, such is life.


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Tweeting Your Celebrity Prey Is Still Stalking
Stalking is no laughing matter, but I got a bad case of the giggles after reading this post on E! regarding Kim Kardashian and her alleged stalker, Dennis Shaun Bowman. Kardashian's lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley (who, BTW, is working hard for the money these days) told E! News that Mr. Bowman has discovered Twitter as a new way to reach his special friend. Kardashian obtained a restraining order back in February to prevent the kook from contacting her in any way until 2013. I'm no lawyer, but doesn't Twitter fall under the umbrella of "contact in any way?"
Since Twitter is a new frontier in stalking (Who are Twalkers? Are they "followers?"), Holley took the matter directly to the police and they're all working together to fix the twisue.
Kardashian, spotted here with the fam at the Super Saturday Ovarian Cancer event out in the Hamptons July 31st along with Kelly Ripa and Ashley Greene, won't let a little stalky-bump-in-the-road get her down. She tweeted to her fans today:
"Its a new week! I want to focus on me this week, is that selfish?
Starting with going extra hard in the gym this week! Let's go!"
Keep on Keeping on. Kim and the krew start up a new season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! August 22nd @ 10pm EST.


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Gagaku and Bugaku Classical Music and Dance
October 16, 2013
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
UMass Amherst Campus
The Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble presents a classical Japanese art form with a rich, thousand-year history.
The ancient and imperial court music of the gagaku orchestra and dances is the oldest orchestral tradition in the world – a style of music that has remained pure and unchanged over the centuries. Elegant and ethereal the music of gagaku is nearly always experienced in an almost otherworldly way with a unique and poetic sound that washes over you as it reflects the music of the cosmos.
Bowker Auditorium is located within Stockbridge Hall. https://fac.umass.edu/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=...
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|If you've read anything I've written about WebSphere CloudBurst up to this point you know all about patterns. Using the appliance you can easily and quickly build, deploy, and manage these representations of your middleware application environments. Today, I want to focus in on the deployment piece in particular and take a look at how you can easily automate this process.
|You can use the WebSphere CloudBurst web console to deploy patterns, and when doing so you can even schedule the deployment to happen at a later date. This scheduling capability certainly gets you on the road to an automated deployment process, but what if you want to take it one step further and eliminate the need for someone to login and manually move around the web console to schedule automated deployments? In this case, you can use either the CLI or the REST interface that WebSphere CloudBurst offers.
|In this post I thought I'd take a look at using the CLI interface in order to set the stage for some nice automation around pattern deployment. It starts out with a properties file that provides details about my deployment. This includes the cloud to deploy to, the pattern to deploy, password information, and the time at which the virtual system should start.
SYSTEM_NAME_PREFIX=New App Development TARGET_CLOUD=Default ESX group TARGET_PATTERN=WebSphere single server DEPLOYMENT_DATE=1/28/2010 14:00 WAS_PASSWORD=passw0rd ROOT_PASSWORD=passw0rd
|Imagine that the properties file above gets written as the result of some other action, such as the completion of your application's build process. With the properties file in place, and I'll point out that your properties file can and probably will be more robust than above, let's move on to the code that handles the deployment process based on the information in said file. First, we have a small amount of CLI code to retrieve and parse the input data (I omitted the straight-forward properties retrieval for space):
Next is the code that actually schedules the pattern deployment:
First we get the desired deployment time and current time as
datetime objects. After that, assuming the desired deployment time has not already elapsed, we calculate the difference between the desired deployment time and current time. This difference, in seconds, is then added to the result of the
time.time() value to come up with a start time. After that is done, we simply retrieve the cloud that was indicated in the properties file, and then we call the
runInCloud method for the pattern indicated. When calling the
runInCloud method we supply the name of the virtual system that will be created, password information, and the start time we calculated earlier. As a result of this method call, a task will be generated in the target WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and the virtual system will be started at the specified time. This will happen in an automated fashion with no human intervention required.
|That's really all there is to automating the pattern deployment process using the CLI. In a more complete, end-to-end scenario you may envision the completion of one process, such as an application build process mentioned above, result in the writing of the properties file and in turn the call into the CLI to deploy a pattern. As always, feel free to send me any comments or questions.
|-- Dustin Amrhein
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Whet else can it be??????
