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Women's basketball: Another top recruit commits to Northwestern
By Herman Feb 24, 2012, 3:02pm CST
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On the court, the losses keep coming, but off the court, head coach Joe McKeown is racking up some impressive wins on the recruiting trail. Today, we learned that Class of 2013 four-star wing Nia Coffey (#10 in white in the video, I believe) verbally committed to the Wildcats. She joins point guard Christen Inman, also a four-star recruit, as the first two commits of the class.
Coffey, ranked by ESPN HoopGurlz as the No. 43 prospect in the class, chose NU over Duke, Stanford, Harvard and Princeton. Those four "schools" are, as I'm sure you all know, notorious women's basketball factories with laughable academic standards, so it's nice to see Coffey value her education in making her decision. She is 6'0" lefty from Minneapolis, and according to scouting reports has good quickness but may need to work a bit on her outside shot.
Inman is a 5'9" point guard from Texas who verbally committed two weeks ago, choosing NU over Stanford, Vanderbilt, Rice and Texas. She's ranked by ESPN HoopGurlz as the No. 55 prospect in the class and looks to have excellent slashing ability and good vision.
The Class of 2013 will have big shoes to fill, as the Wildcats will be looking to replace stars Kendall Hackney and Dannielle Diamant, along with Kate Popovec and Inesha Hale.
McKeown has really stepped up in recruiting and boosted the talent level in the program. This year's freshman class of Morgan Jones, Karly Roser and Alex Cohen was ranked the No. 14 class by ESPN, and while next year's class isn't so highly touted, it includes three very solid three-star recruits in wing Maggie Lyon, wing Lauren Douglas and center Christen Johnson. The 2013 class is off to a great start and could end up with NU in the top 10.
Meanwhile, back on the court, the Wildcats are struggling to stay NIT-eligible, having dropped two games this week to fall to 14-14 overall, 4-11 in the Big Ten. That stifled any momentum they might have gotten from their huge upset of No. 16 Nebraska last Thursday, and NU now has lost eight out of its last 10, spoiling what had looked to be a promising season.
On Monday, NU put up a stinker in a 69-57 loss at Illinois. All the familiar bugaboos plagued the Wildcats in this one: careless turnovers, porous defense, and bad shooting, compounded by poor shot selection. NU lost Karly Roser for a significant chunk of time due to injury in the game.
Fortunately, she would return to the lineup for last night's game against the surging Iowa Hawkeyes, but it didn't help, as NU lost, 70-63. The Hawkeyes buried the Wildcats from behind the arc, and while NU would rally late, it wasn't enough. Tailor Jones got the surprise start over her sister, Morgan, who has really struggled with her shot lately. Morgan played what I'm sure is a season-low 24 minutes and scored 8 points, though she had a team-high 8 rebounds.
So now all that's left in the regular season is a Senior Day home finale on Sunday against Michigan State. Before the game, NU will honor senior captains Allison Mocchi and Brittany Orban, whose season-ending injury six games in really hurt the Wildcats down the stretch. Tailor Jones will also be honored, even though she's technically a redshirt junior. Guess that means she's not coming back next year.
The Wildcats will need a win in their regular season finale to ensure at least a .500 record, if they lose in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. That would keep them eligible for the NIT for the third straight year. The NIT is a bit of a disappointment, especially after the great start, but considering that they graduated an All-American last year in Amy Jaeschke and then had to contend with a ridiculous assortment of injuries throughout the season, making it to the postseason is a pretty good accomplishment for this group. But they have to get there, first.

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The Mayans and the Aztecs first enjoyed chocolate as a bitter, frothy, spicy drink called xocolatl. The Aztecs attributed the creation of the cocoa plant to their god Quetzalcoatl, who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cocoa tree stolen from paradise. Both sweet and spicy, ours is dark chocolate with a chipotle, cayenne, and cinnamon finish.


The Country Women's Association of NSW (CWA of NSW) is focusing on the plight of rural refugees, particularly women and children, to mark the United Nations International Day of Rural Women on 15 October 2015.
Tanya Cameron, CWA of NSW President, says that while in developing countries women make up around half the agricultural workforce, they have far less power, recognition and financial reward than their male counterparts and are often more heavily impacted by poverty, war and natural disasters.
"Rural women across the world are working to provide food, clothes and water for their families. In developing countries, women and children often walk hours every day just to carry fresh water," she says.
"It's been shown many times that if you help rural women – particularly by providing accessible fresh water through a tank or bore – then whole families and villages can be moved out of poverty.
"Through its membership of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), the CWA of NSW is helping to improve the lives of women and families in South Pacific countries such as Timor-Leste, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Papua New Guinea by providing water tanks, garden equipment, clothing, education, and funds.
Tanya says the CWA is ready to advise and help the government on how to best settle rural refugees in Australia.
"While CWA is not a provider of direct services to refugees, we have worked closely with women through the South Pacific, educating them, raising their skills and improving their lives – plus we know well what must be in place for rural resettlement efforts in Australia to be successful," she says.
"Rural Australia is ready to take refugees and do our part in this current world crisis – and regional Australia has a tradition of strong communities, personal support, and friendship, all of which will help new arrivals settle in.
"However, the government must ensure that vulnerable people aren't shifted to the regions without the support they need.


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Bruce Anstey is always one to watch, and at the 2009 Isle of Man TT all eyes were on the Kiwi in every race.
The TAS Racing star was determined to take a big bike victory at the TT, and after some stunning performances in practice on the 1000cc Relentless Suzuki Anstey looked good for a win.
He finished practice week third fastest on the Superbike, with a 130.129mph fastest lap.
Unfortunately, Anstey suffered a turbulent TT2009 and saw any chance of victory cruelly snatched from him by mechanical problems in all but one race, and a podium finish in the second Supersport event his only real high point from the festival.
This stunning image shows Anstey leaping Ballaugh Bridge on his TAS Superbike during practice. It was captured by renowned road racing photographer Stephen Davison.


