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The Journey of Hinemihi Te Ao Tawhito
Discover the origins of how this relic of New Zealand's past has made its way around the globe.
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Discover the origins of how this relic of New Zealand's past has made its way around the globe.
At Clandon Park in the United Kingdom, there's sits an unusual structure that is completely unlike its neighbouring buildings. Marked by unique carvings and painted wooden designs, this marae, or traditional Maori meeting house, is Hinemihi Te Ao Tawhito. Its simple structure belies a fascinating narrative originating on the opposite side of the world.
Hinemihi was built by noted Maori craftsman Aporo Wharekaniwha in 1881 and stood at the entrance to the small village of Te Wairoa, located outside of Rotorua and a just few kilometres from the Pink and White Terraces on the shore of Lake Rotomahana.
Mount Tarawera Eruption:
On the 10th June 1886, Mount Tarawera erupted, destroying the Te Wairoa village and killing around 120 inhabitants of the village. Hinemihi provided sanctuary to the people of the community during the eruption and was one of a few buildings to survive.
The Journey to Clandon Park:
Following the eruption, Hinemihi stood derelict for a few years until 1892, when the Fourth Earl of Onslow, Governor of New Zealand (1889-1892) purchased, dismantled and shipped Hinemihi the 19,500km to Clandon Park, the Onslow family estate in the UK. Precise instructions were sent with Hinemihi to reassemble the meeting house as an ornamental garden building around the lakes at Clandon. Traditional New Zealand plants were carefully chosen to surround the meeting house where it stood in the open air for 124 years.
In 1956, Clandon Park was presented to the United Kingdom National Trust, a UK conservation charity that protects historic places and opens them to the public. With this development, the unique carvings, wooden paintings and cultural significance of Hinemihi are now under protection in the UK as a National Trust property.
Hinemihi Te Ao Tawhito condition has declined over the years and requires regular routine maintenance. In March 2012, a conservation group (Te Maru O Hinemihi) was set up to act as custodian of Hinemihi and to open a dialogue on the careful restoration of Hinemihi. On-going conservation efforts are working toward Hinemihi becoming a working Marae in the UK and a focal point for the global Maori community. They are seeking to preserve the history of the past and develop Maori culture in the UK for future generations.
The Buried Village of Te Wairoa is the original site of Hinemihi meeting house in New Zealand. Here you can learn more about The Pink and White terraces, the eruption of Mount Tarawera and Hinemihi Te Ao Tawhito. Enjoy a leisurely walk through the original sites where recent excavations have unearthed more of the historical significance of the Te Wairoa Village.


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Herman & Judee Gantt
Ashland, Virginia
'53 Studebaker
"I entered because I thought it would be fun to see how far I could go–and to do something different and take a vacation at the same time."
Herman and Judee Gantt did go literally farther than any of the other Ego-Rama contestants, since they drove their '53 Stude Champion Coupe all the way from Virginia.
When he paid $600 for this car and another, he decided to hot rod it, like he'd done with some of his earlier Studes. When it was finished, Herman's stealthy Stude was a wolf in sheep's clothing. For a car not especially renowned for performance, this one has been modified into a real racetrack terror. It doesn't matter whether that racetrack is a straight-shot quarter-mile or a twisty series of curves; Herman's ready for them all.
The aftermarket isn't bursting with parts to turn a Studebaker into a performance machine, so Herman had to fabricate many of his own pieces. It doesn't hurt that he builds chassis for Late-Model Stockers, and didn't let his expertise go to waste when building this car. The "slope nose" is powered by a NASCAR-style Chevy small-block and has late-model suspension pieces that to put that power to the pavement the way its supposed to. The owner-designed front end, fuel cell, master cylinder, and brakes, are a few of the performance parts that found their way onto the '53 (not to mention the floor made from race car door sheetmetal). The finishing details hide the fact that this sleeper is a lot more and just a very clean cruiser.
The Studebaker topped the list in the People's Choice category, and finished in the top half of the Budget judging, behind the two Model As. It dominated in the Braking category, thanks to those Wilwood discs. With a little more gear, Herman could've done better on the strip. Where everybody else was losing traction, he couldn't get his tires to break loose.
Herman said he entered just to see if he would get selected for the Top 20 ballot. "I never really thought I'd end up in it," he said, "but I ended up having a great time."
Acceleration: 15.01 at 94.90 mph
Braking: 132.68 feet
Cornering: 7.91 seconds at 36.2 mph
Gas Mileage: 15.8 mpg
Drivetrain: Corvette 358ci engine; angle-milled heads; Edelbrock Performer manifold; Edelbrock 600-cfm carb; TH400 automatic transmission; '79 Trans Am rear with 2.72:1 gears.
Chassis: Stock frame with AFCO rear shocks, AFCO front springs, rear leaf springs, antisway bars; Wilwood disc brakes; tubular upper A frames; '53 Studebaker lower A frames; '73 Impala spindles.
Wheels & Tires: Front and rear 17×9.5 inch Trans Am wheels with radial tires
Body & Paint: Body totally restored and painted by owner, '99 Cadillac Diamond White with blue pearl in clearcoat.
Interior: Velour-covered '87 Chrysler seats; stock dash with Stewart-Warner gauges; Grant steering wheel; Alpine stereo system; Acme A/C.
Kris Elmer
Clearfield, Utah
'31 Ford Coupe
"To be picked as one of six people who get to do this, out of who knows how many cars in the whole nation, is pretty prestigious if you ask me."
At first glance, Kris Elmer's '31 coupe could be mistakenly dismissed as a rat rod. A second glance reveals a lot of thought and some remarkable building tricks. Kris bought the doorless body 10 years ago. The owner didn't want to sell it, but his wife (who had planted flowers in it) insisted. After a trip to the Hot Rod Reunion, Kris decided to build a daily-driven, traditional hot rod. He has driven it all over the West, clocking 30,000 miles in 2 years. The trip to San Francisco, however, was his first long trek without other hot rodders around. "I brought every tool I could think of, and babied it along the way," he said. "Then I stopped worrying about it."
The seemingly-simple coupe is loaded with wild mods. Beyond the 8-inch chop, the body was "anti-sectioned" 2 inches to line up the cowl with the grille and lengthened with sedan doors. Deuce roadster fenderwells were used in the back. Note that there are no parts on the front of the early Hemi–no water pump, no alternator, and no belts or pulleys. All of this was masterfully hidden behind the engine. Kris was the only participant with a global positioning system, and he used his laptop to send daily reports from Ego-Rama to the -Jalopy Journal-'s HAMB message board.
Kris was surprised by how well the car cornered, but felt disappointed at the dragstrip, despite a top half of the field finish. "I expected it to do better, but I didn't want to push it. Seeing Don hit the wall right in front of me made me leery about really hammering it. I've got skinnier tires than he's got, so I just kind of walked it off the line."
