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Bring on the biscuits.
This weekend, we're heading down to the International Biscuit Festival in Knoxville, TN. This celebration of home-cooking centers on "the most perfect of foods," the biscuit. It will truly be a biscuit lover's heaven, with a biscuit breakfast, biscuit cook-off, biscuit boulevard and more. Here are just a few of the highlights:
Biscuit Benefit Dinner
Friday night is highlighted by an event that gives back: the Biscuit Benefit Dinner. This fund raising event will benefit the Festival's charity partners Share Our Strength and Second Harvest, working together to eliminate childhood hunger in our country. The meal is hosted by Blackberry Farm and features guest chef Michelle Bernstein, a James Beard Foundation award-winning chef from Miami, FL. Bernstein is known for her Latin-style flavors of cooking, so it should be interesting to see the menu she puts together for the Biscuit dinner!
Friday, May 27th, at 7 p.m.
Biscuit Bake-Off
The search for the best biscuit around comes to a close Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Biscuit Bake-Off. Finalists in four categories (traditional biscuits, dessert biscuits, most creative biscuit, and kids' biscuits) will compete for prizes. Last year's Grand Champion was the "Fat Elvis Biscuit," a Peanut Butter, Banana and Bacon delight pictured above.
Saturday, May 28th, at 1 p.m.
Biscuit Boulevard
Take a walk through the Biscuit tasting area. One ticket allows you to sample the Biscuit offerings of some of the best Biscuit bakers around, all vying for the title of Best Biscuit!
Saturday, May 28th, at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Miss and Mr. Biscuit Pageant
Who will take home the coveted crown of Miss/Mr. Biscuit? Be sure to check out the Miss and Mr. Biscuit pageant to find out. Contestants will be judged on Biscuit Making Fashion, Poise, and a Biscuit-related Talent.
Saturday, May 28th, at 2 p.m.
There's plenty more biscuit goodness to check out at the Festival on May 26th, 27th, and 28th: Stop by for a Biscuit Breakfast or Biscuit Brunch; catch some live tunes Thursday night at the Pre Heat Show or catch a performance by the Black Lillies on Saturday night. For the full list of events, visit biscuitfest.com.
Follow the Festival on twitter and Facebook to keep up with the lasting happenings.
Craving biscuits now?


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Is Project AWARE Your Charity of Choice?
Wavecrest Scuba, Newquay in the UK are fantastic supporters of Project AWARE. I catch up with IDC Staff Instructor and owner Mark Rayner to find out more.
Mark, out of the blue Project AWARE received an amazing £700 donation to support ocean protection. This is a great boost to our fundraising, thank you so much. Can you tell us a little more, how did this donation come about?
My friend Matt's 5 year old boy Joe lost his battle for life in 2008. Joe never stopped smiling and his strength was an inspiration to everyone. The Joe Way Paddle for Life fundraiser is dear to our hearts. It raises awareness of Joe's story and inspires people to raise money for their chosen charity. Project AWARE is one of our charities of choice.
The £700 donation for Project AWARE is thanks to a successful Mayor's Ball in Newquay. It was held on behalf of the Joe Way Trust. At Wavecrest Scuba we're privileged to be a small part of this heartwarming and important appeal and proudly carry Joe's message as often as possible.
As divers we are also deeply concerned about the plight of our aquatic eco-systems and with this in mind, we are happy to work in partnership with Project AWARE.
Your donation will be put to good use to keep our ocean free of rubbish and stop plastics from harming marine animals. Why is this important to you?
I've seen the devastating affect plastic has on marine life around our shore. Discarded nets washed up full of dead sealife. Fish caught in beer can holders. Our seals, struggling with discarded fishing hooks caught in their sides. It needs to be stopped and we are in a fantastic position as divers to promote this.
What else does Wavecrest Scuba do to make a difference?
Whenever we dive we're always on the lookout for discarded line, plastic, fishing weights and other rubbish that people throw away without thinking about it. We teach our student divers to be considerate of the marine environment. We encourage divers to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course. We also ask them to pick up anything that shouldn't be there, from shopping bags to car tyres.
Once we've shown people the damage rubbish can do they are more passionate about recycling and pass the message along to friends and family too.
Thanks so much Mark and Wavecrest Scuba – fantastic AWARE ambassadors!
Interested in fundraising? Check out Project AWARE's fundraising ideas and help raise much needed funds for the ocean you love.
To make a donation go to www.projectaware.org/donate
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I think that this book was a good perspective on what dreams and future you can have if you just believe in yourself. Think about what the two people in this story are trying too tell you about their life. Author: Cristina Kessler Reviewed by Amanda
I haven't read this one, but here is a summary from the online catalog: "Ignoring her parents' wishes, as well as the customary place of women in Timbuktu society, twelve-year-old Ayisha joins her twin brother in trying to stop a pair of tourists from stealing an ancient manuscript."
Trouble in Timbuktu sounds good and I think I'll take Amanda's advice and put that one on hold. I would like to learn about Timbuktu – which is actually a real place. It is a city in the West African nation of Mali. It's not just an imaginary far away place, like when we sarcastically describe someplace as, "in Timbuktu!" – meaning – really, really far away.
- Google Look Inside Trouble in Timbuktu
- Cristina Kessler Official Website


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DETROIT -police search for a man suspected of firing bullets at several vehicles on roads between Ingham County and Oakland County.
Five high school bands from the state's west side are planning to be at Detroit's Ford Field this weekend to compete in a regional band competition, but the bus drivers will not be taking the normal route to Detroit by way of eastbound Interstate 96.
Instead, they have mapped out another route to avoid any trouble along the interstate. Since Oct. 16, 24 shootings incidents have been reported, but only three along a stretch of I-96.
"The worry is just safety for our students," said Grandville High School Principal Randy Morris. "If these shootings are random then a big yellow school bus going down the highway could be a target."
Morris said the Grandville buses will carry a total of 100 school marching band members. Parents also will be driving behind the bus. Bus drivers will have to drive about 17 miles out of the way. School leaders say they would rather be safe than sorry.
"We're entrusted with the most precious things (the parents) have in their lives -- their sons and their daughters," said Morris.
-- Police have a sketch of what the suspect may look like.
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Convenient Ways to Pay Personal Property Tax
Sept. 17, 2010
News Highlights
Oct. 5 is the deadline to pay the 2010 Personal Property Tax. Fairfax County provides residents with several convenient payment options that can save time and gas. These include paying online; cash payments at Shoppers Food and Pharmacy locations; or paying by mail. There also are extended tax payment hours at the Fairfax County Government Center, Suite 223:
- Sept. 27-29, Oct. 1, 4 and 5: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sept. 30: 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 2: 8 a.m. to noon.
Tax payments can be made:
- Online – Visit the Department of Tax Administration and pay by check or credit card. (Credit card companies charge a service fee.)
- Shoppers Food and Pharmacy and other Global Express locations – Bring cash payment and bill to pay at customer service desk at Shoppers Food and Pharmacy stores throughout Virginia. For additional Global Express locations, call 1-800-989-6669, option 3, then option 4. Only cash payments are accepted, and there is a $1.25 service fee by Global Express.
- At banks – Pay by check or cash (not credit card) at Fairfax County branches of Bank of America, SunTrust and Wachovia. Residents must bring their bill and pay the exact amount billed.
- Credit card by phone – Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If using VISA, MasterCard and American Express, call 703-222-6740, TTY 711. If using Discover, call 703-222-8234, TTY 703-222-7594. (Credit card companies charge a service fee.)
- By mail – Send bill and checks only (no cash) payable to the Fairfax County Department of Tax Administration, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 223, Fairfax, VA 22035. Payments must be postmarked before or on Oct. 5.
- In person – Pay by check, cash, credit card or debit card at the Fairfax County Government Center, Department of Tax Administration, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 223, Fairfax. (Credit card companies charge a service fee.)
There is a 10 percent penalty plus interest for late personal property tax payments, and a 25 percent penalty for payments more than 30 days past due. Late payments are subject to multiple collection actions and additional fees. Personal property includes automobiles, trucks, motor homes, motorcycles, trailers, campers, boats, outboard motors, planes and business property. More information is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dta.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
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Hand Prayer Wheel
19th century
Silver, turquoise, wood, shell, cloth, paper, and copper, length 23.5 cm
Location: Short Gallery
Accession Number: M17e25
Isabella Gardner bought a prayer wheel at a bazaar in Darjeeling where Bhutanese, Tibetans, and Lepdras came to sell goods. The following day, January 28, 1884, she saw worshippers at a Tibetan monastery walking around a pagoda using prayer wheels. These devices were only slowly becoming known in the West as a component of Tibetan Buddhist practice. With each movement of the wrist and turn of the wheel, a prayer or mantra (written numerous times on a roll of paper enclosed by a red cloth and the silver cylinder) is disseminated in the air, conferring religious merit on the bearer. The movement is fueled by a copper ball-and-chain governor connected to the center of the silver cylinder.
Hand prayer wheels (and similar devices driven by water, air, and even modern technologies) are used by Tibetans of all classes, and are called mani (jewel) wheels because they are associated with the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, and his Six Syllables Mantra, "om mani padme hum," which can be translated as "hail the jewel-lotus" or "hail to the jewel in the lotus."1 This is also the mantra written in Tibetan on the roll enclosed in Isabella Gardner's wheel.
Twelve turquoises (one is now missing), arranged in four groups, decorate a band that separates two openwork sections of the cylinder. Among the leafy decorations are the eight auspicious Buddhist symbols: in the upper band are the parasol, endless knot, canopy, and conch; in the lower band are the wheel, treasure vase, lotus flower, and golden fishes. The carved wooden handle is inlaid with small pieces of shell.
1 From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum. Exh. cat. Newark Museum, 1999-2000. By Valrae Reynolds et al.: 55–56. For a different interpretation, see Dan Martin, "On the origin and significance of the prayer wheel according to two nineteenth-century Tibetan literary sources," Journal of the Tibet Society 7 (1987): 13-29.
Source: Pedro Moura Carvalho, "Jewelry and Objects from India," in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009): 462-63.


