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I still am inquisitive, and love discovering how things work. I enjoy sarcastic humor, and love to laugh ( who doesn't!!).... I'm sure there are other qualities I've haven't mentioned, they'll have to be discovered by you!(and they are cool!)
I also cook and bake my own bread.(I'll make someone a great wife someday!!haha) I volunteer in the Civil Air Patrol, and I have rediscovered exercise!
I have 2 left feet, (makes buying shoes difficult), but, I'll try my best to dance without stepping on your toes! I enjoy driving nowhere,with the top down,( gotta love the wind in your hair!) I never know where I'm going until I get there.
I have been a mover and shaker, started my own business, experienced success and failure. Many lessons have been learned and for that I am grateful. I find myself now in transition. I live day to day and it's not about the business or achievements for me anymore. I'm about being happy. Leaving work at a decent hour and not bringing home stress. Life is way to short.
I'm looking for a woman that doesn't take herself too seriously, is passionate about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness, comfortable in her skin, with an adventurous spirit.( oh and a really good kisser would be great too!!!)
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Cloud management platforms (CMPs) are being implemented by enterprises now more than ever to manage and automate the flow of new workloads into the enterprise. However, no commercially available CMP today takes a deep enough look at the workload's resource, technical and business-related requirements to make these routing decisions. Most rely on logic that sends workloads into environments using simplistic tags that match workloads to environments and lack the ability to truly balance demand and supply for the best use of available resources. Making the right decision on where to place a workload is crucial because the wrong decision can result in performance issues, the cost of re-work and re-deployment, and inefficient use of available infrastructure.
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text: Seriously, you can't convince me that people have started buying Office supplies on AMAZON...They also sell food but I doubt it's hurting the local supermarket. Amazon is books, and the KINDLe they keep pushing. And I hate to tell ya but I've tried the Kindle and the Color NOOK and then bought a NOOK because your basically getting a TABLET too! And Barnes and Nobles Stock shot up on just the news that STAPLES would be carrying the NOOK starting May 1st. AND AMAZON's sweet deal on NO SALES TAX is slowly going away as more and more states have laws in the worx to get there hands on that new tax revenue by forcing AMAZON to ante up the tax money.


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The team will practice Friday through Monday each week, with a few days of weight lifting and conditioning incorporated throughout. This week, head coach Chip Kelly says, they'll be back to basics, working on fundamentals.
With nearly a month of preparation before the January 3 match-up, Kelly and staff will begin installing their game plan for the Wildcats sometime next week, sending the team off to Christmas break with a complete package before reuniting in Glendale.
While the team focused on their academics the past two weeks, the coaches turned their attention to recruiting. With most of the staff on the road recruiting, coaches took Kansas State game film with them. What seemed to be the overriding impression amongst them were the Wildcats' propensity for disciplined play.
"They look they're controlled by remote," offensive coordinator Mark Helrich said of the Kansas State's defense's ability to respond to pre-snap shifts. "Four guys move simultaneously to the right spot.
Their discipline is particularly evident in how rarely they turn the ball over. In the regular season, the Wildcats did so just ten times, fumbling a national-best three times.
"I'd like to sit here and say that we're playing a bunch of stumblebums, but in these kind of games you don't," defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti said.
In many ways, Kansas State and Oregon are like teams, Aliotti said, pointing out the offensive schemes they run as well as their personnel.
"Maybe if you had them standing out there next to Oklahoma or Texas, you wouldn't pick them as the team that won the league. A lot like us, sometimes," he said.
That can even be said of their starting quarterback and Heisman finalist Collin Klein. Despite scoring a total of 38 touchdowns and finishing third in the conference in quarterback rating, Klein doesn't overwhelm you with his physical traits, Aliotti says.
"He doesn't look super fast, he doesn't look unbelievable, he doesn't look this, doesn't look that. But, I'm telling you, he gets the job done," he said.
Klein and the rest of the country will learn the winner of the sports most prestigious award tonight, one that Aliotti hopes he wins, but Klein isn't the only Glendale-bound player up for a major award. Oregon running back Kenjon Barner was a Doak Walker-finalist, coming up short, however, to Wisconsin's Montee Ball.
"Just to be mentioned with those other two guys is a real honor for him," Kelly said. "You never know who's going to win those things. We're still really really proud of him."
