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Chattanooga's Scenic City Chorus has an offer for women who love holiday music and would love to share their vocal gifts with others.
A Christmas Holiday Chorus is forming to present a Christmas Cafe concert on Dec. 7. Rehearsals start Monday, Oct. 7, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. This is the Scenic City Chorus' regular time to rehearse, albeit on a new day starting this month. But for the next eight weeks, the chorus will devote the program to learning favorite holiday music in four-part a cappella harmony.
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Pungo River Pharmacy is owned and operated by Scott John Ellis. He graduated pharmacy school from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. He came back to Belhaven, North Carolina to take over his father's pharmacy.
Pungo River Pharmacy is a full service, independent pharmacy offering friendly hometown health care. We accept all insurances and will special order any item that you may require.
Our pharmacy focuses on patient care, and will not treat you like a number. We are here to provide quality healthcare which doesn't stop at just medicine. In today's world the relationship between the pharmacist and customer has been lost. We hope to bring that back.
If you are filling your prescription on insurance, then your copay is the same wherever you go. Why not get the most out of your money? Scott often knows patrons by name and loves to hear about what's happening outside our pharmacy.
No mail order pharmacy could catch the same medical errors that building a personal relationship with a community pharmacist does. Mail order pharmacies are assembly lines, and their sole purpose is to make money. Building a solid foundation with your community pharmacist, no matter who it is, will guarantee you better healthcare.
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Pungo River Pharmacy was started in 1971 by James "Jim" Ellis. Jim was born in 1921 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His uncle Charlie put him through pharmacy school after World War II. Jim worked as a pharmacist for Walgreens during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he felt the call of the ministry and went to Divinity School at Duke. He worked for 5 years as a Methodist minister in the Belhaven and Bath region of Eastern North Carolina. Jim decided to go back into pharmacy in 1971, but he still remained heavily involved in his church. He started Pungo River Pharmacy which is still in operation today.
Scott Ellis, the son of Jim Ellis, started working in Pungo River Pharmacy when it opened. He worked there up until he graduated from John A. Wilkinson High School. He then went to a bible college in upstate New York, and worked in a drug rehabilitation clinic in Pompano Beach, Florida. Two years later he decided he wanted to become a pharmacist and started his college education. Scott got his pharmacy degree at UNC Chapel Hill, and became the owner and pharmacy manager of Pungo River Pharmacy in 1985.

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For the first time in 22 months, Georgia's jobless rate fell into single digits in April. The Georgia Department of Labor said Thursday that unemployment in April fell one-tenth of a percent to 9.9 percent.
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Families in Cortland County are eligible for the program when they have a child who has not yet reached their 19th birthday and are determined to be at risk for detention or institutional level of placement due to either being the subject of a PINS petition, begin the subject of JD charges, having needs for supervision that cannot be met by the child's caretaker without the aid of intensive services, or because the child has been in out-of-home care and risks re-placement due to reoccurrence of problem behavior. The family must demonstrate an interest and capacity to benefit from intensive home-based services.
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February 1, 2010 by Audrey Kaminski
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Halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox, February 2nd is an interesting day in the calendar year. The liturgical name for that date is the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Mother. This feast day commemorates the day when Mary, after the birth of Jesus, presented herself at the Temple to be purified from ritual uncleanliness as required by Jewish law. To this day, Hassidic and ultra-orthodox Jewish women attend ritual baths for purification after childbirth.
In the 11th century, the Catholic Church added the blessing of candles to this feast day to symbolize Christ, the Light of the World and processions with lit candles within and around the church or village took place. This became quite popular throughout Europe and eventually, February 2nd became known as Candlemas Day in England and Maria Lichtmess in Germany and many other countries added their own unique name to that day. In Poland, The Feast of Purification is called Matka Boska Gromniczna. On February 2nd, the Polish people would take special candles to church to be blessed. These decorated candles may be embossed with liturgical symbols and once blessed were called gromnice, taken from the Polish word, grom, which means thunderbolt. There's a specific reason for the choice of this name because these blessed candles were always lit in the home as a protection against lightning strikes. The candles were also lit during illness and impending death
February 2nd is also the official end of the Christmas season in Poland. On this day all Christmas decorations are taken down and carefully stored for another year.
With the holidays over, farmers begin to look forward to the next growing season and anxiously await a break in the weather to check their fields. The housewives also look forward to tending their kitchen gardens. City dwellers, tired of the wintery weather, hope for an early spring. Everyone looks to nature, especially animal behavior, for an answer. When will winter end?
February 2nd in the United States and Canada is Groundhog Day. It's a day filled with media attention and the best known furry prognosticator is Punxsutawney Phil from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. In fact, he's so popular that a movie named "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray was made and can be seen on television every February 2nd and often as a marathon presentation. If you are at all familiar with the movie, you can leave the room for quite a while and not miss a thing! As for Punxsutawney Phil, if he fails to see his shadow after leaving his burrow, winter will soon end. If he does see his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. However, there have been times when Phil was unwilling to leave his burrow on the 2nd of February. With cameras at the ready and reporters covering this annual story, that simply was not acceptable. So, poor Phil is unceremoniously pulled out of his sleeping quarters to make the prediction and more often than not it's six more weeks of winter!