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This article was published 21/11/2012 (1735 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I brought a stray, freezing kitten home that I found dumped in the big snow, and my live-in won't let me keep it. This is consistent with her "keep the house clean" and "don't make love if it's messy" policy. I find out, now that we're living together, the reason she doesn't have pets is because she hates them. She doesn't like their neediness, the extra cost, the need to take care of them and show them love and affection. She always pretended to like people's dogs and cats when we visited them and never said one word against them. She knows I want a cat again, as I had one in my family until I moved in with her. Today I'm feeling so bitter as I must take this kitten to the no-kill centre. I feel like taking my girlfriend and dumping her off instead! I told my best buddy this. He said I'm overreacting but I'm really angry and disappointed in her. I don't think I want her as a wife to my children someday. She would deny them pets too. Am I looking too far down the road? -- Very Angry, Downtown
Dear Angry: Living together is a good idea when you need to find out if someone is going to be your mate for life, and the mother of your children. This woman is not the earth mother type you need -- unafraid of dirt, loving animals big and small, happy to go out in the fresh air with dogs, OK with helping clean litter boxes. You need to marry the kind of woman who isn't angry with the messes kids make when playing, or resentful that she has to change dirty diapers. Your whole body is telling you something today, so listen. You need to move on and it can be now, or you can waste some more time and it can be later. But, this is not the final answer in terms of a woman for you to marry. One instance, in this case, is a big red flag, so your buddy is wrong in saying you're overreacting. Heed the red flags!
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I'm writing in response to Tempted to Pull the Plug, who was asking for advice on what to do about his wife's cold attitude towards his son. My advice is to end it! I went through a similar situation as the son, when I was around his age. My stepmother would mock my voice (I have a disability that affects it), would accuse me of giving her or her son "dirty looks" completely out of the blue, and would pick on me for preferring to stay indoors and read rather than going outside to play. My father would usually take her side in a fight, and there was such hostility that I ended up crying myself to sleep most nights. When I was just hitting my teenage years I went to live with my mom permanently, and I only speak to my father a few times a year now. If Pull the Plug decides to stay with his wife, I can guarantee that his relationship with his son will never be the same. At some level the son will always feel resentment towards his father for choosing his wife over his son. -- Been There And It Hurts, Winnipeg
Dear Been There: There's not too much that puzzles me in human behaviour, but this has always confounded me. How could a man or woman stay in love with a person who was cruel to their children and how could that blood parent take the side of the abuser he or she married? How can a person be "turned on" by someone who has mocked their children earlier in the evening and made them cry themselves to sleep? I just don't get it. Maybe somebody out there can explain why they let the step-parent they married stay on, and treat their kids badly sometimes for years and years. That would be enlightening to us all.


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Archive for March, 2011
InDesign multi-state objects in interactive PDFs
InDesign has cool multi-state objects that let you create some really awesome effects. You can use these to create slideshows and other interactive content. As you might have noticed, multi-state objects work in SWF output only. So what do you do if you want to include a slideshow in an interactive PDF?
You can add multi-state objects to interactive PDFs. It is a little cumbersome and clumsy, but works quite well.
A simple two-step process; so simple, that most of you might be doing this already!
- Create a multi-state object and export to SWF.
- Place the SWF in your main document.
See Create Multi-state objects in the InDesign help for information about multi-state objects.
For example, if you want to add a slideshow to an interactive PDF, do the following:
Create a multi-state slideshow
- Create your slideshow in a new document.
- Export to SWF. See this for more information on exporting to SWF.
It'll help if you specify the dimensions as per the frame where you're going to place it.
Bob Bringhurst, has written a nice overview about Multi-state objects here.
InDesign CS5 introduces a new kind of page item designed for creating slide shows in a SWF file. A multi-state object changes its content when a button is clicked in a SWF file. To create a multi-state object, place a bunch of images in your document and align them in a stack. Select them all, and then click the New button in the Object States panel to create a multi-state object. Then use the Buttons panel—which has been enhanced in InDesign CS5—to create navigate arrows that jump to the next or previous state in the multi-state object.
Place SWF in your main document
- Choose File > Place and place the SWF file.
- Specify Poster settings.
For more information see Add movies and sound files to documents.
Export to interactive PDF
- Choose File > Export.
- Specify a name and location for the file.
- For Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS), choose Adobe PDF (Interactive), and then click Save.
- Specify options in the Export To Interactive PDF dialog box, and then click OK.
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My very smart and funny colleague Lucy Kellaway has just released a novel about love in the office, called In Office Hours, published by Penguin. If you like reading Lucy's columns (on work, on office problems and as 'Martin Lukes') – and I haven't met a single reader who has anything but enthusiastic things to say about her – then you really should buy this book. It's a roaring read.
It will not be published in the US until next year but you can buy it at Amazon's UK site.


