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alexander wang x hm

Although H&M announced yesterday during an event at the Coachella Music Festival that their next designer collaboration would be with Alexander Wang, it was the designer’s epic Instagram video that got us all excited.

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Since 2007, Alexander Wang has inspired and evolved a whole generation of urban cool kids. His core designs exist in seamlessly blending the imperfect with the traditional.

Alexander Wang says, “I am honored to be a part of H&M’s designer collaborations. The work with their team is an exciting, fun process. They are very open to push boundaries and to set a platform for creativity. This will be a great way for a wider audience to experience elements of the Alexander Wang brand and lifestyle.”

The Alexander Wang x H&M collection will feature apparel and accessories for women and men. Typical for his irreverent approach, Alexander Wang will propose a new take on the lifestyle product offering that goes beyond fashion. The full collection will be available in 250 H&M stores worldwide, and online starting November 6, 2014.

If ever a time to camp out at the flagship store in Times Square it will be on November 6th. I usually don’t indulge in waiting in lines, but for Alexander I will make an exception.

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Tag Archives: Joint Economic Dialogue

Paulson’s Flying Trip To Beijing Provides Little Cheer

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s flying visit to Beijing to prepare for the next round of strategic economic dialogue due in June was a glummer than usual affair.

Squeezed in between Washington appearances on Monday to announce his plan to restructure America’s financial regulation and a Thursday U.S. Senate hearing on the Bear Stearns bailout, Paulson briefed Chinese leaders on the U.S. economy and the risks that the credit crisis posed to the real economy.

Not that Chinese leaders haven’t been paying attention. “There is no doubt that what’s happening in U.S. markets clearly has to give pause to the Chinese,” over its own financial markets liberalization, the FT quotes Paulson as saying. “They may be too polite to say it directly.”

Concern, too, over investment – where both countries have been complaining about growing protectionism against each other. “This is an area where there has been a loss of confidence on both sides. More work needs to be done,” Paulson said.

The recent accelerated appreciation of the yuan, which has risen against the U.S. dollar at an annualised rate of about 15%-20% so far this year, was a rare bright note.

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Say It Right Series

yahoo taiwan dictionary overhaul

Posted by ryanchild May 26, 2010 in the Group General Discussion.

Tags: dictionaries taiwan yahoo

I use tw.dictionary.yahoo.com as my primary online dictionary and as sort of a rough check to see if words learned in Chinesepod and heard on ppstream are actually used in Taiwan. It just got an overhaul, it looks like, for the first time in the 3 years or so I've been using it. After using it for a few minutes my impressions are mixed... it no longer includes bopomofo and tones (not especially accurate before anyway) but there are now example sentences, related words and "online references" which includes yahoo knowledge, web and image search.

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Study of the Safety and Efficacy of CC-5013 Treatment For Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome

This study has been completed.
Information provided by:
Celgene Identifier:
First received: August 27, 2002
Last updated: June 16, 2009
Last verified: June 2009
To estimate the percent of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) who experience erythroid response and the interval to response with daily treatment of 25 mg of CC-5013 .

Condition Intervention Phase
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Drug: CC-5013
Phase 2

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Phase II Open Label Study of the Safety and Efficacy of CC-5013 Treatment For Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by Celgene:

Estimated Enrollment: 25
Study Start Date: February 2002
Primary Completion Date: January 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Senior)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
  • Diagnosis of de novo myelodysplastic syndrome of at least 12 weeks duration.
  • Baseline mean hemoglobin < 10.0 g/dL (untransfused) and/or be transfusion dependent defined by requiring at least 4 units of RBC in the 8 weeks prior to baseline.
  • More than 30 days must have elapsed since any previous treatment for MDS, other than transfusion.
  • Women must not be pregnant or lactating
  • No use of another experimental study drug within 30 dy\ays of baseline
  • Understand and sign written informed consent
  • Able to adhere to study visit schedule, understand and comply with other protocol requirements.
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00044382

United States, Arizona
Arizona Cancer Center
Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
Sponsors and Collaborators
Celgene Corporation
  More Information

Responsible Party: Deborah Ingenito, Celgene Corporation Identifier: NCT00044382     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: CC-5013-MDS-501-001
Study First Received: August 27, 2002
Last Updated: June 16, 2009

Keywords provided by Celgene:

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Leprostatic Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Effects of Exercise With or Without Blueberries on Cardiovascular Risk Markers

This study has been completed.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Fredrik H Nystrom, University Hospital, Linkoeping
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 10, 2011
Last updated: July 26, 2012
Last verified: July 2012
About 32 healthy subjects are subjected to 4 weeks of exercise, 4 weeks of washout and 4 weeks of sedentary life style, randomization decides whether they start with exercise or with being "couch potatoes". All participants are also randomized to also consume 150 g of blueberries on exercise days or not. The exercise is constituted of 5 km running 5 days a week during the 4 week period. The exercise period and the "couch" period are started and ended with a 5 km run at maximal speed and the fasting blood samples for cardiovascular risk factors are measured before and after this run, ie 8 times in total.

Condition Intervention
Risk Factors Cardiovascular Disease
Sedentary Life
Biological: Blueberries

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Official Title: Effects of Exercise With or Without Blueberries on Cardiovascular Risk Markers

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by University Hospital, Linkoeping:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • markers for cardiovascular disease [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
    Insulin levels, glucose levels, lipids, hs-CRP, troponin T

Enrollment: 32
Study Start Date: July 2010
Study Completion Date: March 2011
Primary Completion Date: December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: conventional food
Regular eating habits during exercise period
Active Comparator: Blueberries
Intervention: Addition of blueberries (150g/day) to regular food during the exercise period on days with exercise
Biological: Blueberries
150 grams of frozen blueberries on the same day as exercise

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 60 Years   (Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

  • healthy subjects

Exclusion Criteria:

  • significant disease and disabilities that hinder running
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01274078

Linkoeping, Sweden
Sponsors and Collaborators
University Hospital, Linkoeping
  More Information

Responsible Party: Fredrik H Nystrom, MD professor, University Hospital, Linkoeping
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01274078     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: FHN_exc_blueberries
Study First Received: January 10, 2011
Last Updated: July 26, 2012

Keywords provided by University Hospital, Linkoeping:

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes

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Children With Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency Who Previously Received Treatment With SBC-102

This study has been terminated.
(Study has been merged with NCT01371825)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Identifier:
First received: November 10, 2011
Last updated: August 10, 2016
Last verified: January 2013
This phase 2/3, open-label extension study will evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of intravenous (IV) infusions of SBC-102 in children with Lysosomal Acid Lipase (LAL) Deficiency who previously received treatment with SBC-102.

