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I have just finished deploying a new BOA install .. so, version 2.0.8.
I created an initial client/site of open atrium and that succeeded .. but all subsequent attempts to create new site/clients are failing due to this error.
A quick google threw up this link (http://drupal.org/node/951296) .. suggesting that this was a known issue associated with older versions of aegir. So, it does seem like only drupal-7 based platforms would be affected by this, and that explains why the open atrium install worked.
Right now, I am running a find with grep to match all files that have that string, so I can change it to something safer for drupal-7 .. Is there an easier way to fix this?
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There is nothing BOA specific here, and the error on delete attempt of non-existent site is expected - please read the docs.
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Also, please note that will simply close w/o response all issues submitted without required logs attached.
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The correct status is can't reproduce.
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Again, this is nothing BOA related. If you believe it is something Aegir related, please submit proper bug report in the Aegir queue, but we can't reproduce this issue on any D7 platform which comes by default with BOA, so it must be something else, I guess.


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Financial Services M&A - the outlook for the banking sector
New York,NY (PRWEB) June 22, 2012
Read the full article here: http://ow.ly/bDLQ0
Despite news that the value of M&A deals in the US financial services sector was up slightly last year, the trends for the industry's M&A activity look uncertain for a number of reasons, according to a new report from PwC.
Overall, the value of M&A deals in the sector rose to $72.1 billion last year, up from $50.9 billion in 2010. However, the volume of deals was down ten per cent to 756 transactions and M&A activity levels remain much below pre-recession volumes. This is according to the latest PwC '2012 US Financial Services M&A Insights' report.
The report's general predictions for the year to come illustrate the uncertainty in the industry, with the most active sub-sector – insurance – looking likely to continue to pursue M&A. The least active sector on the other hand, which was banking, looks less secure in its future when it comes to deal-making with several factors looking set to influence activity for the remainder of 2012.
In 2010, the banking sector was involved in 325 M&A deals – a number that fell to just 248 last year. The fall occurred despite the fact that the sector was second highest in terms of M&A value, - totaling $16.9 billion taking place over the same period – boosted by large deals such as Capital One Financial's acquisition of ING Bank for $9.1 billion. However, PwC predicts a challenging and, most importantly, an unpredictable year for banks.
Lower valuations for banks are set to put dealmakers off. Multiples have fallen and bank owners aren't keen to accept the reality of the situation, with many deciding to delay deals on the questionable notion that multiples may recover soon.
The rate at which failing banks are being snapped up has also dropped right off. In 2010, deals assisted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation accounted for 46 per cent of the purchases made in the sub-sector. Last year this fell to 26 per cent and this trend has been expected to continue throughout 2012, according to PwC.
On the upside, the report reveals that profits in the sector are actually improving, with net income for FDC-insured institutions totaling $35.3 billion in the third quarter of last year. This is a significant improvement of 48 per cent on the same period in 2010. However, while this could make the industry more attractive to dealmakers, the extra regulations brought on since the economic meltdown – namely the Consumer Protection Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform - could continue to impact bank profitability and act as obstacles to M&A deals.
The insurance sector, on the other hand, looks much more likely to continue its move towards more mergers and acquisitions activity. The sector enjoyed its position as the most active in terms of M&A volumes last year – with 310 deals – and more could be on the cards in 2012 thanks largely to low investment yields.
The fact that interest rates are expected to remain low may drive some insurers out of certain businesses, leaving these divisions to be snapped up by interested parties. The industry in general is more bullish than banking and is therefore more willing to spend its accumulated cash on expansion through M&A.
Overall, it's a mixed bag for the financial services industry, although it's clear that analysts expect plenty of challenges on the way back to recovery.
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According to FAO, approximately 400 million ha are affected by sodic or saline soils [
Various studies have reported high salinity tolerance for different
From the more than 2,000 seedlings from 25 half-sib families in this hydroponic selection system that evaluated a broad based collection of African, Peruvian, Chilean and Argentinean
To capitalize on the high salt tolerance of these seedlings, it will be necessary to multiply them asexually. While rapid and reliable propagation by mini-grafting is possible [
Interspecific hybridization frequently occurs among
The main objective of this study was to determine if the greenhouse hydroponic screening assay was a useful genotype selection tool. Thus regressions between height growth in the greenhouse
The previous hydroponic system evaluated 25 accessions of
Each replicate in the hydroponic screening trial consisted of a row of 16 seedlings. The codes for the clones are as previously described [
Figure 1. One of the
Figure 2. Flow diagram from the original collection of seed from trees in the saline areas of the Rio Saladillo, Argentina, to establishment of 21 clones in five replicates on high pH soils in Fernandez, Argentina.
Some of the progeny had intermediate leaf and thorn morphology between the
Figure 3. Leaf, thorn and inflorescence morphology of thornless
Due to the small size of these plants, only enough rooted cuttings were available to establish five single tree replications in a RCBD at the Universidad Catolica de Santiago del Estero Forestry Experiment Station in Fernandez, Argentina. This planting served as a clonal seed orchard, clonal evaluation trial and source of material for full sib crosses. This trial was established on 13 January 2004 (summer rainy season in Argentina) and five years after the 2–3 mm diameter rooted cuttings were planted. On 25 August 2009, measurements of height and diameter were made. Biomass estimates were obtained using a previously published model [
The Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agricultura (INTA) (Argentine federal government agricultural service) in Santiago del Estero, Argentina measured the electrical conductivity on a suspension of 10 g of dry soil and 25 mL of water and the pH was measured on a saturated paste using the method of Richards [
In plant breeding, probably the two most important breeding factors, besides the genetic control (
Thus, in this study, as a first stage, a linear mixed model was fitted for the responses height, diameter and biomass, based on the following linear model:
In order to estimate genetic variance components, the above model was re-fitted assuming the Clone term as a random effect, with
The soil pH and salinity of this trial are shown in Table 1 where it can be seen that the salinity was far less than the 45 dS m−1 level that was used to select the initial seedlings. In contrast, the pH values were extreme, ranging from 8.9 in block 1 to 10.2 in block 5. The pH values for the 60–90 cm depth ranged from 0.9 to 0.2 pH units lower than the surface 0–30 cm. Due to the gradient in soil pH, the mean height, diameter and biomass of all blocks in addition to the values for block 5 which had the most extreme pH values is presented.
Table 1. Soil electrical conductivity and pH values for each block and their average in the field trial of
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|Block 3
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In comparing the mean values for the overall diameter, height and biomass (
Figure 4. Means of five blocks for height (m), basal diameter (cm), and biomass (kg) of 21 clones from
Figure 5. Individual values for block 5, which had most extreme pH value (
Table 2. P-values of evaluating the significance of fixed clonal effects and broad-sense heritability for biomass, diameter and height for 21 clones from
In order to study further the uniformity, and therefore variability, of the different clones, a simple linear regression was obtained between the estimated residual variance, as a response, and the predicted mean, as an explanatory variable. This was done for each of the traits using all 21 clones.