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By Frank Derfler | Posted 05-01-2001	Print
Chances are that as a CIO, you're thinking a lot these days about two things: security and wireless. Sure, security is a big deal. But wireless? It's still more of a buzzword than something tangible, and you're probably just beginning to ponder the possibilities.
Don't wait too long to start putting together a strategy. Within the next four years, says Houston-based technology researcher eForecaster, 39 percent of Internet users in the U.S. and 68 percent of those in Europe will have wireless Internet access. That's a lot of customers and suppliers to be reached via purse or pocket—and your sales staff is probably already clamoring loudly for you to start building them that kind of reach.
But wireless need not be a new headache for the IT staff. Sure, taking the firm wireless is going to force the sales and technology departments to work together even more closely than ever. And yes, any wireless project or strategy—whether LAN, WAN or otherwise—is going to have to pass serious muster with all of the chief corporate bean counters. That's right: The technology is going to have to work—and it's going to have to pay off, by helping the company either cut costs or boost profits down the line.
My advice? Jump in. Wireless strategies will differ widely from one company to the next, but there are some guidelines everyone can follow, thanks to lessons learned by some of the early adopters.
Lesson One: Wireless doesn't mean doing away with wires. Truth is, wireless is just another service that requires more software running on servers somewhere, more program-to-program communications, more end-user gizmos to buy and support, and more schmoozing with specialized system integrators and carriers.
Lesson Two: Don't expect CIOs and IS managers to take the lead. Demand for wireless access will typically come from the sales staff first. Wireless is, after all, going to be a new way to sell products and to service accounts. Already, some companies are reaping the rewards of their early wireless strategies. Office Depot, for example, is saving a bundle in its order-taking operation by switching from human help to wireless, voice-activated systems. And according to International Data Corp., such m-commerce transactions could reach approximately $20 billion by 2004 in the U.S. alone.
Lesson Three: Start out small. Begin by figuring out a way to let customers check their orders via wireless access to your data. Even if customers or sales people have to place orders by talking to humans, enabling them to check on the status of an order through a cell phone or a PDA can be a high-profile, immediate way to see results. It's also an easy way to start building relationships with your wireless service or software providers. And the CEO and CFO will like it, too, because customers will sit up and take notice. In addition, it's an inexpensive way for you and your company to get experience applying wireless technologies.
Still not convinced? Think cost-savings, in industries ranging from health care to retail and transportation. Consider, for example, a wireless system used by APL, a global container transportation operator, which is a unit of Singapore-based NOL Group. The system lets dispatchers track containers parked throughout its 160-acre Seattle facility. That might not sound like a big deal, but think about this: A trucker picking up a 40-foot container at the APL pier in Seattle waits an average of just 17 minutes from the time he arrives to the time he's ready to hit the road. That's less time than it takes an airline to deliver a bag to a passenger at most airports—and significantly faster than the average pick-up time clocked before the wireless system was installed.
In retail, wireless could boost sales and customer satisfaction. It can make customer hand-holding even cheaper by offering new ways for companies to contact customers—either by voice or a pop-up menu on a PDA. At Wyndham Hotels, for example, a new wireless reservations service that replaces human help is cutting service costs by $5.50 per customer, for a savings in overhead estimated in the millions over the next 18 months. And offering wireless can also add to revenue: Wyndham and other hotel firms are charging extra for the added convenience of their wireless systems. Says Mark Hedley, Wyndham's CTO: "It doesn't take much creativity to cut expenses. You have to use a great amount of creativity to generate revenue."
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We are visiting New Zealand for the first time on our way to seeing our daughter in Australia. Starting off in Auckland. Lots of rain, but beautiful with fabulous food.
Today we took the short ferry ride over to Devonport, a picturesque town of about 15000. Steady rain finally gave way to clouds only.
What is this stuff hanging out of these trees?
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Q: нужно сделать генератор автомобильных номеров в таком формате: X000XX в php X-буквы (A, B), O-чифры в раене (000.. 999)
по формату ук выше но через с помощью конструкции for или while
X — это серия, тут может быть указана любая буква, имеющая аналог в кириллическом и латинском алфавите, а 000 — номер, он может принимать любые значения от 000 до 999. В нашем случае серия ограничена комбинациями A и B.
цикл for получается сделать один блок с серией а сам номер нет:
    <?php
$length=['A','B'];
$vall=rand(000.. 999);
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
    $c .= $arr[random_int(0, count($arr) - 1)];
    return $c;
    for ($i = 0; $i < $vall; $i++) {
        $d .= $arv[random_int(0, count($arr) - 1)];
    return $d;
    }
}

A: Надеюсь хватит разума доделать под свои нужды, алгоритм выглядит вот так.
<?php
$num = range(0, 26*100-1); // 26 букв, 100 цифр (-1 перегрузка)
$num = array_map(function($el) {
    $chr = chr(intval($el / 100) + ord('A')); // для каждой 100й цифры, +1 буква
    $num = ($el % 100); // остаток от деления = чистые цифры
    return sprintf("%s-%02d", $chr, $num); // форматирование нулей
}, $num);
echo join("\n", $num);

Вывод
A-00
A-01
A-02
A-03
A-04
...
A-98
A-99
B-00
B-01
...
Z-96
Z-97
Z-98
Z-99

Добавлено чуток спустя.
Альтернативный и более ламерский способ.
<?php
foreach (range('A', 'Z') as $a) {
    for ($i=0; $i<100; $i++) {
        printf("%s-%02d\n", $a, $i);
    }
}