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Faith Comes By Hearing
Josiah to the nations
de Troy D. Carl
Acerca del libro
Offering every person on our planet equal access to the Bible requires meeting the unique needs of generations, technical societies, and fast-paced lifestyles. It also means meeting the cultural and literacy challenges presented when working in underdeveloped countries. Faith Comes By Hearing is rising to meet the biblical needs of a complex world through modern technology. MP3 players, BibleSticks for all ages, and third-world culturally adapted playback units are just a taste of the technology that God is using to spread His Word throughout the world with Faith Comes By Hearing programs.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Fe y religión
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
40 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación sep. 28, 2007
- Etiquetas Audio Bible, American Bible Society, Faith Comes By Hearing, Bible, Christian, Orality, Wycliffe, Hosanna
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Troy Carl is a seasoned and anointed minister of the gospel, called of God to be an "influencer" for the cause of Christ. Troy is a graduate of the Word of Faith Bible College in Dallas, Texas and an ordained minister, serving as the Assistant Pastor of the Believers Center of Albuquerque for nine years. In 1995, Troy was led to expand his sphere of influence and enter the secular workplace, where God has blessed him with tremendous success. As an Executive, Troy has developed large, national sales organizations numbering in the hundreds of thousands for multi-million dollar companies. He has also served on the Board of Directors for public companies like Cognigen Networks Inc. (OTCBB: CGNW) Troy attributes his success to applying Biblical principles in a practical way. With a focus on developing relationships, Troy has helped to strengthen and encourage the spiritual walk of thousands of business men and women across the United States. Troy is a regular speaker at churches,
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:: W/I Composition II
Spring 2014
@Leeward CC
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|Credit Hours:
Donna Matsumoto
|Instructional Mode:
|01/13/2014 - 05/16/2014
|Course Requirements:
|Students will be contacted by their instructor by UH Email before the first day of instruction. Students must check their UH Email for course correspondence before the first day of instruction.
|Course Prerequisites:
|English 100 or equivalent with a grade of C or higher; or approval from the Language Arts Division
|Course Description:
|Students learn how to plan, develop, organize, and edit various writing projects with clarity and precision. Students write various kinds of papers, including a research project, using general practices within specific areas of concentration.
Maimon: The McGraw-Hill Handbook 3/e packaged with Connect Composition 2.0
|Technical Requirements:
|Students must have a computer with Internet access. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
Students must have a UH Email account.
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|Alternate Technology Access Plan: In registering for a Distance Education course (Cable or Web) the student is responsible for finding immediate alternate access to a computer with Internet connectivity should that student experience technical difficulties. Technical difficulties can include but are not limited to problems with a student's computer hardware/software or lack of service by a student's Internet Service Provider (ISP). Technical issues do not constitute the extension of an assignment, project, quiz or exam deadline unless agreed upon by the instructor.
An alternate technology access plan needs to be established by the student prior to the start of the semester and should be implemented immediately upon encountering technical difficulties. The student is required to continue course work as a result of having an alternate plan of access while independently resolving any technical issues with hardware/software, or ISP.
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Odorizzi off his game against powerful Orioles
Right-hander gives up four homers over four-plus innings in tough loss
BALTIMORE -- Something wasn't right with Jake Odorizzi on Monday night.
"He didn't have his typical swing-and-miss stuff tonight," said Rays manager Joe Maddon about his starting pitcher. "That's the best way I can describe it. ... Jake's been hit a little bit, but not like that in a while."
First-place Baltimore flexed its collective muscle by pounding Odorizzi and the Rays in a 9-1 win at Camden Yards.
The Rays fell to 11 games behind the Orioles in the American League East after gaining two games over the weekend. The Orioles snapped a three-game losing streak by banging out five home runs and 14 hits, a performance that came on the heels of the Orioles weekend in Chicago when they scored a total of four runs on 13 hits in three games.
"That's baseball, man," Maddon said. "And we've got a guy there that's been really good at missing bats. So it just didn't want to work tonight.
"They beat us up, give them credit, they beat us up. ... They were squaring it up. They weren't fouling it off. They weren't missing it. It was being hit hard. ... Those balls were big fly balls."
Twice the Orioles hit back-to-back home runs off Odorizzi, who surrendered the most home runs by a Rays starter since James Shields on June 2, 2011, at Seattle. He also earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first Rays pitcher to allow back-to-back home runs twice in the same game.
Baltimore's first onslaught came in the third when Nick Markakis hit a two-run homer to right off Odorizzi and Steve Pearce followed with a solo shot to put the Orioles up 3-1.
Delmon Young hit a three-run homer to deep left in the fifth and the next batter, J.J. Hardy, added a solo shot to chase Odorizzi.
"It's good [to bounce back like they did] because it seemed like y'all went in panic mode when we got swept in Chicago," Young said. "We weren't scoring many runs, but it happens and then we're back in our division at home facing a guy we've seen before, a team we play, we know their tendencies and everything. And we've got better facilities here than Wrigley."
Odorizzi, who had been 4-0 with a 2.45 ERA over his previous five road starts, allowed eight runs on 11 hits in four-plus innings to take his 11th loss of the season.
The right-hander allowed that his fastball had a different action than normal.
"It was running back over the plate ... which is something different for me and I didn't even notice it," Odorizzi said.
Finally, fellow starter Alex Cobb and pitching coach Jim Hickey called the problem to Odorizzi's attention after the third inning. He thought he'd gotten back on track with a scoreless fourth before the bottom fell out in the fifth.
"I guess I was doing something a little bit different that was making it run instead of stay true and ride the type of fastball that I can get people out with up in the zone," Odorizzi said. "But tonight it was just a little different. And we'll address if between now and the next start.
"...I left a few balls up and they made the most of it when I made mistakes. ... Frustrating that I let the guys down. We need these games right now. That was the biggest disappointment for my night. I didn't give us a chance to win."
Kirby Yates took over for Odorizzi and the treatment looked all too familiar when Chris Davis greeted him with a home run to right-center field, giving the Orioles three consecutive home runs and a 9-1 lead.
Meanwhile, Orioles starter Chris Tillman pitched effectively throughout his seven innings, allowing an unearned run on three hits while striking out two to earn his 11th win of the season.
"He's turned into a pretty good pitcher," Maddon said. "Locating his fastball well. Got a lot of ground balls. He's not necessarily the big strikeout guy. But he cut the ball away from the righties and threw the good curveball when he wanted to for a strike. ... He pitched really well."
Maddon told reporters prior to the game that his team would continue to try and win the division. Those chances now look remote given the Orioles' lead combined with the fact the Rays have just 31 games remaining.
"Until the math tells me just to give up, I'm not going to," Maddon said. "We just came off a really hard-fought series in Toronto -- we didn't lose a game -- now you come in here and you get blown up one night. You just throw it in the trash can and move on."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Line deep dish pie pan with pie crust; fill with apple mixture. Using apple cutter, cut out vents in remaining pie crust. Place crust over filing, crimping and fluting edges. Arrange cut out pastry on top of pie; brush crust with egg white. Bake 45-50 minutes or until apples are bubbly and crust is deep golden brown. Remove pie from oven. Cool pie in pan on cooling rack at least 1 hour before serving.