No significant relationships, which were tested by fitting a simple linear regression, were obtained for total height and diameter, with correlations of −0.089 and −0.051, respectively. However, a significant association (
With regard to evaluating clones for uniformity of response on sites with contrasting edaphic factors, it was hypothesized that if a clone existed that did not decrease in biomass on block 5 with the greatest edaphic stress, then it would be expected to have a lower coefficient of variation. To test this, we have plotted the 95% confidence intervals (for the five blocks for each clone), divided by the mean of the five blocks, against the mean biomass of block 5, as shown in
Figure 6. Growth of
Regardless of the interpretation whether or not the variances can be pooled, the next step, as described below, would seem to be to make crosses between the high biomass producing putative
Simple linear regressions were examined between the growth in greenhouse salinity selection system to five year old growth in the field. For
Figure 7. Regressions between
As described earlier there was great variability among the clones for ability to produce roots from cuttings [
Five of the clones (O3B4P7(V), O6B1P11, 07B4P6(V), O8B3P14 and O9B4P14) in the high pH block 5 had diameters of approximately 10 cm or greater. The largest diameters were obtained by the putative
While there are a considerable number of reports of
The high broad-sense heritabilities for height, biomass and diameter growth implies these increases are tightly genetically controlled and suggests that further selection and possible hybridization with these clones is warranted.
The two clones with the greatest biomass accumulation under the most alkaline conditions were of the putative
It would appear that some of the clones with high biomass accumulation could have high pH tolerance genes from a
While the wood quality of the putative
In addition to
Ewens and Felker [
As reported in an earlier paper [
While rooting of cuttings techniques have been described for
In summary, this paper reports growth in height, diameter and biomass accumulation for 21
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Inside a small warehouse in Surry Hills, behind the bustle of Sydney's Crown Street, a team of 12 have been toiling away to kill one of the greatest poxes on corporate life: Clip Art.
Now, after a year's development and a rigour of tests from several hundred users, the brainchild of Perth-born entrepreneur
The result is Canva, a new site that mixes the basic capabilities of Adobe's Photoshop graphic design software with the collaboration of Google's online document apps to arm even the graphic illiterate with the tools necessary to make basic designs and share them.
The goal, according to Ms Perkins, is to change the way design works and make it easier for those who can't access Adobe's pricey software, or don't know the first thing about using anything other than Microsoft's Word, Publisher or PowerPoint.
"When I was at university five years ago, I was teaching design and things like [Adobe] Photoshop and InDesign," Ms Perkins told The Australian Financial Review. "Students really struggled learning the basics. What you learn in 23 seconds [with Canva] is more than I was able to teach in an entire semester with all the different technologies."
At the heart of Canva is a basic, and free, graphic layout web app that allows users to pick a business card, poster or other template and combine their own graphics with text, or use one of a library of free basic images designed in-house by the team.
The clincher, and the basis of Canva's business model, is a premium library of more than a million stock photographs and illustrations the team has sourced from professionals over the past year that can be purchased and used in each design for $1.
Normally the realm of whole websites and pricey subscriptions designed for professionals, Canva is hoping to make available to beginners the basic tools of professionals, without the complications.
"Every single button here is an industry that we've integrated," Ms Perkins said.
It isn't the first time a start-up, or even an Australian company, has tried to dictate the "future of design".
Democratise design
The Australian-founded, but US-based, company
Earlier this month the same company launched Swiftly, a side-business aimed at making quick fixes to designs simple and cheap.
Ms Perkins said she hopes to add to that mix, giving beginners the ability to create quick designs, while also allowing professionals to share their mock-ups with clients.
But while today marks the first time Canva has a product, let alone actual customers, the Sydney start-up has been on the radar of the technology industry's elite since 2011.
It garnered $3 million in investment from an impressive roster of venture capitalists in March, including former CVC Asia Pacific executive
Ms Perkins' persistence with renowned US venture capitalist Bill Tai, from a coffee pitch in 2011 to numerous meetings since, helped propel the idea forward with US investors too.
SEEK co-founder
"Obviously there was a lot that we and other investors took on faith," he said. "I showed it to my 16-year-old daughter who was very sceptical, saying 'there's lots of companies that solve this stuff'. And then she played with it and said 'wow, this is amazing'."
Ms Perkins said that her sales pitch to investors was one based on vision and strategy.
"We had hundreds of meetings and hundreds of revisions to our pitch deck," she said. "But eventually the investors we got behind us supported our vision and were incredible because they understood what we were trying to achieve."
Ms Perkins first conceived the idea five years ago when developing Canva's predecessor, Fusion Books, which allows schools and clubs to create yearbooks online.
Fusion Books has been mildly successful, expanding to France and New Zealand, and proved to be a pilot test for the more ambitious goals of Canva.
Despite ongoing investor interest in the US, Ms Perkins said Canva plans to remain in Sydney for the foreseeable future but could launch support and sales offices overseas.
As for killing Clip Art?
"We hope so."
The Australian Financial Review


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About 540 jobs will be axed from Cootes Transport after its parent, McAleese, decided to half the size of the beleaguered fuel-haulage business after what it described as unprecedented government scrutiny.
With the Cootes fleet under relentless surveillance, McAleese chairman Mark Rowsthorn said most executives in the transport industry were ''absolutely crapping themselves'' that the same would apply to them. ''It is unprecedented,'' he said after warning the fallout from Cootes' woes will cost it $47 million this financial year.
He conceded that the company had not been ''squeaky clean''.
McAleese will sell about half of the trucks and trailers in the Cootes fleet after losing contracts with Shell and BP, and withdrawing from supplying 7-Eleven in several states. The vehicles to be put up for sale include 190 prime movers and 286 tankers.
McAleese said the 540 jobs - the majority of which will be in Victoria and NSW - would be axed over the next six months as contracts ended. The company has set aside about $13 million for redundancies.
Shares in McAleese slumped almost 35per cent to 72¢ on Tuesday - almost half the price at which it floated in late November - after the company emerged from a trading suspension and revealed the magnitude of Cootes' woes.
About 1250 of McAleese's 2000-strong workforce is employed at Cootes, which the company bought about two years ago from private equity company CHAMP.
The job losses will primarily include truck drivers but also workshop and clerical staff. McAleese emphasised that many truck drivers would transfer onto fuel supply contracts with other companies.
Two people were killed and five injured when a Cootes fuel tanker lost control on a bend in the Sydney suburb of Mona Vale and burst into flames on October 1. Since then, NSW and Victorian transport authorities have issued Cootes with hundreds of defect notices.
Mr Rowsthorn said the repercussions from the Mona Vale accident, including the scrutiny of its fleet, had caused reputational damage that it had not had an opportunity to defend.
''It is a business that unfortunately, due to this tragedy at Mona Vale, has forced the government's hand into inspecting our vehicles relentlessly, and it has had a negative impact on us,'' he said.
''It's pretty tough with negative press, which the government officials react to and feed. Quite frankly, we have done everything we can.''
