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Fox Sports' Jay Glazer just reported that the Philadelphia Eagles have signed Raiders three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha.
The 49ers, Houston Texans, New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys were rumored to be in the hunt for the player considered the prize of this year's free agent class.
Somewhere in the process, the Eagles jumped in and sealed the deal. Thus officially ends the eight-year Raiders career of Asomugha. He reportedly received a five-year deal that guarantees him $25 million from the Eagles. The Raiders gave Routt a three-year contract in March that guarantees him $20 million.
That the Raiders didn't re-sign Asomugha isn't a surprise. They took steps during the offseason to gird themselves against the prospect of playing without him for the first time since 2002.
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Major League Soccer held Stage One of their first-ever Re-Entry Draft on Wednesday, with only D.C. United and Columbus Crew making selections.
16 other MLS clubs, including Vancouver Whitecaps FC, opted to pass on making a player selection in this week's first round. Stage One gave clubs the chance to select players to their contract-option salary. Next Wednesday, all 18 MLS clubs will have to right to negotiate with players they select in Stage Two of the Re-Entry Draft.
The results of Stage One saw D.C. United pick up striker Joseph Ngwenya from Houston Dynamo. The Zimbabwean international will have his contract option picked up by the Washington, D.C., outfit. Wednesday's other selection saw Columbus Crew pick up defender Aaron Hohlbein, who was out of contract at Sporting Kansas City. By selecting Hohlbein, the Crew will make a Bona Fide Offer to the defender, as listed in the Re-Entry Process regulations.
Players that were not selected in Stage One will be eligible for Stage Two of the Re-Entry Draft on Wednesday, December 15, at 11 a.m. PT. A list of players available for selection in Stage Two will be released on Monday.

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Somewhat lost in this holiday season, buried under the avalanche that has become the Arrow Trucking disaster, is another story with far-reaching consequences that is putting the livelihoods of 30,000-plus people at stake.
YRC Worldwide (YRCW), for the better part of the past year, has been struggling under the weight of enormous debt and low freight. According to numerous reports, the company is in danger of not making a $19 million interest and fees payment due Dec. 31, the consequence of which could be bankruptcy proceedings.
To keep itself viable, YCRW has struck numerous agreements to revise credit accounts, conducted layoffs, received nearly $2 billion in concessions from its union workers, and sold off divisions of the company. Now, it is trying to execute a debt-for-equity swap which would allow it to postpone that payment and also gain access to more than $100 million in a revolving credit account to help keep it liquid.
Terms of the swap, according to Dow Jones Newswires, state that bondholders would gain a 95% stake in YRC in exchange for forgoing debt. There would also be a change in the Board of Directors. But, as of this morning, several holdouts still remain and YRC has extended the deadline for the swap several times already, the latest being midnight tonigh.
Now, to put pressure on the holdouts, the Teamsters plan a protest for this afternoon outside the Manhattan offices of Brigade Capital Management, one of the hedge funds the Union believes is delaying the process.
"All bondholders need to recognize that the livelihoods of 30,000 Teamster members depend on their willingness to take part in the exchange," said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. "The workers, the pension funds, the secured lenders, a majority of bondholders and other stakeholders have made sacrifices and contributed to the restructuring. Now it is time for the remaining bondholders to recognize what is at stake and do their part. The company's customers need to know there is a light at the end of this tunnel."
The Teamsters identified Brigade Capital Management and JMB Capital Partners, and banks UBS, Barclays and TD Bank as holdouts.
"It is unconscionable that these bondholders are playing chicken with tens of thousands of lives for minimal financial reward, either hoping for a better deal or they have derivative coverage," said Teamsters Freight Division Director Tyson Johnson. "They need to recognize the sacrifices already made by these workers and the devastating affect a bankruptcy would have on their lives."
According to Dow Jones, as of Tuesday night, nearly 59% of 2010 notes had been converted and 94% of two other series notes. To meet the terms of the swap, YRC needs 70% of the 2010 notes converted and 85% of the other notes.
It's not an ideal situation, of course. Banks don't want to run businesses, especially trucking companies, but let's hope for once that the bondholders recognize what is the lesser of two evils and secure the tens of thousands of jobs at stake this holiday season.
Update: As of mid-afternoon, the Teamsters had called off their protest of Brigade Capital Management after the hedge fund, along with fellow fund JMB Capital Partners, said they'd tendered all their bonds, according to FIN Alternatives, which covers hedge funds and private equity news.


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A booze-fuelled man pushed a woman over in Chesterfield's Crooked Spire churchyard during a dispute after she claimed she had been insulted about her homosexuality.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Monday, March 3, how Marcin Pitor Kasinki, 31, had been in the churchyard with two other Polish men when the woman claimed someone had been shouting abuse at her.
Prosecuting solicitor Bill Taylor explained that when the woman went to remonstrate with the men Kasinki shoved her and she fell backwards.
Mr Taylor said: "The woman is in a relationship with another woman and her account of events is that she saw three men nearby and someone was shouting abuse at her which she took to be regarding her sexuality.
"She went to approach one of the men and made it clear she took exception to what was being said. She said Kasinki started dancing around her and eventually she said he shoved her hard in the chest and she fell backwards."
Mr Taylor conceded Kasinki is not homophobic and he had been affected by alcohol and despite the woman suffering a black-out after the push there was no direct causal link from the shove.
Jobless Kasinki, of Bury Road, Bolton, pleaded guilty to assault by beating after the incident in July, last year.
Defence solicitor John Richards said Kasinki overheard an altercation and he foolishly got involved and the woman became aggressive.
Mr Richards added Kasinki backed away but in the heat and the drink he did star-jumps in front of her and when someone hit him he engaged in a row and pushed her.
Magistrates sentenced Kasinki to a £100 fine and ordered him to pay £130 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.


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- DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
- Cartoon Characters: Princess Dawn, Terry Dexter, The Grump, Bip.
- Voice Actors: Stefanianna Christopherson, Jay North, Rip Taylor, Mel Blanc, Marvin Miller, Larry D. Mann, Athena Lorde, June Foray.
- Directed By Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis, George Gordon, Sid Marcus, Hawley Pratt, Grant Simmons; more Directors ...
- Produced By David H. DePatie, Isadore Freleng.
- Animated By Warren Batchelder, William Carney, Xenia, Manny Gould, Ed Rehberg, Bob Richardson, Robert Taylor, Bob Bentley, Ed De Mattia, John Gibbs, Ed Love, Manny Perez, Ed Solomon, Lloyd Vaughan; more Animators ...
- Written By Nick George, Bill Lutz, Don Christensen, John W. Dunn.
- Music: Doug Goodwin.
- Editor: Allan Potter, Todd McKay, Lloyd Friedgen, Lee Gunther.
- First Aired on December 06, 1969.
- Originally Aired on NBC-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 114
- Season: 1
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10 Picnic-Ready Salads to Eat Outside
Food just tastes better outside, doesn't it? The first hint of warmer weather and you'll find us outside come mealtimes: on a porch, on a front stoop, on a park bench, wherever we can find a sunny spot to sit back and enjoy a meal al fresco. With Memorial Day next week, we feel the outdoor eating season is officially open. Here are ten of our favorite seasonal salads to pack up and take on a picnic.
Potato Salad with Yogurt, Arugula, and Dill
Many of these salads are meals on their own — a light dinner as we transition from spring into summer. The salad of whole wheat israeli couscous filled with dried cherries and spicy arugula pictured above sounds so good right now. I'd also recommend trying the quinoa salad with grilled halloumi sooner rather than later. It never fails to hit the spot.
For a salad to go with a full picnic spread, definitely make the asparagus ribbon salad before this spring veggie is gone. It's so simple — just six ingredients! — but so good. The fennel slaw would also be perfect with some first-of-the-season pulled pork sandwiches.
And if you can't wait for summer one more second, the BLT Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette is just what you need. Make it with sweet cherry tomatoes now and then sub in those heirlooms once the season takes off.
What picnic salads are you looking forward to making this summer?
- 1 Whole Wheat Couscous with Cherries and Arugula
- 2 Fresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw
- 3 Potato Salad with Yogurt, Arugula, and Dill
- 4 Orzo Salad with Spinach Pesto, Olives & Feta
- 5 BLT Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette
Pearl Couscous Salad with Mint and Pecans
- 6 Farro Salad with Peas and Leeks
- 7 Asparagus Ribbon Salad
- 8 Grilled Halloumi and Quinoa Salad
- 9 Pearl Couscous Salad with Mint and Pecans
- 10 Baby Greens Salad with Asparagus, Sweet Amaranth & Green Garlic Dressing
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CIU Alumnus Returns to Law Enforcement Roots
A 1981 graduate of Columbia International University is returning to his roots in law enforcement - ministerinig to the needs of first responders. Robert Michaels, who also used to be an announcer for CIU radio station WMHK, was a police officer in Norfolk, Va. before enrolling at CIU.
Michaels is well-known in the Christian music industry. He is a former vice president of marketing for Benson Records, and later launched Lord & Michaels Entertainment working with several Christian recording artiists including DC Talk, Rebecca St. James and Audio Adrenaline.
But Michaels is now "going home" having founded Serve & Protect, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the spiritual needs of police, firefighters, EMTs and corrections officers.
Read more about Robert Michaels on the website "View from the Pugh."
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About the Exhibition
The role of scientific illustration—then and now
If a bizarre new species were discovered, would you want to see it? Fortunately, you could: on TV, on the Internet, in newspapers, and in magazines. But before modern technology, curiosity was not so easily satisfied. As European explorers came into contact with fascinating animals, plants, land formations and human cultures, their descriptions made the public back home yearn for a glimpse. Illustrated books, like those featured in the exhibition, provided a window.
Inspired by the 2012 book, Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, edited by exhibition curator Tom Baione, the Museum Library's Director, Natural Histories features images that were created in pursuit of scientific knowledge and to accompany important scientific works in disciplines ranging from astronomy to zoology.
Reproductions of illustrations include works by celebrated artists Albrecht Dürer, Joseph Wolf, Moses Harris, John Woodhouse Audubon, and Maria Sibylla Merian.


