Hi guys, today was a good day so I ran an easy 6km at Likas Sports Complex. The weather was at 31 degree celsius, hazy and warm. As usual had a cup of long black coffee before the run.
Over these 12 similar activities, you have travelled approximately 73.61 kms at an average pace of roughly 7:41 min/km!
Nice work! Must be tough to stay so consistent -- especially with that heat!
Its tough buddy. Especially full of runners, the air was so congested plus the haze.


Last week saw Cable (GBP/USD) easing against a stronger US Dollar. On Tuesday the Fed chair, Janet Yellen signalled that the Fed is likely to stay the course and raise interest rates in December, even as inflation remains below the central bank's objective.
UK consumer confidence looked uncertain, while house prices weakened. When you combine this with the Rating's agencies downgrading the UK to Aa2, the net result was Cable coming off to below GBP/USD 1.3400.
Watch for news about a possible change at the Fed. President Donald Trump could opt for a Fed boss who might pursue more aggressive policy tightening, not to mention details of the administration's tax plans.
We are anticipating a continued stronger US Dollar and therefore adjusting our expected range down to GBP/USD 1.3200-1.3500.
GBP/USD at 1.3500 proved to be a great level to buy holiday Dollars. Sadly passed for the time being, but 1.3300-1.3400 looks good.


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Q: Como validar um campo de texto com InputVerifier? Normalmente quando preciso validar um campo de texto sem utilizar eventos de ação, utilizo eventos de foco, como os disponíveis pela interface FocusListener.
Neste exemplo, eu verifico se o campo foi preenchido ao perder o foco, e retorno o foco pra ele, com uma borda vermelha, caso não tenha sido preenchido:
textField.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter(){

    Border originalBorder;

    @Override
    public void focusLost(FocusEvent e){

        JTextComponent comp = (JTextComponent) e.getSource();

        if(comp.getText().trim().isEmpty()){
            originalBorder = originalBorder == null ? comp.getBorder() : originalBorder;
            comp.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.red, 2));
            comp.requestFocus();
    } else {
            if(originalBorder != null) {
                input.setBorder(originalBorder);
                originalBorder = null;
            }
        }
});

Porém, descobri que a API swing possui a classe InputVerifier, que me permite fazer a mesma coisa sem ter que gastar listeners de foco, que podem ser úteis para outros recursos.
Como funciona esta classe InputVerifier e como a utilizo para garantir que um campo seja preenchido antes de perder o foco, como no exemplo?

A: O objetivo da classe InputVerifier é permitir o controle da navegação entre componentes de texto através do foco, onde é possível restringir a mudança de campo caso os valores preenchidos neste não atendam a determinado critério definidos no programa.
A classe possui dois métodos abstratos:

*

*public abstract boolean verify(JComponent input){} - este método é quem deve verificar se a informação digitada no campo é válida ou não, através do retorno de um valor boolean. Nele não se deve retornar caixas de diálogo ou equivalentes para exibir ao usuário que a entrada do campo é inválida.

*public boolean shouldYieldFocus(JComponent input){} - este método chama o verify para validar o campo. Ele é invocado quando o usuário tenta mudar o foco do componente a ser validado para outro na mesma janela. Seu retorno é que define se o foco poderá ou não ser alterado, por isso, ele pode ser usado para retornar mensagens na tela, como caixas de diálogo.
Partindo do exemplo proposto, basta configurar um novo InputVerifier para o campo, passando a validação do focusLost para o método verify(), e conforme seu retorno, aplicar as alterações no campo através do método shouldYieldFocus() afim de alertar quanto ao seu preenchimento:
textField.setInputVerifier(new InputVerifier() {

    Border originalBorder;

    @Override
    public boolean verify(JComponent input) {

        JTextField comp = (JTextField) input;
        return !comp.getText().trim().isEmpty();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldYieldFocus(JComponent input) {

        boolean isValid = verify(input);

        if (!isValid) {
            originalBorder = originalBorder == null ? input.getBorder() : originalBorder;
            input.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.red, 2));
        } else {
            if(originalBorder != null) {
                input.setBorder(originalBorder);
                originalBorder = null;
            }
        }
        return isValid;
    }
});

Aplicando ao campo, daria  resultado semelhante ao seguinte:

Obs.: essa validação só vale para navegação através de foco, seja clicando em outros componentes com o mouse ou através da tecla TAB, mas ela não impede que um formulário seja submetido seja através de um ActionListener de um botão ou de outra forma.

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After reading Just My Luck, I decided to check out this book as it was next in the series. Funny story, I have already read it years ago. Still a good buck that made me laugh even knowing what was going to happen. I read it originally before Goodreads and keeping track of things like that.
Anyhoo, I digress. This book is about Talree's (book one hero) mom and dad. How they met and fell in love which of course is how we got Talree. I was impressed with how the H/h get together. Sometimes an author finds something that works in book one and you basically get the same story regurgitated over and over in the sequels. Nope. Gail Koger gave a unique spin on why the Heroine would need the Hero. I wondered at the beginning why a woman who is familiar with Coletti Warlords is not showing much self preservation with one, but you have not met her Dad. I think I will have nightmares about him.
Great book, happy with it even as a re-read. Moving on to book 3.


This week's post is the next 'Brutal Planet' track we will be looking at (if you haven't already, be sure to check out the 'Brutal Planet' post from last October). 'Pick Up The Bones' is this week's focus and lines up perfectly with so much of what is going on in the world. At the time this track was cut, more than 72 wars/altercations were taking place in the world. Genocide was at an all-time high. Can anyone living in a civilized nation with little violence in comparison ever really understand anything like that? One source quoted Alice as saying, "I was watching CNN and there was this guy walking through the rubble in Bosnia and he's got a pillow case and he's picking up bones and saying things like, 'This is my brother, this is my uncle and this is my sister'. It was horrible!" Thanks to Jos Kroes, from the FB Group Ol' Black Eyes, for pointing this out.
This song has so much to say. There are so many meanings and proverbial messages found within it, yet we will be focusing on three central themes. They are as follows: 1) Warfare, 2) Family Dysfunction, and 3) A Call for Unity.
The song screams of warfare. It's obvious there's been major destruction leaving nothing but death – a wasteland of shattered bodies and debris. An insane altercation has left a family in ruins. The lyrics horrifically point to the casualties of war. In Hosea 4:2, it reads, "there is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed." These verses along with the lyrics of this song rain down like a ton of bricks on the heart and soul of humanity. By that point in history, Hosea had witnessed two assassinations for the throne of Israel with Menahem then also destroying an entire city because it refused to accept him as king (2 Kings 15:8-16). In these verses, God shows us that man's hunger for power and rule can lead to casual, nonchalant destruction, murder, and chaos. Only through His guidance and wisdom does one find the proper examples of leadership. Leadership through love, acceptance, peace, and humility.
Another look at the lyrics, leads us to a family that has been torn apart and destroyed by some sort of altercation. Stop and think about how many families have been ripped apart, not by violence or death, but instead by the things that are said, the actions of one or more individuals, and/or other voluntary and involuntary miscommunications within households and communities. What's even more fascinating, is that lies, rumors, and slander have the same effect. Words that not only come from inside the family but often times come from outside of the family as well. Information picked up through the 'grapevine' that slivers its way into the dynamics of a family and the relationships within. In recent history, we've seen families, communities, and an entire body of people demonized and attacked because of the actions, inaction, or reactions of those directly and indirectly involved within the original altercation. We must NOT be so quick to judge (Matthew 7:1-5), NOT be so quick to react (James 1:19-20), and NOT give way to misinformation (Colossians 3:8). Instead focusing on the Love of our Lord, reciting the words from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 in your mind and conscience, "4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." Then work towards communicating our frustrations and problems with one another, focusing instead on reparations rather than division and destruction.
Wrapping up this week's post, the month of February is dedicated to UNITY. As we saw in the 'Spirits Rebellious' post, the enemy wants nothing more than to 'tear us apart'. Not just personally – but even more so as a body. Stop and think about what the church and Christianity would look like if we were to set aside what divides us. Instead, together lifting up Christ, the one that unites us. One body working together to shelter and accept the abandoned. One body working together to heal the sick. One body working together to feed the hungry. One body working together to clothe the unclothed. One body working together to bring the Love of Christ to ALL peoples and ALL nations. (Philippians 2:1-5). AMEN.
ONE LAST NOTE: If we, as Christians, would work together in UNITY to correct the wrongs of society (i.e. providing shelter, food, medicine, clothes, etc) would we really even need words to preach the Gospel? Or would Christ's Spirit radiate off of us just enough for others around us to see and want to know Him themselves? Something for us to think about.