Kris was encouraged to enter the event by Ego-Rama III entrant Rex Marshall, also from Utah, and by Don Palfreyman and Tony Price, other Utah Ego-Rama alums. "They told me to prepare for lots of fun. They were right!"
Acceleration: 14.21 at 98.58 mph (all e.t.s are corrected for altitude)
Braking: 226.54 feet
Cornering: 7.94 seconds at 36.2 mph
Gas Mileage: 14.9 mpg
Drivetrain: Chrysler 331ci Hemi bored 0.030-over; 10:1 Jahns pistons; Chrysler 354 heads; Weiand Drag Star log manifold; six Stromberg 97 carbs; 700-R4 transmission; modified bellhousing; '39 Ford Banjo rearend with 4.10:1 gears.
Chassis: Bobbed and notched '32 Ford frame with Model A crossmembers; Pete & Jake front shocks; rear air shocks; Chassis Engineering front end; '40 Ford "juice" brakes front and rear; 4-inch dropped axle; hairpins.
Wheels & Tires: Front '40 Ford 16×4 rims with 16×5 ribbed Firestone tires; rear '40 Ford 16×4.5 rims with 16×7.5 Firestones.
Body & Paint: Body stretched with sedan doors; 8-inch chop; body "anti-sectioned" 2 inches; '32 Ford headlights; '50 Pontiac taillights; ivory paint on the wheels and firewall.
Interior: Vinyl covered bench seat; '32 Ford dash with Stewart-Warner gauges; '46 Ford wheel; Alpine CD, MP3, WMA player with XM satellite hidden under the dash.
Willie & Pam Martin
Yucaipa, California
'55 Chevy Sedan
"It's kind of an old school thing that hot rods were cars you used all the time. Through all the years that I've owned this, that's been the idea."
Forty years ago, Willie's dad, Ed Martin, bought this '55 for use as a loan car at his shop. In 1970, the car became Willie's. A run of accidents and a burned up engine from an SCRA event, prompted Willie to park the car and eventually sell it in 1983. In 1992, he relocated the car and bought it back. Rodney Bauman revitalized the Chevy, but in 1997, Willie got caught in another round of guardrail pinball. Rodney helped with another rebuild and Willie emerged with a fresh car and a new nickname, "Guardrail Willie."
This '55 is definitely put together right. As we learned, it can be an aggressive performance machine and a docile highway cruiser. The Paxton-blown ZZ4 crate is plenty healthy, but not so lumpy as to get annoying. The paint and bodywork is stunning. The rear wheelwell lips look like they grew there originally, but are in fact front fender lips from a late Studebaker Lark. The flames are the perfect finishing touch on one very hot hot rod.
Willie combined confidence in the car with a successful spring and shock combination to run the best Slalom time, just 0.01 second ahead of the Plymouth. Willie was right behind Ross in the Acceleration competition, running a 13.63/102. In addition to it's success at the Speedway, Willie earned top points in Ride & Drive.
"I'm a perfectionist," Willie admitted, "and in trying to get the car perfect, I can go too far one way or another. I Ieft the handheld computerized engine control in my truck, and didn't mess with it all week–and it worked better than I figured it would."
Winning in Slalom, Gas Mileage, and Ride & Drive, and finishing in the top half of all categories (except for dead last in Budget), essentially guaranteed Willie's overall Asphalt Ego-Rama win. This '55 is the kind of car Ego-Rama was created to promote: a great all-around hot that does it all and does it all well.
Acceleration: 13.63 at 102.41 mph
Braking: 156.50 feet
Cornering: 7.33 seconds at 39.2 mph
Gas Mileage: 19.5 mpg
Drivetrain: Owner-built 475hp Chevy ZZ4 350 with a Paxton SN2000 blower and Edelbrock Pro-Flow injection; B&M-shifted 700-R4 automatic; '57 Pontiac rearend with Posi and 3.23:1 gears.
Chassis: Homebuilt '56 chassis with modified engine, trans, and rear shock mounts; Monroe shocks; '57 Chevy wagon rear springs; Fat Man Fabrications dropped spindles.
Wheels & Tires: American Torque Thrust D rims with Bridgestone radials.
Body & Paint: "Rotten" Rodney Bauman performed the body and paint work on the '55, part of an off-frame re-do after a 75-mph date with a guardrail. Custom mods include '59 Studebaker front fender openings in the rear fenders, and a '54 Cad taillight hinge to access the fuel filler through the left taillight. Rodney sprayed the PPG "Medium Guardrail Blue" and "Spontaneous Combustion" combo of colors for the flames.
Interior: Grey leather upholstery; '71 Ford LTD front seats; single-hump dash by Rodney Bauman; Grant steering wheel; Custom Rod Gauges; Vintage Air A/C; Clarion AM/FM/cassette/CD sound system.
Web Extra Pictorial
Click here to download the 2005 Ego-Rama Official Entry Form

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but hey... sometimes players win and you lose... I hope you learned to not scam people
you are free to ban me again after all this time and delete this message too if you want after all I dont care I just wanted you to read this :P We lost a great game because of people like you and I am happy for being rightful
I don't know do you have time but when & if you can get a chance to will you please delete my second account by the username of LordScott_ i had to create that second account to try out the demo of FFIX to see what is the game like but however if you think i should keep the my second account as my back up account I.E collect points & such then you don't have to delete my second account anyway thanks for your time .
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Published date: 16 October 2018
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SturxureWare is unable to access the internet to download available firmware files to upgrade the monitored APC and NetBotz devices
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StruxureWare Data Center Expert (DCE) connects to APC update servers over the internet to download firmware files needed to update APC and NetBotz devices. Some network configurations do not allow for DCE to access the internet to obtain these files.
The DCE client contains a feature that allows importing of a firmware catalog file.
1) Navigate to help.ecostruxureit.com
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3) Expand down DCE and select DCE device firmware catalog.
4) Download the firmware catalog file.
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Gartner Data Center Conference 2011: Trends and Observations
Gartner Data Center 2011, London and Vegas, are over, what are the emerging trends to close out 2011 and lead into 2012?
Cisco was actively involved in both events. The booths and speaking sessions were great opportunities to listen to the IT decision makers, evaluate emerging industry trends, and introduce the Cisco Unified Data Center.
Thanks to all of you who stopped by in person. For those of you not in attendance, here are some highlights.
Top 3 Observations from the Cisco Booth:
1. Enterprise pain point: Less about the specifics of the technology and more about the economics of the data center, making the business case for realignment of spend. Check out Cisco VP Giuliano Di Vitantonio's Cisco Unified Data Center: Changing the Economics of the Data Center for a deeper dive. Here's the high-level Cisco Unified Data Center story.
2. Fabric-Based Computing. Lots of interest and questions on this topic. Want to dive deeper? Check out Omar Sultan's Fabric blog from earlier in the year.
3. Cisco on Cisco: The CITEIS demo by John Manville around Cisco's Private Cloud installation drew a lot of interest and questions. Ken Schroeder's presentation on CITEIS Gen 2 outlines the journey, from business case to execution.
