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Liz Cheney has a long way to go to win the affection of Wyoming Republicans in her bid to take the seat of Sen. Mike Enzi.
According to Harper Polling, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney trails the sitting senator by 34 percentage points, in the first poll of the race.
What's more, 73% approve of Enzi's performance, and 48% say he deserves reelection. And this comes among a group of which 84% describe themselves as either "very conservative" or "somewhat conservative."
Then again, Cheney has about a year before the election to change minds.
Meanwhile, Republican strategist Ed Rollins was quoted as saying Cheney will be described as "a housewife who's kind of bored."
Anthony Salvanto of CBS News says the race could help define the Republicans nationally due to the media attention it will receive.
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Jacksonville Whiskey Affair
Jacksonville Magazine
Thursday, November 14, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Part glam festival, part chic cocktail party, part foodie extravaganza—the third annual Jacksonville Whiskey Affair will be a celebration of the myriad points of intersection between cocktails and culture. Last year's fundraising fete was a mix of fantastic food and sophisticated libations and other luxurious indulgences. Well, we're at it again with a delicious eats, fine spirits and more.
This year the event will take place on Thursday, November 14, 7-9:30 PM, at Aloft at Tapestry Park. Tickets will go on sale at the end of the summer.
This year we will have the Cocktail Challenge. Five restaurants will create a cocktail for the event and compete for the "People's Choice" award. Our VIP guests will decide who wins.
Last year the event included top-shelf spirits from Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop, Mojo No. 4, Palm Ridge Reserve, and Coastal Wine & Spirits. Bite-sized treats were provided by III Forks, Small Bites Desserts Studio, Capital Grille, Mojo No. 4 and Bold City Brewery. Julio Cordero, a master Cuban cigar roller, also came to roll cigars.
This event will benefit the Junior League of Jacksonville. Tickets are $40 for regular admission, $50 for VIP and $20 for designated drivers.
When & Where
Aloft at Tapestry Park
4812 Deer Lake Drive West
Thursday, November 14, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
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It's not the years, it's the noise
"Noise, not age, is the leading cause of hearing loss," writes Jane Brody of The New York Times. "Unless you take steps now to protect your ears, sooner or later many of you – and your children – will have difficulty understanding even ordinary speech. Tens of millions of Americans, including 12 to 15 per cent of school-age children, already have permanent hearing loss caused by the everyday noise that we take for granted as a fact of life."
Keeping up can be ruinous
"Middle-class households living in [U.S.] states with more rich people spend more, report more financial distress and are more likely to go bankrupt," reports The Wall Street Journal. "Citing 'growing local inequality,' [a research paper] found that 'middle-income households consume a larger share of their current income' in the face of increased income and consumption on the part of more-affluent Americans. … The researchers suggest that middle-class Americans who live around richer people might be exposed to more pricey goods and might also be struggling to keep up with the Joneses. Higher housing prices in such markets could play a role, too, they said."
Are we getting cooler?
"There's a widespread perception that we've gotten more touchy-feely over the past couple of generations – increasingly willing to express our emotions," writes Tom Jacobs for Pacific Standard magazine. "If so, it's not reflected in our writing. A new study finds that, in a large data set of English-language books, the use of terms expressing six basic emotions steadily decreased over the course of the 20th century. 'We believe the changes (in word usage) do reflect changes in culture,' writes the research team, led by anthropologist Alberto Acerbi of the University of Bristol." They focused on terms representing six basic moods: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise. Over all, the use of words carrying emotional content decreased significantly over the course of the 20th century; terms reflecting disgust had the steepest decline.
Act your age, grandma
"Young people are supposed to respect their elders," says The Boston Globe, "but a new study suggests that this respect only persists as long as old people behave as young people expect them to. In a series of experiments, psychologists at Princeton asked people of various ages to give their impression of another person who did or didn't violate an age-related norm – being stingy, demanding an expensive medical procedure, or listening to pop music. Being younger was associated with having a dimmer view of an older person (but not a younger person) who exhibited these behaviours."
Handle with care
An elderly woman caused a scare at a Swedish recycling facility, says United Press International, when she dropped off a grenade. She brought the device to a depot in Stockholm on Saturday. "When police arrived at the scene, they determined that the item the pensioner dropped off was a grenade meant for a grenade-launcher. … The Swedish government enacted a law March 1 that allows citizens to turn in weapons without fear of potential prosecution." Police have since received several grenades, including one that dated to the First World War.
A fish seller in the south of China was gutting a squid for a customer when his knife hit a 20-centimetre live bomb, says The Daily Telegraph. The squid, which was one metre long, was caught in the shallow waters off Guangdong province. "This sort of squid lives close to the shore and normally makes a meal of small fish and prawns," said the dealer. Local police suggested the bomb might have been dropped by a fighter jet, but did not date it.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by AJM1613, Apr 28, 2004.
noooooo... I really don't think so.
Flozell pancakes kearse, newman shuts down TO, and werever you put andrews, he will get ran over...
So, um, your whole "point" is that you had some players you thought would be good, but they were crap, and last year you thought your team would be crap, but it turned out you weren't right until your annual championship game meltdown, but somehow you come on here acting as if you know who's going to be good and who's not? So if your DB's do a disappearing act, like Pinkston, will you come over here and eat crow? If our DB (whom none of us have lauded to high heaven, Lord knows) performs consistently, will you shut the heck up? I doubt it, cuz you seem to like reading your own typing.
SPELT is valid. Other than that, dude definitely needs a spell-check.
You know, Bill probably liked Roy Williams II as well, and Eli Manning, when it comes down to it, but clearly not so much that he felt we had to reach for them, or Andrews. Had Andrews fallen to us, we might have taken him, or we might have done exactly what we ended up doing, trading down and taking the running back we wanted - not coveted, or drooled over, like you and Fat Bastid obviously did with Andrews.
That quote shows a serious lack of character on your part. Eric was posting as Cowboys fan during the Cowboys 5-11 years. Also, no one remembers the Eagles superbo.....er championships because most of us were not alive in the 1940's.
I saw plenty of Cowboys jerseys here in Atlanta even when the Cowboys were not doing well. So much for that theory.
Has Lito Sheppard or Jerome McDougle lived up to their first round status?
Lito, yes. McDougle...he was hurt all last year.
What has Lito Sheppard done to live up to his first round status? Was it his one interception or the times he got burnt or the safety help he needed. Despite the success your team had getting to the opposing quarterback, your pass defense stunk.
Watch and see. This was an unfair question. You need 3 years to judge draft picks, BTW Lito doesn't get beat, he gets out jumped.
maybe i'm a little hazy on this one but didn't philadelphia really only hit their stride once vincent, taylor and dawkins were all healthy and on the field - about midway through the season? i think the eagles will miss vincent and taylor more than they realize.
considering they haven't played a regularseason down in this league - we ain't too familiar with 'em either. but al johnson woulda been the starter last year if he hadn't blown the knee. parcells indicated he was impressed with the guy. jacob rogers played LT in college and was a standout on a very good unit on a very good team. RT should be a much easier transition for him. we'll know soon enough. i can't see the position being any more of a disaster than it was last year.
i just hope gurode fights his way back. his sophomore season was a real disappointment. i don't think the team can count on larry allen. i was one of his staunchest supporters entering last season and he made a liar out of me. half the time he was blocking air. it's the first time i've been miffed at a cowboy being selected to the probowl. he may well be gone when the season opens.
Noooo....We hit stride before that. As soon as Taylor came back, Vincent left the next week. We still have Dawkins, who we didn't have most of last season. Imagine not having Roy Williams for 9 games, then times that effect by 2. That would give you the same effect of losing Dawkins for 9 games.


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Officials of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., down to their final opportunity to keep documents relating to 23 sex abuses cases out of public circulation, met with all priests and deacons today in an attempt to pre-empt the bad publicity in a worst case scenario.