Condition Intervention Phase
Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency
Wolman Disease
Drug: SBC-102
Phase 2
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: An Open Label Multicenter Extension Study to Evaluate the Long-term Efficacy and Safety of SBC-102 in Children With Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency Who Previously Received Treatment With SBC-102

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by Alexion Pharmaceuticals:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Overall survival [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Survival rates at periodic intervals and median survival time. [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
  • Long-term safety of SBC-102 in children with growth failure due to LAL Deficiency [ Time Frame: 3 years ]

Enrollment: 10
Study Start Date: November 2011
Study Completion Date: January 2015
Primary Completion Date: December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: SBC-102
SBC-102 Weekly IV infusions of SBC-102
Drug: SBC-102
SBC-102 is a recombinant human lysosomal acid lipase (rhLAL). The investigational medicinal product is an enzyme replacement therapy intended for treatment of patients with LAL Deficiency.
Other Names:
  • Kanuma
  • Sebelipase Alfa

Detailed Description:

Early onset LAL Deficiency is a very rare form of LAL Deficiency, with an estimated prevalence of less than 2 lives per million (Meikle et al., 1999). This form of the disease, named after the physician who first described it (Abramov et al., 1956), is the most aggressive presentation of LAL Deficiency and is characterized by gastrointestinal and hepatic manifestations including marked growth failure, malabsorption, steatorrhea, and hepatomegaly. Early onset LAL Deficiency is rapidly progressive and fatal usually within the first year of life (Assmann & Seedorf, 2001).

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of SBC-102 therapy on overall survival at 12 months of age in children with growth failure due to LAL Deficiency.

All subjects will receive repeat IV infusions of SBC-102, beginning at least 1 week after the preceding infusion in study LAL-CL03 or under an expanded access treatment regimen.

Ages Eligible for Study:   Child, Adult, Senior
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Subject's parent or legal guardian provides written consent/permission prior to any study procedures
  • Subject completed treatment in study LAL-CL03 or Subject received treatment with SBC-102 for at least 4 months under an expanded access treatment regimen
  • Subject had no life-threatening or unmanageable study drug toxicity during treatment with SBC-102 under LAL-CL03 or expanded access treatment regimen.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Clinically important concurrent disease
  • Myeloablative preparation, or other systemic pre-transplant conditioning, for hematopoietic stem cell or liver transplantation
  • Previous hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT01473875

Hopital Necker Enfants Malades
Paris, France
United Kingdom
St. Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals
Manchester, United Kingdom
Sponsors and Collaborators
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
  More Information

Additional Information:
Responsible Party: Alexion Pharmaceuticals Identifier: NCT01473875     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: LAL-CL05
Study First Received: November 10, 2011
Last Updated: August 10, 2016
Individual Participant Data
Plan to Share IPD: Undecided

Keywords provided by Alexion Pharmaceuticals:
Chanarin Dorfman Syndrome
Wolman Disease
Wolman Phenotype
Acid Lipase Deficiency
Acid Cholesteryl Hydrolase
Acid Lipase Disease Deficiency, type 2
Cholesteryl Ester Storage Disease (CESD)
Cholesteryl Ester Hydrolase Deficiency
Early Onset LAL-Deficiency (Wolman Disease)
LAL Deficiency
Late Onset Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency (CESD)
Wolman Disease (early onset LAL Deficiency)
Related Disorders:
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
Alcoholic Liver Disease
Cryptogenic Cirrhosis
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) Type C

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Wolman Disease
Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
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Symptomatic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension After Mitral Valve Surgery

This study has been completed.
Northwestern University
Gilead Sciences
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Duke University Identifier:
First received: July 16, 2012
Last updated: August 5, 2015
Last verified: September 2014

July 16, 2012
August 5, 2015
July 2012
December 2014   (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension [ Time Frame: greater than 6 months after mitral valve surgery ]
study evaluation period will take several hours to complete the components of the study (clinical evaluation, echocardiogram, etc.) on approximately 2 occasions
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01646541 on Archive Site
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Symptomatic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension After Mitral Valve Surgery
Symptomatic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension After Mitral Valve Surgery: Pilot, Screening Study

Most patients with mitral valve disease are symptomatic with shortness of breath and a limited activity level prior to mitral valve surgery. Despite surgical repair or replacement of the mitral valve, many patients remain symptomatic with an impaired ability to live an active lifestyle. Often after extensive evaluation, no other pulmonary, left ventricular dysfunction, or valvular heart disease is responsible for the continued symptoms, and some of these patients will be limited by persistent pulmonary hypertension (PH) at rest or with exertion that is responsible for limiting their activity level and impacting their quality of their life.

It is our goal in the proposed study to systematically characterize symptomatic and asymptomatic patients greater than six months after mitral valve surgery using clinical data, echocardiographic evaluation, laboratory assessment, and in some patients, invasive hemodynamic measurements. The investigators will screen asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with resting echocardiography and also with echocardiography during exercise, as many patients will exhibit exercise-induced PH following mitral valve surgery. Pulmonary artery (PA) pressure will be estimated from echocardiography using Doppler-derived calculations. If elevated PA pressures are observed with echocardiography, then symptomatic patients will undergo right heart catheterization for invasive pressure measurement, which is the gold-standard for the diagnosis of PH. When PH is present and there is a normal wedge pressure (PCWP) during invasive pressure measurement, further assessment to identify potential candidates for PH therapy will be performed. This involves having patients breathe inhaled nitric oxide, a rapid-acting, pulmonary vasodilator with a short half-life. While breathing inhaled nitric oxide, blood pressure, PA pressure, PCWP, and cardiac output will be monitored to characterize individuals who could benefit symptomatically from pharmacotherapy to treat underlying PH. It is important to note that only a small minority of patients exhibit a positive vasodilator response and those with PH and a normal PCWP without an initial vasodilator response would still be identified as candidates for chronic PH therapy.

The information generated from this proposed research will make a significant contribution to the understanding of PH in a group of patients in whom it has not been previously studied. Scientific reports on the evaluation of patients with PH after mitral valve surgery are almost nonexistent from the modern era. Furthermore, patients with PH due to mitral valve disease have been excluded from clinical trials of agents currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat PH. Therefore, this work will carefully characterize PA pressures in an objective manner in a group of patients following mitral valve surgery who remain limited with respect to their activity levels. In addition, the investigators will gain a better understanding of the frequency with which patients have PH and a normal PCWP, which identifies a cohort of patients who could have an improvement in their symptoms and quality of life with chronic vasodilator treatment.

Not Provided
Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
Not Provided
Not Provided
Non-Probability Sample
Patients seen in the cardiology, pulmonary hypertension, or cardiac surgery clinics at the enrolling institutions
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Mitral Valve Disease
Not Provided
  • Asymptomatic
    No dyspnea with exertion greater than 6 months after mitral valve surgery [New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class I]
  • Symptomatic
    Dyspnea with exertion greater than 6 months after mitral valve surgery [New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class II, III, or IV]
Not Provided

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
December 2014
December 2014   (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age > 18 years
  • Greater than 6 months post-mechanical or bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement or mitral valve repair (quadrangular resection, triangular resection, sliding plasty, and/or annuloplasty) surgery
  • Dyspnea at rest or with exertion (NYHA II, III, or IV) [Symptomatic Study Group]
  • Asymptomatic control group meeting criteria 1 and 2 above

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current or prior chronic vasodilator therapy for pulmonary hypertension
  • Known collagen vascular disease
  • HIV infection: Based on self-report /historical diagnosis
  • Portal hypertension
  • Prior anorexigen use
  • History of corrected or uncorrected intracardiac shunt
  • Prior pulmonary embolism
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction < 45%)
  • Moderate or severe mitral regurgitation
  • Moderate aortic stenosis (mean gradient > 25 mm Hg)
  • Symptomatic, non-revascularized coronary artery disease
  • Evidence of parenchymal lung disease with a TLC < 70% and an FEV1 < 65% of predicted with pulmonary function testing
  • Pregnancy - Serum pregnancy test for women of child bearing potential, if cardiac catheterization is needed
  • Unable to provide informed consent
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
18 Years and older   (Adult, Senior)
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
United States
Not Provided
Not Provided
Not Provided
Duke University
Duke University
  • Northwestern University
  • Gilead Sciences
Principal Investigator: Andrew Wang, M.D. Duke University
Duke University
September 2014

ICMJE     Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP


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- [Added] New minimal slider skin.
- [Added] New slider sample as the example of new features.
- [Added] Option of enabling background video in mobile devices.
- [Fixed] Static layers positioning in Firefox.
- [Improved] Layer animations and show/hide timing functionality.