It leaves the slimmed-down Cootes to haul fuel for Caltex and LPG for Origin Energy.
McAleese has told investors that the restructure will be subject to Cootes holding on to the Caltex contract, which is due to expire in March next year, and the Origin deal, which is under tender.
Mr Rowsthorn said all of its customers were concerned about the ''knock-on reputational damage that has come with being associated with Cootes during this difficult time''.
McAleese also revealed the head of its bulk and liquid transport division, Chris Keast, had resigned.


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A CHEMICAL leak in Trafford Park was contained by the coordinated efforts of company staff and emergency services working at the scene.
Fire officers worked with specialists on the Chemtura Manufacturing site in Tenax Road to contain the hydrochloric acid leak.
Two fire crews were initially sent to the scene with an operational support unit (OSU) after being alerted shortly after 6pm last Friday and firefighters were faced with a significant plume of toxic and corrosive gas.
Within minutes, the fire service declared a major incident which required 10 fire engines at the site immediately, an aerial platform and a further five fire engines on standby at the nearest fire station – Stretford.
Cordons were put in place as a precautionary measure.
Group manager Steve Thomas, a hazardous materials officer for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), said: "It appears that an event occurred during the process where two chemicals come together. As a result of this combination, a hydrochloric acid vapour escaped through a stack pipe.
"Because the gas cloud had the potential to drift across Trafford Park, our main aim was to dissipate the vapour and ensure that it didn't spread beyond the site. To do this we used a ground monitor to get a fine spray of water on from one side of the site and an aerial platform to get water spray on from the other side.
"The vapour is absorbed into the water and it falls to the ground as water droplets. It then goes into a water catchment area on the site to ensure that the acid water doesn't contaminate any other areas or water in the environment."
At the same time, firefighters in gas tight suits wearing breathing apparatus, along with site engineers, went into the site up to the fifth floor where the incident occurred to bring it under control.
After liaising with site supervisors and the on site chemist, GMFRS deemed the area safe at about 2.30am on Saturday, November 17, and the scene was left with Chemtura.
Mr Thomas added: "This was a major incident for GMFRS which required a great deal of resources to manage. We have processes in place for dealing with these kinds of incidents and regularly hold exercises at sites dealing with chemicals such as Chemtura to prepare as much as possible for incidents of this nature."


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Sony NWZ-F806BLK (NWZ-F806BLK) 32GB Walkman Video MP3 Player - Black
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1. Re: iPhone contract renewalEdW_VZW Sep 30, 2011 10:59 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)
Cjaymccain wrote:
Are version going to do the contract renewal like AT&T every year the iPhone comes out u have a option to pay new contract price but u have to renew your contract is Verizon gonna do the same????
Hi Cjaymccain,
Yes, if you are eligible for an upgrade, then you would need to accept a new two year customer agreement to get the discounted price on the purchase of a new iPhone or any phone you select as your upgrade. This option is given to you when you upgrade.
If you are currently under a contact, you would be eligible for an upgrade after 20 months into your agreement. If you would like to find out when new phones are being released, please sign up for email alerts at this link.
2. Re: iPhone contract renewalrcschnoor Sep 30, 2011 6:45 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)
Cjaymccain wrote:
Are version going to do the contract renewal like AT&T every year the iPhone comes out u have a option to pay new contract price but u have to renew your contract is Verizon gonna do the same????
If you are asking if you can get the discounted price on an iPhone, say in February 2011, when it was first released on Verizon, and then get the discounted price on another iPhone when it is released, say in February 2012(this date is for demonstration only), then the answer is no, because you would have only completed 12 months of your 2yr contract. To get the discounted price, you have to complete 20 months of your 2yr contract.
Because of this, if a new iPhone is released every 12 months, you will not be able to get the discounted price for a new iPhone every 12 months. I assume that this is your question?
3. Re: iPhone contract renewalCjaymccain Sep 30, 2011 6:48 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)So I jus recently got o. Verizon with the iPhone 4 abt 2 months I'm not elgible for it?
4. Re: iPhone contract renewalCjaymccain Sep 30, 2011 6:52 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)Yes and do you know the full price
5. Re: iPhone contract renewalrcschnoor Sep 30, 2011 7:01 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)
Cjaymccain wrote:
So I jus recently got o. Verizon with the iPhone 4 abt 2 months I'm not elgible for it?
I am going to try and translate your question into "I recently signed a contract on Verizon with a new iPhone 4 about 2 months ago. Does that mean I am not eligible for a new iPhone if it is released on October 4?"
If this is your question, then you are correct and you are not eligible for an upgrade with discounted pricing.
You can, however, purchase a new iPhone at full retail price. Prices of iPhones which may or may not be released in the near future are not know at this point. Current retail prices of the iPhone are $649.99(16GB) and $749.99(32GB).
6. Re: iPhone contract renewalkaebfly Sep 30, 2011 7:54 PM (in response to Cjaymccain)
Any questions like this should probably wait until the next iPhone is officially released. As mentioned, if history proves anything Verizon will adhere to the same upgrade policies it always has...after the return/exchange period has passed you are not eligible for a discounted/subsidized priced phone until 20 months has passed. Will there be a special exception for iPhones like AT&T used to do? No one will truly know until the iPhone is announced and Verizon announces their plans (if those interested in upgrading are lucky maybe VZW will offer this but if they don't current owners can't really be upset. They already knew how Verizon handles upgrades so they shouldn't expect a special exception just because a different company chose to do it. I don't say this to annoy anyone. Honestly, I might consider upgrading to the next iPhone if truly motivated and sure, I would love to not have to pay more than double the retail price to do so, but if it's truly that important to me to upgrade out of the iPhone I haven't had for even a year then I'll pay what is required to do so). We'll start getting a better idea of what to expect on or around October 4th after Apple has their press conference announcing whatever is coming. Remember, rumors range from a slightly (or significantly) better iPhone 5 model to a cheaper "base" model...point being, before you start trying to figure out how much you're going to have to pay to switch to the newest release it might be a good idea to see what exactly is being released. Just a little food for thought...
7. Re: iPhone contract renewalgalaxie500fb Oct 1, 2011 10:56 PM (in response to kaebfly)
My current phone is a DROID X and i purchased it the day after it`s release in july 2010 which was only 15 months ago but since my line on my family plan is the primary one i am entitled to an early upgrade at discounted pricing. Actually i was eligible after 14 months. I haven`t used the upgrade because i`m waiting on the announcement of the upcoming iphone 5.


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West Newton Council approves hunt for more cops
West Newton Council will advertise to hire potential part-time police officers in order to boost the size of the force.
Mayor Mary Popovich brought the issue to council's attention after a discussion with West Newton police Chief Gary Indof at an earlier work session.
Council passed the measure for the search 5-1 with Councilman Adam Paterline voting against. Councilman Tony Berarducci was absent.
West Newton currently employs two full-time and six part-time officers.
Paterline said he thought that the shifts that weren't covered could be seen as a cost savings.