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Bannon says Trump Tower Meeting was Treasonous
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Re: Bannon says Trump Tower Meeting was Treasonous
@Olderscout66 wrote:
O...M...G... Breightbart is the ONLY believable blog in the Republibubble - How will the GOPer base reconcil this Article of Faith with their blind devotion to Der Trumper?
As for GOPers who cannot believe this happened, I refer you to the Al Wilson song The Snake Full lyrics on Google Play Music.
Dont worry, withing a few hours one of them will have gotten their spin orders. Its going to be hilarious.
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According to the Guardian:
"Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president's son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic", according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.
Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV."
much, much more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

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Are you planning on becoming a pilot? Do you know what the basic requirements of being a pilot are? What about the various tasks that you will need to do to become a pilot? If you've always wanted to Learn To Fly, be it in Hong Kong or Australia, you might be in for a rude shock!
Becoming a pilot is not an easy task. Very few people choose to become a pilot, and even fewer become high-quality pilots. Training is grueling and is not to be undertaken lightly. Therefore, just because you think you want to be a pilot, you might not understand the implications of that decision. Outlined below are a few points about learning to fly that will clarify a few things for you.
1. Learning to fly is a nice goal, but understanding the end point of your decision is critical. Do you want to become a commercial pilot (someone who flies with international airlines for a living)? Or what about becoming a private pilot and simply learning to fly for the joy of it, purely recreationally? Decide where you want to end up and make your pathway to get there so much easier.
2. Flight training is not a particularly affordable process. Training schools are quite expensive, and especially if a course might take years of your time, you need to be sure of your ability to fund the entire venture. Having backup funding options is a sensible thing to do.
3. Unfortunately, in the aviation industry, eyesight is crucial. This means that you must pass rigorous eye tests to ascertain whether you are physically capable of flying planes. These tests can be passed with glasses, but you must undertake them all the same. If you have poor eyesight, don't be surprised if you're unable to proceed further.
4. Learning to fly involves a lot of tests, both physically and mentally challenging. Especially if you are a commercial pilot, you are charged with safe carriage of hundreds of people, and your body needs to be able to act appropriately in dangerous situations. The process of learning to fly anticipates this by pushing you to the very limit.
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There are a number of barriers to becoming a pilot, but don't let them stop you. Work through all challenges and let nothing get in your way of learning to fly.


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Don Theall's Review of Frank Zingrone's Media Symplex
'The Media Simplex: At the Edge of Meaning in the Age of Chaos' by Frank Zingrone
A review by Donald F. Theall, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 26, No 3 (2001)
Frank Zingrone is an editor of The Essential Marshall McLuhan (1995) and of Who Was Marshall McLuhan? (1995) as well as a Canadian poet who has so far published two volumes. The author of this book (which is one of a number of recent works aiming to move beyond McLuhan) is consequently a well-qualified scholar and critic of McLuhan. As a poet, he approaches his subject with sensitivity and a strong respect for language, as well as for the written word. But before turning to the way that his vision joins that of John Durham Peters and others who stress the spiritual, psychic, and poetic aspects of any contemporary understanding of communication, it is important to realize that The Media Symplex is a devastating report on our current media-manipulated society.
Zingrone's analysis lays out the way that the corporate-dominated media culture has affiliated itself with the categorical imperative of electric technologies to maximize the potential within individual electric media. This convergence is then utilized to entrance the audience to such an extent that they become helpless victims of managed modes of communication that oversimplify their society, leaving them with virtually no guide to understanding their life worlds. The very possibility of any potential vision is systematically reduced both through the manipulation made possible by electric media, but also by the effect of personal attachment to any one medium - such as TV - since an exclusive preoccupation with a single medium tends to eradicate any sense of the total complexity of their lived experience. Essentially, electric media's primary activity is to impose major simplifications of, and consequently huge distortions of, reality. By now, it is argued, electric technology has brought about the situation in which advertising, journalism, and electric media are establishing ever new "virtualities." So rather than having what we might have anticipated as the complex world of media and electric technology, we have a situation in which these media actually generate a state of "symplexity," namely, a simplification constructed from their complex technological and formal nature.
Although this might seem rather far from McLuhan's presumably amoralistic analysis, Zingrone actually is probing the dark side of McLuhan that viewed media in just such a manner. McLuhan concealed this within a mode of satiric commentary and wit used to support his avowed non-moralistic analysis. Zingrone moves beyond McLuhan in his explicit concern with the moral implications of our brave new world. Basing his argument on aspects of cognitive theory, psychiatry, aesthetics, and sometimes on the history of gnosticism and spiritualism, he builds a vision of contemporary society in which people co-operate with the media world in suppressing and inhibiting the true complexity of reality. The titles of the five chapters reveal the argument that is being unfolded: "The Media Symplex," "The Myth of the Electric," "Inhibition," "The Preconscious," "The Edge of Meaning," and an unnumbered conclusion, "Telegnosis: The Deep Meaning of the Electric Process."
Zingrone's explanation of inhibition, partly borrowed from Freud, is crucial to his argument, since, in his words, "as electric media simplify human experience with increasingly complex techniques they suppress and inhibit the true complexity of reality" (p. 106). Using von Bksy's theories about inhibition - desensitization is the surest way to save ourselves from a complete schizophrenic breakdown - The Media Symplex can simultaneously demonstrate how inhibition is necessary to human survival. And by suppressing the complexity of electric media, it can eventually make reality virtually disappear. This, of course, is with the complicity of the media itself, since "most media completely sever intrusions from other modes of communication" (p. 114) for "the first effect of electric media is in-depth training of the user in sensory inhibition" (p. 115). What he calls the cartoon effect sets in, since the nature of these media is to "promote crude one-dimensional thought in a multi-sensory mode" (p. 119).
In The Media Symplex, the preconscious is a crucial concept, a version developed from Schelling's, Fichte's, and Freud's use of an analogy withthe photograph in explaining the relation between the unconscious and the preconscious. The preconscious plays a central role as the source of suppressed materials or peripherally remembered events such as those experienced in dreams. But it also operates in the interests of inhibition, serving as a repository for that which is being suppressed. Zingrone illustrates the negative operation of the preconscious through advertising. "Advertising is already in preconscious form" (p. 178). So it is possible to conclude that "Advertising for all its entertainment value is mainly the pseudo-ideational, pseudo-symbolic presentation of pseudo-events" (p. 179). The only way out of the contemporary dilemma is to bring the unconscious, the preconscious, and the conscious mind together in active interplay, a function which Zingrone argues is best achieved by poetry and music. Surely this is an argument that McLuhan would have endorsed.
With page after page of examples, The Media Symplex demonstrates that post-electric society is decadent, for "The first sign of decadence in a culture is a decay of meaning" (p. 211). But such a situation also opens up the possibility - in fact, the necessity - of making meaning anew, for the very radical diminution of all our perceptions by the continuous information of electric media battering all our senses paradoxically generates the potentiality for renewal. This opens up the chance to overcome "the new illiterate ... the one medium user" (p. 236). Karl Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge in contradistinction to specialist knowledge is used extensively in arguing that "media simplexity" can be reversed if people will become frequent users of all media, while being well-grounded in language - the best strategy in a media-overloaded environment. Yet there is no simple optimism here, for it is still a battle:
At the very time when the new spirit of higher humanity based on the etherialization of knowledge through information economies is trying to be born in the world, anti-human forces are being created by those who see electric process as a complex weapon for breaking down resistance to consumer values. (p.245)
It is the balance of preconscious and unconscious in Coleridge's theory of creative imagination and fancy that must be invoked in this conflict with our addiction to inhibition through one-dimensionality (p. 248).
To achieve this balance, Zingrone articulates two principles concerning form and content. First, to have useful knowledge of forms (and hence media), "It is necessary to consider both the form of the medium as well as the form of the content"; and second, there is a form/content relationship that governs all media: "Content consumes form." How could The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, or La Dolce Vita be imagined apart from the medium's form, which has entered and become fused with the content (p. 246)? His discussion of these relationships clearly shows why an understanding of modes of cultural production (including art and poetry) is crucial, since new aesthetic forms are created in response to a new medium. What matters is transcending the electric trap in which the one-dimensional media viewer is caught. The Media Symplex argues for a new "gnosis," essentially a Platonic "telegnosis." McLuhan, who was immersed in poetry, the arts, and the history of communication through the history of the liberal arts and the trivium was himself "fully aware of the deep hermetic, or gnostic, base to communications theory" (p. 253). McLuhan's fascination with conspiracy theories is also noted. Not surprisingly, the importance of McLuhan's reading of Finnegans Wake is stressed as a way of confronting his role as "a Catholic of the future, yet esoteric in the knowledge of the true Church" (p. 257).
Although the spirit of McLuhan permeates it, The Media Symplex is quite distinct from McLuhan's work in its vision and some of the solutions to which it points. There are some differences from McLuhan, such as the absence of any extensive discussion of Wyndham Lewis, McLuhan's counter-balance to Joyce. But the problem of satire and comedy is crucial, for the book does not confront McLuhan's own sense of himself as a learned, Mennipean satirist, nor does it raise the role that satire might play in the envisioned potential renewal. This is even more telling, since Joyce's Wake is frequently cited as a work forcing "meaning to the edge of awareness," in the absence of the carnivalesque.
The dark vision with a glimpse of escape that The Media Symplex presents fits well with McLuhan's cynical Menippean satire, but the future must find a way of synthesizing not only the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious, but also the everyday carnival with which the electric media play as well as a genuinely playful and comic, yet learnedly satiric, critique. Yet this book is important since it does capture the essential schizoid struggle and the deep respect for gnosis, spirituality, and art that permeated McLuhan's work and on which Frank Zingrone builds his newer vision.
McLuhan, Marshall. (1995). The essential Marshall McLuhan. Edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone. Don Mills, ON: Anansi.
Nevitt, Barrington, with Maurice McLuhan (1995). Who was Marshall McLuhan?: Exploring a mosaic of impressions. Edited by Frank Zingrone, Wayne Constantineau, & Eric McLuhan. Toronto: Stoddart.
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Last year's release of Geocortex Workflow 5 (the first product in our Geocortex Essentials 5-series) introduced the ability to leverage Geocortex functionality inside Esri applications, not just alongside them. This was a major milestone and presents a new realm of implementation possibilities for licensees of Geocortex Essentials 5-series technology.
Geocortex Workflow 5 allows you to deploy your workflows in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS applications. In this week's Geocortex Tech Tip, Ryan Cooney takes you through the set-up and configuration required to deploy 5-series workflows in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS Developer Edition.
"Hi, I'm Ryan. I'm a Product Manager at Latitude. Today I'm going to show you how to use Web AppBuilder [for ArcGIS] to run Geocortex Workflow 5. Let's take a look.
Web AppBuilder [for ArcGIS] uses widgets to deliver custom functionality to your end-users. To get a workflow running in Web AppBuilder, we need a widget that's going to run the workflow. Geocortex Workflow ships with some widgets, but to run a workflow, we're going to have to make those widgets available to Web AppBuilder.
To do that, we're [going to start] in Geocortex Workflow Designer. On the "info" tab, there's a deployment section that has a link to download workflow widgets for Web AppBuilder, so I'm going to click that.
That's going to download a .zip file, which we're going to use in a second. And while we're here, this page has a link to configure Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS to run a workflow. As we open that link, we're taken to the [Geocortex] Documentation Center where we have complete instructions on how to set up the widget.
There's actually two flavors of this set up. Today were going to look at Web AppBuilder [for ArcGIS] Developer Edition. It's the slightly more complicated of the two, but we can also work with the edition of Web AppBuilder that's built into Portal for ArcGIS. There's slightly different steps that were going to take, but basically, it's going to be the same process in which we tell Web AppBuilder where the workflow widget lives.
Once we've done that, we can use Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS to see that widget and configure it to run a particular workflow. So, these instructions are [in the Documentation Center] and I recommend reading them, but I'm just going to show you how it's done.
First, I've downloaded that .zip file and I open it up (it's just sitting here in my downloads). And then I need to go to where Web AppBuilder is running. So, in this case I'm just running Web AppBuilder out of this folder, and inside the Web AppBuilder folder structure, there's a client folder, and in there is the stem app and the stem app 3D.
Inside of the stem app there's a "widgets" folder, and this is where all the built-in and custom widgets live. What we need to do is just copy out of the downloaded one, so it's got the same structure – it's got a stem app, it's got widgets, and there's two widgets in 2D and two widgets in 3D. So basically, what we do is copy that entire client folder over top, and that's just going deploy both the 2D and 3D widgets. And now we can go over into Web AppBuilder and start configuring these.
I have Web AppBuilder open right here, and I've got an existing application that's basically empty. Web AppBuilder (if you're not familiar with it) has all these spots where you can plug widgets in. Depending on the layout, it might be these buttons, or it could be in the tool bar.
But if we select widgets, and I hover over our widget place one, you can see that it's highlighting it on the screen. And if I pick widget one, we have those two workflow widgets [that I copied over a moment ago]. The first one is just the in-panel widget, that's your most common. And then we also have one that will run in a modal window, but they basically do the same thing. So, I'm going to choose the in-panel one.
Now, I've added that widget and what I need to do is tell this widget to run a particular workflow. So, that workflow that I was working with over here, which is called "autocomplete1", it was really simple. It just had a form that had an autocomplete in it. I can look in my content and find it, or I can search for other workflows, but here it is right here. If the workflow happened to have input parameters (this one doesn't) you could add them here. This was just a list of key value pairs, but I don't need those in this case.
And there, it's added that workflow. And if I run it, here's my autocomplete. It's not hooked up to anything, but that's the workflow running inside Web AppBuilder. This will work for 2D and 3D. This is the Developer Edition we're looking at, but also if you had followed the instructions on deploying to Portal for ArcGIS, you can get that too, it'll work just as well in portal for ArcGIS's version of Web AppBuilder. That's all you need to do to get up and running running inside of Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS.
Want to take Geocortex Workflow 5 for a spin? Visit the Discovery Center today to learn more and get a feel for the product!