Master Slider 2.16.3, 2015-12-1

- [Added] Box transition view.
- [Fixed] An issue of getting touch JS error in some Android devices.
- [Improved] Swipe sensitivity while scrolling page on touch devices.
- [Improved] Slider stability in some pages which contained JS errors from third-party scripts.

Master Slider 2.15.1, 2015-7-6

- [Updated] Updated Prettyphoto script version to 3.1.6.
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- [Fixed] Controls auto hide didnt work in touch devices.
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- [Fixed] Preload value larger than slides number caused js errors.

Version 2.12.3, 2015-4-14

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AngularJS Question

Textangular HTML mode clears model value

We decided to change our backend CMS to use text-angular's WYSIWYG editor. The content pulls from the database just fine, it gets rendered just fine, but the instant we go to view the HTML source, the text is there for an instant and then it disappears. I've turned off sanitization with the ta-unsafe-sanitizer="true" . The weird thing is, if I manually step through the angular code that does the digesting, eventually the text is rendered and it stays on the screen. If I run it without breakpoints, it clears the text.

I'm not sure if it is sanitization or some sort of race condition inside Angular. Anyone else run into this?

$scope.updatePageTranslation.Content = 'large html portion here';

The scope of the form is set as follows:

Everything gets loaded fine and other fields of the form show the values correctly. The initial render of the content is correct. It is just when switching to HTML view that it goes blank. Clicking Html again switches back to the visual view, which is correct. But if I save, the value sent to the server is now blank.

I can even copy and paste the value into site's demo textbox and have the same issue.

This was a strange one to figure out, but thanks to @HanletEscaño, I was able to find my way. When returning the content from the server, I had to do the following in order to pre-sanitize it so that you could switch back and forth between the HTML and rendered view:

Content.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "").Replace("\n", "").Replace("\r", "").Replace("\t", "").Replace("  ", "");

The important one is that last replace, where we replace two spaces with nothing. This seemed to be the final trick. We were coming from a previous WYSIWYG editor where we could make the HTML look nice, but with this editor, everything has to be condensed.


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Dropzone JS only uploading one file

I am using DropzoneJS in one of my projects. I am using laravel to process the backend for file upload. I used a div in my form and add the dropzone class to it.

it works fine but only one file is being uploaded. I want it to upload multiple files simultaneously.

I already set the
option in my dropzone configuration to
and the
option to

here is my code for the dropzone configuration:

url: upload,
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
autoProcessQueue: true,
addRemoveLinks: true,
uploadMultiple: true,
params: {
"model_id": 1,
"user_id" : 2
maxFiles: 10,
parallelUploads: 10,

below is my code for the backend

public function uploadPhoto(Request $request){

foreach ($request->file('file') as $file) {

$filename = uniqid().'.'.$file->getClientOriginalExtension();
$file->move('images/booking', $filename);

//save details to db
$photo= new InspectionPhotos();
$photo->inspection_id = $request['inspection_id'];
$photo->product_id = $request['product_id'];
$photo->photo_path = $filename;
return response()->json([
'message' => 'OK'

The problem is the return statement in Controller.php.

After the first file is saved, the function uploadPhoto() returns, never getting to save the second file.

Wrap the save() function in try-catch and return error status in the catch block, and handle the errors in front-end appropriately. You might also want to have $file->move() in try-catch as it might throw errors as well.

Finally, move the return statement out of foreach to return success status.

Glad the answer helped you, cheers!


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Custom Phone Background for Cisco IP Phone 7941 G displays black

I have followed the steps here: https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-18765

I see the image on the Desk Phone but when I select it - it is all black.

This is supposed to be a logo image for the company

Any suggestions?

  • 1. Re: Custom Phone Background for Cisco IP Phone 7941 G displays black

    This community does not provide technical support and is not staffed with technical support experts.  I recommend you post this and future technical support questions to the Cisco Support Community (https://supportforums.cisco.com/index.jspa) where our Cisco technical support experts provide assistance. Another option is to open a ticket with the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (www.cisco.com/go/support) to get expert debugging assistance.

    We do encourage you to participate in the Cisco Collaboration Community and to also join our Cisco Collaboration User Group program!  In the community, we encourage your discussion/sharing around collaboration topics and Cisco Collaboration Solutions, including business and IT requirements, industry trends, process, culture/organization issues, how collaboration can be used to transform businesses, vendor selection, adoption, training, architecture, licensing, and product features/functionality. If you are a customer or partner, you can also join the user group program to be eligible for member-only events and influence product direction.

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Problems with the Linux version of XAMPP, questions, comments, and anything related.

Xampp homepage displayed on multiple sites

Postby moonshinerat » 21. April 2008 18:05

Hi folks,

I've just installed Xampp for Linux as a quick way of testing some development sites. The problem is I keep getting the initial Xampp page on every site and I can't get the index.html files to display for my different sites.

At the moment I only have two sites I want to host: localhost.www.bigtr.org
and : localhost.www.galoeng.com

This is my vhost.conf entries:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost.www.bigtr.org
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/www.bigtr.org
ServerName localhost.www.bigtr.org
ErrorLog logs/localhost.www.bigtr.org-error_log
CustomLog logs/localhost.www.bigtr.org-access_log common

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost.www.galoeng.com
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/www.galoeng.com
ServerName localhost.www.galoeng.com
ErrorLog logs/localhost.www.galoeng.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/localhost.www.galoeng.com-access_log common

I created directories in htdocs called www.galoeng.com and www.bigtr.org

Can someone tell me where I am going wrong? I have index.html files in the directories but I just keep getting the Xampp status page. I've followed all of the tutorials on the net and the threads on these forums to no avail. I know it's got to be something stupid but it's buggin' the hell out of me.

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I am looking for internships to complete as a part of my Master’s program; because I want to work with chronically ill students, the most likely place for me to work is the disability services office at a college or university.Leslie looks to intern at a college disability services office

Among the issues I expect to confront are some chronically ill students not registering with the disability office because they do not view themselves as being disabled or having a disability.

The label of disability does not fit everyone, and I think this is also an issue in the community of people that have RA.

This means that most disability offices are undercounting the number of eligible students.  So they are receiving less funding and providing less resources for a growing number of students.

There is also the issue that most disability offices are not really equipped to deal with the ever-changing needs of chronically ill students.  Most of this is probably related to the fact that these offices are notoriously under-funded and under-staffed.

In most cases, students who are not registered with the disability office cannot take advantage of services, and are many times out of luck should they have a health crisis and need accommodation without having previously disclosed their chronic illness and disability.