On February 2, in southeastern Poland, specifically in the region near Rzeszow, they watch the activity of the bear. If he leaves his den and sees frost, he tears apart his lair for spring is near. If the bear finds the weather damp and wet, he returns to his den. Winter isn't over yet. Needless to say, if the bear doesn't appear at all on that day, no one will pull him out!
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Suzuki plans to pitch its new factory 1000cc MotoGP bike against Honda, Yamaha and Ducati in at least three public tests in Europe in 2013.
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Thats Suzuki. DOH!
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Top of the shopping list?? Crutchlow out of contract at the end of year.
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Some of you think Spies is finished after one nightmare season. In my view he has played his cards well taking a one year contract with Ducati then most likely waiting for Suzuki to return if that does not happen he'll go back to WSBK the series what was to great to him.
Spies will go back to WSBK and do well there, c'mon he won a world championship there. Prehap's Yamaha USA could put a deal together and get him and Edwards racing in good ole boys racing national guared marines budwieser racing.org. Why not?
That would be a perfect scenario race Spies race for Yamaha in WSBK again but the main question is would he want to race for Yamaha again in a different class considering what happened in MotOGP while racing for them.
He could go to Ducati WSBK that might be intresting.
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the only word chamionship sincew the 2t era has been troy corser on the batta gsxr in wsbk, id not waana be on one of their bikes in moto gp as its a very big risk taker, compared to say a yamaha or honda, even the ducati can be tamed if your casey stoner.
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If it goes as good as it looks, they've got the title sewn up !!! What a stunning machine - pure biker porn !
I for one will be glad to see Suzuki back on the grid and really hope they're competitive.
I also wonder if Suzuki do return will it be under new management and what sponsors they will have.
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As YamGYTR asks, I wonder what structure will 'run' Suzuki. I believe they need and should have a full factory team. This gives clarity of responsibilty and direction and allows them to fight on an equal footing with Honda and Yamaha. Having a partner muddies all parameters- not least £s, a team needing/wanting to make a profit- not the factory teams concern. things Under Paul Denning's guidance it was hard to judge exactly where the package was: Ceratinly Alvaro looked good onboard towards the end of 2011 especially. He seems no better, really, on the allegedly far superior factory RCV, oddly. Does this suggest the GSV-R was not far off? I know that they ran very different electronics hardware to others (Mitsubishi) and frequently that was blamed. As was budget. As was rider choice. As was single rider. But what about Paul Denning. I'm not trying to do him down but he doesn't really seem like the first choice to run such an outfit given their lack of otright success on the global or national stage- at best the 'nearly' men. Maybe this is unfair? Maybe in GPs they did better than their budget allowed. Another reason to have Suzuki Factory Racing.
Dorna's ridiculous stance of no more teams a nonsense. If Suzuki link with Aspar and Kawasaki possibly with Forward Racing and satellite teams now neatly structured, what would Dorna say to for instance, BMW- they must join with...whom? Even if joining a very low ranking team or being held to ransom to buy was acceptable to BMW, what happens if KTM, Aprilia, Norton, and others want in? ...It all seems as confused as this post does reading it back.
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On the surface, the upcoming Geneva II peace talks between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the Syrian opposition seem dead on arrival, if they even happen at all. The Syrian opposition, already deeply fractured, is now in violent internal conflict between the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Saudi-backed Islamic Front, and the ideologically neutral Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Syrian National Coalition, the primary political wing of the opposition, is threatening to withdraw from the peace talks, which begin Wednesday, January 22, if the United Nations does not rescind its invitation for Iran to participate. All the while, Assad has announced that a negotiated end to his presidency "is not under discussion" at the talks, which calls into question what exactly the negotiating parties will be discussing and highlights just how far apart the key belligerents in the Syrian civil war are from accepting a political solution to the conflict.
The conventional wisdom is that under these circumstances, the U.S. push to build consensus and find common ground between the Assad regime and the deeply fractured opposition is deeply naïve and divorced from realities on the ground. But for all the talk about regime-opposition negotiations, the most important conversation at Geneva this week doesn't involve anyone from Syria. Instead of trying to build consensus for a political solution on Syria from the inside-out, the United States, led by Secretary of State John Kerry, appears to be trying to build consensus for a deal from the outside-in. By working out a deal between the key power brokers on Syria's future, first the United States and Russia, and then widening the circle to include critical regional players, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, the international community can eventually force a deal on the belligerents to end the Syrian civil war.
This "outside-inside strategy," as it is sometimes referred to by U.S. administration officials, requires slowly building consensus on a political resolution among the conflict's key power brokers -- regional and international actors that provide the resources and diplomatic cover for the belligerents to continue waging this proxy war. The supporters of the Syrian opposition include Western countries -- such as the United States, Britain, and France -- Gulf Arab countries -- such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Kuwait -- and other powerful regional actors -- such as Turkey. The supporters of the Assad regime are fewer in number, but equally important, including Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Hezbollah.
