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Get your graze on!
This pack contains:
2 x 500g biltong
2 x 500g dry wors
2 packs of 3 x 300g sirloin steak and
2 x 1kg Boerewors
Total pack is 10% cheaper than buying the items individually
T-Bone Steak
The instantly recognisable T-bone is for people with serious appetites! Consisting of a sirloin and fillet steak separated by a T shaped bone, this cut is known in Italy as a Bistecca Fiorentina. 2 in a pack
Rump Steak 1kg
Our huge rump steaks – for when you are feeling really hungry! Wet-aged for a minimum of 14 days to give you that steakhouse flavour and tenderness that you expect. 2 in a pack
Our tried and tested recipe that many of our restaurant patrons keep coming back for. Made with a blend of traditional herbs and spices. Not packed as separate sausages
If you don't want the hassle of making your own burgers, let us do it for you. Thousands of satisfied Grillhouse and Gourmet Garage patrons can't be wrong! We have adapted our restaurant burgers to a smaller home size (100g) but with the same great taste. 8 burgers per pack
The Steak Lover – Rump
Love your steak? This pack's for you!
2 packs of 2 x 500g Rump steaks (huge!)
A set of our Grillhouse steak knives
Our Meat Online Braai apron
A bottle of our famous basting sauce and
500g biltong
Dry Wors
We think our dry wors is the best there is on the market. We use less fat than most other butchers – you will taste the difference!
Fillet Steak
For the ultimate in tenderness and luxury cuts, try our fillet medallions. Sourced from trimmed A Grade fillet, these steaks are best served medium rare or rare. 4 x 250g portions.
The Braai For 8
Weekend braai with your mates? Sorted!
This pack contains:
2 x 1 kg boerewors
2 x 800g Lamb Loin & Rib Chops
2 packs of 4 x 250g Rump Steak
2 x 800g Beef Sosaties
and a bottle of our famous Grillhouse Basting Sauce.
Total Pack is 10% cheaper than buying the items individually
Beef Biltong
The best biltong on the block! Cut from A grade Silverside and with our special blend of spices, this is the perfect accompanIment to sundowners or while watching the big game!
Whole Fillet
The ultimate tender roast. Why not try it pepper crusted or with mustard-based rub? Did you know that fillet is the second leanest cut of meat that you can get?
Rump Steak 1kg
The "first choice" steak for many patrons at the Grillhouse, our rump is wet-aged for a minimum of 14 days to give you that steakhouse flavour and tenderness that you expect. 4 in a pack
The Busy Cook
Planning on having the family or friends over this long weekend? Buy in bulk and save! This pack includes some meat essentials that you can freeze and use as and when required. Pack contains: 2 x 1 kg lean mince 2 x 1 kg goulash 2 packs of 6 x […]
10 Interesting Facts About Beef and Cattle
So, you want to know more about beef? Here are some interesting facts about beef and cattle… 1. The United States and Brazil are the top beef producing countries in the world 2. The average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements per day 3. The salivary glands of cattle, […]
Easy cottage pie
An easy-bake cottage pie of winter vegetables and minced beef. Incredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil / 500g 5-star mince beef / 400g can diced tomatoes /1 teaspoon Italian dried herbs / 1 cup beef stock /1 1/2 kg sweet potatoes / 2 tablespoon milk / 1 cup frozen peas / […]
Oxtail Stew
Deliciously rich oxtail stew recipe, with oxtails braised in red wine and stock, with onions, parsnips, and carrots. Have you ever had oxtails? Most people I know haven't even heard of them, which is really quite a shame. Think braised beef short ribs, but with even more flavor, and you'll […]
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let's show the other classes how a hero class gets things done.
While we've certainly discussed the patch 5.4 changes for death knights in the past, this week is the big week when patch 5.4 finally comes out and we put it all in action. With that in mind, today will be devoted at look at the patch notes from a death knight point of view and making some quick pronouncements about what we can expect when the servers the come back up.
The short version of the changes is this. All 3 specs are buffed overall, DPS more so than tanking. In PvE, blood is about the same, while unholy and frost specs are close enough together that you can either stick with your usual choice, or go with whatever you have the best weapons for. Unholy is slightly behind frost, but not so much that you'll suffer greatly.
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Vice Pro
- USD 24.95* / Dozen
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"Vice Golf: Bringing a cheaper alternative to the golf ball game"
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The micromolecular structure of cast urethane is extremely soft but also very resistant. The very thin coating and special adhesion to the green offers the player superbly smooth and on-demand feel of the ball and controllable, high degree of backspin thanks to the S2TG technology. UV-resistance has been maximized by the use of BJ13 coating. The result is a pearl-white ball that will last you many rounds: Vice Pro with maximized color (MxWhite).
The extremely thin DuPont™ Surlyn® mantle in the second layer of the Vice Pro balances unnecessary spin off the tee and has a positive effect on golf ball speed, flight length, and stability in the ball's flight path.
Thanks to savings in the thickness of the two outer layers of the Vice Pro ball, we were able to maximize the size of the golf ball core. This maximized High Energy Speed Core (HESC) leads to higher energy absorption at impact and thus increased ball speed. The result is extraordinary length and a very soft feel.
Less is more: We have reduced the number of dimples dramatically and increased the diameter of the dimples significantly. This reduces air resistance to a minimum. The result is a more stable trajectory of the golf ball with even higher ball speed.
Align your golf ball perfectly with the extra-long and highly visible "Keep in Line" (KIL) putting line. Developed in collaboration with tour and teaching professionals, the line's dimensions precisely meet your putting and alignment needs.
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Lake County schools in Lake Zurich, Gurnee bullish on iPads
Personal tablet use at two Lake County school districts has led to improved student classroom engagement and other benefits, according to teachers and administrators.
Lake Zurich Unit District 95 started its mobile device initiative in August when 1,300 iPads were issued to middle and high school students. Gurnee Elementary District 56 is in first full academic season with all 2,500 pupils in possession of iPads.
Administrators and teachers at districts 95 and 56 are bullish on what both call the "1 to 1" tablet initiative.
"Student engagement is through the roof," said District 56 technology director Philip Hintz. "Absentee rates have fallen because kids want to come to school and not miss out."
District 95 eighth-grade teachers Marcia Day and Beth Schoo recently updated the school board about their experiences with the iPads for science classes. Day said one benefit of the devices has been the ability of students to view her presentations in advance of discussions for the flipped classroom education model she's using.
With the flipped classroom style, teachers present lectures and lessons on video that students are supposed to view at home and replay as often as necessary. Pupils can learn at their own pace, while parents have an opportunity to interact with their children and observe what they are being taught.
In the classroom, students work on applying and practicing the lessons they've learned on the video.
"The quiet kids in the classroom really start speaking because they have some information to bring," Day told the District 95 board.
Schoo said the iPads are allowing teachers to offer various media as information sources for their class work.
"We acknowledge and are aware that in society and the way we are moving, that we are not the end all, be all anymore as teachers," Schoo said. "There are lots of other sources of information that the kids can use to help ... further their learning."
District 56 is believed to be one of the few elementary school systems providing personal tablets to every student, from prekindergarten through eighth grade. The devices were fully introduced by last spring.
Hintz said sixth-grade teacher Stephanie Parker attracted strong interest in voluntary, after-school online discussions via the iPads stemming from what's addressed earlier in the day in her language-arts classroom. Hintz said the chat session was expanded to other classes because of full participation by the initial Viking Middle School section.
"How often do you see middle schoolers asking for more school?" Hintz said. "This is just one of many examples of where we are seeing positive results in our new way of delivering education."
Another plus outside the classroom is that students have been learning how to responsibly communicate in the digital world, Hintz said. For example, he said, the young students have been able to email teachers and each other on a closed system.
Both districts have been keeping tabs on how the iPads are being treated by students.
District 95 has logged seven damaged devices at Lake Zurich High School, 30 at Middle School North and 10 at Middle School South for the current academic year. Three iPads have been reported lost or stolen at the high school.
Hintz said District 56 has had five tablets lost or stolen since last spring. He said Gurnee police know each school's color coding for the iPad cases in the event the information is needed for suspected theft.