But there is also a deeper issue, one that I really struggle with.  And that is an issue of climate.  Having been at two very different universities now as a graduate student – one that is large and public, and one that is smaller and private – the climate issues are very similar and that is that they are not all that inclusive.

You can be compliant in act, but if the culture and environment does not reflect that, you might as well be literally slamming doors in peoples’ faces.

When you put a ramp that is wheelchair accessible between the loading dock and the dumpsters, it sends a very negative message right away.  You are here, but you are not a priority.

Or when the ADA coordinator of the university laments at a public meeting about how expensive it is to convert a very old, heavy door into one that can open automatically, it sends the message that people with disabilities make life more difficult for everyone else.

In the graduate school setting, the immediate question when a student is looking for accommodations of any kind is how they are trying to play the system.  There are always bad eggs.  There will always be people who play the system.  Unfortunately, there will always be people who are not disabled but try to pretend that they are for the benefits they perceive such a label brings.

But I have never met anyone in the graduate school setting who is so hard up that they pretend to have a chronic illness or disability.  Graduate school can be hell if you are healthy, let alone if you are trying to balance a rigorous academic program with the rigors of maintaining your health.

The reality is that we are moving toward universal design, which is useful to everyone, hence the name universal.

However, if the cultural environment is not in sync with the physical environment, we haven’t gotten as far as we think we have.


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David Moyes defends Nani after he was booed at Old Trafford

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David Moyes has defended Nani after he was booed at Old Trafford.

David Moyes has defended Nani after he was booed at Old Trafford.

Manchester United manager David Moyes has come out and defended Nani after he was booed off the pitch in United’s game against Stoke City.

Stoke were leading up until the hour mark after which Nani was replaced by youngster Adnan Januzaj. Even though Nani was responsible for creating the first goal, the fans vented their frustration on the winger as he was substituted.

But Moyes said of his winger, ”He is a regular and captain for Portugal so he is very talented.”

“There were one or two decisions he might have made better, but he got us the (first) goal with a lovely ball. We have a lot of competition for places in the wide areas, incredible competition, and that is what we’re looking for.”

Manchester United ended up winning the game thanks to late goals from Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez in the 78th and 80th minute. And Moyes was clearly a relieved man after the game and admitted that he would rather have United win these games without such nail biting moments.

“It was a win in the Premier League. They are hard to come by and they are not easy.”

“It was a big moment to win the game and hopefully we will continue to win games. If it’s in the same fashion then we’ll take it, but if we can make it a bit easier it will be great for the old ticker.”

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NMB48 Kamonegix 1st Week Sales

NMB48‘s 8th single [Kamonegikkusu], released on October 2, finished its first week selling 374,644 copies. The single ranked first in the Oricon Weekly Charts and so became NMB48‘s 7th single to top this ranking.

As usual, first day sales were the highest with 270,447 copies. Apparently due to an additional shipment of theater editions Day 4 showed a boost in sales with 66,762 copies sold.

Compared to previous singles, [Kamonegikkusu] had the third best first week sales only about a thousand copies short of [Nagiichi]’s 375,785 but more than 100,000 copies lower than NMB48‘s best selling single [Bokura no Eureka] (481,843 in first week).

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Sail Date: September 01, 2011

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The service was great,and the crew always had smiles on their faces. I was not impressed with the cabin. We have cruised several times,and this was the smallest one I have seen ,especially the bathroom. We also had a few problems,the first was the water turning off for over an hour ....right in the middle of a shower ! Then the toilet overflowed when were at dinner...
The comedy shows were good. The musicals were average. The pool was soooo crowded.

not the best cruise, not many activities during days at sea.

Pros: the dining room menu was good and the service was excellent

Cons: shower was too small, a sewage smell on the 4th floor and the water stopped working for a hour

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Bagpipers, drummers, dancers entertain at Scotia-Glenville High School

Bagpipers, drummers, dancers entertain at Scotia-Glenville High School

The Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band, a youth bagpipe and drum assembly that last year won a world champio

At one end of Scotia-Glenville High School, basketballs thumped and crowds cheered in the gym, but at the other end of the school on March 7 was the much-less-familiar sound of bagpipes.

Young people playing them in unison, to be more precise.

The Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band, a youth bagpipe and drum assembly that last year won a world championship in Scotland, performed its sixth annual spring “Celtic Jam” to a half-full auditorium.

A week before St. Patrick’s Day, bagpipers and drummers from ages 6 to 18 took the stage wearing white shirts, black ties and plaid kilts. On stage, they played the ungainly looking ancient instruments that emit a “drone” through pipes sticking out the top of the air bag, while the player blows into the bag and fingers the flute-like “chanter” at the bottom to make a melody.

Interspersed with the bagpipers was traditional Irish dancing performed by young girls in colorful costumes, and a harp solo played by band member Troy Quinn of Nassau.

This is the 24th year for the Scotia-Glenville bagpipe band, said Maureen Connor, its director. The band has about 75 members, who travel from as far away as Glens Falls and Newburgh to practice in Glenville. There are three different bands, depending on skill level. All of them compete against other pipe bands on a regular basis, honing their skills. Connor said they competed against 200 bands last year in Glasgow when they won the championship.

It’s not a coincidence that Scotia-Glenville athletes are known as the “Tartans” and the pipe band got its beginnings there.

“It started here at Scotia-Glenville,” said Connor, who has directed the band since 1994. “The Scotia-Glenville administrators said we’re the Tartans, we need to have a bagpipe band.”

The public image of bagpipers in America may be of old men with a hobby and youth bands uncommon, but young bagpipers are common in the rest of the world, said Dan Cole, a former member of the pipe band who acted as master of ceremonies.

Cole, a financial adviser, said he owes much of his personal and professional development to what he learned about teamwork playing bagpipes, and to the opportunities he got to travel around the world and meet people when he was a member in 1999. He still plays, he said, and has remained a friend of the band.

Fred Fish, who attended the concert, brings his 12-year-old daughter Corrin all the way from Argyle in Washington County every week to rehearse with the band. She’s wanted to play the bagpipe ever since she was 5 years old, he said, after seeing a bagpiper play at Argyle school graduations.

“She’s gotten a lot out of it,” Fish said of the program. “It’s been a good, positive influence, and it gives her a drive academically, too.”

Dave Durrant of Duanesburg has a 12-year-old son, Dennis, who plays the bagpipe, and an 8-year-old, Preston, who just joined the band to play drums.

Durrant said the boys were exposed through a neighbor who played bagpipe, and decided to join with the encouragement of their mother.

“I never played music, and I think this is one of the best things we ever did,” he said during the concert’s intermission.

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Nick Hardman Free Tips

A bright Friday morning brings with it the joy of six tips from the excellent Nick Hardman of the Betting School Insiders Club

We have some decent racing today with the meetings at Doncaster and Huntingdon standing out by some way. I have gone through the cards and picked out some horses with strong chances as well as picking out a couple of bigger priced each-way runners.

John Ferguson is 4-11 with his hurdlers at Doncaster in non-handicap races in the last 3 years for a level stakes profit of £9.29. He runs Buckwheat in the novice hurdle race at 1.05pm and champ AP McCoy is booked to ride.

Nicky Henderson’s Days Of Heaven rates a big danger after showing much improved form in a first time hood when scoring at Ludlow (hood fitted again here). With that in mind there are options for the forecast with these two likely to be a lot better than the rest.