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PLOT 22 is an associate member of the Quiet Garden Movement.
Our Quiet Garden sessions offer the opportunity for quiet reflection in the outdoors. Somewhere to enjoy the restorative peace of the garden away from the busyness of your normal day. During a session you can choose to garden on the allotment or you may want to read, draw or just sit and enjoy getting close to the wonders of this natural oasis. These 2 hour sessions are hosted by a volunteer. They are open to Friends of PLOT 22 free of charge. Once you become a Friend of PLOT 22 we can then contact you with details of how to attend. Here's a written reflection by Charlotte of her time spent at one of the evenings last summer.
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I've been meaning to write something for a while, since the attacks in London, but self defence is such a vast and tricky subject. Many people have written better and more in depth posts. They also have more actual experience. No Nonsense Self Defence is my favourite reference.
I was talking to my Mum the other day and she was telling me about one of her neighbours, a really good swimmer, who swam every day in the sea near them. She gave Mum a huge amount of advice after she got caught by an undercurrent one day and only just made it back to shore. Very scary. She was very shaken up. My brother who is a swimming teacher, freaked out, telling her she mustn't go swimming on her own or go out of her depth. This is kind of understandable considering the loss my family has had.
The thing is, women hear this frequently, don't do insert whatever, because this bad thing might happen. The key word here is MIGHT. How many men have heard don't go out at night alone? I'm sure some have. EVERY woman has heard it. I always find this strange as it is usually young men who are attacked at night when they are alone. Most people are also attacked by someone they know, and for women someone they thought they could trust, often their partner or ex-partner.
So in light of the attacks in London, I am sure that there are many people giving out well meaning but unhelpful advice. One of which being to learn martial arts. It's not completely bad advice and I would recommend it for everyone, but not for instant self defence. That takes years to master. It does have many other side benefits that you might not think of as self defence.
Real physical self defence is something you can learn in minutes and recall without thinking.
If we listened to all the 'don't do' advice, well we simply wouldn't do anything. Even this wouldn't keep us safe. It's important to stress that we need to live a life worth living. Trying to live life wrapped in cotton wool leaves you numb and feeling trapped.
Which brings me back to the conversation with Mum and the swimming. She had faced her fears and my brother's disapproval and got back to swimming in the sea, armed with new knowledge. You know living a life worth living. Brilliant. Only to find out this week that her neighbour who gave her that advice, got caught in an undercurrent and didn't make it. Damn. So of course my brother was adamant she shouldn't go swimming in the sea at all. It sounds like good advice. I don't agree. The first lot of advice was great. Know the risks and do as much as possible to keep yourself safe while doing that activity. Because if she followed that advice and just stuck to paddling, she could accidently step on a jellyfish, then people would be telling her she shouldn't go paddling. Then she could just walk on the beach and get attacked by a dog, maybe then she'd be told not to go out alone. Before you know it we'd be like the women in Saudia Arabia who aren't allowed to do anything alone. I know it's an extreme example and not likely to happen like that. Mostly because we have to allow people to do things on their own sometimes, even if they are really dangerous.
On a side note do make sure someone can see you swimming in the sea. Here is a link to RNLI advice.
Obviously there are some things where the outcome is pretty much guaranteed. For example clipping a bulldog clip to any part of your body. It will hurt. No I haven't tried it, I'm not a thrill-seeking fool or a spy who needs torture training. I did watch some others do it though as a competition, in the pub once.
If you are one of those people who see a great piece of advice or one of those horror stories like the HIV needles in petrol station handles, which recently appeared on my feed. Please, please fact check it first. There are plenty of people out there with the experience to back up any claim. The internet is a wonderful tool, and there are several websites such as Snopes.com who fact check for us. It's also easy to check if something is satire by looking at about pages. One piece of so called 'great' advice that is frequently circulated on pinterest I have previously written about in my Using your Head post.
This brings me to how my sensei and I teach self defence. We work on the theory that, whatever you do, however many precautions you take, you cannot defend against everything. You are preparing for relatively unknown actions.
You cannot control outcomes or people, only your own conduct.
When we talk about self defence it feels like victim blaming. Most of the time when we are defending against others, we are learning how not to be a target, as the only thing that can stop someone attacking someone else, is them, they are to blame.
Even a highly skilled martial cannot defend against a sucker punch.
They may instinctively react, after years of repetitive training and manage to get themselves out of it, but they also may be defeated simply by the shock and the surprise! After all most of us are nice people and don't expect others to behave in these ways.
It is a fact that when your heart rate goes up the ability to use complex thinking and fine motor skills deteriorates and you need to rely on simple motor skills instead. Some teachers, such as John Tichen, do scenario training and he has some great information about what happens to people when the shock kicks in. I particularly like this post on kneejerk reactions.
So real self defence is actually self preservation. Concentrating on before. Before you get into a situation that is fight or flight. Before you get to going out or doing. Before you know what the situation is. In a way that is what those well meaning advisors are saying but they are not before enough. Our before starts with knowing yourself.
I am going to stress that our advice might not keep you safe, but it should keep you SAFER.


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We call upon the people of this country—especially our generation—to shoulder the responsibility of bringing an immediate end to this war.
This unjust war began without provocation and continues despite the opposition of the vast majority of American and Iraqi people. This war, criminal in its violation of the Geneva Conventions, has resulted in a catastrophic loss of life—3,300 coalition troops and over 655,000 of our Iraqi brothers and sisters. In the name of this war, and the "war on terror," there has been a broad assault on our civil liberties including the violation of habeas corpus, condoning of torture, and rampant racism against Arabs and Muslims. This war has made the world less safe, and less free.
By investing in corporations crucial to the war effort, our university has aligned its financial future with America's protracted occupation of Iraq. We therefore call on the administration to divest from these corporations for the duration of the war to hasten the war's end.
February 15th, 2003 marked the largest coordinated anti-war demonstration in human history. We unite on the upcoming anniversary to "rekindle the flame of protest that flared up all over the world on that date four years ago," as noted by historian Howard Zinn in his support for a nationwide strike. Our protest and teach-in on the 15th is only the beginning. We aim for this to be the rebirth of a strong and diverse anti-war movement on Columbia's campus and on campuses around the world.
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with the student strike at Columbia University on February 15th.
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Audience: teens and adults
Inherently Wind movie is a Hollywood History of the Scopes Trial, commonly known as the "Monkey Trial". A critical analysis of the truth or non-truth in the famous movies "Inherit The Wind".
In one of his most popular talks, Dr. Menton exposes the distortions and inaccuracies in the play and movie Inherit The Wind. An influential propaganda piece, Inherit The Wind has deceived millions with the false belief that Christians went on a "witch hunt" to stop John Scopes from teaching evolution. In reality it was a 'set up' by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Our Overall Rating (out of 5 stars) 4 Stars
Documentary 4 Stars
Evidence Presented 4 Stars
(Edited from the DVD movie jacket.)
Dr. David Menton earned a PH.D. in cell biology from Brown University. He served as a biomedical research technician at Mayo Clinic and then as an associate professor of anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis). For almost two decades he has been profiled in American Men and Women of Science - A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological and Related Sciences. Dr. Menton has lectured throughout the United States and Canada on the creation-evolution controversy.
The Scopes Trial, also known as the Monkey Trial, had an extreme negative influence on the United States and religion according to Robert Godfrey, a Christian Church Hisotorian. So much so that after 1925, if you ever wonder how Princeton University changed from being a Christian Presbyterian University to the liberal university it is today - one can trace that decline to the "Monkey Trial" and specifically how it was incorrectly reported in the press of the day.
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Q: Rails 3 complex associations using nested_has_many_through I have been trying to develop a movie based rails application which has support for multiple regions (Hollywood, Bollywood etc). I call the multiple regions as languages in the application.
Each language has its own set of data i.e., english has all the movies related to hollywood and language hindi has all the movies related to bollywood.
Language Model
class Language < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :movies
  has_many :cast_and_crews, :through => :movies, :uniq => true
  has_many :celebrities, :through => :cast_and_crews, :uniq => true

  # FIXME: Articles for celebrities and movies
  has_many :article_associations, :through => :celebrities
  has_many :articles, :through => :article_associations, :uniq => true
end