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Q: Redirect using window.location doesn't work I searched for a related post, but all attempts have not worked.
My problem, is that I'm trying to do a simple redirect in Javascript, using path+querystring. My code is below:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Page1.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.Page1" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title></title>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <input type="submit" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect();"/>

    </form>

window.location.href is always set like 'http://localhost:61267/Page1.aspx'.
I have tried using window.location.search but still without success.
What I'm doing wrong?

A: Use document.location instead.
      document.location = 'http://localhost:61267/Page1.aspx?q=name';

A: Problem code:
<form id="form1" runat="server">

<input type="submit" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect();"/>

</form>

HTML elements, specifically, forms, have default events that occur when user actions take place. In your context, the submit event is probably being invoked when you click on that input box. You need to prevent the default event from happening by either returning false from the event handler, or calling preventDefault
<form onsubmit="Redirect(); return false;" id="form1" runat="server">

    <input type="submit" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect(); return false;"/>

</form>

P.S.
The onsubmit handler will allow yourself to press the enter key and still have the same effect as would have happened if you just clicked the input box.

A: Not sure why you need a form and submit button for just doing redirects.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Page1.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.Page1" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title></title>

    <input type="button" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect();"/>

also i noticed some encoding issues that i was able to resolve by adding:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta content="utf-8" http-equiv="encoding">

A: you need to do either of the following:
1) For server side asp code:
<asp:button text="Navigate" onclientclick="Redirect()" value="pesq" runat="server" />

See MSDN Example
2) if client side code:
<input type="button" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect();"/>

A: Only changed the input type, and it worked perfectly! Thanks to t.niese.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Page1.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.Page1" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title></title>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <input type="button" value="pesq" onclick="Redirect();return false;"/>

    </form>


Fighting cancer requires you to reach out on multiple fronts. Work with your body and medicine, and work with your heart and emotion. After surviving Stage 2 breast cancer at 43, Summer was inspired to make a playlist she could turn to even when her mind was the darkest. The day of chemo, the day of surgery, the weeks of healing and pain. She went into Flow and this is what she felt--all captured here in this intimate peek into her heart and energy.
Whether you or someone you love is facing cancer, equip them with the emotional fighting tools they need. This is hard-won, scarce resource. Look and you'll see almost no one has tools for people fighting cancer to truly fight it from their inner emotional space outward. it took Summer two years to release her most intimate and personal playlist. You can hear it in her voice. Let her guide you or someone you love into and out of one of the most difficult journeys a person can face, but you CAN face it.
The three Flowdreams in this set hit hard at each of the areas that cancer attacks: the body, heart, and one's self-trust. This is the best gift you can give yourself or a friend on this journey. This playlist is open-ended, meaning you can use it for any form of cancer in any stage. The Flowdreams are incredibly positive, powerful and uplifting. They are meant to chance the headspace of anyone with just one listen.
Help your body renew itself and reject cancer from the cells out. You take a journey into your body, talk to your body, and set up the emotions and energy for your body to thrive during any form of treatment or recovery. We look at your body as a healer and life-giver, with decades of life ahead of it.
Most people with cancer suffer from hurt, fear, and confusion, but their hearts are their strongest ally in the fight against cancer. The Flowdream helps you soothe your heart and bring it on board the fight. Your heart will dump years of sadness, regret, guilt, pain, and anything else that can weight you down. You have just one mission right now: to heal. Give your heart the love and goof feelings it needs to help you conquer this.
It's no secret, those going through cancer become haunted with a fear of it's return. In conventional medicine, there is no cure -- only remission -- leaving open the door for constant fear and self-doubt. You have to banish this to thrive. That's why this Flowdream uses words like "cure" to help you psychologically move from "waiting for the next shoe to drop" to instead feeling powerfully resilient and ready for life. Just because you got cancer doesn't mean God has forsaken you, or that the Universe doesn't care. Your trust in life, and in having a long glorious future, can be renewed. Play this Flowdream to explore how.
Legal Disclaimer! This is really important legal stuff: Please know that these tracks alone will not cure cancer. They are intended to create emotional and energy support for both treatment and recovery. Any words used in these tracks, such as "cure," are intended ONLY to create an emotional state that facilitates a mindset for robust health. THESE TRACKS WILL NOT CURE your cancer. We make no promises that your cancer will heal, be cured, or go into remission as a result of using them. We urge you to consult with your medical professional and take all recommended steps for treatment. These tracks should not be a substitute for comprehensive medical care and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, nor is this audio intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.


