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Map and Territory in RDF APIs
RDF specs and APIs have made a bit of a mess out of a couple pretty basic tools of math and computing: graphs and logic formulas. With the RDF next steps workshop coming up and Pat Hayes re-thinking RDF semantics Sandro thinking out loud about RDF2, I'd like us to think about RDF in more traditional terms. The scala programming language seems to be an interesting framework to explore how they relate to RDF.The Feb 1999 RDF spec wasn't very clear about the map and the territory. It said that statements are made out of parts in the territory, rather than features on the map, which doesn't make very much sense. RDF APIs seem to inherit this confusion; e.g. from an RDF::Value class for ruby:
Checking if a value is a resource (blank node or URI reference)value.resource
Blank nodes and URI references are parts of the map; resources are in the territory.
Likewise in Package org.jrdf.graph:
Resource A resource stands for either a Blank Node or a URI Reference.
The 2004 RDF specs take great pains to clarify these use/mention distinctions, but they also go on at great length.
Let's review Wikipedia on graphs:
In mathematics, a graph is an abstract representation of a set of objects where some pairs of the objects are connected by links. ... The edges may be directed (asymmetric) or undirected (symmetric) ... and the edges are called directed edges or arcs; ... graphs which have labeled edges are called edge-labeled graphs.
With that in mind, in the swap-scala project, we summarize the RDF abstract syntax as an edge-labelled directed graph with just one or two wrinkles:
package org.w3.swap.rdf
trait RDFGraphParts {
type Arc = (SubjectNode, Label, Node)
type Node
type Literal <: Node
type SubjectNode <: Node
type BlankNode <: SubjectNode
type Label <: SubjectNode
The wrinkles are:
- Arcs can only start from BlankNodes or Labels, i.e. SubjectNodes
- Arcs labels may also appear as Nodes
We use another trait to relate concrete datatypes to these abstract types:
trait RDFNodeBuilder extends RDFGraphParts {
def uri(i: String): Label
type LanguageTag = Symbol
def plain(s: String, lang: Option[LanguageTag]): Literal
def typed(s: String, dt: String): Literal
def xmllit(content: scala.xml.NodeSeq): Literal
This doesn't pin down what a Label is, but in any concrete implementation, you can build one from a String using the uri method. The RDFNodeBuilder trait is used to implement RDF/XML, RDFa, and turtle parsers that are agnostic to the concrete implementation of an RDF graph.
Now let's look at terms of first order logic:
This is represented straightforwardly in scala a la:
The set of terms is inductively defined by the following rules:
- Variables. Any variable is a term.
- Functions. Any expression f(t1,...,tn) of n arguments (where each argument ti is a term and f is a function symbol of valence n) is a term.
package org.w3.swap.logic1
* A Term is either a Variable or an FunctionTerm.
sealed abstract class Term { ... }
class Variable extends Term { ...}
abstract class FunctionTerm() extends Term {
def fun: Any
def args: List[Term]
The core RDF doesn't cover all of first order logic; it corresponds fairly closely to the conjunctive query fragment:
The conjunctive queries are simply the fragment of first-order logic given by the set of formulae that can be constructed from atomic formulae using conjunction and existential quantification , but not using disjunction , negation , or universal quantification .
We can then excerpt just the relevant parts of the definition of formulas:
Our scala representation follows straightforwardly:
The set of formulas is inductively defined by the following rules:
- Predicate symbols. If P is an n-ary predicate symbol and t1, ..., tn are terms then P(t1,...,tn) is a formula.
- Binary connectives. If φ and ψ are formulas, then (φ ψ) is a formula. Similar rules apply to other binary logical connectives.
- Quantifiers. If φ is a formula and x is a variable, then and are formulas.
package org.w3.swap.logic1ec
sealed abstract class ECFormula
case class Exists(vars: Set[Variable], g: And) extends ECFormula
sealed abstract class Ground extends ECFormula
case class And(fmlas: Seq[Atomic]) extends Ground
case class Atomic(rel: Symbol, args: List[Term]) extends Ground
Now that we have scala representations for RDF graphs and conjunctive query formulas, how do we relate them? This is the fun part:
package org.w3.swap.rdflogic
import swap.rdf.RDFNodeBuilder
import swap.logic1.{Term, FunctionTerm, Variable}
import swap.logic1ec.{Exists, And, Atomic, ECProver, ECFormula}
* RDF has only ground, 0-ary function terms.
abstract class Ground extends FunctionTerm {
override def fun = this
override def args = Nil
case class Name(n: String) extends Ground
case class Plain(s: String, lang: Option[Symbol]) extends Ground
case class Data(lex: String, dt: Name) extends Ground
case class XMLLit(content: scala.xml.NodeSeq) extends Ground
* Implement RDF Nodes (except BlankNode) using FOL function terms
trait TermNode extends RDFNodeBuilder {
type Node = Term
type SubjectNode = Term
type Label = Name
def uri(i: String) = Name(i)
type Literal = Term
def plain(s: String, lang: Option[Symbol]) = Plain(s, lang)
def typed(s: String, dt: String): Literal = Data(s, Name(dt))
def xmllit(e: scala.xml.NodeSeq): Literal = XMLLit(e)
The abstract RDFGraphBuilder node types are implemented as first order logic terms. For formulas, we use a "holds" predicate:
object RDFLogic extends ... {
def atom(s: Term, p: Term, o: Term): Atomic = {
Atomic('holds, List(s, p, o))
def atom(arc: (Term, Term, Term)): Atomic = {
Atomic('holds, List(arc._1, arc._2, arc._3))
Then all the semantic machinery up to simple entailment between RDF graphs just falls out of conjunctive query.
I haven't done RDFS Entailment yet; the plan is to do basic rules first (N3rules or RIF BLD) and then use that for RDFS, OWL2-RL, and the like.
Existentials in ACL2 and Milawa make sense; how about level breakers?
Since my Sep 2006 visit to the ACL 2 seminar, I've been trying to get my head around existentials in ACL2. The lightbulb finally went off this week while reading Jared's Dec 2009 Milawa thesis.
3.7 Provability
Now that we have a proof checker, we can use existential quantification to
decide whether a particular formula is provable. Recall from page 61 the notion
of a witnessing (Skolem) function. We begin by introducing a witnessing function,
logic.provable-witness, whose defining axiom is as follows.
Definition 92: logic.provable-witness
(por* (pequal* ...))
Intuitively, this axiom can be understood as: if there exists an appeal which is
a valid proof of x, then (logic.provable-witness x axioms thms atbl) is such
an appeal.
Ding! Now I get it.
This witnessing stuff is published in other ACL publications, noteably:
- Structured Theory Development for a Mechanized Logic, M. Kaufmann and J Moore, Journal of Automated Reasoning 26, no. 2 (2001), pp. 161-203.
But I can't fit those in my tiny brain.
Thanks, Jared, for explaining it at my speed!
Here's hoping I can turn this new knowledge into code that converts N3Rules to ACL2 and/or Milawa's format. N3Rules covers RDF, RDFs, and, I think, OWL2-RL and some parts of RIF. Roughly what stuff FuXi covers.
I'm somewhat hopeful that the rest of N3 is just quoting. That's the intuition that got me looking into ACL2 and Milawa again after working on some TAG stuff using N3Logic to encode ABLP logic. Last time I tried turning N3 {} terms in to lisp quote expressions was when looking at IKL as a semantic framework for N3. I didn't like the results that time; I'm not sure why I expect it to be different this time, but somehow I do...
Another question that's keeping me up at night lately: is there a way to fit level-breakers such as log:uri (or name and denotation, if not wtr from KIF) in the Milawa architecture somehow?
DIG losing the battle with spammers again
Blog spam went out of control again; the only remedy I could find was a very big hammer: turn off the drupal comments module altogether and in doing so, unpublish all comments ever posted to this site. I suppose they're still in the database and could be published again, if we could separate them from the spam.