The worst case for the diocese would be a U.S. Supreme Court decision denying the diocese's request to keep clergy sex abuse files sealed. The request was passed on earlier this month to the full court by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The diocese, in that request, was appealing a ruling by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had denied the diocese's appeal of earlier state court rulings ordering that the documents be released.
The files will remained sealed at least until the full court reviews the request Sept. 29 and decides to either hear the case in its session that begins in October or to vacate the diocese's request, in effect releasing the documents.
According to one person attending the session, which was closed to the press, Bishop William Lori told the priests "prudence dictates" that the diocese be prepared should the court refuse to hear the case, meaning the documents would be released.
As part of the preparation, Lori is asking priests to prepare an overview of all the diocese has done to protect children to be presented following the post-communion prayer the weekend of Sept. 26. As part of the preparation, said a source who attended the meeting, Lori told those assembled that they would receive a document with questions and answers so that "we can all be singing from the same sheet of music."
The bishop explained that he has vigorously fought release of the documents primarily because they contain the names of a number of "John Doe" priests who were wrongly accused. Lori and lawyers retained by the diocese who attended today's meeting said a review of the cases found that they were groundless. He argued that the priests named would have no way of defending themselves if their names were released along with the documents. In answer to a question, he told the gathering that all of the John Doe priests had been notified earlier and that no one would be surprised.
While release of the names of those considered innocent is a fear, at the same time the priests today were told that there is a chance -- based on an earlier ruling by a state court that the names of the innocent be withheld from any public disclosure – that the names would not be released even if the documents were made public.
The 12,600 pages of depositions, exhibits and legal arguments in question relate to a 2001 settlement of 23 cases involving seven priests. The records were sealed when the cases were settled just before they went to trial.
The priests were told today that none of the documents contain any "bombshells" and that most of the material was reported in a 2002 article in The Hartford Courant.
Following the settlement in 2001, the Courant along with The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post, petitioned to have the documents released. It is presumed the documents would reveal details of how Cardinal Edward Egan, the recently retired archbishop of New York, had handled the sex abuse crisis during his tenure as bishop of Bridgeport from 1988 to 2000.
According to the source who attended today's meeting, diocesan officials, anticipating a question, said that no money was used from the annual bishop's appeal to pay legal costs in the attempt to keep the documents sealed. However, it was disclosed that the diocese had received large anonymous gifts specifically for that purpose and also that the diocese had used unspecified "unrestricted funds" for legal costs.
No amount was given for the unrestricted funds used.
Lori will be meeting with other diocesan personnel tomorrow in an attempt to prepare Catholics in the diocese for responding to questions that they might be asked in work or social situations.
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Farm Alliance relaunches with different tenets, same mission
A dormant group that had certified sustainable food and agriculture has reemerged with new backing from a variety of natural food champions.
The Food Alliance relaunched its third-party certification for farmers, ranchers, processors and distributors. The group certifies sustainable agricultural and food handling practices.
The Food Alliance nonprofit's leaders had announced in February that funding challenges would force the group to cease operations. However, the group refused to shutter entirely in hopes of overcoming its obstacles.
All current Food Alliance certifications will continue under the group's previously existing terms. Food Alliance workers will begin conducting new farm and facility inspections in October.
"We're all committed to third-party certification to support our brands," said Karl Kupers, a founder of Shepherd's Grain flour company who'd sought to keep the group going, in a release. "The question I asked is, 'Is there another program that credibly covers both social and environmental issues the way that Food Alliance does?' We concluded pretty quickly that there wasn't."
Along with Shepherd's Grain, representatives of Central Bean Company, Food Services of America, Stahlbush Island Farms and Truitt Family Foods, met with Food Alliance board members and former staff to develop a new operating plan and budget.
The Alliance depends on grants and funding from the private and public sector. Such sources dried up during the last several years.
The Portland-based nonprofit, which operates nationwide, lost roughly $58,000 in 2011, on nearly $790,000 in 2011 revenue.
Matthew Buck, who formerly served as assistant director for Food Alliance from 2004 to 2011, will help restructure the organization and guide operations under the new fee supported model. The group plans to focus solely on certification.
The group is restructuring its board to include three ex officio business members representing the certification clientele. Those members will advise operations and expansion plans. Its business members won't vote on matters related to certification standards or policies.
"As a board, we were working hard to chart a path for the organization during a difficult time," said Jeff Picarello, executive vice president at Edelman and the Food Alliance's board chair. "To have farmers and food processors rally to support us really affirms the commitment we all share to good food and a healthy future."
The Food Alliance was founded in 1997. It certifies farms, ranches and food processors through third-party site inspections. The inspectors examine working conditions, the care of livestock and whether the farms genetically modify crops or livestock. They also study pesticide use, whether the facilities conserve soil and water and how well the wildlife habitat is protected.
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We all know that associate turnover is a problem. In fact, recent surveys have shown that employee engagement, which is a prime predictor of turnover is higher in retail than in any other industries.
I posed the following question in a retail oriented Linkedin group:
Associate turnover – is it a problem or is it just baked into the system
Is employee turnover a problem to be solved? Is the pain and cost of rehiring, onboarding and training worth making an effort to reduce associate turnover?
Or is employee turnover a fact of life for retailers where the processes and systems have been built to compensate for employees with limited experience or commitment to the overall goals of the business?
Training, training, training – but what about motivation?
A number of the responses focused on hiring the right people and training them to be effective. Here are several of the better responses:
Clarice Cutino – I believe it is a problem. One of the biggest complaints from employees is lack of training. Employees are on the front line engaging with our customers. Employees need to feel appreciated and given the tools to do their job properly. As a manager if I am constantly hiring and training new associates I am not able to perform other parts of my job. I believe if we can make the associates happy we will have happy customers who want to continue to do business we us.
Mitch Furman – High turnover is more costly than people think – put aside for a moment the cost of hiring and such and think about the long term damage to your brand……who will you attract as potential employees going forward once you have that rep of burning through people? OUCH. It very much is a problem worth fixing to the best of your ability and sooner rather than later. This coming from a guy who makes a living placing people.
Jon Dickens – A retailer once said, "What if I train my people and they leave?" To which a wiser retailer said, "What if you don't train your people – and they stay?" …The bigger turnover issue is how much is the unproductive salesperson costing you a year? It's probably a lot more than the cost of recruiting, hiring and training someone new. Most owners and managers keep unproductive or less productive salespeople much longer than they should, because they personally don't want the pain of replacing them. You'll get through the pain. We see stores increasing sales by $50-100,000+ per year by upgrading to a better salesperson. Multiple that by the number of unacceptable sales producers you replace in a year, and it gets very interesting.
OK – so these responses posit the need for more/better training. However, I have seen retailers who have extensive training programs that their associates do not use. Training is valuable but how do we motivate our associates to take training seriously?
And the idea that retail associates are not motivated to improve their skills is even more troubling.
There is an underlying motivation and engagement challenge that we have been accepting as part of the cost of doing business. Many of us don't even see it as a problem anymore.
We believe that it's time to turn this motivation problem over on its head. The work is the work and it can get repetitious and boring. But using proven game mechanics, we can wrap games and competitions around completing the work. Thus making work feel more like playing a game.


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Social skills, although no longer a major issue among the home school community, are still often items of concern among public school officials and those who simply do not understand how normal social development can occur outside a classroom. Although we have been homeschooling for almost ten years, I am still occasionally questioned about the social development of my children. As a result, I have been carefully observing the social skills of the public school children I know, and I have come to the conclusion that home schoolers do not have normal social skills. A field trip we once attended confirmed this theory
About thirty children attended the field trip, and they ranged from very small to very tall. There I was able to witness firsthand the social skills of the home schooled children in our group. Our first stop was the zoo. While touring, the children divided into little groups, talking and laughing among themselves. They appeared to have normal social skills; however, it was soon apparent that these little cliques intermingled easily. From my observations of other students, this is not normal.