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Galil also has a dedicated DDE server, called DMCWW, for InTouch from Wonderware. The Galil Generic DDE Server can also be configured to poll the controller automatically and feed the data back to another Windows program via DDE. Also, the DDE server program window displays controller commands received through DDE communication and any responses from the controller to the command. There is a terminal in the DDE Server windows that allows you to type a command and send that command to the controller.


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France has doubled its capacity target for photovoltaic power generation and offered more financial support to small solar power farms that use European-made panels in a bid to rescue the country's ailing solar industry.
Energy Minister Delphine Batho announced the measures, which are expected to spur investments worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion), during a visit to a solar panel factory in Western France.
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The Socialist government is seeking to rescue an industry which has lost about 15,000 jobs in the last two years, after the previous conservative government tried to dampen a speculative bubble in new solar power installations. In 2012 the industry employed 18,000 people, down from 32,500 in 2010.
The production capacity growth target will double to 1,000 megawatts (MW) per year, the equivalent of a small nuclear power reactor, Batho said.
France will also add a bonus of up to 10 percent on the subsidy for feed-in-tariffs paid to generators of solar power through consumers' power bills for small solar farms using panels made in the 30 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA).
"Many jobs were lost because of the (former) government's yo-yo policies. But we will fight ... to develop the ecological competitiveness of France," Batho told reporters on the sidelines of the visit to MPO Energy, a CD and DVD maker that diversified into solar panel production.
"We finally feel supported," said MPO Energy's managing director Jean-Francois Perrin.
These emergency measures, which are due to take effect when a decree is published later this year, are being sought to support the solar industry until a wider energy law is drawn up after the government's so-called "energy transition debate".
The government estimated the annual cost at between 90 and 170 million euros, to be levied on consumers through the existing CSPE tax on power bills.
Jean-Louis Bal, the head of France's main renewable energy sector lobby SER, said the measures would allow the sector to survive in the short term but did not offer long-term visibility for the industry.
"However it's the first positive message from the government in over three years," Bal told reporters.
France is slowly embracing heavily-subsidized renewable energy, such as wind and sun power, which accounts for 13 percent of energy consumption, well below the 23 percent target set by former President Nicolas Sarkozy for 2020.
French feed-in tariffs are reduced by about 10 percent every year to match falling production costs.
The French energy regulator CRE adjusts the cut every quarter, to either attract or deter more investments, depending on the volume of installed plants compared with the government's target.
Across the Rhine in Germany, the installed capacity for wind and solar electricity production is already equivalent in output to France's 58 nuclear reactors, even though the output is highly variable.
France is also trying to reduce its reliance on foreign-made solar panels, after cheap Chinese modules flooded the French market, prompting cries of unfair competition and creating a 1.35 billion euro trade deficit for the sector in 2011.
However, Batho acknowledged the government was taking the risk of having its "Made in Europe" bonus challenged by foreign competitors in international trade courts.
"In terms of legal risk, I don't think there is one at the European level. But at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) level, it would take years (to challenge it), so the government did well," Bal said.
China announced last month it had added a further $1.1 billion in subsidies to its solar power industry, more than doubling its support in 2012.
In September China raised its 2015 target for solar power capacity by 40 percent to about 21 GW, the third rise in just over a year.


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(Reuters) - Micron Technology <MU.O> posted a quarterly net loss on Thursday but the chipmaker said the outlook for memory chip prices is improving.
Following an industry slump in memory chip prices last year, Micron President Mark Adams said on Thursday that prices for DRAM and NAND memory chips are rising.
"Both DRAM and NAND are in healthy positions. I would say DRAM is driven primarily by a better supply balance with the existing demand in the industry," Adams told Reuters. "NAND is more continued growth in the demand side of the equation."
Consumers' growing preference for smartphones and tablets instead of laptops have hurt personal computer manufacturers, which traditionally have been major buyers of DRAM chips made by Micron and rivals like Samsung Electronics <005930.KS>.
In response, chipmakers have reconfigured some of their capacity to manufacture more specialized memory for smartphones and tablets.
Micron said it sold more DRAM chips in the fiscal second quarter than in the previous quarter, and that it also improved its gross margins thanks to lower manufacturing costs.
The company reported a net loss for the fiscal second quarter ended February 28 of $286 million, or $0.28 per share.
It had a loss of $282 million, or $0.29 per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $2.1 billion from $2.0 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected quarterly revenue of $1.922 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Shares of Micron rose 4.2 percent in extended trade after closing down 2.58 percent at $9.07.
(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Chris Reese and Tim Dobbyn)


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Sanders talks middle class revival at Labor Day breakfastBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 01. 2014 8:42PM
MANCHESTER — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was warmly received Monday at the New Hampshire AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast, firing up state and local labor leaders with talk of the nation's economy.
While jobs have been restored over the past few years during the recovery from the recession, Sanders said many of those jobs are low-paying and part-time.
"Our job is to rebuild that middle class," Sanders said. "Working families deserve a piece of the action."
Sanders, an independent, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House.
He said the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that the government could not restrict corporations from spending money to support candidates has allowed the extremely wealthy to have too much influence on the political process.
"The billionaires see you as their strongest opposition," he said. "They want to be able to give somebody a check directly. 'Here's $50 million. Here's your script. This is what you say.'"
Sanders also repeated his support for increasing the national minimum wage.
"I believe when we stand together, we win because there are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them," Sanders said toward the end of his speech at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester.
Sanders had to pause several times because of cheers and a standing ovation.
His travel schedule also included a trip last week to Iowa. After the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire hosts the first-in-the nation presidential primary. Voters in both states are already being courted.
"It's no secret," Sanders said before heading to another Labor Day event. "I'm giving it some thought and exploring the possibility of running for President (in 2016) and obviously New Hampshire plays a huge role."
Sanders was welcomed by some of the state's top Democrats. Gov. Maggie Hassan, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Congresswomen Anne Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter also attended the event and spoke to the crowd.
Shaheen joked that Sanders' speech was a difficult act to follow. She pointed to the changes in society attributed to the organized labor movement, which began more than 100 years ago.
"There have been too many efforts now to weaken collective bargaining, to weaken the right of workers to organize," Shaheen said. "I will always stand with workers and I will fight for collective bargaining and the right to organize."
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April 24, 2012 — Twenty of the 23 abortion clinics affected by new state regulations in Virginia have informed the state that they will be able to comply with the requirements, the Washington Examiner reports (Contorno, Washington Examiner, 4/21).
The regulations, which Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed into law in January, specify the size of exam rooms, require public corridors to have a minimum width of five feet and stipulate minimum ceiling heights of seven feet 10 inches. They also create new requirements for inspections, record-keeping and medical procedures (Women's Health Policy Report, 1/4).
According to licensing applications obtained by the Examiner, 20 of the clinics said they meet the new standards or are making changes to comply. One of the other three clinics stopped providing abortion care, while the other two said they will perform fewer than five abortion procedures per month, which means they are exempt from the regulations.
Four of the 20 clinics mentioned the possibility of closing in their applications but said it would be a last resort. Several of the clinics have consulted architects about renovating their existing facilities, while others are considering moving to larger facilities or constructing new facilities. A number of the clinics already met the new standards, according to the Examiner.
When the law was enacted, many opponents of the measure said it would force abortion clinics to close. NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Executive Director Tarina Keene said such statements were not "a veiled threat at all." She noted that complying with the law requires many clinics to undergo expensive renovations or move, at a cost of $150,000 to $3 million each. Even if they make changes, there is no guarantee that the state will accept their plans, Keene added (Washington Examiner, 4/21).