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Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month.
"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."
Clues to this habitable environment come from data returned by the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments. The data indicate the Yellowknife Bay area the rover is exploring was the end of an ancient river system or an intermittently wet lake bed that could have provided chemical energy and other favorable conditions for microbes. The rock is made up of a fine-grained mudstone containing clay minerals, sulfate minerals and other chemicals. This ancient wet environment, unlike some others on Mars, was not harshly oxidizing, acidic or extremely salty.
The patch of bedrock where Curiosity drilled for its first sample lies in an ancient network of stream channels descending from the rim of Gale Crater. The bedrock also is fine-grained mudstone and shows evidence of multiple periods of wet conditions, including nodules and veins.
Curiosity's drill collected the sample at a site just a few hundred yards away from where the rover earlier found an ancient streambed in September 2012.
"Clay minerals make up at least 20 percent of the composition of this sample," said David Blake, principal investigator for the CheMin instrument at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
These clay minerals are a product of the reaction of relatively fresh water with igneous minerals, such as olivine, also present in the sediment. The reaction could have taken place within the sedimentary deposit, during transport of the sediment, or in the source region of the sediment. The presence of calcium sulfate along with the clay suggests the soil is neutral or mildly alkaline.
"The range of chemical ingredients we have identified in the sample is impressive, and it suggests pairings such as sulfates and sulfides that indicate a possible chemical energy source for micro-organisms," said Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator of the SAM suite of instruments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
An additional drilled sample will be used to help confirm these results for several of the trace gases analyzed by the SAM instrument.
"We have characterized a very ancient, but strangely new 'gray Mars' where conditions once were favorable for life," said John Grotzinger, Mars Science Laboratory project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. "Curiosity is on a mission of discovery and exploration, and as a team we feel there are many more exciting discoveries ahead of us in the months and years to come."
Scientists plan to work with Curiosity in the "Yellowknife Bay" area for many more weeks before beginning a long drive to Gale Crater's central mound, Mount Sharp. Investigating the stack of layers exposed on Mount Sharp, where clay minerals and sulfate minerals have been identified from orbit, may add information about the duration and diversity of habitable conditions.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project has been using Curiosity to investigate whether an area within Mars' Gale Crater ever has offered an environment favorable for microbial life. Curiosity, carrying 10 science instruments, landed seven months ago to begin its two-year prime mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
For more about the mission, visit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl . You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity
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AN elderly woman was cut free from her car and airlifted to hospital after crashing into a tree.
The incident in Corbett Avenue, Droitwich, happened at about 12.45pm today (Friday) and the woman, who was in her 80s, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by the Midlands Air Ambulance which landed in the grounds of Chateau Impney Hotel.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "The Chateau grounds was the nearest location for the landing of the air ambulance and an attending fire officer then took the aircrew by road to the scene of the collision.
"A woman in her eighties who was driving the car had back pain. The fire service cut the roof off the car.
She was immobilised by ambulance personnel, then taken by one of the two attending land ambulances to the air ambulance which flew her to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
"Her husband who was a passenger in the car had no visible injuries, but was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital as a precaution."


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Drought conditions may cause some disruptions in water availability. For example, springs or surface water sources for grazing animals may cease to supply adequate water during drought conditions.
Emergency response plans should be developed to procure the water that animals need, points out Maurice Eastridge, professor and extension dairy specialist at The Ohio State University.
The approximate total water needs for the farm should be assessed, assuming the following:
- Heifers: 1 gallon per day per 75 pounds of body weight
- Dry cows: 12 to 16 gallons per day
- Lactating cows: 8 to 10 gallons per day, plus 0.35 gallon per pound of milk
Water deprivation severely limits animal performance and can be life-threatening in a short period of time, Eastridge says. Once water deprivation has occurred for an extended period of time, animals should NOT be given immediate free choice to water. Overconsumption of water at this point can cause severe health issues. At first, limit animal exposure to the water, followed later with free-choice water.


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Otley has been named as one of the most desirable locations in the UK.
The market town is a fresh entry in The Sunday Times' new Best Places to Live 'top 101' list.
The paper's judges based their selection on a range of factors including the local environment, crime rates, community spirit, the performance of local schools and house prices.
Although Otley couldn't match fellow market town Skipton - which actually topped the list - local politicians were still thrilled by its inclusion.
MP Greg Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North West) said: "It is great to hear that Otley has been named as one of the best places to live in Britain.
"The town is a great place to live with excellent schools, shops, parks, pubs, cafes and other local amenities and surrounded by beautiful countryside, including Chevin Forest Park.
"Otley has an abundance of positive community spirit, as shown by the many active organisations who do so much to contribute to the town and its series of excellent festivals, while Otley Show and Otley Carnival are great for locals and visitors alike.
"So this recognition is really recognition of the hard work of local people who work hard to make Otley the great place it is."
Otley Town Council leader Councillor John Eveleigh (Lab, Ashfield) said: "This is a great accolade for the town - and for those of us who are fortunate enough to live here we can confirm the Sunday Times' findings.
"Otley has a great sense of community and we should certainly celebrate that, but also realise that building a community doesn't happen by chance - we should take a moment to reflect on the great volunteers across a whole range of groups and organisations who give up their time, talents and energy to make Otley what it is. The recognition from the Sunday Times survey is very welcome.
"Quality of life is important, as are Otley's excellent schools working well together, our low crime rates, and the high number of quality shops.
"Our great festivals and events, along with genuine community spirit, all demonstrate that the town deserves this recognition."
Councillor Ryk Downes (Lib Dem, Otley & Yeadon) added: "This is fantastic news for Otley, and confirms what many in the town already knew - it is a great place, not only to live, but to work and visit. There are so many annual events in Otley, every month there is at least one happening to draw people in and celebrate.
"It makes me very proud and humble to represent Otley as a councillor."
Otley was one of 15 places in Yorkshire and the north east that made the list.


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EUGENE, Ore. - Rising sophomore Brendan Shearn posted a top-15 finish for Team USA at the World Junior Track & Field Championships on Tuesday night at historic Hayward Field.Shearn was the top American in the 10,000 meters.
A native of Asland, Pa., Shearn capped an impressive freshman year with a 15th-place finish of 30:24.30. His American teammate, Jonathan Green of Georgetown, finished 24th with a time of 31:15.69. Africa boasted the top six finishers with Joshua Kiprui of Uganda earning the win at 28:32.86.
Shearn owns the fourth-fastest time in school history in the 10,000 meters. He finished in the top five at the Penn Relays with a collegiate-best time of 29:49.04. Also during his rookie campaign, Shearn qualified for the NCAA Championships in the event and earned a silver medal at the USA Junior Championships.
Shearn and the rest of the Quakers will be back on campus in late August for the start of preseason. The first cross country meet of 2014 is set for Sept. 12 at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.