The following professionals at The Kutzer Company provide support to Edgewood Realty Partners.
Pete Kutzer is the founder and President of The Kutzer Company (TKC). Mr. Kutzer received a B.A. in Economics with High Honors from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Emily Adams has run the accounting department at TKC since 2003, and is responsible for all aspects of financial management, reporting, and information technology. Ms. Adams received a BA degree from California Polytechnic University.
Christa Durfee has over 22 years' experience as a Manager at TKC, and has overseen office, retail, and industrial management projects. Prior to coming to TKC, Ms. Durfee worked for The Cook-Holman Management Company, managing several properties in the Los Angeles area. Ms. Durfee received her degree in Speech Communications at California State University, Long Beach.
Alex Paredes has over 24 years' experience as a Manager at TKC, and has worked on a variety of office, retail, and industrial projects, including assignments with sensitive historic buildings. Ms. Paredes received her B.A. in Business Administration and Management from Woodbury University. Ms. Paredes is also fluent in Spanish.
Claudia Rodriquez has over 23 years' experience as a Manager at TKC, and has overseen office, retail, and industrial management projects. Ms. Rodriguez has worked primarily on high-quality office and retail projects, on behalf of individuals, private investment funds, and bank trust departments. Ms. Rodriguez is also fluent in Spanish.
Monti Sanjai is the Office Administrator at TKC, and also coordinates insurance compliance. Ms. Sanjai has been with the firm since 2006.
Marilyn is a bookkeeper in the accounting department at TKC. She has been with the firm for 11 years, and formerly worked at Disney, and at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority. Ms. Yan is also fluent in Cantonese.
Linda Lam has been an Assistant Manager at TKC for four years. Ms. Lam has prior experience working for a property management company and assists with daily property operations and projects at TKC. Ms. Lam received her B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles. Ms. Lam is also fluent in Vietnamese.
Ellen Lee has been an Assistant Manager at TKC for three years. Ms. Lee previously worked as an executive assistant for an investment firm. Ms. Lee assists with daily property operations and projects. Ms. Lee received her B.A. from University of California, Riverside. Ms. Lee is also fluent in Korean.
Clarissa Gutierrez has been the Administrator at TKC since 2015. Ms. Gutierrez has held administrative positions in public relations and construction firms. Ms. Gutierrez manages daily office operations and projects for TKC. Ms. Gutierrez received her B.S. from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Ms. Gutierrez is also fluent in Spanish.
Agnes Tang has been the Property Accountant at TKC since 2016. Ms. Tang held an accounting position for a distribution company prior to joining TKC. In her spare time, Ms. Tang volunteers to deliver meals to the homeless. Ms. Tang received her B.S. and Masters in Business Taxation from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Ms. Tang is also fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Jodie Woo has been an Assistant Manager at TKC since 2018. Ms. Woo previously worked as a financial associate for Citibank. Ms. Woo assists with daily property operations and projects. Ms. Woo received her B.A. from California State University, Fullerton. Ms. Woo is also fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.
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There were four men in contention for the 2011 supercross championship heading into this weekend, just two main events left in the long seventeen-race season.
All four gated well, occupying the top four places within a couple of laps – the battle for the title was on… James Stewart led from the off, ahead of Ryan Villopoto and Ryan Dungey, after the two Ryans relegated Justin Brayton to fifth.
After the recent resurgence in form, it seemed like Stewart would simply check out for another win but, whilst he managed to create a gap, he couldn't extend it, Reed aiming the magnets at the back of Stewart's Yamaha and refusing to be dislodged.
And as Stewart and Reed played mind games up front, Villopoto was charging hard, closing in on Reed and showing every intention of moving past him.
Once in range, the Pacific North-Easterner ran his Kawasaki hard up the inside of Reed to make a forceful but perfectly fair pass. The series leader was back in business after a terrible run in the last few races, and it seemed we were set for a thrilling finale with more than half the race left.
Before we hit the halfway mark, however, the cards had changed again – within a lap of Villopoto taking second, Stewart went down twice in quick succession, being forced to pit for repairs and rejoining almost a lap down.
That left Villopoto leading from Reed, with Dungey holding a watching brief in third, unable bridge the gap and get involved. Whilst Dungey struggled to keep the pace up front, and Stewart circulated on the fringes of the top ten, Reed spat on his hands and went to work, slowly cranking Villopoto back in.
But Villopoto is made of stern stuff and was just as happy get stuck in, fighting off Reed's counterattack – the Australian kept edging closer and closer, but Villopoto did not put a wheel wrong and hung tough to take the chequers by just less than a second from a disappointed Reed, Dungey back in third with Stewart a distant tenth.
So it comes down to this – after 320 laps of main event supercross racing, Villopoto's sixth win of the series gives him a strong hand going into the final round.
The Kawasaki star has a nine point advantage over Reed, which means a top five results will see him claim the title no matter what else happens – he's in the hot seat, no doubt, but the fat lady's not singing just yet.
Dungey is a mere two points further back, which means he also has to have the Villopoto mishap scenario happen, plus he has to beat Reed – Villopoto has had his bad days this year, so a finish outside the top five is not impossible, especially with both Reed and Dungey staring hungrily in his direction, but for all his efforts, Dungey has shown little sign that he can straight-up beat Reed this year.
As for Stewart… Well, even he is talking in terms of 2012 now – mathematically he's still in the title hunt, but it would need to see a pretty extreme set of circumstances to see the Yamaha star lift his third supercross crown.
However it pans out, one more week and it's all over… If there's a slight suggestion that underhand tactics might be an idea in the 450f class, arguably they're already being tried in the west coast 250f class.
With Broc Tickle leading the title hunt from Josh Hansen and El Tomac, it was Tomac who gated first ahead of Hansen – Hansen put the thumbscrews on early, taking the fight to Tomac before trying what might be considered a needlessly physical pass, but youngster Tomac came out on top, setting himself for the hit and weathering the blow whilst Hansen rebounded off and found himself on the floor.
Tomac then found himself under assault from series leader Tickle, but a wild card in the shape of Ken Roczen intervened, the young German battling past Tickle but unable to pass Tomac.
The GP star's intervention means that Tomac made up five points on Tickle and is now only two in arrears.