Popovich reported that 23 shifts weren't covered in December forcing the borough to rely on state police for any emergencies.
"It waxes and wanes like it always has over the years," she said, adding that residents expect 24/7 coverage from their hometown department.
Council President George Molovich also had reservations about hiring any new employees, since the scheduling problems have been an issue with the small department for years.
"I just don't see how hiring a new guy (will help), we have to train them and then they leave," he said.
Council stipulated that previous experience will be required for any newly hired officers.
In other business, council is considering overhauling its policies regarding hours recorded with a time clock.
Some of the employees, who include the police officers and four borough employees, forget to punch out causing confusion with scheduling and accountability.
Councilman Chris Luikart suggested purchasing a new time clock that would take palm scans.
"I'm just trying to find something that's easy where we don't have to keep track of badges," he said.
But other council members believed a stricter policy was necessary, rather than the $1,000 machine.
"If someone can't do the basic requirements of their job, there should be some consequences," Paterline said.
The measure was tabled for discussion at a later work session.
"We've got to get that policy straightened out," Molovich said.
Council also approved a quote from Frank Szczerba Excavating of Belle Vernon to replace a crushed cement-encased pipe under property near the future site of Simeral Square.
The $7,500 project would include 20 feet of 42-inch pipe that would run from the Youghiogheny riverbank to a catch basin along Water Street.
Another quote was obtained from Cecil-based Dennis Fleeher Contracting, currently working on the future park, but that quote was $6,914 for only 8 feet of cement-encased pipe.
Luikart figured out that even if the lengths were the same, Szczerba's quote would have still been cheaper by about $100.
As permitted by borough code, projects under $10,200 do not require a formal bidding process.
Council also discussed Fleeher's company spreading dirt from the construction site down Water and Main streets.
"All they need is a shovel and a broom," Molovich said, adding that they only expect the roads to be cleaned when the work day is over.
Streets Department Supervisor Randy Shincovich said the contractor had discussed the soil erosion plan in his contract, but Solictor Chuck Wade said the mud is "construction debris" not soil erosion and a formal letter can be sent to the contractor per the borough's ordinances to encourage workers to clean it up.
"I understand the project is for the good of the borough, but they've got to do the right thing," Paterline agreed.
Council also approved "no parking" signs for Vine Street Park. Luikart said patrons using the West Newton gym were parking on the park's basketball court when it was cleared of snow.
"If they're only parking there two times per year for events, that's fine, but not every other day," he said.
Indof is unable to warn or cite anyone parking on the courts without a sign or notice that no parking is allowed, Luikart said.
Two recreation board members were approved after a motion was amended to include background checks, required by a policy adopted last year.
Robert Warrick of Yukon and Martin Harris of South Huntingdon were recommended by the current recreation board members to fill vacancies.
Stacey Federoff is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 724-836-6660.


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- Hermione Granger: "...there was a tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a Muggle called Tobias Snape and then later an announcement saying that she'd given birth to a —"
- Harry Potter: "— murderer."
- — Hermione revealing Snape's parentage, and Harry's contempt.[src]
Eileen Snape (née Prince) was a witch. She was married to Tobias Snape, a Muggle, and was mother to Severus Snape.
Early lifeEdit
Eileen Prince was born into the Pure-blood Prince family.[2] According to an old Daily Prophet clipping found by Hermione Granger, when Eileen was in her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she was captain of the school Gobstones team.[3] It is unknown exactly when Eileen began attending Hogwarts, but, based on the description of a copy of the sixth-year Potions textbook Advanced Potion-Making owned by her son as being "nearly fifty years old" in December 1996, it is possible that she started sometime in the early 1940s, if the book was bought new and then handed down.[4] The House into which she was sorted is also unknown, although, given her son's desire to be sorted into Slytherin,[5] it is possible she was one herself, or that Slytherin was the traditional house of the Prince family. Eileen may be like Andromeda Tonks (née Black), a pure-blood who married a Muggle-born due to a change in belief in blood purity.
FamilyEditEileen married Tobias Snape, a Muggle,[2] and lived with him in a terraced house on Spinner's End.[5] On 9 January, 1960, she gave birth to a son, Severus. Life in the Snape home was tumultuous, as Severus informed his friend, Lily Evans, that his parents were constantly arguing.[5] Given that Eileen's son was described as not looking "well cared for" at age eleven,[5] it is also possible that she and her husband were neglectful parents, abjectly poor, or both. Tobias does seem to have been aware of the fact that Eileen was a witch, having been described by their son as not liking anything, least of all magic.[5] Eileen accompanied her eleven-year-old son to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters for the first time on September 1, 1971, an event later watched in a Pensieve by Harry Potter.[5]
Physical descriptionEdit
At age fifteen, Eileen is described as having been skinny, pale, and sullen-faced, with a long face and heavy eyebrows.[3] In 1971, as an adult woman, she was thin, sallow-faced, and sour-looking, greatly resembling her son.[5]
Behind the scenesEdit
- Severus Snape took his nickname, the Half-Blood Prince, from his mother's maiden name combined with his own blood status of half-blood.
- When Harry Potter accidentally entered Severus Snape's mind during an Occlumency lesson, he saw a memory in which a hook-nosed man was yelling at a frightened woman, while a small boy with dark hair — Severus — cried in the corner. The woman is generally presumed to have been Eileen, and the memory may be evidence that their relationship was abusive[6].
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only) (Appears in photographs)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in flashback(s))
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ "In Ch. 4 of Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Horace Slughorn states that family members are often Sorted into the same House. This may indicate that Eileen was Sorted into Slytherin, as Severus was Sorted into Slytherin. However, there are exceptions.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 30
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 25
- ↑ Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 16
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Deathly Hallows, Chapter 33
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26


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"There was nothing (no provocation) involved in it. I've done a fair bit of research into it and there was no reason why he would have been hit. There was nothing beforehand, he just got whacked."
Hutchison said that while Zantuck would miss most of the pre-season competition, the Tigers hoped the setback would not affect his start to the season proper. "Hopefully after a week or so, he can get back on the bike as well as do some running," Hutchison said. "The only thing he will have to avoid is contact work."
Zantuck, 20, was one of the shining lights of a disappointing season last year for the Tigers, establishing himself as a senior regular and finishing ninth in the club best and fairest.
Richmond president Clinton Casey has been re-elected by the Tigers' board to remain at the helm for the next three years.
Casey, 45, who replaced Leon Daphne as president at Punt Road at the end of 1999, is also acting as stand-in chief executive until Richmond fills the role.
Previous chief executive Mark Brayshaw resigned at the end of last year.
Speaking from the Tigers' training camp at Traralgon yesterday, Casey said he expected the new chief executive to be in place by the end of next month.
"We are just about to go to the marketplace and hopefully we will have the right person in place for the season of the season," he said.
"We're really in no rush and I'll stay in the role until such time as we get someone suitable."
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COPPERAS COVE — In previous years, Melissa Murray-Paez said Copperas Cove Independent School District students who receive free or reduced meals were only able to get food from certain lunch lines.