Industry Trends for 2012? (as presented by Andy Butler and Milind Govekar)
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2. Patterns and analytics (80% of data is unstructured data, analysis to look at patterns to gain a competitive advantage. Data growing 800% in 5 years). The "Collective" driving decision-making, such as sites like Yelp.
3. Control data center energy efficiency and monitoring. Company using this to market social responsibility. Bringing facilities and IT together.
4. Context aware computing. Providing info based on what you think they need to know based on the situation. Create mobile apps to deliver that. Search Twitter for what's happening now. Search Google for what has already happened.
5. Think about IT staff. T shaped. Tech breadth (value to business) vs tech depth (value to IT group).
6. Social networking. 1.9 billion citizens (33% Facebook), twitter accounts grew 50%. Can't ignore it. Embrace it. Use "Collective" to gain competitive advantage.
7. Consumerization of IT is inevitable. Especially tablets. Doesn't replace PC but there are use cases.
8. Compute and Data Center density. What if you did a tech refresh sooner and to take advantage of the density. Smaller footprint assuming you solve cabling. No need for more floor space.
9. Cloud computing. What can be offloaded to the cloud (not mission critical) and what to keep in the Data Center. Or turn your Data Center into private cloud. IT becomes service provider to the business. Public cloud becomes IT competition. Use hybrid cloud. IT retains control because both are used to deliver timely business value. It's not perfect, but good enough now.
10. Fabric computing or converged infrastructure. Problem. Who has toolset to manage this? Nobody today. Long term this great for the Data Center. Up matrix, qfabric, UCS. Fabric is future of the Data Center. Think hybrid.
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As a Solutions Architect within Rackspace's Big Cloud team, I have the good fortune of working with both private cloud and public cloud customers. I often see businesses adopt hybrid cloud strategies, whereby services consumed span both these platforms. Deciding where to put different workloads ultimately begs the question: how do public and private cloud platforms stack up against each other from a performance perspective?
Let's start off with a basic understanding of the key concepts that apply to both environments.
Your instance (or virtual machine): In the world of public cloud, your instance will share a physical host with other customers' instances (unless your instance is large enough to consume the entire host). Within private cloud, you own the physical hardware and therefore do not share hosts with others. Naturally, the performance of your instances (on either platform) is bound by the constraints of the physical hosts upon which they reside, so you should be aware of capabilities when deciding on where to put workloads.
The exact specifications of the host servers running public clouds are not typically listed. This is for good reason – as providers may (and usually do) utilize different host machines across a cloud platform. So we are instead provided with the relevant instance size (based on RAM, vCPUs, storage and throughput). Click for more information on Rackspace Public Cloud instances.
From the above link, the most abstract number you'll see is the CPU, which is quantified by the number of virtual cores (as opposed to any measurement of physical cores or clock speed). The majority of our host servers run AMD Opteron dual quad-cores at 2.2GHz to 2.4Ghz. Currently, and this will change in future, a 30GB instance consumes an entire host machine. The 8 vCPUs presented to your 30GB instance consume all 8 cores across the physical processors. Smaller instances will get proportionally less CPU. This provides a reasonable expectation of CPU performance.
An equally large consideration here is that the public cloud can be less predictable in terms of disk performance (or IOPS) because of the "noisy neighbor" effect. This implies that you can be affected based on usage by other customers on the same host. The same rings true for private cloud, but as the hosts are dedicated to one customer only, you have greater control and awareness over instance and role distribution.
Test performance: When running workloads on both a private and a public cloud, it's advisable to test the performance of your application on both platforms. This will provide you with data that you could turn into a useful performance ratio; for example, if one compute unit in private cloud provides the equivalent of 1.7 compute units in public cloud, you will quickly work out where workloads are going to be most cost-effective dependent on the duration of the project and your burst requirements.
Typically, private cloud will provide better bang for buck for your consistent 24×7 workloads (assuming you have more than a couple of hypervisors), whereas public cloud's attractive per hour billing model will suit temporary workloads, seasonal or spiky traffic.
An understanding of these concepts should provide the guidance necessary to start deciding where workloads are best suited. You can easily consume both Rackspace Private and Public Cloud; and because both are based on OpenStack, the platform and API experience is consistent.


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from R.C. Sproul Apr 01, 2009 Category: Articles"If It Feels Good, Is It Good?" Hedonism makes a value judgment by saying that the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure are good. At the same time, it produces a system of ethics which, in turn, produces a certain behavioral pattern of morality. A popular maxim of our culture is "If it feels good, it is good." Goodness is determined by feeling. Popular music communicates the message that the final test of what is right is the feeling test. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Mar 31, 2009 Category: ArticlesStoics: Seeking Peace of Mind In addition, the Epicureans searched for the same thing that the Stoics sought, but they approached it in a completely different manner. The goal of Epicurean philosophy was the achievement of peace of mind. This quest was not unique to the Epicureans. Doesn't everyone want peace of mind? The answer is obvious, but how does one obtain it? The Stoics felt that the only way to find peace of mind was by adopting a philosophy they called "imperturbability." That means you don't let anything bother you. You adopt a "stoical attitude" toward all things. You do not get emotionally involved, you do not get your hopes up, nor do you let your hopes down, but you maintain an emotional state of equilibrium where nothing bothers you. You adopt a detached feeling toward those things over which you have no control. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Mar 30, 2009 Category: ArticlesSome Americans have never heard the word hedonism but few have not experienced the impact of the philosophy of hedonism on their lives. As a world view, hedonism has as its basic principle the belief that the good and the evil are defined in terms of pleasure and pain. Man's ultimate purpose for living is to be found in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain. The hedonist's constant goal in life is to pursue those things which increase pleasure and decrease pain. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Mar 03, 2009 Category: ArticlesIn his recent book, Christless Christianity, Dr. Michael Horton has analyzed the problems that assail the contemporary evangelical church community. Leaning heavily upon the research of sociologists of religion such as James Davidson Hunter, and others, Horton has been able accurately to pin the tail on the evangelical donkey. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Feb 21, 2009 Category: ArticlesOne of the most controversial issues of our day is that of abortion. It is tearing this country apart politically, economically, socially, and in every other way. Legislation is pending in every statehouse over the question of abortion. The issue is not whether or not it is all right to have an abortion if a person is subjected to rape or if the mother's life is in danger. Those are moral questions that theologians and students of ethics work with. The issue today is over the question of abortion on demand. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Feb 20, 2009 Category: ArticlesIn the twentieth century, the buzz word that replaced evolution was relativity. We are all aware of the changes in our lives that have been brought about by the scientific revolution based on Einstein's theory of relativity. This is the atomic age. Our lives have been changed by the threat of nuclear war as well as by new possibilities of power from nuclear energy that exist as a result of Einstein's work. Keep Reading
Pluralism and Relativism: "It's All Relative" (pt. 1)