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Best Chinese Restaurants in the U.S.
By Kate Parham
Bo Lings
Just how all-American is Chinese food? We've been placing delivery orders since the 1920s, and there are now more than 41,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., nearly three times the number of McDonald's, according to Chinese Restaurant News.
With this expansion, Chinese kitchens have pushed well beyond General Tso's chicken, introducing creations like Mission Chinese Food's fiery kung pao pastrami as well as more regional dishes, from western-style cumin lamb with hand-ripped noodles to Sichuanese pepper frog legs. The result is a reinvigorated debate over what makes for authentic Chinese food, plus plenty of tantalizing, adventurous eating.
You'll find restaurants setting the bar higher in immigrant enclaves like New York City's Flushing neighborhood and California's San Gabriel Valley, but also in Vermont, Chicago, and Salt Lake City. Some are family-owned, hole-in-the-wall joints, while others have spawned celebrity chefs like Peter Chang, originally from Hubei Province.
Hunan Taste in Maryland is on the stylish end of the spectrum, with traditional design elements (calligraphy, red walls) and dishes to satisfy all comers. Choose from a Chinese menu that includes tea tree mushroom casserole and stir-fried leeks with dried bean curd, or go for the comfort of the American menu's sweet-and-sour spareribs. It's not unusual for Chinese restaurants to have differing menus or special unlisted preparations available on request.
"There are so many cool dishes that aren't being put out front; experimenting can be intimidating, but it's worth it," says Scott Drewno, executive chef of The Source, Wolfgang Puck's contemporary Asian restaurant in D.C. Drewno says he fell in love with Chinese food at age 21, while working with Puck in Vegas. Now he has put his own spin on Chinese: sesame-miso cones filled with ahi tuna; pork belly dumplings with black vinegar and chili oil; and lacquered duck with sweet-and-sour huckleberries.
The Source hosts a great-value Saturday dim sum brunch and special events; you can learn to make the dumplings yourself as part of a class timed to Chinese New Year (typically late January or early February). Dumplings are considered symbols of luck, wealth, and prosperity—a key part of the holiday feasting.
Here's a first bit of good fortune: our short list of the best Chinese restaurants across the U.S. See how many you've tried, and share your favorites in the comments below.
Lao Sze Chuan, Chicago
Lao Sze Chuan
Awards continue to rack up for Lao Sze Chuan, one of the first area Chinese restaurants to earn three forks from the Chicago Tribune, and a designated "Bib Gourmand" in the 2012 and 2013 Michelin Guide. Owner Tony Hu, dubbed the Mayor of Chinatown, has seven Chinese restaurants, with four more slated to open by the end of this year. Yet people continue to wait in line for a table at this Sichuan spot, known for its extraordinary spiciness and fearless dishes like sour pickle and pork stomach soup and Peking-style duck tongue (milder options are also available). tonygourmetgroup.com
Gourmet Dumpling House, Boston
Andrea Schwartz
Expect to be one of only a handful of English-speaking diners at this small, family-owned restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. Though the menu leans toward Taiwanese and coastal cuisines—the soup dumplings filled with pork, crabmeat and a delicate broth and the scallion pancakes are not to be missed—you'll also find skillfully executed Sichuan dishes, like the sliced fish, revered for it's perfect balance of heat and tenderness.
Peter Chang Café, Richmond, VA
Peter Chang China Cafe
A native of Hubei Province, Peter Chang got his start at a no-frills restaurant inside a strip mall in Fairfax, VA, in 2005. Eight restaurants in nearly as many states, a cultlike following, and countless awards later, Chang opened his namesake restaurant in Richmond. The bold, exotic flavors will leave your tongue numb, especially if you opt for the Hot & Numbing Hot Pot, a combo of seafood, chicken, beef, and veggies submerged in a fiery red sauce. The oversize portions are meant to be shared and arrive on an as-ready basis. peterchangrva.com
Ping Pang Pong, Las Vegas
Courtesy of the Gold Coast
At Ping Pang Pong, housed inside the off-strip Gold Coast Hotel & Casino, you'll find regional specialties from across China, from dim sum served on pushcarts (Cantonese) to salt-and-pepper frog legs (Sichuan) and double-braised scallop hot pot (found throughout China). The night market fried rice is another standout, a satisfying mix of tender beef tossed with chiles, bean sprouts, and tomatoes. No matter which region they're from, Chinese in Vegas can likely find their hometown specialties here.
Xi'an Famous Foods, New York City
Courtesy of Xi'an Famous Foods, Inc.
This no-frills noodle house, with locations in Flushing, Chinatown, and the East Village, is a rare local restaurant devoted to the cuisine of Xian, where Middle Eastern and Chinese flavors meet. It's become famous indeed for inexpensive and flavor-packed food: stewed pork and cumin-infused lamb burgers run just $2 a pop; spicy cumin lamb with hand-ripped noodles, potent and rich lamb pao mo soup, and hand-pulled biang biang noodles are always crowd-pleasers, too. xianfoods.com
Shandong, Portland, OR
Perhaps best known for the made-in-house noodles—Judy's noodles, sautéed with spinach, jalapeños, shiitakes, and green onions in a garlic wine sauce, is their most popular dish—Shandong is a frequent reader's choice winner in Portland. The restaurant is sleek and modern (a step up from many) and serves some of the best northern Chinese food in the state; don't miss the hot and sour soup and the Chilean rock crab and shiitake dumpling, so plump and juicy. shandongportland.com
Din Tai Fung Dumpling House
Robyn Lee
With its flagship restaurant in Taiwan—selected as one of the top 10 restaurants in the world by The New York Times—this Shanghai-style small-plates chain has branched out to Los Angeles and Seattle. The juicy pork dumplings in paper-thin wrappers, simultaneously delicate and intense, are so melt-in-your-mouth delicious that the Arcadia location in Los Angeles opened a second restaurant down the street just to handle the demand. Perhaps best known for its stellar customer service and spotless interiors, Din Tai Fung almost always has a long wait, but those five-spice fried pork chops are worth every minute. dintaifungusa.com
The Source, Washington, D.C.
Most of D.C.'s best Chinese places are actually out of the District—in the suburbs of Virginia and Maryland. One notable exception: Wolfgang Puck's contemporary, three-level restaurant in Penn Quarter, a favorite of both high-profile politicos and local chefs. Turn up on Saturdays for the lounge's dim sum brunch, a great value, or go the tasting-menu route in the formal upstairs dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows. You're in the capable hands of Scott Drewno, whose take on Chinese includes sesame-miso cones filled with ahi tuna; suckling pig with quince-apple purée; crispy frog legs with blistered shishito peppers; and lacquered duck with sweet and sour huckleberries. wolfgangpuck.com
A Single Pebble, Burlington, VT
Chiuho Duval
Within a charming row house, A Single Pebble is helmed by Chiuho Duval, a Taiwan-native who emphasizes fresh ingredients from local farmers. The family-style dishes come to the table as they're ready. Warm up with the mock eel (crispy fish with braised shitake mushrooms and ginger) and the dry fried green beans (wok-tossed with pork, black bean and garlic) before digging into tangerine-peel chicken with broccoli. asinglepebble.com
Koi Palace, Daly City, CA
Koi Palace
Koi Palace recalls a southern Chinese teahouse, complete with a koi pond and tanks full of enormous crab and rock cod. While it's celebrated for dim sum, we say it's even better for those seeking seafood. The 450-seat restaurant has filled up with guests hungry for Shanghai crab dumplings and lobster, as well as jellyfish and abalone. Another signature dish: roasted suckling pig, harmoniously crispy and tender. koipalace.com
Hunan Taste, Catonsville, MD
Hunan Taste
It's all about balance at Hunan Taste, which marries culinary traditions from Changsha, Hengyang, and Xiangtan cuisines. Choose from two menus: Chinese and American. The former doesn't hold back, showcasing dishes like hot pots full of frogs, hen's blood, and braised pork. The latter provides the comfort of more familiar items like sweet and sour spareribs. Tea tree mushroom casserole and stir-fried leeks with dried bean curd are two dishes not to be missed. Traditional décor, like porcelain sinks, is offset by modern touches, easily making Hunan Taste one of the most stylish spots on our list. hunantastemd.com
Han Dynasty, Philadelphia
CC BY-ND Sarah E. Galbraith
This regional Sichuan chain has six locations, with the Old City branch as the clear fan favorite. But beware: the heat-averse have no place here, where the house-steeped chili oil reigns supreme. Adventurous eaters will love the ox tongue and tripe in said chili oil, while the dan dan noodles, topped with crumbled pork, mixed with a sesame sauce tableside, have been known to bring diners to their knees. Don't miss the tasting menu, just $20 per person and available at your choice of spiciness (scale of 1 to 10). handynasty.net
Yangming Restaurant, Bryn Mawr, PA
Courtesy of Yang Ming Restaurant
When a restaurant has been voted "the best" more than 40 times—in outlets from Philadelphia Magazine to Zagat—it clearly has staying power. Indeed, for the last 20 odd years, this special-occasion dining destination has made Asian fusion magic, turning out dishes such as spicy veal ravioli with jalapeños, ginger, and garlic vinaigrette and pan-fried dumplings stuffed with wild mushrooms and blue cheese. Besides, any meal that ends with chocolate-covered fortune cookies is okay by us. yangmingrestaurant.com
Sea Harbour Restaurant, Rosemead, CA
Pat Bateman
This dim sum destination in the San Gabriel Valley is staffed entirely by Cantonese employees; but don't worry, the picture menu, albeit tacky, helps lessen any language barrier. New exotic flavors, like steamed radish cake garnished with dried shrimp and smoky sausage, complement classics like har gow (translucent shrimp dumplings) and congee (rice porridge) with chives and shrimp. Those with a wild side should try the jellyfish, whole pigeon, and chicken feet entrées.
Mandarin, Salt Lake City
Courtesy of Mandarin Restaurant
This restaurant is run by Greek-American Angel Manfredini and her 84-year-old father, who work daily alongside four Chinese cooks with classic training and four Hispanic cooks, to turn out dishes from various regions in China, like beef with green beans in a black bean sauce and Peking duck. To make room for all its fans, Mandarin added 150 seats to the restaurant as well as a gluten-free menu, something you'd be hard-pressed to find at most Chinese restaurants. Though the food here tends to be more Americanized, it's not uncommon to hear patrons assure their companions that Mandarin is "the best Chinese food I've ever had." mandarinutah.com
Chiang's Gourmet, Seattle
Rocky Yeh via Flickr
Despite a dodgy location and spotty service, this Taiwanese and Sichuanese restaurant made the culinary map with its homemade noodles. There's really only one way to order here: from the Chinese or Sichuan menus, which are full of delicious oddities like cattle tendon with hot sauce, jellyfish, fried pig's intestine, and stinky fried tofu. For something more mainstream, try the fish fillet in Sichuan garlic hot bean sauce or any of the pan-fried noodles, a specialty. Northern-style dim sum is offered on the weekends, and there's even a vegetarian menu—a rarity at Asian restaurants. chiangsgourmet.com
Mission Chinese Food
Alanna Hale
What started as a pop-up restaurant has since evolved to two award-winning Chinese restaurants: one in San Francisco and an offshoot in Manhattan. Famous for amalgamating tradition with innovation, chef Danny Bowien (Korean by birth, raised in Oklahoma City) turns out "Americanized Oriental Food"—kung pao pastrami, ma po tofu, and salt-cod fried rice—for prices you'd expect to find at truck stops along rural interstates. Seventy-five cents of each main course goes to charity. The catch? Food this original and a no-reservations policy translate to long waits. missionchinesefood.com
Chou's Kitchen, Chandler, AZ
Brittany Held
Owners Tong Rizzo and Ping Chou originally hail from Liaoning in northeastern China, and that region inspires the cooking at Chou's, about 30 minutes outside of Phoenix. Not to be missed: the spicy braised beef, a crispy, fried dish served with chili oil, toasted peanuts and cilantro. Eggplant with potatoes and jalapeño is another standout, as are the hand-rolled wrappers, used in dumplings, buns and pies. 910 N Alma School Rd., Chandler, AZ 85224
Shanghai Restaurant, Houston
Mai Pham
This family-owned Sichuan spot (inside a nondescript shopping center) is small, loud, and in need of a facelift. But who wants to quibble about décor when there are salted spare ribs to be devoured. Round out the meal with the beef and pickled vegetable stir-fry, oysters in black bean sauce, and ginger scallion chicken. And don't forget to BYOB. 9116 Bellaire Blvd., Ste B, Houston, TX 77036
San Tung Restaurant, San Francisco
Eric Molina
Sweet and sticky, yet spicy with notes of garlic, ginger and Szechuan peppers, San Tung's chicken wings are at the top of San Francisco's best lists. Leave some room to sample the dry black bean noodles, shrimp and leek dumplings, and sizzling rice soup. You'll have plenty of time to build an appetite; there's almost always a line here. santungrestaurant.com
Chung King, Los Angeles
Cathy Chaplin / GastronomyBlog.com
In the hierarchy of numerous authentic Chinese restaurants in SoCal's San Gabriel Valley, Chung King is up at the top. Its success rests in dishes like the spicy and tender water-boiled fish, fried chicken with hot peppers, beef casseroles, and ma po tofu. And diners can expect that signature numbing sensation we've come to love from Sichuan cooking. 1000 S San Gabriel Blvd, San Gabriel, CA 91776
Little Village Noodle House, Honolulu
C. Paulson and P. Hepburn
Honolulu's Chinatown is many things: immigrant enclave, burgeoning arts center, and site of this local institution run by a husband-and-wife team since 2001. It's stylish, with Asian lanterns and wood accents, and dishes like honey walnut shrimp, dried green beans, spicy pan-fried beef, and volcano pork chop. Try the signature Chrysanthemum honey herbal tea—if you want something stronger, you'll need to BYOB.
Spicy & Tasty, New York City
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt / Seriouseats
Located in Flushing—a neighborhood of Queens and one of the country's best for Chinese—Spicy & Tasty's brightly lit dining room is immaculate and comfortable, minimal and efficient. The beef tendon and sliced conch, both served in a red chile sauce, have garnered rave reviews from the spice-obsessed. Lamb home-style and double-cooked pork belly are a close second, praised for their dry, balanced sauces. If you're craving that tongue-numbing sensation from Sichuan peppercorns, be sure to order the shredded dry beef with spicy sauce. And BYOB, there's no corkage fee.
Taipei Gourmet, Lexington, MA
Peter Sward
This unassuming Taiwanese restaurant has garnered a devoted following of locals both for its classic dishes (think xiao long bao dumplings, bamboo sticky rice, and hot and sour soup) and bold offerings (pig intestine casserole and turnip cakes). Since Taiwanese cuisine relies heavily on seafood, you can also expect to find dishes like shrimp with vegetables and spicy fish filets. The staff's hospitality and attention to detail rival their made-fresh-daily food, a fact frequent patrons are all too happy to share. taipei-gourmet.com
Bo Ling's, Kansas City
Since the early 1980s, Bo Ling's has been feeding Kansas City upscale, yet authentic Chinese food; the restaurant's loyal supporters keep coming back (to one of their now six locations, that is) for the personal touch provided by the husband-and-wife team and their hospitable staff; not to mention the fried noodles and sizzling whole flounder. The flagship location (Plaza) remains the most popular, with dishes like hot and sour soup, Gong Bao chicken, spicy Mongolian beef, and pushcart dim sum on the weekends. bolings.com
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Featured Alumni – Customs Broker Karin Mercado
Licensed Customs Broker, Ms. Karin Mercado, took up her baccalaureate degree in Customs Administration in Lyceum of the Philippines – Manila during the school years of 2006 – 2010. Inspired by her family's business engaged in the field of brokerage, she pursued the profession in the hopes of one day managing the business and, in the long run, offer her services, knowledge, and expertise to the public through entering the government sector, particularly in the ranks of the Bureau of Customs. In her stay in the university, she has garnered multiple academic awards, which has also granted her the opportunity to be an academic scholar. During her 4th year of studying in LPU – Manila, she was elected as the Vice President for Finance in the course organization of Philippine Society of Customs Administration Students (PSCAS), LPU – Manila Chapter. She took up her Master's degree in Business Administration from 2013 – 2017 in the Philippine Women's University and is currently taking up Doctor of Jurisprudence at San Beda University. Upon topping the 2010 CBLE examination by the Professional Regulatory Board for Customs Broker, several opportunities have presented themselves to Ms. Mercado, which she has capitalized on and later became the Custom Operations Officer in the monitoring unit – Office of the Commissioner. Apart from her services in the Bureau of Customs, she was also a part-time lecturer at LPU – Manila, teaching customs and tariff subjects.
After her time as a Customs Operations Officer, she was designated further into the ranks of the Bureau in the Import Assessment Service, Assessment and Operation Coordinating Group (IAS – AOCG). After being assigned in the various offices of the Bureau of Customs, Ms. Mercado has occupied the following positions: Acting Customs Examiner, Acting Chief of the Assessment Division (Port of Davao), Acting Reviewer, Special Assistant to the District Collector (Port of Davao). On her return to Manila, she was assigned as a Customs Examiner in the Formal Entry Division, Team Leader, Alert Monitoring Team under the District Collector, Acting Assistant Chief of the Formal Entry Division, as well as the Acting Chief of the Special Warehousing Assessment Unit located in the Port of Manila. Today, Ms. Karin Mercado is currently designated as the Chief-of-Staff at the Office of the District Collector, Manila International Container Port (MICP), in concurrent capacity as the Acting Chief of the Special Warehousing Assessment Unit. For students currently enrolled in the BSCA program and for students who may take up customs administration soon. Ms. Karin Mercado would like to impart to us the following message. "To everyone who has mustered the courage to take up Bachelor of Science in Customs Administration and is fighting to earn that Customs Broker as their title someday, I suggest to first and foremost, live your life. Do things out of your comfort zone and explore all the possibilities while still not compromising your studies. Study hard, but do not forget to do things that are laid in front of you. Breathe, run, jump, walk, and contemplate. You must know and discover yourself, what you want, and what you really want to do someday. You have to make the most of every moment. Console yourself and do whatever makes you happy for you to have a relaxed state of mind. After that, you will realize that it is enjoyable to go back to your notes, digest your CMTA, and review all your pending readings. To everyone who plans on taking up Bachelor of Science in Customs Administration but is having second thoughts because of the stereotype, follow your heart. You are one step away from your dream, and you are entering into a spectacle. The journey will not be easy, but it is definitely going to be worth it. You will face several hurdles along the way, but you will not be alone. You will experience the best four years of your life, and the most exciting journey is going to be right in front of you. You will have to cry, but surely you will laugh the hardest as you go higher and as you discover the wonders of the Customs and Tariff Laws. You will experience a family, and you will create relationships, which will make it more exciting to study. Once you all get there together, the feeling is surreal.
As someone who has lived her life while studying, I was also a normal student back then. You have to remember that you are good enough and that you can always spark the change you want yourself to be."