The drupal expertise in our group seems to have gone on to greener pastures. That prompted me to divest from my family business drupal installation and start a hosted wordpress site and makes me wonder how safe is stuff that I write here...
Any MIT students want to help this research group manage a community presence? Please get in touch.
No such thing as bad publicity for Facebook
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that there's no such thing as bad publicity (at least for Facebook). In the wake of the recent flap about Facebook's change in its terms of service, I seem to be experiencing a spike in new friend requests on Facebook. Of course, there may be no causal relationship whatsoever but I don't think I've become any nicer or more popular. I have a feeling people just have Facebook on the brain.
Obama's Tech Stimulus plan - Health IT, Broadband, and smart grid
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Steve Lohr has a nice piece in the New York Times ('Technology Gets a Piece of Stimulus,' 26 Jan 2009, p. C1) this morning about the role that technology and innovation will play in the economic recovery (aka stimulus) bill supported by the Obama Administration.
In the past, health IT deployment has been approached as an engineering problem: what computers have to be part of which networks exchanging which types of data? This loses sight of the purpose of electronic medical records: helping doctors to provide better care to their patients and transforming the system at a macro scale so that it enables data-driven, evidence-based research on how to provide effective, cost-efficient care. Today, because most doctors are paid based on how many procedures they perform, as opposed to how good they are at keeping patients healthy, will actually lose money if new information systems help them to deliver care more efficiently and keep people healthier. So, the key challenge for electronic medical record deployment is to marry up overall changes in healthcare policy with the the right innovation environment to produce the health information infrastructure we need to support safer, more efficient health care.
A quick infusion of stimulus spending, combined with a long term commitment to spend much of this money in a way that rewards doctors for delivering better care and data needed to measure effectiveness and efficiency (as opposed to just subsidizing them to put expensive hardware and software on their desks), can help lay the groundwork for the systems needed for health care reform. As Lohr explains:
The time-tested way for governments to create jobs in a hurry is to pour money into old-fashioned public works projects like roads and bridges. President Obama's economic recovery plan will do that, but it also has some ambitious 21st century twists.
The $825 billion stimulus plan presented this month by House Democrats called for $37 billion in spending in three high-tech areas: $20 billion to computerize medical records, $11 billion to create smarter electrical grids and $6 billion to expand high-speed Internet access in rural and underserved communities.
The technology industry is not typically viewed as a prolific job producer. Much of its manufacturing is highly automated. But bringing technology to services fields like health care, telecommunications and energy can be labor intensive and thus generate jobs.
The issues surrounding electronic health records illustrate the policy challenges of targeted programs. Mr. Obama has advocated spending $50 billion over five years to accelerate the use of such records and the sharing of health information across a national network.
The computerized records, when used properly, are an indispensable tool for measuring, tracking and improving patient care — yet only about 17 percent of the nation's doctors are using them. They are commonplace at large medical groups, but 75 percent of doctors practice in small offices of 10 physicians or fewer.
Doctors often benefit from inefficiency, because the dominant fee-for-service payment system means they are paid for doing more — more doctor visits, tests, surgical procedures, pills.
"Paying to put computer hardware and software in physicians' offices isn't going to do anything unless you change the incentives in the system," said Dr. David J. Brailer, former national health information technology coordinator in the Bush administration.
"You want to pay for achievement — better health quality and efficiency," said Dr. David Blumenthal, director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Harvard Medical School, who advised the Obama campaign. "But in the transition period, before financial incentives are reformed, you need to provide incentives or grants to use electronic health records because this technology is sort of the opening wedge to reform."
And summarizes the current contents of HealthIT stimulus proposals developed by the transition team and current being considered by Congress:
Those eligible for grants to buy technology, a member of the Obama transition team said, will include inner-city and rural hospitals and small doctor practices. But most money, he said, will go to incentive payments to improve quality and safety of care.
The big leverage that that the Federal Government has is the over $700 Billion dollars that it spends on Medicare and Medicaid each year. All together the Federal government pays for over 40% of all healthcare in the US so directing that spending in a way that encourages a more data-driven health care system is the key to success. The stimulus spending will be the first step toward creating a system in which that money can be used to encourage smart, data-driven health care.
Transitioned
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I've spent the last eleven weeks working on the Obama-Biden Transition Project with the Technology Innovation and Government Reform (a.k.a TIGR) policy group and have now finished. It's been an great experience and tremendous honor to be able to work on a wide range of technology policy issues with such a talented, disciplined and dedicated group of people. Knowing that President Obama is now in the White House and getting to participate in the inaugural festivities was a great way to cap this all off.
What was extraordinary about the Technology and Innovation policy group was that it existed at all. This presidential transition, as others in the past, had to do a thorough review of issues and challenges in all of the Federal agencies, select senior personnel to fill Cabinet and White House positions, and prepare strategies for meeting key policy challenges and campaign commitments: health care reform, economic recovery, national security, foreign policy, etc. While Internet technology and innovation issues have been on the radar screen for nearly 20 years, this was that first Presidential campaign and the first Presidential Transition Team to give tech policy issues high profile attention.
Now I'm going to take a few days off, try to catch up on old email, and look forward to returning to my research and teaching at MIT at the beginning of February.
OpenID "Hello World" on apache still deep magic
I have a home movie that I just want to show to just a few friends around the Web. With OpenID, I should be able to just give my web server a list of my friends' pages, right?
I eventually found a README for mpopenid with just what I wanted:
PythonOption authorized-users "http://alice.com/ http://bob.com/"
But that wasn't on the top page of hits on a search for "apache OpenID". (Like most sites, mine runs on apache.) The top hit is mod_auth_openid, but its FAQ that says my use case isn't directly supported:
- Is it possible to limit login to some users, like htaccess/htpasswd does?
- No. ... If you want to restrict to specific users that span multiple identity providers, then OpenID probably isn't the authentication method you want. Note that you can always do whatever vetting you want using the REMOTE_USER CGI environment variable after a user authenticates.
So I installed the prerequisites for mpopenid: libapache2-mod-python and python-elementtree were straightforward, but I struggled to find a version of python-openid that matched. I almost gave up at that point, but heartened by somebody else who got mpopenid working, I went back to searching and found a launchpad development version of mpopenid. That seems to work with python-openid-1.1.0.
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite, I have this bit that glues mpopenid's login page into my site:
<Location "/openid-test-aux">
SetHandler mod_python
PythonOption action-path "/openid-test-aux"
PythonHandler mpopenid::openid
And in mysite/movies/.htaccess, this bit says only I get to see http://mysite.example/sekret:
<Files "sekret">
PythonAccessHandler mpopenid::protect
PythonOption authorized-users "http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/"
The mpopenid README also shows an option to put the list of pages in a separate file:
PythonOption authorized-users-list-url file:///my/directory/allowed-users.txt
But I haven't tried that yet. So far I'm happy to put the list right in the .htaccess file.
President-Elect Obama's electronic medical records goal
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From Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama
As Prepared for Delivery
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Thursday, January 8, 2009
"To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America's medical records are computerized. This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests. But it just won't save billions of dollars and thousands of jobs – it will save lives by reducing the deadly but preventable medical errors that pervade our health care system."
The paradox of information flow in transition
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A wonderfully perceptive and funny characterization from outgoing US Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean (Health care contenders - Chris Frates - Politico.com):
Dean said: "I'm not going to say anything about anything to do with transition. Generally, those who talk don't know, and those who know don't talk. And I don't know what he's [President-elect] going to do, but I ain't talking."
First legal shot across the Semantic Web's bow - Thomson suing Zotero
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Last week Thomson Reuters (the owner of EndNote Software, a widely used proprietary tool for collecting and managing scholarly bibliographic information) filed a lawsuit against Zotero, the most popular open source, Semantic Web-enabled bibliographic tool. Zotero, packaged as a Firefox extension, is a handy tool for collecting bibliographic metadata to assist scholars in managing information necessary for their research (news story, complaint). Zotero can import and export a variety of different bibliographic formats and does so in a web-friendly, RDF-enabled way. Exchanging and linking bibliographic information (ie., the title, author, publication venue) of scholarly communication is an important means to discover new links amongst individual pieces of research that are published around the world. This has been a high priority, for example, in the life sciences where new knowledge can be uncovered by linking individual pieces of research together.