This year, the high school cafeteria implemented a food court-style area, where students can choose from a variety of mini-shops featuring pastas, whole grain pizzas, sandwiches, homestyle cooking and burritos.
Murray-Paez, director of child nutrition for the district, said the best part of the changes is that students who receive free and reduced meals can order from any line.
Copperas Cove has 54 percent of students in the free or reduced program, Murray-Paez said.
"They get the same choices as every student. ... so there's no distinguishing between which students are free and which students are full pay," she said.
"Sometimes the kids, if their friends are going through a line that's selling pizza and they don't have money in their pocket, they'll choose not to go through another line because of the stigma ... and chose not to eat, so that's not healthy."
Murray-Paez said her "menu guru" and coordinator of child nutrition at the district, Serena Spivey, makes sure the district follows all of the USDA's nutrition guidelines, including serving grains, milk, meat, fruits and vegetables.
With the changes and increased options for all students, Murray-Paez said the district has served about 70,000 more meals this year.
Summer program
Using federal reimbursement, Murray-Paez said the district also is expanding its Summer Feeding Program, which will allow more children to receive free meals throughout the season.
She expects to serve at least 800 free meals a day during the summer.
"We've always had a smaller feeding program, but as the economy gets tighter, it's getting harder for families," she said.
This year, there will be four feeding locations across Copperas Cove that will serve breakfast and lunch and Murray-Paez said the only requirement is to be 18 or younger; participants don't have to attend the school district in order to receive a free meal.
"The kids in Cove and the surrounding family members that come in are getting a great healthy, hot lunch," she said.
Another upcoming change that will go into effect July 1 is the Smart Snacks in School initiative that states concession stands will no longer be able to sell foods that don't follow the USDA nutrition guidelines.
"A lot of those things (like chocolate bar and candy fundraisers), you're not going to be able to have anymore unless they meet the same timeline that we have to meet," she said.


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SYDNEY — In 1984, Mark Berkeley was a cadet from New York when he stood on the deck of the United States Coast Guard tall ship the Eagle and first cast his eyes on Cape Breton.
On Saturday, he saw the cutter return to Sydney.
Beside him was his wife, Cheryl, the sea cadet from Whitney Pier he met in 1984 as she toured the tall ship.
"As I remember it we pulled in and was only here for a day," said Berkeley, who is now retired from the coast guard and living in Sydney.
"As a cadet you are not privy to why you are there, but I remember we gave a lot of tours and then we left the next morning."
Cheryl's last name was Butler in 1984 and she said the sea cadets were helping out at Sydney harbour and in Westmount when many tall ships arrived, including the one carrying her future husband.
She credits her friend Jackie Neary with the actual introduction that would begin a 30-year friendship that would later become a marriage.
"We would not have met if it had not been for her because she was a whole lot bolder than I was and still am," she said.
"She said 'You should meet my friend' and he said 'Your friend should come over here' and we exchanged addresses and we kept in touch throughout the years."
Wes Pulver was also a cadet and a friend of Mark when the Eagle came to Sydney back in 1984. He's captain of the vessel now.
"I talked to the captain who came then and he highly recommended I come back here, so we put it on the schedule this year."
As the story goes, the Eagle was not supposed to visit Sydney in 1984, but joined other tall ships sailing out of Quebec City.
"The mayor came to Quebec City and talked to the commanding officer Ernie Cummings and said 'You should come in we have a beautiful harbour.' And you do have a beautiful harbour."
He stayed in touch with his friend through the years but admitted to being a bit surprised to learn Mark now lived in Cape Breton.
"I didn't know that story and then all of a sudden I got an email that said 'Heard you are going to Cape Breton. You remember when we were there? I met my wife that day.'"
After they met, Cheryl and Mark wrote letters to each other from time to time.
"It was really just phone calls and letters — old school," said Mark.
"We connected, and obviously we stayed in touch. It was meant to be."
Mark retired from the coast guard in 2007 and Cheryl moved to the United States for work.
"I lived my life and he lived his," she said. "A few years ago I took a job in Florida. We had always kept in touch, it was a friendship and then we started dating and we got married."
Not long after the move to Florida, Cheryl discovered she had cancer.
"I told him when I was diagnosed that I know that this journey is not a good one because his mother had passed of breast cancer as well, and he said 'I'm in for the long haul.'"
Mark proposed and they were married in August, about 29 years after that first introduction on July 4, 1984.
"I always knew what type of person he was, but that took it to another level."
She's finished most of her cancer treatment, though some will continue for a few years, and mostly feels fine.
"Anything else that is going on is all OK because as long as I'm here at this moment then that is the good part. You don't worry about the aches and the pains."
Mark called their romance "love at first sight" and he's now loving his life in Canada.
"To be perfectly honest with you I loved him then and I still love him now," Cheryl said when asked about her first impression.
"You kind of go your whole life and you kind of always wonder about the what if. There was a lot of distance between us, but I guess the decision was to kind of go and live your life and what is meant to be will be, and it was."


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One Direction's most popular pinup is probably Harry Styles, who is all over the tabloids these days for his relationship with Taylor Swift. But I'm much more interested in something else - his tattoos. Specifically, the Hebrew one.According to The Sun, the tat spells out "Gemma," Harry's sister's name. (I would have pronounced it "Gimah," but according to my resident fluent ivrit-speaker that second symbol is an apostrophe and not a yud.) While it's sweet of him to get his big sis' name … [Read more...]
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|Parisian love originally produced as a motion picture in 1925; Down to the sea in ships originally produced as a motion picture in 1922.
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In Parisian love, Marie, a dancer in a seedy district of Paris, attempts to seduce the wealthy man who stole her lover in an elaborate scheme of revenge. In Down to the sea in ships, Thomas Allan Dexter becomes a whaler to gain the approval of a devout Quaker for his older daughter Patience's hand in marriage. When Dexter and the Quaker's younger daughter Dot, a stowaway, are on board the whaling ship, they are caught in the middle of a plot by two villains to steal the ship.
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Because Mundy isn't a household name, having started only five games in his four-year NFL career, the immediate reaction to his addition will be one of skepticism. However, with Kenny Phillips all but but certain to leave via free agency, the Giants are in need of quality depth behind Stevie Brown and Will Hill, who will play opposite of Antrel Rolle.
With Dashon Goldson (Buccaneers), LaRon Landry (Colts) and Glover Quin (Lions) all being taken off the market in the blink of an eye, it was clear General Manager Jerry Reese & Co. had to strike while the iron was hot. And although Mundy is far from a superstar in this league, he has every bit the resume Stevie Brown had coming into the 2012 and we all saw how that panned out. In other words: in Reese we trust.