Posted 02-07-2011 at 17:05 by mfrosty
I've got a 75 1.8 T 2003 with power problems when going uphill. Took it to the garage they changed the plugs , oil and a general look over and changed the rocker cover gasket . not much better. a week later went back said not happy. They said it could poss. be the solenoid valve on the airbox. while waiting for that part to arrive we also replace the MAP sensor. All bearing in mind that the turbo was replaced just over 12 months ago. Still no power. so we took it to a specialist garage that does diagnostics. Which showed p1520 unknown code. So they did manual inspection, vacuum tests to back lines to turbo, all ok. carry out smoke tests to intake system, ok. check power supply to turbo boost solenoid , ok. check solenoid resistance at 23ohms, no data available but ok. remove intake pipe to turbo and spin intake turbine( not seized). remove turbo output boost pipe and rev engine no or very little boost being produced by turbo. we were then advised the the fault lies within turbo- either exhaust turbine failed or waste gate valve failed/ open. Requires turbo removal and inspection. This has been sent for inspection to the place where we bought the turbo from. They say all is ok with turbo. Where or what else could it be. ?????
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OOOh that looks like a familar code for the "lamda sensor"
its easy to test, unplug it and run the car for a little while, it is the same as before unplugging you found the issue...
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found problem my exhaust was blocked
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SUBSONICS (with members of Man? or Astroman?, and what could be Lou Reed's bastard son)
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They have been heralded as the best band in Atlanta, but fellow Georgians The Black Lips and for good reason.
Previous works by this beatnik, noir-punk careen machine have left indelible marks on the psyche of
big-bam-boom-shang-a-lang rockers all over the world during their nearly two-decade tenure. Melodies echo
in the catacombs of America's soul and ring throughout with a childish enthusiasm, like a funky delinquent's budget bubblegum album.
What we really have here is an obsessive, detached drop-in to an after-hours opium den, where Super-8 movies
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Antibiotic Use in Food Animals
Efforts to Curb the Administration of These Drugs in Animal Agriculture Can Help Preserve Their Effectiveness
The more that antibiotics are used, the less effective they become. This includes the use of antibiotics in food animals, which helps drive the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria.1
Antibiotic sales for food animal production are significant and increasing: They account for 70 percent of total medically important antibiotic sales by volume—a 23 percent rise since 2009. However, the available data are limited and do not detail how and why these drugs are used in agricultural settings or the implications of that use.
To help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics, Pew is working to ensure that these drugs are used in food animals only when medically necessary to prevent or treat a specific disease.
- World Health Organization, "Drug Resistance," accessed Jan. 19, 2016, http://www.who.int/drugresistance/use/en.
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Srinagar, Feb 2 (PTI) Israeli-made TAVOR rifle wasbetter than the AK-47 for counter insurgency operations inJammu and Kashmir and Naxal-affected areas of the country, asenior CRPF official said today.
"I think it is better than the AK-47 rifle due to itseffectiveness and light weight," Inspector General(Operations) CRPF B N Ramesh told reporters on the sidelinesof a seminar here.
The four-kg TAVOR assault rifle uses 5.56 mm NATOammunition, originally developed in the United States for usein the M16 rifle. The rifle was first inducted in northKashmir, which is still infested with militancy.
Ramesh said the laser-fitted arm will enable thepersonnel of CRPF to pinpoint their target during thecounter-insurgency operations in the state and other Naxalaffected areas.
"It is very light weight and small in size but verypowerful with a long range," he added.
He said the process of modernisation of the weaponrywas an ongoing process in CRPF so that the force is able toeffectively carry out the tasks assigned to it.
"We have got this weapon and we are getting some morein near future," the official said.


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Tickets on sale for Brinkley-Paschall
Tickets are on sale for the ten round light heavyweight showdown between The Fighting Pride of Northern Nevada, Jesse Brinkley and Baltimore's Mike Paschall set for Friday, July 10th at The Reno Events Center, it was announced today by Reno's "Let Get It On" Promotions and Las Vegas based TKO BOXING Promotions . . .
Priced at $125.00, $75.00, $50.00 and $30.00, tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com, phone 775-787-8497) and The Reno Events Center Box Office. (A five dollar discount will be available for students, military and police and fire personnel with ID for general admission tickets ($30.00).
Brinkley, 33-5-0, (22KO's), is coming off an outstanding twelve round unanimous decision win over long time area rival Joey Gilbert on February 14th in front of a packed house at the Reno Events Center. He is currently ranked #9 in the world by the IBF.
A native of Baltimore, MD., the aggressive, southpaw Paschall, brings a record of 19-1-1 with four knockouts into the battle with Brinkley, his only loss coming on cuts in a bout against Andre Dirrell broadcast last year on Showtime.
Paschall is coming of a terrific eight round battle against Sam Hill on April 2nd, a unanimous decision win for him.
