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North of Cloudcrest, there is a Shrine of Ethene. From the shrine, travel east to the road that connects The Hollowlands to Menetyre; there will be a lorestone on the start of the road on one side of the rock barrier. A second lorestone (see below) will be southeast of this stone location.
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North of Cloudcrest, there is a Shrine of Ethene. From the shrine, travel east on the small road that leads past the pass which connects The Hollowlands to Menetyre; there will be a lorestone on one side of the rock barrier. Another lorestone (see above) will be northwest of this stone location.
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Northeast of Saltwell Caverns, there is a large rock on your map (outside the passageway leading to this dungeon entrance). Check the south facing of the rock for this lorestone.
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South of the Motus Mining Outpost, there are two rock obstacles which form cliffsides overlooking the outpost. The eastern cliff outcropping (on the river's south bank) has this lorestone - it will be under a rock archway.
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Southeast of Shadowthorn, there is a culvert in the rock wall (it will be on the other side of the mountain). Check for the lorestone there, standing by a thorny vine.
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Cy Falls High School student Karen Li was recently named a finalist in the USA Biology Olympiad competition.
"Li advanced to the semifinal round of USABO competition in March," according to a Cy-Fair Independent School District press release. "Following two rounds of challenging exams, the 20 finalists have been invited to a residential training program June 2-14, in which they learn advanced biological concepts and lab skills at Purdue University."
Four students will represent the USA at the International Biology Olympiad on Saturday, July 14, to Saturday, July 21, in Bern, Switzerland. The worldwide competition involving student teams from about 60 countries. Since the Center for Excellence in Education began administering the U.S Olympiad, every member of Team USA has medaled at the international Olympiad, according to the release.
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In the finals of the women's 200-meter freestyle at the United States Olympic Swimming Trials on June 28 in Omaha, Neb., Granite Bay's Alyssa and Colette Anderson were nervous wrecks, but for different reasons.
Alyssa, a 16-time All-American who had completed her senior season at Arizona, wasn't sure if she was about to swim the last race of her career after having survived grueling 200 free preliminaries and semifinals to reach the final eight of an event that sends the six best to the 2012 London Olympics.
Colette, Alyssa's mother, didn't know how she'd handle her oldest child's disappointment if, after so many years of prodigious work and sacrifice, Alyssa failed to fulfill her dream of making the U.S. Olympic team. Adding to Mom's anxiety: Middle daughter Haley, a year younger than Alyssa, already had qualified for the Olympics by winning the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Portugal.
"That was the big elephant in the room," Colette said. "I was on pins and needles all through the Trials. Here we were down to Alyssa's last event in which she had a chance to qualify. I had my eyes closed the whole time during that race.
"Then I looked up and saw a 'seven' by her name. I thought she had just missed. But Haley says, 'Mom, are you serious? She got sixth; she's qualified.' "
It took Colette a moment to realize that Alyssa had been swimming in Lane 7.
"I've never been more nervous," Alyssa said. "A lot was going through my mind, including that this might ultimately be my last race. At first, I was thinking of everything I had done wrong at the start, but in the final 75 yards, I just put my head down and clawed my way to the finish."
Alyssa's time was 1 minute, 58.40 seconds, .16 seconds better than seventh-place finisher and non-Olympic qualifier Megan Romano of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The performance earned Alyssa one of 25 spots on the USA women's swim team and gave her and Haley the distinction of becoming the second USA sister duo in Olympic swimming history. Tara and Dana Kirk competed in the 2004 Games.
"It's a pretty amazing accomplishment," said Jeff Pearson, the Andersons' former club coach. "At that level, there are a lot of really spectacular talents who have competed for years and never were able to put it together at the right time to make an Olympic team. So it's pretty special for sisters to do it."
The Granite Bay High School graduates will be one of eight sibling sets to compete for the United States in London. And while they aren't nearly as famous as tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams, the Andersons feel blessed to be able to participate together in one of sports' greatest spectacles.
So when Alyssa was making her gut-wrenching Olympic bid, her normally reserved sister was among those leading the cheers in the stands, although she, too, was so wracked by nerves she said she almost passed out.
"Alyssa's making the team definitely is my biggest highlight," said Haley, a senior-to-be at USC. "When I won, Alyssa was even more exited than I was. She's someone who paved the way for me growing up, and I wouldn't be where I am today without her. It's going to be a phenomenal experience in London being with her."