The latest beta release of Zotero will read and write EndNote's proprietary metadata format . In response to this, Thomson sued the Zotero developers (an open source community hosted at George Mason University), charging that Zotero (and GMU) reverse engineered the EndNote citation file format in violation of EndNote's end user license agreement (EULA).
The key effect of Thomson's suit, if it succeeds, would be to create a legal doctrine that enables software developers to restrict the Semantic Web's potential to promote data interoperability and data integration. The legal issue at bar has to do with reverse engineering and the enforceability of EULAs, both of which are important questions. And, there's a lot of say about whether or not the compliant will stand up to legal scrutiny. That said, the Web community, as well as the scholarly community, ought to pay careful attention to this case because its outcome could have real bearing on how free we will all be in the future to exchange information and realize the knowledge-enhancing benefits of the Web through collaborative research.
Update: Nature Magazine editorializes about the threats to interoperability of the lawsuit.


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SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Multidimensional (MD) is a great product, and in my opinion it's still the only real option to go for when building complex enterprise BI solutions. It's still very fast when implemented correctly and it's mature and therefore very stable.
The only real downside is cell security, which, in my opinion, is useless. It makes performance drop dramatically because it evaluates security cell-by-cell. I have seen reports that run in a few seconds without cell security taking 20 minutes with cell security implemented! Try to explain that to your customer.. It's obvious that you can't.
Quite some workarounds exist for quite a while:
For a few years I've always implemented a workaround that uses the measures dimension. To prevent errors in the MDX script as described by option B above, I've added IsError() checks around all my calculation parts that could raise an error. For example, a simple calculation like Quantity * Price, where the price measure could be secured, looks like this:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE .[Measures].[Amount] AS IIf ( IsError ( [Measures].[Price] ), NULL, [Measures].[Quantity] * [Measures].[Price] ), NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR = { IIf ( IsError ( [Measures].[Price] ), NULL, [Measures].[Price] ) } ;
This calculation would not raise an error but NULL if a user doesn't have permission to the Price measure. Quite straightforward, only trick here is the IsError() check in the NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR, of course you would have to do this in the script view of your SSAS calculations tab. In the form view this will look a bit strange but it doesn't cause any errors:
Using this approach you are able to implement measure security using the dimension security while you are still able to create MDX calculations with NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR based on these secured measures. This made the report I talked about before to run in 5 seconds instead of the 20 minutes. I've used this approach for quite some years now, and it has always been sufficient.
At the moment I'm working on a very big enterprise cube that contains almost 100 dimensions, 25 measure groups and millions of records. I've also implemented measure security like this and after a while I noticed some really heavy queries (reports) took quite some time, for example 30 seconds or 1 minute. Reason enough to re-think this approach. When I was at the SQL Server Days in Belgium last year, I've discussed this approach with Chris Webb. Of course he could understand what I was doing here and we agreed to email about this approach later on. Chris emailed me about a blogpost of him from some time ago: http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/dimension-security-tips-tricks-and-problems/. In this post Chris explains how to create secured calculations while using dimension securty by using named sets and scope statements:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE .Measures.Test AS NULL ;
CREATE SET myset1 AS IIf ( IsError ( StrToMember ( "Measures.[Internet Sales Amount]" ) ), { }, { Measures.Test } ) ;
SCOPE ( myset1 ) ; This = Measures.[Internet Sales Amount] ; END SCOPE ;
CREATE SET myset2 AS IIf ( IsError ( StrToMember ( "Measures.[Internet Sales Amount]" ) ), { Measures.[Internet Tax Amount] }, { Measures.[Internet Sales Amount], Measures.[Internet Tax Amount] } ) ;
SCOPE ( myset2 ) ; This = Measures.CurrentMember * 2 ; END SCOPE ;
I did not know about this approach, so I tried it out. To be able to get good test results I used a very heavy query that hopefully nobody would ever try: a calculation over all sales data (millions of records) against all customers, all products and all time. Unfortunately, the results were not very pleasing yet:
1. Calculation with IIF/IsError checks in both the calculation part and the non empty part: ran in 50 seconds.
2. Calculation with named set/scope approach: ran longer than 5 minutes, after that I stopped the query.
So Chris and I emailed again and I was wondering if the lack of NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR (NEB) could be the cause of the slow performance of the named set/scope approach. Chris said that since SSAS 2008 the usage of NEB was not neccesary anymore, something I've heard about before. I always had the idea adding NEB did make a difference in some cases so I never stoped using it. So I kinda merged Chris' and mine approach, adding the NEB using an IsError() function and I replaced the StrToMember check with a direct reference to the measure in the named sets because in my opinion that part was not neccesary:
IsError ( StrToMember ( "Measures.[Internet Sales Amount]" ) ) à became: Measures.[Internet Sales Amount].
The result was almost unbelievable, the query now took not 5 minutes, not 50 seconds but only 2 seconds!! So adding NEB still can make a huge difference sometimes! After finding out about this, I contacted Chris again and he was also very surprised by the result.
I've created an MDX calculation template with some explanation added as comments. The big performance gain is achieved because the IsError() check doesn't need to be executed every time the calculation is executed because it's already executed when the static named set is created (one single time), afterwards this value just seems to be reused. I think the same applies for the IsError() check in the NEB, it seems it's only executed once and is reused. Anyway, the result is, your MDX calculations are just as fast with security applied as without. Something that was not possible for a long time for me and I guess everybody else too. Just use the template below as a standard for creating your calculations and benefit from this solution:
--Calculation Template:
----------1: CHECKED CALCULATION: The secured "end product" used in other calculations----------
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Quantity_CHECKED] AS
----------2: CHECK NAMED SET: Actual permission check performed here----------
CREATE SET [Quantity_CHECK] AS
IIf (
IsError ( [Measures].[Quantity] )
, { }
, { [Measures].[Quantity_CHECKED] }
) ;
----------3: SCOPE: Assignment of either the measure or "nothing" to CHECKED calculation (1)----------
SCOPE ( [Quantity_CHECK] ) ;
This = [Measures].[Quantity] ;
----------4: Second secure calculation created here----------
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Price_CHECKED] AS
CREATE SET [Price_CHECK] AS
IsError ( [Measures].[Price] )
, { Measures.[Price_CHECKED] }
) ;
SCOPE ( [Price_CHECK] ) ;
This = [Measures].[Price] ;
----------5: Calculation based on the secure calculations.
----------Non_Empty_Behavior set with IIf/IsError on measure. Using calculations inside NEB is not possible----------
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Sales Amount] AS
[Measures].[Quantity_CHECKED] * [Measures].[Price_CHECKED]
IIf (
IsError ( [Measures].[Price] )
, { [Measures].[Price] }
Your calculations tab in SSAS will look like:
When I was investigating the inner working of the first part of the script I've added some comments to make it easy for myself to remember. I guess it's also useful for anyone that want to know what's really happening here:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Quantity_CHECKED] --> Calculation is initially NULL and will be filled based on user rights later on.
VISIBLE = 0; --> Make it invisible as this is a pure technical calculation that should not be used by end users. End users can use the measure this calculation is based on, if they have permission (set by dimension security on the Measures dimension).
CREATE SET [Quantity_CHECK] AS --> Named Set will be used to perform the actual check for user rights, as this is a static named set this check will only be executed one time, at initialization, and will be reused.
IIf(IsError([Measures].[Quantity]) --> An IsError on the measure that needs to be checked will raise an error if a particular user has no rights on it because in that case the measure will simply not exist.
, {} --> If an error was raised by the IsError function set the value of this set to nothing: {}
, {[Measures].[Quantity_CHECKED]}); --> If no error was raised the user has rights to access the measure, in this case set the value of the set to the required CHECKED calculation created in the previous step.
