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Q: Redirect HTTP to HTTPS using IIS is not working for SharePoint Site I have a Web Application. Its AAM is as follows-
Zone         Public URL for Zone
Default      http://sharepoint:46543
Internet     http://abc.something.com
Custom       https://abc.something.com

Before using IIS Rewrite module, if I access the site from any Zone it works fine.
But once I configure Rewrite module as following-
Match URL Section
Requested URL               = Matches the Pattren
Using                       = Regular Expression
Pattren = (.*)

Conditioins
Logical Grouping            = Match All
Condition Input             = {HTTPS}
Check if input string       = Matches the pattren
Pattren                     = ^OFF$

Actions
Action Type                  = Redirect
Redirect URL                 = https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}
Append Query String          = True
Redirect Type                = See Other (303)

If I try to access the site on the Web Front Server i.e. using Default Zone http://sharepoint:46543 the website does not open. Even Central Administration stop opening at this time.
If I try to access Internet Zone http://abc.something.com then it gets redirected to Custom Zone https://abc.something.com but it does not open the site. Even if I try to access Custom Zone site by directly entering the URL, it does not open.
What am I doing wrong?

A: The configuration looks correct.  The only difference I have is the Redirect type as a Found(302).
Your testing on the server - by default you won't be able to access due to the loop back check. in Registry HKEY_LM\System\CCS\Control\LSA\MSV1.0 find the BackConnectionsHostsNames multi string value and enter the name of your share point site there (abc.something.com)
If your test is failing from off-box, it's not the loop back.  In this case ensure Firewall is allowing requests, IIS bindings are configured for both port 80 and 443 (and certificate is assigned).  If you have multiple sites listening on same IP/Port you have to use host headers or IIS will not start all of the sites.

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Because it's easier to cross the Rio Grande and Sonora desert than 6,000 miles of Pacific Ocean.
Well, they should keep going because that's where the jobs are at.
In point of fact they're half right. We did take the southwest from mexico. Now they want it back...........and they're getting it back and then some.
Pretty much every country on this planet gained and lost land due to war. Mexico is no exception. And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't it the Spanish who conquered it? So it belongs to the Europeans then. So would Mexico.
I've no doubt you're 100% right -- and that is certainly nothing new in US history. I do think that if you take the approach of controlling the flow rather than stopping it you can help fluency in English as well. Make it in their best interests to learn to speak English fluently. You're holding out the carrot of citizenship and no longer having to worry about being deported at a moment's notice. Learning the language suddenly becomes a really, really good idea. And it also likely becomes a mass-movement. Spanish speaking only communities would undoubtedly help each other out learning English.
I expect that there will be a lot of English as a Second Language communities for a long time to come, especially in border states. But you can at least make things better than they are now.
Throwing up a metaphorical dam with no spillway and expecting that you've now stopped the flow of water completely: That's just idiocy. Won't work.
Allowing your nation to simply be occupied one county at a time is what constitutes idiocy.
The spanish took it from a number of indian tribes/nations. In what we call the american southwest the spanish pretty fought constantly with indigenous tribes. After the mexicans threw the spanish out they then fought constantly with the indigenous tribes before losing it all to the whites who moved into first texas then the other territories. I'll give the mexicans credit. They are doing the very same thing we did to them. I'm guessing the mexicans themselves had appeasers as we do. How ironic.
Our government turning a blind eye while our nation has been for the past 25 years occupied by wave after wave after wave of undocumented, illegal citizens of other nations, people who overstay visas, people who come here with zero documentation, people who take advantage of our system of education for free, our welfare system for free, and our national birthright citizenship rule constitutes complete and total meltdown idiocy.
And it continues today. And nobody is doing anything about it.
Our country is bleeding and there's too much partisan politics about it.
We need to do what's in the best interest of our social welfare (not "welfare benefits" but national sanity welfare) and economic recovery of this nation because we've (the government has) been crazy and blind for the past 25 years to what is really going on in this country as far as illegal immigration stands.
Do you have proof of this or is this more anti-American crap coming from a leftist?
Many mexicans do have a very good work ethic. It doesn't last much beyond the first generation tho.
Because at the time, the USA welcomed all comers. There were no limits on how many people could immigrate to the USA.