Here movies and celebrities both have articles using the article_association class.
Movie Model
class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :language
  has_many :cast_and_crews
  has_many :celebrities, :through => :cast_and_crews
  has_many :article_associations
  has_many :articles, :through => :article_associations, :uniq => true
end

Celebrity Model
class Celebrity < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :cast_and_crews
  has_many :movies, :through => :cast_and_crews, :uniq => true
  has_many :article_associations
  has_many :articles, :through => :article_associations, :uniq => true
end

class ArticleAssociation < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :article
  belongs_to :celebrity
  belongs_to :movie
end

and this is how my Article model is defined
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :article_associations
  has_many :celebrities, :through => :article_associations
  has_many :movies, :through => :article_associations
end

What I am trying to achieve is language.article should return all the articles related to celebrities and movies.
The reason why I am not using SQL is find_by_sql does not support ActiveRelation and I will not be able use has_scope functionality.
I am using nested_has_many_through, has_scope and inherited_resources gems
Any help in this will be greatly appreciated.

A: Rails 3.1 now has support for nesting relations. Of course the built in one should be better then a plugin :)
http://railscasts.com/episodes/265-rails-3-1-overview

A: There are few tricks that should allow what you need, going out of Article you can query all the Moviesfor given language id
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :article_associations
  has_many :celebrities, :through => :article_associations
  has_many :article_movies, :through => :article_associations, :class => 'Movie'
  scope :for_language, lambda {|lang_id|
    joins(
      :article_associations=>[
        :article_movies,
        {:celebrities => { :cast_and_crews => :movies } }
      ]
    ).where(
      'movies.language_id = ? OR article_movies.language_id = ?',
      lang_id, lang_id
    )
  }
end

Then in language define a method that will use earlier scope of Article
class Language < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :movies
  has_many :cast_and_crews, :through => :movies, :uniq => true
  has_many :celebrities, :through => :cast_and_crews, :uniq => true

  def articles
    Article.for_language id
  end
end

The only unsure part here is how :article_movies will be represented in sql ...

A: ok This is what I did to fix this.
Added the following scope in my Article class
def self.region(region_id)
  joins(<<-eos
    INNER JOIN
    (
      SELECT DISTINCT aa.article_id
      FROM regions r
           LEFT JOIN movies m on m.region_id = r.id
           LEFT JOIN cast_and_crews cc on cc.movie_id = m.id
           LEFT JOIN celebrities c on c.id = cc.celebrity_id
           LEFT JOIN events e on e.region_id = r.id
           LEFT JOIN article_associations aa on (aa.event_id = e.id or aa.movie_id = m.id or aa.celebrity_id = c.id)
      WHERE r.id = #{region_id}
    ) aa
  eos
  ).where("aa.article_id = articles.id")
end

This gives me a ActiveRecord::Relation instance that I am expected which retrieves all the records for a movie, celebrity or event.
Thanks for all who helped me.
If you have any comments to improve it please comment it. Very much appreciated.