SCOPE([Quantity_CHECK]); --> If in the Scope of the CHECK calculation, either the CHECK calculation can be {} (Nothing) or it can be the CHECKED calculation (based on user rights).
This=[Measures].[Quantity]; --> Assign the measure to This. This can be the CHECK calculation if the user has rights which will pass the measure through to the initial CHECKED calculation or it can be {}/Nothing which will pass the value of the measure to nothing instead of to the CHECKED calculation.
END SCOPE; -- So this Scope function either passes the measure to the CHECKED calculation or to nothing (the empty set {})
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I have one secured measure and several calculated measures that use this secured measure. The thing is I would also like to secure all these calculated measures.
I implemented upper template and I still see the calculared measures? Is it possible to secure calculated measures.
BR, Anže
Hi Anže,
Following the technique described in this blog post means you would create one _CHECKED calculation based on your measure and use this in all your other calculation definitions.
End users will still see the calculations, but when they use it in a pivot or report it will return NULL when they don't have the appropriate rights. So the calculations are secured.
Hiding calculations based on security is, unfortunately, not possible. Your measures on the other hand, will be hidden because you use dimension security for them.
- Jorg
Hi Jorg,
I am working on cube where I need to implement dynamic cell security as not all measures need security but only few. I am kind of doing same as you have explained in your blog ..but I am not getting what I am trying to attempt\achieve. Below is my structure..
UserID UserAlias
1 Laxmi
2 Chris
UserSecurity ( this is bridge table which links to dGeo on areaid )
UserID AreaID
1 1
2 1
2 10
dGeo GeoKey AreaId AreaName
1 1 UnitedStates
2 10 Germany
I have factTable1 (GeoKey, A, B , C,D)
I need to have output where if I view the report I should see only measure A for United States as you see in usersecurity table my permissions.. and for A, C and D I should see data for all areas.. ( no security)
I didn't use dimension security as we need dynamic cell security based on who is login it should see the permission and allow that user to see data..
I create scope in calculations tab of cube CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[HideA] AS False , VISIBLE = 1 ;
SCOPE ([Measures].[HideA]); SCOPE (StrToMember("[d Users].[User Alias].& [" + Right(UserName(), LEN(USERNAME())- InStr(USERNAME(),"\")) + "]")); THIS = ([Measures].[User Security Count] = 0 ); END SCOPE; SCOPE ([d Geo].[Area Name].[All]); THIS = True; END SCOPE; END SCOPE;
And then added this code to celldata tab of role.. NOT ( Measures.CurrentMember IS Measures.[A] AND HideA )
When I browse the cube I shows me data for A and B for all areas instead of US..
Any idea\suggestion as to what am I missing ?
I have been struggling since more than a week to get this.. but no success :(
Thanks, Laxmi
hi laxmi,
i do have same problem now,do you find solution for same.

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I want to have a quick way to show clients what there site will generally look like and demo aspects like a slideshow or other JavaScriptinteractions web-fonts etc etc... Now that I am using css3 and html5 I really don't use Photoshop or fireworks for layout just build individual graphics for the sites now that I'm building responsive sites and use css3 for a lot of what I use to do in the graphic programs. I can whip up something for them in code faster then doing a prototype or wireframe Ps or Fw.
I was thinking of making a sub-domain on my site and using that for demonstrations.Any body else have this problem and maybe a better solution?
Do they need full interaction or just visuals? I've read multiple stories of customers stealing demo sites or templates during production and later refusing payment. Make sure you are able to prevent them from intentionally or accidentally taking a production ready version of the site or template until the work is accepted and they have paid in full.
Thanks that's good advice "Do they need full interaction or just visuals?"I have a JavaScript slideshow with various transitions I wanted them to see.


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Too much Ariana Grande
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Did you feel like you were being force-fed Ariana Grande last night? Too much Ariana Grande. With her one side of the face and her one hairstyle. ONE hairstyle. And always with those high boots too. Is this child allowed to wear shoes that don't go over her knee? I don't understand. Full Story
Fetch: Robert Pattinson & Katy Perry
Robert Pattinson is in New York on the morning show circuit to promote The Rover. I quite like his sock choice. Out of Cannes, everyone was saying that his performance in the film is the best of his career. He has a supporting role in both The Rover and Maps To The Stars and seems to be settling nicely into a non-lead position. Full Story
Katy Perry & Diplo
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Are dating. Apparently they were all about each other at Coachella. I feel like this is a pattern. She breaks up. She hooks up. At Coachella. In 2012 there was a musician. F-ck, what was his name. Hang on, I have to Google. Got it. Robert Ackroyd. Florence + The Machine. You remember? Click here Full Story
Katy Perry stands down …and then doesn't
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God that made me happy yesterday when Miley Cyrus Twitter-slapped Katy Perry for shaming her tongue by jamming it in her Twitter-face that John Mayer is a pig and Russell Brand's tongue probably travelled the world. Miley followed up with another tweet later on: Full Story
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Not exactly the most creative title but come ON. It's the only reaction to... Girl Sh-t Is The Best Sh-t! The best! Yesterday I posted about how Katy Perry shamed Miley Cyrus's tongue on Australian television. Click here Full Story
Katy shames Miley's tongue
Katy Perry is in Australia promoting her album. She was asked on Sunrise, a talk show there, about that time she kissed Miley Cyrus at Miley's show a couple of weeks ago. It happened during Adore You. Miley throws the camera over to the audience and everyone is supposed to react accordingly which basically means they all try to get pregnant. Full Story
Relationships and your phone
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Here's where I sound like an old lady. Because Jacek and I are on each other's phones all the time. If he's driving, I'm reading his texts and emails to him. And he's the one who programs my phone and sets it up and I'm shoving it in his face all the time whenever it's pissing me off. Full Story
Katy & John: done (for now) and amicable
E! News was the first to report that Katy Perry and John Mayer have broken up again. Click here for that post yesterday. Looks like it's true because several other outlets have now corroborated, including US Weekly Full Story
Katy & John: over again?
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John Mayer was not with Katy Perry last week for the BRIT Awards and Milan Fashion Week. She was booed there because she was apparently late arriving to one of the shows, although some say she was told to be there at the time she was there and shouldn't be blamed for the miscommunication. Then she went to a Miley Cyrus show and they kissed. Full Story
Not the place for bad hair
It was ELLE Style Awards in London last night. Katy Perry wore Vivienne Westwood. It's a good dress. But that hair. I can't with this f-cking hair. There are some people who could make this work. Lizzy Caplan? Sure. Lena Dunham? OK, I think I could work with that. Sienna Miller I could see. Full Story
Katy Perry & John Mayer engaged?
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Katy Perry stepped out with John Mayer on Valentine's Day wearing a ring on that finger and the internet said they're engaged. E! News and US Weekly then immediately reported that they're not engaged…but that it could be happening soon. Full Story


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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is one of a small group of Republican senators calling for a Special Committee to investigate the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. But he may be the first to run campaign ads on the issue ahead of the 2014 elections. These web ads via AmericaBlog:
Clicking on the petition brings the reader to a splash screen on Graham's campaign website:
On Friday, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) rejected the need for a Special Committee, noting that several committees in the House and Senate are already investigating the tragedy. Reid also called on Republicans to stop politicizing the tragedy and national security. "[E]lections are over; it is time to put an end to the partisan politicization of national security and begin working together to strengthen our efforts to dismantle and destroy the terrorist networks that threaten us," he said in a letter to Graham's ally Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) also see no need for the committee.


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The Gardener
Reading Level: Grades 7-10
High school sophomore Mason has a fairly normal life, if you discount the ugly scar marring half of his hulky face; if you discount the disappearance of his father and his mother's drinking habit and tendency to require Mason to be her parent and not vice versa.
When Mason discovers that the Haven of Peace, the rehabilitation center his mom works at is not just for the elderly, but for brain damaged teens whose parents have given up on them in favor of experimentation on them, his life is turned upside down.