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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has begun hearing the appeal of a radio station owner who claims his 20-year prison sentence on insurrection charges was the result of a political vendetta by the government.
The lawyer defending 71-year-old Mam Sonando, Sar Sovan, said Tuesday that the Appeals Court hearing was expected to last three days.
Mam Sonando's Beehive Radio is one of the country's few radio stations broadcasting criticism of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government. Human rights groups say his conviction was unsupported by evidence and are seeking his release.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted Mam Sonando last October on four insurrection and rebellion counts on the basis of his alleged links to a secessionist movement in eastern Cambodia blamed for a violent conflict over land-grabbing. He denies any involvement.


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8/30/2012 - Asheville-area Outdoors Calendar
by Asheville Citizen Times
WILD THINGS WEEKEND: Wild South presents the inaugural event 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Pack Place downtown Asheville featuring live animal shows, award winning wildlife films and interactive exhibits from outdoor businesses, environmental educators and conservation groups. A $5 donation is requested. Visit www.wildsouth.org.
APPLE FESTIVAL 8K: Henderson County Chamber of Commerce presents the race starting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Pardee Medical Office Building. The Chick-Fil-A Mini Moo Mile fun run/walk starts after. Entry fee for 8K race is $30 by Friday , $35 race day, $10 for one-mile. Register at www.active.com. Visit www.hendersoncountychamber.org.
MOUNTAIN MEDLEY TRIATHLON: Inaugural race Sept. 8 at Camp Green Cove is a fundraiser for Mainstay, Henderson County's domestic violence shelter. Distances are: Advanced Tri: 800-meter swim, 6-mile bike, 10K run; Novice Tri: 400-meter swim, 5K bike, 5K run. Doubles and relays are also available. Register atwww.imathlete.com.
REEL ROCK 7 FILM TOUR: Tickets now available for rock climbing film tour at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, 675 Merrimon Ave., and at 8:15 p.m. Sept. 20 at Western Carolina University. $10. Call at 255-4077 or visit www.reelrockour.com.
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES HALF MARATHON and 5K RUN & WALK: The 13.1-mile half marathon starts at 7:15 a.m. and the 5K starts at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 15 at 14 O. Henry St. Packet pickup will be 11 a.m.-9 a.m. Sept. 14 at the Wilma Sherrill Center at UNC Asheville. Entry fee for 5K is $30, half marathon is $65.Visit CITIZEN-TIMES.com/race.
WNC RUN/WALK FOR AUTISM: Autism Society of North Carolina event, sponsored by Diamond Brand, starts at 9 a.m. Sept. 29 at UNC Asheville. Includes competitive and non-competitive 5K and a 1K fun run. Entry fees for chip-timed 5K, non-chip-timed 5K and the 1K are $25 per person, including T-shirt. Visit www.wncrunwalkforautism.org.
MOUNTAIN HERITAGE DAY 5K: Western Carolina University hosts 5K race starting at 8 a.m. Sept. 29, as part of WCU's 38th annual Mountain Heritage Day festival. Entry fees are $15 by noon Sept. 28, $25 race day; and $10 for students. Visit http://claws.wcu.edu/sma/5K/ or call David Tyler at 283-0203 or email email@example.com.
AMAZING RACE 3K: Obstacle course race for children and parents is 9 a.m. Oct. 6 at Enka High School, 475 Enka Lake Road, to benefit Buncombe County Schools Foundation. Entry fee is $25 for a single participant or a team. Register at www.bcsf.net. Call Lisa Adkins, BCS Foundation executive director, at 232-4190.
RUNWAY 5K AND AVIATION DAY: The second annual race starts at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 6 at Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher. Course is down the entire runway. Planes on display, live music, chance to win free airfare. Entry fee is $30. Register at www.imathlete.com. For more, visit www.gloryhoundevents.com.
FALL BY THE TRACKS 5K and FUN RUN: Old Depot Association and Black Mountain Parks and Recreation hosts the race starting at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 at the Depot in Black Mountain. Entry for 5K is $25 for adults, $15 for students K-12. Proceeds support music, art and heritage programs at local schools. Register at www.olddepot.org.
HICKORY MOUNTAIN 10K: Starts at 9 a.m. Oct. 6 at Guion Farm in DuPont State Forest. Entry fee is $25 by Friday, Aug. 31, $30 after. Call race director Lydia Odell at 553-5628, email email@example.com om or visit http://race.degreemap.org.
DUPONT STATE RECREATIONAL FOREST 50K and TWO-PERSON 50K RELAY: Start at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at Guion Farm in DuPont State Forest. The 50K (31-mile) is a two-loop course. Entry fees are $70 for individual 50K, $100 for relay. Proceeds go to the nonprofit DegreeMap. Call 553-5628, email email@example.com or visit http://race.degreemap.org.
WALK TO CURE DIABETES: The Asheville JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes will start at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, on the track at UNC Asheville. The walk is a 5K, or 3.1 miles. The walk is a fundraiser for the JDRF, which works to fund type 1 diabetes research to cure, treat and prevent the disease. Register as an individual or team. Visit www.jdrf.org/walk.
SOUTHCLIFF BLACK & BLUE CLASSIC: Starts at 11 a.m. Oct. 27 at Southcliff, off U.S. 74A in Fairview. The Black course is 6.5 miles, Blue is 2.6 miles. Entry fee is $30 at www.imathlete.com. Call Greg Duff at 400-5868 or visit www.gloryhoundevents.com.
SHUT-IN RIDGE TRAIL RACE: Starts at 10 a.m. Nov. 3 at the N.C. Arboretum. Nearly 18 miles to Mount Pisgah mostly on single-track trail. Entry fee is $75. Registration now open at Jus Running, 523 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Download paper entry form at www.jusrunning.com.
ASHEVILLE MARATHON: Inaugural 26.2-mile race will be March 3, 2013 on the Biltmore Estate to benefit Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Registration now open at www.imAthlete. com. Visit www.asheville marathon.com.
ASHEVILLE TRACK CLUB: Promotes and support the running communities of WNC by providing information, education, training, social and sporting events. Visit www.asheville trackclub.org.
FOUR SEASONS RUNNING CLUB: Official running club of Hendersonville/Henderson County. Call 388-3200 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
JUS' RUNNING: Groups meet for various levels of road and trail runs and track workouts at the Jus' Running store, 523 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Call 252-7867, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.jusrunning.com.
DIAMOND BRAND RUNNING GROUPS: Meets at 6 p.m. every Wednesday. Runs are 3-6 miles at an 8-10 minute pace. All running levels welcome. Contact email@example.com.
FOOTRX RUN: Meets at 8 a.m. Saturdays at the south exit of Hendersonville Road and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Call Chuck Martin at 687-3476.
SWAIN COUNTY TRAIL RUNNERS: Long-run group meets 8 a.m. Saturdays at the Deep Creek Trailhead parking area in Bryson City. All runs are on trails in the Smokies or Tsali Recreation Area. All distances, paces, ages welcome. Call 399-0989, 488-6769 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
PISGAH MOUNTAIN BIKE STAGE RACE: Fourth annual race through Pisgah National Forest is Sept. 17-22. The race covers 195 miles and 28,000 feet of climbing on single-track trails and fire roads over five days. Cash purse of $3,500. Entry fees are $800 for pro men and women, $700 for open men and women and $1,400 for relay teams of two-five riders on www.active.com. Visit www.blueridgeadventures.net.
RING OF FIRE PRESENTED BY WILD WING CAFE: The VeloSports Racing Team hosts 12-race training series Wednesday nights at Carrier Park track on Amboy Road in Asheville. Road bike racing in all categories plus free kids races. Call Andrew Kimble at 215-962-4826 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or Wade Turlington at 335-7494.
ASHEVILLE BICYCLE RACING CLUB: Promotes amateur bicycle racing in WNC. Members get organized training rides, coaching and financial assistance. Visit www.abrc.net .
ASHEVILLE WOMEN'S CYCLING: All-female cycling club and all-female racing team, Team Prestige Subaru. Promote recreational road and trail cycling among women. Visit www.ashevillewomenscycling.com.
o 30th Annual Town Mountain Hill Climb Time Trial: Co-sponsored with Ski Country Sports, 5-mile race starts at 6 p.m. Sept. 7 at foot of Town Mountain Road. Entry fee is $15. USA Cycling license is required. One-day licenses are $10. Register at www.active.com or race-day from 4-5:45 p.m. Call 254-2771 or visit www.ashevillewomenscycling.com.
BLUE RIDGE BICYCLE CLUB: Encourages safe and responsible recreational bicycling in WNC. Weekly rides ranging from novice-advanced levels. Rides usually have a designated leaders and cyclists will not be left behind. Visit www.blueridge bicycleclub. org.
PISGAH AREA SORBA: Chapter of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, dedicated to improving technical off-road biking programs through advocacy for quality trail systems. Visit www.pisgah areasorba.org.
TRACK CYCLING CLINICS/TRAINING: Clinics and skills practice, 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays, Carrier Park, Amboy Road, Asheville. Open to all ages. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. www.mellowdrome.com.
BRBC TUESDAY MORNING RIDES: The Blue Ridge Bicycle Club holds rides the first Tuesday of the month starting at Fletcher Park. All other Tuesday rides start from Liberty Bicycles,1378 Hendersonville Road. Visit www.blueridge bicycleclub.org.
ASHEVILLE AMBLERS WALKING CLUB: Club features free, monthly 5K or 10K (6.2-mile) noncompetitive walks in Asheville, Black Mountain and Hendersonville. Visit www.amblers.homestead.com or call 687-2777.
ASHEVILLE HIKING MEET-UP GROUP: Social and hiking club made up of all ages and professions. Hikes take place Saturdays and Sundays. Free. Visit www.meetup.com/ashevillehiking.
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY: The most-visited unit of the National Park Service, stretching 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee. Call 298-0398 for road and weather conditions or visit www.nps.gov/blri.
o Beechy Keen Hike: Meet parkway rangers at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 for a moderate 2-3 mile roundtrip hike on Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Learn more about beech trees and beech nuts. Start at the Glassmine Falls Overlook (MP 361.2). Free but registration is required. Call 298-5330, ext. 304.
o National Public Lands Day: Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway will hold a work day Sept. 29 at the Pisgah Campground, Milepost 408.5. Volunteers needed to pull weeds, install bear proof food containers and to attach cooking grills to the ground. E-mail Dan Wells at firstname.lastname@example.com by Sept. 15 for more details.
CAROLINA MOUNTAIN CLUB: More than 175 hikes a year. Call Stuart English at 883-2447 or visit www.carolinamtnclub.org for schedule of hikes. Hikes are free. Nonmembers should call ahead.
DIAMOND BRAND OUTDOORS: The outdoor outfitter on Hendersonville Road in Arden hosts walks, hikes and other outdoor programs throughout year on trails and in local parks. Call 209-1538 or visit www.diamondbrand.com.
WOMEN-ONLY HIKING GROUP: Women-only hike the third Saturday of each month with Diamond Brand Outdoors. Hikes are free, registration is required. Call 684-6262 .
NANTAHALA HIKING CLUB: A hiking/trail maintenance club based in the Franklin-Highlands area. For a schedule of guided hikes, call Kay Coriell at 369-6820 or visit www.nantahala hikingclub.org.
SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: Nonprofit working to conserve the clean water, unique plant and animal habitat, local farmland and recreational treasures of the Southern Appalachians. Visit www.appalachian.org.
SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM: Hosts various hikes, camps and community events throughout the year. At 223 W. State St., Black Mountain. Call 669-9566 for information and to register for events. Programs and activities are available by appointment year-round.
FLY-FISHING CLASSES: Rivers Edge Outfitters in Cherokee conducts free fly-fishing classes at 10 a.m. every Saturday. For more, call 497-9300.
N.C. WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION: State agency regulating hunting, fishing and trapping seasons and rules. For more information, visit www.ncwildlife.org.
o Hunting/Fishing Rule Change Hearings: The commission will hold public hearings on 68 proposed wildlife management and fishing regulation changes for the 2013-2014 seasons. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. District 9 hearing will be Sept. 18 at Tri-County Community College n Murphy. District 8 hearing will be Sept. 19 at Municipal Auditorium in Morganton. For a complete list of the proposed regulations changes, visit www.ncwildlife.org.