Steel Summit’s winning sequence must come to an end at some point but the manner of his latest victory and the fact he is 10lbs well-in at the weights make him one of the strongest bets on the card in the 2.50pm.

Nicky Henderson has a good chance of taking the final race on the Doncaster card with Clondaw Banker in the maiden hurdle. His second behind Jolly’s Cracked it at Ascot back in November is smart form and he ran that same rival to within a length next time out. A reproduction of either of those efforts should be enough to win this.

It’s not often a horse with form figures 8696 would interest me but you should always put those figures into the context of the race the horse is running in.

In this case the race is a novice handicap hurdle and a quick look at the rest of the runners reveal they too have form figures that look like the numbers round from Countdown.

The horse in question is Haleo and he runs in the 1.40pm today at Doncaster.

What drew my eye to him originally is that he is rated 97 in a race where the top rated horses are rated 99.

However, he gets a hefty 13lbs weight-for-age allowance from those two horses.

He ran well for a long way on his last start before fading two from home to finish 6th, beaten 10 lengths in total. He is the 20/1 outsider of the field here but I think that allowance will see him finish closer than market expectations.

Over at Huntingdon we have a similar scenario in the 4.05pm handicap hurdle that closes the card. Cyclop is joint-top rated with Harry Hunt on an official rating of 120.

However, the 4yo Cyclop gets 11lbs from his 8yo rival. Also in his favour is the booking of Sam Twiston-Davies and he also has a C&D win to his name. Up 6lbs for that latest win he might still have a bit of improvement in him.

The best race on the Huntingdon card is the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle Qualifier and top rated Aubusson is sure to prove popular dropping back into a handicap.

His latest effort saw him finish 3rd in the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle. Prior to that, he won the Grade 3 Fixed Brush Hurdle at Haydock to earn his current rating of 153.

He has to give 11lbs away here although Lizzie Kelly’s claim will off-set 7lbs of that.

However, this is a hot race with David Pipe’s Knight Of Noir also holding strong claims along with Dolatulo and Zeroshadesofgrey.

But the one really interesting runner is Ely Brown. He defied an absence of 198 days to win a Pertemps Qualifier at Ascot in 2012 off a mark of 125 and went on to finish 6th in the Pertemps Final at the Cheltenham festival.

He defied an absence of 206 days to win the same Qualifier again in 2013 off a mark of 135 before being sent novice chasing where he won a Grade 2 on his second start.

He has not been seen in almost a year but it is interesting he goes back over hurdles and is racing here off a mark of 139.

Charlie Deutsch takes off 5lbs so that puts Ely Brown 1lb below his last winning hurdles mark.

He has won first time out in the last 2 seasons. This would be some training feat were he to take this and it will be interesting to see how he goes.

The negatives are that he is returning from injury (as opposed to a seasonal break) and word is he is being aimed at a tilt at the Grand National so this may just be a pipe-opener.

That said you often see Grand National horses running at the Cheltenham festival in the Pertemps Final.

My interest is perked just enough to have a little each-way @12/1.

Doncaster 1.05pm Buckwheat tweet this tip
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Doncaster 2.50pm Steel Summit @6/4 tweet this tip
Doncaster 3.50pm Clondaw Banker tweet this tip
Huntingdon 3.05pm Ely Brown @12/1 (e/w) tweet this tip
Huntingdon 4.05pm Cyclop @9/2 tweet this tip

Southwell Trainer System

Today I’ve nicked a very small part of a detailed article that Nick Hardman wrote for the On Course Profits magazine.

(Get the whole mag for free at http://oncourseprofits.com)

The article that Nick wrote teaches readers how to find their own profitable trainer trends and in this excerpt he starts by looking at the leading trainers at Southwell.

southwell top trainers

Keith Dalgleish has a very healthy 28% strike rate and has had a decent amount of runners. By clicking on “Run” we can see the yearly breakdown of the trainer’s performance at the track.

Keith Dalgleish Breakdown

Two things are interesting here. Firstly, he has almost doubled the amount of runners he sends to the Midlands track compared to 2011 and 2012. Secondly, his performance in the last 2 seasons suggests his yard is clearly on an upward curve.

Again we use Keith Dalgleish at Southwell (AW) from 2011 to 2014 as the basic system to search for a profitable betting angle in HRB. Immediately we can see that all of his profit has come in handicap races.

Keith Dalgleish Handicap

Digging deeper into his handicap performers showed winners came from all age groups across a variety of race distances. The recommendation here would be to back all his handicap runners at Southwell.

If you haven’t already subscribed to On Course Profits then I highly recommend that you do so today and lock in a free life time subscription. Click Here

Today’s Selection

12:20 Newcastle Jonny Eager – win bet 3/1 Coral

Salisbury Trainer Trends

Today Nick Hardman of Betting School Insiders Club takes a look at key trends for both jockeys and trainers at the Salisbury meeting.

Don’t forget you can get free winning tips from the Betting School every weekend when you register on their site at http://betting-school.com.

Our Friday column was on the money last week with Nunthorpe winner Sole Power @7/2 and Ebor winner Mutual Regard @25/1. Hopefully a few of you were on. This week we take a look at Salisbury and some of the profitable trainers to make a note of. We also highlight a bang in-form trainer who looks worth following at Chester on Saturday.
First to Salisbury and standing head and shoulders above the rest is Lady Jane Cecil who continues the great work of her late husband. Since 2010 the Cecil yard has had 12 winners from 29 runners for a level stakes profit of £11.57 at the Wiltshire track. Most of the winners have come in non-handicap races and if we concentrate on their 3yo and 4yo non-handicap runners then the figures are 8-17 at a strike rate (SR) of 47% and a level stakes profit of £13.08. Six of their last nine runners at the track have won.

PD Evans has sent out the highest number of winners at the track with 19 in the last 5 seasons at a strike rate of 16%. That strike rate increases to 23% (12-52) in non-handicap races. If we take out his 2yo runners then he is 6-12 (SR 50%) and a level stakes profit of £30.50 with his older horses (3yo and 3yo+) in non-handicap races.

Finally, David Simcock does not send many runners to the track but in the last 5 seasons his non-handicap runners are 5-15 (SR 33.33%) and a level stakes profit of £8.98. Our top three trainers have no entries today but there are two more meetings in September so look out for their runners at the track in the next two weeks.

We have a great card at my local track Chester on Saturday and one trainer I want on-side is Andrew Balding. In the last 5 seasons he is 24-101 (SR 24%) and shows a healthy level stakes profit of £51.13. This season alone he is 8-18 (SR 44%) at the Roodee for a profit of £25.38. Balding and jockey Oisin Murphy have formed a tremendous partnership at the course in 2014, combining for 6 wins from 12 rides and a profit of £21.38. Andrew Balding has the following horses entered at Chester tomorrow:

2.20 Dungannon (5f handicap)
3.30 Whiplash Willie 1m 5f
4.40 Cosmic Ray (7f maiden)

Chester has the biggest draw bias of any course in the UK so we certainly want be drawn low for all races up to 7 ½ f. We have previously highlighted the fact Franny Norton rides Chester as well as anybody and he has a good book of rides on Saturday. They are B Fifty Two (2.20pm), Heavy Metal (2.55pm), Special Meaning (3.30pm), Enlace (4.05pm) and Sea Silk (4.40pm). B Fifty Two and Heavy Metal both look to have a decent chance which would be enhanced further by a nice, low draw.