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Wow, thanksgiving was a fun time, Stupid brown sweater tights and a brown dress with brown heels to match. God my sisters were dressed similarly, but they don't have to wear stupid sweater tights, and they even will make fun of me because they know sweater tights are itchier than the ones they wear, but they also think I still like wearing tights. My parents were gone all day friday so I was the unlucky one who got bound and gagged using our tights, and then took our three pairs of dirty brown tights. My oldest sister rosey did turn on Nathalie though and fully encased her also. She didn't stop by untying us before our parents got home around 11:30, she put us in our beds fully encased and closed our doors and told us she would come and untie us in the morning. So she told our parents we were sleeping and let us sleep in our tights. They weren't really that comfortable, but they did keep me warm and i actually got a decent nights sleep, but i rather of just slept without my tights on and covering my whole body. The worst was that these tights were dity and my sisters spent most of the day helping in the kitchen were it got pretty warm so they definetly sweated a little bit while wearing them. Also the taste of my dirty i had worn on tuesday didn't taste to good in my mouth. We have gym class on tuesday and since my school is so small that they bother having us change, they just don't allow black shoes, so i have to wear a pair of tennis shoes during gym, but my tuesday and friday tights are always really smelly, so they are the worst of the worst for gagging. The first pair of tights i was ever gagged with were my sister Nathalie's dirty blue ribbed tights she had worn to gym that week, they were terrible, but it makes most gags not seems as bad now. But thanksgiving was a fun week, except the wearing tights, and the encasement sleeping wasn't as fun.
Thanks for listening,
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Uncomfortable times
Hi i'm back, and wow have this last week been uncomfortable. Normally at least Saturday i would get a break from wearing tights, but we went to a family function all day Saturday so I had to wear tights all day and then all sunday, and now i'm still wearing them rite now because I came home from school and then we went out to dinner, and i just had to vent while my family is in the other room. It's been terrible wearing these incredibly itchy and uncomfortable tights, but no so this is my 12th straight day of wearing tights, and even though my parents won't even be home tommorow, i'll probably end up bound and gagged with tights while wearing them so this is getting really annoying, if i have time later i'll try to get around to the story about Christmas Break Tights Bondage Bonanza, or so we called the 1 hour movie we made.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Our favorite game
I know i haven't posted for a few days, but I don't want my family knowing about my little venting blog. So everyone is in bed right now, and my mom already picked me out a nice pair of sweater tights for Church tomorrow morning. I'm SOOOO.................. excited to wear them. But back to the point about this post, and that point is about probably the favorite game of me and my sisters. Although they like tights and I don't we do all have kind of a fetish for bondage. We each talked about it with each other, but being girls we couldn't really get rope or anything, but we really wanted to be tied up and tie each other up. So 2 years ago i came home from my friend's house, she had gotten sick and I to go home. Both my parents were working the late shift and wouldn't be home until after 10 so I knew it would just be me and my sister's. I opened the front door and walked in. I slipped off my shoes I had been wearing and then i heard both my sisters heels coming down the stairs. They were both dressed in matching school uniforms(at this time we all went to the same school), navy blue polo shirts, khaki skirts, navy blue tights, and black heels. They also even had blue tights on their head. They both were also carrying huge piles of all our tights. Nathalie then says to Rosey "Darn she's home what are we gonna do about this?" ( I had called to tell them i was on my way home so I figured I would just go along with whatever they said). So roseys says "I think i have a good idea". She then walks over to me and says "Sweetie we're gonna have to keep you out of our way until we're gone, and to do this I'm going to have to ask you to strip to just your panties." So I did as she said even though i was a little unwilling. So Rosie then throws what all 3 of us knew were the most itchy and uncomfortable tights we owned, and said "Why don't you slip into these sweetie." They were mine now and I've worn them to school and so I listened and slipped on the pink, white, and black striped tights. They lead me into the living and closed all the blinds and said that they didn't want anyone seeing what was going on in here. Rosey sat me down and grabben some more tights and bound my arms with 4 or 5 pairs securing my arms. Rosey then layed me on my back and did the same with my legs. I was now securely bound. While she was tieing me up I kept asking questions like why are you doing this and who are you 2, I was kind of playing along with the damsel in distress thing. Nathalie picked up one of our thicker pairs of tights, it was a nice white ribbed pair and it has polka dots on it. She said "We'll tell you if you just shut up and since we're so nice we're going to help you shut up." She then walked over me and told me to open my annoying mouth up, and i wanted to but i wanted to make it a little harder on them so I resisted until Rosey stood me up in a sitting posistion and Rosey yanked my hair and Nathalie shoved the crotch part of the tights into my mouth and wrapped the legs around my head securing the gag. I made a little muffled cry but due the thick nylon in my mouth nothing could come out. Nathalie sighed due to relief and said "See, now we can talk without all of your annoying questions." I just mmmphheed back at her. Rosey then told us that they were the school girl robbers. They went around stealing tights, pantyhose, and knee socks from girls when they're not home, and this is the first time they've been caught while stealing so they're gonna have to prevent me from interfering with them. Then Rosey asked Nathalie if they should the bondage method that they saw on the internet and Nathalie eagerly agreed. They then told me since I like tights so much then i'm going to love this. Nathalie gave rosey 3 pairs of red tights all exactly identical (they were our christmas tights). Rosey pulled one pair of my arms like a huge nylon glove. She then grabbed a few other pairs tights and wrapped them around my encased arms and chest securing them to each other. She then layed me on my back again and encased my legs and pulled the encasement all the way up almost to my breasts and secured the other leg to my gag. I wasn't all for this idea and began mmpphhing alot. So nathalie tells Rosey that she still is a little noisy and they should take care of that before finishing her off. So they take another one of thicker pairs of green and blue tights and wrap them around my alredy gagged mouth to double the size of that gag. I could barely even get any type of sound out. Rosey then chuckled and pulled the final pair of red tights over my head and encased my chest and left me in my nylon cocoon. For the next hour or so tormenting me as the school girl robbers until they got bored of fondling me with my tights. They both pulled of the hoods they had been wearing and smiled. "So, Joscy do you like the style of bondage we found on the internet?" asked rosey. "We found it on the internet" Nathalie stated. We figured if we can't actualy bondage material why not use our two favorite things together. Now i was actually kind of becoming aroused by all this nylon and kind of liked it so i just made a little mmphh that i let them interpret. They said they we're gonna leave my like this for a while so i could get the full feeling and let them know how it felt. So they both picked up their hoods and put them back on went back to being the school girl robbers. They took pictures of me and then took every pair of tights and wrapped them around my body they we're really having fun with me like this, and I was pretty happy. The best picture when i'm sitting there wrapped up in every pair of tights except their 2 hoods, and the 3 pairs we were wearing. So that's how it started our love of tights bondage, The next weekend i got revenge on the both the school girl robbers, I dressed up in red tights with red polo and a red hood. We all love being both aspects of it to whether the encased or encasee we love it. We even, now that my sister can drive, go out to this place called the soxx shop and buy tights that we want to wear or we buy big thick pairs of tights in set's of 3 for encasements, we also buy the thickest pairs for gagging to. Since 2 years ago we've all shoved and had shoved many pairs of tights into our mouths, and we've left each other squirming many times. Another story i'll share another time is about when are parents went on a retreat during the week before christmas, we were all on christmas break, and we went crazy with tights bondage during this week, we actually just for this week all bought like 30 extra pairs of tights, we stretched so many pairs of ripped but it was such a fun week, but that will be for another time.