Barner was not in Eugene Friday, as his return trip from New York had been delayed by a stoppage in Salt Lake City, although he is expected back Saturday, Kelly said.


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So fix in your mind all that excellent fathering he's done over the past 12 months, and select one of these cool gadgets (in no particular order…
Here's a gift that keeps on giving - get your old man a Squeezebox so he can beam around the house the ancient tunes you've already converted from vinyl (and wax cylinder). It's the equivalent of giving a toddler a drum, so avoid mum for a week or two.
The added bonus is that your dad will spend the next six months trying to work out how to convert his Dire Straits from tape to MP3, during which time you can infiltrate his collection with the Klaxons (not to subs: is this what the kids are listening to?). Muh ha ha ha...
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If your progenitor is anything like mine, waking up is not a strong point.
But if, like me, you've already coughed for a teasmade, an alarm clock and a precariously balanced bucket of water on the bedhead, the Luna iPod alarm clock and speaker is the answer.
Now the old fella can wake up to his favourite records, the radio or a buzzer. There are all manner of prerecorded snooze settings and the sound kicks in quietly, then gradually builds up. Aaaah.
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Saitek Obsidian wireless rechargeable mouse
In life, as in you Dad's prized 6in nail collection, it's the little things that make all the difference. Saitek's Obsidian mouse is the coolest thing on four paws this summer. With this mouse your old man will be the coolest cat in the office.
The bonus is that Saitek describes this mouse thus: "Design Meets Desire". So on seeing the box, panic will set in as the big man thinks you've bought him lady-perfume.
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Dads have an annoying habit of having all the gadgets and all the answers. But here's a plan - suck in air over your teeth, shake your head and say: "I can't believe you let your laptop get so hot!" Immediately you are a man (or woman) son (or daughter).
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Locklear claims he grabbed her shirt, not neck. Although the girlfriend pleaded with police that he did nothing wrong, due to the witness testimony an arrest was mandatory.
Due to the courts being closed to observe the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, Locklear was unable to be released from King County Jail until Tuesday, when he was released without bail.
The AP story reported that Municipal Court Judge Edsonya Charles ordered Locklear to have no contact with his girlfriend, who lives with him. He also must abstain from alcohol and other drugs while the case is pending. A second court date was set for Feb. 13.
Locklear's charge, which is a gross misdemeanor, has a potential penalty of up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
A spokeswoman for the Seattle City Attorney's office said Prosecuting Attorney Derek Smith felt it was more important to get a no-contact order than to require Locklear to post bail.
"He's a rich football player and could afford any bail," spokeswoman Ruth Bowman said. "It's a high profile case; it's not exactly like he would skip town."
Locklear made no statement in court Tuesday. He simply answered yes or no questions from the judge.
Locklear has retained the law firm Fox Bowman Duarte of Bellevue, The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Tuesday.
"At this point the firm is investigating the case and there will be no comment until the investigation is complete," said Jon Scott Fox, a partner in the firm, in a statement issued late Monday. "Mr. Locklear has been cooperating fully with this investigation and throughout this case remains entitled to the presumption of innocence afforded to all citizens."
Interestingly, Fox' firm is primarily known for DUI defense. The firm's website touts Fox Bowman Duarte as a firm whose attorneys are "regularly called upon to educate judges, defense attorneys, civil attorneys, the legislature, and even law enforcement about the complex DUI laws and procedures."
Locklear's status for the NFC Championship Game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday had been unclear. But ESPN's John Clayton reported on Tuesday afternoon's SportsCenter that Locklear will start. Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren said at his Monday press conference he didn't think the incident would be a distraction to his team.
"What I know about it so far -- and I don't know everything -- it should not be," Holmgren said Monday, without specifically addressing Locklear's playing status.
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According to materials created and distributed by Princeton University, Metcalfe's law states the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of connected users of the network.
When this law was first proposed, they were talking about this awesome new communication device called the fax machine.
One fax machine on its own is useless – it has no other machines to communicate with.
Bring together 100 and we're zipping files from Florida to Maine.
The same goes for communities of people: One person alone communicates with no one.
Bring together 100 people and now we're sharing experiences and ideas, and creating new ones.