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World Cup qualifying: Five takeaways from U.S. rout of Trinidad and Tobago
Written By Ives Galarcep
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Christian Pulisic made his first U.S. national team start one to remember, and he played well enough to leave us wondering if he will ever come out of the lineup.
The 17-year-old dazzled, danced and dribbled through and around Trinidad and Tobago, and though he didn't actually score a goal, he helped set up countless chances and saw his own golden opportunity miss by the slimmest of margins when it hit off the post and crossbar. Pulisic also had another of his shots saved before the rebound fell to Paul Arriola for the fourth U.S. goal.
MORE: Images of Team USA in the Copa
Pulisic wasn't the only U.S. player to make the most of a rare start for the U.S. Sacha Kljestan built on his impressive showing against St. Vincent and the Grenadines by delivering a goal and looking extremely comfortable running the attack for Jurgen Klinsmann's squad. He started slowly but eventually found his rhythm.
And then there was Jozy Altidore, who carried over his sharp form in MLS by scoring a pair of goals to become the U.S. national team's all-time leading scorer in World Cup qualifying. His touch, turn and finish on his first goal was sublime, as was his back-post run to finish the second. He looked energized and confident on the ball, and reminded us all why he remains a first-choice striker for the U.S.
The resounding victory not only boosted the stock of several players who needed good showings, it also sent a message to the rest of CONCACAF that the U.S. will be heading into the Hex with plenty of attacking options and building confidence.
Here is a closer look at five key takeaways from the Americans' 4-0 win Tuesday:
Pulisic is the 'real deal'
That's what Trinidad and Tobago coach Stephen Hart told Goal USA earlier in the week. The Borussia Dortmund winger showed off his full array of skills, tearing up the right side of the Trinidad defense. He took on defenders, made dangerous runs, delivered promising passes and did everything a coach could want a winger to do except score a goal, and that was kept out by the post and the crossbar on the same shot.
MORE: Pulisic gave us a preview vs. SV&G
"I wasn't surprised at all. He's dynamic at Borussia Dortmund," Hart said of Pulisic. "He can go inside, he can go outside. The goal he set up is a beautiful example: He feigned inside, then went outside and played a beautiful ball to Jozy Altidore at the back post. He has a lot of potential for a young player."
Pulsic rewarded Klinsmann's faith, and has served notice to the rest of the wide options in the U.S. player pool. He has a unique skill set that sets him apart from the current crop of American wingers. His combination of speed and skill is unmatched, and his fearlessness makes him capable of handing tough situations and matches. Though some other players have the experience edge, Pulisic is as dynamic a young attacker as the U.S. has had since Landon Donovan broke in 16 years ago, when Pulisic was an infant.
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Christian Pulisic shows off his skill. (Getty Images)
"(Klinsmann) has been talking with me, and he thought that I was ready today and I stepped out there and I feel like I did a good job, so I was really excited to get the start," Pulisic said. "Starting the game is different. You have to come out with a certain intensity about you to set the tone, but I felt comfortable out there. It's not something that I'm not used to or haven't done before. I felt very good."
Klinsmann certainly came away impressed, and credited Pulisic's work ethic and maturity for expediting his move into a starting role.
"One step at a time, but the step was right today, " Klinsmann said. "We watch every training session, and obviously Copa America helped to bring him along in this group of older guys. He just was very mature the way he trained every session, very focused, aiming for goal, going not backing up at all in physical battles as well. So we thought this is a good time now, and obviously the performance was wonderful to watch.
"I don't want to give him too many compliments," Klinsmann said with a laugh. "We've got to keep him down on the ground."
The only sour note on the night for Pulisic came when he raced onto an Altidore pass and slammed his shot off both posts.
"I don't think I"ve ever seen anything like that," Pulisic said of his closest chance at a goal. "After that I didn't think I was going to score because there's no way after something like that. Disappointing."
That was one of the few disappointments on a night when Pulisic served notice that he is ready for a bigger role on the national team, even if he is just a few days away from his 18th birthday.
Kljestan makes strong case for starting role
It is easy to forget that Sacha Kljestan almost never joined the U.S. national team for the September World Cup qualifiers, but as fate would have it, a broken foot suffered by Gyasi Zardes a week ago opened the door for the New York Red Bulls midfielder to earn a call — and Kljestan took full advantage.
Kljestan followed up his impressive showing from Friday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines with an even better outing, scoring a goal and helping set up another.
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Sacha Kljestan is making a great second impression. (Getty Images)
"He helped his case big time," Klinsmann said of Kljestan "That's what happens in soccer all the time. Some players come in for whatever reason, if it's suspensions, if it's injuries. Other ones get their call and we always tell them, no matter if you were gone for two years, this is your chance now. Don't worry, the door is always open.
"(Kljestan) understood that from the first second on," Klinsmann added. "From the first training session on he was on fire in this camp.
"Sacha absolutely took advantage of his opportunity."
Kljestan's successful return was earned on the field in MLS, and even though the national team calls stopped coming, he continued honing his game and evolving into one of the best playmakers in MLS, if not the best.
"I had my head down for the past year and a half, working hard, wondering if (another national team call) would ever come," Kljestan said. "I was not sure if it would. Fortunately, the call came from Jurgen and he gave me a chance to prove himself with these last two games as well. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the way the last nine days have gone."
Two games played, two goals scored and three goals set up is not a bad return to the national team for a player who had been out of the picture for more than two years.
Altidore-Wood has makings of a long-term tandem
After the past two games together, it's safe to call Jozy Altidore and Bobby Wood a forward pairing with strong long-term potential.
Wood's tenacious effort and tireless runs keep defenses moving and adjusting, while Altidore's ability to find and slide into dangerous pockets can make the most of the space created by Wood. Altidore scored twice to break the U.S. record for World Cup qualifying goals, but it was Wood who drew praise from Trinidad and Tobago's coach.
"Wood today was dragging us all over the pitch, running deep, making us move away from the midfield and Altidore and Pulisic were finding space," Hart said. "That's a dangerous combination, especially when (Clint) Dempsey comes back."
"I thought Bobby did a good job," Altidore said. "I think Bobby should get a lot of credit. He causes a lot of problems for defenses and opens up a lot of things for others."
It shouldn't really come as a surprise that Altidore and Wood looked good in the September qualifiers. They both came in riding strong form, with Altidore finding his scoring rhythm with Toronto FC and Wood earning a starting job with Bundesliga side Hamburg and scoring in the season opener after showing well at the Copa America.
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A new forward partner is making Jozy Altidore even more dangerous. (Getty Images)
"Those two are starting to get their connections together," Kljestan said of Altidore and Wood. "Bobby did a lot of work tonight, drew a lot of fouls. Jozy was able to put his goals away when he had his chances. They're forming a pretty dynamic duo up there that, hopefully, can last for a few years."
The key for the Altidore-Wood tandem will be Altidore being able to stay healthy, which has been an issue for him ever since he became a national team regular. If Altidore can stay on the field, and continue his strong run of form, the U.S. will have a good chance of starting the Hex off with some good results against the region's toughest competition, Mexico and Costa Rica.
Center back shuffling continues
Klinsmann is always good for a lineup curve ball and Tuesday's surprise was Geoff Cameron sliding to right back, with Omar Gonzalez joining Steve Birnbaum in central defense. The move seemed an odd one because Cameron had begun to look so settled in as a solidifying force in central defense, but concerns about Trinidad and Tobago's wingers coupled with a desire to give Gonzalez a chance led to starting Cameron at fullback instead of Michael Orozco.
Credit to Cameron — he didn't miss a beat, looking totally comfortable at right back as he helped shut down Trinidadian youngster Levi Garcia. Birnbaum and Gonzalez did well to contain Kenwyne Jones and avoided having Kevin Molino slip in underneath and punish them.
Gonzalez at the very least helped erase some of the bad memories of his disastrous showing down in Guatemala in March, though he is still trapped in a very deep center back competition, one in which Birnbaum is probably still ahead of him.
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Geoff Cameron rose to the occasion. (Getty Images)
Could Cameron be heading for a longer look at right back, and potentially a spot there when the Hex begins? It's something to think about because DeAndre Yedlin was the team's shakiest defender at the Copa America and Cameron was a very good right back in limited time there during the 2013 Hex.
That being said, it could be a mistake given how well Cameron and John Brooks looked as a tandem at the Copa America, and given Yedlin's potential. But if Klinsmann has more faith in his center back options than his right back options, we could see Cameron back at right back come November.
Tough start to Hex awaits
Normally, the idea of having to face Mexico and Costa Rica in back-to-back qualifiers would be a bit nerve-wracking, but given how good the U.S. looked in September's qualifiers, and how the Copa America went, the Americans are probably heading for that tough stretch at the perfect time. Klinsmann certainly isn't worried.
"Sooner or later you got to play your big rival. Better do it right away," he said. "So, this is a huge opportunity to start that Hexagonal, to start these two matches and to send a signal out in this qualifying campaign. It's not easy. We know that. But we have the confidence especially after this Copa America to go in these games and say we want to have six points.
"If it's four points at the end of the day, will take that, too. But we have that confidence to try and beat Mexico on our home ground, and go into Costa Rica where we haven't been successful in World Cup qualifiers and win that game as well."
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Jurgen Klinsmann's smile will disappear once qualifying resumes. (Getty Images)
A two-win start to the Hex would leave the U.S. in excellent shape heading into 2017, though Klinsmann is fully aware that you can't take anything for granted in CONCACAF. As tough as Mexico might be, Klinsmann believes his team can maintain the U.S. tradition of beating Mexico in Columbus, Ohio. (And Klinsmann and U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati essentially confirmed USA-Mexico will be hosted in Columbus, as it has been played in the previous four qualifying cycles.)
"It's exciting. I'm excited," Klinsmann said when asked about the Hex. "I can't wait for November, with all the respect we have obviously for Mexico. But this is what it's all about."
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When the leaves or flowers of your plants show silvery patches that turn brown and you see little black spots on them, then the plants may harbour thrips (Order: Thysanoptera; Family: Thripidae).
Many species of thrips occur in gardens and greenhouses and all of them live on leaves, flowers and fruits of a great variety of plant species. All thrips are about 1 to 3 mm long, have usually dark bodies and two pairs of wings with fringes, which give the wings their characteristically feather-like appearance.
Thrips are the so-called thunder flies, those tiny insects that take to the air by the thousands in still, thundery weather.
Females lay their eggs in or on plant tissue. To deposit the eggs inside the tissue they cut a slit with their saw-like ovipositor.
Within days or weeks, depending on the temperature, the eggs hatch. The wingless larvae feed on plant sap.
The last, usually second, larval stage of many species drops to the ground when fully grown, and spends the pre-pupal and pupal stages in the soil. During these stadia they do not feed.
Emerging adults fly back to the plants, and the cycle repeats itself.
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Thrips feed by scraping the surface of plant tissue with their mouth parts, and sucking up the juices. This damages the leaves, causing a silvery or brown and dried appearance, and growing points of plants may become distorted.
Apart from direct damage, some thrips also transmit plant viruses, such as the harmful tomato spotted wilt virus.
The pea thrips, Kakothrips pisivorus (=robustus) is, as its name suggests, harmful on pea, as it attacks the pods, which, like the leaves, become discoloured and distorted by heavy infestation.
The onion thrips, Thrips tabaci, occurs on many plants and is also often found in greenhouses, where, because of the higher temperatures and its parthenogenetic reproduction (larvae are born to unmated females) it can reach high numbers in a relatively short time.
The gladiolus thrips, Thrips simplex, when abundant, can ruin flowers, which wilt, brown and then die.
The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, feeds on flowers and leaves of almost any flowering plant. Until around 1980 it lived originally west of the Mississippi River, but has since spread throughout the United States, to Canada, Europa and Asia, where it has become the most prevalent thrips attacking greenhouse flowers.
Because of its size and its ability to hide in the smallest corners the thrips is difficult to control, the more so as it is resistant to various insecticides. Like all insects, however, they have their own number of natural enemies. The most important are predatory mites, nematodes, parasitic fungi, pirate bugs, for example Orius majusculus and lacewings.
The predatory mites and bugs attack primarily the eggs and larvae. The pre-pupal and pupal stages that live in the soil are attacked by nematodes as well as fungi and soil-dwelling predatory mites (Hypoaspis miles). Although the preferred food of lacewing larvae is aphids, they also eat thrips and undoubtedly help reduce their numbers.
In both indoor and outdoor conditions it has been observed that dry plants are most prone to thrips infestation. Adequate watering is therefore the first and probably most important control measure.
Covering the soil with plastic film or paper coated with a sticky substance catches the final-stage larvae that drop themselves before digging into the soil.
It is also recommended to keep a diverse vegetation (weeds!) around plants that are susceptible to thrips. Thrips prefer weeds and destroying those could cause the insects to migrate onto the cultivated plants.
For biological control indoors several species of the predatory mite Amblyseius are available commercially. But be aware: after initial release of the mites on thrips-infested plants it takes 2 to 3 months before you begin to notice the effect. The mites are probably not effective to all species of thrips, however.
A number of species of the pirate or flower bug, Orius majusculus and Orius niger (Order: Heteroptera; Family: Anthacoridae) as well as the mite Hypoaspis miles can also be purchased from biological control companies.
Leave your comments here - Do you have more tips to treat thrips?
Fascinating look at this tiny creature.
Very educational post. Thanks and keep sharing.
We have read about this in sort in childhood.. after reading this we get memorized the old memories. Thanks to provide this ..
Green is the way to go for a less polluted environment.
I don't think these are a problem in my garden but if they were I'd go with the non-chemical way to control populations.
LOL, can't say I get excited about bugs but this is a very interesting lense.
I don't really. I don't know much about them.
Creepy looking creatures! Congrats on your purple star!
@ecogranny: Interesting, Grace. Did you soak them when the plants were infested with thrips, or to prevend them from settling?
I didn't know even what thrips look like and now I know that they prefer weeds, so let them grow next to your plants as part of control and it sure makes sense not to let them drop into the soil in the house with that plastic film. I wonder if it would help to include a few weeds among our house plants too. I like your natural biological control ideas here, very well done and interesting!
Interesting to know I have a weed killer for our backyard to prevent insects and bugs from eating our garden, we have a flower garden and a vegetable garden. Thanks for the information on how to deal with thrips.
When I was a young woman, I read a book on keeping and propagating house plants. I think the author's last name was MacDonald. He suggested using a dilute solution of Ivory dish soap (it's changed since then, so don't know if it would still work), and dipping the plant into sudsy water far enough to get some suds on the soil, then letting the plant dry without rinsing. This always worked for me.
For African violets, he suggested brushing the sudsy solution on the leaves with a soft-bristled brush, not enough to soak them, just to apply the solution. Let dry.
@anonymous: It is certainly worth a try to grow a few weeds among your house plants.
I really like your "no chemical" approach.
Very timely information about thrips and how to control them. I am always interested in learning how to control garden pests, without chemicals. Thanks for the great article.