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
My Family
Hi, my name is joscelyn and I kind of needed a place to vent about my mom and two sisters. I go to a catholic school and both my sisters just graduated to go to a catholic high school. I am in seventh grade, my one sister is in 9th and the oldest is in 12th. Now we all have to wear skirts in these schools and my mom thinks once the weather goes below like 50 - 45 we have to wear tights. Now this isn't really a problem for my sisters for one they kind of like to wear tights and since they are in a more strict school they can only wear grey or blue normal tights. Now since they have left my old school i get all their tights. I have over 30 pairs of these itchy uncomfortable sweater tights (that's what i call them). Last week was the first week this year i've had to wear these uncomfortable tights and i really don't like it. My mom won't let me get tights like my sisters because she says it's a waste of money since i alredy have so many pairs of tights. I really hate it. Me and my sisters still get a long though and we play some fun games with our tights that I will tell you about some other time. Oh and the before the school year started we did a count a collective knee socks and tights and we have 95 pairs of tights, and 54 different pairs of knee socks and we each have 11 pairs of heels plus our normal shoes which we rarely wear.
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Who Thinks "The Bible" Is "The Word of God"
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I think you should read it.
God can make it alive to you.
I am not against the scriptures. I love to read them...
It's just that they are not the word of God. They contain the words of God, spoken in the past.
Plus don't forget prophecies in the scriptures and those that pertain to the last days.
I'm not going to lie, I just had the sudden urge to read as much of the Bible as I can lol. I've been through the Bible, but I dont truly KNOW it... Thank you for this :)Quoting: Luke25
You are right the bible is not the word of god or the words of god.The bible and all other books of scripture from all religions have some sort of truth but very little.God is the God of love and any scripture that is contrary to that fact is not the words of god.The scriptures talk about Jesus and say God put him on the cross to save humanity is this an act from a loving God.Would he kill one to save another,no.Would he command Abraham to kill Issac and put Abraham in a deep depression over the thought,no because that is an unloving act,God only acts in love.God loves everybody even if you despise him and don't believe in him or Jesus he even loves hitler and the likes but because of our free will we will either choose good or bad and the consequences will be or are being fettered out in our lives whether in this life or the next by the law of compensation and the law of attraction.The greatest blasphemy of all is the worship of Jesus as God.God is God and there is none like him, none.Jesus was a mere man just like us only he was sinless which makes him the closest to God and his teachings in the bible were distorted by the writers who didn't understand what he was saying.Jesus's teachings were to pray with faith for Gods divine love to come into or enter our souls, this divine love is the only thing that can transform our souls and brings us closer to him not the amount of love we have for him or Jesus. i could go on forever but i won't.i guess my point is any scripture that is unloving in nature is a misunderstanding or misquote or evil intention of the writer.
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Michael Boyd, who took the acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to New York last year, said that without the overhaul it was trying to push through, the RSC was risking a slow slip into dull irrelevance.
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Actors' union leaders yesterday accused the RSC of "cultural vandalism" by abandoning its London home at the Barbican and slimming its Stratford-upon-Avon season, warning that they would use every means possible to stop the threatened loss of up to 100 jobs. The decision to scrap its permanent company of actors was also attacked as an abandonment of its founding principles.
But Boyd said directors and former artistic directors were united behind the plans. Scrapping the rolling two year contracts for actors, and doing more one-off productions as well as more new plays in bigger spaces, were the only ways to stop the slide towards "institutionalisation," he said.
"Turning round a monster like the RSC, with its highly overdeveloped organisational memory, you are always going to upset someone, because everyone has a different idea of what its cherished values are," he said. "But without putting a little Semtex under an organisation like this you go nowhere. Subtle use of Semtex is not a bad thing."
The burden of its huge, rapidly changing repertory system meant "actors and directors are not really able to give productions the chance they deserve to really make them events. It's relentless," he said. The RSC's artistic director, Adrian Noble, denied he was axing its permanent ensemble of actors in the hope of casting more celebrity names.
"Let's make one thing clear. This is not about loading our stages with Hollywood stars. This has not been the way of the RSC in the past and it won't be the way in the future." But he admitted that the current system of long term contracts was scaring many stars away.
Noble also hit back at fears that without its Barbican residency the company would be out of its depth in the West End shark pool, where theatre owners might seek to exploit its need to have a London presence.
"We have never really been out of the West End in the last 10 years, so I don't think there is any danger of that. And who is to say that we won't also be staging plays in buildings that are not theatres in future?"
He added: "Stratford will always be there".
But he did admit that he wanted to shift the emphasis of the company from a building-based one to an idea-based one.


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1. Re: accounts[$(name)].properties use query...user243865 Oct 26, 2012 1:38 PM (in response to user243865)So,
I figured out i can get the user view into my change password form, seems costly though
all I need really are the userview.accounts[*].properties
and only one specific property at that, boolean true/false called pwsafe
i.e. userview.accounts[$(name)].properties.pwsafe
this boolean is then supposed to be used to "hide" certain accounts from the user in the FieldLoop, which seems a bit complicatec :P
Maybe someone else has a good idea on how to implement it?
What we want is to be able to set a property as admin on any account a user in IdM has (except Lighthouse) and by doing so
hiding that account from the user in change password views and never ever changing password on it, sync or no sync
and Admin should still be able to switch off this flag and change/reset passwords
we want the account linked to a specific user since it will then be deleted with the user when that times comes and also
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I thought my next post would be safe and shallow: house photos! Not so fast. A few tears are falling this week, and I need to make room for them. Now before you cry a river with me, let me just tell you: I'm okay. I might even go so far as to say: this is good for me!
It's just that it's hard to be the new girl. Every. Single. Place. I. Go.
It started on Sunday. I was all out of sorts. Church shopping is WORK! I was keenly aware of my newness...and keenly aware of how everyone else seemed to know each other. And just in case I was about to forget, there was the big, huge VISITOR sign staring me in the face when we returned to the parking lot.
On Monday, I was feeling LONELY. Maybe a visitor hangover? "Lonely, but never alone" is one of my favorite sayings. It validates the feeling of loneliness {which is very real} but reminds me of the truth: that I am never alone because God promises that He is with me ALWAYS.
Today, still feeling the residual emotions from Sunday and Monday, I did something that terrified me.
I went to someone's house who I didn't know...with 60 or 70 other women I didn't know...invited by someone I didn't know...for a Bible study. Not just because I love God and want to know Him more, but because I long for community and deep friendship.
As I walked up the sidewalk to that house, it took everything in me not to turn around and drive home. I was this close to crawling back into my hermit shell. I so don't like being the new girl. {And yet my daughters have been the new girls so bravely! Oh, how I admire them!}
As I watched all these pretty, put-together women greet one another with big hugs and "so good to see you!" squeals, I thought I might cry...right there in that house full of strangers. Not only because I was new and feeling unknown and unseen, but because what in the world had I gotten myself into? Was this going to be a sorority social hour under the guise of "Bible study?"