Search Number On Facebook - Facebook is a social networking service that helps you keep in contact with friends and family. Facebook members could share a great deal of info regarding themselves on their Facebook accounts. It could be something as general as just what sort of music they like, or perhaps something more particular, like their telephone number If you want to see which Facebook friends have actually added telephone number to their accounts, you can do so in simply a couple of actions.
1. Click the Facebook link to see its associated Facebook account. The Facebook ID of the account is the part of the Internet address presented in your web browser's address bar between "facebook.com/" and the initial enigma. If you see no question mark, the ID is every little thing after "facebook.com/" without the quotes.
2. Click the "About" tab listed below the cover photo on the top center of the display while logged in to your Facebook account to browse to the customer's fundamental info.
3. Scroll down to all-time low of the display to watch the "Contact and basic info" area of the Information display. If the user has made her contact number noticeable to you, it shows up to the right of "CONTACT INFORMATION" on "Mobile phones".
Facebook is ending up being a growing number of hostile in its search of individuals' telephone number.
Bear in mind, Facebook has been desiring your mobile phone number for time and hasn't been above utilizing scare techniques to get you to hand it over.
Several customers are compelled to get in a mobile number for authentication when they produce an account, or to be made use of as a safety check if suspicious activity is spotted.
My advice is always to be mindful exactly what contact number you show to websites.
There may be a case for keeping an old phone in a cabinet, with a pay-as-you-go SIM. That offhand number can be utilized for websites that require a phone get in touch with, but you don't feel they actually require it. Keep your actual, regular contact number closer to your breast-- and only share it with web sites which you believe have an authentic demand for it.