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By Donovan Slack
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday hailed the success of the Violence Against Women Act, saying domestic violence has dropped by 60 percent since it was signed into law 18 years ago. But he also decried congressional gridlock that has left a strengthened reauthorization of the act in legislative limbo. Biden said in a statement issued on the law's anniversary that three women still die each day from domestic violence, one in five women have been raped and one in six have been stalked. "While women and girls face these devastating realities every day, reauthorization of a strengthened VAWA languishes in Congress," he said. "VAWA is just as important today as it was when it first became law, and I urge Congress to keep the promise we made to our daughters and our granddaughters on that day—that we would work together to keep them safe." The Senate passed a bill in April that would expand protections under the law to undocumented immigrants, same-sex partners and Native American women. The House then passed its own version without those protections. The two have yet to be reconciled.
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LAMPS BEAUTIFUL Tiffany Style Craftsman Mission Table Lamp by Kichler
Just gorgeous! I love it! Would look beautiful anywhere...
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7 Ways to Overcome a Weight Loss Plateauby Toby Amidor in Diets, September 21, 2012
Your weight loss journey began with the pounds melting away. Then one day BOOM, you've entered a weight loss plateau and can't lose another pound. The worst thing to do is give up. Instead follow our tips to help you start losing again.
What's a Weight Loss Plateau?
During the first week or so of a new weight loss plan, you'll often find that you're losing weight at a quick rate. This happens due to a combo of cutting calories, increasing exercise and water weight loss. Once your body becomes accustomed to the changes and settles into a new equilibrium, it needs fewer calories to accomplish the same activities. In order to get your body to continue to lose weight, you don't want to slash calories to the max. Instead, you need to examine the nitty gritty details of your daily life and activities to see where small changes can be made. Here are 7 places to start.
#1: Measure and Weigh
I often see food records that are inaccurate. You think you ate one serving or four ounces of meat when in reality it's much more. Studies also reveal that most folks underestimate how much they really eat. Use a simple food scale and keep your measuring spoons and cups handy.
#2: Nibbling Counts!
If you like to grab a few fries from your kid's plate or a handful of gummy candy from your co-workers stash—those all count. Slashing those extra calories can really make a difference in your weight loss efforts.
#3: Rev Up Your Workout
You want to increase your workout in small increments—so if you've been walking for 30 minutes several days a week, add 10 to 15 minutes to your exercise time. You can also increase the intensity by changing a walk into a brisk walk or light jog.
#4: Keep a Log
Although food diaries take a lot of effort, this is the time where they can really come in handy. It's also important to make sure you keep very exact records so you can really pinpoint trigger foods, times of the day where you run to the vending machine or other types of habits that you can tackle.
#5: Keep It Reasonable
I've seen clients become so frustrated with weight loss plateaus that they severely restrict calories and go overboard with exercise. Once you restrict calories below 1,200 calories per day, it becomes unhealthy and the body starts to think that you are in "starvation mode." You want to lose weight in a healthy way, by creating habits and eating patterns that you can uphold over time.
#6: Keep a Positive Attitude
Many folks become depressed and discouraged when the weight loss plateau lasts longer than expected. They end up regaining the weight that took a lot of hard work to lose. It's very important to keep your spirits up and move forward with a positive attitude.
#7: See a Registered Dietitian
If you're becoming frustrated and are unsure of your next steps, a registered dietitian can help. They're trained to look at a wide variety of factors including your food and lifestyle habits, medical and family history. You can find a registered dietitian near you by visiting the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website.
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Freedom Week Carissa Phelps Film
Friday, January 18, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
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Event Details
Join us for a very special event featuring survivor and advocate, Carissa Phelps. She will be presenting the documentary that was made about her experience as a victim of sex trafficking and will answer questions from the audience.
In 2012, Carissa Phelps added CEO of Runaway Girl, Inc. to her list of titles, which also include: attorney, crisis counselor, mentor, and advocate for runaway and homeless youth.
Carissa's unique early life experiences combined with her professional and personal accomplishments have enabled Carissa to envision a world where runaways are cared for and guided on their journey to adulthood.
At 13 years old, Carissa had dropped out of school, and felt there were only two options left for her. The first was an early death, and the second was life in prison. Thanks to the persistence of a counselor and a math teacher in juvenile hall, Carissa changed her mind about what her future might hold. A decade later, she went on to earn a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in mathematics from CSU Fresno (her juvy counselor and juvy teacher's alma mater). After teaching high school math for one year, Carissa went on to pursue her dream of becoming an advocate for the rights of others. In 2007, she earned a Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law, as well as an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
In 2008, David Sauvage, an MBA classmate, told her amazing juvy-to-justice story in an award winning 23- minute documentary entitled, "CARISSA." The film continues to inspire troubled youth and their advocates to look for the potential in themselves and others. Carissa's passion, both in the film and in real life, brings hope to survivors. The Carissa Project began as a platform to share one inspiring story and has grown into a movement toward embracing an often invisible group in society — runaway and homeless youth.
Carissa's journey includes letting go of a history of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and trauma. By sharing her own story of healing and reconciliation, she inspires others to do the same.
This event is being hosted by the San Bernardino County Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation. If you have any questions, please contact the CASE Coordinator, Anne-Michelle Ellis at (909) 383-9677 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
When & Where
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8437 Sierra Ave
Friday, January 18, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
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What is your thought on Forum Marketing seeing behavior of Google search engine, can we manage to get traffic from forums too?
How would you exactly define forum marketing?
Yes we can manage to get a good traffic from forum. It also help to increase ranking in search engine
What, exactly, "helps to increase ranking in search engine" and how? If you think you're going to get backlinks, I'm afraid your mistaken. All external links on the SitePoint forums are nofollow, and most other reputable forums are the same.
Forum marketing is generally just a polite way of saying "spam". Any forum wants people to participate because they want to be part of the forum, they don't want people to take part just so they can get some backlinks and visitors. Most forums have external links marked as "nofollow", so you'll get no search engine benefits from them, and the chances of people clicking through links are slim. Here on SPF we monitor all links vigilantly and any that appear to be self-promotional are removed, with severe and persistent offenders banned.
If you become an active and respected member of the forum then you might be able to build the sort of reputation where people might be tempted to click through to your sites, but that takes time and effort, and lots of them.
If you become an active and respected member of the forum then you might be able to build the sort of reputation where people might be tempted to click through to your sites, but that takes time and effort, and lots of them.
well . we can manage to get high traffic through forum marketing . but the thing is that , the post or thread in the forum should be up to dated and more informative only then people will visit your post and eventually your blog or site.
That depends. If you're only participating in a forum to promote yourself, that's spam- not marketing.
But if you're active in a forum and make new clients through networking in the same forum (having proven you know your stuff on a given topic) then "forum marketing" can be very effective. I am new to forums myself, but the first forum I joined actually brought me a significant number of new clients. I don't go around posting weak responses with a link enclosed, but that's not how to truly market any business anyways.
Forums are used for several purposes. Main thing is getting traffic. Dofollow forums are use "do follow" attribute and boost your Search engine rank. This not only increase your blog ranks also its give target traffic to your blog.
What exactly is the "do follow" attribute - I have not heard of it before. How can I implement it on my forum?
Don't confuse a tag with how an engine ranks your site. Forums by the nature are uncontrolled and as such going to be heavily weighed down in their link value. However as I often remark, SEO is just one benefit of a link. Long before the spiders see your page users will and they're the ultimate goal either way.
Forum links are natural but nofollow. This is the main problem.
If you added the link, then it is NOT natural
but nofollow.Plenty of forums are "dofollow" This is the main problem.Why is it a problem?
I have one site that was ranked No.1 just from forum profiles. Since the last update it is no longer ranked in the top 500, so I would think that a big part of a recent algo change is that forum profiles carry little weight.
Relevant and on topic Blog posts and Guest posting seems to be the way to go at the moment.
Plenty of forums are "dofollow" Why is it a problem?
I think he meant was 'nofollow'.
I agree BAMcopywriting, also there are section in many forums that allow you to sell products and services. It's part of forum marketing too, I guess.
Hello, That time forum is the best way to marketing many client come on the forum and deal here also you can descous any topic and get more info with different peoples.
It is best when you comment with useful information, then people might notice your sig link. Not much worth for Google though.


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The Philadelphia 76ers are unlikely to make a trade before the Feb. 21 deadline.
Sixers general manager Tony DiLeo believes the team's roster, when healthy, can be a good one.
"Right now the mind-set is we want to see what the roster looks like with Andrew out there and healthy," DiLeo said. "We still have lots of questions to answer, but we want to see the team we envisioned having out there. We're curious how well this team will function together, the players with Andrew and Andrew with the players, heading into the summer."
DiLeo indicated the Sixers will still explore trade possibilities before the deadline.


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It's an outdoor concert event with the hottest band on the planet, One Direction! And you can only see it on Ellen!
They're one of the most requested guests ever. After receiving thousands of calls, emails and tweets, millions of fans' dreams came true! The boys of One Direction are blowing the roof off Ellen's show for a spectacular outdoor concert experience you won't believe! They're here to catch up with Ellen on their lives as some of the biggest teen sensations on the planet, and of course, to sing! Their CD, "Take Me Home," was one of the most anticipated sophomore albums in recent history. Ellen has over 5,000 people in the audience, and you've got a front-row seat!
Plus, she's one of the most strikingly beautiful women in the world -- it's KEIRA KNIGHTLEY! She received worldwide attention for her role in "Bend It Like Beckham," and since then she's starred in some of the best films of the past decade; "Pride and Prejudice," "Atonement," "Love Actually" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies! Now she's taking on one of the most famous literary characters, Anna Karenina! She's telling Ellen all about it today.