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be out of (one's) depth(redirected from be out of our depth)
be out of (one's) depth
To be in a field or situation that exceeds one's knowledge or ability. Of course she's out of her depth with 25 employees reporting to her—she had hardly any supervisory experience before you gave her the job! I asked Alex to consult on this project because it's a bit out of my depth.


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Industries Demand Response
2010 National Action Plan
The DRIVE Model
The Demand Response Impact and Value Estimation (DRIVE) model is designed to estimate the impact of a portfolio of demand response and smart grid programs on system operations, using specific characteristics of a power system as inputs.
The DRIVE model was developed by the Brattle Group, based on requirements identified by the FERC staff. The model serves as an example of the type of tool that could be created through the efforts of the National Action Plan on Demand Response. The model is based on a simple spreadsheet platform, and the model and information contained within, are not copyrighted. As such the model may be shared and revised without restriction.
The model is pre-populated with a comprehensive set of data inputs for 13 regions of the U.S. However, the model user can override any or all of these inputs to produce fully customized model runs.
The DRIVE model provides insights into how demand response programs may impact various elements such as load shapes, peak demand, marginal energy prices, capacity additions, plant utilization and dispatch, CO2 emissions, and total system costs. However, the model is intended to serve only as a general screening tool and not to replace sophisticated planning models. Therefore, the Commission staff does not recommend that users rely solely on the DRIVE model results to make important public policies or private sector decisions.


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The Dreamwalker features on Tara Ford's Fiction Five Friday - see original entry
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"What about dreams?" she asked. She couldn't understand how dreams could do that to a person. They were supposed to be insubstantial. They were meant to be something that happened, and then you woke up, went about your day and forgot them.


text: VISITVisitor InformationDirectionsThronson CaféMuseum StorePublic ToursGroup ToursSchool VisitsNearby AttractionsEXHIBITIONSCurrent ExhibitionsUpcoming ExhibitionsPast ExhibitionsOutlooks Exhibition SeriesArt Is EverywhereCOLLECTIONSBritish Pre-RaphaelitesHoward PyleAmerican IllustrationJohn SloanAmerican Art, 19th Century – PresentCopeland Sculpture GardenThe Helen Farr Sloan Library and ArchivesNew AcquisitionsCurator CornerSearch The CollectionPROGRAMS & EVENTSCalendarAdult ProgramsTalks & ToursFamily and YouthArt CampConcerts on KentmereCalls for ArtisansConnected SeriesHoliday House TourEDUCATIONStudio Art ClassesSchool & Teacher ProgramsOutreach: Art ExcursionsHomeschool ProgramsDocentsKids' CornerRed Apple FundMEMBERSHIPWhy Membership MattersMembership LevelsDirectors CircleRossetti CircleArt Is CardReciprocal MuseumsSUPPORTAnnual GivingLegacy Giving1912 Loyalty SocietyDonor PortraitsCorporate SupportFinancial Documents2014 Annual ReportABOUTCentennial HistoryBuilding DesignGoing GreenDelArt BlogE-NewsMuseum RentalPress RoomOpportunitiesVolunteerContact UsStaff ListBoard Of TrusteesMuseum CouncilFirstPrevious12..678910..6667NextLastJohn Wolcott AdamsDate: American draftsman and illustrator, 1874–1925Biography: Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, John Wolcott Adams was a descendant of the New England family of two American Presidents. He studied initially at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1898 he moved to New York, where he attended the Art Students League. He became especially known as an illustrator of American history subjects, especially in popular magazines such as Harper's Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Ladies' Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. His primary medium was ink; he often used the vignette style. He was married to Frances Pendleton Sheldon from 1903 until their divorce in 1920. In 1904, Howard Pyle invited Adams to join his illustration classes and critiques at his studio in Wilmington, Delaware. Adams' interest in American history scenes may have been influenced by Pyle's fame for those subjects. He became especially known as an illustrator of American history subjects, especially in popular magazines such as Harper's Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Ladies' Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. Adams' career thrived after his experience with Pyle. He received numerous commissions from Century Company and forged a relationship with Everybody's magazine, where his illustrations appeared frequently from 1909 to 1906 and occasionally thereafter until 1920. His skill in rendering period costumes and environments won him many commissions from women's home and fashion magazines. His memberships in The Players, The Dutch Treat Club, and the Society of Illustrators allowed Adams to connect with numerous authors and editors in the competitive fields of illustration and publishing. Adams worked in marine camouflage during World War I and volunteered as a teacher at the federally-supported School for Disabled Veterans operated by the Society of Illustrators. He provided set designs that were used in Society of Illustrators presentations and by the Shubert Theatrical Company. At the time of his death at 50, Adams' illustrations were widely and favorably reviewed. Source: John Wolcott Adams, American Life and History, by Christine L. Oaklander (1998: Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford PA) Related worksEverybody's Magazine, September 1908Some PunkinsUntitledBrowse All