FRENCH BROAD RIFLES: Meet for muzzle-loading target shooting at 9 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at the club's range in Madison County. Email email@example.com.
LAND O' SKY TROUT UNLIMITED: Asheville-based organization of anglers and conservationists dedicated to the protection of trout and their habitat. Visit www.landoskytu.com. Meetings are at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month.
LAND OF THE SKY BASSMASTERS: WNC's oldest bass club and NC BASS Federation affiliated club meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Bubba Q's Restaurant across from airport in Fletcher. Serious anglers can build friendships, camaraderie and angling knowledge. For more, call 551-5786.
PIGEON VALLEY BASSMASTERS: New members welcome. Regular meetings are at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Shoney's Restaurant, at Exit 44 off I-40. For more, call Patty Blanton at 712-2846.
PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED: Hendersonville-based anglers and conservationists with members in Polk, Henderson and Transylvania counties. Visit www.main.nc.us/PCTU.
ASHEVILLE MASTERS SWIMMING: Organized workouts, 5:45-7:15 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at the Asheville School, and at 7:30-9 a.m. Saturdays at Warren Wilson College. Coached workouts 5:45-7:15 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday at WWC. Competitive, fitness and triathlon swimmers welcome for training, stroke work and socializing. Visit www.ashevillemasters.com.
ASHEVILLE ROWING CLUB: A nonprofit athletic and social organization dedicated to promoting health, fitness and fun through rowing and learn to row classes on Lake Julian in Skyland. Visit www.ashevillerowing.org.
ASHEVILLE TRIATHLON CLUB: For competitive and beginner triathletes. Club provides resources, training, racing and social opportunities. Call Greg Duff at 400-5868.
ASHEVILLE YOUTH ROWING ASSOCIATION: For ages 13-18, a youth rowing program at Lake Julian on Saturdays, Sundays and two afternoons per week. Call Jack Gartner at 230-3901 or visit www.ashevilleyouthrowing.com.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS TRIATHLON CLUB: Hayesville-based club for those interested in running, biking and swimming competitions. Races throughout the year. For more info. call Scott Hanna at 389-6982, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.gsmtc.com.
GREEN RIVER ADVENTURES: Saluda-based guide for professional kayaking instruction, inflatable kayaking trips and custom adventure experiences. Call 800-335-1530 or visit www.greenriveradventures.com.
NANTAHALA OUTDOOR CENTER: Outdoor outfitter, providing whitewater rafting, paddling instruction, adventure travel, group adventure programs, festivals and events, on U.S. 19 W. in the Nantahala Gorge, west of Bryson City. Call 888-905-7238 or visit www.noc.com.
ASHEVILLE LAWN BOWLING: Meet 2-4 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, weather permitting, at Carrier Park green on Amboy Road. Free instruction and the use of club bowls. Call Hans at 684-1815 or Stan at 665-7768.
ASHEVILLE MUSHROOM CLUB: Meets monthly at the WNC Nature Center on Gashes Creek Road in Asheville. Meetings are open to the public. Membership is required to participate in forays. $18 individuals, $25 family. www.ashevillemushroomclub.com.
ASHEVILLE PARKS OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts offers many opportunities for outdoor adventure this winter and spring. Fees are listed for Asheville city residents and for nonresidents. Call Christen McNamara at 251-4029 or email email@example.com.
WESTERN CAROLINA BOTANICAL CLUB: Identifies and studies native plants and their habitats and encourages members and the public to protect and preserve the biodiversity of our natural world. Weekly field trips, community service projects, workshops and more. Beginners are welc:ome. Call 696-2077.
BLUE RIDGE NATURALIST CENTER: Various programs, walks and seminars for the community. At UNC Asheville. Call 251-6198 for more information or to register for programs.
CARL SANDBURG HOME: National park located in Flat Rock. Tours of the home (admission fee), several miles of hiking trails, gardens, descendants of Mrs. Sandburg's dairy goat herd. Free programs year-round. Call 693-4178 or visit www.nps.gov/carl.
CAROLINA MOUNTAIN LAND CONSERVANCY: Hendersonville-based nonprofit dedicated to land preservation. Guided hikes, outreach events and volunteer opportunities. Contact Aimee McGinley, firstname.lastname@example.com, 697-5777 or visit http://carolinamountain.org.
CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK: Located 25 miles southeast of Asheville. Hiking trails, guided rock climbing, bird watching, children's programs. Admission fee. Call 625-9611, 800-277-9611 or visit www.chimneyrockpark.com.
o Music on the Mountain: Balsam Range, Town Mountain and Darin & Brooke Aldridge will perform Sept. 16 at Chimney Rock State Park, 3:30-7:30 p.m. at the park's Pavilion, a covered venue in the Meadows. It is limited to 300 tickets per event. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to the Friends of Chimney Rock State Park. Advance tickets are $22 for adults, $25 at gate; and $12/$15 for ages 6-15, at Old Rock Café or call 800-277-9611 or visit www.chimneyrockpark.com.
DIAMOND BRAND OUTDOORS: Outdoor enthusiasts have opportunity to participate in several types of free instructional clinics and special events. A complete schedule and information can be found at www.diamondbrand.com.
DUPONT STATE FOREST: Miles of multiuse trails, waterfalls and lakes straddling Henderson and Transylvania counties. No admission fee. Visit www.dupontforest.com.
ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY: Promotes an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect wildlife and natural ecosystems and to encourage responsible environmental stewardship. Offers bird walks, naturalist programs. Visit www.main.nc.us/emas.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION: Hendersonville-based conservation nonprofit. Guided hikes and community events. Call 692-0385 or visit www.eco-wnc.org.
FLETCHER DISC GOLF: Fletcher Parks and Recreation-hosted disc golf doubles program is at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays at Fletcher Communi ty Park. Program to players of any ability. Loaner discs available. Visit www.fletcherparks.org.
FONTANA VILLAGE: Local author and hiker Jerry Span leads family-friendly, diverse programs throughout the year. For information or to register, call 498-2211, ext. 144.
FOOTHILLS EQUESTRIAN NATURE CENTER: FENCE offers 384 acres of hardwood forest, meadow and wetland for hikers, birdwatchers, gardeners and astronomers. Located at 3381 Hunting Country Road, Tryon. 859-9012 or www.fence.org.
GORGES STATE PARK: State park in Transylvania County, about 45 miles southwest of Asheville. Park office is on U.S. 64 in Sapphire. Trails, waterfalls, picnic areas, campsites. Admission is free. Call 966-9099.
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN: Located off N.C. 221, south of Boone. Attractions include Mile High Swinging Bridge, environmental habitats for native wildlife, natural history museum and alpine hiking trails. Visit www.grandfather.com or call 800-468-7325.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK: Extends 70 miles along the North Carolina-Tennessee border. Hiking trails, scenic driving routes, camping, picnic sites. Open year-round. Free. Call the Oconaluftee Visitor Center on U.S. 441 at 497-1904 or visit www.nps.gov/grsm.
LAKE JAMES STATE PARK: At the base of Linville Gorge, Lake James State Park is a 6,510-acre lake with boating, fishing and swimming in season, picnic area, campground, hiking trails and ranger-led nature programs. Call office in Nebo, McDowell County, at 584-7728 or visit www.ncparks.gov.
o Bear In Mind: Meet at 10 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 at the Catawba Area office to learn about black bears and what to do if you encounter one. Free. Call 584-7728.
o Astronomy: Meet at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, in the parking lot of the Paddy's Creek Area for a night of star gazing. Free. Register by calling the park office at 584-7728.
LOST COVE NATURALIST CENTER: Offering programs in outdoor self-reliance living skills. Learn primitive technology skills, taught by hands-on professionals. Center is at 160 Grassy Knoll Way, Blowing Rock. More at 295-8570 or www.lostcovenaturalist.com.
MOUNTAIN WILD: Local chapter of the N.C. Wildlife Federation works to preserve and increase wildlife and wildlife habitat of the WNC mountains. Free programs meet the fourth Tuesday of each month at the WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road, Asheville. Call 338-0035.
MOUNT MITCHELL STATE PARK: Home to the highest peak east of the Mississippi, Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet elevation. Located on N.C. 128, off the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 355. Interactive programs are free. Call 675-4611 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
o Animals of Mt. Mitchell: Meet at non Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Education Classroom near the summit to learn about species that inhabit the area.
o Towers of Mt. Mitchell: Meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, or 1 p.m. Sunday, at the Education Classroom to learn about all the past towers.
o The Bear Facts: North American Bears: Meet at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, or 2 p.m. Sunday, at the Education Classroom to learn about black, grizzly and polar bears.
N.C. ARBORETUM: Connects people and plants through various year-round programs, lectures and special events. Promotes conservation, education and research. Located off N.C. 191/Brevard Road, south of the Biltmore Square Mall. Call 665-2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org.
PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION: Ongoing classes at center, adjacent to the fish hatchery in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard. Operated by N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. All programs are free; registration required. Open daily, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. except Sunday. Call 877-4423.
PURA VIDA ADVENTURES: Adventure guide service offering guided climbing, mountain biking, hiking, water tours and paddling trips. Call 772-579-0005 or visit www.pvadventures.com.
REI ASHEVILLE: Outdoors outfitter in Biltmore Park, 31 Schenck Parkwa y offers ongoing schedule of classes and special events. Call 687-0918 or visit www.rei.com. Registration required.
o Map Reading Basics: Meet 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at REI Asheville. Learn how to read contour lines, contour intervals, terrain features and how to orient the map, and basic route planning skills. Class is limited to 20. Free, but registration required. Register at www.rei.com/event/43260/session/55578.
o Bike Maintenance: Wheels: Meet 6-8 p.m. Aug. 23. Cost is $20 REI members/$40 non-members. Hands-on class will go over how to change and repair a flat tire, and how to perform trailside emergency spot truing to a wheel using basic tools. Limited to 10 participants. Park Tool's Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair is highly recommended. Registration required at www.rei.com/event/43231/session/55553.
SIERRA CLUB (PISGAH): The Pisgah chapter of the national environmental club. Monthly meetings and discussions. Call Robert C. Hynett at 693-1975 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
SIERRA CLUB (WENOCA): Western North Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club. Meetings at Unitarian Church, corner of Charlotte Street and Edwin Place, Asheville, and are free and open to public. Visit www.northcarolina.sierraclub.org/wenoca.
SLICKROCK EXPEDITIONS: Cullowhee-based guide service that runs recreational trips of backpacking, canoeing and camping in wilderness areas throughout the Southeast, as well as in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Call Burt Kornegay at 293-3999 or visit www.slickrockexpeditions.com.
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: The conservancy works with individuals and local communities to identify, preserve and manage the region's important lands. Hikes scheduled on Saturdays. Call 253-0095 or visit www.appalachian.org.
RV CAMPING CLUB: Small local camping club looking for new members. Camping trips are one weekend per month, March-November. All ages welcome. No dues, no structured activities. We share a love of the outdoors, good company, great food & a roaring campfire. Contact Lillian at firstname.lastname@example.com or 369-6669.
WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED: Offering various bird programs with instructor and owner Simon Thompson. Visit www.asheville.wbu for directions, more information or contact WBU at 687-9433.
WNC NATURE CENTER: A living museum of plants and animals native to the Appalachian region, 75 Gashes Creek Road in East Asheville. Admission: $8 adults, $5 children, free to members of Friends of the Nature Center. Call 298-5600. Visit http://wncnaturecenter.com/.