Said Terry Lane of "Let's Get It On" Promotions, "Jesse is willing to fight any of the world champions or top rated fighters at super middleweight or light heavyweight."
"Since the Gilbert bout we've tried to make a big fight at 168 or 175 to no avail. Paschall is a tough, aggressive, strong southpaw who has promised to take the fight right at Jesse. He's looking to capitalize on Jesse's world ranking and sees this fight as a great opportunity."
Said Brinkley, "I'll go anywhere and fight any of the top guys at 168 or 175. Paschall is a tough, aggressive fighter who will provide a real challenge for me as a southpaw. I've seen him fight a number of times and our styles should make for a very entertaining fight for the fans."
The 29 year old Paschall also spoke of the style matchup; "The best part of a fight like this is neither of us will have to go searching for the other. I've seen Jessie fight quite a bit and respect what he's accomplished in the sport."
"I want to test myself against a top guy and he definitely fits the bill. I know he'll have all the fans on his side that night in Reno, but I'll be prepared to give him the fight of his life."
In the co-featured bout of the evening, current IBA Lightweight Champion Rustam Nugaev will see battle in his first appearance in Reno. The 26 year old Russian, now living in Los Angeles, California, has compiled a record of 19-5-1 (11KO's) since turning professional eight years ago.
In his most recent bout on November 15th, Nugaev stopped former world title challenger Justin Juuko in the second round to win the International Boxing Association Lightweight Title. Known for his action packed bouts in Eastern Europe and more recently in the United States, Nugaev is looking to continue his rise in the world rankings in the deep lightweight division.
Also featured on the card will be the return of the Reno based Hinkey Brothers; Derek and Tyler. Middleweight Derek, 7-1-0 with seven stoppages, is coming of a devastating first round knockout of Ariel Espinal on the undercard of Brinkley/Gilbert.
Heavyweight Tyler, 5-0-1 (4KO's), has stopped his last two opponents in the first round; Benjamin Lee on January 23rd in Las Vegas and Mike Finney on June 13, 2008 at the Reno Ballroom.
Making his first Northern Nevada appearance will be sensational lightweight prospect Bayan "THE MONGLIAN MONGOOSE" Jargal. The 27 year old Jargal,
12-0-1 (8KO's), has thrilled boxing fans across the country with his all-action style. In his first three bouts in 2009, Jargal has stopped all three opponents, two in the first round.
The undercard will also feature two outstanding amateur boxers from the University Nevada-Reno, Ryan Kotey and Jeremy Catalano.
More information on this event will be announced shortly.
Reno, Nevada based "Let's Get It On" Promotions was founded in 2000 by legendary boxing referee Mills Lane. In early 2005 he was joined by sons Terry and Tommy in the operations of the company. Along with super middleweight contender Jesse Brinkley, "Let's Get It On" Promotions also promotes lightweight contender Rustam Nugaev, lightweight prospect Bayan Jargal and highly regarded brothers Tyler and Derek Hinkey. They have consistently promoted world class boxing events on a national basis.
Further information on "Let's Get It On" Promotions can be viewed at www.letsgetitonboxing.com
Formed in early 2008, Chet Koerner's Las Vegas based TKO BOXING Promotions, originator of the "HOMETOWN HEROES TO WORLD CHAMPIONS" national boxing series, stable includes; heavyweight Lenroy Thomas, super middleweight Joey Gilbert, middleweights Elvin Ayala, Albert Onolunose and James Countryman, junior middleweights Bastie Samir and Anthony Thompson, welterweights Juan Buendia and Raul Tovar, junior welterweights Jonathan Gover, Francisco Contreras and Hastings Bwayla, lightweights Rolando Reyes and Terence Crawford, featherweights Matt Remillard, Carney Bowman, Delvin Plascencia, Rafael Lora and Maxwell Awaku, super bantamweights Rafael Valenzuela and Carlos Reyes.
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The British government has made it clear that Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not attend the upcoming European Union/Africa summit if Robert Mugabe, dictator of Zimbabwe, is present. African leaders have expressed the view that all African nations should be allowed to attend.
The problem is failure on the part of African leaders to pay any attention to the plight of people in Zimbabwe. The inflation rate has hit 7500% and unemployment is now about 80% of the population but African leaders refuse to take any action other than to express support for Mugabe. Brown is right, boycott such meetings until African leaders begin to act in a moral manner.