Putting the mathematical formulas and facsimile comparisons aside, let's break down the two core components of the law: In any network or community, there's a direct relationship between the amount of value created and the connections they can build.
Building Community
Building a community is equal parts science and social.
But what's in a community?
It seems to me these days the word is thrown out quite liberally and its definition varies depending on who you ask.
A recent post by Christopher Pedregal made me think a lot more about what we call a community (and community manager). His post talks about community-peripheral and community-centric companies.
As he describes it: In community-peripheral companies, community is used to describe supportive and operational roles, often in marketing or customer service, while in community-centric companies, community is about strategy, as well as operations.
There seems to be a game of tug-of-war happening between these two sides.
Most PR professionals, advertisers, and marketers working in social media today would love to be true "community managers" in theory, but in the end they're relegated to content creation and "push messaging" with little to no influence on executive level strategy.
A lot of executives forget community management is far more than creating content or even moderating and responding to fans.
Moderation is not community management. Moderation is simply the avoidance of excess – or extremes – by conversations or members, resulting in the declining value of your community.
Your moderation can be automated, your community building can not.
Having worked first in community-peripheral and now community-centric companies, I can attest the difference between these two positions of community is like night and day.
In community-centric companies, companies depend on their relationships with the people using their products, spreading their message, and growing their business from the bottom up.
Maintaining Value
If the network does not offer value, it will not last.
While many of us in North America no longer understand the value of the fax machine, it actually won't die.
Nearly 100 percent of all Japanese companies and 60 percent of private homes have fax machines, according to an article from the Washington Post.
And despite you and I understanding that there are far more efficient ways to send and receive messages, the fax continues to be valued because the users in the network see that value.
Will people still want to be a part of your community in 60 years? Most groups have trouble maintaining a community for six months.
You are a part of the community Gini Dietrich and her team work tirelessly to maintain.
You probably have participated or interacted with writers and readers in the comments section or on Twitter.
You may have joined the community by participating in a Livefyre Q&A with many of the amazing people in the Spin Sucks community.
These Q&As have lasted nearly two years now, creating a regular space where people want to congregate and share information with each other.
The value and relationships created in that space carries into their daily community behavior.
No matter if you're Lyft selling rides (and careers), Nike selling running sneakers, or No Kid Hungry trying to bring quality breakfast to the nation's children, you have the power as a company to enable like-minded people to find each other, and find the information they want.
You don't talk to your community. You talk with them.
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"Your moderation can be automated, your community building can not." – I love this quote Nick. And it's so very true. The LiveFyre Q&A's might be my most favourite thing we do here at Spin Sucks.
belllindsay I was just about to quote that too!
belllindsay Yeah, I pulled that one out, too.
I also like this idea of community-centric and community-peripheral companies. Makes me think about Clay's post from yesterday – I think one of the things I loved about working for a newspaper was how community-centric it was. You knew everyone and everything that was happening and really participated in that community. And as you point out with AD/Spin Sucks – those communities can obviously be entirely online, and they'll thrive if they're handled with care and add value.
I love the the basic premise of building a community with both strategy and value. So many people don't understand the value of their community and their approach is hodge lodge.
Who knew the Japanese were so into their fax machines!
ClayMorgan I certainly didn't until I did some more digging.
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Top Ten Girlfriend-Friendly Games.
The first true lady love of many gamers, if the advertising campaign is to be believed. But for those gamers who developed lives outside of the musty confines of the arcade, Ms. Pac-Man proved a great boon, for it showed their girlfriends that gaming could be non-violent, cute, and utterly fun. That the lead character was a female and starring in a better game than her male counterpart was icing on the cake.
A game with no discernable purpose, no defined ending, and no real set goals, yet one of the most attractive 'girlfriend' games out there. Animal Crossing hooked a lot of non gamers through its open playground feel. The ability to customize your house and spend the day enjoying the world Nintendo created opened up possibilities to vast numbers of people who thought that gaming was not for them. The community aspect of the game allowed couples to play together without actually playing together, filling the need for space apart without actually being apart.
Incredibly simple game play with incredibly catchy music coupled with a laughable storyline and beautiful pastel graphics created a game which was both fun to watch and to play. Many a relationship has been ruined through the gamer paying more attention to the game than the relationship, but the Prince of the Cosmos makes gaming into love.