Right because the Irish spoke English as their first language. On the other hand, Danes, Germans, Russians, Polish and a whole range of immigrants who did not speak English as their first language were left alone and many of them spent a few generations not speaking English. The difference wasn't language, it was that they came with money. The Irish came flat broke, but virtually all spoke English just fine.
Having said that, I think it's a perfectly reasonable minimum expectation that they be required to learn English in order to become citizens. With the reward of US citizenship dangling before them, I think they will learn English for it. Right now though, the illegals have no reason to bother.
To a degree, but a huge segment of US culture as we know it boils down to us adopting Irish customs. Why else do we care about St Patrick's Day? In my experience, Latin American immigrants (legal or illegal) are one generation away from assimilation. The children of such immigrants speak fluent English and are as American as you please. A lot of that next generation has to relearn Spanish later on because they forget how to speak it.
A former coworker of mine is the classic case story we hear all the time. His parents came into the USA to -- legally in this case -- as a young couple. They were going to work hard, save a ton of money and then go back to Mexico and live like kings. Well, the problem they didn't count on: Their kids never lived anywhere but the USA and they were miserable when they got to Mexico. It didn't take long for his parents to give up and move back the the USA for good. This scenario is commonplace. Their kids only barely speak Spanish. They're as American as you can be.
To be clear, I don't want the USA to turn into an extension of Latin America. I don't speak Spanish. I don't think I should be required to learn Spanish. I don't think we need to compromise on this issue. And I'm not Latino so it's not like I've got any ax to grind here. I'm a mutt-mix of Scandinavian, German and Scottish.
I'm just pointing out the obvious: The current approach is doomed to fail. Another approach is going to need to be figured out. If they want in badly you can't build a wall that is high enough and thick enough to stop them. They'll find a way to get here. Right now we're fighting an impossible fight. Its never going to work.
Yes secure the border, but at the same time open things up for more Hispanics to immigrate legally.
Think of it like a dam. You have control of the flow to some extent but you have to let water through. Sometimes you have to let more water through than normal to keep the water from going over the top of the dam.
This is a rational, well-though out post, and I agree with most of what you're saying. Wherever in the world you have a wealthier country next to a poorer one with a high number of poorer citizens and an excess labor pool, you're going to have a case where people are going to try to migrate. It's inevitable, the best we can do is secure the border and have a more realistic immigration policy.
That isn't true. The democratic party is pretty much counting on it continuing. Expect some very good legislation coming down the pike similar to the recent legislation and perks offered to gays this last year for hispanics. It'll be a good ol' time down at the dnc this next election cycle.
There were limits to European immigrants if you look at our immigration history.
Ok, then, at least according to your logic, Mexico should be given back to the ( if there are any remaining) tribes. lol.
There's no credit one could give anybody. It''s history. Has nothing to do with anything that happens in 2011.


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NINA MKHIZE FOR REMEMBRANCE CONCERT
(Nina Mkhize. Pic by Simanga Zondo)
In association with Concerts SA and The Luthuli Museum, iSupport Music Business presents Nina Mkhize Live in concert at the 50 years Remembrance Concert of Chief Albert Luthuli.
Vocalist Mkhize and her band will visit Groutville on July 22 at 11h00 where she will grace the stage at The Groutville Market Grounds as part of the 50 years Remembrance Celebrations of The Luthuli Museum. Alongside her, the local poet Let Da Poet will perform. The concert will be free of charge.
Nina Mkhize is a jazz trained vocalist and composer and two-time winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters Awards from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Her repertoire includes original jazz and African music compositions and renditions of art songs standards. Her contralto voice has been described as breathy and sultry, and the style of her music ranges from swing to funk to boss nova. Many of the songs she performs are original compositions.
Mkhize counts the late Bheki Mseleku as one of her greatest influences, whom she met while a student at the now-defunct music school at the Durban Institute of Technology now housed at UKZN. In 2004, she performed as a guest singer as part of Mseleku's communal at the Melody International Festival at the Mmabatho International Convention Centre.
Performance work has seen her front as a singer for the Shuttle Band, a Commission by the Nordic Council of Ministers which saw a collaboration between an ensemble of South African and Scandinavian musicians which included the late Ray Phiri, the late Gito Baloi, Concord Nkabinde (SA) and Stien Casternsen, Bendik Hofseth, Ricard Nettermalm (Norway). Formerly, she has led the Standard Bank Youth Jazz Band under the direction of saxophonist Barney Rachabane at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Her film work with Dr Sazi Dlamini has seen her contribute her singing and scoring talents on soundtracks for the documentary Bhambayi and movies Sky in Her Eyes and Izulu Lami -a winner of the Djibril Diop Mamberty Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
As a well-travelled performer Mkhize has played at an array of stages such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, SA 10thDemocracy Celebrations in Brazil, the Indoni Cultural, Joy of Jazz and Unyazi Electrical Music Festivals.