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For large and growing companies, the task of assisting end users can become a tremendous burden on the IT department. By some estimates, the cost of password resets can be as much as $70 per incident (including loss of productivity) and make up around 30 percent of Help desk calls. Even higher costs can be expected in industries that are subject to additional regulation, such as in the financial and healthcare arenas.
Product Similarities
All the products that I compared installed on a single Windows Server 2008 system in about 30 minutes or less. My installations each included an administrative console for configuring the software, an end-user website that users could use to reset forgotten passwords, and a Help desk website that Help desk workers could use to assist end users with password resets. Each product also checked passwords as they were entered and enforced a set of password requirements. The password requirements of all five products were similar; the only major exceptions were the dictionary options in Specops Password Policy and Quest Password Manager, which allows you to configure these products to prevent the use of specific words in passwords.
The products' security features also had several similarities. Each product used a password-protected enrollment process, during which the end user completes a series of questions: You can require some questions or configure the products to present end users with a list of questions to choose from. All the reviewed products had rules to force end users to answer these questions in a useful and secure way. These rules included such options as
- requiring unique answers to all questions
- requiring answers to questions to be case sensitive
- setting the number of allowed custom questions
- setting the total number of questions
- requiring end users to set up password reset questions and to complete the enrollment process when it presents itself at logon
- setting a lockout threshold for incorrect answers to password reset questions (similar to lockout thresholds for password input during logon)
- setting a minimum custom-question length
- requiring all answers to be more than five characters
- restricting answers from including words that are in the question
Only ManageEngine's ADSelfService Plus did not use Microsoft IIS. Each product also included a client application that added a logon assistance button to the Windows logon screen. By clicking this button, end users are brought to a self-service password-management portal, without needing to log on to the computer. Without the client application, end users can still access the password reset website for enrollment into the system or to reset passwords. However, users who need resets will probably need to use a coworker's computer or a kiosk computer that allows web access without logging on first.
Another nice feature of the products is that they are licensed per user rather than per server. This feature allows you to set up a second server for fault tolerance.
Product Differences
The big difference among the reviewed products tended to be integration with Active Directory (AD). Two of the evaluated products -- Specops Password Policy and Quest Password Manager -- integrated with AD in such a way that I could assign different password policies to different organizational units (OUs) within a domain, even if the domain's operational mode didn't natively enable this option. In both products, an application needed to be installed on each domain controller (DC) to allow the product to intercept the password-change requests and ensure that they complied with the specified requirements before being passed on to AD. These products enforced my password policies both when using the product interface and when using the standard change-password routine that's built into all Windows versions, from any computer in the domain, with or without a client installation.
The following sections describe each product in more detail. See Table 1 for a comparison of all the products' core features. (I give each product one point per provided feature; for Group Policy integration, I give the product two points.)
Specops Password Policy and Specops Password Reset
Specops Software's Specops Password Policy (which Figure 1 shows) and Specops Password Reset, two products that I tested together, install on Windows Server 2008, using the straightforward, checklist-like installation wizards that I've seen in other Specops products.
As you move through each point of the installation, the wizards either take care of the requirement for you or tell you what needs to be done before proceeding. Within about 15 minutes each, installation was completed. These products are the only ones that install a self-signed certificate during installation to help secure all your web traffic. (The vendor recommends replacing the self-signed certificate with one from a public source after you move past the trial phase of your implementation. Otherwise, internal and external users will receive warning messages as they use the web-based self-service portal.)
You will need to install the included Specops Password Policy Sentinel on all DCs to which your users can connect, to ensure that Specops Password Policy is enforced during password changes throughout your organization.
When you set up the password-reset and password policies in AD, you need to set your domain password-policy requirements fairly low and apply more rigorous password requirements to individual OUs. The password policies that you create with the Specops products need to be more restrictive to be compatible with the Default Domain Policy that is applied across the domain.
Specops Password Policy and Specops Password Reset
ManageEngine's ADSelfService Plus
ManageEngine's ADSelfService Plus (which Figure 2 shows) has a full set of features for the price, plus an employee directory that users can use to search for other users' contact information or to update their own.
The product installs with just a few clicks and uses its own web server and MySQL database, which it installs as part of the installation process. You will need to install a certificate to secure the web server; ADSelfService Plus comes with a tool to assist you with this process.
Like Specops SPPPR, ADSelfService Plus comes with the capability to send a verification code to a user's cell phone, in addition to requiring the user to correctly answer the verification questions. And like Quest Password Manager, ADSelfService Plus includes CAPTCHA in its suite of security options. However, it doesn't integrate with AD, unlike the Quest and Specops products.
ADSelfService Plus takes some time to become familiar with, partly because many of its features are three or four levels deep and partly because the language that the interface uses is easy to misinterpret. For example, you might think that the Force user to Enroll option sets the client application to intercept the logon process and force the user to enroll. But this option actually means that the user must go through the enrollment process before they are allowed to use the employee directory system that is built into ADSelfService Plus. So this product is a little confusing for the administrator when first using it.
ADSelfService Plus
Quest Password Manager
The installation process for Quest Password Manager (which Figure 3 shows) consists of a wizard that walks you through the processes of creating a new password reset and password policy, which you then assign to a container in your AD domain as well as your AD security groups.
After the wizard walks you through the password policy, password reset policy, security options, and container assignment, you'll have a good understanding of the product. In this way, the setup wizard functions as a guided tour for the administrator. Be aware that to ensure that Quest Password Manager integrates fully with your domain, you will need to install the Quest Password Manager .msi file on all DCs.
Of all the products I compared, this one had the most integration options. Quest Password Manager is designed to work with Microsoft Identity Integration Server or Quest ActiveRoles Quick Connect. With the latter, user information can be synchronized across AD, AD Lightweight Directory Services (ADAM), delimited text files, Microsoft SQL Server, LDAP directory services, OLE DB, Sun ONE Directory Server, an Oracle database, Novell Directory Services (NDS), IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), IBM Lotus Domino Server, and the Google Apps service.
Quest Password Manager includes a Graphical Identification and Authentication (GINA) Group Policy template, which allows you to add the configuration settings for this application to your domain Group Policy. You can customize not only the template's look and position on the screen, but also the behavior of the client application. For example, you can force the use of HTTP Secure (HTTPS), statically assign the recovery center URL, or configure proxy settings.
Quest Password Manager requires a full SQL Server installation (not just SQL Server Express Edition), with SQL Server Reporting Services (SRSS) installed as well. If you don't have a SQL Server installation available, you'll need to add the price of SQL Server to your cost analysis. On the up side, you'll have SRSS to review all the information that is available in Quest Password Manager.
Another Quest Password Manager feature is the ability to assign a temporary passcode to users who haven't gone through the enrollment process. These passcodes can be configured to expire within a set amount of time. Just be careful with this feature; anyone with access to the Help desk portal can assign a passcode, then enroll and reset any account that the Quest Password Manager service account has permission to change. If you decide to use this feature, be sure to delegate the service account correctly. Otherwise, your Help desk staff might have much more access than you intended. The passcode feature is turned off by default.
Quest Password Manager
NetWrix Password Manager
NetWrix Password Manager (which Figure 4 shows) installs on Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later. After the installation, I only needed to adjust the authentication in IIS to enable Windows authentication.
After the installation, NetWrix Password Manager is very simple and intuitive. You can choose from a list of verification questions, make up your own, or allow end users to make up their own questions. Custom questions and answers can be required to be a minimum length, and all answers can be required to be unique. During the installation, the product creates an AD group called NetWrix Account Help Desk. Adding users to this group gives them the ability to use the Help desk web portal to assist other users with resetting passwords or unlocking accounts.
Unique to NetWrix Password Manager is a disconnected-mode password reset. The disconnected-mode reset enables the GINA extension on the Windows logon screen to reset a user's cached password, even when the user isn't connected to the domain. This could be a key feature for companies with large numbers of mobile users but does require the GINA extension to be installed locally.
NetWrix Password Manager also comes with a user-data import process that can be used to prepopulate the information that is needed during user enrollment, making the enrollment process easier for end users.
NetWrix also offers a freeware version for as many as 50 enrolled users.
NetWrix Password Manager
Web Active Directory's PeoplePassword
Web Active Directory's PeoplePassword (which Figure 5 shows) is another product that works with IIS and SQL Server. However, in this case you can use SQL Server 2005 or later, including SQL Server Express Edition if you don't already have and don't want to pay for SQL Server.
Web Active Directory has done a nice job with the enrollment process in PeoplePassword. This product comes with the ability to import all necessary user information so that you can enroll users into the system without any involvement on their part.
In addition to the core functionality that all the products provide, PeoplePassword has the unique ability to collect an alternate email address during the enrollment process. This address can then be used to send a password-reset code during the password-reset process. The ability to collect an alternate email address and send the password-reset code can be turned on or off, simply by checking a box in the password-reset profile settings. However, you can't require the verification questions to be answered before sending the password-reset email -- an improvement that some companies might want before using this feature.