Neither the Assad regime, nor the Syrian opposition can conduct this war without the support of their regional and international power brokers. A heavily depleted Syrian army has been reliant on the continued support of Hezbollah fighters, Iranian weapons shipments, and Russian vetoes in the U.N. Security Council to sustain the regime's hold on the western area of Syria, and it has no chance of reclaiming lost territory in the northern and eastern areas of the country without further assistance by supporters of the regime. Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition, in its many forms, is reliant on arms and money from wealthy Gulf countries, political support from the West, and a base of operations in Turkey to hold its captured territory and attempt to seize regime strongholds in Damascus and Aleppo. The belligerents in the Syrian civil war are dependent on their respective power brokers to sustain the fight, a dynamic that ultimately gives countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran the final say in how long this war continues and under what circumstances it ends.
Despite the fierce battle being waged in Syria between regional geopolitical rivals, there appears to be growing acceptance among the key power brokers on the need for a negotiated settlement. The UAE, Turkey, and to a lesser extent Qatar have had a change of heart in the past few months and appear to understand that Syria will be solved politically, not militarily. Emirati-Iranian relations have warmed in recent months with several official visits including a recent visit by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and an upcoming visit by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed. Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called for a "recalibration" of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's military-driven approach to Syria, adding to a growing chorus of Turkish citizens frustrated with current policy. Even Qatar, the most aggressive Gulf backer of the opposition, has shown signs of taking a less prominent role in the conflict under new Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Saudi Arabia has a growing sense of urgency in the need to resolve the Syrian problem in the face of a rising terrorist threat incubated in the ungoverned chaos of the war, which has prompted Riyadh to spend millions of dollars arming and training the Islamic Front as a counterweight to ISIL. On the other side of the aisle, Iran's willingness to work with the West has been enhanced by the positive progress on the P5+1 nuclear negotiations and its own concerns about al Qaeda-affiliated terrorism in Syria. Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria have threatened to assassinate top Iranian officials and are tied to the November 2013 bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which killed nearly two-dozen people.
The United States and Russia, the two key international powers that can secure or halt any action on Syria in the U.N. Security Council, are in agreement on the need for a political solution in Syria, even if a wide gap still remains between them on what that negotiated settlement looks like. Despite expending political capital on the Syrian conflict, both the United States and Russia have actively avoided getting dragged into the war militarily. Neither U.S. nor Russian interests are served by a war that further destabilizes Syria's neighbors, results in the breakdown of the Syrian state, or creates an ungoverned base of operations for al Qaeda-affiliated groups. Russia in particular has cause for concern on the rise of foreign jihadism in Syria, where as many as 609 Russian and Chechen fighters have gone to fight for the opposition, and could pose a serious threat to Russian security upon their return home.
The deal reached in September 2013 between Russia and the United States on the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile proves the conflict in Syria isn't a zero sum game between the two former Cold War rivals. Beyond the intrinsic value of destroying one of the world's largest chemical weapons stockpiles, the initial deal and its continued successful implementation is an important confidence building measure that has improved the working relationship between the United States and Russia heading into Geneva II.
The question is whether the convergence of U.S. and Russian interests that led to the chemical weapons deal can be expanded into a much wider and more complex negotiated settlement to the civil war. At Geneva II, Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov could conceivably agree on the framework for a deal that secures Assad's removal from power through a face-saving mechanism such as new elections that he "voluntarily" decides not to participate in, preserves Syria's current contiguous borders, maintains the country's core state institutions, incorporates more palatable members of the current regime and the opposition into a transitional government, and establishes greater local autonomy, particularly for Syria's Kurdish and Alawite-majority areas.
Such a framework would still face challenges and leaves many questions unanswered, but a united U.S.-Russian voice on how to implement the June 2012 Geneva communiqué would be a critical hurdle to surmount and put significant pressure on regional powers supporting both sides of the conflict to get behind the deal. Whether Russia can deliver Iran and the United States can deliver the Gulf Arab powers remains to be seen. Any negotiated settlement to the Syrian conflict would need to overcome the geopolitical proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, neither of whom will let Syria become a client state of the other. But potentially the threat posed by ISIL's recent growth in both Syria and Iraq will provide Saudi Arabia and Iran common cause to end the war in Syria in exchange for maintaining a degree of influence in Damascus.
Geneva II is the beginning of a long process, of which U.S. and Russian officials appear to be keenly aware. They understand that neither the Assad regime nor the Syrian opposition, in any form, has the resources to achieve a maximalist victory in Syria's civil war. The only end is a political resolution, a deal which will likely leave all sides disappointed in the lack of change from the pre-war status quo, but one that nonetheless is a significantly better alternative to an indefinite and increasingly brutal civil war.
The international community cannot end the war by pumping in more guns, money, and fighters to one side of the conflict or another, but it can end the war by getting key power brokers to simultaneously shut off the supply pipeline. Geneva II is just the next step in that long, arduous process of building peace on the outside of Syria's borders and hoping this peace can eventually make its way inside to the Syrian people.
Ken Sofer is a research associate with the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress. Follow him on Twitter: @KenSofer.
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The pilot/owner departed with another pilot for a local flight. About 25 minutes later, witnesses 3/4 mile off shore observed the airplane impact the water from a descending spin. Examination revealed no preimpact failure of the airplane or engine. The kit airplane was designed for aerobatic flight. The pilot/owner was not known to have performed aerobatic maneuvers. The other pilot owned an aerobatic airplane, and was known to have performed aerobatics. He had 1750 hours total time; 280 hours in a Pitts S-2 and 1 hour in this make and model. He was observed 2 hours earlier that day in another airplane performing aerobatics over the water near the area of the accident.