Go into an arcade and make a fool out of yourself to really catchy music, and see if she doesn't join you. In Japan, DDR was designed as a game for women, with catchy pop songs, bright colors, cute artwork, and a fitness angle thrown in for good measure. And once she learns that you aren't nearly as good as she thought, the game is on. The relative ease with which someone can learn DDR and the versus mode mean that a gamer couple can play together at their own levels of skill.
No game has done as much for the non-gaming population as Will Wright's opus. There are no restrictions, no crazy quests, guidelines or goals, just the open world to develop to the heart's desire. Think about it: A gamer sits at a computer, teaching a Sim to play chess. His or her non-gaming mate walks in and asks what is going on. Slowly, the non-gamer starts to get involved in the game, making choices for the sim, and providing direction for the gamer. Soon enough, the gamer is forced out of the seat as their significant other takes charge, never to relinquish the mouse. They may never touch another game, and deny to their last breath that they aren't gamers, but they will sit at The Sims until the sun rises again, while the gamer watches in amazement. The infinite customizability, the large community, and the simplistic gameplay all combine to make The Sims into the greatest girlfriend game around. Better dust off your consoles, because once she gets her hands on this, you won't see your computer again. Although, now that Maxis has announced that The Sims 2 will appear on every platform under the sun, perhaps you should pick up Dungeons and Dragons instead.
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Welcome to Lake Edge Productions, a UK based Production Company formed by Laurence Williams in 2012. Having spent many years promoting motion pictures in the UK and Europe Laurence turned his hand to Producing, Writing and Directing. Known for The Last Road (released 2014) Laurence now concentrates mainly on writing and has a number of projects in hand. This website is designed to show past, current and future projects, by clicking the links you can view Laurence, his partnerships, films and scripts.
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Edna Arbel
|Edna Arbel
|Supreme Court of Israel Justice
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June 22, 1944
Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine
|Alma mater
|Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edna Arbel (Hebrew: עדנה ארבל; born June 22, 1944) was a justice on Israel's Supreme Court. She held this post from May 2004 to June 2014. She is a native of Jerusalem.
Professional background[edit]
In 1984, Arbel was appointed District Attorney of the Central District. She had previously served as a senior assistant to the District Attorney of the Central District. She served as a member of the Kahan Commission that investigated the Sabra and Shatila massacre.[1]
In 1988, she was appointed as a judge in the Tel Aviv District Court.
In January 1996, she succeeded Dorit Beinisch as State Attorney. She served in this capacity for eight years, until being appointed to the Supreme Court.[2][3] During her term, the prosecutor's staff grew from about 700 to 1,040 attorneys.[4] In 2002, she drafted prosecution guidelines that exempt women from prosecution for false report when submitting false domestic violence or sexual harassment complaint to the police.
In 2004, Arbel was nominated for the Supreme Court[5] by then Chief Justice Aharon Barak.[6]
- ^ "Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut (Kahan Commission)". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ Eliahou, Galia. "Edna Arbel". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ מידע אישי על השופטים - קורות חיים של עדנה ארבל (in Hebrew). Elyon1.court.gov.il. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ Yoaz, Yuval (2008-04-02). "Arbel era ends at Prosecutor's Office". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ http://www.lawofisrael.com/israeli-supreme-court-decisions/ supreme court desocions database
- ^ "Edna Arbel". Haaretz.com. 2008-04-02. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
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'Rudolph' shines in faithful First Stage show
To every mother's child wondering whether reindeer really know how to fly, I'm offering this simple phrase, applicable to kids from 1 to 92: Head downtown, where the soaring new production of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" at First Stage Children's Theater will put all doubts to rest.
Reprising the formula that made First Stage's 2010 production of "Peter Pan and Wendy" a resounding success, director Jeff Frank and his production team achieve liftoff the old-fashioned way: by relying on flesh-and-blood human beings to do what machines cannot. »Read Full Article
Outstanding in the Field schedules its first Milwaukee-area dinner, at Pinehold Gardens
Outstanding in the Field -- the group that organizes cross-country, mobile pop-up dinners typically set on farms -- will have its first Milwaukee-area dinner in August, at Pinehold Gardens in Oak Creek.