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While Alyssa will enjoy the Opening Ceremony with her USA Swim teammates, Haley will miss those festivities because she is training in isolation in Roberval, Quebec, and won't arrive in England until Aug. 3.
The swim portion of the London Olympics will be Saturday through Aug. 4. The women's swim marathon isn't until Aug. 9.
The scheduling gulf is only fitting since pool swimming is far different from open-water competition.
"It's pretty much a different sport," said Pearson, a former open-water swimmer who has made the sport a part of his Folsom-based Sierra Marlins program. "It's a lot more physical, a lot more tactical than pool swimming. And it's a perfect fit for Haley. She's super tough, and there's only a few swimmers in that event who can match her speed-wise."
Haley, who won the 500 free at the NCAA championships last spring and missed qualifying for the Olympic 800 free by one place, is expected to contend for a medal in the 10-kilometer race that once had little appeal to her.
"I'd schedule my recruiting trips just so I could avoid having to do the open-water practices when I was with the Marlins," Haley said. "But now I find it so much fun. There's no monotony, every race is different, I keep improving, and it's fun to be part of the growth of the sport."
As the only American entry, Haley will battle sentimental favorite Keri-Anne Payne, the defending world champion from Great Britain, and other international swimmers in Hyde Park's murky Serpentine, a lake that King George II created in the 1730s.
With newly minted 200 free American-record setter Allison Schmitt and teen phenom Missy Franklin having locked up two spots for the 800 free relay, Alyssa will compete against teammates Dana Vollmer, Lauren Perdue and Shannon Vreeland in preliminaries to land the other two berths for the Aug. 1 finals. The United States is a gold-medal favorite.
"The fight's not over for those of us who want to be on that podium," Alyssa said from Vichy, France, where she is training with the U.S. team. "So we're all looking to do the best race we can. If I do my best, and I'm No. 5, I'll be OK with that. We want the four fastest girls to represent our country in the finals."
Once the competition starts, Colette Anderson expects her nerves will kick in again.
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"The last five weeks have been pretty crazy," Colette said. "But we're all so excited for them. People don't realize how much these girls have sacrificed. They've missed so many family events, parties and social activities. Swimming is like a job. Thank goodness they have had the passion for so many years."
Alyssa, 21, and Haley, 20, thank their parents for their support and wisdom, encouraging them to experiment with various sports and activities as children until it became clear that swimming was their special talent.
"Our parents never forced us to do anything, but they never raised quitters, either," Haley said. "My mom was a swimmer in college (at Hawaii), so she saw firsthand how some parents push their kids too far and too fast. She'd sometimes make us take a day off of practice so we wouldn't burn out. That just made us want to swim more."
Colette only has to look back to the beginnings for perspective.
She remembers taking her sometimes reluctant daughters, then 6 and 5, to their recreational swim practices at a club in Livermore.
"When I went in with them and told them to go in the pool to warm up, they wouldn't go in the water," she said. "Pretty soon, I learned to just drop them off with the coach (Dianne Masluk). Then she's telling us: 'These girls are going to be something.'
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The specter of Jacob Marley entered Scrooge's room. It had been seven years to the day since Marley died.
Before he sees them, Scrooge hears the clanking of the heavy chains his old business partner now carries with him.
Scrooge asks how it is that Marley became thus fettered.
"I wear the chain I forge in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free-will, and of my own free-will I wore it."
Marley did not realize in life that he was a slave. He assumed that his wealth and the absence of external restraints meant he was free, when in fact his miserly and selfish ways were forging the means of his own bondage.
Why did Jesus come not for the healthy but for the sick? Because it is only the sick who recognize they need a doctor. It is the sinners who know they are sinners who seek salvation.
Like St. John's message to Church in Laodecia (Revelation 3), Scrooge thought he was wealthy and in need of nothing when in fact he was wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. He, at least at this point in the story, had no concept of his own poverty.
Later, the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge the beginnings of Scrooge's own bondage. Dickens describes the young Scrooge like this:
There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
Scrooge is able to look on at his old self seated with his former sweetheart, Belle. But, it is a sad memory as Belle leaves him that Christmas. Her reason for leaving him explained where the chain Scrooge fashioned for himself had begun.
"It matters little," she said softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve."
"What Idol has displaced you?" he rejoined.
"A golden one."