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Washington — The number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the United States has nearly tripled since 2015, due in part to radical Islamic attacks and the incendiary rhetoric of last year's presidential campaign, the Southern Poverty Law Center says.
The number of anti-Muslim groups increased from 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016, the SPLC said in a report released Wednesday. The number of hate groups overall tracked by the watchdog group also increased to 917 last year from 892 the previous year, the report said.
"2016 was an unprecedented year for hate," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The report blamed the increase in part on "incendiary rhetoric" from the campaign of now-President Donald Trump, which included threats to ban Muslim immigrants and "mandate a registry of Muslims in America." It also cited as factors "the unrelenting propaganda of a growing circle of well-paid ideologues" — well-paid employees of anti-Muslim groups, the group said — and radical Islamist attacks such as the June 2016 massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
The SPLC's findings come as anti-Muslim posters were discovered this week at a mosque in Bossier City, La., and on the campuses of the University of Texas and Rutgers University.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants campus officials to assure the safety of Muslim students and to investigate the mosque posters as a hate crime. "It is clear that these signs, which were used to vandalize a house of worship, are part of a nationwide campaign by racists and Islamophobes to intimidate the American Muslim community," spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Ala., monitors the activities of hate groups and other extremists across the country. The SPLC defines hate groups as those that vilify entire groups of people based on immutable characteristics such as race or ethnicity.
"Patriot" or anti-government groups are on the downswing, according to the report. "The groups had skyrocketed from a low of 149 in 2008 to a high of 1,360 in 2012, in large part as a reaction to the November 2008 election of Barack Obama," the report said.
But now the number of Patriot groups is falling, dropping from 998 in 2015 to 623 last year. Militias, which the report called the "armed wing of the Patriot movement," also fell from 276 to 165 groups.
Black separatist groups grew from 180 in 2015 to 193 last year, as did neo-Confederate groups, which rose from 35 to 43 groups.
The number of Ku Klux Klan groups fell from 190 in 2015 to 130 in 2016. The report said contraction was expected among Klan groups, which had more than doubled from 72 in 2014.