On a final word, betting on trainer stats is a long term strategy that takes time and patience to reap the rewards. For example we highlighted William Haggas as a trainer to follow at York back in July. At the time of writing he had sent 11 runners to the track in 2014 and all 11 had lost. The following day he sent out two winners @4/1 and 9/2 and followed that up with 3 winners at the Ebor festival @12/1, 20/1 and 8/1.

Today’s Selection courtesy of http://bookiesenemyno1.com

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Location Salvation Army 315 16th St. Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone 916-448-0890

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The store that used to be in Davis was quite quaint. You could usually find great deals on bikes and other random, and I mean random, house wares. The store, its customers, and employees were kept in the dark about the closing of the store until two weeks before it closed. They were then told that they would either be working in the Sacramento store or the one in Woodland.

Jondsouza and Lisadavis were looking at the space to make it into a venue for music and art. The space that the store used to occupy was recently bought by neighboring store Little Prague and will be an expansion to the restaurants space.

The Sacramento store is much larger in size with a much larger inventory. The prices are also cheaper. Great place to find cheap couches, tables, and costumes for a "I Love the 80's" theme party.


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Highly successful Montessori School/Day Care. Established almost ten years ago, this school has quickly gained a reputation with parents as the premier early education and child care facility in the area. The facility is licensed for 80 students. The business provides a Montessori infant, toddler and preschool education for children between the ages of ten weeks to six years old. It is equipped with classically beautiful Montessori materials.

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I love it when conversations begin on Twitter about topics that leave you thinking long after you log out. The other day, Lynn Morton, Cynthia D’Amour and I had a brief exchange about authenticity and how to embed it in an association’s culture. The concept of authenticity is all over the web these days as it’s a required element for social media engagement. This topic especially interests me as I want to work for an organization whose culture breathes authenticity.

But how can I tell if an organization really walks the walk of authenticity? And what does that really mean? Bear with me as I wrestle with this concept.

To me, it means being your true self — communicating and behaving honestly. As the walls between my personal and professional lives have fallen down, it’s been a bit liberating. I don’t have a work personality and an at-home personality, they’re essentially the same – what you see is what you get. Luckily I don’t have any wacky personal foibles to hide. I also understand that many topics are not appropriate for the office — the old “no sex, politics and religion at the dinner table” principle. Does your organization have multiple personality disorder? Does it have different faces depending on the audience, or does it have an honest and consistent nature?

Authenticity often requires self-reflection and review. Am I being honest? Is this really what I think? What are my motives here? Am I sucking up? Am I being defensive? When we’re authentic we learn to listen to criticism and dissent and not overlook the uncomfortable. We face up to reality. This is not always easy, but the right thing to do usually isn’t.

Does your organization go through this process? Is it listening to all its constituent voices, including those that usually go unheard or those that challenge the party line? Has it examined its programs, products and services to determine their true value to members or customers, or is it doing what it’s always done because that’s what you do? Are you dealing with looming challenges and threats, or putting them off by focusing on immediate crises? Authenticity means understanding the real value of your membership for each prospect or member, not relying on the bullet points and marketing copy you’ve used forever.

How does authenticity work with public relations and advocacy? It’s often risky to show your true hand, the other side could take advantage. What about spin and messaging? Our political world is based on spin. How can an association not do that? Yet David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, recently said nothing is more powerful than authenticity, and people have a very sensitive bullshit meter. Which side does your association come down on?

How do you tell an authentic association (or any type of organization) from one that isn’t? I’m still working on a complete answer but here are some ideas:

  • Do they have lots of member evangelists? Or membership testimonials that sound real, not like the brochure?
  • Do they have wide diverse support within their industry and with the public?
  • Are there real personalities with distinct voices speaking on behalf of the association? Is that really the CEO who’s writing the CEO Corner?
  • Do they listen and engage with their members and the public? Or is it only one-way communication?
  • Do they tolerate dissent? Are there negative comments on their blog or in their letters to the editor?
  • Can you tell if their staff is engaged and involved in guiding the association to success, not only the executives, but directors, managers and others?
  • Are meetings accessible to all or are there barriers (financial, technological, procedural) to participation?
  • Are meetings a rubber-stamp process or is there healthy discussion?
  • Does the leadership reflect the membership (or industry) in age, race, sex, etc.? Is leadership stagnant – the old boys club?

This is all very fuzzy, I admit. What do you think are signs of authenticity in an association?


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MUSC bestows honorary degree on Clemson president

CHARLESTON -- The Medical University of South Carolina paid tribute to Clemson University President James F. Barker by conferring an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on him Thursday. The presentation was made by MUSC President Ray Greenberg and Provost and Vice President for Academics John Raymond at the MUSC Board of Trustees' annual December meeting.

Barker was cited by MUSC for his "remarkable vision and leadership" as Clemson's president, being a "driving force in the early successes of the Centers of Economic Excellence," of which MUSC and the University of South Carolina are partners. MUSC and Clemson also have collaborated in other academic initiatives, including the joint bioengineering program.

Barker has been president of Clemson since 2000. He received his bachelor's degree from Clemson in 1970 and has been associated with the institution since joining the faculty in 1986. From 1986 to 1995 he served as dean of Clemson's College of Architecture. He retained the dean's position when the college was reorganized in 1995 to become the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

Under Barker's guidance, Clemson has more than doubled research in just three years and has risen to 22nd place among the nation's top public universities. He has been honored with the Buck Mickel Award for Business and Community Leadership by the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, the Anderson Independent-Mail's Pointing the Way Leadership Award, Greenville Magazine's The Cliff's Business Person of the Year Award, and the Order of the Palmetto - the state's highest civilian honor. He also was inducted into the Boys and Girls Clubs Hall of Fame.

About MUSC

Founded in 1824 in Charleston, The Medical University of South Carolina is the oldest medical school in the South. Today, MUSC continues the tradition of excellence in education, research, and patient care. MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and residents, and has nearly 11,000 employees, including 1,500 faculty members. As the largest non-federal employer in Charleston, the university and its affiliates have collective annual budgets in excess of $1.6 billion. MUSC operates a 750-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized Children's Hospital and a leading Institute of Psychiatry. For more information on academic information or clinical services, visit or


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September-October 2014 News Archive

Cyberattacks Most Imminent Threat to U.S., Economy

ThreatPost, 28 Oct 2014 – In a panel discussion Monday morning, a crowded table of top-level security experts from industry, military and government agreed that the threat posed by cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and private industry now outweighs any other national security threat. [More]

PCI compliance under scrutiny following Big Data breaches

CSO Online, 22 Oct 2014 – As details filter out about the Home Depot hack (and many, many more data breaches), you can’t help but ask: How did this happen – especially when the company was supposed to adhere to specific safety regulations or else lose its capability to process credit card transactions? [More]

Windows Warning: Zero-Day ‘Sandworm’ Attack

infoRisk Today, 22 Oct 2014 – Microsoft is warning Windows users that they’re vulnerable to a new zero-day flaw that attackers have been exploiting to remotely execute arbitrary code. The alert follows Microsoft’s warning last week about a separate zero-day vulnerability which also exists in almost every supported version of the Windows operating system. That vulnerability came to light following its use for in-the-wild attacks by the “Sandwork Team” of hackers against Ukrainian targets, among others. [More]