The older boys, walking ahead of the rest, were soon joined by the older girls—nothing unusual about that. The older girls had in their custody several babies and toddlers with whom the boys played while they talked. The older boys then joined the younger boys, while the younger girls moved to join older girls and little ones. Soon the younger girls took charge of the little children as they walked beside the moms and the older girls. On and on these children interacted across the age and gender lines usually drawn among socially normalkids.
The trip to the zoo was followed by a picnic at the park. As we ate, I noticed that these family members actually enjoyed being together. Teenage boys carried baby brothers, and sisters walked arm-in-arm through the park. Older girls sat and ate with their mothers. Later, I watched as all the children participated in games of Red Rover and Tag. Many of the older children were paired with little ones to make the teams even. All of this was done without adult intervention.
The Discovery Center, where a rocket demonstration had been arranged for our group, was our last stop of the day. As we all crowded into the entry, our social skills were really noticeable. While moms were busy figuring the entry fee, a very disheveled group of kids (who, after a morning at the zoo and playing at the park, were quite a sight!) waited patiently and quietly. I was quite impressed with the good manners; even my own kids surprised me.
Upon seeing our group crowded in the entry, the instructor promptly moved down the hall and gave the command to line up. What a line we formed! Our children politely meandered down the hall and formed a quiet and orderly group around the instructor. There was not even a pretense of a line. Younger children held the hands of older siblings, and all waited quietly for further instructions. Our instructor, used to dealing with public school groups, looked a bit dismayed. She immediately knew that this was not a normal group of kids. Looking to the moms for help and finding none (We were not lined up either.), she led us to a classroom where the tables were set for rocket experiments. With polite consideration for each other, we made it through the door—no line but no problem.
As the children made their way to their seats, there was no fussing, pushing, or arguing as to where to sit. They simply found places and sat down. I noticed that, as a general rule, siblings chose to sit together. These were definitely notnormal kids. The children were soon divided into groups of two or three to do a variety of hands-on experiments. With older children helping the younger ones, all went well. After "lining up" twice more with the same results—a polite and orderly blob—our instructor was now smiling. She talked pleasantly with the children on the way back to the classroom and commented on how attentive they were. Before we left, several of the children thanked her for the demonstration, and judging from her smile, I think she enjoyed our group despite our abnormalsocial skills.
My observations reminded me of Romans 12:2: "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is – his good, pleasing, and perfect will." In the course of homeschooling, I often have to remind myself why I do this. A quality education is very important, and I want to raise good citizens who are able to interact intelligently and politely with others. Both are goals to which we aspire; however, our first goal is to raise Godly children who love the Lord and want to please Him. This renewing of our minds can only be accomplished by spending time in God's Word daily. Perhaps I have forgotten to teach my children how to line up, ask for a bathroom pass, or even raise their hands during classroom discussions. (They simply wait for their turn to speak without interrupting.), but more importantly, I want my children to be strong citizens of another kingdom. I believe they can be good citizens of this country and live a life pleasing to God as well, despite the lack of some normal social skills.
Now when someone asks us about normal social skills, we proudly say, "We have none!"


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Have you ever won a prize at an Event Barkers special event? Every quarter, Event Barkers, the joint effort by DogTipper and AllThingsDogBlog.com, draws a winner from all the previous winners who send in a photo with their prize. As we wrap up the second quarter of the year, we have a new winner: Jack and his pack, including Dante the mouse, one of the winners in the annual Super Dog Sunday™ event!
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As you can see, my favorite baseball team are the Boston Red Sox.
I got to watch a game of theirs back when I was younger and have been a fan ever since.
I hope that someday I can take a trip to Boston to see them play on their home field.
To the left is a picture from 2006 of former red sox player Kevin Youkilis.
He was a very good player and helped the red sox get many wins with his batting skills.
Below is a picture of the back wall of the red sox stadium.
It is showing the 2007 season's final standings.


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Bryan Fischer, the director of issues analysis of the conservative fundamentalist American Family Association, on Thursday told a so-called "expert" who denies climate change that not using God's fossil fuels would be like "crushing" someone's feelings by rejecting their birthday present.
The Cornwall Alliance's Calvin Beisner, who has previously said that believing in climate change "is an insult to God," explained on Thursday that the Bible said it was also very rude to not use oil, coal and natural gas.
"The wicked and lazy master was the one who buried his talent in the ground and didn't do anything to multiply it," Beisner explained. "That's essentially what those who say we need to stop using oil, coal and natural gas are telling us to do. Just leave those resources buried in the ground, rather than pulling them out and multiplying their value for human benefit."
Bryan Fischer: 'Enormously insensitive' to hurt God's feelings by not using oil
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The company I work for is growing rapidly, and like any growing company we
are beginning to face challenges as new personnel are added to our network.
At the moment we beginning to have a rough time with new personnel abusing
our bandwidth. Consequently, I need some sort of network reporting package
that will allow me to track what sites are being visited by individual
network clients.
Will WallWatcher give me this functionality? I have attempted to experiment
with the reporting features but for some reason the reporting module crashes
on the PC it's running on. In fairness to WallWatcher this instability is
no-doubt due to the obsolete hardware I'm trying to run it on, not a fault
of the software itself.
If WallWatcher won't give me the functionality I'm looking for could someone
please help to point me in the right direction? Google searches have given
me results like zenoss for example, but the nix version of zenoss was quite
a challenge to install and configure, at least for a non Linux guru like me.
Any expertise or insight would be greatly appreciated. If it helps, we are
currently running m0n0 v1.22 on two Soekris net4801-50s with lan1641
expansion cards and vpn1411 accelerators. We now have just over 90 client
PCs now in a mixed Win2k and XP pro environment, as well as several servers.
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If you are searching for social media marketing or Your Social Media Mogul and not finding me or my website on the first page of Google, that's because that's not what my keyword phrase or keywords were and this is not the website I optimized (yet). I optimized the website for company I work for during the day fleximaging.com under the tutelage of Heather Lutze of Findability University.
As far as the how is concerned, I can't tell you all the secrets I learned in Heather's class, but I can tell you my favorite take-away. Heather calls it the "Mullet". You may wonder what a 1980's haircut has to do with Search Engine Optimization? We learned to use the "Mullet" on the Title of each page when we optimized it for search engines. When you decide on your title, you break it up into two parts… Business in the front and party in the back. (Get it? Mullet?) So, when I was optimizing the company site, the main theme was manged print services (business in the front). The second part of the title was what that particular page was about, whether it was the company's National Service Network of printer repair dealers we use, or each state we are located in (Managed Print Services Oklahoma), or drilling even further down to each individual Managed Print Service Provider page.
The search terms you can find us on the first page of Google are National Managed Print Services, Managed Print Services + State (we are in 40 states so almost any state will show up), and Managed Print + No Contract. Now the only downside of this, is the keyword phrase for the overall site and lower pages are similar so unfortunately the Google results are showing the interior pages of the website instead of the home page. The remedy was to make each of the landing pages attractive with a call to action. They are similar to the home page, but different enough to easily tell the difference.
I am also currently working to get the company on the first page of Google for Atlanta Printer Repair. (Flex is currently on page 2 for that keyword phrase) and IS on page one for Atlanta Printer Repair HP Authorized, because they are an HP Authorized service repair location. This keyword phrase has a separate landing page because it is focuses on a different target market.
I also wanted to clarify, the results were similar on Bing and Yahoo, but since Google is the number one search engine and everyone pretty much uses Google as a point of measurement, that's why I used them in this post.
Heather Lutze and Stephanie Hillberry have another six week webinar beginning Friday, July 18th with homework and a Facebook group so you can interact with other students in the class. If your website needs to be Search Engine Optimized or if you want to learn how so you can do this for others, I highly recommend Heather's course!
When my friend Miriam Slozberg asked me if I would be interested in participating in a Writing Process Blog Tour, my first reaction was "No" – but after I gave it a second thought, I decided I should do it because I've been so busy with my "day job" and in a slump with my blog, perhaps this would get me back on track with my blog. The tour consists of me answering a few questions, then passing the torch to a few other writers who will answer the same questions. Miriam knows a good bit about Klout and you can read her post learn more about what she does.