Additionally she has recorded with and performed on albums by Busi Mhlongo (Indiza), Ian Henderson (Free Falling) and Nibs Van Der Spuy (Flower in the Rain) while appearing in concert alongside Nduduzo Makhathini, Herbie Tsoaeli, Ayanda Sikade, trumpeter Feya Faku and famed Malombo sideman percussionist Gabriel Mabi Thobejane.
Following an erratic concert and recording schedule with minimal appearances in the live music circuit, she recently featured her voice on the Rhythms Del Mundo sessions by the Grammy award winning songwriter and producer Kenny Young, and has appeared as a guest singer on the Warm Days Ensemble, an outfit by DJ and producer QB Smith, which saw her perform alongside composer Thandi Ntuli, bassist Thembinkosi Mavimbela, percussionist El Hadji and house music vocalist Khensy.
She instructs learners on a part-time basis on voice and music theory at Umlazi Comtech. She hopes to release her album of original music, inspired by a culmination of life experiences in the world soon-to which she attests have helped expand world view, thus growing her writing talents as an artist which chronicle her journey through life in the jazz & African music idioms.
Nina's band for this performance would be Nina Mkhize on vocals, Mandla Zikalala on bass guitar, Bucco Xaba on drums and Mthobisi Mthalane on piano.
Let Da Poet, Lethu Nkwanyana, is a humble man who expresses his love for God and creation through a simple way of putting words on paper turning them into poetry, which was first realised in the year 2012 at his local church thereafter his art grew. for he believes that God is the ultimate poet so he simply Lets Da Poet Speak. A versatile Christian poet, who has an exuberant stage presence.
This concert is part of the Luthuli Legacy Walk and Half Marathon and the Concerts SA Venue Circuit. The 11,5 km walk will commemorate Chief Luthuli's final walk to the railway bridge where there was allegedly a train accident that led to his untimely death. The walk will end at The Groutville Market Grounds where the concert will take place.
The concert takes place on July 22 at 11h00 at the Groutville Market Grounds from 11h00. Entrance: is free.

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The Library Hotspot lending program was first piloted by New York Public Library (NYPL) over the spring 2014 using 100 Wi-Fi modems with unlimited 4G data plans provided through Mobile Beacon. The catalyst for the pilot began after a survey of patrons revealed that 55 percent of those utilizing free Internet and computers in NYPL's branches did not have broadband access at home. When household income dropped below $25,000, that percentage increased to 65 percent.
While NYPL has provided a significant bridge to this digital divide through hosting 3.1 million computing sessions and providing patrons with access to 1,539 laptops, sessions are limited to 40 minutes and seating is limited. NYPL set out to demonstrate a new model of public service by "loaning out the Internet" via portable Wi-Fi modems to underserved patrons.
This pilot helped 100 patrons participating in one of NYPL's Out of School Time (OST) programs to "borrow the Internet" for six months. Key findings from the initial pilot include:
Patrons spent an average of three hours per day using the Internet (compared to a 40-minute session using a library workstation).
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86% of pilot participants reported they would renew this service.
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The R&D Dept.: Local patents for 1.13.21
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High speed poucher
Patent No. 10,870,503
An apparatus and methods for producing at extremely high production speeds small pouches filled with tobacco or other granular, powdered or solid content. An endless web substrate, with or without flavor film thereon, is formed into a tubular shape with a longitudinal seam. The tube is cut to individual lengths, and a procession of tubes is crimp-closed at one end, filled and crimp-closed at the other end to complete pouch production. During production, the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch are parallel to one another and the longitudinal seam of the pouch is midway between the sides of the pouch and orthogonal to the seams formed at the crimped ends of the pouch.