After accidentally reviving one of the teens and rescuing her from the Haven of Peace, Mason finds himself on the run from TroDyn, a bioengineering firm responsible for experimentation on the girl.
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Mongolian Daurian Landscape
Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO
Dornod aimag (province)
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The publication of any such advice, opinion, statement or other information documentation on the World Heritage Centre's website and/or on working documents also does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of UNESCO or of the World Heritage Centre concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party
A zone: N49 45 - 50 15 E114 30 - 115 30
B zone: N49 38 - 49 44 E114 55 - 115 37
Mongolian Daurian Landscape occupies the northern part of the Daurian steppe ecoregion. The Daurian steppe is one of few remaining Eurasian extensive grassland steppe where wildlife and domestic livestock co-exist.
Mongolian Daurian Landscape includes the Mongol Daguur Strictly Protected Area (SPA) which is consisted of "A" and "B" zones. According to the natural region classification, Mongol Daguur SPA is included in the dry steppe sub-region of Kherlen River and Khoh Lake with plateaus, moderately flat depressions and low mountains in the Central Asian steppe. The "A" zone (599.2-1.045 m asl) of the SPA is an area of sparsely vegetated hills with Khukh Uul (Deltiin Mountain Range) (1045 m asl) being the highest peak and Baruun (west) Tari (Torey) Lake the lowest point (599.2 m asl). The "B" zone of this SPA has the same natural zone division as the "A" zone.
The larger northern part (A) (Chuluunkhoroot soum's territory of Dornod aimag), contiguous Daursky State Biosphere Reserve of Russian Federation, takes the rolling steppe and wet lands to the south shore of Baruun Tari Lake. The southern part (B) of the protected area (Chuluunkhoroot, Gurvanzagal, and Dashbalbar soums) encompasses a narrow strip of the clear Ulz River and its pristine wetlands, which was classified as a protected area because of the high density of nesting white-napped cranes. The protected area was established in 1992 by Mongolian Parliament's Resolution No.11 with the purpose of preserving a representative portion of Daurian steppe with its characteristic flora, fauna and landscape, and creating an endangered species reserve for some of the world's rarest birds. In 1995, it was approved as a SPA by Parliament Resolution No.26. The area encompasses 103,016 hectares of land. In 1994, the area became part of an international reserve for some of the world's rarest birds including several endangered species of crane. The international reserve also includes nearby protected areas in Russia and China.
Mongol Daguur SPA represents an ecosystem that combines the Daurian steppe with wetland areas. The SPA "B" zone is characterized by wetland areas including small lakes and ponds (saline and fresh) while the "A" zone is composed of low mountains and hills clothed with mixed deciduous trees (e.g., birch and aspen) willow bushes along the Ulz River. These zones are dominated with mountain and steppe vegetation. A total of 349 species (52 families) have been recorded in the SPA and wetland and steppe plant species are widely distributed among them. Rare and very rare species such as Gentiana macrophylla Pall, Hedysarum dahurica Turcz, Sophora flavescens, and Valeriana officinalis L. are found in the SPA.
Large mammals such as Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), roe deer (Capriolus pygargus), grey wolf (Canis lupus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), corsak fox (Vulpes corsac), badger (Meles meles) and racoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) are considered abundant while small mammals (e.g., siberian marmot, daurian pika, and tolai hare) are commonly found in the area. During spring and fall migration thousands of Mongolian gazelles migrate through the area enroute to Russia. Daurian hedgehock (Erinaceus daurica), which is listed in Mongolian Red Book also inhabits in Mongol Daguur SPA. The Daurian hedgehock is endangered in neighbouring countries, so it is listed in Russian Red Book as well. However, the species is abundant only within the range of Mongol Daguur SPA. Mongolian gazelle are considered endangered in neighbouring countries and therefore listed in Russian and Chinese Red Books.
The Mongol Daguur SPA is a major stopover point for migratory birds (especially cranes, waterfowl, and shorebirds) on the East Asian Flyway (South Pacific Ocean and Australia to east and northeast Siberia. There are also 17 species listed in the rare and very rare species list and 16 of these species are listed in the Mongolian Red Book (1997).
Justification of Outstanding Universal Value
The Mongolian Daurian Landscape is one of well-preserved examples of steppe natural complexes on earth, which comprises intrazonal wetlands and forest-steppe landscapes that are of great significance for conservation of the universal biodiversity. A virtually complete historical set of plants and animals that are typical of the Daurian steppes and forest-steppes is represented at this site. Almost all types of vegetation associations characteristic for the region, as well as the complex of mammalian and bird are present here.
This territory is an outstanding example of evolutionary processes: the natural communities were formed under conditions of periodic climate change, which was the reason for the development of a number of adaptations to continuous deep changes in existence conditions at the level of species and communities. Under contemporary conditions, the climatic cycles during which an arid phase replaces the wet phase occur over relatively short periods of time (approximately 30 years), thus causing substantial and relatively swift rearrangement of steppe ecosystems and a drastic rearrangement of wetland ecosystems. The periodic transformation of wet biotypes into dry and back provides the optimal conditions for the existence of a number of species with different (sometimes opposite) ecological requirements within the same territory. The site is an example of adaptation of the species and ecosystems to the continuously changing climatic conditions and undoubtedly has scientific significance.
The species structure diversity and abundance of birds and mammals, as well as the number of rare species at this site is considerably higher compared to the same figures at the other steppe territories of Eurasia and planet in general. It is attributed to a number of factors: to biotope diversity (the entire range of landscapes and biotopes that is typical of the Daurian ecoregion is located here). to the presence of pristine steppe regions and wetlands of high significance, to habitat of dzeren, (gazell) the globally rare species and rich and diverse avifauna, including a number of rare and endangered species, and to location at the place where the migration flyways of the birds become narrow and at the place of junction of large biogeographical units, as well as to the variability of ecosystems caused by climate cyclicity.
A total of 15 globally endangered species inscribed on the IUCN Red List (2011) have been observed in this territory: 1 critically endangered, 3 endangered, 11 vulnerable and about 40 species have been inscribed on the Red Books of the Russian Federation and Mongolia. The site has a special significance for conservation of the crane species. Six crane species inhabit the territory. It is one of the last Paleoarctic regions still inhabited by numerous herds of wild ungulates-dzerens (Mongolian gazelles). The territory is of key importance for conservation of natural massive transboundary migration routes of dzeren, which is the last grandiose phenomenon of this type in Central Asia.
This proposed landscape is the vivid representative of the steppe and wetland landscapes, which are currently poorly represented in the World Heritage List.
Criterion (ix): Mongolian Daurian Landscape is outstanding example representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution of the diversity of ecosystems and species within a relatively small environment, especially of grassland ecosystem and wetlands of high significance.
Criterion (x): This relatively small landscape which comprises introzonal wetlands and grassland steppe is extremely important habitats for wide range of wild animals and plants, including specially for dzeren (gazelle), a globally rare endemic species listed in the International Red Book, and major stopover place for migratory birds, including cranes, on the East Asian Flyway.
Statements of authenticity and/or integrity
The Mongolian Daurian Landscape (Mongol Daguur SPA which is consisted of "A" and "B" zones) includes within its proposed boundary all the elements necessary to express its Outstanding Universal Value. Its completeness is represented by the fact that this landscape exists today in comparatively unchanged natural condition. The steppe and wetland ecosystems within the Mongol Daguur SPA have not been subjected to any considerable anthropogenic impact for a long period of time. There no other regions of pristine steppes in the entire eastern part of Central Asia which would be characterized by higher integrity level. Additionally, the site has been listed since 1995 as SPA, providing it with the highest statutory level of protection at national level.
Comparison with other similar properties
The comparison of the proposed property with other natural sites have already been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (and those recommended to the inscribed) attests to the existence of a number of unique characteristics. Proceeding to a more thorough consideration of the temperate belt of Eurasia, the grassland vegetation here is known to for a giant belt, over 8 thousand km long(N 27-127 and E 55-46), which stretches from the lower reach of the Danube river on the west to the Manchurian.