1. What am I working on? Lately my time has been tied up with my day job. I work at a company called Flex Imaging and I've been working on the company's new website. You can see it here www.fleximaging.com I have completely redesigned the site and really ramping up the SEO. My writing process for this site is tedious data entry. In addition to the company's information, I am also adding all of the national service network vendors to the site (almost 300 companies) so you can see the time factor involved. When the site is complete, it will be almost 400 pages. I have also been taking the digital marketing into new directions with video clips, Facebook & LinkedIn marketing as well as many other social media platforms. This is all new territory for Flex Imaging.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre? There are other fortune 500 companies that have great websites and video clips, and a social media presence. My goal is to approach it from the end-user's pain point. Flex Imaging does not require a contract so my writing process focuses on that. Our video clips offer tips, and useful information as well as offer appreciation to existing clients. I don't want to just sell, but rather offer value-added information the end user will gladly share.
Our website, when complete will also freely share our national service network information. It's basically free advertisement for vendors we use in locations across the country. By sharing this information freely, this not only shows we are confident in our company, but it gives the vendors we use a sense of good will.
3. Why do I write what I do? When I write on my own blog, I teach people what I learn in simple, easy to follow steps. I'm a visual learner, so many times I will create a video on exactly how to do something. I started doing this back in 2007 because so many of my friends kept asking me over and over again how to do something, and it was just easier for me to write a blog post how to do it. I always try to write a post if someone asks me how to do something.
4. How does my writing process work? To be completely honest, my writing process is terrible. Really really bad. I don't keep a calendar. I have tried. There are some tasks at which I am very organized – but for whatever reason, writing a blog is not one of them. I work best if someone asks me to write about a specific topic or if I have a specific project to complete and then write about it. And then there's the pre-publish issue. I have been known to hit "publish" before proofreading several times. I REALLY need to proofread SEVERAL times. I never catch all of my mistakes the first or even second time I proofread my work. To be honest – I need to let a post "sit" a day or two and re-read it before posting it. Thank you for reading about my process and I hope you enjoyed learning a little more about me. Be sure to share your links in the comment section so I can read your process too.
So this is my writing process, and now I pass the torch to:
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I am the Founder and CMO of Idea Girl Media, a Social Media Marketing Agency that works with business brands, public figures & non-profits to achieve social media success and positive online reputation. I am humbled to have received a 2013 Small Business Influencer Honorable Mention Award, and a commendation for Outstanding Attainment in Social Media from the Senate of the State of Ohio. My insight has also been featured at Social Media Today, SteamFeed, Search Engine People, and AOL Small Business, as well as at Forbes and Business Insider. Non-fat lattes, travel & quick wit make me smile, and I am always enthused to meet new people!
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Facebook has gone through quite a few changes lately and because they have, many users are not too happy. One of the biggest complaints seems to be that Facebook has set the default view of posts to "Top Stories, instead of "Most Recent". What does this mean?
Any post that you post yourself, comment on or like that continues to get additional likes and comments. These posts stay at the top of your newsfeed. The downfall of Top Stories being set as the default, you may miss out on a lot of posts by your friends and family.
The most recent posts by the people in your network regardless of the activity on that particular post.
If you are one of those individuals who would rather see the most recent posts of your friends, family and co-workers, instead of seeing the same post at the top of your news feed just because someone has commented on it, here's the easy change you can make.
As shown in the image below – all you need to do is go to your main news feed and click on the little arrow to the right. You will see the option of choosing Top Stories or Most Recent. As you have probably noticed like almost everyone else on Facebook, Top Stories is the default setting. All you need to do is select Most Recent.
So, what's your stance on Top Stories versus Most Recent? Do you prefer to see the most recent posts by all your friends and family or do you like to keep up with conversations? How do you feel that Facebook has again decided to make changes that affect the way we use their platform? Has it changed your views about Facebook or changed how much you use Facebook? Post your comments – I'd like to know!
LinkedIn, like many other social platforms has been making updates to the way its algorithms and the way it presents user profiles. Like many other social platforms, LinkedIn doesn't exactly announce how those updates will affect your profile if you decide to make updates. Below are a few things I discovered as I tweaked my account the past couple of weeks.
1) Unattached Recommendations: In the past, if you had a recommendation attached to a particular job description and decided to eliminate that position, you could save that recommendation and attach it to another position. This was convenient for consultants or people who owned their own businesses as they reorganized their profiles. Now, if you removed a job description, any recommendations attached to that job description also goes away.
2) More Company Pages: Chances are, your previous employer has created their own company page on LinkedIn. If this is the case, you will want to update your previous employment section and link it to their company page link. Instead of just text, your profile will show your previous employer's company logo on your profile with a link back to their company page.
3) You can customize your public profile: Regardless of who sees your profile while logged in on LinkedIn (connections, network, etc…) you can pick and choose who sees your profile on the web (who is not logged into LinkedIn) – which doesn't really make sense to me. If you want your profile to have limited or full exposure, you have to make changes in multiple locations. You get to this option by managing your public profile settings; (see image below) and you can see by the figure included to the right which items you can choose to share with the public.
4) You can't block people from viewing your profile on LinkedIn: For Instance, if you want your profile to remain public on Facebook or Twitter, you can block a user who is stalking you, spamming you, etc… On LinkedIn you can't do this. You can report someone who is spamming you, but you can't block someone who, let's say views your profile every day, yet is not a connection. You basically have 3 choices on LinkedIn. You can allow your connections, your network or everyone to view your profile. This can prove problematic if you want people to reach out and connect if you've had to reduce your profile to connections only.
So how are you supposed to keep up with these updates LinkedIn makes? Well, one way is to subscribe to my blog, because as I notice things are different, or if someone asks me a question I will write a blog post or record a video and post it on YouTube. LinkedIn also has a blog and a Facebook fan page, however – I have not found them to be overly helpful. When I have asked for assistance, they are slow to respond. Another way to keep up-to-date on what's going on with LinkedIn is to follow @LoriRuff on Twitter or connect to Lori Ruff on LinkedIn. She's probably best known as the LinkedIn Diva and if you have any questions regarding LinkedIn, she can answer them.
I have noticed other changes – have you? Which ones do you find to be the most problematic? Did you find this post helpful? If you have a problem or question you would like answered, feel free to post it here or on my fan page.
Well of course there is! I just happen to find it is much easier to read and retain information small bits at a time. So let's get started shall we?
Fact Number 1
If you've read anything about Google Hummingbird, you've heard the buzzwords Conversational Search. Without getting too technical, what this basically means is Google is using the small microphone icon in the search box. When you click on that microphone (assuming you have configured your computer correctly) you can verbally ask what you are searching for and Google will display your question in the search box. What you may or may not know is Google Hummingbird is using Knowledge Graph for that query.
Fact Number 2
This is something you may have noticed with the release of Google Hummingbird, but may not have made the connection. People have been writing longer blog posts. This is where I have a problem, because I have a tendency to write short posts. The content is still what I would consider value-added, however according to Google Hummingbird for good SEO the best length for a blog post would be between 550 – 1000 words. What this means for you – if you have a typical content rich blog, you should be good. If you have one of those sites that skims the first sentence or worse yet, just the title of a great blog with a link back to their blog so you can cash in on ads – Google Hummingbird is gonna cramp your style.
Fact Number 3
The more pages of original content you have on your site the more opportunity you have for search engines to find you. Please note, you should NOT duplicate pages and only change a few words. If you curate content from other pages, be sure to mix it up. If you did bullets, change to numbers and change the order. If you had a post with Top Ten, split the post in half.
Fact Number 4
Are keywords going away? In a word, no. In fact, not only are keywords still being used, what are also being taken advantage of to a greater extent are long tail keywords.