The group also will have a dinner at Shooting Star Farm in Mineral Point. Outstanding in the Field has organized dinners on farms in the Madison area/Driftless region for at least five years. »Read Full Blog Post
Rappers Fabolous and Pusha T headed for The Rave
East Coast rapster Fabolous and mixtape master Pusha T will perform at The Rave at 7:30 p.m. May 10.
Fabolous has been building his hip-hop credentials since his hit "Can't Deny It." Pusha T's debut album "Fear of God II: Let Us Pray" was released in 2011. »Read Full Article
'Israel at 65' celebration includes rides, cooking demos
The Milwaukee Jewish community will celebrate "Israel at 65," on April 21 from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd.
The celebration includes family activities such as a climbing wall, camel rides, photo booth, bouncy house, face painting, Israel puzzle map, and archeological dig. »Read Full Article
Artist Dana Schutz at MIAD tonight
Artist Dana Schutz, known for her lushly painted grotesques and bizarre situations, is one of the most intriguing artists working in America today. Coming off of a critically acclaimed traveling retrospective, Schutz is visiting the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design this week and will speak publicly about her work Tuesday evening.
Schutz once told an interviewer she was hesitant to translate her strange artistic visions from drawings into paint. She was worried the work might be garish or "hugely embarrassing." »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Two Women's Prize for Fiction nominees plan Milwaukee visits
The Women's Prize for Fiction, the successor to the former Orange Prize for Fiction, has released its longlist of 20 nominees for the prize.
It includes a few of the most popular novels of the past year, notably Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" and Hilary Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies," as well as a raft of other promising works from established (Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver) and emerging writers (Elif Shafak, Bonnie Nadzam, Shani Boianjiu). »Read Full Blog Post
More than 50 print exhibits across city
From Albrecht Durer to Shepard Fairey, from the halls of the world's greatest museums to paste-ups on brick walls down the street, the enduring romance of the print has attracted great artists and art lovers for centuries.
On Tap Today: Return of the alt-country angel (and friends)
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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell - two of American music's singular voices who, by the way, are longtime friends - are at the Pabst Theater tonight at 8, sharing music from their new album, "Old Yellow Moon." Their opening act ain't no slouch either: singer-songwriter-guitarist-legend Richard Thompson, performing with his Electric Trio. »Read Full Blog Post


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Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
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|Harald Sverdrup
|15 November 1888
|21 August 1957(aged 68)
|Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Norwegian Polar Institute
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|Vilhelm Bjerknes
|Notable awards
|Vega Medal (1930)
Alexander Agassiz Medal (1938)
William Bowie Medal (1951)
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November 1888 – 21 August 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist who made a number of important theoretical discoveries in these fields. Having first worked in Bergen and Leipzig he was the scientific director of the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen aboard the Maud from 1918 to 1925. His measurements of bottom depths, tidal currents, and tidal elevations on the vast shelf areas off the East Siberian Sea correctly described the propagation of tides as Poincare waves. Upon his return from this long expedition exploring the shelf seas to the north of Siberia, he became the chair in meteorology at the University of Bergen in Norway.[1]
He was made director of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1936, initially for 3 years but the intervention of World War II meant he held the post until 1948. During 33 expeditions with the research vessel E. W. Scripps in the years 1938-1941 he produced a detailed oceanographic dataset off the coast of California. He also developed a simple theory of the general ocean circulation postulating a dynamical vorticity balance between the wind-stress curl and the meridional gradient of the Coriolis parameter, the Sverdrup balance. This balance describes wind-driven ocean gyres away from continental margins at western boundaries. After leaving SIO, he returned home to become director of the Norwegian Polar Institute and continued to contribute to oceanography, ocean biology and polar research. In biological oceanography, his Critical Depth Hypothesis published in 1953 was a significant milestone in the explanation of phytoplankton spring blooms.[2]
His many publications include the magnum opus The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology by Harald Sverdrup, Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming (1942, new edition 1970) which formed the basic curriculum of oceanography for the next 40 years around the world.
He was a member of the American and Norwegian Academies of Science and the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. The sverdrup (Sv) is used in physical oceanography as an abbreviation for a volume flux of one million cubic meters per second. The American Meteorological Society's named the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award in his honor as well.