The Following World Natural Heritage Sites comprising steppe ecosystems to a certain extent are located here: "Danube Delta" (Romania), "Saryarka-Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan"(Kazakhstan), and "Lake Baigal" (Russia). However these sites are distributed quite nonuniformly within the steppe belt of Northern Eurasia.
The proposed property Mongolian Daurian Landscape is located in the Mongolian Daurian subregion and is highly specific for a number of key parameters (flora composition, dominant steppe types,climatic features, relief pattern, fauna, etc.). Indeed, Daurian-type steppes and some wetlands are a true natural phenomenon that is not repeated even in the adjacent regions. These areas can be identified with neither western-type steppes (the "Danube Delta" site) nor with Kazakhstan steppes (Saryarka), nor with montane steppes of southern East Siberia (Altai, Uvs nuur, Baikal sites).
It also becomes clear that only three sites out of the compared ones are completely located in the Temperate Grasslands biome, namely, Dauria, Saryarka, and the Danube Delta. Montane Grasslands and Shrublands are represented at two sites: the Uvs nuur basin and the Altai. As for the World Natural Heritage site Lake Baikal the similar steppes to Mongolian Daurian-type steppes can be found at Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve, Zabaikalsky and Pribaikalsky National Parks. However, these steppe regions represent the extrazonal inclusions within zonal forest vegetation, which are attributed to the historical factor, climatic effect, and the presence of carbonate rocks.
The property proposed includes vast areas of Mongolian Daurian steppes, the biome that has been zonally represented in neither of the existing WH sites. Therefore, it is a reasonable task to include the Daurian-type steppes into the Mongolian Tentative List, since it will broaden the representation of this biome in the list and enhance its general representativeness.
Since the contemporary habitat of dzeren (gazelle) is strongly limited, the survival of this species almost completely depends on the nature conservation measures performed, and primarily, on the efficiency of functioning of special protection areas in the Central Asian steppe zone. From this viewpoint, the special role in this region is played by the Mongol Daguur SPA, in addition to the adjacent refuge "The Valley of Dzeren" in Russia. These protected areas have a multifunctional and exceptionally important role in the survival of the rare gazelle species.
In this context, the nominated property resembles the Saryarka site located in Northern Kazakhstan, where another ungulate species, the saiga antelope, is the key fauna species that subject to strict protection. Analogies can also be drawn with the other World Natural Heritage Sites that have already acquired this status, where one of the most significant (in some cases, the most important one) aims consists in preserving a specific species: Simien National Park in Ethiopia (conservation of the endemic abyssinian goat), Okapi National Park in Kongo (the okapi), The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (the mountain gorilla), etc… And one of the main purposes of the transboudary WH property Uvs nuur basin (Russia-Mongolia) and WHS The Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia) is to conserve the snow leopard and argali.
Thus, the presence of the key habitats of dzeren (gazelle), a globally rare endemic species listed in the International Red Book, is a very important reason in favour of this property for inclusion into the Tentative List.
This transboundary Russian-Mongolian territory, which vividly represents one of the most valuable landscapes in the eastern part of Central Asia, is the best variant for filling the existing gap on the global map of distribution of the World Natural Heritage Sites.


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Delta agent (Hepatitis D)Hepatitis D virus
Delta agent is a type of virus called hepatitis D. Itcauses symptoms only in people who also have a hepatitis B infection.
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is found only in people who carry the hepatitis B virus. HDV may make a recent (acute) hepatitis B infection or an existing long-term (chronic) hepatitis B liver disease worse. It can even cause symptoms in people who carry hepatitis B virus but who never had symptoms.
Hepatitis D infects about 15 million people worldwide. It occurs ina small numberof people who carry hepatitis B.
Risk factors include:
- Abusing intravenous (IV) or injection drugs
- Being infected while pregnant (the mother can pass the virus to the baby)
- Carrying the hepatitis B virus
- Men having sexual intercourse with other men
- Receiving many blood transfusions
Hepatitis D may make the symptoms of hepatitis B worse.
Symptoms may include:
- Abdominal pain
- Dark-colored urine
- Fatigue
- Jaundice
- Joint pain
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Exams and Tests
- Anti-delta agent antibody
- Liver biopsy
- Liver enzymes (blood test)
Many of the medicines used to treat hepatitis B are not helpful for treating hepatitis D. See hepatitis B.
You may receive a medicine called alpha interferon for up to 12 months if you have along-term HDV infection. A liver transplant for end-stage chronic hepatitis B may be effective.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Persons with an acute HDV infection usually get better over 2 to 3 weeks. Liver enzyme levels return to normal within 16 weeks.
About 10% of those who are infected may develop long-term (chronic) liver inflammation (hepatitis).
Possible Complications
- Chronic active hepatitis
- Fulminant hepatitis
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of hepatitis B.
Prompt diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis B infection can help prevent hepatitis D.
Avoid intravenous drug abuse. If you use IV drugs, avoid sharing needles.
A vaccine is available to prevent hepatitis B. Adults who are at high risk for hepatitis B infection, and all children shouldget thisvaccine.
Perrillo R. Hepatitis B and D. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2010:chap 78.
Review Date: 10/8/2012
Reviewed By: George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, and Stephanie Slon.


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It is not coercion to threaten to do something you are lawfully permitted to do. I successfully used this legal principle in court early in my legal career. This well-established legal principle is not some obscure legal concept, except perhaps in Travis County, Texas. I am unaware of any other jurisdiction in the United States that might agree with the Travers County Grand Jury and special | Read More »
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Yep, we're going with the Weave again, but this year, we're laying off the stats (which clearly indicate he's not only the Angels' best player, but also one of the best pitchers in baseball). This time, he wins for being old-school. We'll answer the back-and-forth about Weaver's response to two Tigers batters showing him up after their July 31 home runs with a quote, but not one about Weaver. "Barry Bonds?" ex-umpire Doug Harvey once said. "I'll tell you what: If he hit a home run off [Bob] Gibson or [Don] Drysdale and stood and admired it, they'd knock that earring out of his ear the next time up." But seriously, Jered, get a haircut.
It should've been a bad year for the Ducks. Newly minted captain Ryan Getzlaf took a puck to the face in a game against Phoenix in December, causing him to spend weeks on the injured reserve list and the team to lose its already-shaky focus. Perry, the Ducks' right wing, stepped up and brought the team to fourth seed in the West, allowing it to advance to the playoffs. Perry's no-holds-barred style around the opponent's net—he's one of the last power forwards and has a mean forecheck—paid off, even though he frequently had to be scraped off the ice by his teammates. All told, he scored 48 assists and a league-high 50 goals during the regular season, most during the last 20 games of the season, with an additional two goals and six assists during the playoffs. Not surprisingly, Perry got the Hart Trophy as the NHL's Most Valuable Player for the 2010-11 season; now that we know what he can do, the heat will be on for the upcoming season.
If sports are really half-mental, the amount of emotional baggage in the mind of Lynn Walker would have crippled most collegiate athletes, leaving them on the floor, hugging their knees to their chest and bawling their eyes out. She lost both her father and her mother in traumatic fashion, and last year, she found out that what she thought was a lingering injury in her calf was actually a cancerous tumor. It seemed life had nothing but unfortunate circumstances to present to the now-50-year-old woman. Walker was once a promising junior tennis player in an area of Florida that churned out talent. (She once hit with John McEnroe, before anyone outside Florida knew his name; in true McEnroe fashion, he called her a cunt, and she left the court in tears.) During her senior year of high school, Walker was set to attend an out-of-state university on a scholarship when her father passed away in the arms of her mother; a femoral artery ruptured, and he bled out onto the family's white rug. Unwilling to leave her mother's side during such a tough time, Walker dropped out of high school and took a job with a high-end fashion company, rising quickly through its ranks. Six years after her mother passed away, Walker, then 47, decided it was time to get a college degree (she had already gotten her GED). She attended Santiago Canyon College before settling at Costa Mesa's Vanguard University and surprised even herself by landing a spot on the women's tennis team—after more than 20 years of not picking up a racket. In her final season of competition—when opponents still occasionally questioned whether a coach was on the opposite end of the court—she helped the team make it to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Women's Tennis National Championships tournament, competing in both singles and doubles. In May, Walker attended the graduation for the college degree she had long coveted. Next up for Walker: planning her wedding.