HYDERABAD: In a first, drone cameras were utilised when cops busted a ganja cultivation case in Karimnagar commissionerate. Drones were used for conducting an aerial survey of the region and zeroed in on the agricultural field of one G Kumaraswamy in Ramachandrapur village and found 821 fully grown ganja plants.
"There was no record of ganja cultivation in Karimnagar previously. After a tip-off, our teams scoured the area with drone cameras and realised that Kumaraswamy was cultivating ganja inside the cotton field," Karimnagar commissioner of police VB Kamalasan Reddy told TOI.
Once they got hints about secret cultivation of ganja on the outskirts of Tummanapally and Ramachandrapur, the special party cops with Task Force, Saidapur and Huzurabad police, conducted a combing operation on Thursday.
Kumaraswamy, who has two acres of farmland, cultivated cotton on the outer periphery. And inside the cotton field, he cultivated ganja in one acre. Kumaraswamy was about to harvest the ganja crop in a week when policemen swooped down on his field.
"We identified 821 ganja plants. Each plant yeilds about 1kg ganja. The entire crop was destroyed in the presence of revenue and excise officials," the commissioner said.
After destroying the ganja crop, police continued the aerial search in the surrounding areas to check if there were any more ganja fields. But none was found. In 2018, the Karimnagar police had booked 15 cases pertaining to ganja peddling and arrested 30 persons. Kumaraswamy, who was under the NDPS Act, is on the run.
"We have three drone cameras and five personnel operating them. We are also using the cameras to keep a watch on illegal sand mining activity," Kamalasan added.


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Dallas-area mayors talk property taxes, annexation with Gov. Greg Abbott
Republican mayors tried to plead their case against property tax and annexation bills.
McKinney Mayor George Fuller spoke Wednesday in Austin with a reporter while (from left) Sugar Land Mayor Joe Zimmerman, Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams and Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney wait for their turn to speak on their meeting with Gov. Greg Abbott to discuss his escalating assault on local control.(Thao Nguyen / Special Contributor)
By James Barragán
6:42 PM on Aug 2, 2017 CDT
AUSTIN — Republican mayors from Dallas-area suburbs pleaded their case Wednesday to Gov. Greg Abbott on his proposed property tax and annexation bills, which they oppose.
The mayors of Arlington, Frisco, Irving and McKinney — as well as the mayor of Sugar Land, near Houston — said the property tax legislation Abbott has made his top priority of the special legislative session should not be a "one-size-fits-all solution."
"Just because we're not for revenue caps doesn't mean we want property taxes up," Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams said. "It's exactly the opposite. Setting these revenue caps can have the opposite effect and there is no tax relief."
Current law allows voters to petition their local governments to hold an election to curb their tax increases if the government's new revenue exceeds 8 percent. Proposals in the Texas House and Senate would reduce that percentage — called the rollback rate — to 6 percent and 4 percent, respectively, and make the elections automatic.
The mayors, who said they run fiscally conservative budgets in their cities, met with Abbott for an hour. They said he complimented them for how they manage their cities, adding that there would be no need for the property tax bills if other cities ran their budgets the same way.
That statement epitomized their argument, said McKinney Mayor George Fuller, whose city is among the fastest-growing in the state.
"How can we have a solution that fits those that aren't operating the way we are, be the same solution for the ones you just stated were operating in the most efficient way?" he said.
The mayors stressed that they should be allowed to control their financial destinies. Limiting their ability to levee taxes would cripple their efforts to help residents and provide them other services, they said, while saving homeowners only a few dollars a month.
Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney said his city's analysis showed that if the proposed bills had been in place over the last 10 years, the city would have placed higher taxes on its residents.
Sugar Land Mayor Joe Zimmerman channeled House Speaker Joe Straus, saying: "We can't have property tax reform without reforming schools."
But much like Straus' efforts to tackle the state's troubled school finance system, he said that conversation with Abbott was brushed aside.
"They were passed over fairly quickly," Fuller said.
School taxes make up the lion's share of local property taxes. The House passed legislation aimed at increasing state funds to public schools, but the bills died in the Senate, where lawmakers preferred voucher-type programs for parents to send special-needs kids to private schools, another item on Abbott's special session agenda.
Still, the Republican mayors left hopeful about Abbott's plans for economic development in the state, which they said would create long-term property tax relief for Texans.
"If we are able to be successful in economic development, that keeps our property taxes down, and that's a message that's being lost," Williams said.
Annexation discussed
The mayors were less optimistic about their ability to annex surrounding areas into their cities.
Abbott has backed a bill that would require voters from unincorporated areas to approve a city's request to annex them. Proponents say residents should have a say in the decision because annexation often comes with higher taxes. The bill's opponents say that annexations are usually voluntary and that residents of unincorporated cities should pay for their share of parks and other city services they use.
"I understand the thought of making sure the state listens to the little guys in unincorporated areas, but I also hope that they'll hear the voice of the large majority that lives within the cities and the negative impact it could have on our cities," Fuller said.
Zimmerman, who testified against the bill a few weeks ago, said: "I don't believe he [Abbott] was persuaded by our argument."
James Barragán. James Barragán covers Texas politics for The Dallas Morning News. He has covered immigration, public safety and voting rights and has traveled on assignment to the U.S. Supreme Court and Houston during Hurricane Harvey. Before joining The News in 2017, he worked for the Austin American-Statesman and The Los Angeles Times.
jbarragan@dallasnews.com /JamesBarraganNews James_Barragan


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I think it must still be cold because this has been soup week. Did you see Krista's Monday post? Yum!!!!!
I've wanted soup all month. That's why I shared a shrimp soup recipe a few weeks ago.
Slowly, deliberately, I removed the top (trying to imprint in my brain which way the spout went) and started the recipe. Needless to say, my husband was giggling behind my back, so of course I was having vindictive thoughts about not giving him a taste of my soup! (Cue: wicked laughter).
But in the end, I made the soup, I gave my husband a taste, and found out I had a great soup on my hands...I mean, in my kitchen.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil with 1 tablespoon salt. At the same time fill a 3- to 4-quart bowl with ice water.
While water is heating, cut the potatoes into quarters.
Add the basil leaves to the boiling water. Cook for 15 seconds. NO MORE. Remove the basil with a slotted spoon and plunge the leaves into the ice water. This SETS the bright green color. Drain and set the leaves aside. DO NOT pour off the boiling water.
Add cut potatoes to the same pot of boiling water and bring to a boil.
Cook for 20-25 minutes until tender. [A fork should slide easily in and out.] Drain well. Return the potatoes to the pot and cover, heat off.
Meanwhile, place the basil in a food processor and puree.
In a small saucepan over medium heat, warm the half-and-half and cheese until it simmers. Add the hot cream to the basil.
With a handheld mixer, beat the hot potatoes in the pot until they are broken up. [You can also use a masher or drop them in the Cuisinart and return them to the pot afterwards.] Slowly add the basil cream, salt, pepper, then beat until smooth.
Pour into 6 serving bowls and sprinkle with extra Parmesan cheese.
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I love potato soup and wanted to try something different. This looks delicious, Avery! And...too funny about the Cuisinart! We know a lot by instinct, don't we?
I am in love with potato soup!
BTW... I am about 20% with bleeding knuckles when I use my box grater... never bleed when using my processor.
Ha! I'm a boxed grater girl, too, and big on my handheld mixer. (I'm so glad your recipe gives me that option!) Soup is wonderful, isn't it? Cream soups are so filling, rich, and satisfying, and I love that you can lighten them up by using lower fat milk, etc. So three cheers for soup AND Avery! Congrats again on your Agatha nom for Best First Novel! Woot!
Dave (Year on the Grill), 20% bleeding knuckles. Oh, I know that feeling, too. BTW, everyone, Dave blogged about my cheddar muffins and Celiac disease on Year on the Grill and he did a great job!! He added more corn. Check it out.
Cleo, thanks so much for the cheers and woot! I love how supportive our group is. We're so lucky.
I am definitely trying this one! I love basil and try to keep a plant alive inside during the winter.
I love my Cuisinart, but I also have my grandmother's box grater and I think of cooking with her every time I use it.
Ah, Harbingerdc: I love that about your grandmother! Sweet.
This is great!! Love the idea of using the potatoes as a side dish *or* turning it into soup. How fun! I have a food processor now (after many years of longing) and I find that I'm so used to doing everything by hand that I forget to use it! Thanks for the reminder. And --whoop, whoop, whoop on the Agatha Nom!!!
What a lovely combination of ingredients -- potato, basil and Parmesan. Yum! I love Yukon Golds. They my favorite for mashing, and I bet they're very good here.
Julie, thank you for the whoops! :) It was fun with this recipe to find it could be two things by just removing one.
Krista, you've posted twice, so I guess you really do like it! LOL Yukon golds are so good they can be eaten without any butter at all.
I am a soup's addict and this one seems so good, I'll definitely try it.
Congratulations for your nomination Avery !
I'm with you on Cuisinart-phobia...I think it is all the various tools etc.!! I take your success as a personal challenge to get mine out and make soup!
Our local "little market" (as opposed to our big market i.e. superstore) purchases all of their produce from the famous Eastern Market in Detroit. So their fruit and veg selections vary day by day, week by week. Well, there must have been a blockbuster sale on Yukon Golds because I was able to get a bunch for .99 cents/pound!!
So your timing is impeccable :-) Soup and Margarita Pie for Chez Phillipe this weekend!
Danielle~ Thank you so much!