"Google Hummingbird will take a search engine query using long-tailed keywords and try to decipher the context of the question rather than chase the specific keywords within the question. The goal is to provide results that actually answer the question." source: Entrepreneur.com
Fact Number 5
Simple How-To's rank higher than technical jargon. If your niche is posting educational material, keep the terminology simple and easy to search. According to Search Engine Journal, the term "How-To" doesn't even take an advanced algorithm, so why not use "How to build a better mouse trap" instead of "Construct a mousetrap that is better than the one you have."
So let's recap:
Did you find this post useful? Do you have anything you would like to add? Do you have more questions about Google Hummingbird? Be sure at let me know!


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>--On 5. december 2005 7:38 +0100 Sasa Stupar <sasa at stupar dot homelinux dot net>
>> --On 4. december 2005 19:16 -0500 Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
>>> On 12/3/05, Sasa Stupar <sasa at stupar dot homelinux dot net> wrote:
>>>> First my hardware: old Compaq Deskpro 2000 5166 with P166, 64MB RAM, 3
>>>> NIC Intel Pro 100S Desktop. My network is 100 Mbit.
>>>> In DMZ I have a file server (samba), web, mail. Transfer speed between
>>>> LAN and DMZ is max about 50 % of possible ( arround 5200 KBps) with
>>>> Trafic Shaper disabled.
>>> I replied to an older thread of the same earlier today, but getting
>>> this much through a P166 is even better. That's over 40 Mb, which is
>>> more than I'd expect to get through that slow of a box. That's about
>>> the max throughput of a WRAP or 4801, at 266 MHz.
>>> I'd be very happy with that. If you need a full 100 Mb, you need a P3
>>> or better. Your bus and/or CPU, or a combination of the two, is the
>>> bottleneck.
>> Thanx for the answer. I need full speed because of the file server. I am
>> going to search fo a faster box
> Just for the info. I have tried on Celeron 433 and it works great. I have
> the full speed now. But I have allready buy a P3 from ebay for 25¤ which
> will be even better.
Keep in mind that CPU is only part of the picture. Buss speed plays a major
roll here. Try and have your high demand cards in separate bussmastering
slots. Have a high speed buss, at the expense of a lower speed chip.


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Friday, April 18, 2003 | 10:08 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA -- Toy retailer FAO Inc. said Thursday it has secured the financing it needs to emerge from bankruptcy and hopes to do so early next week.
A reorganization plan approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lloyd King at a hearing in Wilmington, Del., satisfies concerns raised by FAO's lenders and investors and preserves millions of dollars in new funding, company spokeswoman Renee Hollinger said.
"We worked through the concerns the equity group had and we will hopefully emerge" from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday, Hollinger said.
FAO owns the FAO Schwarz chain of toy stores, including a store at the Forum Shops at Caesars on the Las Vegas Strip.
FAO has obtained $77 million in financing from a consortium led by Fleet. A group of investors led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors has also agreed to buy $30 million in preferred stock.
The company, based in the Philadelphia suburb of King of Prussia, also said Thursday it had obtained a one-week extension to use its cash collateral to fund operations.
If FAO fails to emerge from bankruptcy protection, the judge authorized the company to liquidate its assets at auction next week. But Hollinger called that a standard provision and said the company expects to stay afloat.
FAO stock rose 6 cents to close at 20 cents a share Thursday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The company filed for bankruptcy protection in January after struggling to compete with discount chains such as Wal-Mart that sold some of the same toys at lower prices. FAO listed assets of $257.4 million and liabilities of $238.4 million.
FAO also owns Zany Brainy and The Right Start chains.


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Last week, Dear Ruler paraded around the country declaring that we needed to raise taxes on the evil rich people earning more than $250,000 a year. As many of you know, this means tax increases on almost one million households that report business income on their personal tax returns – or, in other words, a tax increase on over one million small jobs-producing American businesses. Obama claims that these people don't need that money and it is a fallacy to believe that this will impact small businesses or job creation. The reality is that Obama has no clue how these small businesses work, and whether or not they "need" that money. It is not the government's, and certainly not Obama's role to determine how much of the money a small business earns that business actually "needs."
Obama managed to top things off in grand style with a speech last Friday in Roanoke, Virginia. In this speech our Dear Ruler showed his complete disdain and outright animosity toward free enterprise with one now very well publicized utterance:
"If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Really? Obama said that? Hopefully, at this point, you're not shocked. But let me give you the context for that remark, because much of that is equally as galling. Here' the entire quote:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
So … small businessman! How does that sit with you? You took your money and put it at risk. You worked perhaps as many as 80 hours a week to get things running. You had your ups and downs, but you persevered. Vacations? Are you kidding? Maybe it was five years into your new business venture before you ever took a vacation. Every penny you could scrounge up … every spare minute you could find … all went into your business. While others believed that their role was simply to do their nine-to-five bit five days a week for someone else, you had another game plan --- and it worked. Here you are with your successful small business. You employ perhaps a dozen people or so. You take vacations now. You might even have a vacation time-share on the coast. You just bought a new car for the first time in your life. You're thinking that you've done pretty good chasing that American dream, and you're justifiably proud of yourself. Then along comes Barack Obama to tell you that this business you sweated over for so many years? Well … you didn't build that.
Does that work for you?
Let's delve a little deeper in Obama's remarks.
Dear Ruler tells us "There was a great teacher in your life." Right – there very well may have been. But that teacher is, in her own right, a businesswoman. Like most every other college student, that teacher went to college in order to develop a skill to put to use in our free market. Her's (or his) would be a business of one employee perhaps, but a business nonetheless. The teacher is a businesswoman with a product to sell; her knowledge and her teaching skills. She takes that product to the marketplace to find a buyer; perhaps a government school system, or a private school. She might even begin a tutoring service operating out of an office in a business complex. The businesswoman/teacher is then free to sell her product to whomever she wishes. Perhaps income will be her motivation; perhaps location. Whatever the motivation, she decides when and to who she, as a businesswoman, will sell her product; and when she will withdraw that product from the market to seek greener pastures. She's not there solely to make something happen for someone else. She's there to earn a living, just as is the businessman. She didn't "give" anything to her students. She sold her services to those students and their parents eager for them to be educated.


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Choking back tears, offering up kisses and clasping hands, parishioners at St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church said goodbye to the Rev. Paul Grauls on Sunday. ''Well done, good and faithful servant,'' a tall woman with short white hair told the priest, who has served at the church for 23 years.
Other than a lone Mass on Sunday, operations at St. Thomas -- one of the oldest and most storied churches in Harlem and an architectural marvel -- have ended. The Archdiocese of New York said it was still deciding the fate of the building, which is nearly a century old. But the priests who ran it and many parishioners say that they know the answer. With $5 million needed in repairs, a small congregation and a shortage of priests, they expect their church to close forever.
The scenes of grief and nostalgia playing out at 118th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue are likely to be repeated in the coming year. The archdiocese, which has long said it needs to re-evaluate where it stations priests and how its parishes are shaped, has embarked on a major realignment project, as Cardinal Edward M. Egan calls it.
The archdiocese said that could mean adding new parishes, consolidating existing ones, grouping parish priests in a single rectory or coordinating Mass schedules. It could mean closing churches.
In a report to a meeting of the archdiocesan priests council in May, Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell said 408 archdiocesan priests under the age of 75 were active in the 413 parishes. About a quarter of the parishes are staffed by religious order priests, like the Salesians, who have run St. Thomas since 1979 and have decided to pull their priests out of St. Thomas.Continue reading the main story
According to minutes of the council meeting prepared by Cardinal Egan's secretary, the cardinal had wanted to reorganize the parishes last year but decided to tackle the archdiocese's finances first. He was also distracted by the sexual abuse scandal.
Bishop McDonnell told the priests that ''It would be better to imagine the archdiocese as it is,'' but without imagining churches in their current locations. ''Where would they be situated?''