from R.C. Sproul Feb 19, 2009 Category: ArticlesAs missionaries attempting to understand the way of thinking in our culture, we must turn our attention to twin topics under the umbrella heading of secularism--pluralism and relativism. Let us think once more of the high wall we examined earlier, the wall representing the line of demarcation separating the present time from the eternal world. It is the barrier to the transcendent realm of unity, the wall that confines and restricts us to this time and this place. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Feb 12, 2009 Category: ArticlesHere we see the vivid contrast between pessimistic existentialism and Christianity. Christianity also features a ringing call to courage. The most frequent negative prohibition found in the New Testament comes from the lips of Jesus--"Fear not!" This command is given so often by Christ that it almost seems like a greeting. One gets the impression that virtually every time Jesus appears to His disciples, He begins the conversation by saying, "Fear not." Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Feb 11, 2009 Category: ArticlesEuropean films, such as those of Ingmar Bergman, Antonini, and Fellini have communicated some of the motifs of existentialism. The "theater of the absurd," a phenomenon that began in France in the 1950s and came to Broadway in the 1960s, was another vehicle of existentialism. The theater of the absurd gained prominence with Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. In this play, two vagrants pass the time while waiting for the unidentified Godot. But Godot never arrives. Godot is a thinly veiled characterization of God. The idea is that modern man lives in the absence of God. He waits for God, but God never shows up. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Feb 10, 2009 Category: ArticlesOur dilemma is this: We are caring persons living in a world that doesn't care. We cannot look above the universe or outside the universe to find someone who cares. There is nobody out there; there is nobody home in heaven. Dr. James Montgomery Boice tells the story of an amateur mountain climber who fell over the side of a steep precipice which dropped off to a cavern thousands of feet below. One lone scraggly bush clung to the face of the cliff and the climber desperately grasped it to keep from plunging into the abyss. But the bush was not strong enough to bear his weight and began slowly to work lose from its roots. In sheer terror the climber screamed to heaven, "Is there anyone up there who can help me?" Suddenly a sonorous bass voice was heard from the clouds. "Yes, I can help you. But you must trust me. Let go of the bush." The climber stole a glance downward and then looked again toward heaven. He exclaimed, "Is there anyone else up there who can help?!" Keep Reading


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But still, what i really want is to edit those textareas using the real thing. I just stumbled upon the answer to my prayers: It's All Text! is a Firefox add-on that provides an edit button on any text box. You click on it and, the first time, you're asked for your editor of choice. As you'll notice, the default option is wrong. Change it by
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Origen and Heresy
I have some difficulty with the following sentence in this article: "He was anathematized by the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 and declared a heretic." First, a heretic is someone who willfully teaches personal opinion after that opinion has been condemned by the Church. A condemnation of some of Origen's views 300 years after his repose does not make him a heretic. Second, it isn't even clear that II Constantinople anathematized Origen. As one website put it, "Our edition does not include the text of the anathemas against Origen since recent studies have shown that these anathemas cannot be attributed to this council." I also read something to this effect in an article by Bishop Kallistos Ware. --Fr Lev 09:45, February 22, 2006 (CST)
I've tried to clear the matter up. Origen was anathematized. This is without doubt. Likewise, his books were declared heretical. Both declarations were made in Canon XI of the Council in question. The specific book from which your quote comes actually does not claim that Origen was not anathematized, it only calls into question the authenticity of 15 additional canons. That selfsame text does reproduce the 11th Canon that anathematizes Origen by name.Dogface 10:55, February 22, 2006 (CST)


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All employers, except those making reimbursable payments, have an assigned tax rate. An employer's rate may change each year. The Division of Employment Security (DES) calculates the tax rates for all employers.
For its first two or three years, an employer receives the new employer rate. This is a rate assigned to all new employers of the same industrial classification. Once an employer becomes eligible for an experience rate, a rate is calculated based on the ratio between an employer's average annual taxable payroll, unemployment claims against its account, and taxes paid in previously by the employer. Scroll down for a general explanation of tax rates, or choose a topic for additional or more detailed information.
- Beginning Tax Rates
- Experience Rate
- Benefit Charges
- Surcharges and Adjustments
- FUTA Tax
- SUTA Dumping
- Taxable Wage Base
Beginning Tax Rates
Each employer that becomes liable to report workers' wages and pay unemployment taxes is assigned to an industrial classification division. Until eligible for an experience rate, regular employers (not including governmental entities and certain nonprofit organizations) are assigned an annual tax rate that is the average tax rate computed during the preceding year of all employers within the industrial classification division to which the employer is assigned, or 2.7 percent, whichever is the highest.
New Employer Rates - 2015 through 2019
|*Industries that have or have had special rates.
Note: The tax rates above include applicable contribution rate adjustments.
Based on the average cash balance of the Unemployment Trust Fund, there may be an increase or decrease to these annual rates (see Contribution Rate Adjustment).
Nonprofit organizations described under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and governmental entities are assigned an annual tax rate of 1.0 percent until eligible for an experience rate. These organizations also have the option of making reimbursable payments.
Employers participating in the Shared Work Program would be assigned a rate of 9.0 percent plus any applicable maximum rate surcharge and contribution rate adjustment, if applicable, until eligible for an experience rate.
Experience Rate
The Missouri Employment Security Law includes a merit or experience rating provision as an incentive for employers to maintain stable employment, review claims, and reduce unemployment.
The Division keeps a record of experience for each employer's account. The experience includes taxable wages reported, contributions paid (including voluntary payments), and benefits charged. Unemployment taxes paid are credited to an employer's account. Unemployment benefits paid to eligible claimants are charged against the accounts of the claimant's employers during the base period of the claim. These factors, which are recorded in the employer's account through the preceding July 31st, are used to compute annual tax rates after the employer becomes eligible for an experience rate. An employer generally becomes eligible for an experience rate after two full calendar years of liability under the law.
An experience rate is based on a ratio arrived at by dividing an employer's account balance by its average annual taxable payroll. Rates could range from 0.0% to 6.0%, not including maximum rate surcharge and/or contribution rate adjustment. Rates for employers participating in the Shared Work Program could range from 0.0% to 9.0%, also not including maximum rate surcharge and/or contribution rate adjustment. For additional information, see Missouri Revised Statutes, Chapter 288.
An employer's account balance is the difference between total benefits charged and contributions paid, plus any unassigned surplus, through the preceding July 31st.
Depending on how long an employer was subject to the law and reported quarterly wages prior to the last July 1st, an employer's average annual taxable payroll is either:
- One-third of the total taxable wages paid during the 36-month period prior to the last July 1st, or
- If no wages for employment were paid during any one calendar half year in the 36-month period prior to the last July 1st, the average annual taxable payroll is twice the amount of taxable wages paid during the calendar half year in this period wherein the taxable payroll was highest, or
- The average annual payroll is the total taxable wages paid during the 12-month period prior to the last July 1st, or
- If no wages for employment were paid during any one calendar half year in the 12-month period prior to the last July 1st, the average annual payroll is twice the amount of taxable wages paid during the calendar half year in the 24-month period prior to the last July 1st wherein the taxable payroll was highest.