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MOCAP - Short Term Roles Available - Vancouver
31st October 2014
Weta Digital is keen too hear from applicants who are interested in being considered for the below Motion Capture roles, for Vancouver shoot.
Candidates are required to have motionbuilder/mocap/tracking experience, we are looking to fill the following roles:
Simulcam team:
Generally help out in camera volume (green-screen studio) - look after camera markers, help with setting up mocap cameras, and calibration, help with checking sync & time-code. Mocap, virtual studio and/or on-set experience, and basic technical video knowledge a definite plus.
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Generally help out in mocap volume (green-screen studio) - help with calibration, help with checking sync & time-code. Be available to jump in, and help out with body suits, and face-cams as required. Mocap, and/or on-set experience, and basic technical video knowledge a definite plus.
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Weta digital is looking for a Motion Pipeline TD/Software Developer.
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We are currently seeking a software developer to work on a range of tools related to our real-time graphics pipeline. The ideal candidate will work well in a team and is able to investigate and propose solutions over a wide range of technologies for real-time rendering.
Required Skills:
* Good knowledge of modern real time rendering techniques.
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* Experience in writing/implementing and supporting a wide variety of complex software systems.
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* BS/MS or equivalent knowledge and experience in Computer Science or a related subject.
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We are currently seeking a Software Developer who will work closely with the compositing department to develop and maintain a wide range of innovative tools and Nuke plugins for use on Weta's projects. We have a wide range of custom tools for tasks such as keying, deep compositing, colour management and roto/paint as well as project specific tools.
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- 3+ years of applicable experience
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The research group at Weta Digital is seeking a senior rendering researcher/engineer to take a leading role in the development of rendering technology at Weta Digital. A deep understanding of a wide range of rendering technologies is required, such as light transport, importance sampling, volume rendering, realistic material models, shading, and geometry processing. The ideal candidate will have extensive software engineering expertise, proven research contributions, and project leadership experience.
- Research and develop new rendering algorithms, such as light transport (path tracing with importance sampling), volume rendering, etc.
- Design and implement physically realistic material models for hair, skin, and other materials using multi-layer BSDFs, importance sampling, and subsurface scattering.
- Adapt the latest research results into practical, production-quality code.
- Implement core rendering systems with a focus on high performance, multi threading, scalability, and robustness.
- Analyse and optimize system performance.
- Improve and maintain existing code to improve quality, reliability, and maintainability.
- Proactively test new and existing features to ensure the highest levels of quality.
- Provide hands-on user support. Find and fix bugs. Author high quality internal and end-user documentation.
- Share senior project leadership responsibilities, such as planning and tracking development tasks, engaging with users, and collaborating with other departments.
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- Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science
- 6 years of industry software engineering experience.
- World-class rendering research expertise.
- A solid foundation in software engineering, including object-oriented programming.
- Fluency in C++ and experience with other languages such as Python.
- Extensive experience in performance analysis and optimization of highly parallel, scalable systems.
- Ability to work well on a self-directed team in a rapidly changing, deadline-oriented environment.
- A team-oriented, customer-focused, quality-obsessed mindset.
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- GPU programming expertise (CUDA or OpenCL) and experience with interactive rendering algorithms.
- Experience in film or video game production.
- Familiarity with programming tools such as Valgrind, Vtune, git, and so on
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Access Governance - Hitachi ID Identity Manager
Hitachi ID Identity Manager includes a variety of features that collectively are used to govern the security entitlements assigned to users.
What are Security Entitlements?
The Burton Group defines an entitlement as:
|An entitlement is the object in a system's security model that can be granted or associated to a user account to enable that account to perform (or in some cases prevent the performance of) some set of actions in that system. It was commonly accepted that this definition of entitlement referred to the highest-order grantable object in a system's security model, such as an Active Directory group membership or SAP role and not lower-order objects such as single-file permission setting.
Definition by Ian Glazer, in Access Certification and Entitlement Management v1, September 9, 2009.
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Access Governance Overview
Access governance is broken down into a series of features, used to assign appropriate rights to users initially, to monitor and control the rights users have over time and ultimately to deactivate no-longer-required entitlements.
Role Based Access Control
Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach to managing entitlements, intended to reduce the cost of security administration, ensure that users have only appropriate entitlements and to terminate no-longer-needed entitlements reliably and promptly.
In the context of a single system or application, RBAC means granting privileges directly to roles and attaching users to roles. Users acquire privileges through role membership, rather than directly. Within a single system, roles are sometimes called security groups or user groups.
Single-system RBAC is a time tested and successful strategy, as it allows administrators to group users, group privileges and attach groups of privileges to groups of users, rather than attaching individual privileges to individual users.
Identity management and access governance systems extend RBAC beyond single applications. Roles in an IAM system are sets of entitlements that may span multiple systems and applications. The key element of roles is to replace many technical entitlements with fewer roles that business users can understand. Business users can then a reasonable determination of which users should have which roles. This implicitly specifies which users should have which technical entitlements.
Roles consist of entitlements -- login accounts and security group memberships. Roles are often also nested -- i.e., one role can contain others. Nesting roles can reduce the cost of role administration.