Scrooge begs the Ghost of Christmas Past not to show him anymore. But, there is a final visitation. It show's Belle as a grandmother years later happy and satisfied. Belle's husband returns home and tells the story of seeing Scrooge sitting in his office alone on the holiday.
"His partner lies upon the point of death, I hear; and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe."
Scrooge didn't start out as the Scrooge we met in the opening scene. That Scrooge was created choice by choice, decision by decision, Christmas after Christmas and chain link by chain link.
His bondage began, as it often did with the Israelites, with idolatry. The pattern we see through the Hebrew scriptures is a cycle of idolatry, captivity, repentance and then freedom.
I get frustrated reading through the book of Judges. The cycle of idolatry is repeated over and over. But, I too find myself in the midst of that story. I am in a constant spiral of allowing idols to crop up in my life, becoming captive to them and once again repenting — in need of liberating grace and mercy.
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You sound like a used car salesman Sam
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er.. I would assume you are ALWAYS telling the truth.. but now that you started a sentence with that phrase, I'll assume otherwise
err... now wait a minute on that car salesman comment...
Does anyone really think that the SP is OP compared to the IS-6? I fight both all the time, and find both balanced (the IS-6 having the better gun). All it takes is the usuall mistake of a SP driver to show some side to me and I can pen him more reliably, but it's not as if shooting and penning the rocket pods is too much of a challenge. Sure, it takes good aim and only about 70% of shots hit there do anything, but then I've never thought it was tough enough to rebalance.
If I don't own one (so I have no dog in this fight), fight them all the time, and still don't see the need for a nerf - something tells me that they don't need a nerf.
In other news, CRABRON clan is hell-bent on fighting us each night, so we've been essentially eliminated out of the campaign. I was in a battle with them last night where we actually did space out for a well-balanced defense, and despite camo and waiting for them, and having binocs on my tank, we were shot and and most of us killed before we ever saw them. It was crazy - borderlining on even having me questioning any potential cheats in the game (and that is the first time I've ever brought that up in my two years of playing).
From a better defensive position than two nights ago, we ended 1 to 15 (so we killed ONE of their tanks). My clan may not be Unicums, but the odds against what happened, and the outcome, were too huge for me to ever guess that would have been the result of a good defense on Redshire.
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CHICAGO – Major League Baseball isn't doing the Padres any favors, and not just because the early schedule has had the bedraggled team on the road so much, even the faraway fences of Petco Park will be a welcome sight.
Rather, the league office could have done the Padres a huge service with a timely decision to uphold a two-game suspension for Milton Bradley, who's been as obstreperous with umpires with the Chicago Cubs as he was with San Diego in 2007 and a couple of teams before then. Nearly a full month has passed since the incident between Bradley and umpire Larry Vanover, but the Cubs have yet to hear a verdict on Bradley's appeal, so he plays on.
Rails on, too.
The night he beat the Padres with an epic 440-foot homer off Jake Peavy – a blow that evoked memories of a historic blast by Roberto Clemente at Wrigley almost four decades ago – Bradley also showed his disdain for both plate ump Angel Hernandez and the home crowd at Wrigley.
Torqued at an earlier strike call by Hernandez, Bradley flipped his bat defiantly when drawing ball four. Heading back to the dugout after the monster shot against Peavy, Bradley held a finger up to his uncovered ear, a clear message to the Cubs fans who had booed him after an earlier strikeout.
"Nice to hear some cheers for once," said Bradley, signed by the Cubs for three years and $30 million. "I didn't come here to (stink). I know I've (stunk) so far, but give me some love, you know what I'm saying? I am a Cub."
Peavy showed Bradley some affection before yesterday's game, hugging him as both tried not to dwell on the previous night's homer. Bradley actually has several friends among the Padres, who swear he was a great teammate as well as a sparkplug to their offense in his brief time with San Diego. That stint effectively ended when Bradley injured his knee in the process of being pulled away by manager Bud Black from a heated argument with umpire Mike Winters.
"Milton and I have spoken since then, and we're fine," Black said. "It was just an accident, that's all. All's well."
Except for the damage Bradley keeps doing to the Padres. Last night he scored the go-ahead run for Chicago and, further showing what an all-round talent he is, dropped a bunt single that rolled just inside the chalk and stopped just a few feet shy of the third-base bag. Whereupon he scored again on Geovany Soto's homer.