Inventors: Martin T. Garthaffner (Chesterfield, Virginia), Dwight D. Williams (Powatan, Virginia), Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Virginia), David J. Webb (Jeffersonton, Virginia), Carl G. Miller (Richmond)
Assignee: Philip Morris USA (Richmond)
Prodrug and protected forms of 5-hydroxymethylfurfuranal (5-HMF) and its derivatives
Prodrugs and derivatives of 5-hydoxymethyl-2-furfural (5-HMF) with protected or modified aldehyde and/or alcohol moieties are provided. The prodrugs or derivatives exhibit increased bioavailability, e.g. due to having extended half-lives in circulation. The drugs are therefore administered i) at lower doses and/or ii) less frequently than 5-HMF, while still maintaining the beneficial therapeutic effects of 5-HMF.
Inventors: Martin K. Safo (Richmond), Guoyan Xu (Richmond), Yan Zhang (Richmond), Osheiza Abdulmalik (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) & The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Symmetrically dynamic equalized volume and pressure air management system
An air management system for a vehicle having a first pneumatic circuit and a second pneumatic circuit, in which the first and second pneumatic circuits are pneumatically connected in a neutral position via a cross-flow mechanism. The first pneumatic circuit includes a first leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a first side of the vehicle. The second pneumatic circuit includes a second leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a second side of the vehicle. The first and second leveling valves are configured to establish pneumatic communication between the first and second pneumatic circuits when the first leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the first side of the vehicle and the second leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the second side of the vehicle.
Inventors: Matthew Vaughan (Blacksburg, Virginia), David Bryan Lewis (Amelia Court House, Virginia), Joseph Calaway (Camden, Michigan), George Arrants (Richmond)
Assignee: Base Air Management Ltd (Sydney, Austalia)
Product portion enrobing process and apparatus
An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include a polymer spray head arranged to direct a plurality of polymeric fibers in an upward direction and levitate product portions in a polymer enrobing zone above the polymer spray head. Polymeric fibers produced by the polymer spray head can wrap around the product portions levitated in the polymer enrobing zone to create an enrobed product. Side guide structure(s) and/or air knife(s) can be provided adjacent to the polymer enrobing zone to inhibit levitated product portions from falling out of the polymer enrobing zone and/or to guide levitated product portions along a desired path. Exemplary enrobed products include smokeless tobacco products.
Inventors: James David Evans (Chesterfield, Virginia), Andrew Nathan Carroll (Chester, Virginia), Shannon Maxwell Black (Richmond)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richmond)
Method of inserting a removable insulator into an e-vaping device
The method includes configuring a power supply to send an electrical current to a heater in an e-vaping device, the power supply and the heater being in an electrical circuit. The method further includes inserting a removable insulator between electrical elements to disrupt the electrical circuit, the electrical elements being both electrically conductive and electrically passive elements that are in the electrical circuit.
Inventors: Jarrett Keen (Richmond), Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Virginia)
Electronic smoking article
An electronic smoking article includes an outer housing extending in the longitudinal direction, a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize at least a portion of the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol, a power supply operable to apply voltage across the heater, at least one light emitting diode, a charging button assembly including a conductive post operable to form a first external, electrical contact at the upstream end of the electronic smoking article, and a second external, electrical contact including a portion of an outer surface of the outer housing at the upstream end of the electronic smoking article. The first and second external, electrical contacts charge the power supply.
Inventors: David R. Schiff (Highland Park, Virginia), Chris Phelan (Richmond), Eric Hawes (Glen Allen, Virginia), Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic (Richmond), Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Virginia)
E-vapor device including capsule containing pre-vapor formulation
An e-vapor device may include a capsule, a mouthpiece configured to receive the capsule, and a vaporizer configured to engage with the mouthpiece to enclose the capsule therebetween. The capsule is configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation therein. The vaporizer is configured to pierce the capsule to access the pre-vapor formulation therein and to heat the pre-vapor formulation to generate a vapor. Additionally, the vaporizer may be configured to cease a heating of the pre-vapor formulation when a current in the heater structure is less than a reference level. Accordingly, the occurrence of an unpleasant taste resulting from overheating may be reduced or prevented.
Inventor: David Alvarez (Richmond)
Systems and methods for managing electronic communications
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic communications. According to certain embodiments, an enterprise directory is provided for listing a plurality of enterprises. In one embodiment, the enterprise directory may include an enterprise profile for each enterprise identifying, among other things, a mode of communication for the enterprise. Enterprises that wish to communicate with one another may form partnerships with one another. In one embodiment, a partnership may be formed between two enterprises when one enterprise accepts a partnership request submitted by the other enterprise. Information regarding partnerships between enterprises may be stored in a database. Further, an enterprise user may request to electronically communicate (e.g., via IM, voice, or email) with a user associated with a different enterprise. Users associated with different enterprises may be allowed to communicate electronically with one another if their respective enterprises are in a partnership with one another.