Skating, scars and skimpy clothing—we can't think of anything better to watch on a Saturday night. Since 2006, the OC Roller Girls have been bringing fierce fun to the county, always ready to suit up in knee pads and booty shorts and, their words, "knock a bitch out." For the gutsy gals, who have monikers such as Chick Norris and Ivanna Cocktail, the derby is more than a sexy exhibition on wheels; it's a movement. The organization is dedicated to helping community nonprofits, fostering teamwork and showing that women can, indeed, kick ass.
In the looming, elephantine shadow of NCAA Division I colossus Cal State Fullerton—and the somewhat-more-elongated, bushy-tailed shadow of the emerging UC Irvine program—Tom Tereschuk has quietly built his non-scholarship baseball squad into a pint-sized powerhouse. A former star pitcher and quarterback at Lakewood High and Long Beach City College, Tereschuk went on to pitch at University of San Diego. After building a stellar reputation as a high-school coach at Servite and Villa Park (he was honored as California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2002), he debuted as Chapman University's coach in 2003 and promptly led his team to a national championship that same year (its first in 35 years). In 2011, his squad made it all the way to the final game before succumbing to Ohio's dreaded Marietta College. (Fucking Pioneers.) During that campaign, Tereschuk topped the 300-win plateau. That's exactly the kind of performance that got him named this year's American Baseball Coaches Association's NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year—to go along with the six other times he's earned that title. He has a reputation for toughness, but he also knows when to be supportive. "I remember as a freshman, during regionals, I struck out, and I was afraid that [Tereschuk] was going to be upset," infielder Tyler Hadzinsky told The Panther newspaper this year. "Instead, he gave me the confidence to keep going and was very encouraging. . . . I ended up hitting a home run that game." Good job, coach. And get those Pioneers next year.
"If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right." These words are spoken by coach Mike Schade during soccer practices at Sunny Hills High School. They're also tacked on the wall of his classroom, where he teaches biology. He attributes his success in class and on the pitch to his parents, who taught him the importance of doing one's part to the best of one's ability. Schade's best has brought Sunny Hills 12 Freeway League titles in his 23 seasons of coaching. Each year, Schade scrimmages against Servite, his Division I alma mater, to ready his team for the new season. But he might have become too good of a role model for one player: His son, a Brea Olinda High Wildcat, scored the winning goal against Sunny Hills last year.


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Author: Derek Lea
Derek Lea is an award-winning digital illustrator and author, with clients that include high-profile North American advertising agencies and corporations. He is also a professor in Graphic Design – Media at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada.
Illustrator's superb tools for building 3D objects out of 2D shapes aren't appreciated as much as they should be. Here Derek Lea shows you how to create an offbeat creature using Illustrator's 3D Revolve effect, complete with a mouth, an eye and scaly skin that are simple to draw and wrap to the body and head.
It's all very easy – in fact, a bit too easy. The problem with working with vectors in this way is that the results can look inherently digital and too perfect. One way to remedy this is with masking methods that let you combine pixel-based textures with vector imagery. Derek does this here by using an image as an opacity mask in Illustrator, giving the creature a worn-looking 'skin'.
If you don't have time to create the two symbols wrapped to the creature, grab Derek's symbols.ai file from the download. Then go to the Symbols panel menu, choose Open Symbol Library > Other Library and navigate to the file.
This is an adapted version of a tutorial in Derek Lea's book, Beyond Photoshop. Published by Focal Press, Beyond Photoshop shows you how can transfer your Photoshop skills into applications such as Illustrator, Painter, Cinema 4D, Poser and ZBrush – developing your style in new directions.
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First up we've got Phil Harris, who talks about opening the card in London against Louis Gaudinot:
First up we've got Phil Harris, who talks about opening the card in London against Louis Gaudinot:
Davey Grant looking to right some wrongs at UFC London:
originally asked where they were all training, answer in second interview: gym01
good form with the interviews jay
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'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
Cool interviews. Does anyone know if it is just the main card that is being shown on Ch5/BT on sat???
Im gona come at you like a SPIDERMONKEY.....you hear that a SPIDERMONKEY
The entire show mate I've been told ^
It's 3 hours long, main card only has 4 fights on it.
Brazil's Igor Araújo says he's ready for anything when he comes up against Danny 'The Cheesecake Assassin' Mitchell this weekend at UFC Fight Night:
"Yeah, I think were going to put on a very good show for people. I know that he throws some flying triangles, flying omoplata, flying armlocks and things like that, but Im training very good - Ive been training jiu jitsu every day for fifteen years. We go to the ground and well attack each other. It will be entertaining."
Ilir Latifi, cool chap. He'll meet Cyrille Diabate on Saturday, and Diabate says it'll be his retirement fight win or lose:
Arent the prelims only on Fightpass?
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get
Team Colosseum
reading between the lines, Igor sounds like he wants to avoid the stand up.
Cyrille via knees
(sorry I was trying out some html and this pic got stuck here. good job it wasn't something racy lol)
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Machpelah House Tenants Decided to Move in After Arab Sellers and their Families Were Arrested by PA (JEWISH PRESS) By:Yori Yanover 04/05/12)
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At a press conference outside Machpelah House which had been evacuated Wednesday in Hebron, Shlomo Levinger and attorney Doron Nir- Tzvi told reporters that the purchase of Machpelah House had been in the making for some three years. The tenants had planned to patiently await government approval for their purchase of the house from a local Arab.
But the arrest of several Arabs by the Palestinian Authority on suspicion of selling real estate to the Jewish group a crime which could be punished with death changed the plan, and the group decided to move in despite the murky prospects of staying.
Knowing full well how hard it would be to establish residency in a newly purchased housefacing a hostile Israeli civil authority whose directive is to strictly limit the growth of the citys Jewish community, the group of buyers was moving slowly and quietly, through intermediaries and straw men, forever remaining below the radar for three years.
At the press conference, Levinger said they paid four times the value of the house, which has been estimated at around $250 thousand. Earlier in the day, when the Jewish Press asked Levinger to confirm a rumor that they paid half a million dollars for the house, he said, I wish it would have been that amount.
The money for the purchase came from donations of Jews from Israel and abroad. Every week we would travel to meetings in private homes, collecting one shekel after another, Levinger said. There were times when we came back with only a few single shekels, other times wed pick up thousands. We spent days and nights collecting this money, faithfully and lovingly.
Once the money had been collected, we embarked on the purchase deal. It was a Sysiphian labor. We knew that the Attorney Generals office would be looking everywhere for possible holes in the deal.
According to Doron Nir-Tzvi, in Judea and Samaria, real estate deals are conducted in an anachronistic fashion, whereby a deal must first be completed before the buyers are permitted to apply for government approval (Heter Iskah). Therefore, once every last T was crossed and I dotted, the buyers planned to wait patiently for their deal to go through.
Sources in the Civil Administration were telling them they couldnt find faults with the deal, that despite themselves they would end up having to approve it.
But then the PA arrested both straw men who had been carrying out different part of the bargain, followed by the jailing of their family members as well.
At this point, Levinger et al felt that their only recourse was to take possession of the property, or risk losing the deal altogether.
Both Levinger and Nir-Tzvi expressed concern for the jailed Palestinians. Levinger told the Jewish Press earlier that he was urging the Israeli government to demand their release of the Palestinian Authority.
If Defense Minister Barak refuses to sign off on the deal, the buyers are planning to appeal to other government authorities. But Attorney Nir-Tzvi said he would not recommend that his clients approach Israels Supreme Court with their plight, as it would likely be an imprudent use of their financial resources, considering the probable response of the court.