A determination of the annual tax rate for the following year is mailed to all employers during the month of November. Such determinations are subject to appeal and a hearing by an Appeals Tribunal, provided a protest is made in writing or by fax within 30 days of the mailing date of the rate determination. (See Appeal Rights.)
If eligible, you will also receive a worksheet regarding making voluntary payments.
Benefit Charges
Benefit charges result from claims filed against an employer's account by former or current employees who are now unemployed or under-employed. Charges can negatively affect an employer's experience rate. If a claimant has multiple employers in his or her base period, each employer will be charged for the percentage of the unemployment benefits paid that is equal to the percentage of wages it paid the claimant. For example: If company A paid a claimant 75 percent of the total wages in the claimant's base period, company A would be responsible for 75 percent of the benefit charges, etc.
Charges to Accounts of Contributing Employers
A contributing employer's account is charged with the unemployment benefits paid out based on the percentage of base period wages paid by the employer that were used to establish a claim. Charges for contributing employers are not amounts the employer must pay; instead, the DES tracks these charges and uses them when figuring an employer's tax rate.
Reimbursable Debits
Reimbursing employers are billed directly (dollar for dollar) for the entire amount of regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
Reimbursable debits are not charged or credited to an employer's experience rating account. This method of financing benefits begins with respect to benefits paid for weeks of unemployment that occur after the effective date of an election to change to the reimbursing method. Reimbursing employers are mailed a debit/credit memorandum with the Statement of Benefit Charges at the end of each quarter.
Account Charge Protection
As provided for in Section 288.100 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, unemployment benefit payments are not charged to a contributing employer's experience account if the DES investigation or employer protest shows that:
- The claimant quit the employer to accept more remunerative (higher paying) work or failed without good cause to accept suitable work offered by the employer;
- The claimant was disqualified for being discharged due to misconduct connected with the work or the claimant quit without good cause attributable to the work or the employer;
- The claimant was paid less than $400 by the employer during the entire base period of the claim;
- The claimant was properly reported as a probationary worker whose period of employment for the employer was 28 consecutive days or less;
- The claimant is a part time employee who remains employed to the same extent each week AND the employer notifies the DES each quarter within 30 days from the mailing date of the Statement of Benefit Charges of the part time employment.
- The claimant quit temporary work from the employer to return to work for a regular employer. Any benefits paid claimant based on wages paid by such temporary employer are charged to claimant's regular employer.
- The claimant quit work, which was determined not suitable, within 28 calendar days of the first day worked.
- The claimant was discharged when the employer was required to discharge him or her because the claimant's name was placed on a disqualification list maintained by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services or an Employee Disqualification Registry maintained by the Department of Mental Health after date of hire.
- The claimant quit work to accompany his or her spouse who recieved a mandatory and permanent military change of order station.
Important Note: There is no account charge protection for reimbursing employers. They are liable for their portion of unemployment benefit payments. Employers are mailed a quarterly statement of benefits charged to their respective accounts. Statement of Benefit Charges are always mailed to an employer's principal mailing address. For other information on Benefit Charges, contact the DES at 573-751-4034.
Surcharges and Adjustments
Maximum Rate Surcharge
If an employer has been at the maximum experience rate for two consecutive years, a surcharge of one-quarter percent is added to the rate. In the event that an employer remains at the maximum rate for a third or subsequent year, an additional surcharge of one-quarter percent shall be added each year to the annual rate calculation up to one percent. If an employer continues to remain at the maximum rate, an additional surcharge of one-half percent shall be added. In no case shall the surcharge exceed one and one-half percent in any given year.
Contribution Rate Adjustment (CRA)
A contribution rate adjustment is a percentage increase or decrease to the tax rate that is based on the average cash balance of the Unemployment Trust Fund. Rates may be increased by 10 percent, 20 percent or 30 percent, or reduced by 7 percent or 12 percent.
Voluntary Payments
Employers that are eligible for a rate calculation may submit voluntary payments for the purpose of reducing their new tax rates. The DES mails a "Voluntary Payment Work Sheet" to eligible employers with their annual rate notifications. The worksheet has simple formulas to show whether it would be advantageous for an employer to make a voluntary payment. The deadline for making a voluntary payment is January 15th of the year which the payment will affect. If January 15th falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, the deadline then would be the following business day.
FUTA Tax
In addition to state unemployment tax, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA). It is reported on the IRS Form 940 or Schedule H and is on the first $7,000 paid to each employee (visit www.irs.gov). The FUTA tax rate is 6.0 percent. When the United States Department of Labor certifies that the state's unemployment compensation program meets federal requirements, employers that pay their state unemployment tax on time and in full receive a 5.4 percent credit to be applied against their their FUTA tax rate. This means the effective federal tax rate is 0.6 percent. The revenue from this tax is used to operate state unemployment programs and give loans to states for payment of benefits when needed.
Credit Reduction
Missouri is currently not a credit reduction state.
Federal law requires a reduction to the federal unemployment tax credit of 5.4 percent when a state remains in a long-term borrowing situation. A credit reduction occurs when a state has an unpaid loan balance through January 1st for two consecutive years. The credit is reduced by 0.3 percentage points for the first year and increases by an additional 0.3 percentage points each following year until the loan is repaid. Due to the credit reduction, employers pay more unemployment tax to the federal government to repay the state loan.
Federal Interest Assessment
Interest is charged on the outstanding loan that Missouri received from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits. By law, employers pay the interest due on this loan. The amount of each employer's share of the interest is based on their taxable payroll for the previous calendar year. This amount is shown on Item 8 (Federal Interest Assessment) of the second quarter Contribution and Wage Report provided by the Division of Employment Security. Payment is due by July 31. As stated above, Missouri has paid off the Federal loan.
A Federal Interest Assessment is not expected to be necessary for calendar year 2019.
SUTA Dumping
State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) dumping refers to attempts by employers to pay lower state unemployment taxes than their experience rate allows. SUTA dumping practices include shifting payroll from an account with a higher rate to an account with a lower rate and various restructuring schemes to obtain beginning or lower tax rates. The Missouri Employment Security Law bans these practices by mandating transfers of experience rate in certain situations and prohibiting transfers of experience rate in others. In addition, the law also requires the DES to impose substantial penalties on those who knowingly engage in SUTA dumping activities.
If an individual, organization or employing unit knowingly violates or attempts to violate the Employment Security Law related to determining the assignment of a contribution rate, or knowingly advises another in a manner that results in a violation of such provision, the individual, organization, or employing unit shall be subject to the following penalties:
- If an employer, then for the current year and the three rate years immediately following the current rate year, such employer's base rate shall be the maximum base rate applicable to such type of employer, or the employer's current base rate plus two percent, whichever is greater;
- If not an employer, such individual, organization, or employing unit shall be subject to a civil monetary penalty of not more than $5,000.