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Re: making a Module or Column that will print lines interspersed with plots
On 2/3/13 at 2:46 AM, bwshore at me.com (Bruce Shore) wrote:
>I run Mathematica 7. I have some legacy notebooks, from
>Mathematica 5, in which there were Modules such as
>macro :=Module[{j},
>Print["something else"];
>where plota and plotb were plots. Now with Mathematica 7 the
>semicolons prevent the plots from showing up. Show[plota]; has the
>same problem. The semicolons, which are needed in a Module, prevent
>the plotting.
Your comments above suggest you see the purpose of a semicolon
in Mathematica as being primarily a means for suppressing
output. That isn't true. The purpose of a semicolon is to join
two expressions to make a single compound expression. When you
terminate an expression with a semicolon, what you are really
doing is creating a compound expression with the last part being
Null. And since the output of any compound expression is simply
the output from the last portion, a compound expression ending
in Null produces no output.
The code above can be made to do what you want by explicitly
printing the plots, i.e.,
macro :=Module[{j},
Print["something else"];
>I have tried using a Column or a Graphics column,
>Print["something else"],
>and this does the printing and the plotting, but all the printing
>comes at the beginning and all the plots come after that. I really
>want the printing to come in between the plots, in the order that I
>show them. How can I do this?
the code above using Column will work if changed as follows:
"something",plota,"something else",plotb}]


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The violations stem from inspections done last week by the Federal Railroad Administration.
The sites were shut down last Thursday, and workers may not start construction again until the end of the week.
Communications systems weren't properly warning workers when a train was coming through, which alarmed federal investigators.
"The issue involved trains coming through the construction corridor and perhaps the safety of those crews being too close," said Steve Olson, Florida Department of Transportation spokesperson.
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Vol. III: Off-Season Daggers with Steve Buckhantz
WashingtonWizards.com caught up with Wizards commentator Steve Buckhantz to get his take on current happenings around the NBA
WW.com: The Spurs have now won 18 in a row and have yet to lose a playoff game with a core that have been together for a decade. What are your thoughts on this streak and where do you rank this Spurs dynasty amongst the all-time great teams?
SB: The streak is pretty amazing, especially when you consider how difficult it can be to win a post season game on the road. San Antonio is a machine. They play with precision like accuracy. And their success begins at the top. They seem to complement their core with only the type of players than can truly contribute to the system. And Greg Popovich is the engineer of that system. Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and their superior role players execute his strategy to perfection. It just seems like their IQ is on a higher level than anybody else on the court. Quite frankly, their execution is a beautiful thing to watch.
WW.com: Where do you rank LeBron's performance in Game 4 of the Heat-Pacers series on the list of greatest individual performances in a playoff game?
SB: Lebron's performance was outstanding, but not surprising. Actually very little of what he does is surprising. I realize he's come up small in certain previous pressure situations, but it just seems to me that he and Wade are completely capable of taking over a game whenever they choose. James is nearly impossible to stop and when he decides to take the initiative there aren't many teams that can stop him.
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SB: Well, Ernie hasn't called lately to discuss the teams' strategy, but if I were to hazard a guess I think it's safe to say Davis would be a huge addition to the team. For as many years as I've been covering sports, every GM I've ever known has said "take the best player available." Would be difficult not to choose him.
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Advertisers spend billions of dollars per year to speak to consumers. So when those consumers take notice, and talk back, it would seem the last thing any company would want to do is ignore them.
And yet, in the venue that consumers increasingly choose when they want to talk to brands – social media – many francophone Canadians are feeling left out of the conversation.
That is according to a new study from Headspace Marketing, a consulting firm that specializes in marketing to Quebec. The researchers spoke to 3,000 Canadians and found that marketers are missing an opportunity to endear themselves to Quebeckers through Facebook.
According to the survey, fewer French-speaking Quebecois follow brands on Facebook – just 29 per cent, compared with 35 per cent in the rest of Canada. That is especially bad news for marketers because those same French speakers are far more likely to pay attention to the brands they do follow: 69 per cent read messages posted by brand pages on Facebook "as if they are from one of their friends." That is a huge difference from the rest of the country, where just 16 per cent of those surveyed said they read brand posts that way.
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Why? The two biggest reasons were because they stopped liking the brand or that the brand did not respond to an inquiry they sent. Comparatively, in the rest of Canada, people said they unfollowed marketers most often because their content was not relevant or the brand posted too frequently. Both of those reasons scored less than 10 per cent in Quebec.
"When people are asking questions or commenting ... that's where there is a bit of radio silence for brands [in French]," said Headspace president Eric Blais. "If you're encouraging people to follow you on Facebook, and they reach out to you, and you don't respond? That to me is the equivalent of having a customer call centre and not having anyone to answer the phones."