I reminded Shlomo Levinger that the cause cited by Defense Minister Ehud barak for the evacuation Jewish tenants from Machpelah House was not any fault he cited in the deal itself, but the fact that as things stand in Judea and Samaria, the Defense Minister is permitted to use his power arbitrarily to maintain public order. In other words, even if the real estate deal is, indeed, pure as the driven snow, and all the sides, buyers and sellers alike, have been willing participants with not a hint of coercion Barak would still be within his rights to evict them.
You must have heard the saying, Pornography, a matter of Geography, Shlomo Levinger cited Sakini from The Tea House of the August Moon in the middle of hot and dusty Hebron.
Danger to the public order is in the eye of the beholder, he continued. The chiefs of police here have told me, Shlomo, we passed the request along to the higher echelons, everything in our opinion has been quiet after you moved in; the Arabs were cognizant of the deal, they expected it to take effect, they took no issue with it.
The group of evacuated tenants is determined to stay in their protest tent (protest parasol is how our man on the scene Stephen Leavitt called it) until Ehud Barak is ready to sign off on their right to the house as had been originally promised by Netanyahus cabinet. For now, they will be celebrating the seder under that scant tent, and Levinger is asking folks not to come in droves before the Sunday of Chol HaMoed. We dont have enough room for everybody at the seder table, he apologized. But come Sunday hes looking forward to many thousands of Jews to descend on his little tent.
Stephan Leavitt contributed to this article. (© 2012 JewishPress. 04/05/12)
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House of Representatives Passes National Women's History Museum Bill
MAY 7, 2014 – ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – The National Women's History Museum (NWHM) announced today that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation to form a Congressional Commission on the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum in Washington, DC. The bipartisan legislation (H.R. 863) co-sponsored by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) passed by a vote of 383 to 33 and now heads to the Senate where Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) are leading the charge.
According to NWHM President & CEO Joan Wages, "We are delighted with the results of today's vote! Women represent 51% of our nation's population, but account for only 1 in 10 figures represented in U.S. history textbooks and only 13 of the more than 200 statues in the Capitol. Clearly, Americans only know half of our history. A national women's history museum will ensure the contributions American women have made to this great nation will become a part of our national narrative." Wages added, "We are forever indebted to Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Marsha Blackburn. Their commitment, courage and tireless efforts in support of a national women's history museum have been extraordinary, as is evidenced by today's successful vote. Their partnership on this effort demonstrates what has been true since this nation was founded – women get things done! And, we get it done, despite our differences, by working together."
"A National Women's History Museum has a rightful place in our Nation's capital," said Representative Carolyn Maloney. "This bill will establish a Congressional Commission to help secure that place. Women gained the right to vote in 1920. I hope that a century later, in 2020, their efforts and accomplishments of women throughout our history will be chronicled in a museum that both our daughters and sons can learn from and enjoy. I am grateful for the leadership of Representative Blackburn and to the support of the many Republicans and Democrats who worked together to pass this bill."
"This legislation takes an important step in our effort to recognize the accomplishments of women who have contributed to freedom and the promise of opportunity which we Americans cherish," Blackburn said. "This museum is about bringing together women and remembering those visionaries who changed the course of American history. All this would be done through private donations, and not one dime of taxpayer money. It is only appropriate that during the same week we celebrate mothers around the country for their contributions to our families, that my colleagues in the House would come together in this bipartisan effort to honor our nation's most influential women."
The bill, H.R. 863, calls for the establishment of a Congressional Commission to prepare a report containing recommendations for establishing and maintaining a National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C. Specifically, it would address the governance, organizational structure, fundraising, operations and location of the Museum. The 8-member bipartisan commission would have 18 months to produce the report and submit it to Congress for approval.
This bipartisan legislation passed with the support of Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The growing list of cosponsors has increased from 25 at this time last year to 94 today. A similar bill in the Senate has been introduced by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.). It has 21 co-sponsors, including 19 of the Senate's 20 female lawmakers.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the commission and the museum would have no significant impact on federal spending.
The bill was approved unanimously by both the House Natural Resources Committee on April 9, following a March 25 hearing, and the House Committee on Administration passed the measure on April 2, following a December 11 hearing.
About the National Women's History Museum: Founded in 1996, the National Women's History Museum (NWHM, Inc.) is a nonpartisan, 501©3 nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the general public about the diverse historic contributions of women and raising awareness about the critical need for a national women's history museum in our nation's capital. Currently located online at www.nwhm.org, the Museum's goal is to build a world-class, permanent museum on or near the National Mall that will herald and display the collective history of American women. Current legislation is underway to create a Congressional Commission that would be charged with producing a feasible plan which would include the governance, estimated cost, location and organizational structure of the museum. For additional information visit NWHM.org or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star romantic hotel, walk to Canterbury Cathedral
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Located in the heart of Canterbury, this romantic hotel is steps from Marlowe Theatre and Canterbury Cathedral. St. Martin's Church is 0.7 mi (1.2 km) away.
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Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a fitness center and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, a rooftop terrace, and self parking.
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All 72 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, guests will find LCD TVs with satellite channels, and other amenities include premium bedding and coffee makers.
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- Guestrooms were a little noisy
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Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This 4-star property offers access to a business center.
Wireless Internet access is complimentary. 4 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, a rooftop terrace, and barbecue grills. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
ABode Canterbury is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 72
- Number of floors - 3
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Fitness facilities
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- Year Built 1600
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- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
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- Individually decorated
- Free WiFi
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- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
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Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8 AM and 10 AM.
County Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
AB Champagne Bar - This theme restaurant serves lunch and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
The Old Brewery Tavern - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
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- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service animals are allowed
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- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 15.00 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: GBP 10.00 per night
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Backyard Skills: Herbology 101
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Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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Growing and using herbs as medicine is a practice deeply seeded into ancient Chinese tradition for many centuries. Discover it's teachings and how to incorporate them into your life. An herb like white sage, native to Southern California, can be used for many things from curing a sore throat, flavoring soups, or attracting positive energies. In this lecture, learn more about this and others native herb types, growing methods, medicinal properties, other uses, and how to prepare teas, tinctures, salves, oils for application.
The road to understanding and using herbs involves becoming aware of your body, and it's connection to nature. Nurture this connection and discover the world of herbology. Herbs can serve as a natural form of preventative healthcare instead of pharmaceuticals, which are often chemical and synthetic based, not to mention, often end up down the drain where they go on to pollute our watershed. Plus, when you grow your own herbs, you create habitat for native insect and bird species, prevent runoff to your watershed by slowing down rain water, and save energy by buying less and harvesting more. The reasons to know herbs are endless. Join us to get a solid introduction into the exciting world of herbology.
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The Ecology Center
32701 Alipaz St.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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The Ecology Center seeks to bring all members of the community together in a solutions-based educational setting to create a healthy and abundant future for all of Orange County. The Center highlights empowering and cutting-edge environmental perspectives that can be applied to our day-to-day lives, making it possible for us to coexist with a thriving environment.


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- Director, Master of Leadership Development, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, IN 2010 - present
- Senior Governance Consultant, BoardSource, Washington, DC 2005-present
- Executive Director, Field Management, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 2005-2010
- National Director, Race for the Cure© and the Domestic Affiliate Network, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Dallas, TX 2000-2005
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...in Dublin on August 16, leaving professional boxing behind after a 7-0 run.
...in Dublin on August 16, leaving professional boxing behind after a 7-0 run.
Great news, looking forward to seeing who he fights, will he be at lightweight?
Joe was winning the Musardo fight until he slipped.
Duffy vs Rogers would be cool.
If he wins a title shot surely would be next.
I would ban the triangle choke, the refuge of cowards everywhere.
Lots of cool fights for him.
Taking this shit, one day at a time.
yes!!! fuckin yes!!!! War Duffy!!
I would have thought there was alot more ££££ in Boxing than MMA so props to him going back to what he said was his main love. There are a load of cool fights out there for him but am thinking that he would have to get at least 2 fights under his belt before being considered. 1 to get the rust away and 2 to beat someone who is in line or a contender for the belt.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
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