In addition, any violator may be prosecuted for fraud.
Taxable Wage Base
|Calendar Year
|Taxable Wage Limitations
|2015, 2016, 2017
The taxable wage base can be increased by $1,000 or decreased by $500 for any year, depending on the average balance of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund of the four preceding calendar quarters. In no event shall the state taxable wage base increase beyond $13,000, or decrease to less than $7,000. See Section 288.036(2) RSMo.


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September 2018: New Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK available
We released a new Speech SDK supporting the new Speech Service. The new Speech SDK comes with support for Windows, Android, Linux, Javascript and iOS.
Please check out Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK for documentation, links to the download pages, and the samples.
NOTE: The content of this repository is supporting the Bing Speech Service, not the new Speech Service. Bing Speech Service has been deprecated, please use the new Speech Service.
Microsoft Speech API: Android Speech-to-Text Client Library and Samples
This repo contains the Android client library and samples for Speech-to-Text in Microsoft Speech API, an offering within Microsoft Cognitive Services on Azure, formerly known as Project Oxford.
The Client Library
The Speech To Text client library is a client library for Microsoft Speech, Speech-to-text API.
The easiest way to consume the client library is to add the
com.microsoft.projectoxford:speechrecognition package from Maven Central Repository. To find the latest version of client library, go to http://search.maven.org, and search for "g:com.microsoft.projectoxford".
To add the client library dependency from build.gradle file, add the following line in dependencies.
dependencies {
// Use the following line to include client library from Maven Central Repository
// Change the version number from the search.maven.org result
compile 'com.microsoft.projectoxford:speechrecognition:1.2.2'
// Your other Dependencies...
To add the client library dependency from Android Studio:
- From Menu, Choose
Project Structure.
- Click on your app module.
- Click on
- Click "+" sign to add new dependency.
- Pick
Library dependencyfrom the drop-down list.
- Type
com.microsoft.projectoxfordand hit the search icon from
Choose Library Dependencydialog.
- Pick the client library that you intend to use.
- Click
OKto add the new dependency.
- Download the appropriate JNI library
libandroid_platform.sofrom this page and put into your project's directory
The Sample
This sample demonstrates the following features using a wav file or external microphone input:
- Short-form recognition
- Long-form dictation
- Recognition with intent
- Android OS must be Android 4.1 or higher (API Level 16 or higher)
- The speech client library contains native code. To use this sample in an emulator, make sure that your build variant matches the architecture (x86 or arm) of your emulator.
Build the sample
First, you must obtain a Speech API subscription key by following the instructions on Subscriptions.
Start Android Studio, choose
Import project (Eclipse ADT, Gradle, etc.)from the
Quick Startoptions and select Cognitive-Speech-STT-Android folder.
When a
Gradle Syncdialog pops up, choose OK to continue downloading the latest tools.
In Android Studio ->
Projectpanel ->
Androidview, open file "SpeechRecoExample/res/values/strings.xml", and find the line "Please_add_the_subscription_key_here;". Replace the "Please_add_the_subscription_key_here" value with your subscription key from the first step.
If you want to use Recognition with intent, you also need to sign up for Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) and set the key values in
luisSubscriptionIDin Samples_SpeechRecoExample_res_values_strings.xml.
In Android Studio, select menu
Make Projectto build the sample, and
Runto launch this sample app.
Running the sample
In Android Studio, select menu
Run, and
Run app to launch this sample app.
In the application, press the button
Select Modeto select what type of speech recognition you would like to use.
To start recognition, press the
We welcome contributions. Feel free to file issues and submit pull requests on the repo and we'll try to address them as soon as possible. Learn more about how you can help on our Contribution Rules & Guidelines.
You can reach out to us anytime with questions and suggestions using our communities below:
- Support questions: StackOverflow
- Feedback & feature requests: Cognitive Services UserVoice Forum
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.
All Microsoft Cognitive Services SDKs and samples are licensed with the MIT License. For more information, see LICENSE.
Sample images are licensed separately, please refer to LICENSE-IMAGE.
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Developers using Cognitive Services, including this client library & sample, are expected to follow the "Developer Code of Conduct for Microsoft Cognitive Services", found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=698895.


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Accenture is in the process of transforming itself into a digital-first enterprise. Today, we are 94 percent in the public cloud. As the journey continues, we share our key learnings and how our program has evolved along the way.
Accenture is in the process of transforming itself into a digital-first enterprise. Today, we are 94 percent in the public cloud. As the journey continues, we share our key learnings and how our program has evolved along the way.
An important component of Accenture's transformation into a digital-first enterprise is a three-year cloud program led by our internal IT organization. It's a program that aims to deliver a more scalable, robust enterprise IT infrastructure in the public cloud.
"Cloud technologies today offer new IT potential through faster, more flexible, more resilient capabilities that open the doors for operating and delivering value in new ways," says Merim Becirovic, managing director – Technology Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Strategy Lead, "That made our decision, which we did in close collaboration with our go-to-market cloud offering teams such as Accenture Cloud Platform and Accenture Hybrid Cloud Services, to migrate and provision Accenture's infrastructure to the cloud a logical conclusion."
We shaped a cloud strategy and plan, which was to adopt, optimize and transform. Our first phase, Adoption, focused on accelerating cloud adoption through 1) rapid migration of business applications out of on-premise data centers and into the cloud (IaaS) and 2) diligently adhering to a "cloud-first, cloud-only" strategy and principle for all new applications. The initial goal was to move all business applications out of a virtual on-premise data center within one year—an aggressive target of moving from 9 to 50 percent operating in the cloud, which we achieved.
For this first data center migration, we had to overcome the challenge of not having a full solution for migrating complex enterprise applications at the desired pace. To address this, our Cloud team from internal IT partnered with the Accenture Cloud Factory to test and execute new technical migration procedures managed by a migration management tool, Accelerate for Cloud. In addition, the team created, standardized and trained people on the supporting processes required to execute successfully in a highly matrixed and varied business stakeholder and application environment.
What resulted was a fully tested cloud migration solution with new methodology addressing these technical and non-technical enterprise complexities that is being offered to clients. It continues to be used for our remaining internal IT on-premise data center migrations.
Along with ongoing business application migrations, the second rung of the cloud adoption strategy, "cloud-first, cloud-only," continues to increase cloud adoption in parallel. It requires all new applications to be architected and designed for the cloud, and 95 percent of all new infrastructure is provisioned directly in the cloud.
With the technical foundation set and cloud adoption well under way, our internal IT Cloud team's focus shifted to optimizing what Accenture had adopted. Optimization opportunities were first pursued in infrastructure hosting and tool automation, and progressed to further focus on process streamlining and governance simplification. Moreover, continuous optimization is part of our evolution. All of these optimizations lead to business benefits that contribute to lasting transformation.