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New Keywords : a revised vocabulary of culture and Society
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Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere.
- Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists
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- Builds on and updates Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years
Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing
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A2 - MORRIS, Meaghan
N2 - Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. - Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists - Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society - Builds on and updates Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing
AB - Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. - Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists - Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society - Builds on and updates Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing
M3 - Book (Editor)
BT - New Keywords : a revised vocabulary of culture and Society
PB - Blackwell Publishing Asia
BENNETT T, (ed.), GORSSBERG L, (ed.), MORRIS M, (ed.). New Keywords : a revised vocabulary of culture and Society. Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2005. 454 p.


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namespace Application\Migrations;

use Doctrine\DBAL\Migrations\AbstractMigration;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Schema;

/**
 * Auto-generated Migration: Please modify to your needs!
 */
class Version20160604180625 extends AbstractMigration
{
    /**
     * @param Schema $schema
     */
    public function up(Schema $schema)
    {
        // this up() migration is auto-generated, please modify it to your needs
        $this->abortIf($this->connection->getDatabasePlatform()->getName() != 'mysql', 'Migration can only be executed safely on \'mysql\'.');

        $this->addSql('ALTER TABLE user ADD online TINYINT(1) NOT NULL, CHANGE last_auth last_ping DATETIME DEFAULT NULL');
    }

    /**
     * @param Schema $schema
     */
    public function down(Schema $schema)
    {
        // this down() migration is auto-generated, please modify it to your needs
        $this->abortIf($this->connection->getDatabasePlatform()->getName() != 'mysql', 'Migration can only be executed safely on \'mysql\'.');

        $this->addSql('ALTER TABLE user DROP online, CHANGE last_ping last_auth DATETIME DEFAULT NULL');
    }
}

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You can now watch The Afghan Whigs' latest video for "Matamoros," the second single from the band's critically acclaimed album Do to the Beast.
The Afghan Whigs world tour in support of Do to the Beast has been extended to include late summer & fall dates for North America.
Do to the Beast, the new album from The Afghan Whigs, has entered the Billboard charts at the following positions on the first week of release.
Sub Pop has acknowledged a problem with Side D on the first pressing of The Afghan Whigs album Do to the Beast.
Summerskiss.com on the Dig Me Out podcast to discuss The Afghan Whigs' history as well as the new album Do to the Beast.
Afghan Whigs setlist and video from Coachella 2014, weekend #1.
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This month's blog is about the one of the most useful enhancements of BMC Remedy AR System version 8.1.00, Email-based approvals. Many of our customers have already started taking benefit of this new feature. So, this blog will help you understand the functional behavior, configuration, and basic troubleshooting of this feature.
This enhancement enables you to approve or reject the approvals via email itself. You can directly respond to the pending approval without logging into the application from the Notification email that you receive. This email contains key information about the change request pulled from the notification message with hyperlinks to Approve, Reject, and Launch Approval Central.
The BMC Remedy IT Service Management email-based approval is not same as the BMC Remedy AR System email-based approval feature, even though it uses the same logic. The Notification Engine helps in rendering BMC Remedy IT Service Management notifications. So, the logic behind this feature is to send notifications with the email-based approvals feature enabled, so that you can approve or reject the approval using the notification email.
Approval notifications are triggered by the BMC Remedy Approval Server and not by individual applications. Whenever you add an approver into the BMC Change Management application, it creates a signature and then the BMC Remedy Approval Server triggers the notification. So, individual applications do not trigger the notifications, they just manage the notification messages that they want to send to the end user for approval.
The BMC Remedy Approval Server and the Notification Engine go hand-in-hand to result in this functionality. The AR System Email Templates form stores the structure of the approval email message and the  of the email is stored within the notification message template in the SYS:Notification Messages form.
Clicking on either the Approve or Reject links open an email for the configured mailbox user with the respective subject. Just sending this email (without modifying the text) registers the approver's response in the system.
The approver receives a confirmation email depicting the success of the approval or rejection by email.
If you configure the Require Password and Require Justification on Rejection parameters (related to the approval process) as Yes, the email appears without the Approve or Reject links as shown below. In this case, you must approve the request by logging into Approval Central.
For more information, see the BMC Online Technical Documentation portal: Approving or rejecting requests via email.
Before you configure the email-based approvals, make sure that the required mailboxes are configured so that the user can receive the notification email. For more information about configuring mailboxes, see Configuring Remedy Email Engine.
To configure the email-based approvals, see Configuring email-based approvals. One important Incoming Mailbox configuration is to set Email Action to Parse and Enable Modify Action to Yes as shown below.
Make sure that the escalations are enabled, as the escalations trigger approval notifications. This configuration can be done through AR System Administration Console > Server Information > Configuration tab > Disable Escalations. This parameter must be deselected for the OOB escalations to fire.
Set the Default Web Path and Email Notification Web Path (for example, http://midtier:port<if-any>/contextPath). The Email Notification Web Path specifies the base URL that appears in email notifications and can be different than the Default Web Path.
Configure the respective approval process by setting the values of Require Password? to No and Require Justification on Rejection to No. For this, navigate to Quick Links > Approval Administration Console and select the process, for example, Show For Process = Change Level CI-IA – Review and view it from the Process tab. You will find these settings under the Basic and Configuration tabs.
Make sure that the email-based approvals for your company (or Global) is Enabled. This is the only configuration that is performed through BMC Remedy IT Service Management. For out-of-the-box, this is enabled for the Global company record; however, when you upgrade to BMC Remedy IT Service Management version 8.1.00, the email-based approvals are disabled. You must manually enable them after the upgrade. For more information about the step-by-step instructions about how to enable or disable the email-based approvals, see Enabling email-based approvals.
The following workflow is executed while generating the notification message for the approval assignment event.
On the <CHG:ChangeAPDetailSignature> three-way join form, the AP:Notify-xxxxx filters perform the set field action using the notification tag from the AP:Notification form.
1: Call Guide "AP:Workflow Notifications Guide"
This pushes the data into NTE:SYS-NT Process Control, where the data is pulled from SYS:Notification Messages.
0: Push Fields -> "NTE:SYS-NT Process Control"
Followed by this, workflow then generates the message as per the email template defined for the approval assignment notifications. It then sends the notification to the user from the AR email messages form record.
> Email Message Body (1000000827) =
 …… ……. ……..
This data gets pushed into the NTE:Notifier form during which the "Reply To" mail id is processed from AR System Mailbox Configuration and the AR Server is notified using the Notify action that creates the record into the AR System Email Messages form.
> 0: Push Fields -> "NTE:Notifier"
The email-based approvals do not work if you configure the values for the Require Password? or Require Justification on Rejection parameters to Yes for the approval process. This is because, when you approve using an email, it is not trustworthy to provide password for security reasons. You will get the notification email, but without the Approve and Reject links in the email. In this case, you need to approve or reject the request from Approval Central.
For the BMC Service Request Management approval email notifications, the Request ID hyperlink is not available to view the details of request as the request details open in a dialog box. This hyperlink is available for the applications like BMC Change Management, BMC Release Management, BMC Asset Management, and BMC Remedy Knowledge Management.
Make sure that the email-based approval is configured and is enabled. For more information, see the Configuration section of this blog.
Set the values for the Require Password? or Require Justification on Rejection parameters to No.
Navigate to the Approval Administration Console and under the Notification tab, make sure that the approval notification for the New Approval record is Active. If the record is already in the Active status mode, then change its status from Active to Inactive to Active again. This generates filters in the backend that are responsible for triggering notifications.
The email mailbox is configured with different users (AR System Email Mailbox Configuration form). So, make sure that the 'To' email id (Outgoing) is the same for which you have configured the incoming mailbox (Email Server User). The mailbox associated with the outgoing mailbox is preferred for sending notifications. If an email is sent to a different email id, BMC Remedy Email Engine disregards such an email from the exchange server.
Check the default web path configuration in the Server Information form.
Additionally, the approval email is not populating the values for the Approve or Reject options in Internet Explorer and Firefox. The email composer opens with either a blank window or with incomplete content. A defect (SW00460410) was created for this and has been fixed in BMC Remedy AR System version 8.1.00 Service Pack 1.
Note: The Lotus client ignores the text following second hash (#) character, because of which the Lotus Notes email-based client approvals do not work. When a user responds to the pending approval using a fixed formatted email (do not modify), the Lotus client erases the reply email content after the second # character, the approval does not register in the system. For Lotus Notes, this functionality has not been tested.
We hope that you find this blog post useful to understand Email-Based approvals. We welcome your comments and feedback that you may have regarding this article.
You can find similar posts at BMC Remedy Pulse Blogs.
Re: Email based approval is not working.