Learn more about the RBAC features included in Identity Manager.
Preventing New and Detecting Existing Violations to Segregation of Duties Policy
Segregation of duties (SoD) policies allow organizations to define toxic combinations of entitlements, which no one user should possess. The most common business driver for these policies is fraud prevention -- i.e., ensuring that fraud cannot be committed without collusion by at least two users.
Learn more about the SoD prevention and detection capabilities included in Identity Manager.
Approving Security Change Requests
A workflow engine allows both business users, in a self-service fashion and automated processes to request and authorize security changes. This is a key feature of any successful user provisioning system.
Users sign into a secure web application and submit change requests by selecting and filling in a suitable form. Requests are validated by the workflow engine and the requester may be required to make corrections.
Some parts of a request may be automatically filled in and may not even be visible to the requester. For example, the user provisioning system might automatically assign a standard login ID to all new accounts, assign a file server and mail server, select a directory OU and so on.
The workflow engine forwards valid requests to one or more authorizers. These are simply other users, chosen through the application of security policy. Example authorizers may include application owners and managers in the chain of command above the requester. Some requests may not require authorization at all.
Authorizers are normally invited to review and either approve or reject change requests by e-mail. A URL is embedded in the e-mail, which authorizers follow to a secure web application where they sign in, see request details and either approve or reject the request.
The workflow engine must allow for the possibility that authorizers will not respond in a timely manner -- by automatically sending reminders and escalating requests from unresponsive authorizers to other responsible users.
The workflow engine must also allow authorizers to actively delegate their responsibility, for example when they schedule time off or when they change jobs permanently.
Self-service and delegated updates to users, profiles and entitlements are illustrated in Figure [link].
Self-Service Security Administration Workflow (1)
Learn more about the authorization workflow engine built into Identity Manager.
Reliable, Automatic Access Deactivation When Users Leave
Identity Manager is typically used to first disable and then, at a later date, delete accounts for users who leave an organization. The process often has four distinct phases:
- A user (via self-service or delegated security administration, using a web user) or an unattended process (scheduled batch job) submits a request to disable user X on date Y.
- Some number of days (N) before the deactivation date arrives (i.e., on date Y-N), the user's current manager-of-record is sent an e-mail, advising him of the impending change and asking him to change the deactivation date if required.
- On date Y, all of the user's accounts are disabled. Additional changes, such as removing the user from security groups, may also be performed. Tickets in an external system may be created at this time, to collect laptops, building access badges, etc. E-mails are typically sent to HR and the user's manager to notify them of the completed deactivation.
- When accounts are disabled, installation-specific business logic is often triggered, for example to archive mailboxes and home directories, create mail redirection rules, move user accounts to new OUs, remove active security group memberships, etc.
- Some number of days (M) after the deactivation date arrives (i.e., on date Y+M), the user's accounts are permanently deleted. This normally includes deleting, moving and/or changing ownership of digital assets such as network home directories, mail folders, etc.
Learn more about the automated provisioning and deactivation mechanism included in Identity Manager.
Periodic Review, Certification and Cleanup of User Entitlements
Access certification is a process where business stake-holders are periodically invited to review entitlements, sign-off on entitlements that appear to be reasonable and flag questionable entitlements for possible removal.
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There is also permanent life insurance that is much more expensive due to the fact that it will cover a person until they reach the age of 100. This is considered the whole of a persons life span. This type of coverage has a cash value that is readily available to the policy owner in the form of a loan should an emergency arise. Cash value policies like this are often used to maintain a premium level as people age.
Many startling statistic from the Goldsmith Insurance Agency shows one percent of all term life policies purchased ever result in a payout claim. This may sound very shocking and for this reason many consider these policies a total waste of money. That would of course depend entirely upon the persons perspective. It's similar to someone who buys fire insurance yet never needs to use it, it's there if you need it but few ever do.
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Reviews for Je T'aime LyricsPerformed by Lara Fabian
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maggie | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/21/07
the song is awesoomee! I love it, aand I agree with Virginia
she knows!
superb | Reviewer: djordje | 5/14/07
Serbia loves you - comme un fou, loup, roi..............je taime, je taime, je taime, je taime.....
absolutely marvelous | Reviewer: djordje | 5/14/07
great song, great performance , thank you lara
serbia loves you - comme un loup, comme un roi, and with all heart
About the translation... | Reviewer: Virginia | 4/3/07
Altough I think the translation makes justice to the song, I don't understand why you didn't translate:
"Comme un homme que je ne suis pas" on a more specific way if the gender (homme) is mentioned because it is very relevant to the next line
"Tu vois, je t'aime comme ça" which besides "you see, I love you like that" can also have another interpretation "you know I love you that way/like that" I grew up speaking French and the verb "voire" can be literally translated like "seeing" it is also used as "in your face/you know what I'm talking about" like you would use it in English "See, I told you I was right" meaning "hello, you knew I was right"
I adore the song and for sure the singer | Reviewer: Maya | 11/11/05
well what can i say about this song it makes me cry for a long day!!i adore every word and i sing it 2 days ago !!
first time that I heared this song... | Reviewer: Ali | 9/10/05
I am an iranian boy and live in tabriz in northwest of iran.
when for a first time that I heared this song (JE T'AIME) ,I cant say my feel, just can say I absorbed! I wish knowing french , Wish !