"Key shifts in cost visibility, infrastructure access and process flexibility present a huge opportunity for hosting consumption optimization and aligned cost ownership and accountability that we previously did not have," says Amy Woodson, Infrastructure Optimization lead – Accenture Internal IT. "This model enables teams to influence hosting costs and make decisions that treat efficiency as a key value driver."
To be better equipped for the pace of evolving cloud technology and capabilities, our Cloud team restructured into dedicated teams that adapted agile delivery methodology to deliver the transformation. This change allowed infrastructure teams to operate more like product or application teams with better stakeholder representation throughout delivery.
With agile delivery principles, as well as a revised delivery model and a thoughtful process for research, stakeholder collaboration and enterprise standardization, the team has been able to implement infrastructure and platform cloud services in production for native cloud applications serving critical business needs across Marketing, Sales, and Human Resources. Building cloud-native applications and directly consuming cloud platform services are the keys to less maintenance, more agility and keeping pace with the platform economy.
Even with the challenge of not having an established methodology and toolset to leverage, our Cloud team was able to create the methodology and execute against it to migrate all business applications out of a virtual on-premise data center and into a cloud data center within one year. In the first half of the three-year journey, Accenture's cloud footprint increased from 9 percent to 50 percent of all business applications.
To further accelerate the adoption journey, more than 90 percent of all newly provisioned environments are being provisioned directly in the cloud.
Capitalizing on cloud is not just about moving to the cloud platform. It's about optimizing utilization of services put into the cloud. In the third year of the journey, with the input from various targeted optimizations—reduced non-production environment schedules, monthly server resizing, and dedicated hardware model—Accenture has realized $11.5 million with an expected benefit of $14.5 million after the third year.
The evolution of cloud applications and their consumption of more cloud-native platform services led the team to proactively examine the cost footprints of these new platform services within each application. Applying the same optimization and utilization principles as at the environment levels, the team was able to right-size service consumption without impacting application performance, and realize an additional $3 million in annualized avoided costs.
In addition, the application of adaptive hosting pricing models demonstrates a maturity in recognizing how to leverage cloud solutions based on business scenarios. For applications that have a consistent and predictable demand, the team seized the opportunity to reserve cloud instances in advance that offer a discount of up to 40 percent over a one-year term, and has yielded $1 million in savings to date.
The Cloud team successfully automated, consolidated and integrated the provisioning process to maintain the integrity of the enterprise image while taking advantage of cloud technology speed. This provisioning process reengineering has resulted in a reduction of cloud provisioning lead times up to 50 percent for standard environment provisioning over just a 10-month period.
This accomplishment means that a development team can test concepts faster, which means they can innovate and deliver faster for their customers within Accenture, ultimately supporting Accenture's journey to becoming a digital business.


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Investigating URI parsing related issues in various products, I've run across many instances of code erroneously attempting to compare two URIs for equality. In some cases the author writes their own comparison and seems to be unaware of URI semantics and in other cases the author delegates to a Windows provided function that doesn't quite work for the author's scenario. In this blog post I'll describe some of the unmanaged URI comparison functions available to Win32 developers, and a few common mistakes to avoid.
The latest URI RFC 3986 does an excellent job of describing a ladder of URI comparisons. The range on the ladder trades off comparison speed for number of false negatives. False negative in this case means that the URI comparison function says two URIs are not equivalent when they are. However, nowhere on the ladder will a comparison generate a false positive. That is, a URI comparison function should never incorrectly report that two URIs are equivalent.
The IUri::IsEqual method is the comparison method provided by the IUri associated APIs. IUri::IsEqual is able to perform potentially very fast since its based on state parsed out of the string URI during the creation of the IUri object. This comparison method is semantically equivalent to taking two URIs, performing the canonicalization methods described in the CreateUri documentation, and comparing the result character by character. Knowledge of common schemes such as http and ftp is built-in and so by the URI RFC's terminology this is a Scheme-Based Normalization equality comparison. IUri and associated APIs are available on systems with IE7 which includes all Vista systems. If this method is available and you don't need a comparison that takes into account protocol specific information then this is the preferred method of URI equality comparison.
You can use CreateURLMonikerEx to create an IMoniker object that represents your URI and use IMoniker::IsEqual to compare it with another such IMoniker. The comparison used here is a case sensitive string comparison of the display strings of the IMonikers. These display strings are a normalized form of the URIs passed into CreateURLMonikerEx, so the comparison is a Scheme-Based Normalization equality comparison similar to IUri::IsEqual. The difference between the two is that the UrlMoniker implementation of IMoniker::IsEqual may not perform all of the normalizations that IUri::IsEqual does including percent-encoding normalization. CreateURLMonikerEx and IMoniker::IsEqual have been available since Windows 95 so it is an acceptable alternative to IUri::IsEqual if the IUri APIs are not available to you. If you do use CreateURLMonikerEx be sure to pass the correct flags to avoid creating legacy file URIs.
String Comparison
At one extreme of the URI comparison ladder is the simple but trusty string comparison. A function such as wcscmp can say if two URIs are equal. If IUri::IsEqual is unavailable or you use a URI normalization function that is specific to your own URI scheme you can create a URI comparison function around any normalization function. Simply apply your favorite URI normalization function to two string URIs and then use a case sensitive string comparison on the results.
URIs Are Case Sensitive
There's not much more to say on this topic that the URI RFC hasn't already, except to warn against using case insensitive string comparisons. Only the scheme, hostname, and percent-encoded octets of URIs are case insensitive so a case insensitive string comparison is not appropriate in general and will generate false positives when comparing URIs. Note that this is a difference from Windows file paths which are case insensitive throughout.
UrlCompare Issues
The function UrlCompare is deceptively named in that it sounds like it compares two URIs for equality. Unfortunately it has a couple of significant issues that result in false positives and as a result you should avoid using it when possible, or at least be aware of and compensate for the cases when it can generate an incorrect result.
Percent-Encoding Makes a Difference
The function takes two input URIs, decodes all percent-encoded octets and compares the results character by character. This is inappropriate because you cannot necessarily decode arbitrary percent-encoded octets in a URI and get an equivalent URI as a result. See the URI RFC's section when to encode or decode for more information. For example, the following two non-equivalent URIs would be declared equivalent by UrlCompare:
Even though the first URI has a sub-domain of contoso.com and the second URI has example.com they are declared to be equivalent. A worse consequence of the same issue is that because the percent-encoded sequence %00 is decoded to a NULL terminator anything following a %00 is ignored by the comparison. For example, the following two non-equivalent URIs would be declared equivalent:
Trailing Slashes Are Important Too
The second issue concerns the function's fIgnoreSlash parameter which when set TRUE tells UrlCompare to ignore any trailing '/' characters on either of the input URIs. This is not appropriate for general use with URIs because in general URI comparison trailing slashes cannot be ignored. From Windows file paths that refer to non root directories you can generally remove trailing backslashes without worrying about changing the path's semantics because a file and a directory in the same path cannot have the same name. Accordingly there's no ambiguity between "C:Users" and "C:Users". This is not the case for URIs. Two URIs that are equal except for a trailing slash on the path may resolve to completely different resources. I should point out too that UrlCompare ignores the slash that literally trails at the end of the URI and not slashes at the end of the path component of the URI.