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Kyoto Protocol
The Industrial Revolution saw the human race inadvertently commence a chemical experiment on a planetary scale.
Over the last century and a half increased burning of fossil fuels and clearance of forests have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by a third. Carbon dioxide is a gas that lets sunlight shine through but retains heat reflected back from the Earth's surface.
Because of this, the global scientific consensus is that the shifting make-up of the Earth's atmosphere is causing global temperatures to rise due to the so-called 'greenhouse effect'.
In a first step to moderate the scope of future climate change, the 1992 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change requires signatory developed states (so-called 'Annex I' countries) to measure and reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions.
They have to take into account emissions from various industrial and economic sectors as well as the capacity of carbon dioxide absorption by forests. These two elements are respectively termed 'sinks' and 'sources'.
Planting new forests and reforesting existing sites may increase carbon dioxide absorption capacity and is therefore an alternative to implementing emission-reducing projects in industry. In addition, developed countries may obtain emission reduction credits by implementing such projects in developing countries.
In this context, Earth observation represents a valuable stock of information for estimating and monitoring carbon stocks at local, regional and ultimately global scales – and hence for verifying compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
Most of the work carried out to exploit the capabilities of Earth Observation in the Kyoto context concerns helping to work out 1990 carbon stocks – which for most countries are the baseline for comparing future reductions - and assessing carbon dioxide variations since that date, estimating above-ground vegetation biomass and mapping and monitoring of sources of methane, another greenhouse gas emitted by human activities.
A €1 million project called Kyoto Inventory involved producing forest inventories and maps for users including the Finnish Forest Research Institute, the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and the Swiss Agency for the Environment.
In 2001, of 41 leading industrial nations comprising the 'Annex I' group, only 27 provided their annual greenhouse gas inventories as Kyoto requires. Earth observation represents a low-cost standardised means of measuring carbon and identifying land-use change on an annual basis.


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Former SINERGY Singer Teaching At 'School Of Rock', Raising 5-Year-Old Daughter
Former SINERGY singer Kimberly Goss has revealed to Noisecreep that she is now a teacher at the School Of Rock in Naperville, Illinois, where she is also raising her 5-year-old daughter.
When asked if she is involved with any bands right now, the 34-year-old ex-wife of CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist and her former SINERGY bandmate, Alexi Laiho, said, "For me right now, all other things have taken a back seat to motherhood. I didn't want my daughter to be raised by nannies or babysitters, especially in the very beginning of her life, so I definitely chose to put my career on hold to concentrate on being a parent. Now that she's getting a little older, I felt good about slowly getting back into music by teaching part time at the School Of Rock. I'm also currently writing for a music supervision company, whose job it is to place background music in TV shows. Writing a big, majestic film score has always been a dream of mine, but even getting the chance to write small clips for TV shows has been a great experience and I'm really grateful to still be getting opportunities to make a living solely from doing music."
She added, "I would definitely love to start or join another band someday, but for the time being it's not too practical. My days consist of taking my daughter to school, ballet class, libraries, playgrounds, and of course catching great shows like 'Disney Princesses On Ice' or 'Sesame Street Live'. [laughs] I do have a feeling that getting back into a band will be somewhere in my future. The urge and desire is definitely still there and I have never stopped writing music. I just have to wait for the time to be right. Stay tuned!"
Regarding whether she would ever do a band with Alexi Laiho again, Goss said, "Alexi will forever be one of my dearest friends and he is without a doubt the greatest musician I have ever worked with, but we are both at very different places in our lives right now. That's not to say that some day in the future something like that couldn't happen, but it's certainly not in the cards anytime soon. I would actually love to finish the fourth SINERGY album that we started production on many years ago. At this rate we can probably look forward to a release date in June of 2042!"
In 2006, Nuclear Blast Records released a "Deluxe Edition" of SINERGY's debut album, "Beware the Heavens". The CD, which originally came out in 1999, features three bonus tracks, all of which have been previously released on assorted tribute albums: "Rock You Like A Hurricane" (SCORPIONS cover), "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (The Man After Midnight)" (ABBA) and "The Number of the Beast" (IRON MAIDEN).
SINERGY's last album, "Suicide by my Side", was released in 2002.
School Of Rock teaches kids to play guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, drums and combines weekly private music lessons and group band rehearsals to prepare students to take the stage in front of live audiences in an authentic concert setting.