In separate gatherings, Bishop McDonnell has told priests that based simply on numbers, Manhattan hypothetically needs only about a third of its 100 or so churches. Other factors come in to play, however, including proximity to worshipers, ethnic sensitivities and community and historical ties.
''You can never do this simply based on a mathematical formula,'' said Joseph Zwilling, the spokesman for the archdiocese.
But churches that are only blocks apart and may have served Irish or Slovak or Italian or German immigrants when New York's ethnic mix was different may be perceived as redundant by archdiocesan officials.
In the views of some, the effort is long overdue and partly brought on by the reluctance of Cardinal Egan's predecessor, Cardinal John O'Connor, to close churches. ''The Catholic Church is not good at this,'' said the Rev. Walter F. Modrys, pastor of St. Ignatius Loyola on the Upper East Side. ''The Catholic Church wants stability.''
Reflecting the sensitivity to public reaction against closings, priests at the meeting in May said as many people as possible, including parishioners, should be involved in the process.
''Yet, we must not forget that if we are not prudent about what we are to do,'' the minutes continued, ''plans may be thwarted by small community groups who might, for example, have a building declared 'landmarked' or demand that it be used for a particular purpose.''
The remarks reflect an age-old tension in cities with changing demographics, where spiritual ideas and religious bureaucracies sometimes come into conflict with beloved churches that form part of the wider urban soul. The hierarchy may believe that closing an underused, deteriorating building strengthens the archdiocese, and that faith is more important than place. But people grow up in and around churches and synagogues. Abandoning them or tearing them down can hurt.
That conundrum was on display Sunday at St. Thomas, an ornate Gothic building completed in 1907. The American Institute of Architects Guide to New York City described its style as ''berserk eclecticism reminiscent of Milan's Cathedral or of many Flemish or Venetian fantasies.''
The Rev. Patrick Angelucci, the Salesian provincial who oversees communities between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Coast, came from New Rochelle, N.Y., to celebrate the final Mass under his order. Father Grauls, 68, who has been serving as the parish administrator, and a lay brother will be moving out in a few weeks after tidying up affairs. No more daily Masses, no more youth programs, no more summer camp, no more Bible school. Parish activities and records will move to St. Joseph of the Holy Family at 125th Street and Morningside Avenue.
He delivered his homily to a congregation of 200 people on a day where two Masses usually draw a combined attendance of 240. He hammered home the idea that ''Church never begins with a building.''
''Church,'' he said, ''is always a community of people who believe in Jesus Christ.''
Earlier, in an interview, Father Angelucci said the Salesians' departure was planned to coincide with his stepping down as provincial on Monday and was done ''in coordination with the archdiocese.'' He said the archdiocese told him that ''in all likelihood'' the church would be permanently closed.
Mr. Zwilling said a priest would be sent to celebrate Mass on Sunday. He stressed that no decision had been made on the fate of the church.
But to parishioners, Sunday seemed to be a bit of a funeral. Theresa Tate, 50, who has attended St. Thomas since she was 6 and graduated from church's middle school, returned to her pew after the anointing with tears streaming down her face. ''I just feel sad,'' she said. ''This is the church I've known all my life.''
Father Grauls received a standing ovation. ''Be on your journey, and be happy,'' he said.
After Mass, he embraced older members of the congregation and patted the cheeks of children and gripped the large palm of a strapping young man, saying with wonder, ''I saw these little hands before.''
Nearby, a group of parishioners who graduated from St. Thomas plotted their course: a petition and campaign, begun by the Harlem Preservation Foundation, to save the church. A leader of the campaign is Julienne Jack, the daughter of Hulan E. Jack, a prominent Harlem political figure who was Manhattan's first black borough president. Mr. Jack received Communion at St. Thomas daily, and his funeral was at the church in 1986. A letter had been sent to former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who Ms. Jack said had been baptized in the church.
Some parishioners complained that the church was using money to pay for settlements in sexual abuse cases that should have gone to fixing up St. Thomas. And why, some wondered, is a predominantly black church becoming one of the first casualties.
''It's more than sad,'' said Monica Aska-Bragg, 54, a member of the parish. ''It's outrageous, as far as we're concerned.''Continue reading the main story


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§33-10-34. Publication and service of assessment order.
The commissioner shall cause a notice of such assessment order, setting forth a brief summary of the contents of such order, to be (a) published in such manner as shall be directed by the court, and (b) enclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed and mailed postage prepaid, to each member or subscriber liable thereunder at his last-known address as it appears on the records of the insurer, at least twenty days before the return day of the order to show cause provided for in section thirty-three of this article.


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IN-HOUSE- Public Relations- Press Executive
- Recruiter
- Reuben Sinclair
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £25-34k Dependent on experience
- Posted
- 07 May 2013
- Closes
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- Function
- Account Manager, Executive (In-House), Junior Press Officer, Press Officer, Senior Account Executive, Senior Account Manager
- Discipline
- Business to Business, Corporate Communications, Digital & Online, Internal Communications, Press / Media Relations
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Are you passionate about media relations and keen to move into an in-house position?
This is an unrivalled opportunity to join the in-house communications team for this prestigious professional body working as part of the busy press team working primarily on issues based communications.
Your main responsibilities will be to maximise press coverage across all communications channels including print, digital and broadcast alongside relevant policy research, answering any media enquiries and supporting the senior communications team on their messaging strategy.
This is an incredibly exciting role with one of the leading institutions within the HR and training space and if this interests you don't hesitate to apply!
- Extensive media relations experience- consumer and trade (industry sector irrelevant) across traditional, digital and broadcast communications channels
- Ability to build influential relationships with journalists
- Excellent written ability
- Experience working with online communications channels and contributing to social media strategy
- PR agency experience advantageous but not essential
As a company who invest heavily in their staff you will receive great training and fantastic benefits.
To put yourself forward for this role please email your CV to email@example.com. If you are interested in similar roles but you do not exactly fit this specification I have several similar roles I am actively recruiting for so please do not hesitate to contact me if this appeals to you. Alternatively if you know someone who might be well suited to this role who is interested in exploring new opportunities I am also keen to hear from them.
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System Requirements for WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.5
Product documentation
The table below provides the system requirements for IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5 Network Deployment in different levels and organization of detail.
This document describes the minimum product levels that need to be installed before opening a problem report with the WebSphere Application Server Support team. Because other products frequently ship fixes, updates, and new releases, testing every configuration is not possible. In general, you can install and run with updates to supported products if those updates are forward compatible.
Virtualization support for WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Load Balancer
Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6
- Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 is supported on 32-bit and 64-bit for each platform below except HP-UX and Solaris.
Load Balancer for IPv4
- Load Balancer for IPv4 runs a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit java to allow compatibility with Caching Proxy on HP-UX.
- Load Balancer for IPv4 has a single installation distribution that will run on 32-bit or 64-bit architectures on AIX. It contains a 32-bit java.
- Load Balancer for IPv4 has a single installation distribution that will run on 32-bit or 64-bit Solaris SPARC. It contains a 32-bit java.
Caching Proxy
- Caching Proxy runs a 32-bit application on the 64-bit platforms listed in the Caching proxy tab.
- Licensee is authorized to use any of the Edge components, the Proxy Server components and the DMZ Secure Proxy Server components of the Program with non-IBM WebSphere back-end servers. Licensee may be entitled to warranty support for such usage provided the problem is common to both the IBM WebSphere and non-IBM WebSphere back-end servers or, if otherwise, you agree to recreate the problem in an IBM WebSphere Application Server environment.
|*Requirements by type - The list of supported operating systems and software.
**Requirements by platform - The complete lists of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.
SPCR tool available for all software products:
The generic link to the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) tool is below. You can access the tool for any product and obtain the spported operating systems, system requirements, and optional supported software for your product version .
Click the link below to reach the front page of SPCR:
IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR)
Then choose the following options to obtain the supported operating systems, system
requirements, and optional supported software for your product version.