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The Daughters of Charity health ministry advances and strengthens the healing mission of the Catholic Church through ideas, influence, and actions. We are faithful to the tradition of service established by St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac, and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Our MISSION is to make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals and communities. Central to our mission is service to those who are poor. The health services we provide are spiritually centered, accessible, and affordable.
Our VISION is to establish a strong, vibrant Catholic health ministry in the United States in the 21st century. We are committed to partnering with those physicians, sponsors, and other associates with whom we share compatible values. Laity are our partners in this shared responsibility for the future of our healthy ministry.
Our VISION calls us to:
- Become an advocate for a humane and just society, especially for those who are poor and vulnerable.
- Emphasize a culture that embraces learning, diversity, collaboration, and the well-being of our associates.
- Strengthen the development of religious and lay leaders.
- Commit ourselves to all aspects of health -- community health, personal health, disease management, and spirituality.
- Provide a full continuum of care, which includes home, community, ambulatory, and inpatient services, that meets preventative, acute, and chronic health needs.
- Foster growth through partnership, acquisitions, and diversification.
- Invest in change by demonstrating the value of innovation.
We must transform our governance, service models and thinking to continue our mission and achieve this vision. In keeping with St. Vincent de Paul, "Let us put confidence in our Lord, for He will be with us first and last in the accomplishment of a work to which He has called us."
Our core VALUES inspire us to:
- Service of the Poor
Generosity of spirit for persons most in need.
- Reverence
Respect and compassion for the dignity and diversity of life.
- Integrity
Inspiring trust through personal leadership.
- Creativity
Courageous innovation.
- Dedication
Affirming the hope and joy of our ministry.