Do not depend on UrlCompare to correctly say whether two URIs are equivalent. Relying on UrlCompare for general URI comparison could result in security issues.
CoInternetCompareUrl Issues
The function CoInternetCompareUrl delegates its comparison to an interface registered for the URI scheme but unfortunately in some cases CoInternetCompareUrl has the same issues as UrlCompare.
CoInternetCompareUrl delegates to the IInternetProtocolInfo::CompareUrl method of the pluggable protocol registered for the URI scheme of CoInternetCompareUrl's first parameter. This means that the comparison is as good as the pluggable protocol's implementer made it. A CompareUrl could be tied to the protocol's caching implementation and report two URIs as being equal if it knows that the same content will be delivered for two different URIs. On the other hand, a CompareUrl could report that two character for character equal URIs are not equal. That's a hypothetical example but it illustrates that CompareUrl and consequently CoInternetCompareUrl don't necessarily follow URI comparison rules.
As noted in the documentation for CompareUrl, CompareUrl may return INET_E_DEFAULT_ACTION to let CoInternetCompareUrl take care of the comparison in a generic fashion. Sadly, the method of comparison used in this case is exactly the same as UrlCompare.
Accordingly, for the same reasons why you shouldn't use UrlCompare, if you must use the CompareUrl methods defined by pluggable protocol handlers you should use them directly rather than relying on CoInternetCompareUrl. But in general, if you don't care about pluggable protocol handlers avoid CoInternetCompareUrl and IInternetProtocolInfo::CompareUrl.
To summarize, IUri::IsEqual is a good Scheme-Based Normalization URI comparison function, UrlCompare and CoInternetCompareUrl should be avoided for fear of security bugs, and with no better choices a simple case sensitive string comparison will suffice.
If you know of other URI comparison functions or have other related comments or questions please let us know!
Dave Risney
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Peter Marino was well into a successful career in public relations before coming to UCLA Anderson for his MBA. He began at Cramer-Krasselt working on Master Lock's famous "shot lock" Super Bowl ad campaign, among others, and also did time at Ketchum Communications, working with the Miller Brewing Company (now MillerCoors) and with travel start-up Orbitz.
But Marino knew he wanted to start his own business. "I always wanted to be an entrepreneur," he said. "I thought an MBA would be a great advantage and I chose UCLA Anderson because of its entrepreneurial emphasis. At Anderson, I started trying to shape what I was going to do entrepreneurially - whether it was buy or start a business - and what industry it would be in."
Marino was among the first students at UCLA Anderson to choose the business creation option for his Applied Management Research (AMR) project. "My team worked with Professor Bob Foster," he recalled. "We were going to start a national qualitative market research firm - and the name was going to be Dig. I liked the name. It evoked the way we wanted to work with our clients in terms of rolling our sleeves up, getting dirty and digging for the right idea."
After graduating, Marino joined the Los Angeles office of Boston Consulting Group, but he was still interested in creating his own communication firm. While there, he contacted his former employer, Miller Brewing Company, and proposed creating a new communication agency. Since leaving Miller Brewing, the company had been acquired and many of Marino's former colleagues were no longer there. But after 15 months of discussion, Miller signed on as the inaugural client of Marino's new firm: Dig Communications.
"Miller gave me the official word that they wanted to hire me on April 14, 2004," he remembered. "I was living in L.A. at the time - and had to be up and running in Chicago on June 1. I had six weeks to find a place to operate, hire people, create a benefit program, figure out salaries and bring in an IT partner."
Dig Communications opened with a staff of seven to serve a single client. Over the past five and a half years, the company has grown to about 50 and the client list now includes Harley Davidson, William Wrigley, Jr. & Company, American Express, P.F. Chang's, Kayak.com, Solo Cup and many other industry leaders.
For the first year, one client was enough. "We decided not to look for any new business because we wanted to prove that our model was right and that we could deliver everything we promised to the Miller Brewing Company," said Marino.
The model worked. "We've got a model that allows us to go very deep with our clients," he explained. "So we get very close to them. Our best relationships are when we're an extension of our clients' teams. I think we can amplify broader marketing efforts for our clients. We can take their brand positioning and bring it to life experientially. We also have a great handle on social media. Given how consumers are getting their information and interacting with brands today, having that knowledge is essential."
The firm's second client was Staples, the office supply retailer. "They were opening up the Chicago marketplace," recalled Marino. "I know the VP of communications there and he had invited three very large international communication companies to make presentations. He included us as a favor." Dig won the assignment, which established the firm as a major player.
In 2007, Dig acquired a technology firm in San Francisco. "As a Chicago-centric agency," Marino said, "establishing an outpost in San Francisco was a major milestone for us. Then we decided to open an office in New York, which was another milestone."
Today, Dig Communications enjoys a strong national reputation. In March, 2009, they were named Best Small PR Agency of the Year by the industry publication PRWeek. "That was great validation of what we've been doing and how we've been doing it," said Marino. A judge in the competition remarked, "Dig has demonstrated some remarkable work - with a true understanding of the social media environment in a way that sets them apart."
Part of the firm's success is that members of the staff are carefully matched with the clients they serve. "When we have a potential client," explained Marino, "we talk with our staff to see if it will be a good fit. We empower our staff to decide whether we should go for it, and if they want to be a part of the team. The extra passion people bring to a project can make all the difference in the world."
For Marino, the most challenging part of being an entrepreneur has been finding enough hours in the day to get everything done. "I'm still very involved in hands-on work for our clients," said Marino. "I'm also responsible for the careers of the people working for us. I'm trying to figure out where the next layer of growth is going to come from. Really, I think the biggest challenge for me is to keep all my various plates spinning."
When asked how his UCLA Anderson experience informs his work today, Marino responded, "First of all, MBAs are rare in the communications field, so just having an MBA gives me a leg up on my competitors, let alone one from a top school like UCLA."
Marino feels that his communication and leadership abilities were transformed at UCLA Anderson. "It helped me greatly with confidence," he said. "I came out of school believing I had the tools needed to succeed."
"Some people think that you can't really teach entrepreneurship - either you have it or you don't," he continued. "But I don't agree with that. I learned a heck of a lot from great professors at UCLA Anderson. Whenever I am faced with a challenging communications problem, I get visions of Professors Bernardo, Osborne, Foster and Forman challenging me to think beyond just communications and analyze it across a broader spectrum. Often times, this provides a sharper and more impactful communications recommendation. Without a doubt, I am much more effective at my job as a result of having a UCLA Anderson MBA."


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