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The Peaceful Healer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
The magazine is called SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Hello, I am an alternative / spiritual healer and channeler (spirits give messages to people through me), who has been inspired to create an online spiritual magazine to provide people with information, ideas, resources and inspiritation to become more spiritually aware, personally empowered, aware of their life purpose and interested in improving the world. I want to help them deal with, understand and embrace their "spiritual awakening", as the become more conscious, aware and enlightened.
The target audience is global consumers, who are adults that will learn about and receive the magazine online. This is a newer, emerging market.
They are spiritual people, who may or may not be religious. People who are searching for guidance, answers, direction or to become more spiritual, happy, peaceful and fulfilled. There are many more people becoming curious about or interested in spiritual matters or having unexplained spiritual experiences that they do not understand and want to learn more about. They are caring people who are interested in learning about spiritual topics like intuition, angels, healing, helping others and becoming more in tune with themselves. They also include people who already believe in angels and spirit guides and want to further develop their own spiritual knowledge or psychic abilities.
I am open to creative ideas with either type-face and/or logos. I want the magazine title to be clear and easily readable. I would like the logo/graphic/type-face to be inspirational, professional and sleek, not cartoonish or gimmicky.
The emphasis of the message I want to convey is on becoming more spiritual, being true to yourself, connected to spirit, following your intuition, discovering your life purpose etc. It is NOT about being religious or tied to any specific faith, so I do not want any crosses or church images.
I would like the logo to communicate and convey the entire concept or idea of the magazine similar to how a traffic sign communicates what to do with just an image. The concept or idea of the SPIRITUAL AWAKENING magazine to convey is that the magazine will help them become more spiritually aware and personally empowered by providing them with spiritual information, resources and guidance.
Here are some concepts that may give you some ideas. A persons spiritual journey to becoming more aware, awakened, conscious and enlightened is related to the opening of their "3rd eye" or energy chakra in the middle of their forehead, which can assist with connecting them to spirit, source and the Universe. It is also related to opening their mind and heart to being more loving, accepting and compassionate.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing your creations.
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Banchetti by Rizzo's
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MPR Restaurants works closely with each of these charitable groups throughout the year. We strive to enrich the lives of people in our community every day.
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The Rizzo family of restaurants has proudly served Western New York for nearly 35 years. Our clients have entrusted us with their most important occasions knowing we will treat their event as if it were our own. At Banchetti by Rizzo's, you will find several distinctive rooms accommodating anywhere from 30 to 250 guests. Each room provides a quaint setting, customizable for any event. We are happy to work with you in customizing our packages to fit your needs and create a truly memorable event. Be sure to stop in and see us today!


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Andy The', MathWorks
While MATLAB is widely used during the research phase to prototype algorithms, most product development teams are not familiar with many of the benefits MATLAB can offer for C/C++ development. This webinar demonstrates how product development teams can use MATLAB to enhance their software development workflows. By integrating MATLAB into the software development process, developers can visualize, verify, and prototype functionality natively from environments like Visual Studio and Eclipse. In addition, MATLAB can integrate existing C/C++ code for simulations and generate C/C++ code for prototyping and design. This capability enables developers to maximize reuse and minimize risks as designs transition from research to development and to help with next generation designs.
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This webinar is intended for software engineers and developers who work primarily in C/C++ and are interested in integrating MATLAB into their workflow.
Recorded: 13 Aug 2015
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As is the nature of college life, my consciousness is filled with lots of lost ideas, floating around like strands of RNA trying to construct their counterparts. This post is an attempt to write some of them down, just to bring my awareness to them and perhaps to crossbreed with others' random ideas. No, I'm not in a biology class, though you wouldn't know it from this paragraph.
I feel like I am in the midst of a spiritual awakening. I am certainly epiphanizing a lot. Knowing my history, I am probably just in an epiphanizing mood, and the true learning I am acquiring from this time in my life will become clear to me in about half a year. I feel an increased devotion to integrity and "right action" (perhaps dharma is an appropriate word). I am developing my ability to approach all situations from a place of love and compassion toward myself and others. This involves taking opportunities to stretch when I realize I am avoiding something from a place of fear or discomfort, taking time to mini-meditate and focus, and creating external reinforcement for my internal goals (this was a huge realization for me).
Last night I had an epiphany about mortality. It was the most potent realization I have had that my consciousness ends. That whatever I do in my life, at some point I will no longer be able to observe the consequences, that the world will continue without me. So even if I do help to change the world for the better (as we all wish to), at some point I will have to trust it to continue for itself. It makes me want to make my impact now, because every day that passes is a missed opportunity to do something meaningful. Anyway, this sentiment is tired, I have read it many times before, and I have to arrive at it myself for it to mean something. Without loss of generality I assume that I am similarly failing to communicate it to my readers.
This state of mind has stirred up an internal conflict. I went back to school to finish the degree I started, and now I feel like I have something to say and am too busy with school to devote energy into saying it. Do I wait until I finish school? I am just now breaking a detrimental pattern in my life: that of waiting for some other event to happen before I do the right thing. It's a form of procrastination. I see it coming out through my school dilemma: I really want to work on this economic responsibility project, but not until I finish school. Eighteen months from now who knows whether my passion for this project will persist.
I am holding to my commitment. I am certain that school seeded the ideas that pushed me in this direction. Perhaps I can trust that continuing school will help me continue to refine the idea, so that when I finally finish my picture will be so clear there will be no stopping me. Indeed, one quality of my current idea is that I don't really know how to execute it — I have some ideas, but none that is obviously the right way to go.
My recent thoughts about social issues share a common thread: the stable equilibrium. The areas in society where we have the most trouble (from my present, incredibly biased perspective) are those areas that resist gradual change. For example, relating to the theme of my my last post, Americans are spending their money irresponsibly because there is not a good source of information about what constitutes responsible spending according to each person's values. Many people know what kinds of companies they would like to support and which they wouldn't, but the information to take that goal and derive which products to support is not available. The reason this is a stable equilibrium is that companies must choose to reveal this information, and in the current climate, any company that chooses to reveal this information puts itself at a disadvantage with respect to the ones that do not. If the culture shifts such that most companies reveal this information, then it looks suspicious not to reveal yourself and you put yourself at an advantage by revealing your details. But there is no mechanism to get from the former to the latter — the former reinforces itself. Indeed there are many powerful people with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
A similar pattern arises in the state of public education. Schools are judged and funded by standardized tests. It is the opinion of many progressive educators that the nature of the tests is too broad and shallow, and reinforces a superficial, fact-memorization-based education, the kind that doesn't really produce competent students. But any school that experiments with its methods will deviate from these tests before it has a chance to show long-term achievement, and thus get its funding cut (or if it is a single teacher, the teacher will get fired by No Child Left Behind). The system discourages variation and reinforces its own status quo, so its problems cannot be evolved out by the natural forces of gradual variation and competition.
Examples of such equilibria abound. Reforms must be taken to the top, which is a dangerous place to reform because the effects are so sweeping. Reforms that should be taken to the top are those that enable competition and variation, so that gradual improvement is allowed to happen. Unfortunately, for the above two examples, I cannot think of what such a policy would be. (The latter could theoretically be addressed by privatizing education — indeed many private schools have very effective new methods — but there is a cacophony of social issues that comes with that, which includes, among other things, further widening the class gap).
In order to focus discussion, I will save my (relatively few) technical ideas for another post.