Oh, me of little faith. God knows me better than that...knows me better than to extend an invitation through a perfect stranger for nothing! Of course He was up to something! I've been asking God to show up for me in big ways since we moved here...and He's doing it.
Here's what gave my heart enough courage to enter that house full of strangers {a description of the Bible study}:
And you know what will give me the courage to go back next week? The warmth of the hostess, the deep heart {and humor} of the teacher, and the authenticity of the women who were there. Yes, you read that right. Those women were REAL. They had STORIES. Deep, good stories. When will I learn not to judge a book by its cover...or a girl by her perfect highlights and skinny jeans?"Most of us believe that God sent Jesus to deliver us from our sin, but it's a lot harder to wrap our minds around the truth that God also sent His Son to earth in a suit of skin because He delights in us. God thinks we're the bomb. We had Him at hello! The Song of Songs is an engaging - quite racy even - true Old Testament love story that reveals God's delight in tangible, unforgettable ways. It teaches us how to lean into a sweeter, more intimate relationship with our Redeemer, as well as how we can restore intimacy with Jesus after one of our inevitable prodigal or dry spiritual seasons."
God is good, y'all. He's stretching me far beyond my comfort zone through this move, but He's showing up for me left and right.


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EVERY Sunday morning, we bustle into the car, kids freshly washed and dressed.
We come together to congregate in massive structures, with elevated roofs and wide aisles, seeking comfort and release.
I'm talking, of course, about Bunnings. Or Costco, or Direct Factory Outlet, or any number of the new ''big box'' warehouse-style retail outlets that have sprung up in our suburbs.
Australians love to shop.
There has been much talk lately of the death of the Aussie consumer.
The global financial crisis has battered spirits, but the Aussie shopper will not be beaten.
Provided he or she can keep her job, that is.
It is true households are saving more and opting to paying down their mortgages.
The household savings rate is up. We are, on average, saving an about 10 per cent of everything we earn.
Before the GFC, we spent every dollar, and then some.
But the savings rate has recently stopped rising.
As long as incomes keep growing, this means consumers should have a little extra money to spare.
And with the Reserve Bank having slashed interest rates to historic lows, 2013 looks set to mark the return of the Aussie shopper.
Indeed, we may already be there.
Retail sales figures show turnover at traditional retail stores grew only about 3 per cent last year.
But this only accounts for about 30 per cent of the total spending we do. It ignores, for instance, car sales and purchases of services like hairdressing.
According to Commonwealth Bank economist, Michael Workman, if you look at wider measures, consumers are well and truly spending again.
''The shocking reality is that overall consumer spending is growing at 6 per cent per annum, right in line with its 10-year average.''
So, we still love to shop. But our shopping habits have changed dramatically.
We don't love the same stores we used to. And we don't shop in the same way.
As a consequence, despite growing spending, 2013 is shaping up as another year of massive upheaval in the Australian retail industry.
Last year saw Darrell Lea and Payless Shoes went into administration.
The year before saw the demise of Colorado Group, Angus and Robertson, Borders, Sleep City and Ed Hardy.
Quentin Olde is a partner at insolvency firm Taylor Woodings. He's a corporate undertaker, of sorts.
Olde predicts many other iconic Australian retail brands won't survive the year.
''There will be a number of household brands that will disappear,'' he said during an economic briefing last week.
''Retailers are struggling. They will have to change their models.''
Increasing competition from foreign retail brands like Zara and Costco have fundamentally reshaped the retail landscape, says Olde.
Despite weak consumer confidence in recent years, Australians remain a relatively wealthy nation in a world where high joblessness in Europe and America means those consumers are keeping an iron like grip on the purse strings.
This invasion of foreign retailers offers Australian shoppers more choices while creating new jobs. But it is also putting pressure on struggling domestic retailers.
''During a time of low confidence, competition has increased,'' explains Olde.
Retailers with high-cost retail foot prints are looking to restructure their businesses.
Olde predicts there will be a polarisation of the retail space.
First, retailers will continue to embrace the Walmart or ''big box'' warehouse style shopping experience.
''That's about lowering your retail property foot print,'' says Olde.
''You take yourself out of the high street and put yourself into a low cost retail space.''
The focus is on price, not customer service.
''You don't expect attention from a staff member when you enter the door. Consumers understand that model.''
At the other end of the market, there will be smaller, high street stores focused on offering quality products and the shopping ''experience'' to help part consumers with their money.
''People who walk into a Louis Vuitton store aren't going to worry about how much they're going to spend on a handbag because otherwise they wouldn't be there.''
Existing retailers are also adapting to the shift to online sales.
JB HiFi, for example, has begun selling white goods, in addition to its traditional audio and visual products which people increasingly purchase online.
''People don't buy a fridge online,'' explains Olde.
''When people buy a fridge, they want to listen to how the door closes and see how the ice machine works.''
Other retailers, like Dan Murphy, have started offering ''click and collect'' services, allowing shoppers to purchase online and have their order ready to be picked up.
Olde also predicts shopping will increasingly focus on ''the wellness concept'' as shoppers seek goods and services that boost their family's health and happiness, like sporting equipment, gyms, massages and pampering.
Consumers will also increasingly spend more on experiences, like holidays, rather than things.
For all the gloom, the Aussie shopper is not dead, just sleeping.
Given the retail industry remains the biggest employer of Australians, the return of the Aussie shopper would be very good news for jobs and growth.
It is Aussie shoppers, not big miners, who must drive the economic recovery in 2013.
$15 billion: Estimated value of annual online retail sales, or 6 per cent of all retail sales.
20%: Increase in online retail sales over the past year.
58%: Percent of Australians who say now is a 'good time to buy' major household items, according to Roy Morgan
43%: Percent who expect their family to be "better off" financial in 12 months.
12%: Percent who expect their family to be "worse off" financially in 12 months.
Million: Number of cars sold in Australia last year.
18%: Increase in car sales last year, compared to the year before.
85%: Percent of car sales that are of imported vehicles
Originally published as Aust shoppers not dead, just sleeping


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- Herengracht Residence
"The locations is very good, and the apartment is rented by a professional firm. They were very accommodating for our child as well. Would definitely stay again."Jul 17, 2017
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Zuideramstel apartments - RAI area, Amsterdam's small print
Also known as
- area RAI
- RAI area
- Zuideramstel apartments
- Zuideramstel apartments RAI area
- Zuideramstel apartments RAI area Amsterdam
- Zuideramstel RAI area
- Zuideramstel RAI area Amsterdam
Accommodations are situated at multiple addresses.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
Cash deposit: EUR 250.00 per stay
- Cleaning fee: EUR 50 per accommodation, per stay (varies per unit size)
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 30
Late check-in between 8 PM and 8 AM can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 50
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 50
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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