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I'm in the process of migrating from serv1, a Windows 2003 Domain Controller (DC) to serv2, a new Windows 2003 DC. Serv1 has approximately 185 student accounts and 5 staff accounts. Each user has their own shared folder on the server which is defined in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADU&C) user account profile path. There are a handfull of other shares that need to be migrated as well.
I decided on the following requirements and stipulations for my migration solution in this particular scenario:
1) Make an effort to use only freeware or shareware tools whenever possible.
2) The user home directories (defined by the user profile path) needed to be copied to the new server, but the data inside their home directories was not to be retained on the new server.
3) I was not going to reshare each folder once it was migrated, so I needed some other method of redefinng the shares on serv2. I needed the share permissions migrated as well
4) Existing NTFS permissions for user home directories needed to applied on serv2.
5) The user profile path had to be updated in ACU&C from \\serv1\users\%username% to \\serv2\users\%username%
6) The drive letter location of all the user's home directories was being changed from c:\users\%username% (on serv1) to e:\users\%username% (on serv2).
I took the time to come up with this methodology since I have to do this type of server migration all the time. This should also work for migrating from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. Here's my solution:
I initially planned on using the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit to migrate from serv1 to serv2, but I found it to be very clunky and not very configurable. It kind of seemed like it was a migration tool for dummies without any advanced options that would confuse Joe Admin. I played around with it for about an hour before detrmining it was not the solution for me.
The next path I wandered down was to use Robocopy (with the optional GUI) to copy my \\serv1\users directory to \\serv2\users. Robocopy is a part of the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools, and Robocopy GUI is available from the Technet Magazine November 2006 Utility Spotlight.
Robocopy has a ton of options available, which is why the GUI comes in handy. I originally planned to copy the \\serv1\users data to \\serv2\users using the syntax found in KB323275, but it never behaved quite as expected.
I tried to execute Robocopy in the following manner (type on all one line), expecting the directory tree structure to copy one folder down (LEV:1) from \\serv1\users, but it only copied the files located in \\serv1\users, but no directories.
robocopy.exe \\serv1\users \\serv2\users /COPYALL /LEV:1 /ZB /V /FP /W:5 /R:5 /LOG:copy.log
So I changed /LEV:1 to /LEV:2, and it copied the directory structure \\serv1\users\%username%, plus the data in the %username% folder, which was not what I wanted (again, type as one line)
robocopy.exe \\serv1\users \\serv2\users /COPYALL /LEV:2 /ZB /V /FP /W:5 /R:5 /LOG:copy.log
Robocopy frustrated the hell out of me, so I moved on to try xxcopy.exe, which is very similar to Robocopy. I briefly perused the author's web site and saw "freeware version", so I started working with it. Not until I received error messages about copying between remote shares did I notice the freeware version of xxcopy.exe was for personal property use only – since I don't own this network, I was not allowed to use the free version per their licensing agreement – so I needed a new direction once again.
I finally resorted to using the good ole Windows xcopy.exe (see KB 289483 and KB 323007 for usage and options) to copy my directory structure from within the source users directory to the destination users directory:
xcopy *.* /T y:\users
This worked too well – it copied all subdirectories, which is definitely not what we wanted.
I was frustrated with my lack of progress, so I went back to my second robocopy, which copied the correct directory structure, but also copied the files within the directories.
robocopy.exe \\serv1\users \\serv2\users /COPYALL /LEV:2 /ZB /V /FP /W:5 /R:5 /LOG:copy.log
Next I used del.exe from within the \\serv2\users in order to delete all the files (but not folders) within the \\serv2\users\%username% structure:
del.exe *.* /f /s /q
This worked great, but did not remove hidden files. In order to remove the hidden files, I had to do the following:
del.exe *.* /f /s /q /ah
Now I finally had the correct directory structure on \\serv2\users. I could move on to copying the share permissions, since Robocopy.exe had copied the folder permissions for me when I used the /copyall option.
Microsoft's official method of migrating shares from one server to another is documented in KB125996, which requires a export of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Shares from \\serv1, and the importing of that resultant .reg file into \\serv2.
That process works great as long as the same drive letters are used on both servers. In my case, c:\users was the source on \\serv1, which e:\users would be the share location on the destination \\serv2. If you look at the exported .reg file, it's not in a human readable format, its a bunch of hex numbers. I hoped I could do a find and replace using a hex editor to change c:\users to e:\users in my exported .reg file, but that was another huge waste of time.
Finally I came across jv16 Powertools 2007, which I installed on \\serv2. I imported the .reg file from \\serv1 into \\serv2, then ran the Registry Find and Replace utility, and replaced all instances of c:\users\ with e:\users\. I rebooted \\serv2, and my 190 (or so) shared folders magically appeared! Finally, I was making progress!
(As a side note, I recommend supporting the developer of this utility, and will be purchasing the $59 commercial license. Personal licenses are $29.95. I will gladly pay the $59 rather than have to recreate each share on \\serv2 by hand.)
Finally, I needed to change each of the user's profile paths in Active Directory Users and Computers from \\serv1\users\%username% to \\serv2\users\%username%. I had no desire to edit each account by hand, so I searched for a solution and came up with ADModify.net, which I was faintly familiar with as an Exchange tool.
ADModify is very intuitive to use. You'll need to select the domain and source DC, then make sure the "show only users" check box is selected and "show containers only" in de-selected. Click the green arrow box and expand your domain, and the list of OUs are displayed. Expand the OU your users reside in and highlight the users whose profile path you'd like to modify. The only slight roadblock I came acrosss using this utility was that I had to select my users once again from the right most pane before I could press next.
Once you press next, the familiar ADU&C interface appears. I went to the Profiles tab, and selected the Profile Path check box, then entered \\serv2\users\%username% as the path to the profile. I pressed the Go button, and all of my user's profile paths were changed! My migration was finally complete.
[update 11-09-2007]
KB 310316 describes a registry modification that can be made to modify how Windows Explorer handles permissions when objects are copied or moved to another NTFS volume. When you copy or move an object to another volume, the object inherits the permissions of its new folder. If you want to modify this behavior to preserve the original permissions, follow the instructions to modify the registry.
KB 174273 describes how to use scopy.exe to copy NTFS files or directory structures while maintaining NTFS permissions and restoring Share Level permissions. This method includes copying between partitions, hard drives, or computers. It also briefly mentions using PermCopy.exe, a command-line utility that copies share-level permissions (access control lists [ACLs]) from one share to another.
If you're using scopy to copy local group permissions to other domains, read KB 168470 regarding potential access problems with the trusting domain.
If you use some other solution to copy your data to it's new location but still want to copy NTFS file system access control lists (ACLs), check out KB 323275 for how to do this with Robocopy.