Inventors: Robert West (Chantilly, Virginia), Charles G. Woods (Richmond), Andrew B. Warner (Cape Coral, Florida), Donald Le (Herndon, Virginia)
Assignee: Verizon Media (New York, New York)
Electronic vaping device
In one embodiment, the electronic vaping device includes a cartridge and a battery section. The cartridge and the battery section are connectable so as to define an air inlet between a portion of the cartridge and a portion of the battery section.
Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Virginia), Geoffrey Brandon Jordan (Midlothian, Virginia), Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Virginia), Ali A. Rostami (Glen Allen, Virginia), Michael J. Mullins (Richmond)
Integral porous fiber media with distinguishable density or fiber diameters
The instant disclosure relates to an integral porous fiber media with distinguishable distribution of fiber density, fiber diameter and capillary force. The instant disclosure further relates to a fiber porous media that includes multiple density portions. The disclosed media is a single piece, such that the different density portions are not separable. The disclosed media provides improved liquid delivery properties for a specific liquid delivery device.
Inventors: David Harris (Midlothian, Virginia), Yelena Rogova (Richmond), Qiang Zhou (Moseley, Virginia), Guoqiang Mao (Smyrna, Georgia)
Assignee: Porex Technologies Corp. (Colonial Heights, Virginia)
Metal detection device and methods of operation thereof
Disclosed are methods and devices for detecting retained surgical items or other objects having a magnetic signature within a corpus of a patient. The device can comprise a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, and a distal sensing portion positioned distally of the shaft. The distal sensing portion can comprise one or more gradiometers comprising a plurality of magnetometers. The device can further comprise one or more output components configured to generate a user output to alert a user of a detected object.
Inventors: Luke W. Clauson (Reno, Nevada), Matthew Byrnes Newell (Reno, Nevada), Nicholas G. Lewis (Sparks, Nevada), Michael A. Raye (Reno, Nevada), Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada), Samuel A. Weprin (Richmond)
Assignee: Melzi Corp. (Los Altos, California)
Cartridge and e-vaping device
A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.
Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov (North Miami Beach, Florida), Yuval Malka (Richmond), Rangaraj S. Sundar (Richmond), Isaac Weigensberg (Richmond), David Rubli (Revava, Israel), Moshe Eliyahu (Beit Shemesh, Israel), Arye Weigensberg (Richmond), Christopher S. Tucker (Midlothian, Virginia)
Non-combustible vaping element with tobacco insert
An e-vaping device may include a pre-vapor formulation tank configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation, an adaptor that includes a vaporizer assembly configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation, and a flavor insert positioned to receive vapors formed by the vaporizer assembly. The flavor insert may hold at least one flavorant. The tank, adaptor, and flavor insert may be a non-combustible vaping element that includes a channel into which the flavor insert may be inserted to be positioned to receive the vapors. The flavor insert and the vaporizer assembly may be at opposing ends of the channel. The flavor insert may be a detachable insert configured to be inserted into the tank element. The flavor element may be a tobacco element. The tobacco element may be at least a portion of a cigarette.
Inventors: San Li (Richmond), Ben Ragland (Providence Force, Virginia), Diane Gee (Richmond), Raquel Olegario (Richmond)
Use of pectin or other anionic polymers in the stabilization and controlled release of nicotine in oral sensorial tobacco products or nicotine containing non-tobacco oral sensorial products
The use of pectins and/or polymers to prevent nicotine oxidation in tobacco containing products is disclosed. These polymers may be naturally occurring anionic polymers or synthetic polymers. These pectins and/or polymers prevent nicotine from oxidizing into cotinine, nicotine-cis-N-oxide, nicotine-trans-N-oxide, and/or nicotine-1,1-di-N-oxide. Molluscicides, algaecides, pesticides, and stabilized nicotine compositions comprising nicotine and pectin, anionic polymers, or combinations thereof are disclosed.