POODLE vulnerability hastens the death of SSL 3.0

Tech Republic, 17 Oct 2014 – POODLE is a flaw in how browsers handle encryption; by negotiating down to SSL 3.0, attackers can alter padding data at the end of a block cipher in a way that forces a slow leak of data. Many of the cipher suites in SSL 3.0 have already been abandoned as insecure, due to small key sizes, biases, and simply having support already removed from browsers. [More]

The SSL 3.0 Vulnerability – POODLE Bug (AKA POODLEbleed)

Symantec, 17 Oct 2014 – A bug has been found in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptography protocol (SSLv3) which could be exploited to intercept data that’s supposed to be encrypted between computers and servers. Three Google security researchers discovered the flaw and detailed how it could be exploited through what they called a Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attack (CVE-2014-3566). [More]

Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores

Krebs on Security, 14 Oct 2014 – Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in the Northeastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach. Staples says it is investigating “a potential issue” and has contacted law enforcement. [More]

Poodle SSL 3.0 Attack Exploits Widely-used Web Encryption Standard

Hacker News, 14 Oct 2014 – Another Heartbleed-like vulnerability has been discovered in the decade old but still widely used Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptographic protocol that could allow an attacker to decrypt contents of encrypted connections to websites. Google’s Security Team revealed on Tuesday that the most widely used web encryption standard SSL 3.0 has a major security vulnerability that could be exploited to steal sensitive data. The flaw affects any product that follows the Secure layer version 3, including Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. [More]

Tyupkin malware infects ATMs worldwide

Threat Post, 9 Oct 2014 – Criminals in Eastern Europe have evolved their attacks against automated teller machines, moving beyond solely targeting consumers with card skimmers that steal debit card numbers, to attacks against banks using malware that allows someone to remove money directly from an ATM without the need for a counterfeit or stolen card. [More]

Microsoft scores poorly in latest virus protection test for Windows 7

TechRepublic, 6 Oct 2014 – The number of products having perfect scores is up in AV-TEST’s latest test for virus protection for Windows 7, and Microsoft is still at the bottom. [More]

Yahoo says 3 servers hacked via Shellshock

Business Week, 6 Oct 2014 – Yahoo! Inc. said three of its computer servers were breached by hackers who exploited the Shellshock security hole. No user data was stolen. “As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began patching our systems and have been closely monitoring our network,” Elisa Shyu, a spokeswoman for the Sunnyvale, California-based company, said in an e-mail. [More]

Open source’s “shallow bugs” theory hasn’t been shellshocked

TechRepublic, 3 Oct 2014 – It hasn’t been a good year for open source. Not for its generally golden reputation for software quality and security, anyway. But in a rush to lay blame for the Bash Shellshock vulnerability (and previously for Heartbleed) some, like Roger Grimes, want to dismantle some of the cardinal tenets of open source, like the suggestion that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” Sorry, but the criticism falls flat. Here’s why. [More]

The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose

Wired, 2 Oct 2014 – It’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware. Given the severity of that security problem—and the lack of any easy patch—Nohl has held back on releasing the code he used to pull off the attack. But at least two of Nohl’s fellow researchers aren’t waiting any longer. [More]

Every USB Device Under Threat. New Hack Is Undetectable And Unfixable

Forbes, 1 Oct 2014 – It is well known that USB drives can be dangerous. But what if the threat was undetectable, unfixable and could be planted into any USB device be it a USB drive, keyboard, mouse, web camera, printer, even smartphone or tablet? Well this nightmare scenario just became reality. [More]

The Fight For HTTPS

Fast Company, 1 Oct 2014 – Since 2009, Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been trying to make the Internet more secure. His goal–getting companies to add a layer of encryption to their websites, turning HTTP to HTTPS–might not sound like much. After all, what’s one letter on a URL? But that extra letter, it turns out, is all it takes to make government surveillance, censorship attempts by authoritative regimes, and attacks by ill-intentioned hackers more difficult to pull off. [More]

Bash shell vulnerabilities plague Linux systems, and may be more damaging than Heartbleed

ShellShock: All you need to know about the Bash Bug vulnerability

Attackers exploiting Shellshock (CVE-2014-6721) in the wild

Retired NSA Technical Director Explains Snowden Docs

Alexa O’Brien, 30 Sep 2014 – I had an opportunity to attend a presentation by a retired technical director at the NSA, William Binney, which provided context for some of the published documents released by former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden. Because of the public value of Binney’s expertise on the subject, I decided to publish his presentation and comments on my website. [More]

Peak IPV4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying

The Register, 30 Sep 2014 – European carriers are also among the top contributors of IPv6 traffic. Belgium’s Telenet, Germany’s Kabel Deutschland, and the Netherlands’ XS4ALL were among those carrying the highest rates of IPv6 traffic. Verizon Wireless in the US led all carriers with 50 per cent of its traffic being IPv6. [More]

‘Spike’ toolkit scales multi-vector DDoS with Windows, Linux hosts

SC Mag, 26 Sep 2014 – Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at regions of Asia and the U.S. have been linked to a new toolkit, dubbed “Spike.” Capable of scaling large, multi-vector attacks – which include SYN flood, UDP flood, domain name system (DNS) query flood and GET floods – the toolkit can communicate and execute commands to infected Windows, Linux and ARM-based devices, researchers with Akamai Technologies found. [More]

Could ultrafast broadband over copper speed the rollout of gigabit Internet?

Tech Republic, 26 Sep 2014 – For the most bandwidth hungry users fibre optic cable tends to be the best option; but as most UK consumers and small businesses are still on the old-style copper phone lines they’re forced to languish in the broadband slow lane. Now researchers claim to have demonstrated speeds approaching those seen over fibre optic – but without the hassle and expense of having to connect fibre to the premises, using instead a combination of fibre and copper. [More]

How Boston Children’s Hospital hit back at Anonymous

CSO, 15 Sep 2014 – Hackers purportedly representing Anonymous hit Boston Children’s Hospital with phishing and DDoS attacks this spring. The hospital fought back with vigilance, internal transparency and some old-fashioned sneakernet. That – and a little bit of luck – kept patient data safe. [More]

About 5 Million Google Account Credentials Dumped Online

Softpedia, 10 Sep 2014 – A database containing usernames and passwords for almost five million Google accounts emerged on a Russian forum late on September 9. The user dumping the information on Bitcoin Security board uses the online alias “tvskit” and says that although not all the entries are valid, more than 60% of them should be working; all passwords are provided in plain text. [More]

Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target

KrebsOnSecurity, 7 Sep 2014 – The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation. [More]

Android: 33% more device shipments, 60% more fragmentation

TechRepublic, 5 Sep 2014 – Android has a problem. Or, rather, Android developers have a problem. Despite dominating a whopping 84.7% of the global smartphone market (up from 79.6% in 2013), Android fragmentation gets worse each year, with developers needing to account for at least 18,796 different Android devices in circulation this year. What’s a developer to do? [More]

Analysis of Chinese MITM on Google

Netresec, 4 Sep 2014 – The Chinese are running a MITM attack on SSL encrypted traffic between Chinese universities and Google. We’ve performed technical analysis of the attack, on request from, and can confirm that it is a real SSL MITM against and that it is being performed from within China. [More]

Hospital Hacks Are Skyrocketing Because Hospitals Are Easy to Hack

Gizmodo, 3 Sep 2014 – According to a fresh report from cybersecurity experts, hospitals are hackers’ new favorite playground. That’s unsettling news for anyone who’s ever visited a hospital (read: everyone) but it also offers a curious window into how we guard our most important data. Put bluntly, we do a pretty piss poor job of it. [More]

USB firmware: An upcoming threat for home and enterprise users

TechNet, 2 Sep 2014 – USB is a common industry standard for connecting peripherals like keyboards, webcams, and thumb drives to computers. During their presentation, the researchers illustrated a serious problem in how many USB devices are implemented. USB peripherals run their own processor and firmware to talk to the PC they are connected to, and the problems arise when the firmware on the USB peripheral is changed to be malicious. All major platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are affected since these problems are in the USB devices themselves, not the platforms they are connected to. [More]

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ST. PAUL — As much of Minnesota continues to recover from severe storms in June and July,  the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) is requesting 30 counties and two tribal governments be added to the federal disaster declaration received July 21. That declaration named eight counties that sustained damage following severe storms beginning June 11.