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PETALING JAYA: Parents in Selangor who want to register their children for Year One must do so online from this year.
They have to register their children between March 1 and April 30 and log onto apps.emoe.gov.my/esppsel/pptahun1/ to do so.
A Selangor Education Department official said applications for Year One entry could be done from any computer with Internet access.
"Parents who do not have Internet access can go to the school they want to enrol their children in and ask the teachers there to help them key in the information," said the official yesterday.
This, he added, was the first time the department was registering Year One pupils online.
"The online system will enable the registration process to be more efficient.
"Previously parents had to queue at the school they wanted to register their children in," he said.
Once the children were registered, he said the district education office could place them in schools.
This could be checked online too by both parents and schools.
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close trade ties with the United States, to play a more active
role in the region.
"It is going to be a factor of deliberation, balance and
good sense compared to the leadership and active policies, to
give them their polite name, of Hugo Chavez," Calderon said.
Armed with wealth from high oil prices, Chavez has extended
his clout in Latin America in recent years as leftist allies
like Bolivian President Evo Morales have taken power.
Calderon, locked in a bitter rivalry with leftist Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador for the July 2 election, said Mexico did
not want to clash with the firebrand Venezuelan leader but
would in no way take its cue from him.
"It wouldn't have to be a leadership in confrontation with
Chavez but of course we wouldn't have to ask permission from
Chavez or anyone else to carry out our foreign policy,"
Calderon said on his campaign bus on the way to the central
city of Aguascalientes.
Mexico and Venezuela withdrew their ambassadors from each
other's countries last year in a dispute after Chavez called
Mexican President Vicente Fox a "lap dog" of Washington.
Calderon, from Fox's National Action Party, said Chavez was
hoping for a Lopez Obrador victory in Mexico.
"The sympathies of Chavez are with Lopez Obrador but for me
it's the sympathies of the Mexicans, not Chavez's, that are the
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Less than a month until the Microsoft Technical Roadshow 2006 now. This is a series of FREE events starting off in Birmingham and heading round the country throughout May and June. Visit such rocking venues as the National Motorcycle Museum and Dynamic Earth Centre, and come learn a bit about the new stuff we're pumping out. Promised to be high in technical polyunsaturates and low in marketing sugars, it should prove to be an interesting set of events with content for IT pros and developers alike.
If you're at all interested in the new versions of Windows, Office, Exchange or ISA then you should check out the TechNet sessions. We've got lots of great speakers which I won't list here for fear of missing someone out, but head on over to the site for more details. Likewise if you're a developer and wouldn't mind finding out a bit more about WPF/WCF/WF and what's behing the seemingly endless acronyms, the MSDN session should be well worth attending. If you're cheap and just fancy a free lunch then what the heck, you might even learn something anyway :-)


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With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance ...
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a more robust environment for creating collaboration and content management sites that rival any of the popular websites on the internet. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. This book bridges that gap by not only providing expert guidance for creating beautiful public facing and internal intranet sites but it also addresses the needs of those readers that only want to understand the basics enough to apply some style to their sites.
Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use—these are all important branding considerations and not always intuitive. This unique book from a team of SharePoint branding experts lays it all out.
Whether you want to make SharePoint look completely different or just make minor design changes, this expert guide will provide tips, techniques, and insights to get the job done.
* What is branding?
* Why brand SharePoint?
* How branding works in SharePoint
If you have picked up a copy of this book, you probably already have the desire to take control of the way your SharePoint sites look. Maybe this means that you want to make your SharePoint portal look more like your legacy corporate Internet site. Or maybe you want to make your new SharePoint site look cutting edge and interesting. Or maybe you simply want your site to not look like a SharePoint site. Regardless of the reason, you've decided that controlling the look and feel of your SharePoint site is important.
The goal of this book is to provide you with all the tools you need to brand your SharePoint sites. This chapter starts at a high level with overviews of concepts you need to understand before diving into branding. (The topics will become increasingly more granular as the book progresses.) Whether you are unaccustomed to design work or someone who does SharePoint design full-time, there is something in this book for you. By the time you have completed all the chapters, you should have a solid understanding of the tools you can use, as well as how best to use them, in your own branding endeavors.