Inventors: Munmaya K. Mishra (Manakin Sabot, Virginia), Jason Flora (Richmond), Georgios D. Karles (Richmond), Christophe Claude Galopin (Chesterfield, Virginia), Diane Gee (Chesterfield, Virginia), John B. Paine III (Midlothian, Virginia), Douglas Antonio Fernandez (Richmond)
Smokeless tobacco article
A method for making a smokeless tobacco article can include combining thermoplastic polymer particles with tobacco particles to form a mixture of particles, compressing the mixture of particles within a pressing apparatus to form the mixture into a predetermined shape, separating the mixture from the pressing apparatus such that it retains the predetermined shape, and heating the mixture outside of the pressing apparatus to at least partially melt at least some of the thermoplastic polymer particles and form a matrix of polymer and tobacco particles.
Inventors: Gregory James Griscik (Midlothian, Virginia), Carl Gregory Miller (Richmond)
Multi-barrier wellbore integrity inspection system with eccentricity correction
A downhole inspection system includes a neutron imaging device operable to generate data for detecting potential wellbore anomalies and an electromagnetic imaging device operable to generate data for detecting potential wellbore eccentricity. The neutron imaging device includes a neutron generator operable to emit neutrons, and a neutron detector fixed relative to the neutron generation unit and operable to detect backscattered neutrons from a surrounding environment. The electromagnetic imaging device includes at least one transmitter for generating electromagnetic pulse, and at least one receiver for detecting returning electromagnetic pulse. Correlation of the neutron imaging data with the electromagnetic imaging data provides additional data regarding the potential wellbore anomalies.
Inventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten (Niskayuna, New York), Yuri Plotnikov (Chesterfield, Virginia), Adrian Ivan (Niskayuna, New York), William Robert Ross (Rotterdam, New York)
Assignee: GE Energy Oilfield Technology (Broussard, Louisiana)
Browser extension for limited-use secure token payment
Methods and systems for a browser extension system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension server includes a communication device configured to communicate with a first computing device executing a browser extension application and a web browser application and a second computing device executing an authentication application. The browser extension server further includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving from the first computing device an indication of a financial service account associated with the first computing device, detecting a payment field in a web page provided by the computing device through the web browser application and, in response, generating a secure token mapped to the financial service account. The operations may further include sending the second computing device an authentication request, receiving an authentication response, and populating the payment field with the secure token.
Inventors: Matthew de Ganon (Hartsdale, New York), Kunal Arora (Great Falls, Virginia), Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Virginia), Daniel Kahn (San Francisco, California), Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Virginia), Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Capital One Services (McLean, Virginia)
Systems and methods for cryptographic authentication of contactless cards
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between contactless card and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, the contactless card may be configured to create a cryptogram based on a plurality of keys and a counter. The cryptogram may be transmitted to the receiving device. The contactless card may be configured to transmit a one-time password to the client device. The counter value may be adjusted each time the one-time password is generated, and the counter may be configured to increment in a non-monotonic sequence, the sequence associated with one or more cryptographic algorithms.
Inventors: James Ashfield (Midlothian, Virginia), William Duane (Westford, Massachusetts), Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts)
Performing hierarchical provenance collection
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying an event within a system; applying a model to the event to create an aggregated event; and storing the aggregated event.
Inventors: James Collins Davis (Richmond), Lukas Rupprecht (San Jose, California), Deepavali Bhagwat (Cupertino, California), Constantine Arnold (San Jose, California), Wayne Sawdon (San Jose, California)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, New York)
Regimens of tafenoquine for prevention of malaria in malaria-naive subjects
Methods of prevention of symptomatic malaria in a malaria-naive, G6PD-normal human subject comprising administering to the human subject a compound of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I). A compound of Formula (I) can be administered prior to potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, during potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, and after potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium. The methods of the invention also pertains to kits comprising specific doses of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), and instructions for administration of dosing quantity and frequency. The methods of the invention also pertain to determining doses of Formula (I) that meet the general regulatory requirement for a drug to be efficacious in the prevention of malaria in malaria-naive subjects. The methods of the invention further pertain to using the described algorithm to derive dosing regimens which can provide protection against symptomatic malaria in malaria-naive, G6PD-normal subjects. ##STR00001##
Inventors: Geoffrey S. Dow (Washington, D.C,), Bryan L. Smith (Chevy Chase, Maryland), John P. Jones (Richmond), Moshe Shmuklarsky (Bethesda, Maryland), Budda Balasubrahmanyam (Richmond)
Assignee: 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals LLC (Washington, D.C.) & The Government Of The United States As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army (Fort Detrick, Maryland)
Systems, devices, and methods for position monitoring and motion compensation
A motion compensation system includes a plurality of RF transmitters, a plurality of direction of arrival sensors, and a positioning table which together are usable to compensate for intrafraction motion of a patient during a medical procedure. The positioning table may be a secondary table arranged next to or above a primary table such as a radiotherapy couch, allowing for repositioning of part of patient such as the head and neck relative to a remainder of the body. The motion compensation system employs a direction of arrival sensor that includes rotating antenna elements in a configuration that improves the ease and accuracy of signal processing and analysis to identify the position of an RF transmitter affixed to a patient. The repositioning table has six degrees of freedom and is safe for use in imaging and radiation intensive environments.