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T. Wayland Vaughan
|Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
|Succeeded by
Carl Eckart
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- ^ Sverdrup, H. U. 1953. J. Cons. Perm. Int. Explor. Mer. 18:287-295


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Reporting to the Innovation and Transformation Director this position is accountable for implementation of environmental strategies within the North American real estate footprint as a part of the ERE E&S Team.
Established five years ago, the ERE E&S team's focus has been on engraining sustainability in the business as usual practices of the organization. The team has been successful at significantly impacting design and operations and as a result ERE has been recognized for its environmental accomplishments by the EPA, ICSC, CoreNET and USGBC chapters.
Real estate accounts for approximately eighty percent of TD's carbon emissions, with travel responsible for the remaining twenty percent. The E&S Team has helped ERE be a leader in carbon reduction. While the team collaborates closely with TD Environment, Green IT and Travel, it is ultimately responsible for real estate energy/water/waste reduction activities. TD and its facility management partner entered into a unique Vested Outsourcing agreement in 2014 which includes a dedicated team focused on energy/water/waste reduction tactics and data analytics. As such, our E&S Team has evolved out of day to day tactics into a strategic practice group. This position is instrumental in continuing the work to push TD ERE to the next level of environmental performance. This position is a necessary component of the E&S Team and the organization as we raise the bar of our environmental strategy and increase impact.
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Baby Turnip Confit
Fresh baby turnips have none of the sharp, bitter bite found in big ones. Look for Tokyo or harukei turnips at your farmers' market. Many butchers carry duck fat, or you can order it from dartagnan.com.
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The dressing for this salad is on the less acidic side: Once the tart pickled vegetables are in the mix, it will be perfectly balanced.
Carrot-Coconut Soup with Harissa and Crispy Leeks
Heart-healthy coconut oil adds delightfully nutty, aromatic flavor to this creamy, sweet soup. If you can't find harissa to garnish with, drizzle it with hot sauce or sprinkle with a pinch of chili flakes instead.
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Finishing chicken thighs in a quick pear and turnip compote creates a rich, sweet and savory sauce.
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Some students at South Carolina State University say they are worried that fallout from indictments against two former school officials in a public corruption case will cheapen the quality of their degrees.
University leaders said they have begun to launch reforms to prevent similar crimes from happening in the future. They also said they think all employees who possibly were involved in criminal or unethical behavior have been purged. And they are hopeful about the schools chances of moving forward in positive ways after years of turmoil and scandal.
Former board chairman Jonathan Pinson, 42, was indicted Thursday for allegedly using his influence at the university to broker a land deal in exchange for which he would receive a $100,000 Porshe Cayenne. He also was accused of steering a contract to someone he knew to promote the schools 2011 homecoming concert.
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At first, I just kind of laughed at it but now it's getting completely on my nerves. And I'm thinking about breaking up with him because of it. Sometimes he tells jokes in front of people that make me look like I'm a little loose and sexual. I don't know what to do. - 19-year-old Augusta girl
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Prior to version 5.0, ITIM had a strong focus on the role-based provisioning model. The strength of this model was that the provisioning process was mostly automated and strictly controlled by the provisioning policy. However, the role-centric model meant that the role definition was a prerequisite to any ITIM implementation. Unfortunately, many customers struggled to define a concrete set of roles for their organization and preferred flexibility and simplicity of the request-based model. To address this trend, ITIM 5.0 introduced a number of features to more readily enable request-based provisioning. This article compares these features, highlights several use cases, and shows an example of how the new features of ITIM 5.0 can be used to implement an enterprise provisioning solution.
Provisioning models
Customers can now choose one of the two provisioning models or a hybrid provisioning model to best meet their business needs. The two major models are role-based provisioning and request-based provisioning. The new hybrid model is request-based role assignment.
Role-based provisioning model
In a role-based provisioning model, role changes are driven from a human resources system or by an authorized administrator. The provisioning system evaluates its policy and provisions access to the required business resources. When access is granted, the relevant users can then access the systems. Figure 1 shows a typical role-based provisioning system.
Figure 1. Role-based provisioning
Request-based provisioning
In a request-based provisioning model, access to business resources is requested by users. The provisioning system evaluates its policy and its provisions access to the required business resources. Figure 2 shows a typical request-based provisioning system.