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By Peter Rudegeair
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The death of a man who was shoved in front of an oncoming New York City subway train spurred a police hunt on Friday for the woman seen pushing him, as the second such violent death this month left its imprint on the city's millions of subway riders.
The woman appeared to be mumbling to herself and pacing, witnesses told police, before she approached the man from behind on the platform of an elevated station in the borough of Queens and shoved him onto the subway track Thursday evening.
She ran from the station to the street in a scene caught on video footage that the police released on Friday as they searched for the unidentified woman, who, they said, was last seen wearing a ski jacket along with red and gray Nikes.
The death in Queens was the second time this month that a New York subway rider was killed after being pushed onto the tracks - a chilling notion for anyone who uses the city's transit system - and came just ahead of the New Year's holiday in a city choked with visitors.
"To say that it's only two in, you know, a long period of time doesn't help either person," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday on WOR Radio 710 AM's "The John Gambling Show."
Police said it remains unclear whether the woman being sought knew the victim, who they initially had trouble identifying because his body had been so badly mangled by the train. He has yet to be named.
In New York's subway stations, some took added precautions Friday, standing a few extra feet away from the platform edge. Commuter Chloe Morris, traveling from New Jersey, said she prefers to sit on a bench rather than stand on the platform while waiting for a train.
"I don't come close to the edge until a train comes," Morris said as she waited in the Times Square station. "There's too many crazy people in the world."
On December 3, Ki-Suck Han was killed after being shoved onto subway tracks in Manhattan as a train entered the 49th Street station near Times Square. A suspect, Naeem Davis, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Including Thursday's incident, 139 people were struck by New York City subway trains so far in 2012, 54 of them fatally, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman said on Friday, adding that the tally was preliminary and subject to change.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly indicated the department would not be adding more police to platforms anytime soon.
"We think we are properly deployed in the transit system," he said at a news conference on Friday.
One solution might be installing safety doors along subway platforms that block access to the tracks until a train arrives, something in use in several major cities around the world, said New Yorker Tom Walker as he waited for a subway.
New York's subway system, which is more than 100 years old and is one of the world's busiest, does not have barriers between the platforms and the tracks.
"It's an antiquated system. Of course people are going to fall in," Walker said.
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New Common Core educational standards have affected kids' lives and learning, frustrated parents told the Terrebonne Parish School Board Tuesday.
New Common Core educational standards have affected kids' lives and learning, frustrated parents told the Terrebonne Parish School Board Tuesday.
Tiny children sob over their homework because they just don't understand, educator and parent Pamela Pellegrin said. Third-graders come home with anxiety disorders after school, leaving moms and dads at a loss.
"Children are sitting at family tables crying because their little hands hurt from writing assignments," she said. "Parents are sitting at family tables stressed and crying because they don't even know how to help them with their homework. These are educated parents with college degrees. I'm one of them."
At its most basic level, the Common Core, a set of educational standards adopted by Louisiana and 44 other states, provides a list of skills students should master in each subject before finishing each school year. Students will be expected to learn more-complicated concepts earlier in their school careers and will learn more overall during the course of their K-12 educations.
For example, the core standards say a fourth-grader must be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers to solve problems, be familiar with factors and multiples, and generate and analyze patterns by year's end.
Kids can't keep up with the new workload, Pellegrin said.
"A parent of a first-grader today told me that her child had 12 tests in three-and-a-half weeks," she said.
Several School Board members agreed, saying the higher standards rolled out too fast, and kids are struggling to catch up.
"I just think it should have been phased in a little better than it has been," board member Gregory Harding said. "Just to throw this on our kids, I think it's a great mistake."
Harding said common core hit his child's classroom this year. His 7-year-old's school slammed the second grader with new material this year — and gave little room for a learning curve.
"I know what Common Core is doing, and I can see a big difference as far as homework they had last year as compared to this year," he said. "I can honestly say as one individual, being a parent myself, with a degree, it is very hard to try to articulate to them things that they haven't been taught at the beginning."
Local administrators say the Common Core standards are more rigorous than the former state standards. Designers modeled the standards on schools nationwide that performed best on test scores and other measures of learning. They draw partially from international benchmarks to make sure American students are learning as quickly and as much as others.
But the standards are designed to leave space for teachers to pick some of their own material. In literature, for example, the standards require teachers to assign books that include certain complex themes and use certain literary devices, but the standards don't prescribe a specific reading list.
Some parents say they worry Common Core has changed the books that kids are reading.
"Fourth-graders will be learning about Malcolm X, another topic irrelevant for schools," Montegut parent Vicky Bonvillain said. "I know they are currently studying him, but how is that academic learning? He was a member of the Nation of Islam, a religion that hates not only white people but America as well."
Board member Brenda Babin said she believes there's some confusion about what Common Core is and what it means for students. Common Core acts as an outline for achievement, but teachers control the lesson plans, said Board Member L.P. Bordelon, who supports the new standards.
The material was not developed on a federal level but by a coalition of teachers, principals and superintendents across states. Beginning in 2010, each state could opt into the program.
Terrebonne's school system has an obligation to use Common Core because state tests "will be based on and envelop common core standards," Superintendent Philip Martin said. Though he said he understands parents' concerns, it's irresponsible not to teach kids the material.
"If they don't pass those tests, many of them don't get promoted," he said. "It is our obligation instructionally to prepare, as best we can, those kids for those tests."


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Oh, Deer: Spray-painting a figurine black and adding decorative balls is within our skill set.
Net Knit
Using the web to warp, weave, stitch, craft and make your own gifts
By Paul Davis
Long before Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson took the global economy for a cruise on the Fail Boat, there was plenty of talk among market analysts that this would be a lean holiday season. And now here we are, with the holidays upon us, and the reality is dimmer than any analyst could have predicted in the halcyon days of June 2008.
This doesn't mean these holidays have to be a complete blowout. There are plenty of DIY gift ideas floating around there that can allow you to treat your loved ones without having to resort to any more toxic loans. And thanks for the wonders of the Internet--you are still paying those DSL bills, right?--just about anyone can whip up some homemade holiday cheer that has no resemblance to those itchy knitted sweaters Granny used to make.
The DIY revolution has reached critical mass online in recent years, with tons of sites offering tutorials and inspiration for gift items as far-flung as screen-printed T's and knitted iPod cozies. Here's a sampling of some of our favorites. Who knows: With the skills you hone going the DIY route, you might just find a recession bailout plan of your own.
Curbly should be your first stop if you want to enter the world of DIY gift-giving. An online community for both pro crafters and wannabes, the site is full of inspiring ideas alongside incredibly helpful video tutorials for items such as art-nouveau birdhouses and old books that have been repurposed into small works of wall art. The site offers a robust discussion forum where crafters trade tips and talk shop, and the overall ethos of the site favors finding economical solutions to grandiose visions. (www.curbly.com)
If Curbly is your first stop, make Instructables your second. A veritable clearinghouse for craft tutorials, if you can't find the perfect homemade gift here, you're probably not sold on this whole DIY thing to begin with. The wealth of tutorials on the site--ranging from classy homemade lamps to USB memory sticks encased in Lego bricks--is mind-boggling, and a bit overwhelming. Since the tutorials are user-submitted, their quality can vary, but user ratings allow you to quickly find the best submitters to the site. (www.instructables.com)
Both an online magazine and quarterly print digest, Make magazine is like a virtual Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory to nerdy DIY'ers, with a preference for projects that are technical and eccentric. You'll find tricks to make bizarre and wonderful devices out of typical off-the-shelf items, and if you have the will (and a bit of technical or engineering prowess), the magazine is full of ideas that will make the face of the plugged-in iconoclast in your life glow. Word of warning: the projects in Make are rarely for the faint of heart, and the materials of choice may end up being pricier than an off-the-shelf gift. (www.makezine.com)
More accessible than Make--in both tone and project difficulty--is its sister publication, Craft. Craft offers tons of tutorials for homemade knitted gear, ornaments and what have you. Keep the Bedazzler in the box, though--the overriding aesthetic of Craft's projects is cutesy, hip and urban. The site's updated-daily blog serves as a fount of idea inspiration, displaying the most impressive DIY projects from around the web, and the tutorials are sure to help those who suffer from fumbling finger syndrome. Unfortunately, a subscription is required to view the tutorials, but they are hard to beat for sheer thoroughness and user-friendliness. (www.craftzine.com)
Lifehacker is the granddaddy of productivity blogs, generally focusing on simple solutions for mundane office tasks, but in recent weeks has ramped up its coverage of hands-on holiday gift hacks. The site is more likely to offer a new system to efficiently manage email than play host to a slew of homemade gift how-tos, but the handful of homemade solutions on offer are refreshingly simple, preferring resourcefulness to flash. (www.lifehacker.com)
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Still can't find inspiration? Try hipster-centric craft discussion forum Craftster (www.craftstercom), or head over to the Holiday DIY Gift Ideas Flickr Pool (www.flickr.com/groups/[email protected]), which includes hundreds of photos of homemade gifts by members of the Flickr community. And if you just can't bring yourself to pull out the glue gun, or are just impossibly clumsy, you can always fake it and head over to Etsy (www.etsy.com), an eBay of sorts for crafters, to find a slew of affordable gifts by DIY pros.
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At the Telegraph Daniel Hannan reflects on a painful experience:
At the Oxford Union the other day, I was comprehensively outperformed by this man: Dr Cornel West. If you've heard him live, you'll know that he speaks in the manner of a charismatic preacher, and that the timbre of his voice captivates almost any audience. The motion was This House would occupy Wall Street. He won.
For a while, I sat there in the manner of Harold Abrahams after he loses to Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire. But then, like Abrahams, I picked myself up and started trying to improve my performance….
By his reflections Hannan seeks to learn from his experience and make it of use to others. I think there is a long way to go, but Hannan's reflections remind me of those of David Horowitz on West (more here) and of the continuing task before us.