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I read articles about the Syrian war and watched this film and I got to tell you it sure is confusing. The picture on one of the websites that really disturbed me is the father holding his lifeless 8 or 9 year old daughter in his arms. I have a 9 year old daughter and it was her birthday on that day I saw the picture. Sometimes it is better emotionally to be ignorant about what is going on in the world.
Kevin Nguyen's curator insight, December 7, 2015 1:37 PM
Syrian civil war has escalated into a proxy wars between many nations that all have different goals in mind. It all started from the Arab Spring and is still on-going because there are many sides taking place and none of them wants to back down. Mainly due to the emerge of the Islamic State that cause a shift in the war of fighting a terrorism organization to fighting the different factions within Syria.
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An interesting and well written breakdown of the Syrian war and its local, regional and global factors that have caused the escalation to this point. It should however be pointed out that some of the information within the video is actually wrong. The United Nations did a investigation and report regarding the use of chemical weapons and found ti was the rebels not Assad who had used them. Furthermore it leaves out some reports from the initial protests in Syria that some of them were armed with weapons and fired on police (suggesting that instead of one side it was mutual escalation). Plus much of the fighting in Syria is also sectarian with Shiites backing Assad and the Sunnis backing Assad's opposition (prior global intervention). If these pieces of information were corrected in addition to talking about the Kurdish predicament a bit more along with the origins of ISIS the video would be perfect. So in a way I suppose the video kind of left out important local geographic details that influenced the regional and global ones.
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While this article is geared towards the K12 sector teachers, many of the technologies listed can be beneficial in the higher education arena as well.
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Interesante artículo que, además de la propuesta de usos de Soundcloud en el aula, incluye tres videotutoriales y los correspondientes paso a paso sobre los procedimientos de uso del servicio, utilización como red social y uso de la app para dispositivos móviles
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Bret Bielema estimates he has slept in Fayetteville only 15 nights since being hired at Arkansas two months ago.
The former Wisconsin coach has spent the majority of his time on the road, looking to put the finishing touches on his first recruiting class with the Razorbacks. It's a journey that's taken Bielema and his staff across the country in search of talent.
Bielema's whirlwind recruiting efforts will come to a close Wednesday when Arkansas joins the rest of college football in welcoming its next wave of players on national signing day.
"It's going to be the foundation," Bielema told the Associated Press. "It's very important for me to start with a foundation of what I believe in, academically, athletically and socially."
That foundation starts within the borders of Arkansas for Bielema, who was hired in the wake of a disastrous season for the Razorbacks following the sudden firing of coach Bobby Petrino last spring.
The team that opened with a top-10 ranking finished with a 4-8 record under interim coach John L. Smith, whose staff did its best to recruit throughout the tumultuous season and coaching uncertainty. The head start was a welcome piece of news for Bielema, who has enjoyed his first taste of just how rugged competition can be in the Southeastern Conference.
It's also shown Bielema, who was 68-24 in seven seasons with the Badgers, the SEC's prominence after winning seven straight national championships.
"I think what jumped out to me right away was the desire for kids to play in the SEC," Bielema said. "Coast to coast, north, south, east, west there is a national interest in playing in the SEC. That is very evident and kind of overwhelmed me.
"Seven straight championships from the SEC, that's unqualified."
Arkansas already had its share of verbal commitments from high school recruits when Bielema was hired, including a handful of players within the state. They included a trio of standouts from nearby Fayetteville High School, which recently won its second straight state championship in the state's largest classification.
Quarterback Austin Allen, linebacker Brooks Ellis and safety Alex Brignoni each committed to the Razorbacks last spring. They did so following Petrino's firing, knowing there was no guarantee they'd like who the school hired as its long-term head coach.
Despite the uncertainty, Allen -- the younger brother of Arkansas quarterback Brandon Allen and son of the program's director of high school relations, Bobby Allen -- never wavered in his desire to see the program through the transition. A combined 21-5 record in 2010-11 under Petrino, along with a new football operations facility that is under construction, was security enough.
"We kind of just bought into the program, really," Austin Allen said. "The whole state, the fan base, how much money the athletic department is putting into football, we just kind of put our trust in (athletic director) Jeff Long to make the right decision."
That trust paid off in the form of Bielema, who endeared himself to Allen with his "laid-back" attitude and reputation for developing players. And when Bielema announced the hiring of former Tennessee offensive coordinator Jim Chaney to the same position with the Razorbacks, Allen's mind was made up once and for all.
He, Ellis and Brignoni then turned their attention to helping recruit other players to Arkansas -- an effort that paid off early with the commitment of Little Rock tight end Hunter Henry, among others.
"We all felt like we were always going to be at Arkansas, so we stayed together," Allen said. "We just worked on the guys all across the state. We all hung out and got along, so it was all fun."
Arkansas received a much-needed recruiting boost late Monday when Florida running back Alex Collins verbally committed to sign with the Razorbacks. Another running back, North Little Rock's Altee Tenpenny, is expected to sign with two-time defending national champion Alabama -- though Bielema hasn't given up hope quite yet of keeping all of the state's best at home.
"I really want if anybody can play Division I, SEC-championship level football, we need to keep them in state," Bielema said. "I've done everything in my powers to make sure that happens."