For example, Samsung Canada's Facebook page has community managers who write in both English and French. However, the page is sometimes slower to respond to French speakers. On Feb. 2, a customer posted to the page complaining about a problem with the case for his Samsung Galaxy Tab; there is no response to his comment as of late Thursday, despite the fact that a question from a customer also posted on Feb. 2 in English received a response on the same day.
Samsung said its bilingual community manager tries to respond to as many comments as possible, and that the company regularly responds to customers in French.
But some of its francophone fans have a different impression. This week, a French-speaking customer posted on the page with a complaint about her television and another customer responded to her comment saying that it seemed as though the company does not read comments written in French.
Even when companies do post in French, those posts do not always reach French-speaking consumers. That is the problem Target Corp. faced when it first launched in Canada.
When it launched its Canadian social media in August of 2012, it had a single corporate Facebook page, with posts in both English and French. Like many marketers, it would "target" many of those posts by promoting them through Facebook to make them more visible to people who speak one language or the other. But because some Quebeckers converse in French while leaving their default English settings on their Facebook accounts or on their mobile phones, those French posts were not reaching them.
"We would hear from people, 'Why don't you post in French?'" said Sebastien Bouchard, a public relations manager at Target Canada's Montreal office. "They're frustrated because they're not receiving the content in their preferred language. ... We were surprised how many people were asking for French. We do have French, but it's not effective to ask fans to change their settings."
So, after some deliberation, last August the company decided to launch a separate page for Canada entirely in French. While many marketers take care to post in English and French on their brand pages, dedicating the resources needed to managing a separate brand presence in French is very rare. "Target en français" now has roughly 139,000 followers (the English page has 1.9 million) whom the company now converses with in French.
"Some brands that are big enough are taking a 'two page' approach, for example Target and Molson," Facebook spokesperson Meg Sinclair said in an e-mail. "That's another way to manage, but I'm not sure it would be our first recommendation because it takes more time and resources."
She pointed to companies such as Air Transat, L'Oréal Paris Canada, and Reitmans as examples of brands with bilingual pages that do a good job of targeting their content by language.
Reaching consumers with more targeted messages is becoming more of a concern for marketers, especially since Facebook has been signalling to them that "organic reach" – the ability to reach people with regular messages, without boosting them with paid targeting – is falling. That's because there is simply more activity on the site with people posting and sharing content; more noise means it is more likely people might miss a post.
"We have not given a specific reach number that [brand] pages should expect to see because organic reach will vary by page and by post," Facebook said in a statement. "Like many mediums, if businesses want to make sure that people see their content, the best strategy is, and always has been, paid advertising."
For Target, the investment has increased its engagement from French speaking consumers markedly. The company measures engagement by the number of people commenting or sharing its posts with friends, or clicking the "like" button. Engagement rates average around four times its number of fans, Mr. Bouchard said. Target needs all the marketing boost it can get in Canada, as its launch has hit a snag with customers whose high expectations for the brand here have not been met. Its social media marketing is one thing the company appears to be getting right.
Still, Headspace's Mr. Blais admits that ironically there may be an upside to some of the marketing silence in French on social media. The conversational environment is so noisy in English that it has bred a greater resistance to those messages. The research showed that in the rest of Canada, nearly eight out of 10 people either skim or skip brand messages on Facebook altogether, but less than one-third of French speakers in Quebec said they did so.
"What's happening is a bit of Facebook fatigue – you're cluttering my feed with too much stuff, and not relevant content, so people in English Canada are much more likely to skim or skip. This has become clutter," Mr. Blais said.
The challenge for marketers will be to take advantage of the friendlier environment among francophone consumers without creating the same kind of exhaustion.
"Less attention was paid to French Quebec, but as a result you have a less intrusive presence," Mr. Blais said. "...That could erode over time. Maybe Quebec will get to the point where brands will post too frequently in French. But it's not happening now."Report Typo/Error
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Burke batted .588 in the Gaels' four-game series at Lehigh this weekend. He posted 10 hits in 17 at-bats with five doubles, six runs scored, four RBI and five stolen bases. Burke posted an on-base percentage of .650 and a slugging percentage of .882. He posted multiple hits in each of the four contests including three hits on two occasions. Burke has recorded a hit in 14 of Iona's 17 games with a team best .435 batting average.
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Soldinger pitched nine scoreless innings, limited opponents to a .206 batting average against and did not yield a walk over two appearances last week. He picked up his first save of the season at Seton Hall when he pitched a perfect ninth inning, recording three straight outs to lift the Jaspers to a 6-3 victory. In his next start, Soldinger pitched eight scoreless innings and recorded three strikeouts at LaSalle.
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