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Gerard Butler: 'Romancing' with Katherine Heigl?
Gerard Butler takes his pug Lolita for a walk on Thursday (August 25) in Malibu, Calif.
The day before, the 41-year-old Scottish actor visited an office in Beverly Hills, where he was joined by Live with Regis and Kelly host Regis Philbin.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Gerard Butler
Gerry is reportedly being considered for a role in the reboot of the 1984 classic Romancing the Stone.
Also rumored to be possibly joining the film: Katherine Heigl and Taylor Kitsch.
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When you think of "home grown" a certain level of comfort comes to mind. The familiar but yet different. This Friday night the Music in the Square event will feature home-grown talent. Even the group's name "N'Spire" came from Gadsden County resident Darryl Figgers who, when he first heard the group perform, ran up to vocalist LaTrenda Gainous-Goldwire and began hugging her. He repeated several times that the group inspired him.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Steam and ash clouds are occasionally rising to 20,000 feet from an active Alaska volcano.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says in a release that an ash plume was reported rising from Pavlof Volcano on Tuesday evening at about 15,000 feet. It extended to the northeast about 100 miles before it dissipated.
The observatory says a pilot reported an ash plume about 20,000 feet on Wednesday, extending east-northeast from the volcano, located about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage in the Aleutian Islands.
The nearest community is Cold Bay, and residents reported seeing a glow from the summit Tuesday night. The observatory says photographs show a lava flow is still active down the volcano's northwest flank.


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Sunday Table
Simple, seasonal, shared.
DATE: Sun 16 Sep, 2018
TIME: 12 - 5.00pm
INCLUDES: Lunch, wine, notebook
A chance to relax with friends old and new at the shared table before enjoying a beautiful long lunch, lovingly prepared by Tamsin using only fresh produce, meat, preserves and pickles sourced from the 113 acres around you and including wine from nearby vineyards. You can't get more local and seasonal than that.
If you'd like to explore the garden and farm after lunch we'd be delighted to show you around and if you feel like an afternoon stroll, the fenced farm laneways will lead you to some beautiful views. Just be sure to bring your farm boots!
Dietary requirements: These lovely long table lunches are intimate affairs (you will be dining with just 8 or 9 others) and a real celebration of what is best and most bountiful in the garden on the day. Menus are carefully crafted to reflect this, and all dishes are served on large sharing platters in the centre of the table, so it is extremely difficult for us to accommodate individual dietary needs Vegetarian guests - there is generally only one meat based dish on the menu, served as part of the main course along with a salad and one other vegetable based dish. Gluten intolerant guests - we will do our best to provide wheat free options where possible however cannot guarantee that every dish will be wheat free.
Children: Sorry kids, this is one for the grown ups! Suitable for 16 years and over only.$150


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Unresponsive driver in idling car arrested for DWI, police say
January 23. 2013 9:12AM
NASHUA - A city woman was arrested for DWI after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a car with its engine running, police said.
Cynthia Silva, 50, of 164 East Dunstable Road, was arrested just after 2:15 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of 300 Main St.
Police said they received a report around 2 a.m. about an unresponsive woman behind the wheel of her vehicle that was parked with the engine running.
Officers concluded Silva was under the influence of alcohol and arrested her for DWI. She was later charged with being a habitual offender after police did a records check, learned her license was revoked on Sept. 10, 2010 and that she is currently a certified habitual offender.
What's next:Silva was released on $2,000 cash bail pending a Feb. 5 arraignment at 9th Circuit Court - Nashua District Division.


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Fanta Chery is the bomb!
Holy cow, I need to get on my knees and praise the Lord for bringing Fanta Cherry soda to my town at Walmart! When I first noticed it, I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought it just had to be Black Cherry or Cherry Lime or Cherry Vanilla or Cherry Cola. For so few have the imagination to actually put out JUST a Cherry soda without mixing it with another flavor. I know it must be tough.
But alas, Cherry Fanta is the real deal. A real live cherry drink. When I saw it at Walmart, I nearly fainted and immediately bought three 12 packs, but since I was just starting what was supposed to be a month long Atkins diet, I'd have to wait for some time to try it. So there it sat for a whole 48 hours in my fridge, calling my name each time I opened the door. I would stare longingly at the beautiful red cans, which were merely a tease at this point. I thought about them day and night. It was the longest and most torturous, agonizing 48 hours of my life. Which led me to only one conceivable conclusion. To hell with the diet!
So I popped one open. Smelled it first then took a nice, slow, long sip. My first impression was one of disappointment. I had become very used to the Jolly Rancher Cherry sodas from Kmart in the one liter bottles and at first, Fanta didn't live up to it. The next day I tried it again with better results. That day I had three Fantas and by the end of the day I was hooked!
That was about three weeks ago. I'm kind of embarrassed to say, but I'm now on my ninth 12 pack! Type 2 Diabetes, here I come! I'm so hooked on this stuff, it's absolutely ridiculous. I even get up in the middle of the night to drink one. ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
It differs greatly from Cherry Crush, which I've always said doesn't taste distinctly "cherry". It's still not as good as Jolly Rancher Cherry or Jones Cherry (which those bozos inexplicably retired) but neither of those came in cans and there's just something special about soda straight from a cold can. It's definitely better than Cherokee Red in my opinion.
Cherry Fanta is what I'd describe as smooth yet tart. Tart like a real cherry. I'd also describe it as pure Heaven, a gift from God. Excuse me, while I go pop open another one.


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Pumping is a frequently used method of efficiently transporting concrete from the delivery vehicles to the formwork. Unfortunately, pumping concrete can affect the air content of a concrete mix. This has caused concern about the possible loss of resistance of the concrete to freezing and thawing. The actual effect of pumping on the air content measured for the concrete is not consistent; in some cases air content has increased, while in others it has decreased. Previous work has shown that pumping causes pressure in the concrete, and this pressure can alter the air-void system. The purpose of this work was to verify previously identified changes in the air-void system, and to examine the effect of pressure on concrete mixes containing various admixture combinations.
The stability of an air-void system with respect to pressurization was found to depend upon both the actual air content and the admixture(s) used in the mix. Higher air contents improved resistance to changes from pressurization, while the use of lignosulfonate-based water reducers decreased the stability. Type F fly ash improved the stability. Air-entraining agent type appeared to also affect stability, but additional testing would be required to establish statistically significant effects based on air-entraining agent type.


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New Orleans Magazine, 2017 Reader's Choice Awards
(TOPS OF THE TOWN) - Favorite Buffet (1st place), Favorite Outdoor Dining (2nd place), Favorite Place for Brunch (3rd place)
New Orleans Magazine, 2016 Reader's Choice Awards
(TOPS OF THE TOWN) - Favorite Buffet and Favorite Outdoor Dining
Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator Magazine, since 1994
Best Outdoor Dining Spot: AAA Southern Traveler Magazine's
2013 Best of the South
"The turtle soup is enough reason to visit, but the jazz brunch that's offered every day has been a part of this New Orleans restaurant named for sisters Emma and Bertha Camors, who once had a shop at 613 Rue Royale. In fact, the French Quarter restaurant took third place in last year's best brunch category in our poll. And while the three dining rooms indeed are lovely, why wouldn't you want to savor a Creole meal in the courtyard? More than 78 percent of readers who voted agreed. (July/August 2013, AAA Southern Traveler Magazine)
Best Breakfast/Brunch - Southern Living Magazine, 2008 Reader's Choice Award Winner, 2nd Place
Best Place for Breakfast or Brunch - New Orleans Magazine, 2009 Reader's Choice Award Winner, 1st Place
Best Outdoor Dining - New Orleans Magazine, 2009 Reader's Choice Award Winner, 2nd Place
Magellan Awards Silver Winner, 2009 - Travel Weekly
Best Brunch - Gambit Weekly
Best Outdoor Dining in New Orleans - Best of Citysearch.com


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Flexner on Finishing: Odds & Ends
Four short (but crucial) finishing subjects.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 58-60
From the October 2011 issue #192
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What follows are four concise – but important – finishing topics about which you've likely wondered.
1 – Metamerism
Most of us have experienced a situation where we finish a project in our shop or garage to the exact color we want, only to discover that the color isn't right when we move the project into the house (or to a client's location). The explanation is the phenomenon of "metamerism." The lighting is different in the two locations.
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To answer Scoble's question, the recent TPC-C benchmarks that MS is proclaiming were run on a 64-way, 64-bit machine with 1/2 TB of RAM. I'm pretty sure I heard Gordon Magnione say this in his keynote at PASS. I know for sure that he said one of their next steps is to take it up to a full Terrabyte of RAM.
And then this morning I had breakfast with a guy from HP who, when I asked what he did started to tell me about the HP team at Microsoft performance tuning a 64-way 64-bit machine for the TPC benchmarks. I double-verified with him that he did indeed use that phrase. So Scoble, if that guy from Chevron is still reading, tell him that the news looks good.
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For many travelers, the Hawaiian islands loom large as a dream trip. When the time comes, there's a hotel in this paradise that can make your dream vacation come alive. It might be a secluded resort on the Big Island that's popular with Hollywood celebrities or a Moorish-inspired hideaway on Maui with a 140-foot waterslide that kids—of all ages—will love.
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