1. Select the desired product.
2. Select the desired version.
3. Select your operating system.
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Software version: 8.5
Operating system(s): AIX, HP-UX, IBM i, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Software edition: Network Deployment
Reference #: 7023942
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Missouri State Beekeepers Association
Fall, 2013 Missouri State Beekeepers Association Membership Conference
October 25th & 26th, 2013
Lodge of the Four Seasons, Lake Ozark, Missouri
Click Here for Information on Blake Shook, Greg Hannaford and Phil Craft
Click Here to View Conference Agenda
Click Here to View Cooking With Honey & Beeswax Craft Contest Rules
Hotel Reservations Information
The Lodge of Four Seasons
315 Four Seasons Drive, Lake Ozark, MO 65049
MSBA Group Rates:
Seasons Bay: $ 89.00, Traditional Main Lodge: $ 99.00, Lake View Main Lodge: $ 119.00
(rates do not include current state taxes of 7.975% and county lodging tax of 3%)
Reservations: 888-265-5500 (You must mention that you are with the Missouri State Beekeepers Association.)
MSBA Group Online Reservations: www.MOStateBeekeepers.org/reservations
Reservations at the MSBA group rate will be accepted no later than Thursday, October 10, 2013. All reservations after October 10th will be available at hotels space and rate availability only.
Check-in Time: 4:00 PM, Check-out Time: 11:00 AM
Vendors Attending
Andrew Honey Farm
Dadant & Sons
Femme Osage Apiary
Honey Hive Farms
Ozark Cedar Hives
Walkabout Acres
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Visitors to this year's Farnborough Air Show saw a variety of displays and flights by all sorts of aircraft.
Plane spotters, aircraft enthusiasts and locals turned out in their droves to see the different displays.
The Red Arrows team were a big hit and visitors were thrilled to see the tight manoeuvres of the A380 Airbus.
But we want to find out what YOUR favourite display was from the weekend, so let us know in our poll! If you select 'Other', please let us know which one by posting it in the comments box below.
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Random points of interest:
- I'm a big fan of dry, punny, or sarcastic humor
- I enjoy thunderstorms and being inside when it is raining/snowing
- I really dislike speaking on the phone. Always have. No idea why.
- I'm trying to learn to play the guitar - progress: 2.718%
- I'm a huge fan of cuddling and hugs, but am currently seeing a massive cuddle deficit compared to the recommended dosage.
- I believe most people are counting steps incorrectly. Ask me about it.
ENTJ if it matters.
*Note: I generally won't message you unless we've matched (i.e., you've liked me and I've liked you), because you (the women of OkCupid) get enough unsolicited messages as it is. So, if you're interested, but don't want to make the first move, "like" me, and hopefully we'll match :) I usually visit profiles that I can see visit me, and like them if I'm interested, but if you're using OKCupid's hidden browsing feature so you don't show up, you should send me a message instead.*
Working at a summer camp for kids
Developing open-source software
Playing squash, rock climbing, and diving whenever I have someone to do it with (maybe it could be you?)
Giving hugs (apparently)
Making anything the subject of a joke
Avoiding awkwardness
I can talk about quite literally anything with anyone. I don't really have boundaries in that regard; I generally just try to figure out what the person I'm currently talking to considers acceptable...
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Isaac Asimov - Foundation series
Douglas Adams - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
Simon Singh - The Code Book
Homer Hickam, Jr. - Rocket Boys
Andy Weir - The Martian
All the Sherlock Holmes books
various other good and not so good fiction + logic/maths/science non-fiction if I'm in the mood
TV: House of Cards, Battlestar Galactica, The Americans, Elementary, Suits, Castle, Community, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Stargate, Firefly, Futurama, Silicon Valley
Movies: So many movies, so little time. I lived with film students for two years, so I've seen most the good ones and quite a few of the bad ones. Everything from the first Matrix movie to Wall-E and Ratatouille to Gladiator to Shaun of the Dead. Anything by Monty Python. Spotlight was also pretty great.
Music: Probably the most peculiar genre-mix you've ever come across. Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, Bob James, David Bowie, Dave Brubeck, Elton John, Eminem, Kings of Convenience, Little Hands of Asphalt, The Offspring, RJD2; a little bit of everything.
Games (how is this not a part of the title?): I'm a sucker for the old classics; Roller Coaster Tycoon (2), Mario Kart (on N64 of course), Caesar III and such. Board games of any and all kinds (I run one of the board game nights at MIT). Hanabi, Avalon, Mage Knight Board Game, and Fury of Dracula are current favorites. Of the more modern variety, Assassin's Creed and Helldivers are pretty good. The Last of Us was decent, as was Diablo III. Super Meatboy is also a good one if you haven't tried it. And then there's Super Hexagon...
Food: Cheese is a food right... So, cheese. And if you don't think it counts as a food, it seems unlikely that we'll get along :p Also love a good homemade lasagna or pesto-pasta. Nom nom nom.
Good tea
Someone/something to pet
A computer
Problems to solve (boredom is my Kryptonite)
Why I like thigh-high socks/stockings, but (afaik) don't have a foot fetish. Also, hands.
Problems. I love solving problems, so I jump on any and every problem I can find! The more challenging, the more fun. Hence grad school.
I can recite The Raven by heart.
I shower naked.
I may have written erotica.
I expected the Spanish Inquisition.
I'm a sucker for girls wearing chokers.
And this is my view of sports: http://vectorbelly.com/electrical177.html
A couple of things though:
- I'm quite talkative, so when I reply, it's usually more than a single sentence. If that puts you off then you might not want to talk to me
- Empty profiles are not very interesting starting points for a conversation
- Please try for something more than just "hi"...
- I don't mind messages that are direct, bold, frank, and straight-to-the-point, but keep in mind that I don't even know if you're real yet! (you'd be surprised how many fake female accounts there are on here). Feel free to be blunt, if that's your style, but at least include something to make me believe you're human :p
You should definitely message me if you're a succubus who knows how to control her hunger. Or if you enjoy aftercare.
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Since 23 December, an emergency.lu Rapid deployment kit is offering connectivity to the B-LiFE laboratory set up by a Belgian B-FAST team in N'zerekore, Guinea. B-LiFE operates on the emergency.lu and SATMED communication platform with SES satellite capacity, funded by the Luxembourg government. B-LiFE can be deployed rapidly to perform quick diagnostic tests of patients. Once installed in a crisis zone, the B-LiFE laboratory uses genetic analysis techniques to very precisely identify the presence of life-threatening, biological agents that cause the disease. The effectiveness of the response provided by the laboratory depends on the real-time communication provided by satellite.
This B-LiFE/B-FAST mission has been deployed to support an Ebola treatment center installed in N'Zerekore by the French Non-Government Organization ALIMA. The EU Copernicus Emergency Management Service has been activated to provide satellite images for the epidemiological data mapping. The European Commission (DG ECHO) and its Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) are also providing their support.
On 19 December, Romain Schneider, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, signed the prolongation contract of the project emergency.lu with the private partners HITEC Luxembourg, SES TechCom and Luxembourg Air Ambulance. A new contract with the transport company Schenker Luxembourg was signed at the same occasion.
The initial contract had a validity of 4 years and expires on 31 December 2014. Given the growing needs for telecommunication services in humanitarian contexts around the world and the success of the first phase of the contract, the project has been extended for 6 more years, until end 2020.
The objective of the prolongation is to consolidate the achievements from the first phase, to reinforce existing partnerships (with WFP/ETC, UNHCR, UNICEF) and collaborations (IHP, BFAST, Switzerland), to enter into new partnerships (a Standby Partnership Agreement with IOM will be signed soon) and to improve the performance, reliability and cost-efficiency of the equipment and services.
The project emergency.lu is funded by Luxembourg's Development Cooperation Fund. It represents a budget of 24 Million EUR for the years 2015 to 2020.
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I have been reading up a lot on this site and thought I should give back by posting this review.
My eye bags are genetic and I had had them since I was as young as twelve (if not younger). The older I am, the worse it got with all the late nights and stress. I was also sick of people commenting on it and how tired it made me look so I decided to get rid of it, for good.