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The objective is to have state and local entities that can act independently or with the federal government. Thus, they will be trained to a take care of themselves when smaller disasters strike, like the Joplin tornado of 2011, and also trained to integrate into a national response framework when something catastrophic happens, like this fall's Superstorm Sandy along the Northeast Coast.
"It comes down to having an effective balance," says Monken.
The revised NEP, according to a FEMA spokesperson not cleared to speak to media, will allow the agency to evaluate these stakeholders' adherence to baseline capabilities and how they integrate into a unified response while identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating them.
One concern voiced about the newly revised NEP, however, is the absence of a true testing component to ensure that first responders and emergency managers are competent in those baseline capabilities and have learned the necessary lessons identified by previous exercises.
This has been a longstanding problem for FEMA, says Matt Mayer, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and the former acting executive director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness at the agency during the Bush administration. "Tons and tons of time and money, mostly contractor money, is put into doing the [TOPOFF] exercise [every two years] but very little time and money is put into the after-action component of making sure what was not working gets fixed," he says.
Mayer calls this symbolic exercising, because the competency of first responders is not tested after an exercise to ensure that they learned what they were supposed to learn during the exercise.
It is not clear whether this issue will be addressed. According to the March 2011 outline of the revised NEP, FEMA, in coordination with exercise stakeholders, will devise an evaluation program.
That, however, hasn't happened yet. Emergency managers have focused on easily quantifiable metrics such as how many people were trained or how much money was spent but that doesn't measure the quality of the training or the results in terms of preparedness, Mayer notes.
Mayer would like to see FEMA inject accountability into the NEP by having evaluators test first responders against baseline capabilities and exercise goals, grade them, and then either pass them or fail them.
"It's no different than firefighters [having] to pass the physical endurance test to become a firefighter," he said. "Why would we not apply the same rigor to the National Exercise Program?"
But he also acknowledges that there are local and regional issues that might not lend themselves to national standards.
Deciding what set of standards to test against may not be simple.
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Last night's first gubernatorial debate between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal largely focused on the two candidates' bread-and-butter issues: business growth for Ducey, and education for DuVal. The most contentious parts of the debate were over DuVal's record on the Arizona Board of ... More >>
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Immediate Release: March 5, 2010
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-- Binghamton baseball (1-4) snapped a 2-2 tie with a four-run eighth inning and knocked off Tennessee (4-4) Friday night at Robert M. Lindsay Field at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Volunteers reside in the baseball-rich SEC.
Junior right fielder Corey Taylor keyed the big eighth inning with a two-run home run - a 1-out shot to left field. The Bearcats then plated two more runs on squeeze bunts from senior shortstop Jeff Abrams and junior catcher C.J. Lukaszewski. Trailing 7-3 in the bottom of the ninth, the Volunteers plated a run and loaded the bases before sophomore reliever Alex Adami struck out the final Tennessee batter on a 3-2 pitch to end the game. Adami actually struck out the side, sandwiching two walks between the strikeouts.
Junior left starter James Giulietti went 5.1 innings and left with a 2-1 lead. He scattered seven hits and one run with four strikeouts and two walks. Sophomore Robert Rogers got the win with 2.2 innings of work. He allowed three hits and three runs.
Sophomore first baseman Dave Ciocchi went 3-for-5 with two RBI and Taylor had three RBI. Senior left fielder Joe Charron had two hits.
The Bearcats struck for two runs in the third inning to build a lead. Junior second baseman Jim Calderone and junior center fielder Henry Dunn had back-to-back singles to right to open the frame. Sophomore first baseman Dave Ciocchi and junior right fielder Corey Taylor followed with RBI groundouts.
Tennessee got one in the sixth and tied it with an RBI double in the seventh. After BU's four-run eighth, the Volunteers trimmed the margin to 6-3 with a solo home run in the bottom of the frame. A Ciocchi RBI double gave BU a 7-3 lead entering the bottom of the ninth.
Binghamton plays the Volunteers again at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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Lauren Alaina Suddeth performs in front of the judges on "American Idol" in Los Angeles May 18. Contributed Photo by Michael Becker/FOX
The show must go on.
Despite straining one of her vocal chords in rehearsal only hours before "American Idol's" finale, Lauren Alaina Suddeth was onstage singing for the win. She was treated by the show's physician who cleared her to compete in a country showdown with Scotty McCreery, 17, of North Carolina.
And by the show''s conclusion, "Idol" judges gave Suddeth the nod as winner of all three rounds of competition.
"Totally awesome!" said Paula Steele of Flintstone, Ga., a Suddeth family friend.
"I knew when the rumors started this afternoon about her voice that she would put everything she had into it, and she did. She does not quit," said Steele.
"American Idol's" two finalists, each hoping to jump-start a country music career with a win Wednesday, got an assist from two industry superstars in preparation for Tuesday night's finale.
"Idol's" Season 4 champ Carrie Underwood chose "Maybe It Was Memphis" for Suddeth to sing. Underwood posted on her fan club board Tuesday that it was a song she had wanted to sing during her "Idol" season but never had the chance.