As your starting point, this chapter will give you, at the highest level, an understanding of what branding is and why it is important. You will get an idea of exactly what branding means, at least in the world of SharePoint, and gain some exposure to several of the SharePoint components that you will need to be familiar with in order to accomplish your own branding goals. By the end of this chapter, you should be ready to get started on your first branding tasks.
In general, branding is the act of creating a specific image or identity that people recognize in relation to a company or product. For example, nearly everyone recognizes the iconic design of a can of Coca-Cola, which always uses the same logo, font, and red-and-white color scheme. You could probably look at the logos for businesses like Target, McDonalds, and FedEx and, without reading any words on or around the logo, immediately identify them. These companies have chosen a marketing identity that enables the public to quickly and easily recognize them. This is branding. When referring to websites, branding usually involves the colors, fonts, logos, and supporting graphics that make up the general look and feel of the site.
Branding for SharePoint sites is similar to branding for any other sites, except that branding for SharePoint includes the creation of master pages, page layouts, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Parts, and eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In fact, everything a user sees on the screen contributes to the user experience, which helps to define the branding for a site. This could also include the correct use of corporate logos or other graphics, whether this means you are doing this because of strict corporate guidelines or merely because you don't want to look like every other SharePoint site. Regardless of your reason for wanting to affect the design of your site, you need to be familiar with the concepts of SharePoint branding.
To better understand branding, it might be easier if you can actually see it in practice. Figure 1-1 is a Team site in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, and Figure 1-2 shows the look and feel for the same site in SharePoint 2010. As you can see, Microsoft has used branding to distinguish between two major versions of its product. If you were to walk by two laptops, one with WSS loaded in the browser and the other with SharePoint 2010, it wouldn't be difficult to determine which site is which. The colors are different; the fonts are different; the graphics are different; even the basic layout of controls is different. The same content might be in both, but the presentation is unique to each site. This is a smart, and common, use of branding.
Some business texts describe branding as the "feeling" users get when they see something, such as a product or even a website. Normally these books are referring to external sites for commercial products, but the concept applies to internal sites, such as intranets, as well. In other words, branding is not merely cosmetic, because the key to any successful SharePoint implementation is whether users actually use the site — in other words, user adoption. How users feel about the site is an important factor in driving user adoption.
To brand or not to brand, that is the question. For most organizations the answer is usually to brand. Probably most of you reading this have already made up your mind that you are going to brand your SharePoint site for one reason or another. But there are many different reasons companies choose to brand and some of them might be similar to your reasons, and some might be very different.
For most organizations, the most common reason to brand a SharePoint site is to make it unique. Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 is not visually compelling. In fact, its look and feel is intentionally bland, as it is assumed that most companies are going to customize it. Indeed, making it "not look like SharePoint" is a basic request. You likely want to brand SharePoint to make it consistent with the corporate image and marketing standards you have established for your organization.
The previous section mentioned that branding is often associated with how a user feels about a company or product. Obviously, companies want to evoke different feelings in different types of users. For example, a company might want to brand its intranet site to help convey to employees a sense of collaboration, teamwork, and even family. While that might sound a little touchy-feely or unrealistic, consider the alternative — a sterile, poorly branded intranet that doesn't reflect the company's image or purpose. Although a company with such a site may not cause its employees to walk out the door, a SharePoint intranet site that is effectively branded has a positive effect on employees, in much the same way that a nicely decorated room creates a welcoming, harmonious effect.
Conversely, if your company has a public-facing Internet site, you likely want to target a completely different audience. In most cases the goal for a public-facing Internet site is to communicate to this external audience information about your company, such as its services or products. In these cases, your online presence is a critical component of your corporate identity, and there's no way the out-of-the-box SharePoint branding is going to cut the mustard. The design options for public-facing SharePoint Internet sites are virtually unlimited. Examples include everything from local government sites, schools, and universities to small, family-run businesses, huge, global companies, nonprofit organizations, and many others (see Figures 1-3 and 1-4).
Although SharePoint is purchased for a variety of reasons, most companies are seeking the business benefits such as document management, process improvement, or enterprise search that it provides. The point here is that the people who are actually using SharePoint care very little about the underlying technology as long as it helps them get their job done. From a branding perspective, this points to another reason why companies brand: to improve usability. Improving usability could mean simply organizing the elements of the page in an efficient manner, or increasing the size of the fonts in the navigation, or something far more complex, such as customizing the ribbon interface.