Figure 2. Request-based provisioning
Request-based role assignment
ITIM 5.0 has two mechanisms for request-based provisioning. A user can request an account or an access. One of the draw backs of this approach is that only one account or access can be requested at a time. This might not allow the user to be sufficiently abstracted from the details of the IT system. To simplify the request-based provisioning model, a role can now be associated with multiple entitlements. This allows the users to indirectly request multiple accounts and accesses at the same time. For example, an employee might need an access to the corporate portal application. If the portal application is hosted behind the IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) WebSEAL, in order to access the portal application the employee would need a TAM account and a portal account. The fact that a TAM account and a portal account are needed is irrelevant to the employee. All the employee cares about is accessing the portal application. By simply exposing these entitlements in a role, you provide the employee with an ability to request everything needed to access the portal application. It also provides a way to abstract the implementation details of how the access is provisioned.
Use cases
There are several use cases that would benefit from the request-based role assignment feature. The use cases described below are only a subset of these use cases.
Multiple accesses on a single system
In ITIM 5.0, an access consists of an account and a single group membership on a managed system. A single access cannot be associated with multiple group memberships. For example, if a user requests an access to a resource that requires the user to have an account belonging to multiple groups, this cannot be achieved in a single step. The user needs to request for multiple accesses, although logically they form a single access. When a role is used instead, multiple accesses can be requested at one time.
Multiple accesses on multiple systems
In some organizations, an access to a resource might require multiple accounts to be set up. The portal application behind the WebSEAL (a reverse proxy server), which was mentioned before, is a good example of this. Again, allowing the users to request roles will solve the problem.
Example implementation
This example outlines how request-based role assignment can be used to allow the staff at a fictitious company, OnDemand Inc., to request access to critical business applications. High level requirements are defined for the solution then sample configuration steps are shown. Lastly, the provisioning experience is demonstrated from the user's perspective.
OnDemand Inc. has the following requirements for the enterprise provisioning solution to their portal application:
R1) OnDemand Inc. has an intranet portal application that runs on WebSphere® Application Server.
R2) The portal application consists of a main unprotected page and two protected sections for Sales and Distribution.
R3) OnDemand Inc. wants to allow staff to request access to their sales or distribution portal pages.
R4) OnDemand Inc. requires that managers first approve all requests prior to the staff gaining access to the portal applications.
R5) Single sign-on (SSO) must be achieved to the portal application.
R6) For employees to access the sales or distribution sections of the intranet portal, two provisioning operations need to take place:
1) Access to the OnDemand Inc. portal application is granted by creating an account with a specific group membership in the WebSphere user registry. To access the sales portal, the staff must be added to the sales group. To access the distribution portal, staff must be added to the distribution group.
2) A Tivoli Access Manager account needs to be created for each user that wants to access the protected portal pages.
The OnDemand Inc. portal application infrastructure is shown in Figure 3. The OnDemand Inc. portal application is protected by Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL. WebSEAL is configured to route requests to the OnDemand Inc. Portal application and Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) is configured to achieve single sign-on (SSO) between these two components. This satisfies requirement R5.
Figure 3. OnDemand Inc. portal infrastructure
OnDemand Inc. uses Tivoli Identity Manager as their strategic platform for provisioning. To provision accounts for the OnDemand Inc. portal, the following services are defined:
1) An LDAPDistribution service that provisions LDAP accounts and group membership to the OnDemand Inc. registry server
2) An LDAPSales service that provisions LDAP accounts and group membership to the OnDemand Inc. registry server
3) A TAM combo service that provisions TAM accounts
This satisfies requirements R3 and R6.
Creating roles
To allow employees to gain access to the sales and distribution application, the OnDemand Inc. administrator sets up two roles in Tivoli Identity Manager. This supports requirement R2 and R3. The OnDemandDistributionRole is used to allow users to request access to the Distribution portal application. The OnDemandSalesRole is used to allow users to request access to the Sales portal application. By checking the "Show this role in the access user interface" and "Show this role as a common access" checkboxes when creating a role, these roles are available as access entitlements to the user through the TIM 5.0 self-service console. The role owner is set to "Mike Stevens". The Role owner is used for the approval process. Figure 4 shows how to create a role for the distribution application.