George Strait, "the King of Country" who holds the record for 59 No. 1 hits, chose "Check Yes or No" for McCreery to perform.
In addition to the songs chosen by the stars, Suddeth and McCreery were asked to choose their favorite song from this season to perform.
The pair also sang their "coronation songs" — the singles that will be released by the winner Thursday morning. McCreery's single was "Love You This Big" and Suddeth's was "Like My Mother Does."
Record producer Jimmy Iovine said he chose Suddeth's number because it captured her "American Idol" journey with her mother beside her throughout the process.
"It's a very tight race tonight, but with that song, you may have just won," said judge Jennifer Lopez of Suddeth's emotional tribute to her mother. "You sang with heart, emotion and a beautiful voice."
During her performance of the number, Suddeth walked into the audience to sing to her tearful mother, Kristy Suddeth.
Jason Phibbs, co-owner of The Acoustic Cafe in Ringgold, Ga., where a viewing party was held, said, "It's over. Lauren Suddeth is the winner."
"I think her going up to her mom made the difference," he said. "That was the deal-breaker."
Viewers will find out who is the Season 10 "Idol" when the results show airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
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What I find disturbing is that Steven Tyler is saying Lauren takes it because she is "pretty"...how stupid. The WHOLE season...Scotty was consistantly better than Lauren. Scotty deserves the win. He has earned it, and regardless.....he will have the BIGGER career in NASHVILLE. Hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes of fame Lauren


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Ok, ok, I promised bikes and bipolar, not art, but I have to be true to myself. Tomorrow, 9/26, is the Smithsonian's Free Museum Day! Over 800 museums nation wide are offering free admission tomorrow, just go to the site linked here, check out the participating museums near you and download a free admission card.
Hey, museums are expensive these days -- even if you only go to one once or twice a year, take advantage of this opportunity. And while I'm at it, remember that many museums have a free day or evening every month -- First Friday, Third Thursday, whatever. Check it out and go see some art, science, history or whatever. Have fun!
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The taggers are back at it. Eastbound motorists on Interstate 80 can see more graffiti has been painted on the "Q" street overpass.
Gary Forman from the Nebraska Department of Roads maintenance division says they're working weekly on removing graffiti from overpasses or signs.
Forman says, "Ninety percent of it is gang related. Most of it's appearing in south Omaha and now it's coming out west. We're getting more and more graffiti out west and it doesn't appear to be kids making pictures. It appears to be gang signs."
That worries Mike Foley who lives near 116th and R.
"I don't like it, that's for sure," Foley says. "That's one of the reasons we moved west was to get away from things like that."
Forman says the roads department tries to get the vandalism removed or covered as soon as possible.
He says it costs thousands of dollars each year just in the Omaha area alone.
"For the amount of graffiti we get out there, people have to see, or somebody has to see them out there doing this," Forman says.
With so many people having cell phones Forman says he can't believe that no one gets caught in the act. He speculates that people probably don't know who would field a call like that but he says the answer is simple: Call 911.


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This morning's Stella McCartney A/W 2010 show was held in the incredibly grand setting of Paris' Opera House with its frescoed ceilings, whopping great chandeliers and more gilt than you can shake a stick at. In stark contrast, Stella showed her most pared-down, simple collection in seasons.
As the first girl appeared in a sharply tailored jacket and trousers, it was clear that this would be a departure from the colour and prettiness we have come to associate with Stella (the first signs of this new mood could be seen at her the pre fall 2010 collection, which also had simplicity as its core message). But heartland Stella fans shouldn't fear, this collection will still appeal to them, as McCartney nailed what the modern woman wants to wear right now - luxurious, beautifully-cut clothes that don't vie with their wearer for attention, yet are not too 'classic' or bland and have a subtle sex appeal.
But it was the details that elevated the collection to must-have status; double-faced cashmere coats had notched lapels; the deep cuff on simple, slim pants looked really modern; shift dresses had organza panels at the arm hole which gave the impression that the sleeve floated; silk cocktail dresses that appeared ultra-simple from the front were draped and open at the back (flashing your back is hot hot hot for autumn/winter).
With this collection - which she dedicated to her family and her friend Lee McQueen - Stella proved that she is still has the knack of knowing what women want to wear, even before they do.
What we loved:
* The mole-coloured sleeveless coat-dress worn by Lara Stone.
* The camel and black hoop-striped tunic worn with cigarette pants.
* The grey notched lapel tailored coat.
* The matt sequined short dress with organza over-lay.
* The parkas - honey coloured or in off-white and black panelling
- Siobhan Mallen in Paris


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Written by Linda Cavallaro Friday, 18 September 2009 00:00
Please highlight the ideas in this speech that were so offensive that you decided to disrespect the President of the United States by not allowing our children to hear them. I, for one, am highly insulted and consider this a most unpatriotic action on your part. Not allowing our children to be encouraged to do well in school by our president. Unheard of! What a loss to our children and what a terrible lesson you have sent to them. You should be ashamed to call yourself an advocate of children. What exactly did you think you were protecting them from? I cannot find a single phrase here that I would not be pleased to have my children hear.