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Reaction mass of (9E)-9-Undecenal and (9Z)-9-Undecenal and undec-10-enal
Currently viewing: 001 Key | Read-across (Structural analogue / surrogate) (JS Member)002 Key | Experimental result003 Key | Read-across (Structural analogue / surrogate)004 No specified study adequacy | No specified result type
skin sensitisation: in vivo (LLNA)
migrated information: read-across from supporting substance (structural analogue or surrogate)
other: see 'Remark'
Guideline study performed under GLP. The source and target substances must have an aldehyde group at the 1-carbon position and either a terminal (10-position) or an internal alkene (9-position or 8-position; with the terminal alkyl group no larger than an ethyl group and/or should not multiply substituted). The substance alkyl chain length of the substance should be more than 6 carbons in length and less than 14 carbons in length and fulfil the mono-alkene definition. The substance should not have any branched alkyl groups or side chains. The target and source share common structural elements in the same relative positions. The source and target have very similar physico-chemical properties and thus have similar expected toxicokinetic behaviour. The substances have similar in silico chemical reactivity predictions. This is observed within available in vivo toxicology testing where low level local and systemic toxicity is demonstrated and comparable between target and source. The substances therefore demonstrate chemical similarity. In the skin sensitisation endpoint, the target and source have common protein reactivity alert(s). The target and source therefore have common foreseen mode of action.
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Test guidelineopen allclose all
Test guideline 1
OECD Guideline 429 (Skin Sensitisation: Local Lymph Node Assay)
EU Method B.42 (Skin Sensitisation: Local Lymph Node Assay)
mouse local lymph node assay (LLNA)
Test material form:
other: liquid
- Stability under test conditions: The solutions were used as soon as they were prepared to ensure the stability of the test material in solution.
- Storage condition of test material: In the original container in refrigerator (at 3 - 5 °C), away from direct sunlight
other: CBA/Jibm(SPF)
- Source: Recognised animal supplier
- Age at study initiation: 7 - 12 weeks
- Weight at study initiation: 17.7 - 24.8 g
- Housing: In groups of four in Makrolon type-3 cages with standard softwood bedding
- Diet: standard pellet diet ad libitum
- Water: ad libitum
- Acclimation period: 6 days
- Temperature (°C): 22+/- 3
- Humidity (%): 30 - 70
- Air changes (per hr): 10 - 15
- Photoperiod (hrs dark / hrs light): 12 h light / 12 h dark
IN-LIFE DATES: 28-AUG-2001 to 12-SEP-2001
Study design: in vivo (LLNA)
acetone/olive oil (4:1 v/v)
5, 10, 25, 50 and 75%
4 females
TREATMENT PREPARATION AND ADMINISTRATION:
The test item in the main study was assayed at five consecutive concentrations that were selected by the sponsor.
Each test group of mice was treated by topical (epidermal) application to the dorsal surface of each ear lobe (left and right) with different test item concentrations of 5 %, 10 %, 25 %, 50% and 75% in acetone:olive oil, 4:1 (v/v). The application volume, 25uI, was spread over the entire dorsal surface of each ear lobe once daily for three consecutive days. A further group of mice was treated with an equivalent volume of the relevant vehicle alone (control animals). A hair dryer was used to dry the ear's surface as quickly as possible to avoid loss of test item applied.
ADMINISTRATION OF 3H-METHYL THYMIDINE
3H-methyl thymidine (3HTdR) (specific activity, 2 Ci/mmol; concentration, 1 mCi/ml). Five days after the first topical application, all mice were administered with 250uL of 83.32 uCi/ml 3HTdR (equal to 20.83 uCi 3HTdR) by intravenous injection via a tail vein.
DETERMINATION OF INCORPORATED 3HTDR
Approximately five hours after treatment with 3HTdR all mice were euthanized by intraperitoneal injection of NARCOREN at a dose of at least 2 ml/kg body weight (equivalent to 320 mg sodium pentobarbitone/kg body weight). The draining lymph nodes were rapidly excised and pooled for each experimental group (8 nodes per group). Single cell suspensions (phosphate buffered saline) of pooled lymph node cells were prepared by gentle mechanical disaggregation through stainless steel gauze (200 um mesh size). After washing three times with phosphate buffered saline (approx. 10 ml) the lymph node cells were resuspended in 5 % trichloroacetic acid (approx. 3 ml) and incubated at approximately +4 degrees C overnight for precipitation of macromolecules. The precipitates were then resuspended in 5% trichloroacetic acid (1 ml) and transferred to glass scintillation vials with 10 ml of 'Ultima Gold' scintillation liquid and thoroughly mixed. The level of 3HTdR incorporation was then measured on a beta-scintillation counter. Similarly, background 3HTdR levels were also measured in two 1 ml-aliquots of 5 %trichloroacetic acid. The beta-scintillation counter expresses 3HTdR incorporation as the number of radioactive
disintegrations per minute (DPM).
mercaptobenzothiazole (CAS No 149-30-4)
The mean values and standard deviations were calculated in the body weight tables. The EC3 value was calculated according to the equation:
EC3 = (a-c) [(3-d)/(b-d)] + c
where EC3 is the estimated concentration of the test item required to produce a 3-fold increase in draining lymph node cell proliferative activity; (a, b) and (c, d) are respectively the co-ordinates of the two pair of data lying immediately above and below the S.l. value of 3 on the local lymph node assay dose response plot.
2-MERCAPTO-BENZOTHIAZOLE showed an allergenic potency when tested at concentrations of 10 % and 25 %.
In vivo (LLNA)
other: see table 1 below
other: disintegrations per minute (DPM)
Table 1. Individual results
Test concentration % Group Measurement dpm Calculation Result - S.I.
dpm - BG Number of lymph nodes dpm per lymph node
- BG I 4 - - - -
- BGII 4 - - - -
- CG I 4146 4142 8 518 -
5 TG 2 7028 7024 8 878 1.7
10 TG 3 21816 21812 8 2727 5.3
BG = Background (1 mL 5% trichloroacetic acid) in duplicate
CG = Control Group
TG = Test Group
S.l. = Stimulation Index
EC3 was calculated as 6.8%
Migrated information Criteria used for interpretation of results: EU
Under the conditions of this study the EC3 of the test substance has been calculated as 6.8% and is considered to be weakly sensitising.
The study was performed to GLP and the method followed OECD 429 to assess the skin sensitisation potential of the test material in the CBA/Jibm(SPF) strain mouse following topical application to the dorsal surface of the ear. The test item in the main study was assayed at five consecutive concentrations that were selected by the sponsor. Each test group of mice was treated by topical (epidermal) application to the dorsal surface of each ear lobe (left and right) with different test item concentrations of 5 %, 10 %, 25 %, 50% and 75% in acetone:olive oil, 4:1 (v/v). The application volume, 25 uL, was spread over the entire dorsal surface of each ear lobe once daily for three consecutive days. A further group of mice was treated with an equivalent volume of the relevant vehicle alone (control animals). Five days after the first topical application, all mice were administered with 250 uL of 83.32 uCi/ml 3HTdR (equal to 20.83 uCi 3HTdR) by intravenous injection via a tail vein. The mice were observed twice daily and any clinical signs of toxicity, if present, were also recorded. The bodyweight was recorded at the start of acclimatisation and prior to necropsy. No irritation or signs of systemic toxicity were observed in the animals examined. Body weights were within the range seen for controls over the study period. Mean DPM/animal values for the experimental groups treated with test substance concentrations 5, 10, 25, 50 and 75% were 7024, 21812, 31128, 36012 and 36331 DPM, respectively. The mean DPM/animal value for the vehicle control group was 4142 DPM. The SI values calculated for the substance concentrations 5, 10, 25, 50 and 75% were 1.7, 5.3, 7.5, 8.7 and 8.8, respectively. Under the conditions of this study the EC3 of the test substance has been calculated as 6.8% and is considered to be weakly sensitising.