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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010
Topic Last Modified: 2012-05-23
Rule Name: The Security Token Service is not available.
Summary: The Security Token Service is not issuing tokens.
Cause: The service could be malfunctioning or in a bad state, or some assemblies are missing when you deploy the custom claims provider.
Resolution: Restart the Security Token Service application pool.
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
Identify the server on which this event occurs. On the Central Administration Home site, in the Monitoring section, click Review problems and solutions, and then find the name of the server in the Failing Servers column. If there are multiple failing servers in a server farm, you must repeat the following steps on each failing server.
Verify that the user account that is performing the following steps is a member of the Administrators group on the local computer that you identified in the previous step.
Log on to the server on which this event occurs.
Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the Internet Information Services management console, in the Connections pane, expand the tree view, and then click Application Pools.
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One of the biggest challenges for new CIOs is making sense of what the job actually entails. There's no defined career track for IT leaders, and there are endless numbers of advisers and resources they can tap to help them along the way. Navigating these obstacles is imperative for all CIOs, and even more so in these tough economic times.
Enter Jim Barton, the new CIO of IVK Corp., to show how he grew into the role with no prior IT management experience. Both Barton and IVK are fictional creations, the work of Robert D. Austin, chair of Harvard Business School's CIO executive program; Richard L. Nolan, his predecessor, emeritus professor at Harvard and professor at the University of Washington's Michael G. Foster School of Business; and Shannon O'Donnell, a consultant with the Cutter Consortium.
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Austin and Nolan spoke with CIO Insight Editor in Chief Brian P. Watson ahead of the book's release, discussing their unique approach to penning the tale, as well as what CIOs can learn from Jim Barton's triumphs and travails. This is an edited, condensed version of their conversation.
CIO Insight: In thinking about his new role, Barton dwells on this statement: "IT management is about management." Are more CIOs zeroing in on the idea that more general management is needed in IT?
Richard Nolan: The rhetoric is there, clearly. The thing that's very dangerous is for CIOs to become like Catholic converts: They try to go right to general management without understanding the roots of where they come from. That's when it becomes more rhetoric than reality.
The good CIOs maintain the advantages and assets of their technical understanding and learn how to bridge that and work with it with the senior management team.
Robert Austin: If your general management colleagues aren't reaching across the abyss, you have two choices: You can live in your own world and hope for the best, or you can expand your thinking, inclinations and activities to reach across.
Early in the book, Jim Barton gets a valuable piece of advice: "You've got to know what you don't know." Why is it so important for CIOs to recognize their own shortcomings?
Nolan: Good general managers know what they don't know. They build skills to create an environment around them--including people they trust, outside sources, self-education--to ensure they don't make huge mistakes by not appreciating aspects of other functional areas. This is truly a unique management capability.
Just as a CEO can come from a number of functional backgrounds, in IT, the general management skills are critically important, but so is the ability to understand what's unique to IT. Whoever is in that position needs to do [his or her] homework, and Jim Barton is exemplary in accomplishing that requirement.
Austin: At one point in the book, Barton's predecessor, Bill Davies, lectures him on knowing everything before he goes to see the CEO. Davies has a different set of inclinations. He's not particularly interested in having a conversation with the CEO.
There's that notion out there about what it takes to be a manager--that you're somebody who brings solutions, not questions. That's outmoded. It's part of knowing what you don't know. If you're a leader and you don't want others to know what you don't know, you're going to dig yourself a hole.
Nolan: When I was running a consulting firm [Nolan Norton & Co.], we would provide the IT background and training for really smart MBAs and others we hired into the firm. They would go to organizations and find that the CEOs and senior management were listening to them.
Because of that, they made a giant leap in imagination: They would wander over and give advice on marketing or whatever areas they didn't have the background for. They lost all credibility with the senior management team. The message they sent was that they really didn't know what they didn't know. That's dangerous.
That advice came from "The Kid," one of Barton's many advisers. How many advisers, inside and out of the company, should new CIOs consult?
Nolan: One of the essences of what good general managers do is build the skill of working with others, allowing them to engage in ways that help them discover and learn the critical aspects of what they don't know. It involves the creation of trust that this is reliable, that I can ask questions, etc. That's a critical skill of CIOs, as well as any other general manager.
Austin: But there's a flip side: Not all of Barton's advisers gave him consistent advice. Another part of the general manager's job is figuring out which advice to take. And Barton didn't always choose the right direction. For instance, he didn't take his girlfriend's advice, even in instances where he probably should have.
What lessons can IT executives learn from Jim Barton about navigating through the recession?
Austin: One of the messages is that Barton gets put on his back foot at one point. He finds himself, as he puts it, becoming Davies--the situation around him is turning him into a reactive creature. There's one chapter where he tries to pull himself back to a proactive mode, and then something goes wrong and he's forced to start firefighting again.
I've learned from Dick [Nolan] over the years that when you're in a situation where you're potentially on your back foot, set an agenda and let others respond to your agenda. As long as you're constructive, it's hard for anyone to say you're not contributing.
Nolan: Rob [Austin] and I have been discussing how to use the IVK case in this summer's Harvard CIO course. What would Davies do in this environment? We've talked about five things CIOs need to do:
1. Retain top talent: You can't afford to lose it at this point.
2. Anticipate security threats: They're going up like crazy now.
3. Think of IT more strategically: This is a perfect time to do that.
4. Look for cost savings: It's not typically attacked as aggressively as it should be.
5. Weigh the benefits of renegotiating contracts and outsourcing IT: Everything is being renegotiated in this environment.
I asked Rob this question last year, when you finished the first draft: Is Jim Barton the CIO of the future?
Nolan: This is the future CIO, in my sense. The CIO function has come up very rapidly in the organization. You see this pattern over and over again in organizations where the career path involves studying in a functional area, where people master the management of a major functional area and then there's this break to the next level--the C level.
I see this happening in the IT area. Just like any other area, the prerequisite is to understand basic management; the next level is to understand the general management frameworks that are so important.
What else does the CIO of the future need to do?