Figure 4. Creating a role for distribution application
Creating provisioning policies
The newly created roles now need to be associated with provisioning policies so that the users can be provisioned with the required set of entitlements via the role assignment. The following provisioning policies are defined for this example:
1) Sales portal access policy: This policy associates OnDemandSalesRole to TAM and LDAPSales service entitlements.
2) Distribution portal access policy: This policy associates OnDemandDistributionRole to TAM and LDAPDistribution service entitlements.
Figure 5 shows the Sales Portal Access Policy.
Figure 5. Sales portal access policy
Figure 6 shows the Distribution portal access policy.
Figure 6. Distribution portal access policy
Figure 7 shows the Sales portal entitlement configuration.
Figure 7. Sales portal access policy entitlement
Figure 8 shows the Distribution portal entitlement configuration.
Figure 8. Distribution Portal Access Policy Entitlement
Creating approval workflows
OnDemand Inc. requires that all requests that gain access to a critical application go through an approval process. To approve access to the OnDemandDistributionRole and OnDemandSalesRole roles, an approval needs to be added by modifying the Person add and modify operations. This satisfies requirement R4.
Figure 9. Add an extension to facilitate the approval request
The approveRolesByOwner(Person) extension is used to implement the approval process for both the add and modify operations as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10. The approveRolesByOwner extension
User experience: Requesting a role assignment
TIM 5.0 introduces a new self-service console. This console allows users to perform a variety of self-service tasks. which includes allowing users to request access entitlements. In the case of OnDemand Inc., the company wants to allow users to request access to the sales role or the distribution role. OnDemand Inc. has setup roles for these resources, so that staff can request them as role access entitlements as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11. User Judith Hall requests access to the sales portal
Approving the role assignment
When a user requests access to a role, the Person modify workflow is called causing an approval request to be generated. The target for this approval is the role owner. The role owner at OnDemand Inc. is Mike Stevens. When Mike logs into the self-service console, he receives an approval request to authorize Judith Hall access to the sales portal.
Figure 12. Mike Stevens receives an approval notification
When Mike Stevens has approved the role access entitlement, it will show up in Judith's list of accesses as shown in Figure 13.
Figure 13. Sales role access entitlement granted to Judith
Judith is now able to access Sales portal page via WebSEAL. Figure 14 shows the main OnDemand Inc. home page. It has links to the sales and distribution Web pages.
Figure 14. OnDemand Inc. main portal page
Figure 15 shows the OnDemand Inc. sales page. This page is restricted to OnDemand Inc. sales staff. Judith can now access the sales page but she cannot access the distribution page.
Figure 15. OnDemand Inc. sales portal page
By introducing the request-based role assignment feature, ITIM is now fully enabled for the request-based provisioning model. You are now able to implement combinations of the role-based and the request-based provisioning to better meet your business needs.
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Red Blend •Estate Vineyard
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You are in for a real treat with today's exceptional Mercer Wine Estate 2009 Anthem Reserve Red, a delicious, elegant and balanced blend of Merlot (64%), Cabernet Sauvignon (21%), Malbec (9%) and Petit Verdot (6%).
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Tasting Profile
Dark garnet with a bouncy surface that settles quickly after swirling.
Sweet Bing cherry and tobacco leap from the glass. These lovely notes are followed by dried violet, cherrywood cigar box, cracked pepper and dark tobacco leaf.
Delicious and dark, with pronounced plum, black cherry, bramble, dried fall leaves and dried blackberry. Underneath, flavors of allspice, dried violets and dusty earth.
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Enjoy this flavorful wine with something equally bold. A garlic rubbed lamb served with rosemary baby baked potatoes would be delightful.
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2009 Mercer Wine Estate Anthem Reserve Red
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- 64% Merlot, 21% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Malbec, 6% Petit Verdot
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- The estate's Merlot-dominated Bordeaux blend, the 2009 Anthem is comprised of 64% Merlot, 21% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Malbec and 6% Petit Verdot. Offers loads of black raspberry, licorice, toast, spice and jam to go with an up-front, sweetly fruited and balanced feel on the palate. Rich, concentrated and medium to full-bodied, it will have 10-12 years of total longevity. Drink now through 2022.
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About the Winery
The Mercer Family came to the Horse Heaven Hills more than 125 years ago and has been farming here for generations. We planted our first grape vines in 1972, making us the first family to plant and grow vinifera in the state.
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