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namespace backend\modules\options\models;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Model;
use yii\data\ActiveDataProvider;
use backend\modules\options\models\Options;

/**
 * OptionsSearch represents the model behind the search form about `backend\modules\options\models\Options`.
 */
class OptionsSearch extends Options
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['id', 'dt_add', 'dt_update'], 'integer'],
            [['opt_key', 'opt_value', 'opt_title'], 'safe'],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function scenarios()
    {
        // bypass scenarios() implementation in the parent class
        return Model::scenarios();
    }

    /**
     * Creates data provider instance with search query applied
     *
     * @param array $params
     *
     * @return ActiveDataProvider
     */
    public function search($params)
    {
        $query = Options::find();

        $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
            'query' => $query,
        ]);

        $this->load($params);

        if (!$this->validate()) {
            // uncomment the following line if you do not want to return any records when validation fails
            // $query->where('0=1');
            return $dataProvider;
        }

        $query->andFilterWhere([
            'id' => $this->id,
            'dt_add' => $this->dt_add,
            'dt_update' => $this->dt_update,
        ]);

        $query->andFilterWhere(['like', 'opt_key', $this->opt_key])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'opt_value', $this->opt_value])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'opt_title', $this->opt_value]);

        return $dataProvider;
    }
}


Staff at the National Institute for Health Research Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (NIHR SRMRC) teamed up with the Critical Care team at QEHB and QEHB Charity to take on the 25-mile trek on Saturday, June 6.
The team was joined by former QEHB patients Karl Hinett, who suffered severe burns after being involved in a petrol bomb explosion whilst serving the military in Iraq, and Rory Curtis, a member of the NIHR SRMRC Patient and Public Involvement Group.
Their efforts were rewarded with the news that the challenge has helped to raise more £1,000 for trauma research.
Sister Aisling Clarkson, senior trauma research nurse in the SRMRC, led the group, who faced winds of up to 50 miles per hour throughout the 13 hour hike.
"Completing the trek was extremely challenging due to the adverse weather conditions. Every time we thought we couldn't go on we kept reminding ourselves why we were out there, and that every step we took would help us raise money for research into the care of future trauma patients at QEHB.
The team plan to continue their fundraising efforts over the coming months, starting with a charity head shaving event in partnership with qualified Barber and former SRMRC research participant Rory Curtis.
All proceeds from the Yorkshire Dales Three Peaks Challenge and future fundraising events will go into QEHB Charity's Trauma Research Fund, which has been founded specifically to support the SRMRC's innovative research. Justine Davy, head of fundraising, said, "We are proud to collaborate with the SRMRC, whose research investigates novel methods for treating trauma patients from the point of injury through to post-hospital care.
If you would like to support the team and donate to the QEHB Charity Trauma Research Fund please visit https://www.justgiving.com/nihr-srmrc-researchteam/. For more information about the NIHR SRMRC visit www.srmrc.nihr.ac.uk.


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Q: MultipleSiteBindingsEnabled in .NET 3.5 This is a strange one:
The official MSDN documentation for MultipleSiteBindingsEnabled says it's only a .NET 4.0+ feature: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.configuration.servicehostingenvironmentsection.multiplesitebindingsenabled(v=vs.110).aspx
and if you search online for "MultipleSiteBindingsEnabled" you'll find other SO questions and blog postings about people searching for a .NET 3.5 equivalent.
...yet it working for me in my WCF 3.5 application running in a .NET 2.0 Application Pool in IIS, in fact I don't think the server has .NET 4.0 installed at all.
I poked around with Reflector and saw that ServiceHostingEnvironment.MultipleSiteBindingsEnabled did exist within the assembly, screenshot proof (bonus: it says it's in the 3.0.0.0 version of the assembly too!)

I'm wondering if anyone can explain this. This can't be a 3.5 SP1 change as there's no mention of it on the changes page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc836419.aspx


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