Inventors: Mark Ostyn (Henrico, Virginia), Siyong Kim (Richmond), Woon-Hong Yeo (Richmond), Thomas Dwyer (Richmond), Melvin Rosario (Richmond), Ross Cruikshank (Mechanicsville, Virginia), Daniel Martinez (Ashland, Virginia), Charles Cartin (Richmond)
Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
Support bracket for mounting system
The support bracket includes a major body with a first surface and a second surface, the first surface opposing the second surface. A horizontal shaft extends substantially across an edge of the major body, the horizontal shaft including at least an upper surface, the upper surface extending substantially horizontally away from the first surface of the major body. An engaging structure extends from the major body.
Inventors: James Buck (Richmond), Mike Detenber (Grand Haven, Michigan), Dathan Zang (Richmond), Adam P. Kiteley (Richmond)
Modular machine for processing and/or testing rod-shaped articles, and related methods
A processing machine for rod-shaped articles includes a base frame including a back plate extending upward from the base frame; and a plurality of function modules each adapted to perform a manufacturing function on a rod-shaped article. Each function module includes a mounting plate adapted to removably attach the function module to the back plate as a unit, and a dedicated drive motor supported on the mounting plate and adapted to move at least a portion of the function module. The plurality of function modules includes at least one of a rod infeed module, a hopper module, a drum module, a knife module, and a gluing module. A method of configuring a modular processing machine for rod-shaped articles is also described.
Inventors: Peter Mueller (Richmond), Falk Abel (Richmond), Wilfried Hoffmann (Locust Hill, Virginia)
Assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau GMBH (Hamburg, DE)
Nitrite-degrading and TSNA-degrading bacteria and methods of making and using
Provided herein are bacterial strains that are capable of degrading nitrite and/or TSNAs. Also provided herein are methods of using such bacterial strains to degrade nitrite and/or TSNAs.
Inventors: Ujwala Warek (Chester, Virginia), Mark T. Nielsen (Nicholasville, Kentucky), Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Virginia), Mingwu Cui (Lexington, Kentucky), Xue Luo (Richmond), Xiaohong Jin (Glen Allen, Virginia), Elisabeth Miller (Chesterfield, Virginia), Kwang Choi (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Assignee: Altria Client Services (Richamond)
Slide measuring system for filling pouches and associated method
Systems and methods for measuring tobacco for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to continuously communicate a vacuum to the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is configured to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas that overcomes the vacuum when the tube is in the second position.
Inventors: Herbert C. Longest (Midlothian, Virginia), Jarrold W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Virginia), Tamika S. Murrell (Richmond), Jeremy J. Straight (Midlothian, Virginia), Travis M. Garthaffner (Midlothian, Virginia), Leah A. Meyers (Midlothian, Virginia), James D. Evans (Chesterfield, Virginia)
Methods and compositions related to improved nitrogen utilization efficiency in tobacco
The present disclosure provides metabolic signatures and genetic markers for tracking enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes in tobacco plants and for introgressing enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency phenotypes into tobacco plants. The disclosure also provides tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency and methods to the creation of tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen utilization efficiency. The disclosure also provides recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides for enhancing nitrogen utilization efficiency in modified tobacco plants and tobacco plants comprising the provided recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides.
Inventors: Jesse Frederick (Richmond), Chengalrayan Kudithipudi (Midlothian, Virginia), Dongmei Xu (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Paper-scrim-foil core having extruded polypropylene resin
Embodiments of the invention provide a facer used as protective covering for an insulation product. The facer may include a metallic foil layer, a scrim layer, and a paper layer positioned adjacent the scrim layer. The facer may also include a polypropylene material forming a polypropylene layer positioned adjacent the paper layer and heat bonded to an exposed major surface of the paper layer such that a portion of the polypropylene extends into pores of the paper layer to assist in coupling the polypropylene material to the paper layer.
Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay (Lakewood, Colorado), Anthony Edward Moore (Glen Allen, Virginia), Edward Albert Bright (Littleton, Colorado)
Assignee: Johns Manville (Denver, Colorado)
System and method of obtaining smoking topography data
An exemplary smoking topography circuit of an electronic aerosol smoking article, includes at least one sensor configured to measure user interaction with the smoking article, a processor, and memory. The processor is configured to detect a smoking event based an output of the at least one sensor, collect data associated with the smoking event, and arrange the data in a pattern that associates the smoking event to shifts in battery voltage. The memory is configured to store the data pattern in a structured multi-byte format.
Inventors: Barry S. Smith (Hopewell, Virginia), Douglas A. Burton (Glen Allen, Virginia)
Transaction exchange platform having streaming transaction data and microservices
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
Inventors: Earle Michael Lee (Moseley, Virginia), William Planck (Midlothian, Virginia)
Systems and methods for saw tooth milling to prevent chip fraud
Example embodiments of systems and methods for milling patterns for a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. The chip pocket may include one or more shapes. The one or more shapes may include one or more peaks and one or more valleys. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to at least one surface of the chip. The one or more connections may be placed between at least one of the one or more peaks or one or more valleys.
Inventors: Daniel Herrington (New York, New York), Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Virginia), Tyler Maiman (Melville, New York)
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Bupa's Craigbank Care Home's annual summer fete has been hailed a huge success with the event helping to raise extra funds for the residents' activity fund.
Staff and residents at the home on Glasgow's Saracen Street were thrilled to raise more than £500 from the day.
The day of activities included raffles, tombolas, bottle stalls and cake stands while entertainment was also provided for kids with a treasure chest hunt, face painting and an egg and spoon race.
Local singer, Maggie Dee was also in attendance – alongside a Line Dancing troupe who performed for the guests during the afternoon.
Sandra Reynolds, Home Manager of Bupa's Craigbank Care Home, said: "The fete was a great success, with lots of visitors attending from the local community creating a really positive community feel.
"Events like these are a fantastic way to link with local people and invite them into the home, ensuring residents can socialise more within the wider community.
Staff members, residents and family members are already planning a get-together to discuss how to use the profits from the fete.
Sandra added: "At Craigbank Care Home, we aim to ensure our residents have the best quality of life which is why we let residents decide what they want to spend the activities fund on so that they can do something they truly enjoy.
"Our activities and entertainment go down a storm with residents so we make sure we put as much emphasis into our program as possible and let them decide what they want to do.
Craigbank Care Home is already looking forward to its next fundraising event and hopes to attract even more visitors to the festivities.


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Dems in GOP Districts Are Wholeheartedly Supporting Impeachment
BY Todd Neikirk	December 17, 2019
Impeachment is all but certain to pass in the House of Representatives. The GOP's last hope was to put pressure on congressional Democrats who had recently won Trump districts. This weekend, the President's son, Donald Jr., told Republicans they must bombard these lawmakers with calls and emails.
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The strategy did have a big win over the weekend when Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ) changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. The GOP's momentum, though, has come to a grinding halt as a number of Democrats in moderate districts have pledged to vote yes on impeachment.
The GOP hoped Michigan lawmaker Elissa Slotkin may vote no on impeachment. The Representative, however, published an op-ed supporting impeachment.
Sloktin defended her decision during a Monday Town Hall. "I hope you believe me when I tell you that I made this decision out of principle and out of a duty to defend and protect the Constitution," she said. "I feel that in my bones and I will stick to that regardless of what it does to me politically because this is bigger than politics."
Joe Cunningham, who serves South Carolina's 1st District, was another Republican target. He will also support impeachment. He said in a statement, "We are a nation of laws and no single person is above the rule of law in America. Even the President needs to be held accountable if he violates the Constitution."
This morning, another Democratic Rep. in a swing district, New York's Anthony Brindisi said he will vote to impeach.
Another Democratic freshman from a swing district will vote to impeach: Anthony Brindisi of New York https://t.co/evzLMA3SHl
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 17, 2019
Despite mounting Republican pressure, Minnesota's Collin Peterson is the only Democrat who has said they may vote against impeachment.
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