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Morning: Independent arrival at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Hotel Circle, San Diego. 12:00 noon Gather in a private room of the hotel to meet your expert leader and fellow participants. An overview of the program, the sites, the logistics, will prepare you for the exciting days to come.
Lunch: Following orientation, get to know your fellow participants with small buffet lunch.
Afternoon: Depart for Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Founded in 1903, it is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world. Take part in an introductory lecture on gray whales imparted by a marine biologist. A docent-led visit of the the Birch Aquarium is included in the visit. Enjoy a brief drive in the exclusive La Jolla Village, especially along the famous La Jolla Coves, including famed seal beach.
Dinner: A colorful Mexican restaurant provides the atmosphere for the welcome dinner.
Evening: At leisure
Activity note: WATER AND ICE: In Mexico, purified water and ice will be served throughout the trip, on the bus and in restaurants and hotels.
Breakfast: Private buffet at the hotel in San Diego.
Morning: The quest for the gray whale begins with the drive south through the most-crossed border in the world into Mexico. The first activity is a guided field trip through the modern visual Museo de las Californias in the attractive cultural center CECUT as an introduction to better understand the peninsula. Highway One, the scenic road to Ensenada offers breathtaking views on the Pacific Ocean.
Lunch: Enjoy a home-cooked meal in a private home in Ensenada.
Afternoon: Explore Ensenada. Located on the ample Todos Santos Bay, the city was established by the English in the 1880's becoming today one of Mexico's most important harbors. See the main streets, the "malecón" (boardwalk), and drive by an ex-casino. Continue south to San Vicente to visit a small community museum. Cross one of the peninsula's most important agricultural areas to reach the hotel for the night, situated in front of a wide-open beach in San Quintin.
Dinner: At the hotel in San Quintin based on local products.
Evening: At leisure. May walk along the sandy beach.
Breakfast: At the hotel in San Quintín. Choice of Mexican and international breakfast dishes served plated.
Morning: Explore the wonders of the desert. The mountainous peninsula is covered by innumerable species of flora, many of which are endemic. Among them, the Cirio (boojum tree), Baja's signature plant, is probably the most notable. Stops are made for nature walks and presentations on the vegetation are given on board the bus. Stop for lunch at Cataviña, located in the middle of the Valle de los Cirios Nature Reserve, Cataviña is surrounded by gigantic granite boulders and unique vegetation.
Lunch: In Cataviña, a choice of Mexican or international dishes.
Afternoon: Arrive at the 28th parallel, where the State of Baja California Sur begins with the city of Guerrero Negro. State line also marks the beginning of the Vizcaino World Biosphere established to protect the Gray Whale Sanctuaries, important rock art sites, and a variety of flora and fauna.
Dinner: At the hotel in Guerrero Negro. Choice of meat, chicken or fish.
Activity note: Boat rides tend to be cold and wet. Be sure to dress in layers and bring a waterproof jacket or waterproof windbreaker.
Breakfast: At the hotel in Guerrreo Negro. Choice of Mexican and international breakfast dishes served plated.
Morning: Begin the day visiting a nature reserve in an enormous salt marsh where birds migrate from Russia, Canada and other countries. Then, take a boat ride among gray whales in Scammon's Lagoon, a gray whale sanctuary in the Vizcaino World Biosphere, to view these giant mammals at arm's length. Each year, gray whales travel approximately 5,000 miles from the Bering and Chukchi Seas to the warm waters of this wildlife refuge to court, mate, give birth and care for their young. On route to the lagoon, learn about the history and process of Baja's salt production.
Lunch: Picnic lunch on the boat while enjoying the tranquility of the lagoon.
Afternoon: Continue to San Ignacio to explore this charming town that developed around an imposing 18th-century mission, still in use today, in the midst of a lush, tranquil palm oasis. Mingle with the local children in a lively folk dancing presentation at the local school.
Dinner: A Mexican dinner is served at the hotel in San Ignacio.
Activity note: In San Ignacio Lagoon, be able to board small fishing boats from the beach possibly wading into shallow water up to knee high. Do not forget to bring your water shoes and your waterproof gear. A short stretch of the road in graded.
Breakfast: At the hotel in San Ignacio. Choice of Mexican and international breakfast dishes served plated.
Morning: After breakfast, hop into vans for the drive that connects the town to the secluded San Ignacio Lagoon for another adventuresome ride among whales. Part of the drive is on a graded road. Migrating birds can be spotted along the shore.
Lunch: A hot meal is served in a "palapa" (thatched-roof construction) at the lagoon in San Ignacio.
Afternoon: Learn about the whale-counting process and surveillance system in the whale sanctuary before returning to town. Back in San Ignacio, visit the tree-filled "zocalo", the church and enter a home where date bread and pie is made. Enjoy the company of the pleasant host while learning to make flour tortillas by hand to taste with local ranch cheese.
Dinner: Your choice to explore local flair.
Evening: At leisure.
Breakfast: At the hotel in San Ignacio. Choice of Mexican and international breakfast dishes served plated.
Morning: Return to Guerrero Negro for a THIRD and final encounter with the whales. Every outing is different providing a unique experience.
Lunch: Picnic lunch on the boat while enjoying the tranquility of the lagoon.
Afternoon: Venture further north back into the Central Desert; a combination of sun, sand, gigantic granite boulders, and amusing collages of Boojums, Cardons and Elephant trees make Cataviña a superb desert garden. Due to this setting, nights in Cataviña are memorable.
Dinner: Enjoy Mexican finger foods at the hotel in Cataviña. Meal options include taquitos, quesadillas, guacamole, and more.
Evening: Participate in a small Mexican Fiesta which includes a finger food dinner and a taste of tequila. Break a piñata while learning about Mexican traditions and how to choose a good tequila!.
Activity note: To visit the small cave with simple rock art in Cataviña, a short steep hike on gravely terrain is required. Participants who can't join, may stay at the base of the hill and enjoy the stunning surroundings.
Breakfast: At the hotel in Cataviña. Choice of Mexican and international breakfast dishes.
Morning: Begin the day with a beautiful walk to visit a small cave with simple rock art.
Lunch: In a local restaurant of San Quintin. Meal options: a variety of Mexican and local specialties. Taste a healthy salad prepared with the leaf of the national plant of Mexico: the prickly pear cactus.
Afternoon: Arrive in Ensenada and spend time strolling in the main streets and along the waterfront. Check-in at the hotel and enjoy the rest of the afternoon free to relax admiring the spectacular view from the ocean-front hotel.
Dinner: The farewell dinner is at the hotel accompanied by the rhythm of crashing waves against the cliffs below.
Activity note: Upon returning to the US, Homeland Security requires that you personally carry all your belongings across the border. It is necessary to stand in line and walk approximately 300 yards.
Breakfast: At the hotel admiring at the Pacific Ocean.
Morning: Drive the final stretch along the beautiful coastal highway. Cross the border back into San Diego. Program ends at the San Diego Airport or at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel located at 595 Hotel Circle Dr. Please do not book flights before 2:00 pm. Independent departures


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The RFID Center is an interdisciplinary collaborative research and development initiative established at the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. Established in June 2006, this center spans the College of Business as well as the College of Engineering. The center's primary site of operations is the RFID Lab at 261 Rike Hall.
The RFID center consists of four faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students from both the College of Business and College of Engineering. The main function of the lab is to identify potential areas of cutting edge research and development in the field of RFID, and provide education on this emerging technology to current and future professionals in and around the Miami valley.
The following are some of the current activities of this center:
- Undergraduate level courses: MIS 4800, Introduction to RFID for Business is a new course currently offered by Dr. Sengupta as a special topics elective. A full minor program centered around RFID is also currently in the planning process.
- Grant proposal development: The center is currently focusing on developing project proposals to solicit federal, state, as well as industry-level funding.
- Certification training: One goal of the center is to provide training, not only to WSU students, but also to professionals for vendor-specific as well as vendor-neutral training. Currently participating faculty are RFID+ certified, as well vendor-certified by Alien Technologies and Thingmagic.
- Research and development: The most important goal of this center is to create research projects that would lead to innovations, products and publications.
- Consulting: The center is qualified to provide consultation services to organizations planning to deploy RFID-based systems in their businesses.
FlexRFID is a novel method for modeling RFID-based control applications. These application occur in most common business processes. Using FlexRFID, clients can configure fully functional RFID-based systems without the necessity of any major development effort.
Automated Parking lots using RFID and sensor networks
Automating parking lots in the university using RFID-enabled gates to allow hands-free automated access to patrons to the campus parking lots.
Proposed Future Projects
- Supply-chain automation
- RFID middlewares
A. Sengupta. FlexRFID: "A Control Logic Architecture for Fast and Flexile RFID-based System Design". In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS-2006). Milwaukee, WI. Dec 9-10, 2006.
A. Sengupta. "You've got RFID… Now What? Be Flexible… Do FlexRFID!" in Technology First, Dayton, January 2007. p.9
A. Sengupta and R. Pal. "On the use of RFID in Automobile access management in Parking and Transportation Applications". Submitted.
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Director: Dr. Arijit Sengupta, Faculty, ISOM
Faculty members:
- Dr. Vikram Sethi, Faculty, ISOM
- Dr. Xinhui Zhang, Faculty, Industrial Engineering
- Dr. Shu Schiller, Faculty, ISOM
Student members:
- Doug Gallivan, MIS
- Ghazale Jafari Haddadin, Finance (MBA)


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I have multiple images from a mysql database, I want to swap all these images onmouseover, IE, onmouseover, swap allthe images, each after some 3 4 seconds
I amsure this will be done with javascript and probably jquery, So I need the Javascript (Or Jquery) function, and how to pass php parameters
Naturally , there is a group of images, each will have more than one image to be swapped
Many Thanks
Are the images in the database, or are the paths to the images kept in the database?
PHP/Mysql will only be responsible for outputting a load of html (containing img links) into the html source code of your page.
The behaviours which then do your image swopping are then done in JS (or use a JQuery library if you prefer) with that source code.
yes they are in mysql database, exactly and precisely, I am looking for the javascript jquery function to do this
JS will not get them out of your database.
JS will help add behaviours on the client browser.
Have you got the images out of your database yet then?
My Dear Friend
Thank you for your support
Yes I can retrieve them out of the database, natural;ly, I will echo an array to the javascript function, never mind the php, if you just know the javascript jquery
I will do the rest with php
what I need is the function javascript in the header
and in the body the process of invoking the rest
So if you forget about php mysql database, and have the function, I can do the rest
Many Many thanks for your help
Naturally since it is a mysql retrieval there will be more than a record, on each of the record image, there might be the original image and the others, I need, when I place the mouse hover on the original image, to swap them with the rest of the images, I need the javascript jquery for this
Many Many Thanks My friend
In that case, as you have now explained that you are able to get the images into JS arrays it is time to say you are in the wrong forum, sorry
I will ask this thread be moved to the JS forum, there you will be able to find the help you need.


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