My procedure was done oversea thus, very economical but you also have to take the plane ticket and accommodation into account. The experience was rather different, I had my consultation, payment, procedures, all done within ONE day. It was done under local anesthetic which freaked me out because I was not informed of this and I did not get to talk to the doctor properly but thank Goodness everything went well.
There was no pain, little bruising and reasonable swelling (since I only had skin removed so my recovery was a lot faster than having fat and skin removed). I took whatever medicine they prescribed but did not need paracetamol as there was no pain and I also had arnica montana a week before and continue post op to help with bruising. They told me to use icepack for the first couple of days but i used the transdermal pads from makemeheal.com instead as it was more convenient and something I could sleep with.
Overall, the experience was quite easy, a little scary at the time it was done but everything went well so I would give this one a yes. If there was any advice I could give, it would be: don't be stingy with your supplements. Look up what you need and invest in it as it will decide how fast your recovery will be. Also with other aids and do NOT forget to ask your surgeon when you can start applying scar gel (we all know the sooner the better but trust me, some forget to tell you). And get plenty of rest of course, I would recommend AT LEAST two weeks and a month if you can. If you were gonna do this during your holiday, pick the long one. You want to come back looking different and beautiful, so give yourself enough time to heal and hide as much trace from the surgery as possible. Hope this review helps. Good luck.
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As society moves toward cloud computing, we observe that cloud services may fail or become inaccessible, which particularly affects business clients. An approach to remedy this situation relies on a cloud of clouds, which results from the agglomeration of multiple separate clouds. There, we rely on the independence of clouds in order to enhance the dependability of any cloud service.
The cloud-of-clouds approach tolerates service outages and security incidents affecting individual clouds. Although existing cloud platforms provide high availability and reliability using internal replication, some common failure modes remain and services in the cloud of clouds tolerate them. The platform of a cloud provider is usually treated as a single security domain typically built using homogeneous components with little internal diversification. A cloud of clouds provides heterogeneity by leveraging multiple administrative domains, which is important for building intrusion-tolerant systems.
The Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit is a replicated storage system. Our method explicitly addresses the problem of space-efficient data replication using a key-value store (KVS) interface available from cloud providers today. This interface is simple and provides methods for writing and reading an entire blob (any binary data), for removing blobs, and for listing all defined keys.
A key-value store (KVS) offers functions for storing and retrieving values associated with unique keys. KVSs have become widely used as shared storage solutions for Internet-scale distributed applications.
Our Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit implements a wait-free efficient algorithm that emulates a fault-tolerant KVS from a set of KVS replicas in an asynchronous environment. Our implementation serves an unbounded number of clients that use the storage. It tolerates crashes of a minority of the KVSs and crashes of any number of clients. We note that applying state-of-the-art reliable storage solutions to this scenario is either impossible or prohibitively inefficient.
Finally, our Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit features a modular, layered, and highly configurable design. Layers are switchable, and can be adopted to a variety of different configurations (single-, multi-cloud, etc.). The implementation and use of layers in our Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit is transparent to the client. Furthermore, our Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit uses unmodified commodity cloud-storage services as providers. No communication among clients is needed and our Multi-cloud Storage Toolkit tolerates the failure of the clients.
- C. Basescu, C. Cachin, I. Eyal, R. Haas, A. Sorniotti, M. Vukolic, and I. Zachevsky.
Robust data sharing with key-value stores.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2012.
- C. Cachin, B. Junker, and A. Sorniotti.
On limitations of using cloud storage for data replication.
In Proceedings of WRAITS 2012, June 2012.


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Residents concerned about the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station pushed the Escondido City Council to take a tougher stand Wednesday on the future of the plant but came away with no firm commitment to put a deeper discussion on a city agenda.
The council first heard a presentation from Sara Kaminske, chairwoman of the Interjurisdictional Planning Committee for the nuclear plant, which has been shut down since Jan. 31 after operators detected a leak in one of the plant's steam generators.
Kaminske presented information on the committee's emergency plan for San Onofre, which specifies an emergency planning zone extending in a 10-mile radius around the plant, which is at the far northern edge of San Diego County, near San Clemente.
Kaminske assured the council that the planning committee, a joint task force made up of first-responder agencies from Orange and San Diego counties, has plans in place to detect and respond to any accident at the plant. That response could range from sheltering in place to evacuation.
Councilwoman Olga Diaz said she had heard a lot about the size of the planning zone, which was much larger ---- 50 miles ---- for the disaster caused by a tsunami in 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
Although Escondido is far outside the current emergency planning zone for the plant, Diaz said, she thought more education of the public was needed on how the committee would respond to a nuclear disaster.
As has been the case in other cities near San Onofre, anti-nuclear activists objected to the plan Kaminske presented, saying that the planning zone is much too small, given the spread of radiation from the Fukushima disaster. And they also questioned the possibility of evacuating millions of people on local roads in the event of a disaster, especially if an earthquake were to damage the plant and local roads simultaneously.
"The base assumptions they operate on are completely wrong," said Torgen Johnson, a Solana Beach resident who has pressed local cities to approve resolutions calling for tougher oversight of San Onofre.
The group persuaded the Del Mar City Council to adopt a resolution on Sept. 24 calling for a "public transparent license amendment hearing" regarding replacement of the plant's ailing steam generators.
Although members of the public urged the Escondido council to schedule a discussion of San Onofre that allows testimony from their own experts, Mayor Sam Abed said he did not think an "ordinance" was necessary because safety at San Onofre is not within the city's jurisdiction, adding that the city would instead express its concerns about emergency planning in a letter.


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After he rushed for a career-high 1,025 yards for the Giants in 2008, the Buccaneers were hoping for a similarly productive season from RB Derrick Ward after signing him prior to last season.
He turned in 409 yards and, worse, doesn't seem like he's endeared himself to head coach Raheem Morris.
"When you get a bit older in this league, especially as a running back, you have to realize that you need to come into camp at a lighter weight, not heavier," Morris said. "I still have a lot of confidence in Derrick Ward that he'll be ready and in shape to help us this season."
Ward, listed at 228 pounds, claims his conditioning is fine.
"Ask my teammates -- I'm not huffing or puffing, I'm not asking to be taken out of games," he says. "My weight is good and I'm ready to go. If the first game of the season was this Sunday, I'd be ready."
However he may also have to ready to fend off Kareem Huggins, 24, who has outplayed Ward to this point in the preseason for the backup role to Cadillac Williams.
"Obviously, Huggy has looked impressive the last couple of weeks," Morris noted. "Derrick knows what he needs to do. He has to go out there, he has to get it done and you'd better do it fast."
-- Nate Davis
Hat tip: The Tampa Tribune
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Newton Falls, Ohio
March 12, 2007
Hero killed by his wife.
|American Hero Fought Terrorism (From AMW)
Karl Hoerig was a real American hero. The decorated Air Force reservist piloted nearly 200 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during his military career.
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Karl Hoerig was an Air Force reservist who flew nearly 200 combat missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He flew Hercules C-130s and was stationed out of the Youngstown Air Force base.
The highly-decorated pilot had achieved the rank of Major and continued to pilot part time with the 910th Airlift Wing.
Karl had very specialized training as one of only ten "sprayers" in the Air Force. This meant that Karl would go on humanitarian missions to areas struck by natural disasters such as famine and flooding. In that capacity, Karl flew and sprayed over Katrina-ravaged New Orleans in the late summer of 2005.
Karl Hoerig had children from a previous marriage and a grandchild on the way at the time of his death. In addition to them, he leaves behind his parents and two brothers, including one sibling who also works for the Air Force.
Claudia "Cris" Hoerig was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prosecutors say that Hoerig came to the U.S. in 1989 for work and education. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1999 and had previously been married to a New York doctor for 10 years.
U.S. Marshals say that Hoerig fled to the South American country the day of the murder, but she could be anywhere in South America, Central America or the Caribbean.
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