Austin: It's always a good strategy to say something splashy and provocative. Some say the end of the CIO is in sight, that it's going to separate into a guy who manages the plumbing and a general manager-type over him, or that the CFO will oversee IT with the plumber underneath him.
The danger to the CIO function is its historic orientation to the cost side of the income statement. So many IT departments see themselves in terms of efficiencies and cost reduction, but increasingly there's a role to be played on the revenue side of the income statement--to increase profits not only by reducing costs but by expanding revenues.
It's a hard thing to talk about in the middle of a financial crisis. But before that set in, what was endangering the CIO more than the idea of the CFO doing the job was the idea that marketing or product development was going to pick up the revenue side of IT. That happens in a lot of companies: A lot of exciting IT applications that are very novel and are creating value in new ways happen in the product development shop, not the IT shop.
Nolan: There's a real message to CIOs that we dis-covered rather dramatically in our last Harvard summer program: There's no reason why the technology-based CIO cannot be the future CIO with a general management function. But it's very clear they have to shed their heavy technology orientation and become a general manager, become a peer. What comes with that is mastering these general management skills and the language of general managers.
Early in the book, there's a critical dialogue that Jim Barton has when he reads in his background study that IT touches every part of the business. It's not that IT executives know every part of the business, but as more organizations started recognizing that, they started recruiting top people into the IT organization to start and then spit them out into other functional areas after two or three years. They found that was a very effective way of getting entry-level people up to speed on how the organization operates.
That still exists today, and that's one of the reasons why we see the Jim Bartons of the world being drawn into that function on the path to upper-level jobs.
The title changed from the original You Won't Last a Year. Is there a reason why "CIO" isn't in the new title?
Nolan: I don't think so. It reminds me of when I first came to Harvard in the mid-'70s, and I was doing a number of Harvard Business Review articles. I was titling one "The MIS Leader of the Future," and the editors called it "The Plight of the EDP Manager." I said, "Look, that's crazy--why are you calling it that?" They said, "Do you want to have a battle of vocabulary, or do you want to communicate to what the pros are calling it right now?" So I think there's some of that here.
Austin: We did like the term "leader" in the title. One of the themes of the book is that you're not just a techie--you have to be a leader. If IT management deserves status equal to marketing management or financial management, there has to be a coherent notion of a management subject here, not just a bunch of collective technologies.
That's a strong idea. There is this coherent set of management issues that an IT leader needs to oversee. Certainly they're not all technical; arguably they're not all managerial. To a great extent, they extend into leadership behaviors.
When the stuff hits the fan in chapters 10 and 11 [when Barton faces a massive systems outage and how his team opts to rectify it, respectively], it's more than just management that has to go on there.
Nolan: IT leadership has shifted from a spectator sport for senior executives to a participatory sport. So, at that level, in order to have effective IT, there has to be leadership at the C level. There has to be leadership that's shared throughout the entire organization, as opposed to what went on in the past, where senior managers sat back and didn't get involved with the actual leadership.
This article was originally published on 03-06-2009
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Like the preservation of the Khimki forest, a green zone stretching across 2,500 acres north of Moscow. A federal project with clear dividends for a Khimki administration headed by a powerful mayor, Vladimir Strelchenko, the new highway to connect Moscow with St. Petersburg will devastate the forest. President Dmitry Medvedev briefly suspended the road's construction in August 2010, reacting to voluminous protests by environmental defenders. But now the project has been resumed. There is no Khimkinskaya Pravda--Beketov's fiercely independent newspaper, which he had devoted himself to--to protest now. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used the occasion of meeting with French investors in Paris to reassure the road builder, the French construction group Vinci, that the highway would be completed, the English-language Moscow Times reported. Putin apologized to Vinci about the delay.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Cyprus' biggest bank is returning to good health after the international bailout which saw depositors sacrificing some of their savings, the country's central bank said Tuesday.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) � Cyprus' biggest bank is returning to good health after the international bailout which saw depositors sacrificing some of their savings, the country's central bank said Tuesday.
The central bank said that the Bank of Cyprus' key capital ratio � a measure of a bank's health � stands at around 12 percent after depositors were forced to lose 47.5 percent of their savings over 100,000 euros ($132,840).
The bank's capital ratio before March when Cyprus agreed on a 23 billion-euro ($30.5 billion) bailout with its euro partners and the International Monetary Fund was less than 5 percent.
The deposit grab at Bank of Cyprus and the smaller, now defunct, Laiki Bank was a key condition for Cyprus to qualify for a 10 billion euro loan from Cyprus' fellow euro countries and the International Monetary Fund.
Bank of Cyprus officials estimate the total loss for savers at their bank to be about 4 billion euros. All savings under 100,000 euros are insured under European Union law.
Trust in the Cyprus' financial sector dwindled in the aftermath of the so-called "bail-in" agreement, prompting authorities to slap restrictions on money withdrawals and transfers for all banks to head off a run.
"The recapitalization of the Bank of Cyprus and its exit from resolution are key milestones in the rejuvenation of (the bank's) financial standing which will underpin its resilience and ability to support the Cyprus economy and thus assist in stabilizing the financial sector," the central bank said in a statement.
The depositors hardest hit by the bail-in were pension funds belonging to employees for state-run companies, followed by private savers of which some of the biggest are Russians.
The country's central bank has also outlined arrangements for returning the 52.5 percent of the depositors' savings over 100,000 euros that weren't used in the bail-in.
Some 10 percent of total deposits have already been returned to savers and another 5 percent � held in reserve until the bank's overall recapitalization needs were calculated � will be returned in the coming days. That money however, will still be subject to existing capital controls.
The remaining 37.5 percent will be split into three separate deposits which will be returned to the saver after six, nine and 12 months. These deposits will receive an interest rate higher than the going market rate and can be used to pay off the savers' debt � either credit card, loan or overdraft facilities � with the bank. However, the Bank of Cyprus will have the option to delay the funds' return for a further period.
The depositors will also get shares in the bank.
Depositors at Laiki, which is being folded into Bank of Cyprus, saw most of their uninsured savings wiped out. They won't get any shares in Bank of Cyprus, but will receive some cash compensation from the eventual sale of the banks' assets.
Many Laiki depositors have launched legal action in a bid to reclaim all their money.