HSEM Director Kris Eide requested FEMA add the following counties to the disaster declaration:

Beltrami, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Hennepin, Koochiching, Lac Qui Parle, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Lyon, Marshall, Martin, McLeod, Nicollet, Ramsey, Redwood, Rice, Roseau, Scott, Sibley, Steele, Todd, Wadena, Waseca, Watonwan, Wright and Yellow Medicine counties and the tribal governments of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and Prairie Island Indian Community.

Governor Mark Dayton secured a major disaster declaration for eight counties:

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They are currently eligible for two categories of federal and state aid:

  • Public Assistance: Assistance to state and local government and certain private not for profit organizations for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities. This applies within the counties in the disaster area.
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  • Recovery Project Planning – FEMA and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety will develop a project worksheet for each project that clearly defines the work to be done and the projected costs.

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Why Obama is wrong about Plan B and why it matters

The President threw his support behind Kathleen Sebelius and her decision not to allow Plan B (emergency contraception, also known as the morning after pill) to be sold over-the-counter to adolescents 16 and younger. (Currently anyone 17 or older can buy Plan B).

He stated the following:

“The reason Kathleen made this decision is that she could not be confident that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old going to a drugstore should be able — alongside bubble gum or batteries — be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could have an adverse effect.”

And for effect, to ensure that we all knew he was speaking as father knows best as a father he added, “And I think most parents would probably feel the same way.”

The president’s statement (the first part, about safety) is mired in misinformation. Plan B (levonorgestrel), if “not used properly” has no untoward effects. Except failure to prevent a pregnancy if not taken as directed (meaning more than 5 days after the episode of unprotected sex).

Plan B does not cause cancer.

Plan B does not cause blood clots.

Plan B does not cause heart attacks.

Plan B does not cause abortion.

Plan B does not affect a fetus in any negative way.

And finally, Plan B retails for $60 for brand name and $37 for generic. Clearly in the budget for most 10 and 11 year olds. And it would not be next to the bubble gum or batteries.

Plan B either works, and ovulation is inhibited and or no pregnancy, or it doesn’t work and sadly a 15-year-old is pregnant. And it is sad when it fails to work, because there is NO SCENARIO where a 15-year-old is pregnant and it’s a good thing.

Obviously the ideal scenario is the 15-year-old telling her parents that she is thinking about becoming sexually active. That for years, around the dinner table, there have been frank and educational discussions about sex, love, lust, and contraception s she feels comfortable discussing the subject with both of her parents. And that said 15-year-old, empowered with this information, goes with her parents to the doctor for the birth control pill (or the depo provera shot) and then makes sure she knows how to put on a condom herself in case her partner does not. She knows if a boy won’t wear a condom then he does not care about her in the way that he should. This girl will probably not need a Plan B because she has an AWESOME Plan A.

However most girls don’t get frank discussions about sex. They get mixed messages and misinformation. They confuse lust and desire with love. They equate sex with acceptance. They mistake sex for partnership.

Many girls are afraid to ask their date to wear a condom for fear of implied coercion or even violence if they do bring it up.

Many girls have no knowledge of birth control, after all it’s not taught in schools and many parents don’t have the skills to discuss it at home. Or chose not to discuss it.

And many girls come from families with no resources. Many have no health insurance and many don’t have a working car to get to the free clinic. Many girls (and their parents) don’t even know that there are free community resources for birth control.

So, respectfully Mr. President, get your facts straight. Don’t delude yourself with misinformation to pander to the religious right. It makes me wonder what other facts you have wrong.

And also, Mr. President, most girls don’t have the Plan A that yours do. You should know more about the people you represent. The real people. Because many of them do need a Plan B.

10 thoughts on “Why Obama is wrong about Plan B and why it matters

  1. Ideally a 15-year old isn’t sexually active at all, of course.

    Posted by Claudia Putnam | December 11, 2011, 2:53 pm
    • Well, I hope that was implied in my ability to know the difference between lust/love etc and ability to talk with mom and/or dad.. Studies show that when kids can speak with their parents about sex, even if parents disagree with child’s choices, a kid is less likely to be sexually active.

      Posted by Dr. Jen Gunter | December 13, 2011, 6:59 am
  2. Wow, I had no idea. thanks for informing me!

    Posted by AJ | December 11, 2011, 6:30 pm
  3. Nicely written Dr. Jen. The comment about a 10 or 11 year old accidentally buying Plan B is spot on due to the economic factors. I like to think that my daughter grew up with an awesome Plan A – but I also felt better knowing that she was educated in Plan B as well – just in case.

    Posted by Susan Eller (@s_eller) | December 11, 2011, 8:30 pm
  4. Well said.

    Also, what always irks me is when people say things like, “as a parent…” as if there is one standard for parenting and everyone agrees when in fact the reality is far from it. Just because our president is a dad does not give him the right to impose his archaic, medieval parenting morals on me and my children.

    Posted by Ben Vess | December 12, 2011, 4:33 am
  5. Great Post Doctor, I’m saving it so in 7 years I’ll have a great talk with my girls

    Posted by Nesbi Maret Hernandez | December 12, 2011, 7:28 am
  6. Ah…but it’s an election year and the White House, along with a bunch of Senate seats, are up for reelection! The only time politicians even masquerade as representatives of their constituents is during an election year. The rest of the time is spent trying to fill the coffers for the next election cycle.

    Posted by Med School Odyssey | December 12, 2011, 7:40 pm

  1. Pingback: Restricting Plan B OTC sales to 17 and over affects everyone and protects no one « Dr. Jen Gunter - June 25, 2012

  2. Pingback: No young person has ever died from Plan B, but 7 will die today die from gun violence | Dr. Jen Gunter - May 14, 2013

  3. Pingback: Nightly news speaks more to Catholic Church about contraception than OB/GYNs. A lot more. | Dr. Jen Gunter - May 5, 2015

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Three Kung Fu masters from Tiger village join the royal minister's Captain of the Guard on his journey to raise an army. The evil Yun Si Kai is attempting to usurp power in the province and he must be stopped at all costs. Along their path, danger, action, romance and possibly a traitor in their midst await our four heroes. Martial arts action punctuates the thrilling Boxer's Adventure - the second installment in the Shaolin Boxer Collection.