The subject of branding covers a wide range of topics. Each SharePoint implementation has unique requirements and poses unique challenges when it comes to creating a user interface. Nonetheless, effective branding doesn't have to be overly complex. Regardless of your reasons for branding or your branding prowess, SharePoint provides a wealth of options.
Like its predecessor, SharePoint 2010 is available as two distinct products:
* SharePoint Foundation 2010 — The new version of the free Windows SharePoint Services version 3 (WSS)
* SharePoint Server 2010 — The new version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Although SharePoint Server 2010 is more expensive than SharePoint Foundation 2010, it includes the Publishing Features, which has several useful additions for branding projects:
* The Web Content Management (WCM) functionality provides users with a robust publishing platform. This means that users can author pages with rich and structured content and publish the pages in a controlled way using out-of-the-box workflows.
* SharePoint Server contains more robust options for navigation. This gives users more control and provides greater flexibility than what is provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint Foundation.
* SharePoint Server also enables site administrators to easily change a master page for any site, and all of its subsites, from a SharePoint site's settings page.
* SharePoint Server enables more flexibility with themes, including the capability to change the colors and fonts in the SharePoint Web user interface, as well as the capability to apply a theme to all subsites at the same time.
For a more detailed comparison of the different versions of SharePoint 2010, see http://sharepoint .microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx.
From a branding perspective, SharePoint Server 2010 provides many more options for creating highly styled sites than SharePoint Server 2010. Therefore, many of the examples throughout this book are geared towards sites with publishing enabled. However, in most cases the examples will still apply to a nonpublishing site with minimal changes to the steps. The only exception to this would be when the examples cover functionality that is available only with SharePoint Server 2010. Where possible throughout the book, we will try to highlight different approaches for achieving the same results in SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation.
Although all SharePoint installations are unique, they all fall into one of three categories: intranet, Internet, or extranet. Each of these SharePoint sites has a different audience and, therefore, different design considerations as part of the planning phase.
The following sections discuss the typical considerations for each of the three environments. However, at a higher level, each environment is made up of many SharePoint sites and each of these sites is usually designed to primarily facilitate either communication or collaboration. It is certainly possible to do a little bit of both, but in terms of the core decisions being made about branding, most sites will favor one more than the other. For example, most of the sites on an organization's intranet would fall under the category of a collaboration site, as this is where most users store content and collaborate with others on their day-to-day tasks. However, the intranet home page for most companies is usually designed as a place to convey information to employees, such as the latest company news, announcements, or events. When users open their browser, they are taken to this home page where they are presented with all of this information, and from there they navigate to another area of the intranet to do work and collaborate.
Unfortunately, branding projects often overlook the importance of determining whether the intended purpose of a site is either collaboration or communication. To understand why it is so important, consider what you'd expect to find on the home page of your intranet site compared to what you'd expect to find on the main page for your department site. You would probably expect the intranet home page to be more highly styled, with a focus on communicating information. Conversely, you would expect the main page for your department to focus on the actual documents and content you work with on a daily basis. Obviously, your specific situation might be slightly different, but the point is clear: There's a distinct difference in the intended purpose of a site designed purely for communicating information in a one-way fashion verses a collaboration, which is designed for more of a two-way flow of information.
From a technical standpoint, sites designed primarily for communication or collaboration require different SharePoint templates, which require different approaches to branding. Templates are discussed later in this chapter, but consider that the approach for branding a SharePoint site based on the Publishing Portal template, which is designed for public-facing sites, is different from branding a Meeting Workspace template, which is designed purely for internal collaboration.
Planning for branding is discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.
Intranet Sites
Intranet sites are typically available only to employees and partners who are connecting locally to the network or using a virtual private network (VPN). The focus of intranet sites is to facilitate information delivery and collaboration for specific sets of users. They often have many content authors, as well as many users who will be consuming content and collaborating on new content.
Unlike public Internet sites, the browsers and system capabilities of intranet sites are usually controlled by the IT department. This makes designing a SharePoint intranet easier because fewer variables need to be considered. For example, if your organization supports only one browser, you have to design and test with only that one browser.
As mentioned in the previous section, most intranets are designed to facilitate communication, but the vast majority of sites that are created are of the collaboration variety. Usually this means using the Team site template or some custom variation. This is especially true for SharePoint Server 2010 implementations. If you are using SharePoint Foundation 2010, your options are more limited than with SharePoint Server (because of the lack of publishing functionality) and you'll most likely use all Team site templates (refer to Figure 1-2). Often, it is important to add a certain amount of corporate branding even to intranet sites. Figure 1-5 shows an example of a custom-branded SharePoint intranet site. This site used a custom master page, CSS, and images to create a new look and feel.