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Actually, the College World Series is a lot of fun.
People come every year in their RVs. They crowd downtown restaurants and give the same basic interviews to the local news... "I love Omaha: we never expected it to be so nice here".
Have fun guys --- if I thought you'd be driving the 400 miles, I'd tell you where to stop to pee.


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Following a full day of intense activities, you'll need a comfortable place to relax and recharge. Consider a spacious holiday rental where you can spread out and prepare your own meals rather than small hotel room. Whether you want to stay near downtown, in the Old Mill District, or near the Mt Bachelor ski resort, we have lots of villas, multi-bedroom homes, cabins, condos and other choices that are a better value than a hotel.
Bend is a phenomenal outdoor environment to leave the computers and televisions behind for a few hours or days. Family activities abound starting with the Lava Lands Visitors Center, about 15 minutes from downtown, where you'll see the Lava Butte, a 7,000-year-old cinder cone lava formation that rises 500 feet. For thrill seekers, raft or kayak the white waters of the Deschutes River, take a panoramic chairlift ride up Mt. Bachelor, hike along Tumalo Creek or fish for trout at a well-stocked pond at Shevlin Park.
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Downtown Bend is brimming with shops, galleries, restaurants, microbreweries and bars, which will enhance your visit to this former logging town.
From rustic cabins and cozy cottages to amenity-loaded condos and holiday homes with high-speed Internet, swimming pools, fireplaces and hot tubs, we can provide you with an extensive list of options in Bend. A great money-saving feature in all holiday rentals is the fully equipped kitchen, which allows you to provide delicious meals and snacks for your family instead of dining at pricey restaurants that'll quickly destroy your budget.
When you visit Bend, your goal is to free your mind in the wondrous natural surroundings and the last thing you want to do is anguish about how much you paid for a cramped hotel room. Holiday rentals are a great value and we have special deals and discounts on a wide variety of properties in different areas of Bend in every price range.


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The U.S. population grew at the lowest rate in more than 70 years, according to Census Bureau data released Monday, with most of the growth fueled by states in the south and west.
The total population reached 316,128,839 in July, an increase of .72 percent from the 313,873,685 total a year earlier. It's the lowest rate of population growth in more than seven decades, according to the New York Times.
California, the nation's most populous state, became the first in the union to top 38 million people this year after adding 332,643 people. Texas grew by 387,397 people, and Florida by 232,111. Despite a much smaller rate of growth, adding only 75,002, New York still edged out Florida as the third largest state.
North Dakota, in the midst of an ongoing oil boom, saw the highest percentage increase, growing by 3.14 percent in the year ending in July. Maine and West Virginia both decreased in size, and Puerto Rico lost more than 1 percent of its population.
The Census Bureau said separately that the population will hit 317,297,938 on Jan. 1, 2014, with one birth expected every 8 seconds and death every 12 seconds.


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1 1/2 lb small pickling cucumbers (like Kirby), cut in half lengthwise
2 cups white distilled vinegar
2 cups cold water
4 cloves garlic, sliced
3 tablespoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon dill seed*
1 tablespoon mustard seed*
1 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
fresh dill
Evenly divide the garlic, dill and cucumbers among four wide mouthed pint jars. In a large bowl, mix together vinegar, water, red pepper flakes, celery seed, salt, mustard seed and dill seed. Use a funnel to fill each jar with brining liquid.**The spices may float to the bottom, so use a spoon to evenly divide anything that is leftover into the jars. Cap tightly and refrigerate at least one week before eating.
*Before adding the mustard seed, red pepper and dill seed, I crushed them slightly in my hand.
**I suggest you do this over a large bowl. The cucumbers start to float and displace liquid. Add the overflow back into the brining mixture before you fill up the next jar.