Linda Cavallaro, New Hyde Park
(Editor's Note: New Hyde Park/Garden City Park Superintendent Robert Katulak was contacted by the Illustrated News and he explained that due to the first day of school falling on the same day of the president's speech, and the confusion that often accompanies the first day of school, it was decided that it would be less confusing for the students to view the speech on the following Friday, Sept. 11 to coincide with the president's wish to declare Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service.)


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Journal of Biblical Counseling
The mission of the Journal of Biblical Counseling (JBC) is to develop clear thinking and effective practice in biblical counseling. We seek to do this through publishing articles that faithfully bring the God of truth, mercy and power to the issues that face pastoral ministries of counseling and discipleship. See subscription options here and Kindle editions here.
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The Personal God
The God revealed in the Bible is a person—in fact, "one God in three persons." Because he is a person himself, he gets personal with each one of us. Powlison's editorial recounts three stories that show God personally working in the lives of individuals.
Featured Articles
Does the Bible Say Women Should Suffer Abuse and Violence?
The question posed by the title of this article might seem to be a rhetorical one. The answer of course is a resounding No, women should not suffer abuse and violence. But many women have been told to stay in abusive marriages and the Bible has been used to justify the advice. The Holcombs debunk this line of thought, unpacking biblical examples of proactive strategy and self-protective escape. They then offer concrete advice on how to minister to women in hostile marital situations.
Ten Ways Ordinary People Can Help Those with Psychiatric Problems
The way we are to minister mirrors the way God ministers. This article shows how the normal, God-given ways of relating to people are the same ways we are to minister to those in the church who are deeply troubled, and often troublesome, due to psychiatric problems. Welch's practical, field-tested advice can benefit every church by encouraging ordinary people to become inviting and helpful to strugglers and their families.
Quietness: A Lost Virtue in a Loud World
This article confronts a widely-accepted, rarely-examined social value—the "Extrovert Ideal." Our society, and even the church, values and rewards those who are comfortable in the spotlight and gregarious by nature—and overlooks quieter, reflective types. But was this always the case? And is this value supported by the Bible? Gembola examines these questions and goes on to discuss some implications of both extroversion and shyness in interpersonal ministry.
A House Built upon the Rock: Finding Our Identity in Christ
People tend to base their identity (the essential "Who am I?") on their feelings, thoughts and experiences. But Pierce Hibbs reminds us that the Christian faith builds on a different foundation. Our core identity—our essence—is defined by being in Christ, not by the sum total of feelings, thoughts and experiences. The world might think this restrictive, but it actually liberates and enables us to become who God made us to be.
Redirecting the Church's Drama
The Apostle Paul had a sharp conflict with the church in Corinth and he wrote about in 2 Corinthians 7:2–16. In this article, Edwards likens Paul's approach to a technique used in improv theater called "overaccepting" in which someone in the drama actively redirects the course of the story. By overaccepting, Paul carefully shifts the Corinthian church away from its preoccupation with the human problems and redirects the drama to God and his grace. Edwards offers some thoughts on how this can be used to help you to redirect drama in your church.
Conflict in the Church: A Surprising Way to Build a Community
This article takes the same passage in 2 Corinthians and shows how Paul's faith guides his intensely emotional involvement with the Corinthian church. Paul's response to the painful conflict is the furthest thing from "clinical detachment" because he is able to care openly in pursuing their welfare. Based on this model for ministry, Midgley offers reflections on how to examine your own approach to conflict.
Counselor's Toolbox
How to Help Counselees with Psychoactive Medications
Many counselees take psychoactive medications and many more consider it. This practical piece from Benjamin Crawford helps counselors support their counselees as they move through the decision-making process. He also suggests how to help a counselee monitor the effects of a medication, provides basic information on the most commonly-used psychoactive drugs, and lays out a few counseling implications.


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CAMARO's Watchlist for 10/21/13
SOHU - After catching a huge breakout a few weeks ago SOHU went on a tear ripping from 60s up to a high at 87.29 in a few weeks. Well now SOHU is right under 52w highs and with the huge moves in similar names like QIHU BIDU and SINA I believe that SOHU will provide a move into new highs this week. I like the Monthly 90x calls for a swing into the 90s this week.
DIS - Looks ready for a multi-month channel breakout. A small bull flag broke out on friday which could be the catalyst to launch DIS into new highs. I like idea of buying a monthly call spread using a wide spread like the 65/70 vertical with 70$ being the target zone.
TRIP - If your a bear on this market, your probably not having a great time in this past week but I do think if you spot the right patterns there are some good short plays. Example last week was GMCR's bear flag that provided a huge selloff before reversing on Friday (which by the way we highlighted the two-way trade). Anyways TRIP has a 'h' pattern which is a type of bear flag. It also has a big gap it hasnt filled down at 60$. Watch this week for a break under the bear flag (70.50) . and then it needs to form another bear flag formation at the lows of the gap left in the end of July right around 68.60ish.
TSLA - In a bull flag on daily chart, after expierencing a huge selloff from 195 down to 160 but now is right back up trading just 11$ off its all-time high and looks like its going to actually take out those highs soon. Short interest actually decreased during the large TSLA pullback which is very bullish to me because this shows shorts are giving up and either going to try shorting again at higher prices or they are switching to the long side in anticipation of more highs into year end. Short term watch for a move above 187 to get this bull flag breaking out . Target this week is 200.
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