Internet Sites
Internet sites are public facing, and typically have anonymous users visiting them using a variety of Internet browsers. These sites are usually driven by marketing, with few content authors and tightly controlled content.
Typically, public-facing Internet sites offer the opportunity to create highly stylized designs. They pose a much greater design challenge than internal-facing sites because it is much more difficult to control the clients who access the site. In other words, additional effort has to be taken to ensure that the site is displayed properly across all types of browsers, and conforms to whatever compliance standards need to be met for the given site. Not only is the creative effort usually higher for an Internet site than for an intranet site, but the actual implementation effort is also usually higher because of the added complexity.
One example of corporate-branded Internet sites that were built with SharePoint is Chilis.com (see Figure 1-6). It has a highly customized user interface, so much so in fact that, without some poking around in the HTML source, it is hard to see any evidence that they are even using SharePoint.
Extranet Sites
Extranet sites combine the security and collaboration of an intranet site with the more heavily emphasized branding found in Internet sites. The goal for most extranet sites is to enable external partners to collaborate with an organization. This is usually accomplished by having a public-facing Internet site that users access initially. Once on the site, users enter a username and password in order to access a secure site, where they can collaborate with users from inside the company. For example, a manufacturing organization might have an extranet site to allow distributors to log in and place orders or to get other information to help them sell the organization's products.
Excerpted from Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design by Randy Drisgill John Ross Jacob J. Sanford Paul Stubbs Larry Riemann Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Excerpted by permission of John Wiley & Sons. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Chapter 1: What Is SharePoint Branding?
Chapter 2: What's New in SharePoint 2010.
Chapter3: Planning for Branding.
Chapter 4: SharePoint Designer 2010 Overview.
Chapter 5: Simple Branding.
Chapter 6: Working with Navigation.
Chapter 7: Cascading Style Sheets in SharePoint.
Chapter 8: Master Pages.
Chapter 9: Page Layouts.
Chapter 10: Web Parts and XSLT.
Chapter 11: Deploying Branding in SharePoint.
Chapter 12: Page Editing and the Ribbon.
Chapter 13: The Client Object Model and jQuery.
Chapter 14: Silverlight and SharePoint Integration.
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Bending the Cost Curve
A Critical Component of Health Care Reform
This commentary identifies methods to slow the increase in health care costs in the United States. The current proposed expansion of health insurance will cost the country an estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. To make this expansion possible, increases in the cost of health care must be curbed.
The author suggests several methods to slow health care cost growth, primarily by addressing the underlying determinants of health care costs. These methods include:
- investing in disease prevention initiatives that reduce the future burden of disease by increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and lowering tobacco use;
- creating reimbursement systems based on performance;
- developing accountable care organizations that will serve as medical homes for patients and that will implement improvements in cost and quality;
- reducing Medicare fraud and waste; and
- providing patients and employers with incentives to select the most cost-effective, highest-performing physicians and health plans.
Without reform, the heath care system will continue on a path of uncontrollable escalating costs, making it impossible to expand and sustain health insurance coverage in the long run.


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It's time to move from dissent to action: to quickly and vigorously protest the Kosovo war.
Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.
So Slobodan said prayers with Jesse.
But prayed for what? Who knows? I'd guess he
Would say, "So stop the bombs!" and then amens.
Except when bombs no longer shower
NATO's war on Yugoslavia has failed catastrophically. The crimes against humanity that the alliance hoped to forestall continue to be visited upon the Albanian Kosovars.
It is imperative to focus on the essential reason Americans must unequivocally oppose the US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Every now and then it really happens. A "military spokesman" emerges to prove that Joseph Heller was a realist, and Catch-22 a work of reportorial integrity.
The war against Serbia is the Banquo's ghost of NATO's fiftieth-anniversary celebration in Washington.
As NATO was beginning its fourth week of not-yet-successful persuasion bombing, several progressive members of the House gathered privately to hash out their views of President Clinton's still-un
We're bombing you back to the Stone Age, Slobo,
To teach you that you must behave.
When all of our bombing is finished, Slobo,
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