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Brian Williams Gossip
Brian Williams gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Dear Gossips,
The 2015 list of the Worst Jobs came out yesterday with Newspaper Reporter ranking #1 followed by Lumberjack. I totally thought Telemarketer would be on there but it's not. Do you know how mean people are to Telemarketers? You're about to tell me how annoying they are and how awful it is to be harassed at home. Read Full Intro
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Dear Gossips,
Been growing a small crush on Brian Williams for years – mostly because I love it when he's on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But now? After his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week? It's hard. Read Full Intro


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(b) It is unlawful for any person to perform dental laboratory services without a work authorization: Provided, That this subsection does not apply to a dentist or other dental practitioner, or to their employees working under their direct supervision, performing dental laboratory services as a part of their own dental practice and for their own dental patients.
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(d) It is unlawful for any dental laboratory or dentist who fabricates a full upper or full lower set of prosthetic dentures not to affix upon the dentures, in a nonremovable manner, the name of the patient, the initials of the dentist's state of practice and license identification.
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Jordan is a junior at Bethune High School and her hobbies are being with friends, riding her horses, fishing, photography and traveling.
She is involved in FFA, FBLA, RAW, dog shows, volleyball, track and working with her dad in his business.
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Why Companies Should Start Regularly Reporting That They Have Not Received Secret NSA Orders
from the because-when-they-stop... deptOne of the more amusing side notes in Google's recent filing to get permission to accurately report on how many FISA Court orders it receives, is the following footnote:
Nothing in this Motion is intended to confirm or deny that Google has received any order or orders issued by this Court.It's amusing, because everyone knows that Google has received such orders, which is why this whole legal fight is happening in the first place. If it hadn't received any such orders, then it wouldn't have any standing to sue in the first place. Furthermore, when asked, the company could just easily say that it had never received any such orders (as a few companies have claimed). While those orders come with gag orders, there is no general gag order on people from saying they haven't received any such orders. That got me thinking that companies should really start saying publicly that they've received no such orders, because at a future date, if they can't say that officially, we'd know that they had received such an order, without them violating the gag order.
It appears I wasn't the only person to start thinking along these lines. Cory Doctorow has a fascinating suggestion, first talking about how librarian Jessamyn West came up with a similar idea to deal with the gag orders associated with the Patriot Act's Section 215, which librarians had protested loudly early on, in part because of the gag order on revealing that the government had ordered records be handed over. It involved putting up a sign in a library that says "The FBI has not been here [watch very closely for the removal of this sign.]" Smart. Doctorow then notes that a software company he's talking to, called Wickr, had planned something similar:
She explained that her company had committed to publishing regular transparency reports, modelled on those used by companies like Google, with one important difference. Google's reports do not give the tally of secret orders served on it by governments, because doing so would be illegal. Sell has yet to receive a secret order, so she can legally report in each transparency report: "Wickr has received zero secret orders from law enforcement and spy agencies. Watch closely for this notice to disappear." When the day came that her service had been served by the NSA, she could provide an alert to attentive users (and, more realistically, journalists) who would spread the word. Wickr is designed so that it knows nothing about its users' communications, so an NSA order would presumably leave its utility intact, but notice that the service had been subjected to an order would be a useful signal to users of other, related services.Of course, then, as he's been know to do time and time again, Doctorow takes this basic idea, and ratchets it up a few notches with the following amazing suggestion:
This gave me an idea for a more general service: a dead man's switch to help fight back in the war on security. This service would allow you to register a URL by requesting a message from it, appending your own public key to it and posting it to that URL.As he notes, the FISA Court might then try to argue that recipients of orders would need to lie, but forcing a company to flat out lie has even more Constitutional issues in the US than the already troubling concept of a basic gag order. This seems like something simple that absolutely needs to exist.
Once you're registered, you tell the dead man's switch how often you plan on notifying it that you have not received a secret order, expressed in hours. Thereafter, the service sits there, quietly sending a random number to you at your specified interval, which you sign and send back as a "No secret orders yet" message. If you miss an update, it publishes that fact to an RSS feed.
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Olympic torch reaches Everest summit
After two weeks of weather delays, a 19-climber team from China summited the world's highest peak yesterday (May 7) with their special high-altitude torch, marking the apex of a controversial 85,000-mile relay for the symbolic flame. The Nepalese government quickly lifted its ban on climbing Everest, a ban that included soldiers ordered to shoot anyone seen climbing the mighty peak. An unnamed doctor near Everest is predicting a catastrophe as hundreds of unacclimatized climbers from 32 teams lay siege to the big hill now that Nepal has lifted its climbing ban.


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Like the other SATA QuickPort Duo models two SATA Hard Drives could be inserted into the device: 2 x 2.5", 2 x 3.5", or 1 x 2.5" plus 1 x 3.5". Connection to the PC shall be made exclusively through the devices rear side USB3.0 port. Without hard drives.
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by Stuart Canios
available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/modauthcitadel
Here the Releasenotes: BETA2 of mod_auth_citadel has been released.
The changes specifically address a minor bug in the build system which prevent the –with-apache-headers option from taking effect.
There are no changes to the module's code. If the module is already installed, there is no need to update.
Additionally, this release has been tested on FreeBSD 7/i386 with Apache 2.2 built from ports. The build has passed testing. Build and operation as also been verified on Linux distributions Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, and RHEL.
Mod_auth_citadel is an Apache authentication module for Citadel Groupware Server users. It allows users to be seamlessly authenticated against the Citadel user database directly from the Apache web server. It uses the native Citadel IPC protocol, and features SSL/TLS support for secure communications to the Citadel server.
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